a filibuster style talkathon. >> it's a trojan horse. once inside, it will destroy us. we've got to just drive people to the websites. >> but in the end, it's the standing law. and obama's plea. >> let's help our fellow americans get coverage. >> in washington, i'm torrey dunnan. >> let's get a quick check up on the affordable care act. we have a expert that breaks down the programs in dc, maryland, and virginia. >> for most people, come october 1st there's no change. >> if you have health insurance from your job or getting medicare or medicaid, everything will remain the same. but for those without health insurance. a ton of options await you. as the marketplaces open up across the region. >> they'll have a very wide array of private health insurance plans. >> he calls these plans the metal tiers as they range from bronze, silver, gold and platinum plans. >> if you select a bronze plan the monthly premium is lower. but when you go to the doctor, you'll have to pay more out of pocket. >> as the monthly cost goes up. the cost of doctor visits and medications drops. for those who haven't had insurance these choices can be complicated and the help you can get will vary depending on where you live. >> maryland and dc both said we want to set up our other exchanges. they arranged to have a larger number of people there on board to help assist. virginia said that they didn't want to run it themselves. the federal government is doing it on behalf of virginia. >> in the commonwealth, there will be fewer government run programs available for assistance. >> it's a non-profit organization called enroll america decided to donate resources to help. >> reporter: health coverage won't start until january 1st but you better not wait until december or your coverage may not start at the beginning of the new year. medicaid expansion will vary from state to state and this will affect your chances for reduced health care costs. >> dc expanded the medicaid program. maryland is going to expand the medicaid program. virginia is not. >> reporter: so there are a lot of questions out there. we know you have them about the affordable care act. log on to get more information in our check it out. section including an overview, state by state break down, and a closer look at how this all will affect you, next. here's something else that will affect us. we have five days left for congress to [s:all this bickering and make a decision about averting a government shut down. today, senate majority leader harry reid tried to move up votes on a temporary spending bill. but ted cruz blocked that. today u.s. attorney general eric holder talked about what a shut down would mean for the justice department. >> it would be something very bad. we have fbi agents, atf agents, dea agents the marshal service that works in the courts. to have to deal with their ability to do their jobs in a way that the american people want to have done is something that to me is very troubling. >> member of the house have said they hope the senate acts soon to give them time to respond appropriately. we know there's a lot of frustration from some of you about congress' apparent inability to get anything done any where these days. and a viewer named glen logged on to tell wusa9.com to ask if you think there should be a two-term limit for congress. now, right now, people are saying a whole lot of things. most people say yes. about 247 votes agree with that thing. but you know, plenty of things to be concerned about if the government shuts down. we have paychecks, we have student loans and federal houses loans. >> it could mean museums in dc shut down as well. that includes the national zoo. if the national zoo closes its doors say goodbye to the panda cam. no more views of the baby panda cub. this is the latest one released yesterday by the zoo. cutie pie. managing the panda cam requires people. if the zoo is gone. there may not be anybody there or the person will be deemed non-essential. tell that to all those people that have been clicking on the camera 1.2 million times in the last five weeks. since the new panda cub that still has no name was born. >> in just the last hour the zoo told us that the cub had another exam today. you know it's one of those things we've been following very closely because it took her so long to have a little cub. >> and look at it. when it was first born it looked like a creature. but now it's very cute. >> she is very cute. three pounds. all ready trying the support her own weight. which is pretty big. when she started out just ounces and the vets say she hasn't owned her eyes yet. they expect her to in the next few weeks. you don't get excited about cute gooey things. even you're excited about this. >> this is dc. this is pandas. we don't play when it comes to our pandas in here. we have a follow up about the sale of the nation's largest producer out of china. smithfield foods is based in virginia. but from this point forward it will answer to bosses over seas. they completed the big sale today. this is the largest take over of a u.s. company ever by a chinese firm. we have breaking news to get you to. a child has fallen out of a window in german town. police tell us a 20-month-old fell out of a window on circle gate drive. the child was alert and conscious while being take to the hospital. right now police can't tell us how far that child fell. we have a crew on the scene. we will get you an update as soon as we get more information. be careful with your children near windows in your home. >> you never like to hear that. still to come tonight, 50 years after a maryland plane crash, neighbors say we can still smell the jet fuel. and the impacts could have been much, much worse than that. we'll tell you about them. . beautiful day, temperatures just about average. here a are the numbers. 77 and 59. average is 76 and 58. record 96. record low. 38. we'll talk about how cool it will be at the bus stop and if this will last through the week. first new information about the woman charged with splattering green paint at the lincoln memorial and the national cathedral. store new developments regarding the green paint vandalism. you may recall police arrested a woman named tian jiamel in that case. doctors found her incompetent to stand trial. and a judge ordered a more thorough competency examination. alexandrian police chief says the proof that his officers fired in self defense can all be seen in a cell phone video. but the dead man's mama says she saw the shooting and the video and it just ain't so. >> reporter: i'm peggy fox in alexandrian where the police chief says his officers were justified in killing him right here because he pulled his gun on them. but did he or did they not and what does the video show? >> when they started shooting. i was there. and i know what i saw. >> vickie sellers watched at seven alexandrian police officers opened fire and killed her son. a arm toker marine legally carried a gun. but he did not fire when officers opened up with 37 rounds hitting him five times. >> only at the point that mr. seller's pointed his gun at one of my officers did the rest of the officers fire their weapons. >> reporter: he says cell phone videos shows sellers pointed his gun at the officers. but vickie sellers who has seen the videos and was there says she only saw him point his gun down. she thought taft fired first which he did not. >> the video is part of the criminal investigation. >> the chief won't release the video to the public but will consider my request to let reporters view the video. right now, friends and family are paying respects to the family of kenny diaz. he was stabbed to death last saturday. he played football at wood bridge high. so day police announced four more arrests in connection to his death. they think diaz was killed after he and his friends confronted another group about a robbery. more breaking news. where several people walking have been struck near northwestern high school. we have a crew on the way there too. we'll bring you more information as soon as we get it into the news room. still ahead, they say sometimes you can't see the forest through the trees. but what about when a playground looks like trees ? . all right let's update you on the breaking news out of hyattsville where multiple pedestrians have been hit at the 7,000 block of adelle fire road near northwestern high school. we have sky 9 out over the scene where there's lots of first responder action and a lot of people gathered around. we'll try to get you more information as to how many people were hit and the extent of their injuries. we'll let you know as soon as we get that information into the news room. >> we certainly hope they're going to be okay. when declassified documents revealed a hydrogen bomb nearly detonated. a photo journalist dug another scary story. >> a b 52 crashes in a blizzard with two nukes on board. photographer greg guiss revisited that almost nobody still alive remembers. >> amazing thing here at the crash site almost half a century later. if you move a little earth around, you can still smell the jet fuel. >> that's the tire. >> that's one of the mainlanding gear. >> you don't even have to dig for pieces. >> they just buried most of it. >> reporter: the air force left most of the wreckage of the b 52 in his cattle field. >> you can see it's still stamped with the bowing stamp of manufacture. this was a hidrolic actuary tore. >> security forces pulled out the nuclear weapons and the body of major robert townley who could not bail out of the plane. >> he was out of the seat when the incident occurred. he was just not able to get back into that seat so he could eject himself out. >> reporter: the flight was returning to georgia after a nuclear alert mission over europe when it ran into a huge blizzard over western maryland. the turbulence left the crew bailing out in the storm. the pilot and the co-pilot survived. two others died of exposure. >> hundreds of people were outlooking for them. one boy taking a shortcut home found him and unfortunately he had all ready died. >> he remembered when he was a ten year old when they brought the bombs off the mountain. >> they had the explosive labels on the back. >> on a flat bed truck, they strapped them down and drove them out of here. 14 deaths over three years. all of them caused by the same weak bolt head in the tail of the b 52. this crash marked a turning point. a few years later the b 52s were taken off 24 hour airborne alert and redesigned so that their airframes were not so prone to catastrophic failure. in garrett county maryland, bruce, wusa 9. now the nukes down in north carolina, they were one fail safe away from detonation. the bombs in maryland on the other hand were neither armed nor ready. and the worst thing that could have happened is the fire could have set off the explosives and sent the radio-active material across the country side. but the weapons were secured and they were all still in tact. back to hyattville. one scary scene. 7,000 block of adelle road. eight people hit. we don't know if it was a car that struck them. what they were doing at the time. none of them have critical injuries. this is near northwestern high school. you can see there is quite a scene. at this location. we'll keep an eye on this and bring you updates as we get them in. keeping your family safe. wusa 9 first alert weather. keeping your family safe from dried up skin. that's about the only danger going on outside right now. >> dried up skin? >> dry skin weather is when your furnaces are on. >> it gets warm out there. and there's no moisture going on. >> you're right. his hands are always dry. >> my hands get ashy. take a look. >> moving on. we are looking at a perfect, perfect pattern here. your skin is just fine. you don't need your furnace. you don't need your ac. >> but you may need lotion. >> you don't need lotion. that's for december and january. high, 77. down to 73. relative humidity, 46 percent which is very comfortable. the winds light out of the east at ten for the most part we'll have easterly winds or we would be warmer. satellite picture, radar combined an area of low pressure moved through earlier today. over night everything is offshore. we have a surface low offshore. producing showers and storms off the cape. that's moving away from us. we thought it might skim us. but it's not going to touch us. we'll remain mostly cloudy the next few hours but we're in fantastic shape with a comfortable night. not too cool and not too warm. temperature wise, there's some 60s all ready. 69 in bethesda. 70 in fair fax. 75 in college park. 72 in waldorf. comfortably cool tonight. mild at the bus stop. i don't think the kids need a sweatshirt tomorrow. strong finish on friday. seasonable. it means temperatures in the mid 70s. and the weekend, still looking good. still looks good right through sunday. for tonight, partly cloudy and just cool. comfortable, lows in the 50s. for tomorrow morning, partly cloudy, pleasant, 50s and 60s. very nice. by afternoon, we're in great shape again, partly cloudy, seasonable. continued beautiful. high temperatures around 75. early in the morning you have upper 50s. these are downtown temps at 5:00 and 7:00. mid 60s by 9:00. upper 60s by 11:00. and 71 or low 70s by 1:00. still great on sunday, temperatures either side of 75. next seven days, monday we're in good shape too. mid to upper 70s. it warms up a little next week. near 80 on tuesday. around 80 on wednesday. low 80s on thursday. i put a tiny drop in there. don't worry about it. maybe a sprinkle. nothing to do your lawn any good. >> this is boring weather for you. >> if i lived in san diego and this were everyday, i'd lose my mind. but it's okay. for a week or two, it's fine. >> he needs an excuse to talk about snow. >> we're going to check in with dave, what's going on with the pole this week? >> we're a day away from high school football. week five. all ready the half way point if you can believe that. you have a couple hours left to vote for the u.s.a today high school game of the week pole. we set a record all ready. 325,000 votes. i know. the numbers are ticking up. it's because we have a huge rivalry game this week. take a look at the games you see there. you see the codes. beside them. text that code to 25543. some great games this week. and of course you can always see that pole, the high school plays of the week, and all of our other content at wusa9.com. download the app on the wusa 9 app to get access 24 hours a day. and the guys are back with more news right after this. i'm terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. for 30 years i've worked as an obgyn, my job is to protect the health of women. so i'm particularly offended by ken cuccinelli. cuccinelli wants to make all abortion illegal ... ... even in cases of rape and incest. ... even to protect a woman's health. i want a governor who's focused on schools and creating jobs, not someone who wants to do my job. who's ken cuccinelli to interfere in the lives of women across virginia? . we're back now with a look at arlington county's newest playground. fort myer heights park has a 475,000-dollar redesign. it's got slides and swings that look like trees to help the playground blend in with the community. the facility has permeable surfaces to control rain and run off. >> what happened to monkey bars. >> that's it for us. the cbs evening news is next. >> i'm back at 7:00. and we'll have the latest on the hit and run with hyattville. we'll see you then. >> pelley: tonight, a breakthrough for peace. a deal is reached to avert a u.s. air strike on syria. we'll talk to the secretary of state about that and about the sudden opening that could head off an iranian nuclear bomb. but the united states would plook favorably on relaxing or eliminating the sanctions if the iranians were serious about abandoning their nuclear weapon. is the world getting warmer? on the eve of a major new report on climate change, mark phillips reports a surprising discovery. it's making headlines in britain-- airline pilots admit they'd fallen asleep in the cockpit. we'll talk to captain sully sullenberger. and want a salad with that burger? jim axelrod talks to the c.e.o. of mcdonald's on his bid to make america a healthier place. >> we think we can be part of the solution.

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