. > a warning this morning if you're heading downtown, major artery is closed because of a water main break. it could be shut down for quite a while. good morning. welcome to "news4 today." i'm kimberly suiters. >> hi, i'm aaron. nice to meet you. it is saturday, october 16, 2010. a look at your headlines in a second. first a quick check on our forecast. chuck bell is here. >> the whole team is here. we appreciate you coming in to

work this saturday morning. delightful change of pace. >> no more vacation until 2011. >> i have a few more i can sneaking in ke next weekend. outside on a beautiful saturday morning. good morning. your weekend under way. a nice chilly start. temperatures are 50 degrees in town. a lot of spots the high 40s. baltimore's inner harbor 48 degrees. 52 in bowie, maryland. 52 in waldorf and la plata, 52 in manassas. big area of low pressure off the coast of maine will keep a low pressure breeze. sunny day. bright sunshine. high of 65 degrees. demon deacons and hokies. if you have a game cast, chu

chuckbell.nbcwashington.com. a water main break near 9th street and constitution avenue. cotitution has been closed between 9th and 12th streets. the break happened in a 24 inch main. the pipe has been in the water system since the 1920s. d.c. water says it will work through the weekend to get the main fixed. >> there's a lot of street damage. once we get the pipe fixed there will be a lot of repair done to street. it wil be done by rush hour on nday. >> since repairs and closures are ongoing, stay away from constitution avenue. another traffic alert for northern virginia drivers. in the tysons corner area. last night vdot closed all lanes of 123, better known as chain

bridge road. crews are demolishing the old 495 northbound bridge this weekend. the construction should be finished by 5:00 monday morning. this is part of the hot lanes project which is scheduled to take two years before it's all finished. pele who use a busy commuter lot in northern virginia are calling for more safety after a pedestrian was hit and killed. a man was trying to cross the dumfries road from mcdonald's to the commuter lot. others who travel that area said proichs are badly needed. >> walking is crazy. tell them to not even walk that way. you can't blame the cars, they don't see you in the evening or late, it gets dark over here. no lights. so you can be hit. >> police say they are looking for a white box truck that was also involved in this accident. that driver may not have known he hit the man.

a job lar nightclubin d.c.'s u corridor were arrested. now pice chief captain lanier said its another example of vigilante justice. >> reporter: by emergency order of police chief cathy lanier the dc9 club was closed down. it came after a man who threw a brick into a window was ased and beaten by bar workers. that man, ali mohammad later died. >> everybody is a regular. just really kind of unfortunate that this had to happen. >> reporter: lanier said five dc9 owners including a part

owner is charged in the savage beating. >> there are severe injuries not consistent with being tackled. >> was he beaten? >> yes. >> was he kicked? >> yes. reporter: now there are questions about whether the men will face murder charges when they appear in court on saturday. sources tell news 4 the medical examiner could not confirm that mohammad died as a result of the beating. >> he didn't deserve to die. they say the case is pending. we don't know what is going on. >> reporter: mohammad's relatives tell news 4 they are too searching for answers. >> they told me that it's still an ongoing investigation. so i want to know what was cause of ali, 27 years old. young boy. he's killed. >> reporter: all five of those suspects remain in custody. they are due in court sometime today for a first appearance.

a friend of one of those suspects tells me he's a student at howard university studying physics. in northwest, darcy spencer, "news4 today." the alleged prince george's county cheating scandal as a cadet is suing the county. cats were allegedly given answers before taking the exam. officials tried to silence him as retaliation. he said he was let go as a medical board declared him unfit for ty. two montgomery county police officers have be placed on administrative leave after a man died while in custody last week. police were called toan apartment building in white oak, maryland on report of a man

acting suspiciously. they arrived and found a man standing in the stairwell. when he tried to leave he put up a fight. they tased and pepper sprayed hi he was taken to the hospital suffering from cardiac arrt and died several days later. >> this morning a warning for parents about products that are become being more popular with teens. it's called k2. also called spice. that product is lelly sold because it's label go ahead as an incense but contains a synthetic form of marijuana and is responsible for one over dose in virginia. >> reporter: k2, also known as spice is being marketed as an aroma therapy product. this mixture of herbs and spices is being smoked by teens because it has a chemical that mimics

marijuana. >> it can increase heart rate, profuse sweating. >> reporter: police say in the leesburg community a teenager recently overdosed in k2 and the synthetic marijuana was found on other teens. it's not illegal. >>it's avaable. selling for about $35 as a gram. the store owners, the customers are buying it for. >> reporter: leesburg police believe k2 was only being sold in a handful of stores and plan to ask those store owners to remove it from there shelves. at this store we walked in and asked the clerk for k2. >> do you have k2? how much? >> cash only. >> you don't take credit cards at all? >> we do but this one we don't

have on the system that's why. we can't scan it. >> reporter: because this product is new the community at large knows little about it but word has spread among teens via social media. >> it's amazing because kids will always find something. you know how creative they are in finding some substance they feel the can get a high on that will produce problems. >> what we ned is find out who is making it and go after this company. >> reporter: all police can do is make parents aware of k2 and work with state lawmakers to make it illegal. k2 recently turned up in college park just off the university of maryland campus. authorities say the national poison krol center reported 1500 overdose in the first nine months of this year. california is ready to vote on a measure that would legalize marijuana but u.s. attoey general eric holder said it doesn't matter. even if prop 19 which would

legalize possession of an ounce of marijuana federal law enforcement officials will still arrest people that are found with pot. it contradicts president obama's decision not to prosecute patients or dispen sears why marijuana is legalize. >> a food fight. a pizaria is preparing to open its doors. >> you know that saying customers is always right. it may be the law for some local taxi drivers. the latest on the controversy when we return. this is your captain speaking. we are 14th in line for takeoff.

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. le decision 2010 begin. early voting starts dane nevada where a much watched senate race appears neck and neck. st two days ago senate majority leader harry reid and sharon angle faced off in a debate. half of the ballots will come from early voting. president obama is thigt road this weekend to campaign for fellow democrats. he'll leave this afternoon for a rall in boston, massachusetts for the goverr. yesterday in delaware the president campaign for chris coons who has a large leadover christine o'donnell. the first lady will join the president as they speak in

cleveland and at ohio state university in columbus. here in the district the man behind a facebook write in campaign to re-elect mayor adrian fenty said he know it's a long shot. so far the facebook page s some 6800 supporters. a popular georgetown pizza parlor is getting ready to reopen. city be officials closed the business in march. they cited severalviolations. it stayed open late into the night. the owner will reopen. the new restaurant will go by the name go fresh. it will close at 1:00 a.m. and wot serve pizza. neighbors worry they will still see the same old problems. >> it will reopen, der a new name but same ownership. and everybody is just concerned that the they will relive the

nightmare. >> residents are complaining that trash is already starting to pile up in the backyard. the owners of the business could not be reached for comment. cab drivers, a lot of people think they are not so polite and some people don't expect them to be. >> that is until now. alexandria officials are proposing to make it illegal for cabbies to be rude to customers. news 4 john trippen has the story. >> oh,my god that would be pretty cool. who want as rude cab driver, right? >> reporter: that's what the stiff alexandria is thinking and on saturday it will propos a new ordinance that will make it illegal for a cab driver to be rude. >> cab drivers sometimes don't give the necessary time to help peopleespecially those who are not from the d.c. ea. >> reporter: if this proposal passes it would be illegal for cab drivers to be rude to city officials or anyone on the street. >> i would be supportive of that. i think it's a good thing. because some rude drivers that

abuse customers i'm losing my business. i don't want to lose my business. >> reporter: some think this is going too far. >> rude is something that's difficult to define. i don't know that it's somethi we should seriously look at or spend any time or money on. >> reporter: taxi drivers are taking this serious because under the proposal any driver who receives too many rude complaints could have their permit taken away snipe don't understand why they are making it so hard on the drivers because we usuall drive people, the majority of them are drunk, okay and usually they are abusive or disrespectful. >> in this situation you don't know who is right or who is wrong. they've put a camera in my car to see whoaid what. is the driverlying? is the customer telling truth? >> everybody in new york was always a rude. there is nothing wrongith it. can't force people to be nice. >> reporter: spoken like a true new yorker. many paengs we spoke to said

they don't nee the city to step in. bunot giving the driver as big of a tip. if you want to sound off about this issue city council wants to hear from you. there will be a public hearing today at city hall. we're in old town, alexandria. john trippen, "news4 today." just in case you didn't catch that the meing again 9:30 this morning in the council chambers at city hall in alexandria at 301 king street. >> the gentle thing for virginia. >> you have to tip these people or you should. >> or t tip. >> based o your service. chuck what say you? >> i'll tell you,nybody who has to work in public service whether you're a cab driver or work at a register, drive through, you know sometimes the customer is to blame. sometimes. other times not so much. anyway, complete check of the weekend forecast filled with sunshine. coming right up.

20 miners are dead and 17 others trapped after an early morning explosion at a chinese coal mine. it happened 6:00 a.m. local time. about 400 miles south of beijing. unclear how far down the trapped miners are or what caused that deadly mining blast.

just thi week chinese government shut down 1600 small illegal coal mines in an effort time prove safety standards. 6 dlo 7bright now and 54 degrees outside. ceainly feels like fall. >> a little bundle up weather outside. that wind never really went to bed. the wind kept usfrom being quite as chilly as we otherwise would have been but nonetheless a blast of wind chill factor. but it is not a severe wind chill. just enough to give you and old kick of the pants. outside, on a saturday morning, skies are clear. the wind as i mentioned those, has stayed up for most of the overght hours. but that keeps the atmosphere mixed up and as a result temperatures don't fall quite as quickly or as fall. we're lucky too because otherwiswe would have quite a bit of frost on our pumpkins. temperature right now at national airport 53 degrees. the dew points are down in the upper 30s with a clear sky and a

calm win our temperature would have been close to 38 degrees here in town this morning. a lot of theore sheltered locations are down in the low 40s. we stayed in the low 50s with that northwesterly wind at 9 miles per hour. 49 in hagerstown, 51 at the naval academy in annapolis. 57 in culpeper. 51 in martinsburgwest virginia. a lot of cool air bac across the ohio valley. that chilly air mass is coming our way tonight into tomorrow morning. be ready for a much cooler start tomorrow morning than this morning. it will not be as windy. the wind maker for us, look at that huge area of low pressure up into maine. it's close enough still for us to have a breezy sunny day today, norwest winds 15 to 30 miles per hour. if you have a new kite, you've been waiting for the day to fly it, today is the day. breezy conditions. those tightly packed up lines,

that's isobars, lines of constant pressure as those things ease up and we get a bubble of high pressure. winds will die off tonight. beautiful day tomorrow. quiet weather for the start of the week. for fall foliage, low. some good color around town. west of the shenandoah valley, getting in close to peak fall foliage. plenty of sunshine. quite breezy. winds out of the northwest 15 to 30 miles per hour. northern maryland, southern pennsylvania might be windier than that. tomorrow plenty of sushine, less wind tomorrow and as a result a little bit warmer. high temperature tomorrow up to 73 compared to a 56 degree high. clouds come back on honored. little chance of a shower coming back into the forecast for the tuesday-wednesday time frame. otherwise relatively quiet october weather will continue through much of next week. the broncos of western michigan are in south bend, indiana

takingn notre dame toy, 2:30 kickoff. 63 degrees is the kickoff temperature there in notre dame. you have your forecast you want to get in, chuck.bell@databases databases. dan hellie has this morning's "sports minute." good morning, everybody. your "sports minute" begins with game one of the american league championship series. arlington, texas is where we are. the rangers hosting texas. xas jumped out to a quick lead than to josh hamilton. at the top of the eighth the yankees scored five runs and rallied to beat the rangers in game one. high school football last night. our game of the week in stafford, virginia. mountain view visiting colonial

forge. and the twins were in the thick of the eagles' victory. the quarterback finds his twin brother eric down the field for the presidents' day, 44 yards for the sco. colonial forge wins 35-7 to remain unbeaten at 7-0. in montgomery county a matchup of two 6-0 teams they arewood at damascus. back and forth the whole way. damascus quarterback thrws to zach bradshaw. bradshaw dives just inside for the touchdown. damascus knocks off the warriors. they stay undefeated with 27-20 win. last night the official start to the college basketball season. midnight madness in college park. gary wliams entered in a fulling flight suit. after that players scrimmaged. the terms best player here, jordan williams throwing it down an exciting night in college park. that's your "sports minute." i'm dan hellie. everybody have a great weekend.

there's this ad for a florida hospital and it's become the butt of plenty of jokes and people seem to be seeing completely different than what the doctor ordered. >> take a look at this ad for aport st. lue hospital. what do you see. it's a boy kissing an expectant mother's stomach. some people don't see a stomach some see a rear end. the doctor who created the ad say it's clearly a stomach. >> the little boy occion pregnant person. >> a little boy kissing a person. >> could you see that maybe he's kissing a butt. >> you can tell by the way he's kissing. >> no you can tell it's the front of a person's stomach. >> after this supposed butt or belly controversy, the hospital

simply decided to scrap the ad and create a new one just to put this whole mess bhind them. what a shame. >> you know, if you didn't see -- if you didn't see the shirt -- if you couldn't see that -- and having set it up the way i did i thought -- >> because you showed a tight job. most people see the whole thing. what a sweet picture. it is. >> oh, people. ahead on "news4 today" it has been a very difficult couple of weeks for pedestrians in our area. what you can do to protect yourself and your family. we're going to ask montgomery county police captain paul starks when he joins us live our studio. >> they spentore than two months trapped in a mine nearly half a mile underground. one of the chilean miners plans to return to work the mine. with capital one bank's new checking with rewards,

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a popular nightclub closed after police say five of its workers chased down a man and beat him to deth. but will murder charges against those employees stick ingood morning and welcome back to "news4 today." i'm aaron gilcist. >> i'm suit. it's saturday, october 16, 2010. the news is just ahead. first we want to check in with meteorologist chuck bell. he joins us live now in studio with a look ahead.

no surprises. >> i don't think so. yesterday turned out to be a pretty blustery afternoon outside. the sunshine came back and that's good news. skiesemained clear while most everybody was asleep overnight although i know some stayed up all night. outside mostly clear sky. a few mid-level clouds over on our eastern and northern horizon. those will be pulling away as the day wears along. temperatures in the upper 40s lower 50s. high pressure up across northern new england pulling away but still close enough to keep a coolorthwesterly breeze around here today. even with plenty of sunshine it will feel like autumn sun is still just about an hour from comg up. 7:18. 6:27 is sunset. heading down to virginia to the tar heels of rth carolina are up there playing in charlottesville. 6:00 kickoff. a late start. 61 at kickoff. let me tell you something, you

tter have a jacket or a sweater or something because by the time that game end temperatures in the upper 40s. >> that's a good rivalry. crews are working to repair a large water main tt burst on the national mall. it happened after 10:00 last night near 9:00th and constitution of a enough. constitution has been closed between 9th and 12th. it happened on a 24 inch main. d.c. water says it will work through the weekend to g that main fixed. northern virginia drivers will find lots of detour signs around the tysons corner area this weekend. vdot closed all four lanes of route 123 near the beltway last night. crews are demolishing the old 495 northbound bridge. the construction should be finished by 5:00 monday morning. this is part of the hot lanes project which is scheduled to take two years to complete. a pedestrian t and killed

in a busy northern virginia commuter lot has people calling for more safety. police is looking for a second vehicle involved in that accident. derrick ward explains. >> reporter: 38-year-old man of manassas died in the middle of dumfries road afte 6:00 a.m. >> he tried to find something to eat. so he tried to cross the street. >> reporter: there are no crosswalks here but still heavily used by pedestrians who park in the lot and try toross the street for a bite or a cup of coffee. it proved a fatal choice for the man. >> heard a screech. it hit the pedestrian on the side. and it's like real quick. >> reporter: police say the driver of a blue dodge ram stopped after the accident but they continued to search for another vehicle. >> a white box truck. not too much information to go

on. damage under the vehicle. we're not considering a hit-and-run. the driver might not know he's involved in the accident. >> reporter: there are signs alluding to crosswalk but no crosswalk. pedestrians and drivers find frightening challenges here. >> several accidents. several accidents. accidents with cars. i haven't seen any pedestrian accidents but several cars. even my own son was involved in an accident. >> we're having technical difficulties with that report. t more on pedestrian safety coming up in the next few minutes. we have new questions this morning over whether five nightclub employees will be officially charged with second-degree murder. these charges em from the beating death of 27-ye-old ali mohammad. according to police mohammad threw a brick at the window of the dc 9 club in northwest.

he was chased down by of five club employees including a part owner and police say he was been so badly he died. but the medical examiner has not been able to confirm that the death was as a result of that beating. >> the case is pending. we don't know what's going on. no one telling us the answer. i just go to the medical examiner's office. they told me that it's still under investigation. so, i want to know what was the cause of ali, 27 years old. a young boy. he's killed. >> dc9 has been shut down for 96 hours by emergency order from chief lanier. all five employees are due in court sometime today. the 33 chilean miners

continue to recover this weekend. ahead of them, though, lies a new series of challenges. turning to sciety and trying resume some sense of a normal life as nbc kerry sanders reports it may not be as easy as it seems. >> reporter: everyone in chile wants to see and hear from the miners and some of what they heard for the first time was anger. one miner says why do these miner disasters have to happen? because the greedy owners want to make money. they were looking for gold and may have found it in survival. they want $20 million for their story. they have a pact that they notarized while still underground to sell their story to the highest bidder and divide profits equally. forchileans there's no question they deserve a payday but for at least one of the rescued 33, remarkably life as a miner will eventually resu.

54-year-old jose was on the phone confirming a contract to go back to work in another mine after a vacation. miners say in those first 17 days cutoff from the world with only a rash of two days food there was despair and fist fights. for now they want the feel good story told, how 33 men survived 70 days. it's unclear if they have cured a deal yet but one hollywood agent tells nbc news $20 million might be about right. kerry sanders, nbc news, copiapo, chile. i wasn't expecting him to say that. >> can't say i'm surprised that they want the money. i am surprised t hear about it. normally that sort of thing stays under wraps. >> it will be interesting too if they really stick together or if one defects. they stuck together that far. still to come some have cool ining flight entertainment.

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when they are playing a team like texas. the rangers playing in the american league championship series for the first time in franchise history and they jumped all over the bronx bombers in game one. no quit inhe yankees. let's go down toaington, texas. josh hamilton has been the rangers best hitter during the regular season and he did not disappoint last night. bottom of the first, cc sabathia delivers and hamilton takes it out of the yard, a three run shot. rangers would go up 3-0 and balled 5-0 lead. fast forward to top of the eighth, yankees in come back mode, down 5-2 when a-rod sends the first pitch he sees into left fie. two-run single. derek jeter comes in as does swisher. the yankees poured on the eighth and come back to win. for the fifth time i six games the redskins not kicking off at 1:00. sunday night will be a prime time affair againstthe colts at fedex field. yo can see that right here on

nbc 4. it's the homecoming game. 60 former skins including rss graham will be honored. there willlso be a pre-game parade. as for who is playing in the game the reporters still trying to find out from mike shahan yesterday how much they will see of albert hayneswort >> whe is he at in terms of what you're seeing on him? >> this is a no pad day. albert is like everybody else today. good observation, i might add. >> you can't get out of th one. good try, though. no. on your behalf to behonest some guys -- they do look bigger. i'm trying to help you. >> mike shanahan having some fun with one of the fine reporters out there at redskins park. our high school football game of

the week goes to stafford, virginia and this was a lopsided affair. colonial forge takes to it mountain view trying to remain undefeated. eagles soar thank to twin brothers. these are the thornapple twins. blake and eric. making things happen. second quarter third and eighth. blake steps up and hts his brother deep. 44 yard touchdown, 14-0. colonial forge on top and they have a very businesslike hand shake because they are going rival colleges. the handoff goes to number 31 tr reed and he has eels. two rushing touchdns. one receiving. colonial forge beats mountain view 35-7. they remain unbeaten. they are now 7-0. a packed house in damascus. the swarming hornets hosting they arewood, a battle of two 6-0 tms. first quarter no score. alex cole takes the pitch and powers his way in for the

presidents' day. sherwo goes up 7-0. conner fraser looking for zach bradshaw. bradshaw giving it everything he has. diving just inside the pile on for the end zone. damascus knocks off the warriors 27-20 and still undefeated. midnight madness for schools around the area. georgetown tipped off the season. the top gun sound track playing at maryland when head coach gary williams made his entrance. a lot ofans making the trip to comcast center last night. gary coming out in a full flight suit. you know, the acc coach the year can do anything he wants. jordan williams, going the best player for maryland. they are hoping. jordan on the outlet pass to howard. howard tosses up the alley-oop

to moseley. moseley ishe leadingeturning scorer. he averaged 10 points, one point per-game. that's your morning sports. i'm dan hellie. everybody have great weekend. the today starts a bit late they are morning at 7:30 here on nbc 4. >> amy robach joins us live. good morning. >> looks like we lost amy. >> reporter: striking no we don't. go ahead. all right. well it's no surprise ty are going talk about the chilean miners striking gold. that's coming up on the today. >> at 7:30. let's check in with chuck bell. he's here. >> we can't miss this one. yes, we can. >> we hear you can't see you. >> clear skies overhead and i

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chickens, roasters, boars and reptiles. animals were relocated to shelters on be the east coast to make them available for adoption. >> i passedy a pit bull puppy. it gnawed on my hand for a little bit. sharp teeth. swee up they. >> i'm glad to hear that. only one finger loss. >> it's a puppy. what kind of damage. they can eat houses. >> i pulled back a puppy many times raisingmy dogs. maybe that's tough for 6:50 in the morning. >> walk the dogs today. >> i'm a very dedicated dog lker myself. i can say everody else who has a dog take them for a walks. outside on a saturday morning, little bit of a skip in your giddy up. a little bit of a chilly start. temperatures in the 40s and 50s.

apparently bloody stump is funny. i dn't know it was that good. outside with a cle sky. few fair weather clouds i should say over to our eastern and northern sky. 53 is our temperature at national airport. reag national still has not been below 50 degrees since may the 11th. so it's been a long time coming. i think tonight going into your sunday morning that will be our next great chance to get below 50 degrees. 53 now, northwest winds at 9 miles per hour keeping things mixed up just a little bit. more sunshine out there and temperatures in the 40s and 50s now. reach up into the low and mid-60s for a time this afternoon. with this area of low pressure heading up to the canadian mch times a substantia northwesterly wind. cool, breezy. fluorescent of blue skies. further north and east you go from the washington area up towards bosto philadelphia, new jersey the windier of a date will be. if you're taking a flight up to new york city or boston first of

all buckle up. there ma besome flight delays because of the turbulence especially up towards the boston airports. so for us, breezy and sunny for today. high pressure building in for the second half of our weekend. even though we have a few clouds coming in late tomorrow no real rain chances for all of our weekend. that's weomed news. next chance for a shower shows up on tuesday. fall foliage a lot of people heading out towards the blue ridge. next weekend wl be the peak. plenty of sunshine, northwest winds 15 to 30 miles per hour. great kite flying weather for today. tomorrow more suhine less wind and a bit warmer with highs in the throw mid-70s. that will be the nicer of the outdoor days this weekend. when we get back to work and school on monday and tuesday, clouds coming back. risk of a shower on tuesday and wednesday. more dry weather as we finish out t weekend. is smu mustangs take on the

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montgomery county man who was hit and killed trying to cross rockville pike last weekend has been laid to rest. family and friends said good-bye yesterday. police have not charged the driver. >> that was one of several pedestrian accidents in our area recent weeks. so what you can do to protect yourself? joining us now in our studio is captain paul starks from the montgomery county police department. thank you for joining us. what's going on here? we're seeing a lot more or at least an uptick in the number of pedestrians killed in montgomery county and around the aa. what are police finding when they investigate these accidents? >> well, first i want to say that there are some open investigations, not only in montgomery county and aound the area. we're not laying blame or assessing who is at fault in

these but we're looking at what montgomery county has seen in the pt and what we've noticed in some of these pedestrian collisions is that there is pederian error that is attributable to the collisions. >> most of the pedestrians are making mistakes. they are distracted. >> t two most common errors are where pedestrians will cross in the mid all of block or cross when the indicator is telling them not walk. but it goes deeper than that. some folks are on cell phones or talking with a friend who is walking with them. once they hit the street they are inhe danger zone. they've got to be engaged in crossing the lanes that they are crossing and be aware. >> the two who crossed rockville pike and killed were guys who, you know, they weren't teenagers and they looked in great physical condition, obviously, prixoomablely knew,000 cross the street safely. what happened there? >> that collision is still under investigation. we do know the driver had

alcohol in his syste we're looking at the entire picture there. nine that case the driver clearly could have contributed to that rather than just the pedestrians making an error in judgment? >>hat's correct. >> ay. then what about aspen hill the mother who was pushing the baby stroller. fortunately both survived. very scary scene there. >> again, that's about eight lanes of traffic. you really have to be engaged in crossing that part of georgia avue, and there was errors on both sides. >> as a mother too you don't think about you're sticking that stroller out fit. i've done it many times. a few feet out in front you. what about, it is that important to cross in a crosswalk. i think sometime when you're walking around you ink what's the big difference between stepping on this side of the line or this side of the line. >> well that's where drivers are expecting pedestrians to cross not in the middle of the block. that helps. everybody has a duty here whether you're a driver or a

pedestrian. we have to drive cautiously and defensively and we have to cross defensively as well. >> in prince william we had a young man hit and killed in a commuter park lot. you don't expect people going in speeds fast enough to kill someone. >>hen you're on ft and a car hits you with no other protection there isn't much that can be done. even in lots that can be a dangerous spot. >> final takeaway? >> be engaged. know what you're doing. be focused on crossing a street and do so at a safe place and a safe time. >> thank you. halloween coming extra important message. thanks for joining us this morning. aaron, back to you. that's it for "news4 today." a reminder "the today show" begins at 7:30 this morning. we're back at 7:55 with a local news update. join us again at 9:00 for a full hour of news. until then have a good one.