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at was a fender bender on a movie set downtown d.c. tomorrow. streets were closed today. they'll do it again tomorrow. in virginia, a new traffic pattern that will potentially mess up your day. good evening. i'm jim vance. shooting downtown is part of a transformers franchise. they burn ancrash all kinds of stuff. but there was a part of it that's unscripted. john is in arlinon where they're still shooting. john? >> they wrapped up shooting another scene just a few hours ago. people who were at home and saying to themselves, what is this transformer hype all about? the total box office for transformers 1 and 2 grossed worldwe more than $1.5 billion. many of those local fans showed up here tonight to catch a sneak

peek of transformers 3. arlington police had to control the hundreds of transformer fans who lined the street around the air force memorial mond night to see hollywood roll into town. >> it's exciting, you know. we hardly get to see stuff like this around this area. >> you see the final results and go, oh, yeah, we saw that scene being filmed. >> fans of the first two transformer movies are used to seeing these expensive high-tech action scenes play out on the screen. but tonight, this is all they could see. >> stuff flying out of the sky and stuff. >> are you a big transformers fan? >> not that much, but -- >> she doesn't know anything about it. >> i don't know anything about it. >> but you like being on a movie set,right? >> uh-huh. >> what's the best part about ing out here? >> watching the cars. >>arlier monday, fans on the mall got to see a lot more action, even a part of the movie that went off script. a d.c. police carresponng to another situation slammed into one of the leading characters, this yellow car named bumble

bee. >> i was just over there filming a scene, and a police car must have drove through to an emergency scene and the car didn't see them and they just hit head on. >> this is just the start of a day-long schedule. tomorrow the streets will be closed down in the heart of the city from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. but before these transformers take off, this young lady is determined to see her leading man, shia. >> are you going to see shia? >> no. i know they're in d.c. tomorrow, but i don't think i'll be seeing him. >> you'll have to miss work. >> i don't think so. i'm sure my boss is watching. >> it's big business for hollywood but also big business for the d.c. region. according to the motion picture and tv development, every day this film, crew and production staff is here, people here in the district are making in total about $500,000.

we're live here in arlington, john shriffen. downtown will not be the only place drivers will find slow going tomorrow. a new traffic pattern begins in tysons corner, and people along businesses there are quite concerned about slowing things down. jackie bensen has our report. >> reporter: from the food to the chic urban interior, pinache draws a young, sophisticated crowd to tysons corner. but customers are having an increasingly hard time getting here. >> right now it's really putting a damper on our busine. it's hard enough working in this area right around here because we're not with all the other straunl restaurants at the mall. >> reporter: and it's about to get worse. >> we had a big week here at tysons corner. we were here to take down the 49 a sou-- 495 south ridge over 12. we're back.

>> it will take down the 495 from monday morning mond-- nig to tuesday morning. but it will take another one down for two years. businesses have been promised that the end resu will be a better traffic flow. it will be a long two years. >> it's starting to get hard enough to find us right now, so with this construction going on, if it's not here, it's over there, over there. it always seems like construction is going on. >> they estimate the construction could add another 20 minutes to the average trip through this area. in tysons corner, jackie bensen, news4. lots of lightning outside tonight. doug cameron is in here to tell us what's going on out ther doug? >> we saw a pretty good storm make its way through prince george's county. that line of storms has now made its way across the bay and into

parts of the eastern shore. but a few minutes ago, it made a line over 50 and io the bay bridge. there are more storms to the north and we'll be watching those storms make their way to our region during the day tomorrow. here's the boundary, it's making its way to the south. we could see a couple more showers, maybe some storms overnight tonight, and better chance of thunderstorms during the day tomorrow. some of those could be on the strong side, maybe even severe tomorrow. if you're waking up tomorrow morning, partly cloudy skies, 62 to 64 degrees. yomight want to give your kids an umbrella and maybe have one yourself before you step out. jim? the man charged in a shooting rampage last year on a u.s. military bases going to face his victims for the first time tomorrow. survivors of that shooting at ft. hood, tas back in november are expected to testify at what's known as an article 32 hearing. it's expected to last for a few weeks. at the end of it, a judge will

decide whether nadal hassan will be court martialed and ultimately whether he'll face the death penalty. hassan is charged wh killing 13 people and wounding 32 others. before being stationed at ft. hood, hassan worked at walter reed army hospital and he attended mosque in falls church, virginia. president obama and the britisprime minister are calling for an investigation into the death of a british hostage in afghanistan. her name is linda norgrove. she was kidnapped by the taliban last month. on friday british forces authorized a rescue mission led by members of the u.s. military. nato says norgrove may have been killed when u.s. forces set off a grenade during the mission. norgrove worked for a group based in bethesda. it's called eye.

incumbent governor martin o'malley and former government took part in a rally up in baltimore. one of the most heated exchanges between them was over public education. >> you never talk about the progress. >> we love progress. when the kids are being denied their nstitutional rights and they're passing functional tests at 5 and 10 and 15% rates, those kids are being denied the constitutional rights. >> and you want to cut the fundg for education if you're elected and you cut education in easier times. >> on the issue of economy, o'malley says the state has created 30,000 new jobs on his watch. but ehrlich criticized o'malley for raising the state business tax. theandidates will debate again on thursday here in washington. a congressional candidate from virginia went on national television today and blamed the current political climate for a leak of racy photos or semi-racy that were posted on political web sites. crystal ball is theemocratic

candidate in the first district which includes fredericksbur and parts of spotsilvania and stafford. therwere pictures of ball right after she graduated from college. she says the support she has received since then shows that voters are tired of mud slinging. >> we've seen it in the support that i've received in the community since these photos came out last week. people come up to me and say, you know what, crystal, you're just a norm person. what we want to hear about is how we're going to get people back to work. >> ball is running against republican rob whitman. he says those photos should not have been published. coming up in the broadcast tonight. the secret service got a real story about a man who threw the book at the president. the miners in chile started drinking the same thinthat astronauts do to get rdy for

their rescue, which could begin tomorrow. text messages sent by brett favre to a woman who worked for the new york jets. what's in real sports news, lindsay? >> the braves tried to keep their series with the giants alive. i'm bob ehrlich. i'm not the kind of guy who likes to hang on the sidelines. today maryland's in trouble. we're worse off than we were four years ago: dangerous debt, higher taxes, not enough jobs. we need real leadership to turn this state around. fix the budget -- honestly. grow small sinesses -- really. excellent sools - everywhere. protect the bay -- finally. it's why i'm running -- to make the state we love not just good, but great. now let's get down to work. me and the lads earn rewards just for everyday banking.

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rockville had a blood alcohol content above the legal limit. well above it. adam hozinsky and rory whitedov were killed when a car hit them at darnesto at. there is also evidence the driver left the scene before he then came back, but the driver has not been charged. investigate oors are conferring th the state attorney's office about that. they were not in any danger when an ovely exuberant fan threw a book at him. it happened at a rally in philadelphia yesterday. the president was not hit by the book. he seemed to not even notice it. the man who threw it had written the paper book. he was hoping president obama would read it. agents later released the man after talking to him.

he said the president's admirer used poor judgment but that he meant no harm. still coming tonight, final eparations for the rescue of 33 miners in chile after successful runs of the ecape path stem cells are injected into a hum

down in chile, 33 miners are counting down the hours now until the first attempt at their rescue. it will be one of the most intricate and difficult underground rescues ever attempted. carey sanders has our report. >> reporter: today teams here conducted a test. the escape capsule traveled 20 feet inse the steel pipe without a problem, so they went a step further and sent it down the shaft within feet of the trapped miners. >> we didn't send it down

because we could risk that somebody could jump in. >> his goo moo reveals the level of confidence here. the onlyeason the minister says the rescues are not already under way is because some of the equipment is still being anchored into a concrete slab. [ bell ringing ] >> celebrations began saturday when the shaft to the men was completed and an american team drilled down almost a half mile to some of the hardest rock on earth. >> we were just so happy we did have the chance to come down here. i miean, having a chance to com down here and ma a difference with our technology, we're very, very thankful for that and extremely happy that it actually wos worked. >> soon the escape pod will be connected to a heavy duty winch. the capsule then travels down the path the first 180 feet inside the steel pipe. after that, guided simply by gravity, it slides on the rock

walls 150 feet on sharp turns. the whole trip is expected to not take more than 15 minutes. >> what we do know is the men down below were all fighting for position. each wanted to be last, a sign of their brotherhoodeveloped over the last two-plus months. carey sanders, nbc news, chile. for the first time, doctors in the use u.s. have begun a clinical trial using embryonic stem cells on a patient. stem cells that had been manipulated to turn into nerve cells were injected into the patient's spine. that trial will test whether stem cell therapy is safe, not whether the therapy actually works. the trial will last about two years. fascinating science they're doing here. >> it really is. watching the game. they're getting clob bered up

there. do we have any danger of that coming our way? >> run dell coundell county and george's county getting nailed. one view here, this is the tower out near reagan international. they had a lightning show out there. these were putting out a ton of lightning throughout the evening hours, really between 9:00 and 11:00. look at that, just amazing lightning all the way across the skies. a couple people even called. veronica johnson on her way home said, doug, you got to check these out. these lightning strikes are just awesome. right now we're looking at temperatures that approached 88 degrees, actually approached the 9 90-degree mark today. but the record high was 90 degrees set back in 1919. that is the latest date ever to see 90 degrees.

so we have never seen a day of 90 past october 11, so i think we're done with e 90s and we did not set that record. 69 degrees the current temperature out there right now, winds out of the sou at 16 miles an hour. we are going to continue to tch as a line to the north moves on down to the south. here's the line that came through a little earlier, but as we widen out, look at the storms nearal to altoona, down toward pittsburgh, and maybe some thunderstorms, some of them could be strong during the day tomorrow. we'll have to wait until we see exactly where those stms form, but i would take the umbrella as you make your way out and about. 67 in hagerstown. there's that area of high pressure examine there is the storminess up there toward the north. new york definitely getting pummelled with those storms. highs today, into the 80s. cincinnati 87. very warm air here, but look at buffalo, only 62.

that frontal boundary is going to make its way down stouthe so. as it does, say goodbye to the warm air and say hello to the much cooler air as it makes its way into the day on wednesday and right on through the end of the week. and we have some big changes coming the next few days. mild for october. 54 to 60 degrees. some areas will see somrain tomorrow, and we could see some heavier downpours by the afternoon, maybe some of those storms becoming strong and continued warm. 77 to 81 degrees, but the winds will shift out of the northwest at 5 to 10. dropping down into the 40s tomorrow night just about everywhere, a high of only 68 on wednesday, a very rainy day on thursday. maybe windy and cold on friday. high of 62. some areas staying in the 50s all day long and that's going to set us up for a fairly co weekend as well with temperatures in the 60s there, too. but at least the nexttorm will move out quickly. >> we lke that. we do.

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teams from o national capitols turned out tonight. >> yes. >> how did we do? >> only alex can play the way he did tone, score the winning goal in overtime and then be called a hero. those are the words of the coach after tonight's game.

let's go downtown. the goaltender making his first start in four nights played a big role tonight. no score. brooks chases the puck in the corner, sends it across to alexander simmons, who is there to slam it home. it's simmons' first goal of the year. in the second, the game tied at 1. gording gets the puck to mt hendricks. behind the goal, he makes the pass to eric stair, and he puts it in, his second of the year, d the capitols are up 2-1. late in the third period, peter reagan gets two shots off on the goal. he had 29 saves. the czech republic wou take the team to overtime. john carlson gives ito alex ovechson. he does what he does best, gets it in there. the capitols win by 2 in

overtime. >> only alex could play like he did and score the ortime goal and be the hero. go ask him how he played. he'll tell you, not so good. but he got the overtime goal, and that's what superstars do. and that's why he's out in the last minute. >> and that is why i said he's like the redskins. you understand what i'm saying? in overtime? no. >> i wish they would just dominate. >> moving right along, the redskins, by the way, are enjoying that victory monday. devon thomas was claimed off waifrz today by the carolina panthers. the redskins' draft pick in 2008 was cut on saturday. he told me today he hopes for a fresh start after being falling out of favor with the redskins and being limited to special teams. mike shanahan said today it came down to a numbers game. >> ihink hs grown up a lot since i've been here. i've watched him make tremendous strides. he's got the ability to play in the natial football league, but i got to keep our top wide receivers because we lost a guy.

i lost a running back. i had to make a decision. devon was the next guy to go. does that mean he can't play in the national football league? absolutely not. does it mean i don't like devon? no, it doesn't at all. i just encouraged devon, you're a big kid, you're strong, you've got a lot of speed. if you want to get to the next level, you've got to have a heck of an off-season program. >> devon thomas will now get a chance with the carolina panthers. stomp tonight is over for the winningest manager in baseball history. bobby cox's braves were eliminated. he hopes the braves can pull another e out. he singles the left, buster posy scores and gets pat burrough o with the play, but the giants take a 3-2 lead. bottom of the ninth, 3-2 giants. cabrera grounds to thir base, throws to first for the final out. the giants roll on to the nlcs

to play the phillies. bobby cox gets a standing ovation from fans and the giants a very classy move. bobby cox. can say enough. >> a hell of a caer. he ought to be proud. >> yep. an i one word turns innovative design into revolutionary performance.

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microsoft unveiled its own smart phone today. they call it windows phone 7. the phone wilhave apps like an iphone as well as the ability to stream movies and tv shows.

microsoft sayshe phone should hit the market in time for the holiday shopping season. the nfl is still trying to gather the facts, it says, about allegations that brett favre sent inappropriate text messages to an employee with the new york jets. the web site deadspin.com broke the story and says it is what approximate pur portports to be voicemail from favre to a woman inviting her to his hotel. this all hpened -- alleged to have happened when he played with the jets in the 2008 season. the nfl could fine or suspend favre if they determine he violated a personal conduct policy. he is married, by the way. i'm bob ehrlich. i'm not the kind of guy who likes to hang on the sidelines. today maryland's in trole. we're worse off than we were four years ago: dangeus debt, higher taxes, not enough jobs. we need real leadership to turnhis state around. fix the budget -- honesy. grow small businesses -- really.

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if people have to be at work in the next hour or so, they are going to get wet. >> yeah, see that rain falling in pennsylvania. some of it will fall here, it ll die out tomorrow. take your umbrella wityou and be prepared. the tonight show coming up next.