Israeli palestinian conflict. Thats the latest from the live desk. Over the you. We are following new developments in the mall siege in kenya. This morning we heard more explosions and gunfire at a nairobi mall where militants are in a standoff with kenyan forces. Those forces say they are in their final push. The countrys interior minister says three soldiers died and eight others have been hurt. The city morgue is preparing for a large number of bodies. The kenyan red cross confirms at least 62 have been killed. But that does not include bodies that may still be inside the building. And we are getting a look at the militants who are carrying out the attacks. The pictures were posted on unverified twitter account from the terrorist group al shabaab. The account also tweeted that the hostages are still alive and militants are holding their ground. And right now a North Carolina woman who survived the attack is on her way back to the u. S. B bendita is expected to arrive at Dulles Airport this afternoon. We spoke to hervey ya skype. We started to run and it was the second explosion which knocked us on the ground. Ublgd hear while we were back there the methodically kind of going from store to store, talking to people, asking questions, shooting, screams, and then it would stop for a while and then they would go to another store. She and a friend found a place to hide. American Security Forces and the kenyan army rescued her after four hours. The 30yearold woman moved from North Carolina to kenya for work. Meanwhile, there is new concern over mall security everywhere amid fears of copycat violence and other terrorism attacks. A spokesman for the International Council of Shopping Centers says the u. S. Department of Homeland Security will likely connect with corporate security chiefs and different Law Enforcement agencies as malls consider boosting their security. Mall owners may add offduty officers in the meanwhile. Dominion power is working to get the power back on to a couple hundred people in reston after a transformer fire. You can see the damage from chopper 4. It happened outside an Apartment Building along sup seth hills road just off the dulles toll road. The fire did not spread to the building but it did knock out the lights. Residents are being asked to remain in the building and not open their windows. Turning to the weather now, and a chilly start to the day but beautiful sunshine out there right now. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. Is it tom kierein or chuck bell with us today . It is me, tom. Welcome. Good to see you. There he is. Good morning. Good morning. What a fresh and cool morning we have this morning. Temperatures around the region under this beautiful blue sky are still on the chilly side. Thats a live view from our nbc 4 skywatcher camera looking off to the north and west, absolutely gorgeous visibility. Heres another view, one of our cameras. This is our Prince Georges County camera at National Harbor overlooking the potomac rif, the wilson bridge on the horizon, alexandria, absolutely gorgeous morning. Temperatures now are into the upper 50s near 60s, Shenandoah Valley around the bru blu ridge, what a great day for hiking if you have the day off, the blue ridge, skyline drive, great visibility there, chill in the air. Closer to washington generally right around 60 degrees, the nearby neighborhoods in Prince Georges County, montgomery, fairfax, alexandria, arlington, falls church, most locations in the low 60s and its near 60 around the bay. Beautiful day on the bay as well under way. Well look at your afternoon and the next seven days in just a few minutes, barbara. . Thank you, tom. One of the victims who survived the mass shooting at the navy yard is resting at home this morning. A woman who suffered gunshot wounds to the shoulder was released from Medstar Washington Hospital Center yesterday afternoon. These are pictures of the emergency room as patients began to arrive a little more than a week ago now. D. C. Police officer Scott Williams remains in the hospital, but doctors tell us he is in Good Condition now. Medstar also treated a wan whose head was grazed by a bullet. She was released last week. Right now, family and friends of another victim are laying their loved one to rest. A Funeral Service for John Roger Johnson just got started at the Good ShepherdLutheran Church in gaithersburg. Tonight at 5 30, a viewing is scheduled to honor Kathleen Gaarde at the mt. Castle funeral home in dale city. That will be followed by a Memorial Service for her at 7 30 this evening. Happening today, Loudoun County residents will get a look at what vdot has planned for a heavily traffic roundabout. The spot where route 50 and 15 meet at gilbert corner will be getting a makeover. Megan mcgrath has more from aldi. At the auto service, the roundabout is wellknown by customers. Some have even nicknamed it. Its Gilberts Corner and now, what, four circles. Reporter but whether you call it a squircle or its proper name, the round agt has spelled trouble. Its pretty confusing because you dont know which lane to be in thats going to turn or go around. Reporter located at the intersection of routes 15 and 50 in aldi, virginia, the roundabout was installed four years ago to ease traffic. And it worked. This time lapse video taking during this mornings rush hour shows a constant flow of traffic, no more long backups. It has made traffic much better. It was a gridlock here before they put the circle in. Reporter but in fixing old problems, a new one was created. Since it was installed, the number of minor fender bernlds has essentially tripled. Part of the problem . Speeding. Another issue is the twolane configuration on route 15. Its not clear to a lot of drivers with the two lanes how you enter, how you merge, et cetera. Reporter but change is on the way. The roundabout will soon go down to one lane in all directions. Vdot is also changing the Pavement Markings and signs to simplify things. And an increase in the tufsh chur will also force drivers to slow down. Commuters just hope losing a lane wont slow down the traffic. Its going to back it up again, which is unfortunate because theres a lot of traffic that goes through there. Reporter vdot says that going down to one lane will only create slight delays during peak periods. As for the construction, it begins in october and should be done by thanksgiving. From Gilberts Corner, megan mcgrath, news4. Now, some Community Activists had lobbied for that one lane configuration from the beginni beginning, although theyre glad the change is being made now. They say its a shame it will cost 300,000 though. Vdot will discuss the project at a Community Meeting at aldi Elementary School at 7 00 this evening. Right now, there are just six weeks until voters pak new governor in virginia. Coming up, the latest poll numbers and a closer look at why caTerry Mcauliffe is now in the lead. Plus, why this mornings speech at the u. N. May not be the presiden we now are working to find out more details about a speech president obama will give on thursday in maryland. The white house says hell promote his Health Care Law at a Community College in maryland. Hell also defend the law today alongside former president clinton. Some republicans are trying to defund the law as part of their effort to avoid a Government Shutdown next week. The effort appears to be falling short. However, some of the senates gop leaders are now saying they wont vote to block legislation to prevent the Government Shutdown. The house passed the bill last week. If it defunds the Affordable Care act, the one they plassed, democrats plan on rewriting it to restore that money. Texas senator ted cruz has said hes prepared to filibuster any legislation that funds the Health Care Law even if it means a Government Shutdown. The districts government has a contingency plan if the government does shut down. Mayor gray says police, firefighters, and paramedics will be on duty. Public schools will remain open. Some agencies like the dmv and Public Libraries he says will close. Trash collection would be stopped for a week, and there wouldnt be any street sweeping should the government shut down next week. We have new poll numbers in the race for governor of virginia. Aaron gilchrist joins us now to break down what we found. Aaron . Yeah, barbara, democrat Terry Mcauliffe leading Ken Cuccinelli in our new nbc 4 nbc news marist poll. Mccauliffe holds a fivepoint lead over the attorney general. Cuccinelli led by three points in an nbc poll back in may. Libertarian candidate Robert Sarvis also having an impact on this race. 8 of likely voters support him. 10 of likely voters are still undecided. Kooup and Mccauliffe Square off in their first debate sponsored by nbc 4 and the Fairfax Chamber of commerce tomorrow night. Julie kerry and i will be on the panel there. Nbc 4 will broadcast that debate live at 7 00 p. M. Tonight, though, the candidates for Lieutenant Governor will take center stage. Republican e. W. Jackson, democrat ralph northu plshgs face each other in a debate in arlington. Dave culver will be there for that debate. On thes debate could be crucial in determine ing who wins the race here. These are the results of our nbc 4 nbc news marist poll. Northam leading jackson by three points among likely voters. That is within the polls margin of error. 13 of likely voters are still undecided. This race is far from over with all those undecided voters. Tomorrow of course youre going to be out as part of the folks who will be talking to the debate with the gubernatorial candidates. Yes. Thank you so much. Joining thus morning on that new poll in virginia is nbcs deputy Political Editor domenico montanaro. Good morning. Good morning. How are you . Lets talk about the poll, the nbc poll that found that Terry Mcauliffe has pulled ahead in virginia. What do you think is the reason for that . Well, over the summer weve seen a summer of mudslinging, negative ads, and clearly those ads have take an much bigger hit on Ken Cuccinelli than on Terry Mcauliffe. You see that in the fave on fave rating as well as with women. The mccauliffe campaign has focused heavily to suburban women in Northern Virginia and you see mccauliffe up by 18 points with women. That is a huge shift. Bob mcdonnell in 2009 won women in virginia when he won his race. Thats a big deal for cuccinelli. Fave on fave also you see whether or not you like the person. Cuccinellis ratings have gone upside down now compared to Terry Mcauliffe, whos on the positive side. So when you look at the Star Scientific versus green tech auto stuff, clearly the Star Scientific stuff has had a little more of an impact. The mccauliffe people will say a lot of the stories that you see in all the stations, they tally all those up and theyve seen more Star Scientific stories than green tech. And of course governor mcdonnell is not helping cuccinelli. In some respects, that is true. The governors rate have come down. In the poll we had this morning it showed he had been at 61 approval in may, but hes still at 55 approval among virginia voters, and he has a higher favorability rating that either Ken Cuccinelli or Terry Mcauliffe, and virginia voters say if they were to be able to vote again plural ti would let mcdonnell have a second term. Both candidates feel Northern Virginia is crucial to them. Why . Well, a lot of voters. True. Votes are important. You go where the voters are. Places like fairfax, prince william, you know, these are places where you have a lot of potential swing voters and, you know, its something where the mccauliffe people have focused, its where the cuccinelli people feel like they need they definitely know they need to make inroads and right now mccauliffe is winning that. Lets move on to the president. He spoke at the u. N. He has another speech later today. Thats considered more important. The syria and iran you know, the diplomatic avenues are certainly very, very important to the world. But, you know, on health care, hes going to be speaking at the clinton global initiative, both he and president clinton are going to be talking, theyre going to vote to talk about health care and were one week out from those exchanges being implemented and how president obama frames it today could very well lay the path for the argument he and other democrats and supporters of the law make in the next coming months. So well have to see what reaction is, gauge that reaction across the country to what he says today. Thanks so much. Good to see you. And for more from domenico and the rest of the nbc news political team, check out first read on nbcnews. Com. And in just about an hour, marylands attorney general will launch his bid to become the states next governor of maryland. Doug gansler will officially launch his bid at 12 30 today in rockville. Its the start of a sevenday statewide announcement tour that will take him to 16 different towns. Gansler gave a preview of his message last thursday when he released this video on youtube. Hes entering an already crowded race for the democratic nomination which includes the Lieutenant GovernorAnthony Brown and delegate heather miser. And right now, rescue teams are looking for victims buried under rubble after a major earthquake struck pakistan. At least 39 people were killed in the magnitude 7. 7 quake. Its the countrys least populated province, but were hearing that dozens of buildings collaps collapsed in a number of other villages. Storm team 4 tom kierein is here right now. Meteorologist. Got a lot to for us to praise you for. You brought us another great day. Welcome back. Thank you. Some like it cold. Thats true. Some like it cold but with the sunshine. Yeah, and it was that way this morning. In fact, down into the upper 30s around dawn and speaking of dawn, i took this picture sunday morning overlooking the newly shorn corn field. You know its fall when the corn gets cut. And the sun coming up in a clear sky there, just like it did this morning. Theres a live view from our storm team 4 camera overlooking reston town center. On the horizon is frederick county, maryland. You can see clearly sugarloaf mountain, which is about 20 miles away, absolutely gorgeous under this royal blue sky, excellent visibility, low humidity around. There is the view from our storm team 4 skywatcher camera overlooking washington. Weve got a clear sky, 64 at reagan national, dew point way down the low 40s, northerly breeze around 5 to 10 miles an hour. Great weather for working outside or playing outside if you have the afternoon off. Enjoy. Right now temperatures around the beltway nearby neighborhoods in Prince Georges County, low 60s, upper 50s, near 60 in Montgomery County and much of fairfax county, alexandria, arlington, falls church, the district in the low to mid60s, right here the bay a little breeze off the water, it is in the low 60s there, away from the water near 60, near 60 Shenandoah Valley. Into the mountains, many locations there in the low and mid50s. But this afternoon around the metro area, right downtown should be into the mid70s. But in the neighborhoods around our nearby suburban area, it should be just in the low to mid70s. A little warmer in the fairfax county, maybe mid70s there. We veal a light wind with lots of sunshine through the rest of the afternoon, and then this evening heres your temperature graph. It continue to drop again after sunset. In fact, sunset right around 7 00 p. M. By midnight. Its going to be back down into the upper 50s, and it will continue to drop all the way down to near 50 by dawn on wednesday. Tomorrow afternoon, highs reaching around 80 degrees, lots of sunshine, gorgeous day, afternoon highs again on thursday up near 80 degrees. But morning lows will be in the upper 50s, and not quite as cold on friday morning near 60, much of the region friday afternoon, should be reaching the upper 70s. Over the weekend, heres your storm team 4 sevenday outlook on saturday. Beautiful day for Outdoor Recreation or if you have to work outside. Beautiful highs reaching mid70s. Sunday, a little bit warmer, maybe up near 80 as well as