For 495. Once there its smooth sailing all around town. Lets take a live look first at university boulevard. Lanes are open and youre good to go for your Early Morning commute. Lets go back over to the maps this time inside the beltway heading north on 395 to the 14th street bridge. 295 to the 11th Street Bridge or 66 to the roosevelt bridge. Everything inside the beltway is final. Accident cleanup westbound on 66 after washington boulevard just blocking the right lane there. Well take a live look at 14th street bridge. A good ride into the downtown area. Ill be back with more coming up in a few minutes at 5 09. Mike and andrea . Monika, see you then. The son. Northern virginia congressman jim moran has resigned from his fathers reelection effort. Patrick moran has been a field director for the campaign in district 8. But then a secretly recorded video captured moran making comments about voter fraud. 9 news now reporter Kristin Fisher has more from our Satellite Center. Good morning, kristin. Reporter good morning. This hidden camera footage was recorded right outside an arlington restaurant early this month. It features an undercover investigator. Thats who was taking this video. Hes an investigator for a conservative Watchdog Groups that. Thats called project [indiscernible] he approaches Patrick Moran with a plan to cast fraudulent ballots. At first patrick seems hesitant. Listen closely. Thats tough. I mean, like i feel like all the energy youre putting into it, i think it would be much better suited [ inaudible ] reporter but the investigator pushes on and thats when the field director and son of an 11term congressman finally gives some advice on how to pull off the deception at the polls. Patrick never fully endorses the plan but he does tell the investigator to look into it. [ inaudible ] reporter yesterday after the video went viral, his Fathers Campaign released a statement saying, quote, patrick is well liked and was a well respected member of the campaign team. This incident, however, was clearly an error in judgment. The campaign has accepted patricks resignation effective immediately. Yesterday we reached out to patrick for a comment. He responded last night via e mail. Ill share it with you in half an hour at 5 30. Andrea and mike . Kristin fisher reporting live from our Satellite Center. Doctors are now treating a bicyclist who suffered some life threatening injuries during a crash. A school bus collided with the cyclist yesterday on dearnstown in darnestown, maryland. Route 28 was shut down in both directions for a little while. Montgomery county police are still investigating this. A Prince William county judge is being urged to remove a special prosecutor in a murder for hire case. A federal Appeals Court upheld a Lower Court Ruling overturning justin wolfes 2002 conviction and death sentence in the slaying of his marijuana supplier. The court sided prosecutorial misconduct so those prosecutors relinquished the case to fairfax countys attorney. Within a day the attorney announced he would retry the case. Now 59 former judges and other attorneys have signed a letter saying he failed to conduct a meaningful independent review of that case. It is 5 04. Its time for the latest your money report. Jessica doyle is here. Another bad day on wall street. But at least were seeing green arrows overseas. Were digging your selves out of a le. Tough five sessions in a row with the dow now approaching a 500point selloff. Stocks were down again yesterday. Thats even though we got strong earnings from Companies Like boeing and delta. Checking the numbers for you, the dow stands at 13,077, slipped another 25 points in trading yesterday. Nasdaq off by almost 9 and the s p 500 was down by about four and a half. Zinga stock will be one to watch today. The maker saw shares soar 14 in after hours trading. The social Gaming Company reported stronger than expected earnings and it plans to enter the gamblingbusiness. Zynga will offer online poker and came seen know games played with real money in the uk. Good looking . Check. Funny . Check. Thrifty . Apparently more and more people dont mind going on a first date with someone who is frugal. In fact, they even like it. A survey by Harris Interactive for coupon cabin finds 26 of people say theyd have a positive reaction if their date used a coupon. 73 said it might lead to a second date. And more and more people are using coupons. 26 used one on a first date and thats up 8 from 2011. Depends on the coupon i suppose. Yeah. Game on, groupon. Jet setter. Thats not a bad one. That i would accept. Maybe its hip because its on one of the sites that everybody uses now. Maybe thats why. It really depends on how you define coupon. The two for one at the burger joint, you know. Designer burgers. What are you serving up in the next halfhour . A cautionary tale. You go to your Doctors Office. Once a year you might have questions. You might be charged extra for that. Police now say what was reported as an horrific hate crime was actually all a lie. That story is coming up. Hurricane sandy is churning some more and headed for yet another caribbean island this morning. Ahead in sports, a historic start to the world series as one player hits three home runs. Well be back. Youre watching 9news now. Good morning. Almost 5 09 on this thursday morning. While were quiet now, were still watching sandy of course which could bring some big problems early next week in the form of wind and rain. Not like the coast will see but we could still have our own issues. This morning the issues we have are clouds no moved in from the east. Cloudy behind the capitol dome, although visibilities are still pretty good. Well get into the middle of the day. Still partly to mostly cloudy. 68 by lunch time. Not as warm as yesterday. High of 73. By 6 00 p. M. A little more sunshine and 70. Could be some drizzle and fog returning late tonight. Ill be back in just a few minutes with the sevenday forecast and of course the latest on sandy. Right now heres monika with timesaver traffic. On the inbound side of i66 things are still looking good if centreville to here at nutley street and beyond to the beltway. Westbound 66 inside 495 accident cleanup after washington boulevard. Ill be back with more traffic coming up at 5 17. Mike . Thanks, monika. Heres whats making news at 5 10. Police are looking for a gunman who opened fire at a business and home in california. Three of the five people who were hit have since died. Police believe the victims are all related and believe the gunman targeted the victims but investigators arent releasing a motive just yet. The family of a louisiana woman who claim three men set her on and scrawled racial slurs on her car is apologizing. The woman set herself on fire and made up the story about being attacked. She is still hospitalized in critical condition. Hurricane sandy has crossed over cuba and has just left jamaica and his pan yol la. Residents fear flash flooding. They moved too higher ground. Large numbers of trees and power lines have been knocked down and the storm has been blamed for at least two deaths. A lot of voters around here will have several questions to vote on. Thats ahead at 5 56. In sports chris cooley talks about his first day back at redskins practice. Next at 5 15, howard is tracking hurricane sandys potential impact on his seven day forecast. Well be back. 5 13. For the first time now lets take a live look outside of the u. S. Capitol. Temperatures in the 50s and 60s depending where youre waking up this morning. Definitely balmy and were talking the end of october. A little too balmy. Yesterday we tied the record of 84. The way the atmosphere is set up, normally you get tropical storms tropical systems in october, its not newark. Not unusual. Its unusual that they come up the coast. Well be tracking sandy for you around the clock. If youd like to check it out yourself on your iphone or Android Device or ipad, you can text sandy to 25543 and download our wusa weather app. Aim going to start with sand im going to start with sandy. Color enhanced the coldest cloud tops so you can see the taller storms that are wrapping around the center a little bit better as sandy is just about off shore, at least the eye of sandy just about off shore from the northern cuba coast. Look at the eye. Actually had category 3 winds at 115 miles per hour. Eight weaken todz 105 its weakened to 105. The pressure has come up to 960. This is a big storm tracking toward the central and northern bahamas as we go throughout the day and nighttime hours. As we get toward saturday morning, the Hurricane Center has it parallelling the coast here as we get through the weekend. Theres going to be a lot of surf on the carolina coast this weekend and the wind field will expand greatly on this. The advisory by Tuesday Morning 5 00 a. M. Still has the storm at 70 mile an hour winds south along long island, east of us. You will see something here. I want to show you the forecast model. They have a lot of different solutions. A tight consens through the bahamas. Then they start this turn. Watch what happens as we get into the period later sunday into monday and tuesday. Some of them are going this way but what has me concerned are the ones that are coming towards the coast making the left turn. If this were to happen, lets say this happens, and this is not in concrete. If this model has got it, delaware bay will be pounded. Southern new jersey is going to be pounded. There will be tremendous flooding. Even wilmington, delaware, philadelphia potentially as it comes up the bay. For us we would see rain and wind. Not as bad as the coast but clearly tremendous wind and rainstorm. Maybe enough cold air for snow in the mountains. This is why the hype for sandy has begun because this could be an epic storm. Mostly loudy this morning, 50s and 60s cloudy this morning, 50s and 60s. If it goes out to sea, thats the best answer. Aim with you on that one. Day planner 63 by 9 00. 68 by noon. Temperatures in the mid50s in reston although fairfax is 60. Ashburn is 61. Its 59 at great falls. College park this morning 62. You can see some of the low clouds that have been coming in behind the capitol over the last few hours. Weve got 62 and an east, northeast wind at 5 bringing in the moisture off the atlantic. Just want to point out theres a lot of cold air in the more than part of the country. See the rain and snow in the plains . As that cold air comes in with the warm waters in the atlantic, that will help turn whatever sandy is into a big storm, a nontropical but big storm with a large wind field. 73 today. Tonight were in the 50s. Tomorrow 71. Could be some early drizzle and fog on friday. Saturday just an isolated shower. I think saturday is not too bad, upper 60s. Late sunday some moisture from sandy could be here, 60. Then cool and potentially wet and windy early next week. 5 17. Here comes monika with timesaver traffic. Single vehicle, a deadly accident overnight is being investigated and reconstructed in annandale on backlick road at john mar drive. Be aware of that inside the beltway. 270 looks great. No problems out of gaithersburg into rockville and bethesda. Well take a live look outside and show what you it looks like on 270 at shady grove road. People are headed to work but not causing any delays yet. Lets go back over to the maps and this time to the Southern Maryland side of town. No problems out of brandywine, accokeek to 210 to the wilson bridge. No problems out of upper marlboro, Andrews Air Force base and route 4. On the northbound side of i95 looking good in springfield from route 644 right up to the beltway. Ill be back with more traffic coming up at 5 24. Mike, annual dray ya . Thank andrea . Thanks, monika. Their seasons are over but both the nationals and orioles manager are getting a major award. Home crowd enjoys a history making performance in game one of the world series. Highlights next in sports. Before we go, lets take another look at the question of the day. 20 of men say they do this whenever they have a bad day. Is it a, work out, b, pray, or c call mom . Sharon wrote on our Facebook Fan Page i think they would work out no matter what. I hope they pray every day. So c, call mom, especially on a bad day. What do you think . Put your answer on our Facebook Fan Page. Well have the answer in our 6 00 show. 5 21 on this thursday morning. Weve seen a wind shift to the east bringing in low level moisture off the atlantic. Mostly cloudy skies this morning have been moving in from the east. Temperatures running in the 50s to low 60s out there. So still rather mild. Well head toward 9 00. Still plenty of clouds. 65 in annapolis. 59 in leesburg. As we head toward lunch time, partly to mostly cloudy with a little more sun this afternoon. And your high temperatures not as warm as yesterday into the low 70s. Mike and andrea, back to you. Thank you, howard. Big congratulations to our local Major League Baseball managers. Davey johnson and the orioles walter are named national and American League manager of the year. The world series between detroit and San Francisco giants Pablo Sandoval added his name to the history books alongside mr. October reggie jackson. He hit three home runs and the giants win 83 over the tigers. Heres Kristen Berset with the rest of your morning sports. Good morning, everybody. He said he had no plans to retire. He every had offers from other teams but the only team chris cooley wanted to play for was the redskins. Its actually the only team hes ever played for. When he heard about fred davis injury on sunday he waited by the phone all day for that phone call. Yesterday he rejoined his former teammates with a big smile on his face. Captain chaos got back to work. He practiced with the team all preseason so he isnt necessarily starting from scratch but the way this season has been going, coolingly says this week is just a bit surreal. I woke up monday morning and wondered if i would be playing football in pittsburgh six days from now. Its blind blowing but im looking forward to it [ inaudible ] he was always a weapon. I think he can come right in, be comfortable immediately. To kansas city we go. No, thats not a mistake the wizards tipped off against the heat last night in missouri. In the second quarter, the alleyoop. Rookie bradley a deep three pointer to bury the heat. The wizardses win this one 101 94 [ inaudible ] 249yearold is eligible for arbitration and thanks to the collective bargaining agreement, he meets the requirement by one day of eligible service. Just squeaks in. He now has four years of eligibility before free agency. He joins nine other nationals that are eligible that are arbitration eligible. Thats a quick look at sports this morning. Im Kristen Berset. Have a great thursday. Good news when it comes to foreclosures. That story straight ahead in your money. What causes jim morans son to resign his campaign post. Heres monika. How is traffic looking . Not too bad. Northbound across the 14th street bridge and into the downtown area. All of our potomac and Anacostia River crossings are incident free. Ill be back with more traffic coming up at 5 29. Youre watching 9news now. Hello and welcome back to 9 news now on this turs. Im andrea roane on this thursday. Im andrea roane. Good morning. Im mike hydeck. Its pretty warm. It is. Monika samtani will have traffic. Howard . Yesterday we hit 84. Tied the record. 81 at dulles. We will be in the 70s. Low 70s this afternoon. The changes i believe are late in the week to next week when sandy could come a knocking. Sandy could come a knocking around here. Really anywhere from virginia up toward boston right now. Go away. Were not home. Heres a look at sandy comes across cuba about to emerge off the northeast cuba coast heading to the central and northern bahamas. Potentially could be a problem around here as we get into the latter part of the week. More likely monday and tuesday. This is kind after cool picture from our tower cam looking southwest. Weve seen the low clouds moving in from left to right here. Were looking south. So its coming in from the southeast this morning. Visibilities low a little bit. This afternoon low 70s. South and west with enough sunshine you could get 75, 76. I think 73 in d. C. With a 5 00 p. M. Temperature 672 temperature 72. Big ridge right now. That will be giving way to a cold front coming in from the west bringing colder air and potentially moisture from sandy, wind and rain early next week. Leesburg is 60. 60 in la plata. A warm spot right now annapolis at 64. Here comes Monika Samtani 5 29, time saferrer traffic. Time saferrer traffic timesaver traffic. Its been relatively quiet. You jinxed it. I hope im not jinxing it. Im sorry. No delays into gaithersburg, rockville, potomac. Looking good from river road to the beltway. Looking good on the beltway as well some silver spring. Lets show what you it looks like outside. If youre planning to head here on the northbound side of 395, no issues between the beltway and the 14th street bridge. Nice and quiet. 66 looks much the same as you travel through falls church and heading for the roosevelt bridge. Lets go back over to the maps this time to Southern Maryland. Looking good on route 4, route 5, 301. A quick look live one more time outside over to 270 at shady grove road. More traffic at 5 39. Thanks, monika. In campaign 2012, its back to where else, virginia where president obama is headed to a rally in richmond later today while congressman paul ryan will make stops in bristol and charlottesville. Then mitt romney is scheduled to arrive in the commonwealth sunday starting with an event in haymarket w. Less than two weeks left and early voting under way, the candidates have often tried to hit several swing states each day. But today the republican challenger is going to narrow his focus to ohio. Several stops in that state. Ohio could well be the place that elects the next president of the united states. We are pulling an all nighter. No