Okay on copper road, it underscores the safety issue in crossing the street. Montgomery county police list this stretch of connecticut avenue here in aspen hill as one of the ten most dangerous for pedestrians. So this is one of the places they have ramped up enforcement. In just nine months, they have issued more than 200 tickets here to both drivers for failing to yield to pedestrians who were in the crosswalk, and to pedestrians who were jaywalking. Police say those tickets werent always issued on an equal basis. In 2010, we began looking at how were the crashes occurring. Who was at fault. And as such, we realized that pedestrians were at fault many, many times, but they were rarely given a citation. Reporter now, police say they have done a lot to level the Playing Field when it comes to issuing those tickets. Coming up at 5 00 and 6 00, well crunch those numbers and let you know who has been getting the most tickets. Drivers or pedestrians. Reporting live in Montgomery County, mark segraves, news4. Thank you, mark. Right now storm team 4 tracking some rain rolling in. Lets get to meteorologist Veronica Johnson in the weather center. Vj. Yeah, not just rain. We could have some thunderstorms moving our way during portions of the overnight period. A lot of folks concerned with, of course, the Lunar Eclipse coming up tomorrow morning. Let me show what would he have been analyzing here this afternoon. This whole big batch of rain off to the west. And, yes, the counties shaded in yellow, that is where there is a watch up. And that is a tornado watch in areas of west virginia, kentucky, portions of ohio. Just off to our west, you can see some stronger storms to the east. Some thunderstorms. As we track this area, is about three hours away or so, heavier rain in that pocket of southwest virginia. So after 6 30, rain around here, isolated storms with a better chance of storms later. Temperature range throughout the area, cool with the clouds. 64 degrees. Germantown, gaithersburg, 72. Around camp springs, and green belt maryland. Rain is back after 6 30 this evening. Heavier rain and storms after 9 00 p. M. Well talking about the impact of that for our overnight period and if it all is going to clear in time for the amazing Lunar Eclipse tomorrow morning. Thanks, vj. Virginia senator mark warner is the clear front runner in the race, but his goppel challenger is hoping to catch a wave and pull off a win. News4s Pat Lawson Muse, some insight into the race. She joins us live from the mclean location of tonights debate. Pat. Reporter yes, barbara, jim. Three hours from now, this auditorium will fill up with elected leaders and other invited guests to watch warner face off against his republican challenger, ed gillespie. It will be their second debate, but really the first good look that most virginia voters get of these two on stage together during this stage of the campaign. A new poll. That new poll you referred to just released shows warner still dominating this race. Leading 5139 , thats a 12point lead. Just a month ago, it was 22 points. Robert sarvis, libertarian gaining three points. The latest poll, voters say they believe warner, their farmer governor, will do a better job tackling issues they care most about. The economy, health care, the budget deficit, immigration and border control. They will tackle all of those issues during the debate tonight, which starts at 7 00. Ed gillespie is wellknown in washington, but not quite so wellknown to virginia voters. He is hoping to translate his movement in the polls to momentum. We asked nbcs senior Political Editor, mark murray, about that. Make no mistake, mark warner is the leader, polls show. Some of him have bigger leads. He is the clear front runner in this race. In recent weeks, ed gillespie has gained ground. Is it significant . Is he doing something right, or is this just what you expect to see at this point . I think what were seeing right now is Republican Voters starting to come home. Theyre getting to know who ed gillespie is. As that is happening, there is poll tighting. What ed gillespie says, come november, democrats stay home. Thats what you see in a midterm election, where when the president is unpopular, when people think the country is headed in the wrong direction, one party tends to have a better advantage than the other. Now, coming up, Northern Virginia bureau chief, julie carey, will join me to take a deeper look at those numbers into those numbers, where the candidates are polling strongest, and whether sarvis will be a factor in this race. You can watch the debate beginning at 7 00 tonight here on news4, and online at nbcwashington. Com. Chuck todd will moderate the debate tonight. Julie carey joins Aaron Gilchrist and Washington PostNational Political correspondent karen tumtn the panel. That starts at 7 00 and well be back later. Big night in the commonwealth. Pat, thanks so much. Thieves stole her information, then ripped her off again. How a maryland woman uncovered a dangerous scam, plus the one local spot all the victims have in common. Jp gibson has come into the game. Plus this little guy stole the show. The courageous story behind nbas newest superstar, first at 4 00. Youre watching news4 at 4 00. Were learning more about a barricade situation that ended in gunfire in virginia this morning. The incident began here in the yard of this house in warrenton yesterday. Sheriffs deputies had an emergency Custody Order for joshua simpson, because they say there were concerns about his Mental Health. When they tried to pick him up, he ran into the house. After overnight negotiations, police say simpson came outside this morning and started shooting. Police returned fire, critically injuring him. After an unusual bolo went out on Police Radios in maryland this morning, two people are in custody accused of stealing a school bus. Chopper 4 was over the scene in crownsville in anne arundel county. The suspects crashed through auto ga a gate. The bus was found in davidsonville by a helicopter. It was in a secluded area and the back window had been cracked. The bus normally carries students with special needs. A woman in our area had 1,500 stolen from her, and she never even saw the thieves. Someone put a skimming device on to the atm at the Maryland Branch of sandy spring bank. The victim tells news4 the thieves used her stolen information to withdraw money from three different banks in new york city. Its just scary to think that somebody can take your information from here and then its being used in another state. We have learned there were several other potential victims from this skimming scam. News4s pat collins will have more on a live report at 5 00 tonight. She is furious. Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence breaks her silence on that nude photo leak. Plus, how she broke the news to her dad. Im Dianna Russini at redskins park. This Team Definitely needs a win, but jay gruden says they desperate hee need a leader on this team. Plus, the nats, backed up against the wall. They must win tonight. Ill have the details youre watching news4 at 4 00. Theres a whole lot of buzz about the latest players signed by the utah jazz. Yeah, jp gibson is only 5 years old, and hes battling leukemia. He rises to the rim and hammers jp gibson with a twohand yesterday jp signed a oneday contract as a free agent for the jazz, and he got to play during a preseason scrimmage. His parents say he has always loved basketball. When jp was only 15 months old, he began to insist on shooting hoops for an hour every night before bedtime, and he continues that practice today. He slides by well, here we go again, folks. Another Elimination Game for the nationals, as they take on the giants again tonight. Win, and the season continues. Lose, and its over. Dianna russini joins us from redskins park where hes got both the nats and the redskins covered. Hey, dianna. We are busy, guys. You thousand dollaght yesterday. We have another on a tuesday. Jim, we want to keep this beard going for you. The nats back out in San Francisco to play the giants, and they got to win this one if he they want to win. The bats finally woke up bryce harper smacked his home run after three runs in the first two games. The nationals put up four in game three. A win tonight, and the nats head back to d. C. For the Decisive Game five on thursday. Football now. Kirk cousins and the redskins. They tried to give d. C. Sports a monday sweep, but Russell Wilson and the defending super bowl champion seahawks had other ideas last night. Wilson rushed for a careerhigh 122 yards, accounting for three touchdowns for seattle. Not all bad for the redskins, though, guys. Desean jackson showed out against one of the lead top defenses, with five passes for 157 yards and a touchdown. Seahawks get the win, though, 2717. But definitely a game the redskins can build on. Now, i spoke with jay gruden over his press over the phone. Its his dayafter Game Press Conference he gives over the phone. And he said right now he is not happy with the fact that this team was just toetotoe with the seattle seahawks. He thinks they have more in them and right now this team needs to regroup and figure out who wants to be the leader. So were going to talk more about that coming up at news4 at 5 00. For now, im Dianna Russini at redskins park. Back to you. You are so right. Deshawn was killing it last night. Thanks, dianna. Hey, if the game, baseball that is, is too late for you tonight, we can send an alert to your phone. Just download our free app search, nbc washington in the app store or google play. It turned out to be a pretty nice day out there. Did we ever get any real rain . We did get some rain. In fact, rain lasted longer through the morning hours. But sunshine now, a lot of folks thinking were going to stay with the sunshine. Now were going to move back into the rain, and in fact, heavy rain. Even the chance for thunderstorms coming our way during the overnight. Lets head to storm team 4 radar and show what we have been tracking all day long. This is one big storm system, folks, and its got some heavy rain with it. In fact, also a tornado watch just out to our west throughout areas of kentucky. So ill show you that now, where those bigger storms are, coming through kentucky. Tornado warnings there. Charleston, west virginia, rain moving through. Heavy rain and thunderstorms just on the north side of roanoke, virginia right now. Thats the part were really watching right now. This area down in southwestern virginia. Because its moving northnortheast. Well be here in three hours. So 6 30, 7 00 time period it hits areas like rappahannock and Culpeper County and continues to move northeast. Thats wave one. There will be another heavier wave coming after about 9 00 p. M. So your impact forecast for tonight, 9 00 p. M. Until 2 00 a. M. All the way up to moderate, because there could be strong gusts with heavy rain. I dont think were going to see any flooding across the area, but strong gusts could lead to a handful of some Power Outages across the area. 73 degrees your temperature. Mostly cloudy at 5 00. We hang on to dry conditions for just a little while longer. Then its rain after 7 00. We drop to 72, and with that rain and chance of storms at 9 00 p. M. And thereafter were into the 60s and temperatures will start falling off faster. Your future weather, lets take a look. Well take you through right through the day tomorrow. The afternoon. Heres that line off to the west that were watching. It comes through, and into our area. So by the time we get to 9 00, some showers mostly. There could be a few pockets of some isolated heavier rain. The bigger batch of storminess comes after 9 00, so at 11 00, areas like la ray, warrenton, into areas like fredericksburg and waldorf. This is at 2 00 a. M. Tomorrow morning and storms should move out. We clear out just in time for the Lunar Eclipse. And tomorrow afternoon, breezy with sunshine across the area. Highs get up into the 70s anywhere from 71 to 76 degrees. La plata and towards fredericksburg. So fourday forecast looking like this. 75 tomorrow, cooler on thursday, but weve got at least two days of sunshine coming our way and a chance to dry out for the weekend. Talked about this yesterday. It starts friday. Saturday looking wet and much cooler. And that trend is going to stick around for a while. Well talk more about that early next week, and Lunar Eclipse details in a few. Thanks, vj. Developing news on wall street. Lets get to wendy rieger at the live desk with details on this down day. Yeah, at the close, the dow dropped 272 points today, ending around 16,700. Thats the lowest level in almost two months. Experts say investors are getting worried about europes slowing economic growth. And what kind of impact that could have on the united states. Meanwhile, the nasdaq dropped 54 points today and standard pours 500 index fell 22 points. Back to you. Thank you, wendy. They are her first Public Comments about the photo hacking scandal. Actress Jennifer Lawrence calls the breach a sex crime. And she says she was afraid when it happened, and worried about how it would affect her career. But she says she is not crying over it anymore. Lawrence was one of the celebrities whose personal photos were stolen by hackers back in august. And posted online. In an exclusive interview with vanity fair magazine, lauren says quote, just because im a public figure, just because im an actress, does not mean that i asked for this. It does not mean that it comes with the territory. Its my body, she goes on to y say, and it should be my choice. And the fact that it is not my choice is absolutely disgusting. I cant believe that we even live in that kind of world. She goes on to say, when i have to make that phone call to my dad and tell him whats happened, i dont care how much money i make for the hunger games its not worth it. Its been a chaotic few days at that hospital in dallas. Jay gray is there and joins us live as the ebola patient is now in isolation and begins treatment with an experimental drug. Good news for buyers online who use paypal. More time to make returns. Im Erika Gonzales, and ill have the story, coming up. 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Pat lawson muse is at the site of tonights senate race debate. Along with Northern Virginia bureau chief julie carey. Pat . Barbara, incumbent mark warner has shown strong support among his democratic base, but also among independents. He is even winning some conservatives over. While ed gillespie is apparently building on his base. Northern Virginia Bureau reporter chief, rather, julie carey is with me live. Julie, what do you think the narrowing of mark warners lead means . It means a couple things. First of all t voters are starting to tune in. Ed gillespie, this is his first campaign. So voters are starting find out who he is. Mark warner about a month ago had almost a 22point lead in the poll were looking at today. That has now narrowed to a 12 had been point lead. A couple things have happened. Gillespie is shoring up republican support. Only 70 had planned to back him now up to 84 . He is also picking up undecided voters out there. And robert sarvis, the libertarian candidate has lost to gillespie. Where in the state is gillespie showing strongest support . You might expect, in southwest virginia and southern virginia. That is where republicans traditionally do their best. But the one thing that this poll shows, even though its narrow, there is some very good news from mark warner in this, and that is he is leading in every region of the state, even in southern and southwest virginia. He is strongest in the richmond area and Hampton Roads and then also strong lead in Northern Virginia. Can we talk about the ad war for a second . Earlier in the campaign, the campaign debates were running softer ads. We saw the image ads and that sort of thing in the summer and early fall. Theyve gotten tougher. Lets take a look at a couple of them. Lets take a look at this. Ed gillespie, lobbyist and political operative, is attacking mark warner with false ads experts call misleading, completely made up. Mark warner helped pass baoba care, stopping employers from hiring. How much more of that do you think we can expect to see . A month away from election day. Were going to see more negative ads and outside money coming into the race to fund some of those ads. You know thoorks two ads show what each candidate, the way theyre going to try to portray each other going forward. Ed gillespie is going to try to tie mark warner to president obama and some of his unpopular policies. Mark warner is going to try to paint ed gillespie as a washington insider, something that