. right now, a major security presence at d.c. department of public works yard after a shooting left a long time employee dead. michelle rhee is taking questions about her future again today. she said she hopeto make a difference nationally. and the rain is falling on this cool morning, but tom kierein sa it shouldn't last too long. news 4 midday begi right now. good morning and welcome everyone to news 4 midday. i'm barbara harrison. it's thursday, october 14, 2010. you may notice some major

security presence at d.c. department of public works yard. new security measus were put in place this morning after a gunman shot two workers. the shooting happened at the facility along the 1,200 block of w street northeast. tracee wilkins reports. >> reporter: as the investigation continues into yesterday's murder one day after that shooting, there's a definite difference here. these are the kind of changes that workers say they've needed. >> you can see now -- >> reporter: spot lights running on generator. one of the first things workers approaching the department of public works cited brentwood noticed. they say normally the lot is pitch black. >> long time coming but i'm glad that it's out here. >> reporter: at the front gate. >> thank you very much. >> reporter: anrmed protective service officer is chking i.d.s of employees entering the facility. this all follows yesterday's deadly shooting of 51-year-old larry hutchins here at the dpw yard.

witnesses say around 6:15 yesterday morning a gunman dressed in dpw uniform opened fire. shooting and killing hutchins and injuring another employee who is expected to surviv returning back to work and to the scene of this shocking crime is not easy for hutchins co-workers. >> frightenedight n. very frightening for . frightful for every employee that works here. >> reporter: no telling if additional security could have changed yesterday's events workers sayt could have helped. >> a guard should have been here from day one. but, that's how they got the security. security come to guard the trucks in the evening when all the workers are gone. >> reporter: harry thomas said yesterday he wants to see security at all government offices and facilities examined across the board not just here. he would like to see more permanent changes made. in northeast, i'm tracee

wilkins, news 4. police have not confirmed that the shoor was an actual dpw worr. there's no word on any arrests either in this case. new today an effort is under way to cut down on the stray cat population in e istrict. once a month the washington humane society goes out to catch feral cats. they are spayed and neutered and released to their natural habitat. megan mcgrath has more >> reporter: stray cats are a huge problem in the district of columbia. the humane society says one unspayed female and her offspring can produce 24,000 kittens over the course of seven years. one group is trying to stem the tide. we tagged along with them early this morning. a rainy and chilly morning but the trappers aren't discouraged with cans of tuna they bait the case. the cats are wild so they are

skittish. in the end hunger gets the best of this black kitten. there are roughly 500 feal cat colonies in the district of columbia. that's thousands of stray cats who left to their own devices would continue to multiple. that's where the cat nip program comes . >> we're going to a colony where someone is caring for a lot of stray cats. >> reporter: once a month workers fan out to spots where feral ca are known to hang out. they trap them and bring them here to the national capital spay and neuter center. the cats are fixed, vaccinated and released back to their colony but they can no longer breed. >> the colonies that are out there, then you are keeping that population stabilized. that's what we try to address is to keep the cats, the number th are there. people call us because there are

nuisance behaviors they see and what our pgram address when is you do the spay and neuter procedures a lot of things you hear about, those problems go away. so we try to get to the heart of that. >> reporter: the gu spays and neuters around 80 cats a month. very young kittens who have a chance to bedopted are kept. for older catsthat's not an option. >> they are not candidates for adoption because they just -- they were born in that environment which is still a bad environment but they don't have any direct contact with humans. >> reporter: so those older cats are returned to the spots where they were picked up. they live out their natural lives there and because they are no longer contributing to the growth of the colony, the hope is that over time the overall stray population will decrease and they've actually seen that start to happen here inhe district of columbia. this group is going to be holding a clinic this weekend. you can bring your strays here

to be spayed and neuter. it's free for district residents. if you live in virginia or maryland, if you bring them here to the center they will do it for a charge of $45 which is a big discount. barbara, back. thank you. and taking a look outside and looking at megan who is no longer holding an umbrellat looks like it might have stopped raining. tom, has it stopped? >> temporarily. not over yet. we've had one wave of rain come through thismorning that did unload quite a bit of rain just in the last couple of hours. right about dawn the rain began and it's been raining much of the morning. right nohere in late morning here comes another batch of som rain now about to move back into washington after we did get a bit of a reprieve president that's advancing up to the north and east where you see areas of darker green, that's coming down harder, those pockets of yellow moderate to heavy rain. northern neckf virginia, another pocket of moderate to heavy rain that's just to the east of fredericksburg.

that's about to cross the title potomac. a little thunder and lightning right near fwrib about half an hour ago. that's going to be crossing in to southern maryland shortly and another wave of some light rain about to move into the metro area from the west in the next few minutes. these are the rainfall totals we've had. we had .04 in washington. half an inch in prince george's county. montgomery county and northern part of the county up towards frederick over an inch. a third to .04 in fairfax coty. cool all morning. in the 50s. now 59 in washington pap bit milder to our south and east. over the last 12 hours it's a wave of low pressure that's continuing to form and we'll have more rain he into the afternoon and it going to become breezy by late afternoon highs near 60. the rain should end by this evening. detas on that. we'll look at the forecast for tonight, fridaand th weekend in just a few minutes.

>> we're going to check the midday traffic. how is itlooking? >> good morning. it has been a tough one. let's head out and take a look as the rush hour, believe it or not does continue. never really ended i'm sorry to say. i-720 southbound had a rash of trouble throughout the morning pap series of accidents all of which at least for now are out of traffic. however, we're still looking at delays off and on from gaithersburg down to the spur. let's head over to northern virginia where visibility is better. nevertheless still delays along 395, off and on from duke street through shirlington and to and across the 14th street bridge. southbound 395 had a couple of problems earlier including an accident near washington boulevard. that has cleared. be careful out there. okay. thank you. a scary scene in oxon hill last night as a thief stole a car with a 4-year-old inside. it happened at a shell station in oxon hill. police say a woman spped away for a moment and the car was stolen with the child inside of

it. a short time later police found the car outside of an apartment building on southern avenue in southeast washington. the boy was asleep in the back seat. police pri into the car and reunited the child with his mother. they are telling parents doot leave your children unattended even for just a moment. one day after announcing her resignation d.c. school chancellor michelle rhee opens up about her future and what needs to happen for reform to take. elaine reyes h details of that. good morning. >> good morning. rhee wasn't specific about her immediate future but she did hint at something on a larger stage. shsaid she hopes to have a greater impact on educational reform nationally and moving forward. in a joint news conference yesterday michelle rhee me it official, she's stepping down as d.c. schools chancellor to make way for a team put together by

mayor-elect vincent gray. both were careful to call the resignation a joint decision in what's best for d.c. school ildren. on the today this morning rhee caed for more tough conversations for real reform to happen and she says she doesn't regret her management style. even though we have some schools in the city that are serving children extremely well, we actually can't say that about all of the schools and certainly the schools that the white house is zoned into is a school that still has a long way to go. the fact of the matter is is nation is falling further and further behind internationally. we're not able to compete with other countries globally and that's because we're not preparing our children in the same way. that means we have to take a hard look at our education system and know what is going wrong so that we kim prove those things. >> the united states falls behind several other countries

when it comes to education and rhee says longer school days and longer school years are need to prepare kids for competition in the global economy. now rhee's term end in just a feweeks and just a few hours after that news conference ended yesterday, her website went live online. that'smichellerhee.org. baara, back to you. we have a closer look this morning at rhee's replacement, kaya henderson. she comes from a family familiar with education. she earn ad bachelor's and masters at georgetown university. she moved to d.c. in 1997 and ended up working alongside michelle rhee at the new teacher project before becoming deputy chancellor back in 2007. our time is 11:11. people are calling it a miracle. coming up the rescue is complete in chile. what's next for the33 miners

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the chilean miners showing their national pride, singing their country's national anthem

just minutes after the last man luis urzua was brought up to the surface. the country's president sang along and was with the rescue crew during the entire rescue proceswhich spanned almost 23 hours. the 33 men trapped for more than two months are now being watched for medical and ment health issues. now to the race for maryland's governor. current governor martin o'malley and former governor bob ehrlich will debate today. both are campaigning hard in the final stretch of this race. ght now democrat o'malley is ahead in the polls. well looking for a good scare this halloween? why not try the chesapeake bay bridge. travel and leisure magazine ranks the bridge one of the scariest in the world. there's a service in which drivers can request someone else drive them or the bridge. 4,000 peoe a year take advantage of that. is it pretty scary? >> i love it.

>> you like scary things. >> i love the view. the view of the bay fm the top of the bay bridge on a beautiful sunny day when the water is that deep blue, it is spectacular. dotted with the white sail boats it's gorgeous it does make me nervous. what makes me nervous is swlooer. we don't have any of that going on today. we have much needed rain. there is the scene in washington and some fog and rain now right in washington. you can barely make out the jefferson memorialnd the washington monument. right now down river is reagan national where it's 59 degrees and humidity is high as you can imagine, winds coming in nowut of the southeast, eventually shift into the northwests we get into the afternoon. but over the last hour, we've seen this rain, one wave of rain come through, the rain temporarily stopped in washington built now we're getting a little band of rain about to come in out of northern virginia. all of this is associate with a developing area of low pressure that's just to our south. these areas of green where it's raining light to moderately the

pockets of yellow where it's coming down pretty hard, some clusters of heavy downpours exiting spotsylvania and eastern stafford county. this is going to drift int charles county shortly. getting derate to heavy rain in st. mary's county moving into southern calvert county moving over towards the chesapeake bay perhaps in another half our or so. closer to washington we're getting light rai in washington and just down interstate 95 from near alexandria towards dale city they are getting some more moderate to heier downpours there. now the temperatures around at this hour are certainly cool. look at the rainfall totals we've had. about an inch and a third has fallen in frederick. montgomery county have had an inch of rain. closer to washington about.04 to half an inch. southern maryland has had abou a half an inch. as we look at the temperatures it is cool just in the 50s now and been holding steady in the

50sll morning long. shenandoah valley to the beaches. out in the mountains a bit cooler upper 40s in northern west virginia. mid-60s now in southeastern virginia. over the last 12 hours this wave of low pressure is beginning to get organized. see a spin in the atmosphere taking shape here over virginia and it getsff the coast going torah paidly develop and deepen and head on up towards new england. as that happens we'll get wind whipped from this storm. going forward over e next 48 hours as this low does begin to intensify off the coast it will swing rain into new england and then develop off the gu of maine and produce winds hee. there could be gusts over 50 miles per hour in new england. we could have gusts 30 miles per hour during the day tomorrow. high pssure moves in for the midwest in time for the weekend drying things out. so rainy afternoon becoming breezy by late afternoon. we'll have that rain finally ending by perhaps sunset it appears and partly cloudy tonight. rapidly clear out.

in the 40s tomorrow morning. then during the day on friday should be partly sun injuries a blustery wind tomorrow and maybe a passing shower, small chance of that. sun back on saturday but chilly in the morning, highs mid-60s in the afternoon. still a bit blustery saturday. on sunday, sun, within will settle down. highs ne 70. should be dry on monday another chance of rain mid-week next week. that's the way it looks. thank you, tom. let's head out to the roads again. jerry? >> let's take a look. we're still dealing with tough conditions on the beltway. outer loop, the outer loop of the beltway near the gw arkway, coming off the american legion bridge, heading towards tysons, all volume, wet pavement and through the construction zones a little b of ponding water. one more stop. into town new york avenue no lane issues finally things are settling down from anacostia to

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in this week's fit for fall segment we'll talk about the befits of interval training. steve hayes joins us ts morning. welcome back. >> thank you so much. >> a lot of folks want to know how you got to look like that nept to look the same as do i. >> i've been training for 49 years. i'm 59. i'm enjoying every moment. >> it's working. he brought a tape measure to take my measurements. you know i do have a lot through here that i would like to get rid of. steve tells us it's not just dieting. it's more important to exercise that weight off. >> or burning it off. >> whh reminds me he started us off lt week with a walk. you said the way to walk. >> palms open, knees up, engage

your abdominals andhips. >> went out with him. it looks strange. you say this is the way to do it. >> yes. >> describe it. >> move your arms. when you move your arms you engage the hips and bringing the knees up, engage the abs which makes the body burn body fat. you're moving at a pa that you're burning. >> how long should we do that? >> anywhere from 15 to 20 minutes and go at least three to four times a week. >> okay. >> oryou can go every day. >> let's talk about interval training. you can either go from this walk to the weights which you had meadow first. yo started us off with a curl to shoulder press. >> yes. >> let's see how that works. >> lock the body in, curl the weights here, pus it up, come back down here. >> we did that outside. you and i did. let's have a look at that. my trying to do what you're doing. >> s what we're doing we're engaging the abdominals, working the shoulders and biceps and

tightening up the face and chin, eliminates that double chin. >> all right. certainly want to do that. the next thing you showed us was triceps. >> yes. now, on the triceps get your body in a skiing position, elbows up and push the weight back. here, three things you're working. at this angle you're working your hips and your quads, working the back of the arms. >> we tried to do that outside. there we go. >> the ladies, they talk about the part of the tricep, the arms. that want helps you to tighten it up. >> those arms. everybody wants to have michelle obama arms. let's see the hayes slide. >> the hayes slide. >> a third in a series. >> bring your arms up, put a slight bend in the elbow, bring the weight in, come back out, slightly bend your knees and squeeze your abdominals. >> how heavy of a weigh should

you have? >> relatively light, about three to five pounds. >> let's m see me outside doing it. did you give me 10 pound wasn'ts? >> yeah, i did. >> i think they were five. anyway, it isn't as easy but you said that you should at least exert yourself. >> gravity is pulling your weight down but your using your tendon and muscles to keep the weight up. let's talk about cardio. you say instead of walking for a halfour you should burst into a sprint. >> get your body moving. about 10, 15 yards burst into a sprint because the body is accelerating. >> let's look at me trying to do this. you said to lift the -- >> get the legs up. that's perfect form that you have. per foerkt form. >> thanks very much. he said lift the kns and you don't have to go very far until

you're exhausted. then stop and walk. okay. now quickly your tip of the day for eating. >> tip. day is sugar. when you put in sur, processed sugars bad for you because what happens is they sit in the system and then the body starts storing it and it creates body fat. eat natural sugars like fruit. what happens is when you have the fruit it turns into energy fuel and allow us to rest at night and everything. >> good tip for me because i have to tell y i'm a sugarholic. thank you so much. steve has a video you can see. check out more on his fitness techniques by going to his website. to get there go to nbcwashington.com and search fi necessary. ste steve, thank you so much. the family of a vrginia tech student who disappeared while attending a metallica concert still searching for the woman's killer.

the 33 chilean miners trapped under ground for 69 days are spending their first day ove ground. we'll take a look at their emotional rescues. tom kierein is back with how long this rain hi there, i'm ian wright

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new security measus were put in place this morning after a gunman shot two workers killing a 24 year veteran. 51-year-old larry hutchins of suitland was killed on w street northeast yesterday morning. another worker was hit but is expected to survive. outoing d.c. school chancellor michelle rhee appeared on the today to talk about her leaving the position. rhee called r more tough convsationfor real refo and doesn't regret her management style. hours after announcing her resignation her website michellerhee.org went live. they did it. all chilean miners are safe above ground. the process of bringing them to the surface of projected to take 48 hours. it was accomplished in half that. 33 times yesterday chile celebrated. it was a day filled with joy and national pride. nbc nalie morales was there.

>> reporter: mission accomplished. just before 10:00 p.m. local time wednesday shift manager luis urz became the last man out. before the world even knew they were alive, luis urzua helped his men survive the first 17 days on just twoays of food. like a good captain you left last said the president. luis urzua told the president, i'm proud to be chilean. ♪ >> reporter: in the end the remarkable rescue of the 33 miners took less than 24 hours. but the first man out, his 7-year-old son's tearsing brought the world's tears. 23-year-old richard gotout just in time. his wife at home having

contractions. one miner had his love life played out. barriorojas was not greeted by his wife but by his misstrees. his wife chose not to come to the rescue. he wasknown as the dock, to a trained emt, he was the one who monired the men's health every day. mario gomez had health problems while under ground. at 63 he was the oldest of the group. made it out okay. i spoke to his daughter. it was so beautiful, like a rebirth she said. now her family is back together. the world hascome to know who they are. especially this man, now known as super mario. he bureaucrat cally burst out of the capsule telling the world, i met god, i met the devil, god won.

33 times the chant kept coming. the rescue mission many thought impossible now complete. the rest under ground proudly held up a sign saying mission accomplished. now people here say they do believe in miracles. >> that was more reportinatalie reporting. hard to have a dry eye. >> a triumph of the technology to find that point in the ground where they drilled that shaft is just phenomenal. >> they are calling at it miracle. >> it really is. here we got some rain. we need it. this october has been dry. more come through now into the metro area, some light to moderate rain continuing to advance southwest to northeast. it will be with us here into the afternoon and it's been cool as well. we've had as much of an inch to an inch and a quarter fall zwroen our west and north. we had about a half inch in the washington metro area.

we're in the 50s. more on the way as low pressure is now developing just to our south and it will intensify as it gets off the eastern seaboard and give us some blustery winds. highs near 60. that blustery wind tomorrow. passing shower on friday. dry over the weekend. saturday and sunday, sunshine back, still a bit blustery. highs in the low 60s. chilly in the morning. sunday afternoon, should make it up to 70 by mid-afternoon. good weather for skins-colts game. monday starting off dr but maybe some rain mid-week. tom, thank you. sunday will mark one year since virginia tech student morgan hard i harrington was kidnapped and killed. her body was found three-point months later aew miles from the bridge where she was last

seen. in july, nine months after her disappearance police tied frefd the crime stone an assault in fairfax county five years ago. harrington's parents appeared on "the today show" and they said someone must kno the connection. >> we know the case from 2005 is somehow connected to morgan. a dna connection. what's confusing is their exacts in charlottesville and the remote area, the 700-ac farm she was found on, she wasn't just placed by the side of the road, she was deliberately placed in an area of that farm. i think that they thought they would never find the body. >> anyone with information about the disappearance and murder of morgan harrington is asked to call virginia state police. peta and the washington you had maim society are offering a $4,000 reward for information about whoever rew a puppy into the trash. u may remember thomas, this

poodle mix last month he was abandoned in a crate covered with a blanket and left in a dumpster in southeast washington. he was severely underweight and had several infections and is being nursed back to alth. anyone with information about this case is asked to call the washington humane societ drivers in the district will want towatch o for three new red light crams that have been set up, including the corner of connecticut avenue and porter street in northwest d.c. 14th and k streets northwest as well. and 3rd and new york avenue northwest. right now drivers will just get warning but starting november 12th tickets will be sent out. drivers who speed will have to pay $75. and speaking of traffic let's talk to the man who knows what's going on out there right now. here is jerry. >> good morning. not a lot of folks speeding and if you are don't. it slick out there this

morning. the good news is the rush hour finally has wound down, 395 from landmark to shirlington moving along pretty well. right across the 14th street bridge. outbound 14th street bridge moderate traffic heading into the district from northern virginia. the american legion bridge, there's the outer loop, inner loop, again episcopalian your speeds down. lots of road sprays. out on the orange line between east falls church and west falls church scheduled track maintenance. orange line delays have developed. be aware of that. redskins fans don't worry if you're heading to the game on sunday you'll be able to take the metro home. metro will stay open an additional hour. the last blue line train ading towards franconia springfield will depart at 12:24. extra metro personnel will also be on hand to help riders get around. the bizarre saga with

gilbert arenas has taken a strange turn. his team find an undisclosed amount of money for lying about having a knee injury. heold the media after the game he lied so teammate nick young could start. arenas apologized to his teammates and the reporters saying he didn't expect his move to geto much attention. >> you know, i wasn't thinking, that, you know, this would be another media outburst. everything i do now is just, you know, someone tit for tat trying to blow it out of proportion. i was trying to be a good teammate. nick wanted to play. i lied to the coach and told him my knee was sore. >> sources close to the team say the 28-year-old point guard is unlikely to be find or suspended

by the nba as long as the wizards follow through with their fine. delaware is the 45th largest state in the u.s. but senate race is getting major attention. republican senate candidate christine o'donnell squared off against chris coons in a debate at the university of delaware. the two attacked each other e early and often. but the highlight or low light for o'donnell came when she was asked to name a recent supreme court decision that she disagreed with. the republican candidate has been critical of the high court but couldn't name a case off the top of her head. she sheepishly admitted the mistake and said she would post examples latern her website. well he brings us the news and a little comic relief every morning. now the host of msnbc's way too early and chost of "morning

joe", willie geist has a new book. it's called"american freak show, the completely fabricated stories of our national trsures" and willie joins us this morning to talk about that book. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me on the show. >> before we ask abo the booklets talk about the headlines this morning. we talked about the debate last night between o'donnell and coons. o'donnell has gathered a lot of national attention. what do you have to say? >> i say we're making progress because last night we were only talking about marxist and not witches. she had to say tohe camera i'm not a witch. that i've not seen in american politics before. last night she accused coons of being a marxist. witch to marxist is progress. a step forward. >> so, how out -- i couldn't hear you there i lost you for a

second. president obama is taking his message to cmt tonight. do you think he can re-energize the young voters? >> worry about that. i see him out on the stump. he was in madison, wisconsin the heart of the college kids where you want to tal he's pounding the podium, come on out you got to vote. mid-term elections the crazy kids who are out, they got other things to do. they are playing x-box. they are not coming out for a mid-term election. it's a fact of life. he'll try but it might be too little too late. they were excited in 2008 to vote for someone who felt different than other politicians. they don't see those kinds of people out in the mid-term. >> tell bus your book. what does it include? >> i'm not hiding the fiction. i'm saying up front these are completely fabricated stories. they are about real people. so the idea that 19 chapters, each chapte a different person,

sarah palin, bloggo be, lindsay lohan, tiger woods. so the first chapter about sarah palin has been texted president in 2012. giving her inaugural address in januy of 2013 and decides to do it not in washington where you are, where all the washington insiders and the beltway types hang out she's going out into what she calls real america giving her inaugural address on wwwe monday night raw standing next to rick flair. >> have to buy this book. everything is fabricated all out of your head? >> yes real people fake stories. that's the idea. >> willie thanks so much for joining us. i can't wait to read the book. >> thanks so much. 11:43. still ahead we'll take a look at how investors are reacting to bad news in the weekly jobs report. plus, it's thursday night live. what nbc comedy is going

complication for jobless benefits rose last week for the first time in three weeks. going to check in with cnbc. amda, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. the markets are looking weak this morning as the economic data that you just mentioned and also declining bank shares are seeing boost from weak u.s. $. the dow is down by 30 points. the s&p 500 and nasdaq are also

in the red. bank stocks like bank of america and wells fargo are falling over concern of home foreclosures moratorium. there's fear it ll cause uncertainty. now we also got those less than encouraging economic data points early on. new claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected, rising food and energy prices also pushing inflation at the wholesale level twice as fast. in corporate news, a bright spot. yahoo! shares are on a roll saying aol and pivate equity firms may bid for the company. the "wall street journal" says two or three other firms could also be interested in the deal. a deal between yahoo! and aol would marry two companies that have increasing competition from other online destinations like google, facebook and twitter.

it's a case of watch this space. now to wednesday's child. we all know the most important thing we can give a child is love and you don't have to be able to hear it, you just have to be able to feel love. that's what we're hong to find for a little girl we introduced you to before. meet michelle, again. if you couldn't hear this hello and weren't even sure why you were here, imagine that even the signing interpreter is someone you've never seen before. agine how scary that might be. especially if you also have some learning challenges. >> we've got a great day today. we're going to the imagination stage. shall we go? diane, the director of access at the imagination stage welcomed us. we mad our way to a rehearsal room where michelle was invited to take a dance class.

she thought a hip-hop lesson would be fun. michelle was hesitant about the idea until she met the teacher who was able to speak her language, like many of the others here. >> my name is frd. i'm fred. >> she's a little shy when she meets people for the first time. as a foster child she's not had a real sense of belonging. dancer fred gave her a few moves to tribute she wasn'too sure she wanted to show off in front of everyone. she felt less inhibited when we all joined in. it is hoped oe day she will be surround by people who will care about her, who can count on. >> she want as family that's very active, that loves to do things, very outgoing becau that's the type of child she is. >> at the end of the class there were some surprises. >> i have a present for you. i want to give you a t-shirt. >> she also had tickets for her to come back and see a show.

but perhaps a gift she prized the most was a photograph so that the memory of today would live on in more than just her imagination. if you have room in your home and heart for rochelle, call our special adoption line. the number is1-88-20-adopt-me or logon to nbcwashington.com. coming up a new attraction at the national zoo. plus tom kierein will be back with another check on the forecast. stay with us hihere, i'm ian writ

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time to che the weekend scene. some interesting things happening at the national zoo. >> that's right. some of us visited the nationa zoor ture trail back when baby panda tai shan was growing up there. now the zoo has a new reason for us to come back. they started the guided tours of asian trail. nice to get to know the red panda, cloudedeopards and find out how they play, what they eat. it's a real insider's tour of thezoo. >> how of seven it given? >> every saturday at 10:00 a.m.

the tour cost as little bit of money. $10 for adults and $5 for children. >> how long is the tour? >> offered through the fall weather permitting every saturday at 10:00 a.m. 90 minutes. >> sounds good. let's go silver spring now to hear a lot about jackie sidebar. we've been hearing about that. you tell us what that is. >> jackie's restaurant is a really institution. it's on georgia avenue. quietly for the past few months they have been cving out these bars. it has chandler, black walls and what we're excited about is the cocktail menu. these are really unique cocktails. curried maple syrup and one drink comes with a spoon of caviar. one of the drinks comes -- >> they are alcoholic beverages? >> cocktails. adults only. 21 and up.

i have to say for folks that are watching their dollars this is a great alternative to the bars in d.c. because the drinks runabout $3 or $4 cheaper. they max out at $9. >> finally michael jackson event at the national portrait gallery. >> that's right. we're thinking about thrill they are time the year. it's halloween. the national portrait gallery has a great painting done by andy whol. it was painted in 1984. tonight at 00 p.m. they will have a talk. show up. it's free. >> thank you as always. >> thanks. >> good to see you. for more ideas for your weekend around the town section of nbcwashington.com, the going out guide on "the washington post".com with places to consult. it's time for us to talk to tom kierein but before we do that we'll talk to pat lawson muse who can tell us what we'll expect to see this afternoon. >> good morning.

coming up ney on news 4 at 4:00 you could soon see a change the way your cell phone bill, your service is charged. there's a proposed new rule that would require cell phon companies to move to you when you used up all of your minutes and your texts allowances. plus could safe food help you with your diet. we'll tell you abo a pill that could do the trick. at 5:00 a warning for parents following the death of their baby girl. how a device that was supposed to keep the baby safe cost sue herera life. those stories are new tonight starting on news 4 at 4:00. we'll see you then inner loop okay. now we get a check with tom for a last look at our midday weather. >> it's raining. there's the radar showing that area of green moving through the metrarea out of northern virginia. that is part of an area of low pressure that is developing to our south and pumping in the moisture. we've already had over half an inch around the metro area and some higher amounts north and west. heaviest rains are in southern maryland, northern neck of

virginia and eastern shore. in the 50s. stay in the 50s and near 60. this low pressure develops to our south. it will develop rapidlyver the next six or seven urs and bring the rain up towards new england with strong winds there and here tomorrow we'll get those gusty winds. this rain should end by sunset. over the wekend the weather settles down. and milder too by sunday pap cool day saturday. sunday afternoon 70. good weather sunday night for the skins and colts and should be dry for monday but mid-week maybe more showers. we'll see you tomorrow morning. >> okay. here's something you may want to watch tonight. 30 rock creator tina faye is an aaluminum of "saturday night live." tonight she'returning to her 30 rock roots. 30 rk will air a live episode tonight. alec baldwin admits he's nervous because there will be an audience. faye says the actors have to watch their mouths because of the live factor.

you can catch the live episode of 30 rock tonight at 8:30 right here on nbc 4. and that's news for midday today. we thank you for joing us and inactivity you for to tune in for news 4 at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 and tonight at 11:00. i'll b back tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. for ws 4 midday. have a terrific day, stay dry and we'll see you in the morning.