four earned runs. michael morse at the plate with the bases juiced. he pops up to right field. tomorrow, a must-win. most of the guys saying it's business as usual. >> it is just another game. we've played all year. we've played 162 games of the season. we won the a.l. east. we have the best record in baseball. we're in a situation tomorrow where we've got one game to play and one game to win. we get past tomorrow, we've got our ace going. >> are you sensing pressure? is there a sense of urgency now? >> i don't think so. we've been playing great baseball all year long. we've had the best record in the major leagues for a reason. we believe in ourselves. just about coming out and getting it done. >> reporter: so, russ detwiler on the mound for the nationals tomorrow against kyle lohse, one of the best cardinals on the staff. more reaction coming up in sports. and we're going to be talking redskins, rg3 back on the practice field today. we will hear from him coming up. jim? doreen? >> dan, see you in a few minutes. thank you. today's game racked up at the height of the evening rush hour. it caused a big backup for people trying to get home. d.c. trmgs officials are encouraging drivers to avoid roads around the stadium. they also suggest fans try to stay late after the game to avoid creating more congestion. dozens of traffic control officers have also been stationed around the park to help prevent accidents. we hope you'll stay with news4 for continuing coverage of the nats play-off run. the report is ahead in our next half hour. the d.c. police are investigating what led to a deadly shooting in northeast d.c. today. an officer heard shots near that 1100 block of 8th street about 4:00 this afternoon. he found a man shot in an alley. police chief kathy lanier said the officers responded quickly but they're still looking for information. >> this is a busy time of afternoon. broad daylight. anyone that saw something that looked out of around ten to 4:00 this afternoon, persons running from the area, please call us. >> the shooting occurred across the street from the university. but police say no students were involved. and the school was not locked down. police are still on the scene. they have not made any arrests yet in that shooting. other news tonight, it's been four weeks since a fiery attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. congress are investigating whether intelligence or security lapses contributed to the terrible toll in that dpedly attack. steve handelsman joins us with more on that tragedy. >> reporter: good evening. up here on the hill, the upcoming elections still colors this investigation. republicans believe the white house tried to engineer a cover-up. but today the main question was way simpler. where were so few american forces on guard in such a dangerous place. to highlight his concern, president obama had his terrorism adviser john brennan in libya today, to push the investigation of the 9/11, 2012, attack that killed chris stevens and three others. but republicans at the house hearing charged the obama state department showed a lack of concern last summer, after u.s. facilities in benghazi were attacked twice. >> i believe personally with more assets, more resources, just meeting the minimum standards, we could have and should have saved the life of ambassador stevens and the other people that were there. >> reporter: one of the witnesses agreed. lieutenant colonel andrew wood ran embassy security until august. >> the situation remained uncertain, and reports from some libyans indicated it was getting worse. >> reporter: just five u.s. agents protected the compound. staffers recommended more. >> there wasn't sufficient resources provided. >> that was one of the main reasons i continued to ask for those resources, yes. >> reporter: but back in washington, secretary of state charlene lamb said no. >> sir, we had the correct number of assets in benghazi at the time of 9/11, for what had been agreed upon. >> saying you had the correct number and our ambassador and three other individuals are dead and people are in the hospital recovering, because it only took moments to breach that facility. somehow doesn't seem to ring true to the american people. >> reporter: the state department now says two u.s. compounds were hit that night. one by a mortar that killed navy s.e.a.l.s, who tried to save the ambassador. the white house again today denied any intentional cover-up in the weeks following the tragedy. and emphasized the investigation continues. i'm steve handelsman, news4, capitol hill. now to the presidential race. mitt romney is campaigning with new jersey governor chris christie in ohio for a second straight day. they attended a townhall style meeting today with employees with a company that makes natural gas compressors. romney will spend two of the next three days in ohio and will appear at a rally tonight with his son josh. first lady michelle obama is hitting the campaign trail in president obama's place. there are two more campaign events on her schedule. she's spending her days with supporters at stops in colorado. the supreme court took up affirmative action today. the justices heard arguments about a case involving a 22-year-old from texas who claims she was denied admission to the university of texas in austin because she was white. the school says it uses race as one of many factors to fill roughly 25% of its class. and they say they do it to help promote diversity on campus. the student and her legal team says race should not be used at all. the ruling could change admissions policies at virtually every college and university across this country. >> i hope the court rules that a student's race and ethnicity should not be considered when applying to the university of texas. >> most americans would like a day when we don't need to take race and ethnicity into account in admissions. we are not to that day. >> the high court is expected to announce a ruling sometime next spring. justice kagan is not participating because she worked on the case while working at the justice department. a sentence of probation handhand ed down late this afternoon, howard brooks got 24 months probation and 200 hours of community service. back in may, brooks confessed to paying a third-party candidate to stay in the race so he could publicly attack then mayor adrian fente. six women assaulted in one month's time, all of them police believe by the same guy. here's a look at where these incidents have been reported. the women all say they were fondled by a stranger in public in the springfield area. police say there could be more victims out there who haven't come forward yet. chris gordon is in springfield with more. chris? >> reporter: the fairfax fondler, the name fails to convey the fear felt here in the springfield area. police came here last week looking for leads and found yet another victim. detectives were canvassing this springfield neighborhood last week circulating the composite sketch of the man believed responsible for the series of assaults. they were looking for more victims that hadn't been reported. sure enough, a 25-year-old woman said she, too, had been attacked. police say she is the sixth victim of the fairfax fondler. >> anytime we receive additional information from the public, certainly it's very helpful. and we did believe, and still do believe somewhat there may be other people out there who just like this woman, for whatever reason, chose not to report it to police. >> reporter: the victim says she was attacked while walking on cumberland near dinwiddle street in september. she describes the suspect to 5'6" to 5'8", similar to the previous descriptions given by other victims. elainy is a waitress at a local restaurant. >> i live right there on cumberland. i don't feel safe walking over there. so my boys have to drop me home. >> you literally live a block away? >> yeah. i don't feel safe. >> reporter: the police are looking to stop this man. one of his victims spoke to news4 last week, through an interpreter. >> translator: we were walking down the sidewalk, when all of a sudden i felt somebody walking behind me. once i turned around, he started touching me. touching me around my breast. once i started skreepging, and my daughter staurted screaming, he ran away. >> i'm definitely more inclined that i walk with someone. i don't walk alone. i don't walk by myself at night anymore? >> are you afraid? >> yeah, very afraid. >> reporter: police say they don't know what motivates this man. but they hope with the public's help and information, they can stop him with an arrest. chris gordon, news4. been kind of gloomy the last couple of days. but not today. today was quite pleasant. doug kammerer is up in the weather center to tell us about more changes coming up. >> the sunshine helped to push numbers to about 70 degrees. but yeah, we've got cooler knobs moving in. out there right now, 68 gregs, winds out of of the southwest at 9 miles an hour. actually, a very pleasant evening, after what was a spectacular afternoon. look at the temperatures, though, to the north and west. much cooler as we have the front moving in. 59 in gaithersburg. still 70 manassas and 67 towards pax river. temperatures overnight will be quite cool. but just wait until you see how cool we're going to be in the next couple of days. coming up, a 14-year-old girl is singled out by the taliban and hunted down after school. now an entire country is erupting in support of a teenager who's fighting for her life. the life of a firefighter is part of a new nbc drama, but d.c.'s fire chief said the real work goes well beyond just fighting fires. and a fisherman who fell overboard is saved, but the rescue mission didn't end there. history made today as washington hosts its first baseball play-off game in more than 70 years. i'm pat collins. i'll have the story coming up. somebody jumped on a school bus and shot a little girl in the head because they didn't like the way she was talking about education for girls. the child is 14 years old, a pakistani. she's been blogging for the past year about how important it is for girls to be educated. thousands of people across pakistan held vigils today in her honor. she underwent surgery to remove a bullet in her neck. schools closed in protest of that attack. pakistan's top military officer called her an icon of courage. the dramatic rescue of a british skipper and his runaway boat. the 25-foot fishing boat ran into trouble sunday morning off the southwest coast of england. a large wave threw the skipper and another man overboard. a lifeboat crew of volunteers scooped the skipper in from the rocky water. they took him to safety before speeding away to try to reel in his boat. the skipper's companion was helped ashore by surfers. neither man was seriously hurt. serious firefighting in los angeles, california. they're still trying to figure out what started this massive fire overnight. it housed a cleaning business and print company. thick black smoke backed up traffic on the busy 101 freeway for hours. it took 125 firefighters nearly two hours to knock that fire down. nobody was injured. tonight the heroic work of firefighters is coming to life in a new nbc drama, "chicago fire," focusing on the emotional toll of the high-risk job. it aims to get in the intense mind-set of those facing trauma and danger every day. "chicago fire" airs at 10:00 right here on nbc. the real firefighters here in the district are constantly adapting to change. they have the tough task of keeping up with 1,000 new residents every month. jackie bensen has a look behind the scenes to the brave men and women that goes way beyond fighting fires. >> reporter: d.c. fire and ems captain mark meacham is responding to a 911 call at an acosta senior high school. students are complaining of stomach pains. before 9/11 and the anthrax attacks, it might have ruled as tummy trouble. now it's an alarming sight at the high school. the first responders take extra care to calm their frightened young patients. a special bus was sent to the school in case there are too many sick students to be taken by ambulance. in the end, it looks like food allergies might have been the culprit. d.c. fire and ems chief dennis ellerbe shows the incident shows how this job is changing. >> now, approximately 85% of our work is in ems and pre-hospital care. we want to make sure that our employees have a nationally registered ems training. we do allot of pr-hospital care and it's important for us to realize that our demographics, our population is getting older. >> with advances in medicine, officials predict in the next ten years the job will become more and more complicated, more early treatment, early diagnosis will happen right here in the ambulance. meet d.c. fire and ems cadet class 14. by the time they finish this newly revived training program for high school graduates, they will learn as much about providing emergency medical care as they will about fire fighting. one thing that hasn't changed. the passion to do the job. >> the main reason i really want to do this, you get the opportunity to give back and help save lives. people depend on you to help save their family, friends, people you care about. >> reporter: jackie bensen, news4. we appreciate the work they do every day. doug's back with a check on our weather. >> it was a great day for baseball. but i came up with something, vance. i wore the red tie for the nationals today. you went to the game today. you can't go to the game anymore and i have to throw that tie away. that's what it is. but we've got two more games. >> there's still time. tomorrow's game is going to be perfect. the cooler weather coming in overnight. you'll notice it by tomorrow morning. but we're just getting started with the cooler air over the next few days. take a look at the cloud cover. those clouds making their way in, as a result of a cold front. that cold front will drop our numbers tonight about 10 to 15 degrees from where they were earlier this morning. high temperatures today, got up to 70 degrees at the airport. low of 57. a little bit above average for the low. right around the average high temperature, get out the coats again and get ready to turn the heat pack on. maybe not tonight, but over the next couple of nights we're in for really cool weather. 68 degrees the temperature out there right now. winds out of southwest at 9 miles per hour. very nice evening for most of us. starting to see cooler numbers back to the north and west. cumberland, maryland, at 55. 59 in hagerstown. still in the upper 60s for most of us. 67 in la plata. st. mary's county coming in at 67 degrees right now. rainwise, we're not dealing with any rain. we have a fairly dry cold front coming through, but still strong enough to drop our numbers by five to ten degrees tomorrow. the front very clearly defined by the cloud cover here. the clouds moving right on through, that's what we're seeing right now. behind it, clearing skies overnight and that is going to allow those numbers to start to take a tumble. 68 right now in washington. but only 52 in pittsburgh. 50 in state college. that's the cooler air starting to settle on in across the region once again. you'll notice that difference tomorrow. nice weather out ahead of that front. behind it, high pressure settles on in. that area of high pressure strong enough so we'll see plenty of sunshine tomorrow, but even with the sun, high temperatures will only be in the upper 50s to around 60 degrees in most locations. right now i'm thinking about 62 degrees inside the beltway. some areas down to the south in the low 60s. most of us will stay in the upper 60s. then on friday, one area of high pressure moves down to the south and east. another one moves in from the north and west. this one has cooler air in behind it. waking up saturday morning, most of us will be in the low to mid-30s. i think it will be the coolest start so far we've seen this season. saturday starting off quite, quite chilly. tomorrow morning, clear skies, a chilly start, but not quite as bad, 37 to about 48 degrees. you'll need the jacket as you step out. winds out of the northwest about five miles per hour. should be a nice day tomorrow. once again with plenty of sunshine. the temperatures will be five to ten degrees cooler and a cool afternoon. winds out of the west, but then becoming subtle at about 10 to 15 miles per hour ahead of the next front that will help to cool us down late in the day on friday. baseball forecast for tomorrow, nationals go to game four against the cards. we need a win here coming in at 4:00 game. 62 degrees under mostly sunny skies. by the time the game ends, i expect temperatures to be in the mid-50s. it is going to be quite cool as you're leaving the game tomorrow. 45,000 fans there today. should be the same tomorrow. 65 on your friday. 64 degrees on saturday. after that very cool start. then we start to warm up a little bit. winds begin to shift. we'll see 73 on sunday. very nice sunday, just a little on the windy side. 75 on monday. with a chance of some rain, not a big chance, though, and that will take temperatures back down to around average this time of year, which once again sits at 70 degrees. a lot of people talking about how they really love this cool weather coming in. looks like it's coming in for the next couple of days. >> you wanted it, you got it. >> that's exactly right. >> thanks, doug. the exhibit at the national archives that includes secret white house recordings and photographs of a very scary time in this country. it's the time of the effort to avoid a nuclear war. 50 years ago this month the cuban missile crisis started, when the soviet union started building nuclear missile bases in cuba. that would have made it possible for them to strike most american cities in a few minutes. president john kennedy worked to avoid a nuclear convict. a standoff did end peacefully after 13 days, but they were 13 nerve-racking days. the exhibit is called to the brink. it will be open until april. coming up, a delivery stop and history is made in outer space. >> it may be more clear soon what happened to the baby panda at the national zoo. coming up in sports, a historic day here at nationals park. that did not have a happy ending. meanwhile, the orioles headed 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baseball. pat collins is at nationals park where he watched the game with the fans. hi, pat. >> reporter: hi, doreen. hey, where is everybody? you know, this day of celebration turned into a night of concern. 8-0. 8-zip. what happened here? what went wrong? >> our pitching. we can't pitch all of a sudden. nobody can pitch. >> not enough confidence. that's the defending champs right there. not enough confidence. >> got to ge