d.c. >> then the candidate got down to business. blasting mitt romney again for that remark about 47% of the population being dependent on government. >> i don't see a will the of victims in this crowd today. i see hard working virginiaens. >> one thing that got everybody excited was his rebuttal to mitt romney's latest attack. >> my opponent got really excited. he declared, i'll get the job done from the inside. what kind of inside job is he talking about? >> mr. obama said when he said you can't change washington from the inside. he was talking about the voters who elected the lawmakers to make changes. >> you're the reason a young immigrant who grew up here and pledged allegiance to our flag is no longer going to be deported from the only country she's ever known. you're the reason why an outstanding soldier won't be

kicked out of our military just because who he loves. >> the crowd ate it up. >> he fed in some of the stuff bill clinton said at the dnc, which really, i think, bolstered the points he's making. >> peggy fox, 9news now. >> mitt romney generated some thoughts today when he made good on a promise. he paid $1.9 million for taxes on the $14.7 million income. that is just above a 14% effective tax break. romney donated a little over $4 million to charity, but he ly on claimed about half of that. romney's camp said they are willing to offer a summery, looking at twenty years. >> absentee voting started in several states today. including virginia. early voting begins in d.c. on october 22. and voters can cast their absentee votes in maryland starting october 27. if you need to apply for one of those ballots in maryland, you

have to do it by october 30. the issue of same-sex marriage brought some black pastors with different views to washington. clergy who support the issue came out to show their support. and as bruce leshan reports, conservative church leaders came out, too, on gay marriage and to send a message to president obama. >> and the president of the united states who is a black man endorsed same-sex marriage should be put out of office and he never should have been elected. >> surrounded by clergy from across the south. the founder of the coalition of african american pastors, perhaps risking his tax exempt status, announced a nationwide campaign against the president. >> i think same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> you don't own us and you don't own black people. >> but owen's biblical critique is far from unanimous.

>> another coalition of pastors from maryland and across the country. >> this is an issue about civil rights. >> announced their support for marriage equality. >> you cannot be for civil rights for african americans. but not for gays and lesbians. >> and enforced question six on maryland's november ballot, which would give same-sex couples the right to civil marriage, and protect clergy who oppose gay marriage. >> we are here today to declare our unequivocal pport. >> under obama, faith is under attack. >> gay marriage could be a wedge issue for democrats. >> anyone who is struggling with homosexuality, i challenge anyone who says they are gay. i challenge yourself to find a deep place to worship in god. >> maryland could end up being

the first state in the whole country to approve same-sex marriage at the ballot box. in d.c., bruce leshan, 9news now. >> the d.c. high school student who shot a fellow chases mate is being tried as an adult. brandon smothers appeared in front of the supreme court yesterday. the district says he will be held until he appears in court next week. smothers shot another student on wednesday. that victim did suffer some life threatening injuries. a six hour standoff between police and an armed man in pittsburgh finally came to an end this afternoon. the whole thing began when kline michael saxton took a hostage at gunpoint and held him on the 16th floor of a pension administration firm. he claimed to have explosives. police cleared out the building when family members and friends came to the scene, saxton surrendered. >> the negotiators were very

successful in keeping the line of communication open. no one was injured. no life was taken. >> he recently wrote on facebook that it was all over and he had lost everything. friends pleaded with him through social media to surrender. starting monday, new yorkers will see a controversial ad popping up in their subway system. the person behind that ad has now launched a legal fight to place it here, in our metro. the ad reads, in any war between the civilized man and the savage support the civilized man. support israel, defeat jihad. behind it, gellar, she's with a group. some call her ad antimuslim. gellar disagrees. >> honestly, anyone that disagrees with me, i would take a bullet for their right to disagree with me. this is the beauty of america. the free exchange of ideas. >> throughout our history, there are people that engaged in hate speech. this is just the next generation.

>> metro has not rejected the ad, but put the matter on hold siting concern for public safety. the people behind the ad have responded by filing a lawsuit. what do you think? is metro doing the right thing because of the tensions or is freedom of speech more important? your thoughts are always important. drop your thoughts into mcginty's mail bag. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. talk about craziness. people waited in line for hours and in some instance, days. all for the iphone 5. you still want one? too late. they are sold out. one local 25-year-old marine wanted to be the first to get the highly anticipated new model. so he started camping out on tuesday. >> i just wanted to be first. this is more important than the election. version five was biblical. >> okay, maybe not as important as the election, but okay, i think we get your point. more than 200 people lined up.

the manager even brought in some brownies for the customers. not everyone is happy. apple's new map app has the landmarks in the wrong place and the directions aren't always accurate. apple says we know, we're trying to fix the problem. people have also been going crazy about this weather and i am just hoping erica, that it does not change. i have my fingers crossed. >> i'm sorry, lesli, we have some changes in the weather forecast. they will be short lived. so maybe you can deal with it for one day. here's a look at satellite and radar. you can see some clouds and even some showers to our north and west. in association with a cold front that is going to move through tomorrow and pring us a dip in our temperatures and bring us some thunderstorms as we head into the afternoon and early everyoning tomorrow. right now, we are in the clear. just a few clouds, 75 degrees as that sun is setting. the dew point 61. so it is starting to creep up there a little bit. cold front will scour out. the humidity will also bring some of the pollen grains down

to the ground. if you started sniffling and sneezing again this week, grass, weed, and mold are all moderate right now. the tree is not too bad. but we do have some pollen in the atmosphere that the rain will help to take care of. we got up to 80 degrees today. 59 was our low. both of those numbers are going to be higher tomorrow and then the cold front moves through. details on that coming up in your full forecast. lesli, back to you. >> all right, erica. coming up, did one man's political statement go too far? find out why people are pretty upset over his hanging chair. also, don't blink. you might miss it. somewhere in that little circle is a brand-new adorable panda cub at the national zoo. we'll show it to you.

today the national zoo released what it calls the best

view of the five day old cub that captured our hearts. it may be hard to see. we highlighted it for you. balanced on her arm is the little butter stick. mom is grooming. little one is stretching the vocal cords. it will be several weeks before we know if it's a boy or girl. and following chinese tradition, it won't be named until it is about 100 days old. so add this to the list of things not to do when you visit the big apple. that would be don't jump into the tiger exhibit at bronx zoo. police say 25-year-old man climbed over two fences to get inside the enclosure. the tiger did what tigers do. the man was mauled and lost a leg in the attack. zoo keepers were able to get him out of the cage. he's in the hospital now with some critical injuries. the john a. wilson building is getting a small dose of attitude. mayor vincent gray announced that nationals playoff birth will be celebrated by lighting the building red. that starts tonight. it will go straight through the

team's playoff run. last night the national st became the first team in the major league baseball to clinch a playoff first. coming up, erica is going to tell you how much longer it's going to look like this outdoors. and, what is the statement behind this controversial chair? we'll have more on that when we come back.

we have all seen clint eastwood's empty chair act by now. but another empty chair act down in texas has a few people screaming racism. a man in austin, texas, taped an american flag to a metal chair and hung it from a branch of a tree with a rope. and some neighbors say it resembles lynching and they find it offensive. johnson says you got me all wrong. >> what made you decide to take it down, if you don't mind me asking. >> it had nothing to do with racism. nothing. >> when you put up a chair in your lawn with a rope around it, you're sending a message. >> as you heard, johnson did take the display down. the travis county democratic party denounced the display and called on republicans to do the same thing. the white supremacyst group, area nation, planning to march for tomorrow in southeast d.c. and as surae chinn reports, neighbors are outraged about that march and they've

got their own demonstration planned. >> i'm surae chinn on capitol hill where residents are not too happy that a white supremacyst group is planning on marching in their neighborhood. >> welcome. i'm pastor morris. >> morris, an ordained minister calls himself the world leader of the hate group. >> terror must be met with equal or greater terror. >> despite online sermons titled, the righteousness of hate and teach them war, he expects the peaceful march in the district. i spoke with him by phone. >> what we're coming to washington, d.c. for this weekend is a righteous cause. we're coming to shine the light on a very dark situation for people in south africa. >> we're living in 2012 and still having white supremacy groups march. that's not cool. >> the counterprotest invites all colors and creeds to meet

at lincoln park tomorrow. >> i will let my voice and presence be known. >> on capitol hill, surae chinn, 9news now. >> when you are three going on four, there might be nothing more magical than a hug from mickey mouse. he turns four this sunday. jeffrey has been undergoing treatment at children's hospital for a recurring brain tumor, but today was the day to leave that all behind. jeffrey and his family were treated to a big party at national airport. next stop, florida and an all expenses paid vacation. >> get away from normal life and have fun for a week. it will be extraordinary. >> looking forward to most when you guys get to florida? >> taking him to disney world. the magic kingdom. >> by the way, jeffrey seems to be responding well to treatment. as for the trip, hats off to casey cares foundation and the something magic foundation for

making this happen. made him smile. forget about his treatment for a while, that's magical. >> absolutely. what better gift can you give to a four-year-old. >> absolutely. we were just getting used to this great weather and you put a crimp in the program. >> we have a cold front tomorrow. it's going to bring showers and storms. the forecast looks pretty good. let's take a look outside right now. you can see the weather cam is in the clear. beautiful weather out there at the moment. you probably noticed that it's a little bit more humid today than it has been the past couple of days. current temperature is 75 degrees with just a few clouds. that dew point at 61 right now. winds out of the southeast. bringing in that more humid air mass. a look at our temperatures all around the region. right now it's only 70 degrees in winchester. but we are still sitting at 75 downtown. 70 in andrews at the air force base and 74 degrees in

hagerstown. so those temperatures aren't going to fall quite as quickly overnight tonight as they have been because of the higher dew points holding on to some of that heat that we got during the day. today it feels like summer. tomorrow definitely. we're going to have that summer- like feel in the forecast. there's a cold front on the way. that's going to bring us showers and storms as we head through the day tomorrow and then it will turn very fall- like behind that cold front. so if you like the fall-like weather, you have something to look forward to in our forecast. here's a look at satellite and radar. we have the showers and thunderstorms moving through the midwest. this cold front is going to continue to slice toward us and we will see that threat for showers and storms developing as early as about dinner time in the d.c. metro area and possibly even a little bit earlier than that in some of the areas to our west. let's say the blue ridge and through the areas of the appalachians. you can see the increase in cloud cover. as we head toward the noontime

hour and dinner time, more of those showers and storms erupting. you can see along the beltway, we'll see showers and storms. the concentration of moisture appears to be to our south. now this isn't the only line of showers and storms. another one looks to arrive as we head into the overnight hours on saturday. heading into early sunday morning. but by the time we wake up on sunday, a noticeable change in the air mass t. will be breezy and it will be dryer as well as cooler. all right, so overnight tonight, we're going to see mostly clear skies, not as cool, though it is humid out there than what we have been enjoying. 55 to 63 for your overnight lows continuing at 5 to 10 miles per hour. still be mostly sunny tomorrow morning, but it will start to get warmer and more humid with temperatures in the 50s and 60s. and then tomorrow, partly cloudy and warm with showers and maybe even a thunderstorm by dinner time. 79 to 85 degrees for your afternoon highs with those winds becoming southwesterly at

10 to 20 miles per hour. why don't we look ahead to the redskins game. on sunday, this is the weather we have to look forward to. lots of sunshine. it will be breezy and cool with temperatures in the low 70s. you see that here on our next three-day map. tomorrow code yellow. just because of that threat for a thunderstorm. overall it looks nice. sunday and monday, especially with highs right around 70 degrees. taking a look at the seven-day forecast, looks great for the next couple of days. temperatures right around 70 degrees and lots of sunshine. tuesday, mid 70s come into the forecast and then we will see another storm system bringing the threat for some showers, maybe even a thunderstorm by wednesday and certainly on thursday we have that threat as well. temperatures are going to be the warmest tomorrow and then we don't see anything like that again for the rest of the week. >> all right, fall is here. >> that's right. i'm james brown saturday night on game on. >> this week the secretary of

defense, dexter manley will be here. bruce johnson talks it up in the barber shop, plus a complete roundup of the fcc and nfl. >> game on this saturday night only on wusa.

health experts in britain say painkillers could be the cause of your headaches. tina cross reports. >> victoria saxton suffered from migraines for years. for a long time, she tried to manage the pain on her own with over the counter painkillers. >> and they work at first. you take more and more. i started taking them like they were candy. >> it turns out, she was making her pain worse. doctors diagnosed her with what's called a medication over use headache. >> about 50% of people actually go and get the diagnosis because they think their doctor will send them away, saying it's just a headache. >> british health experts say patients who take over the counter painkillers including aspirin and ib profin could be causing their headaches. the national institute is urging doctors to take a closer look at whether painkillers could be hurting their

patients. it's estimated one in 50 people get headaches from using too much medication and women are five times more likely to suffer than men. >> i had no idea what i was doing. i was in excruciating pain and trying to help myself. >> victoria now has the help of a doctor and takes four pills a day instead of ten to manage her pain. >> 7:00 p.m., the attack started. >> takes a journal to track her progress. >> wishing you a pain-free weekend.

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