both cases as we get them. right now at 11:00 a lot of questions about this viral video. police in fairfax county say it was the appropriate use of force when an officer had to tase a suspect. thanks for joining us. i'm jan jeffcoat. >> i'm bruce johnson. tonight the family of the man in that video said he's disabled, but police stand by their officer and say the suspect was resisting arrest. let's go to ellison barber who tells us both sides have video to support their claims. >> reporter: fairfax police say their officer used an appropriate amount of force. the family of the man in that video elton cansler disagrees and now they have an attorney. >> it does not seem clear from the video that the suspect did anything to warrant the tasering. >> reporter: dr. robert wiseberg does not represent cansler's family, but he specializes in criminal procedure at stanford law. after hiwatcelng conl phe video of a fairfax county police officer using a stun gun to subdue 35-year-old elton cansler, wiseberg has many questions. >> it's not possible to detect from the video any movement of the hands at all. something caused the officer to fire the taser at that point. all i can say is that i don't see what could legitimately cause the taser. >> reporter: that's essentially what cansler's family says. they don't see how this was justified. off camera cansler's uncle marty jackson told wusa9 he doesn't believe his nephew was resisting arrest. he said cansler has cerebral palsy and it makes it difficult for him to control his movement. when the video surveillance faced, some thought it was an obvious instance of misconduct. >> he was already putting his hands on the car. >> reporter: police in fairfax county launched an internal investigation but said this video only told part of the story. according to police, their officer approached cansler because someone stole sunglasses from a teller at a nearby bank and cansler fit the suspect description. >> the officer asked mr. cansler if he was at the suntrust bank and if he was the one that committed the larceny and took the sunglasses and mr. cansler replied yes. >> reporter: when the officer approached cansler, police said he had this knife in his pocket. >> but then again he would put his hands back into his pockets. >> reporter: when that officer went to arrest cansler, he resisted. >> mr. cansler stiffened up to actively resist and locked his elbows. >> reporter: they say all that suggested the officer acted appropriately, but to wiseburg it still dental make sense. >> the crime he admit -- doesn't make sense. >> the crime he admitted to wasn't a violent crime. >> reporter: according to a family spokesperson after a meeting tomorrow their attorney will have a public statement in. fairfax county i'm ellison barber, wusa9. there's new information on a major change in how many of you will get an ambulance if you ever need one. tomorrow there will be a profile policy to use -- proposal to use private ambulance companies to respond to calls that are not emergencies. it sounds like the department's in pretty desperate need for some outside help. >> reporter: well, they're certainly moving quickly to get in done. chief dean told me today he's seen public/private partnerships like this work seamlessly in places like seattle where he's from and where they've been doing this sort of thing more than 30 years. now recent events in the district have convinced him they need to do something here quickly. when 5-month-old traqwon sumter stopped breathing earlier this month firefighters rushed him to the hospital in the back of an engine. the closest ambulance was 7 miles away. >> it makes no sense a baby has to die because the ambulance could not get to it in time. >> reporter: chief dean hopes more ambulances would be available for that kind of emergency. >> we're running up into the high 600 call per day and we've had some vehicles that have run over 23 hours a day. >> reporter: under the proposed plan a fire engine still responds to every 911 call for triage. the most serious cases like heart attacks and trauma get a d.c. ambulance. less serious calls would summon a private ambulance for transport leaving ems crews free. dean says having a private partner to shoulder minor calls would allow for more training and maintenance time for d.c. and ambulance crews. >> the third-party provider is not the answer. it's just helping us get to those core issues so we can deliver an even better brand to the residents in the district. >> reporter: mayor bowser supports dean's plan and the firefighters union doesn't oppose it, but unanswered question about it remain. how do you pay for something like this? >> we haven't even got into that yet because we wanted to lay the proposal in front of the council and mayor to see if they have an interest in it. if they do, we'll start addressing those issues, also. >> reporter: now unlike in seattle where they've been doing this kind of thing for decade, chief dean says in d.c. this would be a one year pilot program, time he hopes for the city ems to catch up to the need of the growing district. reporting live in northwest d.c., garrett haake, wusa9. >> thank you. chief dean will present his plan to the council tomorrow morning. we will have coverage of the council's response tomorrow afternoon. it was a tricky rescue by both air and ground on frederick county sugarloaf mountain today. sky 9 was on the scene where a man took a bad fall and injured himself late this afternoon. rescue crews reached him in some rocks on the side of the hill. they placed him in a stretcher and then a helicopter for transport to the hospital. you'll probably want to hang onto your umbrella really for the whole week. >> i'm getting more concerned about severe weather tomorrow. we mentioned it earlier in the show, but now it looks more and more likely. let's start with 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon on futurecast. i'm starting here because we feel the biggest threat will be between 3 p.m. and about midnight tomorrow. so 3:00 80 downtown and you see the showers and storms developing out of the south, culpeper to fredericksburg, migrating northward. by 5:00 looks like a wet ride home for most of us and we're seeing yellow and orange out toward luray. it gets worse going through the evening. by 7:00 look at all the red between culpeper and luray moving northward. by 9:00 we got big storms in montgomery county, fairfax, loudoun, martinsburg and winchester, the biggest threat flash flooding and potentially strong winds. we'll talk more about that and a new tropical storm that could affect our weather over the weekend. two d.c. council members are asking metro to reconsider a discussion to cut back rush hour service at the stadium armory station. starting tomorrow orange and silver line cars will bypass stadium armory during rush hour for at least six months while crews repair equipment destroyed last week in a transformer fire. only blue line cars will stop there. council members charles allen and yvette alexander say the decision will have a ripple effect across the system and cause significant delays. new tonight reaction from you the fans and the professional sports world to this dugoutight now seen around the world, nats closer jonathan papelbon has been suspended four games without pay for trying to choke teammate bryce harper. now the public and players in and out of baseball weighing in on the big brawl. >> let's bring in kristen berset. what does this mean long term for the team? >> of course, it's going to be interesting to see if they bring papelbon next year despite having an $11 million contract and more importantly, matt williams, will he be back? was this the nail in the coffin for him? there will be a lot of changes in the offseason, this a far cry from what we'd expect to be talking about regarding this team. the washington nationals disappointing season went from bato worse in 24 hours. this newspaper headline sums it all up. the washington nationals have gone from world series favorites to laughing stock. the sight of their closer with his hands around the neck of their franchise player sent the nationals into damage control mode resulting in a four-game success pension for jonathan papelbon, one game sitout for bryce harper. gm mike rizzo explained the punishment. >> you could see by now he weighted the disciplinary actions we felt who was more at fault than the other. >> i want to go out there and play someday. when you're out of the lineup, it's not fun. >> reporter: the extreme nature of this altercation brought back memories of michael westbrook and steven davis at redskins training camp in 1997. this nats incident was the talk amongst the other d.c. sports teams monday. >> scuffles happen. emotions happen in football games, baseball games, sporting events, high intensity games. >> i tweet about we're no. 1. even if the franchise is wrong, you never touch the franchise like me touching john wall. >> yeah. you don't do that. papelbon is still under contract next year due $11 million. rizzo did say today he will evaluated papelbon just like everyone else once the last out was thrown in 2015, but fans are so outraged by papelbon they've started a collection to charity donation on twitter if papelbon is released. >> he didn't deliver on the mound either. >> no, he didn't, especially matt williams putting him back out there he gave up five runs. he was supposed to be the closer. >> he's history. >> probably. >> pay lot of changes could be happen -- a lot of changes could be happening. the senate passed a bill 77- 19 to keep the government operating through november 11th. it was stripped of a measure that would have canceled funding for planned parenthood. kevin mccarthy has announced he's running to succeed john boehner as speaker of the house, but the california republican apparently did not want to talk about it to the press tonight. mccarthy quietly slipped out of an event where he was honorary chairman, a gala for charity foundations created by actor kevin spacey and orioles legend cal ripken, jr. a possible plea agreement in the case of former house speaker dennis hastert, the word of attorneys who went before a judge in chicago today. hastert pleaded not guilty to skirting federal banking laws. the 73-year-old republican is accused of paying $3.5 million to coup sexual abuse allegations -- cover up sexual abuse allegations. hastert led the house nine years retiring at the top of his power in 2007. virginia governor terry mcauliffe denied a last minute attempt to delay the execution of serial killer prieto. his attorney said he should not be put to death because he is  intellectually disabled. in prince george's county tonight students who do not have their immunizations have two days to get them or they will not be allowed back in school. some 3,000 kids in the districts don't have their booster shots. that's about 2% of the school's population. the school is calling apparents to led them know about the dead -- parents to let them know about the deadline. if students don't get the shots in time, they can't go to school on thursday. shaking hands for the camera, president barack obama and vladimir putin of russia both playing the blame game. >> and is the season really this bad? see how some of the washington redskins players are focusing on some other job skills tonight. all morning long we kept you updated on a deadly fire in is he person a park -- in severna park, maryland, see you in the morning. new tonight the blame game, president barack obama and russian president vladimir putin met privately at the united nations after both leaders addressed the general assembly. >> president putin says russia has not ruled out joining airstrikes against the islamic state in syria but would not send ground troops into combat. the photo opportunity for president barack obama and russian president vladimir putin's u.n. summit meeting lasted barely long enough to take a picture. the men entered the room, shook hands and left to talk privately all in 14 seconds. now earlier each had more to say before the general assembly primarily about the conflict in syria. president obama called syrian leader bashar al assad a tyrant and said he's willing to work with russia and iran. >> when a dictator slaughters tens of thousands of his own people, it brings suffering on an order of magnitude that affects us all. >> reporter: president putin spoke to the world body for the first time in nearly a decade. he maintained support for the syrian leader saying it would be a mistake to abandon the current government in its battle against isis. translator: no one but president assad's armed forces and kurdish militia are truly fighting the islamic state and terrorist organizations in syria. >> reporter: outside the u.n. protesters say the syrian conflict is a side story to detract from the brutality happening in that country. >> that's the whole point of creating that story is to make sure people will not think about ukraine anymore. >> while both presidents disagree on what caused the crisis in ukraine, they do agree ukraine's future should be decided by its people. the president of nascar says fans could keep flying the confederate flag as long as it's on private property. the retired nascar drive appeared at a camp today at a camp for disabled children established by petty's foundation in north carolina. a lot of you may have spent the day wondering about life on mars and today nasa scientists confirmed the discovery of water on the red planet. there are areas that are wet or damp with salty liquid as recently as last year. scientists say further exploration is obviously needed to determine whether any microscopic life will exist there. today a bunch of washington redskins traded in their burgundy and gold uniforms for burgundy aprons serving dinner and drinks at the hyatt in d.c. to benefit ryan kerrigan's foundation. >> jason hatcher, pierre garcon, alfred morris, kurt cousins, got a -- kirk cousins, it's cool my teammate came down to help out. >> the blitz foundation helps children and families in need across the greater d.c. area. stick around, friends, because first lady michelle obama is a guest on stephen colbert focusing on education, a training program, community college or for four year university. always watching always tracking, wusa9's first alert weather, d.c.'s most accurate. >> it's fall and we'll get some fall-like weather. >> we are. first we have to go through some storms. on our gash garden -- 3-degree guarantee we went 83 degrees today. now 45 of the last 48 days. we're going 81 tomorrow, even a little warmer. we talked about this earlier. this was a tropical depression. now it is tropical storm joaquin about 400 miles to the northeast of the central bahamas moving southwest right now, but it's going to change direction. it will move west a while. it's never going to reach hurricane force winds. by thursday it's still well off the coast of florida and not any problem. then we get into saturday about 8:00 at night. now it's off the delmarva and this could cause some problems for us friday night and saturday. there's going to be a frontal boundary right along the eastern seaboard. it will probably absorb that storm. that could give us hefty rains friday night and saturday. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, 73, like late august, dew point almost 70, kind of sticky. so headlines, morning commute is mainly dry, a couple isolated showers. that's not the main event. bus stop temperatures 64 to 74, dropping the kids off you'll be dry. when you pick them up, i would recommend driving and getting ready for big storms. yellow weather alert tomorrow afternoon and night, heavy to severe storm between 3 p.m. and midnight. 6 a.m. a couple spotty showers, 60s to around 70. by 9:00 temps around 70, cloud. by 1:00 showers developing to the south -- clouds. by 1:00 showers developing to the south of us and becoming heavy. you see red and orange, that's heavy activity at 6:00. look at all the red between 6:00 and 10:00 go through the western suburbs around manassas and leesburg and crossing over the river into montgomery county, temps still around 70. we're talking heavy activity and even at 12:30, 1:00 we have heavy storms pushing through the immediate metro area crossing over 95. if you download our app, you can track the storms with it and get severe weather notification. 76 at 11:00 with clouds, 79 at 1:00 with showers on our door step. showers and storms possible wednesday, 77. that, too, may be a yellow weather alert and on thursday more showers, upper 60s. over the weekend we'll have to watch what joaquin does, morning showers on friday, but despite what he does, showers are still in the forecast saturday for the terps gay and lawyer's homecoming -- terps game and and dry for the burgundy and gold. >> the season game such a disappointment they're ready to end on a high note. coming up mike it's also a story about canals and the artificial heart,oers. electric guitars and rockets to the moon. in other words, this is the story of america- land of the doers. doin' it. did it. done. hard-working doers and smart-working doers. olds changed the way we put things together. and keepin'em together? that was walter's doin'. doers built this country. they built the dams and the railroads. ♪john henry was a steel drivin' man♪ hmm, catchy. they built the golden gates and the empire states. doers turn nothing into something. and something into something else. doin' got this nation done... along with the hula hoop, blue jeans and that little thing we call the interstate highway system. and all this doin'? it takes energy, no matter who's doin'. there's all kinds of doin' up in here. or what they're doin'. what the heck's he doin'? energy got us here. and it's our job to make sure there's enough energy to keep doers doin' the stuff doers do. to keep us all doin' what we do. now wusa9 game on sports with kristen berset brought to you by xfinity. >> it was a rough home finale weekend for the nationals from getting eliminated from the playoffs to the infamous dugout scuffle, but there's still six games to play and the nats are trying to make the best of it. they have a chance to end on a high note. today their final home game a makeup against cincinnati. max scherzer pitched a gem of a game. he took a no hitter into the 8th inning, so close to a second of the year. the nats offense found a little fire. nationals win their final home game 5-1, but afterwards all mike rizzo could talk about was the fight. >> every player acquisition we make, make up in character are a big portion of the evaluation process and we thought that what happened in the incident in the dugout was unacceptable and we acted accordingly. >> now believe it or not it's time to start talking some basketball. washington wizards open training camp tomorrow up at towson university as they begin their quest for a championship. the wizards still feeling the sting from another early postseason exit, but today guys were all smiles at the verizon center for media day. interviews, pictures, even a new wizards champion ship belt they are using as a little motivation. forward drew gooden gave us his interesting take on why he thinks this team will be an even stronger contender. >> we have i think about 10 guys right now that are going to be free agents next summer. so there's going to be a lot of guys in tune not only collectively as a team, but as individuals on what they need to do to help them keep playing in this league. the washington redskins back on the practice field today as they look to regroup from thursday's loss to new york. they have a great opportunity this week in philadelphia to make waves in the division considering three of the four teams including the redskins are 1-2. >> it's a division game at the end of the day regardless if both teams are 0-15. regardless what the record is going into a situation, it's going to be a great game just like us and dallas, us and giants, whatever. >> they have a long break. let's see if the redskins ♪ when was the last time you felt... free. it's time to uncover that feeling again. with the compassion and strength of a name... most accepted by top doctors and specialists. and the power of a card... that opens doors in all fifty states. giving you the freedom to love to dream to dance like no one is watching. carefirst blue cross blue shield. live fearless. seven-day? what's so funny? >> i don't know. yellow weather alert tomorrow, big storms between 3 p.m. and midnight. some are going to be heavy, some could be severe. we'll understand up making wednesday and -- end up making wednesday and thursday a yellow weather alert. >> we need the dramatic music again. >> that was amazing, kind of scared me a little bit. >> me, too. all 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