a few moments of hope and joy today in turkey when several people, including a toddler, were found alive under the rubble of sunday's strong earthquake. good morning and welcome to "news4 midday. kwoots i'm eun yang in for barbara harrison. we will have much more to deadly earthquake in turkey in just a few moments. we begin with breaking news out of rockville, maryland. police are on the scene of an appear enmurder will be sue slide. it happened at the national lutheran nursing home in the 9700 block of veers drive. police received a call for an electrocution at the home around

9:45 this morning and found two people unconscious. the victims were later pronounced dead. a crew is on the way and we will bring you more later in the newscast. the death toll is rising this morning in turkey as rescue teams dig through the rubble searching for survivors after a massive earthquake there. already 270 people are confirmed dead. but hundreds of rescue workers are pouring into the eastern cities to the hardest hit by the 7.2 magnitude quake hoping to find anyone still live. nbc's michelle fran accident has the latest. >> reporter: this morning, the frantic search for rescue survivors intensified in southeast turkey. and the dramatic rescue in hard-hit town as a toddler is pulled from the rubble. amateur video shows the terrifying moments when the major quake hint sunday. so far there are at least 200 deaths. and more than a thousand injured. hundreds are still unaccounted

for. many believed to be still pinned beneath the rubble. >>. >> translator: the situation is really bad. many of our friends and relatives are still trapped under the rubble. we have not heard from any of them. >> reporter: an ancient city of 1 million, the vacant has already claimed the lives of 100 people and flattened dozens of buildings and including a university dormitory. reports of victims calling for help were heard overnight. but rescue efforts were hampered by darkness and freezing temperatures. using what equipment they had and digging with bare hands, workers moved chunks of concrete to reach victims including this scared 10-year-old boy. >> along with the desperate search for victims, thousands are seeking shelter. aide workers set up 4,000 tents in a nearby stadium and food and blankets and other aid is pouring in from around the world. >> that was nbc's michelle

franzen reporting. the last time a major earthquake hit turkey was in wr9. that's when two quakes hit the northwest region of the country, killing 20,000 people. right now jury selection is under way for the trial of brittney norwood. she accused of killing her co-worker murray at the lululemon store in bethesda in march. megan mcgrath is live outside the courtroom with more. >> reporter: good morning. brittney entered the courtroom wearing a gray cardigan sweater and blouse and hair pulled tightly back. she has been sitting quietly next to her attorneys as the proceedings go on here. the judge brought in the first 150 prospective jurors into the courtroom. they were sworn in and are being questioned right now about what they know about this case. if need be, the judge can also draw on a pool of another 150 people if necessary. that will happen later on this afternoon. this jury selection is expected to take a while. it is expected to last all day today and go into at least part

of tuesday. at the courthouse in rockville, p 3 00 potential jurors are being questioned by the attorneys. what do they know about the case? do they have any beliefs or opinions that would prevent them from being open and unbiased? jury selection could take a day and a half. brittney norwood is accused of killing her lululemon co-worker murray last march. she was found bound and cut inside the store near murray's it body and told police two masked men were responsible and sexually assaulted them and then killed murray. but police say norwood's story just didn't hold up. prosecutors say that norwood's injuries were self-inflicted. she tried to pass herself off as a victim when, in fact, she was the murderer. the judge has told the prospective jurors that this trial could last anywhere from 8 to 10 days if convicted norwood could face life in prison without parole.

eun, back to you. >> megan mcgrath in rockville. thank you. now to a traffic alert in northern virginia for the next two weeks, beltway drivers can no longer get on the outer loop from gallows road northbound. vdot closed the ram in annandale early this morning. it is part of the hotlanes project. crews are taking out the old ram and replacing it with the new one. detour signs are posted. turning to the weather a chilly start to the day. i think it will be a nice one. met meet tom kierein joins us for first forecast. tom, good morning. >> yes, still a bit after chill in the air. we are rapidly warming up. now we are getting more sun than we had earlier. right now temperatures around the region have climbed into the 50s and to near 60 in washington and by the bay in southern maryland, already in the low 60s there as well as parts of the eastern shore. farther to our west, though, where there is some more cloudiness around the blue ridge, shenandoah valley, their temperatures there are in the low to mid 50s now. over the last 12 hours, we had these clouds cruising through from the southwest heading

northeast. they did produce a few sprinkles earlier this morning, panhandle of west virginia. now sunshine is breaking out. mostly cloudy over the sthan dough a valley. but from the blue ridge east, it is partly sunny now. and we will have a partly sunny afternoon and there is a small chance of a passing shower that would be later this afternoon and late afternoon or perhaps early this evening. and before that, our temperatures should climb into the mid and maybe briefly upper 60s with a light southwesterly breeze. delightful autumn day on the way. i will show thank you latest fall fall yoej report where the peak color is and look at our chances for peak color here. that will be coming up in a few minutes. a look of the rest of the week and weekend ahead. >> always a beautiful time of the year. let's check midday traffic. good morning. >> good morning. right now traveling in northwest d.c., the 5100 block, 13th street is shut down for water service repairs. crews are expected to work for eight hours there. traveling 66 and westbound

jammed from scott street to sycamore street bumper to bumper. a very slow commute. let's check out i-95 in virginia, fairfax county parkway. not seeing any problems for you as you make your way towards 395, you are clear. this is a view at king street, i can tell you you are clear from edsall all the way to the 14th street bridge. eun, back to you. >> thanks so much. 11:07. d.c. police are trying to figure out if the same person is responsible for a string of weekend robberies. each happened sunday and all in northwest washington. here is news4's tracee wilkins with more. >> reporter: d.c. police are investigating a string of robberies that all happened yesterday afternoon. some cases, personal property like cell phones and ipads were snapped. other cases, cash. here in the 700 block of fairmont northwest, all of that was taken and more. police responded to the 700 block of fairmont street in northwest yesterday for an armed burglary.

police say the burglar entered through an unlocked front door and robbed a house full of people in town for the howard university homecoming. robbed of money, cell phones, ipad and college i.d.s. the us is effect took off on a bike. that happened around 2:40 p.m. it was one of a number of robberies in upper northwest. ten minutes earlier another set of robbers, three men on a bike snatched someone's iphone 4 and kept riding in the 1300 block of 14th street northwest. the 1900 block of m street in northwest, a crew of construction workers who were renovating a build wrestling reportedly robbed for cash by three masked gunmen. that happened just before 1:00 p.m. then in the 1,200 block of crittenden and northwest another robbery was reported. no one was injured in any of the robberies. police say the cluster of robberies was unusual and shouldn't be considered some kind of a new crime trend.

police have no reason to believe that all of these incidents are connected. they are asking anyone with information to give them a call. northwest, tracee wilkins, news4. when kids in sponsz spotsylvania get out of school today they are likely to see more police around the area. it is in response to an attempted abduction a few days ago. the police say this happened friday afternoon. a 9-year-old girl got off the school bus when a man approached her and chased her past a couple of houses. when she got close to her home the suspect quickly turned around and ran off. another rough week for the burgundy and gold. a new quarterback could not help washington's defense which gave up more than 400 yards in a loss to carolina. the skins held the panthers to just feel goals early but carolina exploded in the third quarter. leading by as many as 13 points. the redskins clawed their way back to within ten but late in the game john beck gets intercepted and right there. ouch. and ending any possibility of a

comeback. skins lose 33-20. are now 3-3 on the season. head coach mike shanahan was upset with himself after the loss. >> very pleased with john's overall performance. you thought he did a good job. a guy that gets the opportunity to play well and get better. disappointing loss. very disappointed. i can do a better job getting these guys ready to play because we should have played better than that. >> adding injury to insult, three of the redskins stars left the game hurt. running back tim heightower left the game on a golf cart. he have l have an mri on the left knee. next week the redskins head north of the border and play the buffalo bills in toronto. hope the team turns things around. 11:10. 64 degrees. does vice president joe biden have his eyes on a higher office? new developments in the case of

missing baby lisa. what one witness is telling police she saw. news surveillance video state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. state farm.

more now on that breaking news out of rockville, maryland. police are on the scene of an apparent murder/suicide that happened at the national lutheran hope in the 9700 block of veirs drive. >> reporter: we are at the place

they call the village at rockville. it is a lutheran retirement community where about 10:00 this morning, there was a call for police to come to investigate an apparent murder/suicide. we are told that police are looking at a possibility this murder/suicide may involve a married couple who lives in the main building here. there are two living situations here at this place. some in these cottages that you see over here and then there's a main building. we are told that this incident occurred in the main building here at this lutheran home that involved a married couple and we are told they are looking into the possibility of two things here. the possibility of an electrocution, a possibility some sort of firearm was used. again, investigators are on the scene of what appears to be an appearent murder-suicide at thi lutheran community. it is called the village at rockville. it happened shortly before 10:00

this morning. and the investigators inside the building. we hope to have more details, more information, for you as the day goes on. eun, back to you. >> pat collins live in rockville. thanks so much, pat. today president obama is heading west. the president is on his way to nevada to push his $447 billion jobs bill. he will introduce new initiatives including a change in mortgage rules. another major plan is a student loan initiative that he will unveil wednesday in denver. neither of these moves requires congressional approval so they could be put into place rather quickly. vice president joe biden may be considering a presidential run in 2016. in an interview this weekend, mr. biden said that he is leaving the door open. he run unsuccessfully for the presidency twice and vice president says for now, though, he is focusing on getting president obama re-elected in

2012. libya's interim leader says he ordered an investigation into street death of moammar gadhafi. the move is in response to strong international pressure, including from the u.s. there are conflicting reports on how he died. first it was said gadhafi was caught in cross fire and then it was reported he was ambushed in an ambulance. reports say he zied fr died fro bullet to the head. thousands celebrated in day of liberation after living under gadhafi's rheaume. the transitional council is calling for islamist type of government for libya. a developing story out of syria. the u.s. ambassador to that country is now back in washington after skaurt concerns. the state department said there was a number of credible threats against ambassador robert ford

he defended pastful protests and criticized a government crackdown that killed nearly 3,000 people. anti-government protesters are demanding the country's president be removed from office. today a new memorial opens in arlington national cemetery. the memorial honors the 14 jewish chaplains that died during active military service. it will sit next to memorials for protestant and catholic chaplains. the memorial received backing from a joint congressional resolution and this year is the 150th anniversary of rabbi serving in the u.s. armed forces. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is in north carolina for next two weeks getting intensive therapy. she is recovering from a brain injury suffered when she was shot outside of political event in tucson in january. giffords will stay in asheville, north carolina, true november 4 for treatment. meanwhile her office has not said if the arizona congresswoman has decided to run for re-election. right now the sick new hampshire woman rescued from the south pole to new zealand is on

her way back to the u.s. 137. she will economic in at johns hopkins in baltimore for observation. back in august she began experiencing vision, language and memory problems while working at the national science foundation south pole research station. doctors say she had a stroke and should make a full recovery with proper treatment. tom kierein is here with the beautiful fall day in store for us. weigh had gorgeous weekend weather. coming for now, tom. >> perfect autumn weather. sweater weather. you step out and smell the aroma. dry leaves in the air. the leaves are turning more colorful now, too. here is the latest foliage report. we do have peak color, dark orange zone there, western maryland. highlands of west virginia. and some trees are near peak in the shenandoah valley right now as well. as well as along skyline drive. farther east, still about, oh, 40, 50% color showing up. individual trees, though, locally have some beautiful

color. here is a live picture from our sky watcher camera. you can see a few trees there. some of the red maples are in peak color. these are trees in the american university park neighborhood of northwest washington. way off in the distance sort of a bit of a haze in the air. we are looking towards southern montgomery county and on the left is southern loudoun county. we do have some clouds cruising over us right now. temperatures are in the mid and upper 50s. most areas. southern maryland around the bay. eastern shore and few spots there hit the low 60s. and it is cool throughout much of western maryland and panhandle of west virginia, shenandoah valley, only in the mid 50s there. and prince george's county, near 60 now. we had these clouds cruzzing in southwest to northeast. ahead of a front that's just now coming out of the ohio valley. that will be sweeping our way coming in from the west. sweeping east as we get into the afternoon hours. that front does come in and may trigger isolated shower later this afternoon. as we go forward this is the

futurecast. future weather here showing few of these areas in green, these are zones potential passing showers. here is the time by 5:30, 6:00 we could have those coming through as well as out in the mountains. then after that we should clear out this evening. and we will have another chilly start tomorrow morning. temperatures this morning in many areas were down into the low 40s and we may have that repeated again tomorrow morning. starting off tuesday. for the rest of the monday, we will have these high clouds in and out and also a very small chance of a passing shower coming through. there may be a greater chance out of the mountains. temperatures should climb from the mid 60s into the upper 60s by mid afternoon. rapid warmup from where we are now. then any showers around this evening should be dissipating by mid evening. and we will have our sky beginning to clear out after midnight. before then, just a few clouds around after the showers end. we will be in the low 60s early evening around sunset which today is at 6:18. it will be down in the mid 50s by midnight. by the way, our sunset is going

to be an hour earlier when we fall back. we will have that happening on november 6. we will have our sunset just after 5:00. we will have our sunrises an hour earlier. sunrises are almost 7:30 in the morning. well, as we get into tomorrow, we will have more sun than today. and we should be back into the mid 60s during the afternoon after a chilly start in the 40s. then down into 40s again wednesday morning. then partly sunny wednesday afternoon to cloudy. that will be ahead of yet another front coming our way. we should make it into the mid 60s on wednesday afternoon. then on thursday, cloudy, could get showers passing through as this other front comes on in. and we will have temperatures mid 60s. few of the passing showers all the way through the day on thursday and perhaps in a thursday evening. and after that, though, we will get chilly on friday and into the weekend. highs only into the 50s. in fact, saturday and sunday mornings, lows only in the 30s.

so quite a chill in the air as we get into the final weekend of october and then monday is halloween. >> can you believe it is here already? do you have your costume ready. >> no. i come the same every year, i come as a hedge fund manager. >> all right, tom. you wear it well. very convincing. let's check the midday traffic now. how are we going to top that? >> i don't know. we are going to be two hot reporters. let's do it up. i will be you and you be me. let's start with congestion. traveling westbound on 66, i'm seeing delays for you. bumper to bumper from scotch street to past sycamore street. a slow commute. beltway looks really good. maryland, no problems there, inner loop and outer loop clear at river road. taking the beltway in virginia, robinson terminal clear as well. in fact, travel time for you from the 95 interchange all the way to dulles toll road on 56 miles per hour. >> thanks so much.

11:22. still ahead, he may be the only hockey star honored this way. alex ovechkin's latest achievement. popular comedian comes to d.c. for a top honor. we will hear from some of his famous friends. first, here is a look at what's hot on nbcwashington.com.

alex ovechkin has a few years until he makes night the hall of fame. he has been immortalized in another way. today at 2:00, capitals superstar is getting his own wax statue in washington, d.c. that's in northwest. he joins the great wayne gretzky to be the only two hockey players turned into statues. if you want to see the role ovechkin in action, the caps play thursday night on the road in edmonton. they are hot. go, caps. world series is going back and forth. now it is all tied up at two games apiece as texas took game four. the rangers shut down st. louis cardinals offense and texas starting pitcher derek holland was on a roll, allowing two hits while striking out seven. mike napoli provided the offense hitting three-run home run and rangers cruzzed 4-0. game five is in texas tonight at 8:00. and then the series moves back to st. louis for game six and possibly game seven. coming up in next- hour, the latest on the case of a missing

baby in kansas city. a look inside the home where police say an fbi cadaver dog hit on a scent. plus why park willing soon become much more difficult in the bethesda area. tom kierein will be back with a look at when the chance of rain returns to your forecast. stay with us.

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>> search is on for survivors in turkey after a powerful earthquake. at least 270 people died after

the 7.2 magnitude quake struck sunday. rescue teams pulled several survivors from the rubble this morning including a toddler. they are optimistic they will find more survivors. jury selection is going on now for the lululemon murder trial. pretty any norwood is accused of killing her co-worker in march at the clothing store. norwood pled not guilty and her defense team says they are still open to a plea bargain. it has been exactly three weeks since 11-month-old lisa irwin went missing from her kansas city home. nbc's peter alexander was granted access inside the home where lease's parents say they have nothing to hide. ♪ amazing grace >> sunday night baby lease's parents deborah bradley and irwin returned to the home where they say their daughter disappeared for a candlelight vigil. neither deborah nor jeremy said a word but were both in tears as

jeremy's father, lisa's grandfather, offered an emotional prayer. >> please keep her safe and bring her home to us as soon as possible. >> reporter: after the vigil the family invited nbc news inside the home. this is baby lisa's bedroom you heard so much about. one of the first things you notice is the spot here on the light switch where police were trying to find fingerprints. this way you can see the small frames, head and footprint from the dailies a was born. her clothes still hanging in the closet. scooby doo onesie sitting on the rack. this is the crib lisa was sleeping in. they believe this is where she was taken from that tonight and the ominous reminder of what they say happened here. the graphite from the fingerprinting process by police. this is the window where deborah and jeremy suspect an abductor may have come inside the home and athe screen was pushed in like this. this is a family room or a computer room. if it was an abduction they would have had to come through this room and then into the kitchen. come with me quickly and i will

show you. this here on the counter is exactly where the family says that the three cell phones were missing. deborah and jeremy believe the abductor would have come into this hallway passing by the room where lisa's brother was asleep. one of them coming into her bedroom from the crib, walking down this hallway and come with me. then there would have come this direction with the baby in their arms to the front door jeremy found unlocked that morning at 3:45 a.m. and where you can see police tried to find fingerprints. this weekend this newly filed police affidavit is revealing dramatic new findings in this baffling three week old mystery. according to the affidavit, last week an fbi cadaver dog smelled the scent after human corpse somewhere here on the floor and right near the bed. human decomposition usually starts within four minutes after biological death. it is going to be within minutes that a dog should be able to find that scent if it actually existed. >> reporter: according on the affidavit, deborah told investigators that she didn't initially look for lisa behind

the house because she was afraid of what she might find. last week investigators spent nearly 17 hours executing a search warrant inside the home. the new core documents also detail exactly what detectives collected. a comforter, disney character shirt, and a glow worm toy as well as rolls of tape and a tape dispenser. left behind inside the kitchen, this empty box of wine deborah admits she drank enough to get drink on the night she says her daughter vanished. deborah was seen buying the box of wine on surveillance video hours before she says she put lisa to bed. meanwhile, police are also reviewed this new surveillance video taken from a gas station less an mile away from the irwin home at 2:00 a.m. the night lisa vanished. it shows the blurry image of a person walking out of a wooded area. at least three witnesses, including this neighbor who lives only doors away, say they have spoken to investigators about a suspicious man they saw in the area that night.

>> what exactly did you see that night. >> a gentleman walking up the street, 12:15, carrying a baby. >> reporter: a baby in his arms? >> baby in his arms. >> reporter: was the baby wearing anything? >> no. from what we saw the baby was wearing a diaper, it looked like, it appeared. >> reporter: what do you think? >> it was odd. >> that was peter alexander reporting. kansas city police say that despite the eyewitness account they have no suspects and no strong leads now. they did, however, say they are not ruling out anything when it comes to finding lisa. defense lawyers for the doctor charged with michael jackson's death will begin calling witnesses today. dr. murray's lawyers are expected to blame the singer for his own death. defense lawyers expect to call about 15 witnesses including three medical experts and a police officer and randy phillips, head of aeg live. murray's lawyers have argued jackson was pressured by phillips. his company was promoting the

concert in london to show a healthy and show up on time for rehearsals or the tour may be canceled. indy car racers held a memorial service in indianapolis to remember and honor one of their own. thousands of racing fans came out for a public memorial service yesterday for dan wheldon. wheldon died in a crash last weekend during a race in las vegas. his teammates spoke at the memorial saying they should remember the 33 happiness wheldon left them. police are on the scene of an au pair enmurder/suicide. it happened at that time national lutheran home in the 9700 block of veirs drive. pat cole since live on the scene now with more on this story. pat, what have you learned? it looks like pat collins is there on the scene as police or nursing home there gives more

details about what happened exactly. all we know at this point police say they received a call for an electrocution at that nursing home in rockville, maryland. apparently police found two people dead there. again, it appears that the nursing facility and police are giving pat a statement. we will have more on this later on news4 midday and "news4 at 4:00" this afternoon. the hunt on for a deadly shark that killed a texas man off the coast of australia over the weekend. 32-year-old george waynewright of houston was driving near perth when attacked. his friends tried to save him but the injuries were too severe and a surfer was killed in september and a swimmer was attacked two weeks ago. australian authorities have now issued a catch-to-kill order for all great white sharks. some are unhappy about the move because great whites are an endangered species. let's check again once again with tom kierein for the latest on our forecast. hope we are having a nice day, tom. >> yeah. it is beginning to warm up now. still a bit of a chill in the

air on this monday. the 24th day of october. here is a live picture from the sky watcher camera. there is a bright luminous overcast. sun trying to shine through the overcast. and illuminating the sky there. right now we have temperatures into the 50s, near 60 in washington and the nearby suburbs. it is in the mid 50s farther west and north of washington. south and east, southern maryland, northern neck and eastern shore. many locations there hit the low 60s to mid 60s now. over the last 12 hours watching the clouds cruising on through. and they will be with us from time to time into the afternoon. they are ahead of a front sweeping in by later this afternoon and early this evening as it comes in, we might get a passing light showers. that would be perhaps around 5:00, 6:00 into around 8:00 this evening. after that, we will clear out and get chilly again tomorrow morning. down into the 40s. afternoon high was more sun tomorrow than today. into the mid 60s on tuesday. then wednesday increasing clouds and back into the mid 60s and after a chilly start. looks like a possibility of passing showers as another front

comes in from late wednesday night through the day thursday. then friday into the weekend. chilly. high just in the 50s friday, saturday sunday. saturday and sunday morning only in the 30s. >> that is cold, tom. in my book. thanks so much. let's check on the midday traffic once again and see if things are winding down. >> still have a couple of problems first off. 5100 block of 13th street northwest shut down. crews working on water service repairs expected to work for the next several hours. traveling 66 west still seeing delays. let's take a look now as you pass arlington that's where you start seeing your major delays and you are jammed as you make your way towards falls church. when you get to route 7 it opens up for you and as you continue to 66 west, no problems for you there. and taking -- shady grove 270 at shady grove. we are cleared north and south on 270. traveling to the spur you travel at 54 miles per hour. >> thank you. the search for parking in

downtown bethesda may get difficult in the near future. it is already tough. according to t"the washington post" two projects are expected to start in january. two build rings going up on wood mont and bethesda avenues complete with retail and residential space. construction will eliminate about 300 metered parking spaces for nearly two years. it has been nearly threw months since a tragic crash claimed the life of a popular high school student. this weekend a community benefit helped raise money. darcy spencer was there and spoke to one of the survivors of the crash. >> reporter: at the volunteer fire company fairgrounds a concert was held to raise money for funeral expenses for 16-year-old jacqueline who died in a car crash in july. the money will also help with medical expenses for sawyer smith who was critically injured in the crash. he attended the fund-raiser and thanked everyone for their support. >> everyone pray for me and

everything, it really helped. allr all of the support of friends and family. >> reporter: both were students at walkersville high school. the 17-year-old driver lost control of her car and hit a road. police said the driver inexperience may have been a factor in the crash. jacqueline was popular student and athlete. >> the students are doing a lot better. coming together with your friends helps a lot. having events like this to bring everyone together, like raise awareness of what happened and collecting money to donate back to the familiar sleaze a good thing. >> reporter: organizers say $10,000 have been raised for the families through various events and charities so far. their hope for the concert to raise money and to help heal a community devastate by the loss of a promising young life. >> everything has been donated timewise or products. it is great to be a part of this community. see everybody come out for it. >> this event mensa lot to me

because god put a burden on my heart to put this together for the community and for healing for the kids at the school. >> reporter: sawyer will return to high school for the first time since the crash on tuesday which is also his 17th birthday. he is looking forward to reconnecting with all of his friends. in walkersville, darcy spencer, news4. let's go back to that breaking news out of rockville, maryland. again, police on the scene of an apparent murder/suicide. it happened at the national lutheran home. pat collins is live on the scene now with the latest. pat, what can you tell us? >> reporter: joining me now, rebecca with the montgomery county police. what you can you tell me about this murder/suicide? >> sure. approximately 10:00 a.m. this morning, montgomery county police department did receive a call for a shooting at the national lutheran home which is now known as the village at rockville. inside the location we did locate two deceased people and they have been identified as a

wife and -- wife and husband and we are investigating it as an apparent homicide/suicide. >> reporter: officials say the wife was actually here at the -- living at the home getting treatment here and the husband came to see her. he was not a resident of the home. came to see her this morning when it happen. >> that's correct. preliminary investigation is that the wife is a patient here. the husband came to visitor and that's when the homicide/suicide occurred. >> reporter: there were reports that there may be some sort of electrocution involved here but really it is are a gun -- gun crime, is it not? >> correct. we received a call at 9:54 that was for an electrocution. at this point between don't know what that call was. it could have been a misunderstanding or miscommunication. then we did receive a call at 10:00 a.m. for a specific shooting. >> reporter: no one else was hurt. >> no. two people decided. husband and wife. >> reporter: relatives of the couple have been notified. >> yes. that's what this home really wants people to know. the family has been notified. if have you loved ones here, the family of these two victims have been notified. >> reporter: the residents here,

they are going to provide counselors for them as the day goes on. >> absolutely, yes. >> reporter: thank you very much. they continue to investigate this murder/suicide at the village of rockville lutheran retirement community here on veirs drive. >> pat collins live. thanks so much, pat, for that update. still ahead -- why wikileaks is suspending publication temporarily. behind the scenes of the biggest night here in d.c. stay

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new today. one of the world's most notorious secret spillsers going silent. wikileaks is suspending publications in order to raise money. visa pulled the plug on wikileaks shortly after it began publishing 250,000 state department cable last year. strong earnings reports helped the market this morning. let's check in with mary thompson now. she joins us live with more on that. the rest of the day's business headlines. good morning. >> good morning to you. markets are moving higher this morning. uptick in m&a activity and open adverti -- optimism. dow up 103 points. s&p up 15.

nasdaq up about 56. among the companies reporting strong profits for last quarter dow caterpillar, higher demand from the mining industry while continued strength and developing economies prompted to raise full year sales forecast for next year. in the meantime, federal express is forecasting a strong holiday shipping season. thanks the higher sales over the internet. world's second largest package delivery company expects to ship a record 260 million packages during the holiday season. that's up from 12% last year. handle the added volume it will be hiring 20,000 seasonal workers. among the deals announced today significant in's $3.8 million purchase. supplemental medical plans. oracle also expanding its services. as the market for customers service software. the california based firm right now technologies for $1.5 billion. in a move to boost preschool business, toy make mother tell is buying the maker of thomas and friends and bob the builder

toys. mattel paid $680 million for hit entertainment. >> very popular. christmas is coming up. mary thompson, thanks so much. former "saturday night live" performer will fair sell this year's resippent of the top comedy prize. will ferrell accepted the mark twain prize for american humor last night at the kennedy center. we are joined with more on the honor and accomplishments. good morning to you, thanks for joining us. you have news on will ferrell's award. >> we just had a great weekend. will was -- came in on friday and the president was gracious enough to have us to the oval office. and david rubenstein, chairman of the kennedy center, and i took will and his wife over to the oval office and we had a sawy ceremonial photograph, a bust this hiz, bronze bust. the president was nice enough to give as you tour of the oval office. when we walked out the president shouted will, will, will, you

forgot your mark twain bust. so last night i said will, that was pretty cool. yeah, it was very cool. i wished i would have said to the president, not now but it was a great weekend and last night, all of the talent came from all over the country to honor will. the -- people miss planes and make sure that they got to the -- to washington to honor will. it was fun and funny night. >> we have interviews with some of will's friends that came out for the event. >> you meet will, it is the same thing everyone says which is can't believe how nice he is. how tall he is, how funny he is. >> very pleasant fellow. phenomenal creature. >> he would come on my show as a leprechaun wearing a skin-tight green speedo, sensual leprechaun. that was my all-time favorite.

i could never stop laughing. >> that's what it is like with will ferrell. you can never stop laughing. some funny men coming out to pay their respecting for the great award. is that what makes the show special? the people that come out to celebrate? >> absolutely. the kennedy center, we started this 14 years ago. it is really important, i think to stop once a year and to recognize the people who make us laugh and not only at ourselves but also make us laugh. and will ferrell certainly deserves that in so many ways. it is going to be televised next monday. halloween night on pbs, 9:00 eastern. but please tune in and check your local listings. it is a very funny show and all -- there's some -- lot of surprises and i'm not going to give it away. in the paper, i guess it is already given away. will gets the prize, the bust, and accidentally drops it which is made of ceramic and shatters on the kennedy center age that was not a joke.

>> it was a joke. >> it was a joke? okay. the real prize, bronze, the president came running out of the oval office. that was the real thing. david rubenstein presented that to will last night. >> you said -- once a year we come to stop and celebrate humor and what it means. why is it so important to recognize the people who make us laugh? especially in that's tough times. >> because we do have tough times. and it is important to say, you know, thank you. mark twain really symbolizes the importance of satire and turning to a person who does make us laugh. so critically important. you know, washington needs a laugh every once in a while. we need to have self-'facing humor and laugh about what we, you know, are and what we are doing. and not take ourself as to seriously. kennedy center, you know, really does honor someone. we have a lot of things we do all year. the mark twain prize is a cornerstone of the kennedy center and we are just so happy

that the -- really the national award for humor. >> and we love it. we love and it we need that humor as you were saying. and we also caught up with will ferrell. let's listen to what he had to say about this. >> the whole thing. >> we know he is joking, of course. he seems like a great guy. >> he is. and he and his family are so nice if and so down to earth. and no pretense. we also saturday -- took him to the capitol. he went on the senate floor. he and his family had a tour of the capitol. he had never been to the capitol before. it is really a -- wonderful time to have the honore sxe family really see washington and what -- washington can offer. >> great. great event. thank you for joining us. again, tit will air next monday on pbs.

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loverses may want to hear. health benefits for people that drink three cups a day and coming up on "news4 at 5:00" tonight, halloween is fun but can also be dangerous. liz crenshaw has more on the risks of costume fires and how to reduce the risks. all that coming up starting on "news4 at 4:00" this afternoon. >> we will see you then. time for our final check of forecast. meteorologist tom kierein here today with this nice forecast. enjoy it while it lasts. >> warming up now. by the end of the week, big chill coming our way. got nice autumn color here in northwest washington beginning to show up. right now temperatures are near 60 degrees. later this afternoon with clouds and n and out we should climb into too t mid and upper 60s. nice day. getting chilly by the end of the week. we will see you tomorrow morning. have a good day. >> thanks, tom.

it is a halloween light show spectacular. this is in riverside, california. the homeowner decorated the outside of the house with four singing pumpkin faces, tombstones, hand carved pumpkins. this isn't the first time the owner made his house into a light show. it certainly won't be his last. he has done it at least eight times and plans on having a new show in place for christmas. can you imagine the electricity bill? >> or trying the sleep at night? >> that's right. i know. i will have that song in my head all day now. that does it for us. thanks for joining us.