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or an employee id. if you have none of those, you can get a state issued voter id, but it would have your picture on it. >> if you come in on election day and don't have id, you'll fill out a provisional ballot. you'll have three days until friday at noon to provide us with a valid id to go with that provisional ballot. you do that, your vote counts. if you don't get it in by the 12 noon deadline friday after the election, then it won't. >> now the deadline to register to vote in virginia and maryland is this coming tuesday, october 14th. two parents in prince william county are behind bars charged with neglect in the death of their 9-month-old baby. cops tell us among other thing the couple left the baby in her crib for 16 hours without checking on her. surae chinn joins us live in nokesville with more. >> reporter: the baby's parents have been charged with felony neglect. here's what police say happened at this house. they say the parents put the baby to bed saturday night, didn't check up on the baby until 12:30 the next day. how do you leave a 9-month-old home for 16 hours? >> reporter: neighbors react to the tragedy of a 9-month-old girl who died in her crib last weekend. police say the parents put their baby in a crib at 8:30 saturday night. the next time they check up on her would be 12:30 sunday afternoon, 16 hours later. >> any child left unsupervised is terrible. >> reporter: police say one of the parents called 911 about the unconscious and unresponsive baby. when police arrived, they found her lifeless body. the parents adam and jasmyne alexander, both 21, have been arrested. police say they had noticed the infant had a breathing problem four weeks ago but never took her to the doctor. in fact, police say the little girl had not been to a routine checkup for seven months. >> who does that to your own kid? who does that to any kid? there's something fishy. >> reporter: police say there was no trauma to the baby and a medical examiner is now conducting an autopsy. back to you, jan. some clair clarification tonight from mayor vincent gray about the city's gun laws. carried a concealed weapon will not be permitted in the district until a licensing process is in place based on rules issued by the executive branch. this legal limbo came after the u.s. district court lifted the district ban on carrying pistols outside the home. more evidence tonight leaving the man charged with hannah graham's disappear -- linking the man charged with hannah graham's disappearance to an unsolved murder. jesse matthew was working as a cab driver october 17th, 2009, the night murdered virginia tech student morgan harrington disappeared after leaving a concert in charlottesville at the joan paul jones arena. investigators seized matthew's taxi and cab driver melvin carter knew matthew five years ago and reached out to investigators about being questioned about local cab companies. >> i asked which taxicab. she said yes, she did jump into a taxicab that night before her last being seen alive. >> matthew's acquaintances say he would sometimes get upset when they joked he looked like the composite sketch in the case. investigators say there's already forensic evidence linking matthew to harrington. catholic university said eight of its students were robbed thursday in some woods near campus last night. two suspects, one apparently with a gun, ordered the students to hand over their iphones, backpack and other items. the suspects took off on taylor street northeast. nobody was hurt. two deadly shootings in d.c. 4 miles and several hours apart, one of them on good hope road in southeast, another on ivanhoe street in southwest. first to good hope road, investigators say it happened inside a barbershop late this morning. cops are on the lookout for the shooter described as 6' 2 wearing a police mask. the shooter is said to be a black male about 6' 2 last seen wearing a ski mask. then to ivanhoe street where cops got the call at 7:40 this morning. when officers arrived on the scene, they found an adult male suffering from a couple gunshot wounds. the victim was pronounced dead on the scene and investigators have not released the names of either of the victims because they have not been able to notify family members yet. it could be weeks before dna tests determine whether a body exhumed is related to one of the most notorious murder cases. william bradford bishop. the fbi says there is a strong resemblance between bishop and a man struck and killed by a car in alabama in 1981 who was never identified. the special agent in charge of the maryland fbi field office appeared on our noon news. mike hydek asked steve vogt whether he was confident the bureau finally had its man. >> we don't know. we've had over 350 tips since we put brad bishop on the 10 most wanted, so we don't know. i've been burned before. a month ago we were 99% sure, so we'll see. >> the femur from the corpse in alabama will be shipped to the fbi lab in quantico, virginia. information from it will be compared to bishop's dna recovered from a cigarette in 1976. married gay couples in virginia can now adopt children. governor terry mcauliffe is sending out that notice to social services divisions across the state. same sex marriage in virginia effectively became legal monday after the supreme court turned away appeals from five states. the district's preeminent school for the arts lost its leader. the principal, father john payne, died yesterday after an apparent heart attack. payne served as dean of students before he was elevated to principal this year. d.c. public schools chancellor kaya henderson says the news is hitting some students really hard. >> we want to support however people need to grieve, but this is a tremendous loss. this man was a servant leader and had a heart for students and i think students will feel this most acutely. >> school is not in session for students today and monday and grief counselors will be on hand tuesday when they return. a new report raises more questions about how thomas eric duncan's ebola case was handled in dallas. duncan is the first person to die from ebola here in the u.s. a sheriff's deputy who was hospitalized this week for possible ebola symptoms says he feels lucky to be alive. omar villa fanecaowe villa frank a has the -- omar villa frank a has the latest from dallas. >> reporter: monning was brought to the hospital wednesday after complaining of flu-like symptoms. he was among a group of deputies who entered the dallas apartment where ebola patient thomas duncan stayed before he was put into isolation and died this week. >> i was scared when they tell me my temperature is 101.7 because i knew 101.5 is where they talk about that being a key point for ebola and i saw the two nurses look at each other with wide eyes. i wonder if my ticket ever punched. >> reporter: doctors say monning just had a viral infection that quickly ran its course. as for duncan, health officials confirm this morning his body has been cremated to prevent ebola from possibly spreading further. duncan's family sent 1,400 pages of medical records to the associated press. those record reveal duncan's temperature spiked to 103 degrees when he was initially sent home from the emergency room here at texas health presbyterian. duncan from the ebola hotbed of liberia had direct or indirect contact with nearly 50 people in dallas. >> texas health presbyterian released a statement saying it is still evaluating how it handled duncan's case and that it changed the way potential ebola patients are screened. the world health organization announced today the death toll from this year's ebola outbreak has passed 4,000. most of the victims died in west africa. two prominent children's rights activists are sharing this year's nobel peace prize. >> one of them is 17-year-old mow la la yousafzai is the -- malala yousafzai is the youngest person. she survived and went on to become a global advocate for girl education and shared the prize with the global rights activist in india. we are just getting started on knew at 5:00. trending now -- wusa9 news at 5:00. trending now the car of the future could be on the road by the end of the year, what makes this slick looking ride so special? that's coming up at 5:30. >> we're still tracking showers and light rain, a little break back to the west. we'll talk about why we had to extend our yellow alert into saturday. >> but first what the u.s. wants turkey to this is a yellow alert day. now here's wusa9 first alert weather. >> your hair looks fabulous today. >> thank you, thank you. >> did you get it cut today? >>. >> perhaps i saw my hairdresser. >> he always acknowledges when something changes about us. >> he notices when we get our hair done. >> i have three daughters. you have to notice that sort of thing. >> we noticed something different about you. >> thank you. >> a new product in your hair? >> an unusual amount of products? you need a lot of product tonight. it's going to be a miserable hair night, but good news for sunday, bad news for saturday. we extended the yellow alert day through saturday morning. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, because of the clouds and winds temperatures didn't do much, still 61. winds east, northeast at 6. that will continue through tomorrow. the radar, last two hours notice a little break. get out toward cumberland and points west, showers have ended before now, but showers will continue to rebuild and intensify as we go through the nighttime hours. we're not done. good news is nothing crazy heavy and again all the high school game are still being played. we've had no cancellations and the o's are still going to play as well. we have light activity up rockville, shermantown up 270 and also a little more concentrated area of showers and light rain south 95 and also into southern maryland, charles county around waldorf, head down 301 and route 5. yellow alert now through saturday morning for rain and showers, need an umbrella and jacket tonight. it's kind of cool out really. showers linger into saturday afternoon, stay cool saturday. soccer games probably still on tomorrow. i would check but nothing crazy heavy will fall overnight. here's our futurecast 9:30 tonight still leftover showers, temperatures 45, gaithersburg 57, leesburg, pretty uniform, 60 downtown. overnight more showers and rain and by early morning, early for me on saturday, 8:00, still have rain and showers across most of the metro area and temps in the 50s about everywhere. by 10:00 still leftover showers, but they're on their way out, temps in the 50s and by 1:00 maybe a shower north of town, maybe a couple leftover showers toward winchester, nothing heavy. by 3:30 see some breaks in the clouds. we'll see the sun set and we're clear in gaithersburg and leesburg. tomorrow night it will be clear and chilly. temps will fall quickly. by 8:00 saturday night we're in the mid-50 north and west of town and 60 downtown. by 9:30 we're in the low 50s north of town. if you're out late, temperatures teetering on 49 degrees by 12:30 in gaithersburg, low 50s in leesburg and manassas and downtown we're in the mid-50s. at least it's going to be quiet tomorrow night and dry. cloudy and chilly tonight with rain and showers, 48 to 56. tomorrow morning more light rain and showers, nothing morning, 48 to 58, just kind of that nuisance stuff. then by afternoon mostly cloudy and cool, showers ending early. we are going to see the sunset. high temperatures are in the low to mid-60s. the day planner, we've got 50s across the board. this looks worse than it is really, nothing heavy, 57 at 9:00 and 58 at 11:00 and 59 at 1:00 with some light showers. sunday is great, although it may end with clouds. it could end with a shower by sunset, 65. monday is milder with showers, back in the mid-70s for columbus day. next seven days, warmer tuesday with showers and thunderstorms, 76, cooler wednesday and pleasant, very nice thursday and friday with highs going back in the low to mid-70s. u.s. continued to hit isis targets on syria's border with turkey. isis fighters are moving up from the south to join the battle to capture the town and the pentagon concedes airstrikes are not likely to stop that. >> it is one town and there will be others where there will be conflicts with isil over the course of these next months. >> the u.s. is looking for turkey to step up in the efforts to stop isis. the obama administration wants to launch airstrikes from the muslim country and take part in an effort to train and equip modern syrian rebels needed to battle isis on the ground. joining us with more on the effort to take down isis is face the nation host bob schieffer. good to see you. the white house keeps saying we're not winning the battle with these airstrikes. >> no. so far we've poured more than 100 airstrikes into this since this campaign began and isis just keeps moving on. they're now threatening baghdad in iraq. they're threatening this village that is in syria on the border with turkey, so it appears we'll have to do something more. the administration is still trying to find some ground troops somewhere in that part of the world that will be willing to take the fight to isis, but so far they haven't found them. we're going to talk to leon panetta, former secretary of defense, whose book contains withering criticism of the administration he has just left. he says among other things that we should have helped arm the syrian rebels way back there. he also thinks that there's no way that you can win in this battle with isis until you do find some ground enty to talk about with him on face the nation sunday and, of course, we'll also have the latest on this whole awful situation with ebola. >> what about fighting isis here at home, bob, because already we've seen a number of arrests people trying to help the terrorist organization? >> well, there is no question. i mean these videos, there are people in this country, in our country, most of them who have very troubled lives but who see some appeal to this and i think part of the threat we're facing here is to make sure these so- called lone wolves, that somehow we have the defenses and do the things we need to do to keep them from causing harm here, but that's very much, jan, you're right on point, very much a major concern of the government. >> looking forward to seeing leon panetta on face the nation this weekend with you. have a great weekend. a town in pennsylvania is banning trick-or-treating this year while police hunt for accused cop killer eric frein. frein is believed to be hiding out in thick woods. this survivalist search is going on its fourth week and neighbors are on edge. >> it feels like a war zone. they've walked through every inch of this woods three or four times with dogs, guns. >> the sniper victims were corporal byron dixon who died at the scene and trooper alex douglass who was severely injured. a group of troopers' wives are selling t-shirts to raise money for the families. right after the break a former nfl executive alleges decades of a domestic violence coverup. >> as we head into break a look at some of those gas prices that could be driving you crazy. we'll take you to beltsville where you could get a great deal at bp at 10901 baltimore avenue, fill up for 2.96 a now to a warning for customers of a popular national ice cream chain, yeah, the hackers have hit the dairy queen and if you shop there, there may be a chance that your name, your credit, your debit card number may have been compromised at 4-locations including a handful in our -- 400 locations, including a handful in our area, two in st. charles county, one in st. mary's, fairfax and leesburg. this happened in august through october and 600,000 cards were affected. a road closure that could drive you crazy, ddot tells us casada street will be closed the next two months beginning tuesday not too far from chevy chase circle. the closure is to allow crews to construct previous concrete inthe street. in february we reported on a handful of ugly potholes in that area. if you have a transportation story driving you crazy, we want to hear about it. usa today reports a former nfl executive says the league failed to discipline hundreds and hundreds of domestic violence incidents over the last 30 years and the revelation comes from jerry angelo who was general manager of the chicago bears for a decade. angelo says he and other nfl executives knew it was wrong to gloss over the domestic abuse incidents and' not proud of it. the bears -- and he's the proud of it. the bears released a statement saying it doesn't know what angelo is talking about. how you could check out your favorite restaurant before you head out to eat this weekend in our restaurant alert. >> and trending now tesla shows off the car of the future, where in the world is north - oh, the young. 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"i think roe v. wade should be overturned." barbara comstock even voted with right-wing republicans to require women seeking an abortion to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. that's all i need to know. i'm john foust and i approve this messge. this is a yellow alert day. now here's wusa9 first alert weather. >> in fact, we've extended the yellow alerts to include saturday morning now. why? because these showers that extend all the way back into the midwest along the ohio valley will not move out soon. the good news is we'll zoom in, over the past couple hours we'll get kind of a bit of a respite especially north and west of town. so all the high school games are still on. that said it's kind of chilly, temps upper 50s, low 60s, bundle up. we'll zoom in. the heaviest concentration of rain such as it is, a couple flecks of yellow into southern maryland and southern prince george's county will slow you down a bit if you're going down 301 or 5 and out 50 toward annapolis. up north old town, light showers, tyson light showers out 50 into fairfax, government center, some light showers there and especially down 95 between d.c. and fredericksburg there's a lot of shower activity. let's talk about the futurecast. 7:30 tonight most of the activity sinks south for the time being. we have a little respite and the o's game is on. by 8:00 some more showers creeping back up into southern sections of prince george's county. notice a new batch, a fresh batch of showers moving through the mountains. overnight by 10:00 trying to walk the dog, you got about a 50/50 shot of showers, temps mid-50s to around 60. overnight this is now midnight we got showers and rain over most of the metro area with heavy activity out toward luray, yellow and orange, heavy rainfall, an inch or 1/2-inch per hour and by 3:00 everything spreads over the entire metro area. we'll come back and take this futurecast further into the future and let you know why we issued that yellow alert tomorrow. trending now tesla ceo elon musk big secret revealed. >> turned out that d doesn't stand for ount. tesla is adding all wheel drive and a hi-tech driver assisted system to one of its most popular models. >> reporter: a giant robotic arm una victims tesla's latest version -- unveils tesla's latest version of the model s. ceo elon musk says the vehicle is it not just faster but safer with the new pilot system that uses radar and ultrasonic sonar. >> it's able to see things at a long distance and also able to see through fog and snow. it's able to read stop sign, distinguish pedestrians, look at traffic lights. >> reporter: while it's designed to assist drivers, it can't take over completely. >> it's not at the level where you could safely fall asleep and arrive at your destination. >> reporter: but it can reach speed up to 155 miles per hour. elon musk says the new model is like giving drivers their own personal roller coaster. the car can do zero to 60 in 3.2 seconds. >> you'll be able to choose three settings, normal, sport and insane. it will actually say insane. it's true. >> reporter: tesla is now offering four wheel drive as an option powered by dual motors. analysts say the new feature could help tesla sales in cold weather states and abroad. >> 80% of audis sold in the u.s. are all wheel drive and something like half of bmw and mercedes are all wheel drive. >> reporter: the new model s will hit the road as early as december. bigad shaban, cbs news, los angeles.sp >> and it can be yours, that model s, if you'd like to pay between 75 and $175,000. >> like a house for some people. salad news to pass along from the comedy -- sad news to pass along from the comedy world. >> snl alum jan hooks passed away from an unknown illness. >> there were few things jan hooks couldn't do. on saturday night live hooks stole the show as a first lady. >> i happen to be the co- president of the united states. >> and helped make tammy faye bakker a household name. >> and i put my hand up and i said i rebuke you. >> hooks got her first big break in the movie peewee's big adventure. she landed roles on designing women and 30 rock. she was just 57, very young. where in the world is kim jong un? >> north korea's supreme leader a no show at a major celebration today at his country's capitol and he hasn't been seen more than a month. video showed him limping over the summer and fueled speculation about the leader's health and the internet has been running wild with speculation in the last few weeks. theories range from a coup to even gout. some suggest his obsession with cheese is the reason for his weight gain. >> where is he? >> we don't know. we have no idea where he is. we were just talking about this story because microsoft ceo is apologizing tonight after giving some advice how women should ask for a raise. >> when asked during an event about women uncomfortable should ask for a raise, he said it's not really about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith the system will give you the right raises as you go along. the interviewer was a microsoft director who said she disagreed with the advice and instead suggested women do their homework on salary information and first practice asking the people they trust. the rule is this. if you want a raise, you got to ask for it. >> we know the system doesn't do what it's supposed to do because women only make 77 cents of every dollar a man makes. >> just because you ask doesn't mean you'll get it. >> bask. a drone operator learned hawks can be territorial. check out this video from cambridge, massachusetts. the man was flying his quad copter this week when a pretty irate bird swooped down and knocked it out of the sky and the drone went tumbling down. the owner said his flying machine and the hawk are both okay, but amazon want to rethink its drone delivery initiative. they've lost their septuplets but not their hope, next a couple shares their painful story of loss and how their faith is carrying them through this tough time. >> at 6:00 a in fairfax county we had to cut a lot of waste. we consolidated offices. started sharing printers. we can walk a few feet. replaced computers, but kept the monitors. they still work fine. we even discovered that the phone company overcharged us by three million dollars! i approve this message because congress doesn't need another right winger. they need someone who can balance a budget. oh, and we definitely didn't need so many government studies. z . >> wusa9 news is sponsored in part by your local toyota dealers. seven babies left one couple in shock and their doctors very concerned about their pregnancy. >> that couple is speaking out about their harrowing journey and their difficult decision that changed everything. michelle bowden has their powerful story. >> reporter: they're as all american as it gets, lindsey and steve justice, college athletes who met at wake forest. >> i kind of noticed her. she didn't really notice me. >> reporter: lindsey a soccer player. steve played college ball, so good he played with peyton manning and the colts and spent some time as a panther. married five years their life together revolves around their faith. >> oh, lord, we know that you're near. >> reporter: and their family. >> my beautiful girl. >> reporter: hannah the 4-year- old daddy's girl and hope, the 2-year-old who looks just like her mom. the couple wanted more feet to add to a new photo and after nine months of trying for a third learned lindsey had pcos, polycystic ovarian syndrome which can make it difficult to get pregnant. >> every month seemed like 10 years and any woman who goes through infertility knows that. >> reporter: lindsey took fertility drugs and the couple even considered adoption. >> it's emotionally draining. it's hard. >> reporter: just when they were thinking about other options, a surprise. for steve's 30th birthday lindsey handed her husband a gift, her positive pregnancy test. >> from that point on it was kind of a wild ride. >> reporter: the doctor thought lindsey could be carrying as many as six babies and asked the couple about what's called selective reduction, terminating some of the pregnancies to help give the others a better chance at survival. >> he just said this is dangerous. your best medical option is to selectively reduce. steve and i didn't have to look at each other. that was not an option. >> reporter: the surprises kept coming. lindsey's eight week ultrasound showed there were, in fact, seven babies. >> it is a miracle. it's just a miracle. >> reporter: most ob/gyns will tell you they don't see this kind of pregnancy ever in their career. seven is extremely rare. the couple documented the pregnancy. knowing they had to get to 23 weeks for the babies to have a chance. they named them. >> mercy is the purple one. >> reporter: first letter of each baby's name together spells messiah. at 12 weeks lindsey miss carried one of the babies -- miscarried one of the babies, but then some happy news. >> we were joking they're all going to be girls and she did like a quick scan and i was like you're kidding me. they're all girls. >> reporter: each sunday the family celebrated when lindsey was still pregnant, but in week 21 -- >> i started to feel some contractions and i wanted to not believe that. >> reporter: the couple rushed to the hospital where lindsey gave birth to the baby they named mercy. it took just 10 minutes for lindsey to give birth to the other five. >> she was holding three on her chest and i was getting the next two and i just wanted to stop. i want them to stay in there. i want them to stop. >> reporter: the babies survived about two hours. >> what i would give to nurse them, to hold them, to rock them to sleep, to dress them, you know. i mean i want to be their mom. i want them to be here. >> reporter: both say they don't think the full weight of the loss has hit them. >> we're broken, you know. we are in deep mourning. we held each one of our six girls, not even a week ago. >> reporter: they have the blankets each baby was wrapped in on their bed. they each pick a different one to sleep with every night and there are other momentos, cherished photographs. >> she took a picture of all their feet for us. we had to ruffle up their dresses to do that, so i got to go over and it really hit me that that was the only time i would ever dress them, you know. i love dressing my girls. that's what a mama does to our babies, so i got to dress them once and for all. >> that was michelle bowden reporting. lindsey and steve wanted to tell their story to let the world know that there can be hope in the face of sorrow. we'll be right back. ready for a great career? devry university's merit-based career catalyst scholarship can help you get started with up to $20,000 for qualified new students. apply now and start working toward your career like devry grad, shelly joseph. as a student at devry, a business career was my goal. this was my career training ground... my professors, were also my coaches. their guidance helped me find career success... at microsoft. find your success with our career catalyst scholarship. classes start october 27. get started now. visit devry.edu october is breast cancer awareness month and new medical advances are showing promise. learning that you are genetically prone to cancer can be hard to accept. >> andrea roane introduces us to a woman whose family is facing hard decisions as they deal with the brac gene mutation. >> reporter: it's the news everyone dreads you have cancer. >> it was a physical exam and the lump was felt. >> reporter: she also found out that she has a brca gene mutation. >> it can be scary knowing you have it because i feel it's more of not if i'm going to get cancer but when. >> reporter: that prompted her to make decisions along the path of her treatment. >> i completed chemotherapy and i had a double mastectomy and radiation is pending. >> reporter: a genetic counselor is helping maria and her family understand their options since the brca gene mutation is among them. genetics in relation to overall health risk is a very complicated topic for most people who would benefit from a genetic test. >> it's my job to give information to the patients in a way that they can understand and then they can make decisions about whether they want to learn the information that the genetic tests could give them. >> reporter: experts look at personal medical history, age, family history and ethnicity to determine if someone is a good candidate for genetic testing. >> we talk about a lot of the medical interventions that are appropriate if they test positive for a gene mutation and then support them in making decisions once they have their genetic test results. >> reporter: which is very helpful to maria and her family. she wishes she had this information earlier in life and urges those who can benefit from a test to get it. >> some people would rather not know, but i think knowing very powerful. they say knowledge is power and what can you do to prevent it because a lot of money and time and effort has gone into cancer research and treatment. >> reporter: andrea roane, wusa9. >> maria's daughter was tested for the brca gene mutation and tested negative. this tuesday during the 5 p.m. newscast here on wusa9 we will have experts from inova health live in ourst udio to discuss the latest news about breast cancer. they are tiny, but they pack a nutritional punch and they can be added to foods from your baked goods to salads and yogurt. chia and flaxseeds are about everywhere. you can find them on store shelves and in various health drinks. they've been around as far back as the aztecs. flaxseeds may reduce certain kind of cancer while chia seeds are rich in fiber and omega 3 fatty acids and experts say they are a great source of protein without the saturated fats contained in animal proteins. >> because they are so high in fiber and omega 3 fatty acid they've been shown to lower the risk of heart attack, stroke, cholesterol levels. >> you can mix them and match them and put them in yogurt and baked goods. we want to know is it any good? >> what do they taste like? >> they say if you want the best benefits, go for the ground flax, but the chia seeds are great ground or whole. have you ever had them? >> i have not, but it sounds like it's something you want to kind of disguise a little bit in yogurt, but it's good for you, so that's okay. we had to extend our yellow alert. i apologize. your bad hair day will continue tomorrow. we've had no reports of any high school football games being canceled and the o's are still playing. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, a little slow going on the roads, roads still kind of wet, temperatures in the low 60s and they have not moved much. you get clouds in an easterly fetch and you've got temperatures tightly bunched across the entire metro area. we widen out the radar. we see a little break in the action, so to speak, along i- 81, but you see more showers back into charleston, west virginia, and a lot of showers about ready to cross the ohio river. we have nuisance showers especially past rockville up toward frederick and more showers especially down south down 95 and down into southern maryland. we'll zoom in. you're going out 66, still have showers through fairfax and over toward manassas, a couple sprinkles in old town and upper marlboro. the heaviest activity we can find is between prince frederick and mechanicsville and south of leonardtown, everything pushing off to the east. it's going to stay west along route 2 and 5 and 301 into southern maryland. so yellow alert now through saturday morning for rain and showers. you need an umbrella and jacket tonight, a damp chill in the air. showers linger into saturday, early afternoon and it stays cool. i think we'll see a sunset tomorrow. soccer games will be okay. we don't see anything crazy heavy overnight. if you're going to spectate, you'll need a jacket, mom and dad. 10:00 tonight again clouds, a couple showers here and there, leesburg and south in between d.c. and fredericksburg, heavy activity pushing out of southern maryland into the delmarva. by 11:30 we see our area of showers growing now kind of enveloping most of the metro area, mid-50s toward gaithersburg, 60 downtown, heavier activity in the shenandoah valley between luray and harrisonburg. that moves across the metro area overnight and 8:00 tomorrow morning we still have a pretty good area. see the darker grone? that's kind of moderate rain on our legend -- green? that's kind of moderate rain on our legend. by 10:00 we're left with light showers across parts of the metro area. by 1:00 maybe some light showers north of town and a few showers back in the mountains. clouds are hanging on, but finally by 3:30, 4:00 see the breaks in the clouds and we'll see the sunset. temperatures aren't going up very high, upper 50s at 3:30 and low 60s downtown, that's about it. by 5:30 now we're clear north of town and clearing even down into southern maryland. we will clear out nicely tomorrow night. it will be a brisk night with temperatures falling back in the 40s in the suburbs. keep that in mind if you have plans saturday. plans tonight will be soggy. plans tomorrow night will be chilly. cloudy and chilly tonight, 46. tomorrow morning light rain showers, 48 to 58 and by afternoon showers ending and highs 60 to 65. day planner 50s, 57, 57, 57, finally 59 at 1:00. this looks worse than it is, just light activity after 9:00. sunday great start, sunshine. we may see a shower late sunday, still the bulk of the day is fine, milder with some showers monday, temperatures in the mid-70s. next seven days. columbus day we're okay with some showers, showers and storms possible tuesday, 76 and very nice wednesday, thursday, friday, a little cooler wednesday, then back in the 70s thursday and friday. football could be a violent sport, of course. thankfully most injuries leave players with only bumps and bruises, but what happens when it's serious? in tonight's game on varsity high school spotlight diane roberts with the story of paul ferrell. >> reporter: paul ferrell used to make plays like that. now he can only watch his teammates on the blake high school football team. >> i just love the game. football teaches a lot about life and to be able to play out there on the field and with your family,know, your brothers it's perfect. >> reporter: paul was an undersized center on the bengals team, but he shined on special teams and the off line. on october 25th while -- offensive line. on october 25th while covering a kick return paul got caught in an impossible situation. >> while i was back pedaling i went into sherwood kids and i collided with two people and i had helmet to helmet contact and i instantly went into shock and hit my cerebellum on the ground. >> it looked like a play that happens 100 times a day on the football field. >> waking up it was terrible. i saw a pitch black atmosphere. i had trouble breathing and while i was trying to talk it felt like my lungs were collapsing. >> i just remember i was sitting there holding his han and i knew he couldn't feel me -- hand and i knew he couldn't feel me touching him. it was scary for sure. >> reporter: the 16-year-old spent a month in the hospital. he thought he would never walk again, let alone play football. >> i just miss suiting up. >> reporter: no. 53's teammates visited him in the hospital during the recovery. about a month after the injury the blake senior was able to walk again, but playing football was out of the question. head coach tony nazarro looked for a way to keep the 17-year- old part of the bengal football family. >> i think we both knew he wanted to be involved and i wanted to keep him in the program somehow. >> reporter: now paul roams the field as an assistant through an internship program at blake similar to being a college graduate assistant. palm's story is a lesson in amend verse -- paul's story is a lesson in adversity, overcoming it and not allowing it to break you. >> adversity is a great character builder. >> reporter: paul's character shows him to be strong, humble and still in love with the game he can no longer play. in silver spring diane roberts, wusa9 sports. >> way to go, paul. his doctors forbid him to play contact sports ever again because another hit could further damage his spinal cord and possibly resulting in paralysis, but he's hanging in there. good for him. much more in sports at 6:20, the pennant on the line in charm city. >> put down that fork and don't touch the remote because russ ptacek is coming up. he's getting ready to spoil your appetite with this week's restaurant alert. >> here's what else is coming up at 6:00. >> reporter: democrats pulled millions of ad dollars from what was supposed to be a very competitive want to know how 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week's restaurant alert a sandwich shop and two pizza places shut down for serious health code violations. >> here's investigative reporter russ ptacek. >> reporter: inspectors ordered them closed with health citations. you can follow them along and track these and all restaurants in d.c., montgomery county and virginia from our mobile restaurant alert. text the word food to 25543 to search. the restaurant alert shows a september 18th report for enter rocklin. the owner says we fixed those items. taylor gourmet on 19th street northwest, you'll see warnings issued august 26th, september 15th and 22nd resulting in a september 24th closure citing no d.c. certified food protection manager, repeat the violations. taylor gourmet says we had a mixup with one of our employees, maryland food handler certification not transferring. all is clear now. punch up the brown bag on 14th street. its september 5th closure report cites 15 violations including heavy roach infestation and fruit flies. in a statement brown bag says the whole thing was due to a manager error. the manager has since lost his job. grab your smartphone and text food to 25543 to get the restaurant alert. all the restaurants passed reinspection and they're back in business. i'm investigative reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. have national democrats given up on what was supposed to be a very competitive northern virginia congressional race? >> john faust lost all of his funding. >> reporter: i'm bruce leshan. we will have a look. >> reporter: i'm surae chinn in nokesville, virginia. an infant is dead and now the parents sit in jail, that story coming up. but first tonight we are under a yellow alert. thanks for joining us. i'm derek mcginty. >> i'm lesli foster. the chief, topper shutt is here, and when we start off the show, you know that means there's going to be rain and showers. what does live doppler 9000 see and where is the heaviest stuff going? >> i-66 and south and route 50 and south, but i've widened the radar. we're not done with the showers. don't let it lull you into a false sense of security. we still have a lot of rain into southern ohio and kentucky. no high school football games have canceled to my knowledge. o's are still playing. we have a little patch of light showers on east side of montgomery county. going out 66 and bowie toward annapolis and points south there are showers, but the heaviest is south of town in southern maryland and heavier activity between old town and route 7 heading towards tysons, but this is generally lightivity it but enough to -- light activity but enough to warrant a yellow alert. we have now extended the yellow alert thro

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