Follow this breaking story on our wusa 9 news app. Well have a full report on wusa 9 news starting at 5 00 p. M. Now to our other top story. A rainy, dreary mess. That pretty much sums up todays weather, and thats triggered todays yellow alert. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us. Im andrea roane. Allison ray has much more on how much longer the showers will stick around. Just not the prettiest day out there at all. Taking a look at first alert doppler it is pretty ugly out there. We do see that mist area thats not showing up on first alert doppler. Theres still some rain out there, and were not done with the rain just yet. Even though these are lifting off to the north, similar to this morning, more will start to develop and grow and expand. Well see showers right through the afternoon. In will head to clarks about 12 30. We are dry in the beltway but the roads are not wet. I was just now the side and the mist was there. Shear a look at the futurecast through the next few hours. Areas south of the district will be spottier and drier. Coming up, well look ahead to veterans day and our next chance for rain coming up a little bit. Andrea . Thee people were injured in a school bus. The bus collided with the passenger vehicle and the power poll with new technology way. The accident happened around 7 45 this morning. Utility crews were called in to deal with the downed power lines. Park police are investigating a horrific discovery in southwest d. C. They found a body inside of a burned out car alongallingburg place. The vehicle ran off the roadway, slammed into a tree and caught fire. Republican president ial candidates are waiting for tonights debate to go after each other. Things are getting nasty. Reporter republicans square off in another debate tonight, and the verbal sparring is already heating up. Whats going on with this election . Ive never seen anything like it. Reporter donald trump has continued his attacks on dr. Ben indicationens insistence that he stabbed another boy when he was a teenager despite the press unable to find any evidence where this happened. This is the only election in history where you are better off if you stabbed somebody. What are we coming to . Reporter carson continued to defend himself saying he is an honest man. I would much rather lose an election than to lie. Reporter they are not the only pair going after each other. Pacs associated with jeb bush plan to spend millions going after marco rubio which he turned into an appeal to donors to send more money to fend off at tack. The leading candidates are focusing on their top issues. For bernie sanders, its this rally to raise the minimum wage. In america today, what we have seen is the richest people becoming richer and almost everybody else becoming poorer. Reporter Hillary Clinton campaigned in New Hampshire where she will roll out her plans to increase benefits for military families. Craig boswell, cbs news, washington. The democrats will have their own debate saturday in des moines, iowa, right here. Investigators in egypt are trying to figure out who may have planted a bomb on the russian plan that crashed in the Sinai Peninsula last month. Security officers are scrutinizing airport employees and reportedly even questioning Hotel Workers involved in catering. U. S. And british Officials Say even without an official cause, the evidence all points to a bomb on board. Our conclusions from the decisions we face have been based on the review of all of the Information Available to us. And cbs news has learned investigators are focusing on the sinai branch of isis. Its green for go at this noon hour. Scores of commuters were late for work this morning. For some reason, rider had to wade through several to board and it was particularly bad at the navy yard system. A stay. Will be closing its doors. Brookland hardware. Usually that means employees losing their jobs in a neighborhood without a service. That wont happen, and niki burdine explains why. Reporter brookline hardware has been a fixture in this community for more than 35 years, but with the owner retiring and the shop closing down, many feared all would be forgotten. Not the case, and its thanks to an unlikely partner, their competition. When long time owner Howard Politzer decided to close up shop, he wasnt worried about what would happen to his employees because competition was opening up down the street. Instead of laying off employees, he decided to just move them a few blocks down the road. The people are always the best part. They are the business. Everything else is a building or an object, but people make the difference. When we found out the place was going out of business, normally people would be worried, oh, no, im out of a job. But we never had a worry because we had a new job over here and they said its yours to take if you want it. Reporter howard will get to stay on as an advisor, the employees will still have jobs and it will be the more than 100 years of experience. In brookland, burdine, wusa 9. Before brookland hardware closes its doors, they must sell everything, which means a big sale for you. Their past day of business is this saturday and everything is 90 off. Fast food workers across the country are holding rallies for higher wages. While many believe 15 an hour is a fair wage, some say the increase could drive them out of business. Thanks to modern technology, booster seats are getting safer. Coming up, a list and how parents should fill a police are questioning the survivor of the deadly shooting on the campus of spartanburg methodist college. Vehicle breakins were being investigated last night when they tried to stop a suspicious car. The driver tried to pull away and struck a Campus Police officer. The officer fired on the car and killed one of the two people inside. The other person was arrested. The officer was not seriously injured. Missouris governor jane nixon is calling it a necessary step toward healing. Hes talking about the resignation of the university of missouris president tim wolfe who quit in the wake of racial tensions that led to a student leaders Hunger Strike and the Football Teams walkout. Wolfe was accused of failing to respond to several cases, including a swastika painted inside of a dorm. It should not have take then long. I kept asking is this the right thing to do . Im talking to guys with tears in their eyes and crying. They asked if i would support them, and i said i would. The Tipping Point may have been the Football Team walkout. The university would have lost between 1 million and 2 million if they forfeited saturdays game against byu. Pope francis made an announcement when seven Chinese Workers were killed in a factory fire in 2013. The poem demanded they fight to eliminate the counselor of corruption. This was home to 40,000 chinese immigrants, more than half there illegally. The town is largely made of cheap clothes. It cant rain forever. Allison is up next with how much longer well have to endure dreary weather. Things are starting to taper off, but were still not done with the rain completely. Its going to take you right through the evening commute on our futurecast and also a look ahead to this weekend. We have another chance of rain before like a lot of little circular dots. Itchy, burning. Its pretty much everywhere, where i have pants. Define very active . Then maybe yes. You know, im gonna have to call you back. Okay bye. Find and book a doctor in private with zocdoc. Booster seats for children riding in cars or getting safer according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Chris martinez takes a look at which came out on top and which seats parents still want to avoid. Reporter 20 of the 22 booster seats new on the market this year are deemed a best bet by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. Three were rated good bets. In this years booster ratings, there arent any seats we wouldnt recommend. Reporter the Nonprofit Research group tested both high back and backless seats measuring how well it fits a child in just about any vehicle. What were looking for is that the lap belt fits low across the top of the thighs and not riding up on the soft tummy and the shoulder belt needs to fit snuggley and shouldnt be riding up on the neck or face. Reporter the iihs recommends parents do their homework before making a purchase. We found booster seats from previous years, which are not recommended still for sale. The iihs is calling on manufacturers are six older models that are not recommended to stop making them, but if you have one, dont throw it out. Just get a new one as soon as possible. The iihs says crash tests prove any booster seat is better than no seat at all. Chris martinez, cbs news, los angeles. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says the best seats are not necessarily the most expensive. The group says there is one 2015 best bet seat that retails for just 15. Federal safety officials are shifting gears for the first time when it comes to installing seat belts in school buses. Statistics show four children die every year in large school bus crashes. The National Transportation safety board believes seat belts would cut that number in half. The father of one child who was killed, ashley brown, says he believes a seat belt would have saved his daughter. Not a day goes by when we dont think of her. Wounds are refreshed every time an accident takes the life of another schoolchild. They are hoping change can come without new regulations. Right now, just six states require seat belts on school buses. Nissan is joining the list of automakers that are dumping takata. This after up to 200 million in penalties against takata. Just last week, honda and toyota also stopped using takatas air bags in their vehicles. Some rosy forecasts are out about online holiday sales. The research expects Online Shopping to grow three times the rate of instore sales. The Firm Predicts online sales will increase 11 this month and next. Amazon, target, and others are offering holiday deals earlier this season. Lights over the skies of los angeles over the weekend caused quite a stir. It may have been a military test. Brittany hopper shows why some may have been from an alien. Reporter despite the official word of what the light was saturday night, some skeptics are not believing it was a macle, rather its something else, being visited from all over the universe. Reporter he broadcasts to millions nightly discussing aliens, ufos and the paranormal, he says many of his callers dont trust the government and dont trust its missile explanation as a result. People have lost faith in government. So they are convinced that the government is Holding Back Information about ufos and visitations. Reporter those people have beamed their thoughts and topic has been trending since our skies lit up. It lit up as far as arizona, but the military says it was a missile test, part of training off our coast. So when the government says, hey, this isnt what it is, its a balloon or its this or that, people dont believe it anymore. Reporter nouri, who does believe in alien and ufos tells me that in this particular case, he does believe it is a test missile. The navy says it was unusual atmospheric conditions that led to the test being so visible to so many people. Believe it or not. Some homeowners in california cant believe it, but they are counting up their losses and counting their blessings today. Lightning struck a 100yearold tree in one homeowners yard and the tree exploded sending it flying into surrounding homes. Several people had very close calls. She had just picked up a cup of coffee inside of this window here, turned and was headed to the back of the house when the lightning hit and the piece of the tree came through the window. It was unbelievable. I never heard a sound like that before. Another neighbor was out walking her dog when the lightning struck and sent a piece of a tree through a window and onto the bed where she had just been sleeping. Luckily, no such violent weather in our area, but we do have the rain even though you put away your umbrella for a while. That was a good sign. Its not as wet as it was this morning. Thats what we expect, mostly a morning event. Were just not in the clear yet. I would hang onto that umbrella until maybe this evening. Then well get rid of everything. However, another chance of rain before we get to the weekend. I dont think thursdays rain is going to make for such an ugly day that we have today. I mean, the visibility is low, the fog is here, and these eastnortheasterly winds and rain on and off. It is improving as we head through the afternoon, but we are going to see the showers stick around, especially for areas off to the north. On the radar, were not seeing much. Its very light and very low. Well get the mist and light rain right through reagan national. Its 50 degrees right there. Its hard to see the temperatures move too much until later on tonight when the skies clear. Well clear things out a little bit. This is what ive been mentioning. It looks like its all going to fade away and expand and produce a little more rain. This is why you just cant leave the umbrella at home for a few hours. Right through the beltway, we are dry for the most part but still the mist and drizzle and fog. Over here through leesburg heading up 270 near clocksburg clarksburg, light showers pushing off to the north. Most of the rain will stick around for that area for the most part. Areas east have been short changed built the dreary but the dreary weather is everywhere. North of myersville, near beaver creek, you have the heavier downpours pushing off to the north. By 6 00, still wet for some for the drive home. Its by 7 00 to 9 00 and definitely by midnight well finally be a little drier. Heres a look at the rainfall potential. Were looking at about a quarter of an inch additional for this afternoon, but most of this will be off to the north. As you head farther south and southeast its spottier. By 2 00, this does overdo it just a little bit, but i assure you, were going to see showers out here especially west of 95. If you are traveling to baltimore, you will see heavier pockets of rain. Once you head to 66, a little. South of 95, it will be spotty, but there will be showers to track. They will be light but will be out there for your drive home. By tomorrow morning, everything is gone for just a little bit, though. High pressure will briefly move on in. We do see sunshine for veterans day, perfect weather, the best day of the week is veterans day. Thats nice, too, to honor our veterans. A good mix of sun and clouds, but we stay dry. You can leave the umbrellas at home. However, you dont want to let the umbrellas go too far away from your reach. Well see another chance for rain on thursday. This one we start off cloudy and the winds are in the southwest and give us the fog and lowlying clouds. By 12 00, this will be a lot faster moving system and we get back to sunshine by friday. A little breezy on friday but it will be sunny. 61 today. 64 for tomorrow. Beautiful veterans day. By friday, 58. 50 and much cooler by saturday and moderate temperatures back to take a look at this line outside the abc store in huntsville, alabama. What do they want . Bourbon lovers were standing there for hours hoping to get their hands on the rare kentucky bourbon which only goes on sale once a year for one day. Russ robb never heard of the bourbon until he saw it on a tv show. It was kind of like the high end bottle that you get when you owe somebody a favor or you wanted a favor. Thats the only place i ever heard of it before. The bottles are aged anywhere from 10 to 23 years and range in price from 50 to 250 a bottle. One guy bought a bottle on ebay for 300, and it was empty. But he has the bottle. [ laughter ] can you believe that . Wow. Well, bourbon lovers are bourbon lovers. Today, keep ahold of that umbrella. It is tapering off. You can use that wusa 9 app to track the rain. Topper will be here at 5 00 to track it for you. Much better and perfect for veterans day. Drink responsibly. Thats it for. Have a great day. Chelsea why didnt you wake me . Adam i was filing it all away. Chelsea asleep. Chelsea awake. Chelsea in my arms. Chelsea [ sighs ] chelsea grateful youre alive. [ chuckles ] when kevin told me you left the hospital to come save me and connor, i. Adam you wanted to kill me didnt you . Chelsea the thought of you not getting out of there alive i. Ive already lost you almost lost you too many times. Dont scare me like that ever again. Adam hey. You dont need to be scared. All right . Theres a reason i didnt die two ye didnt die in that fire