safety. what do you say to people in the district? >> we're going to do everything we can to get this solved. the speaker of the house could solve this day. the speaker said it would be unconditional surrender to reopen the government. that doesn't make sense to a lot of people. if we go back to the point where the budget was before it occurred, people are put back on the job. d.c. is confident they will do what they need to to keep the city running, i don't think anybody will consider that a concession to me or the democrats. i think that's just common sense. >> today the white house

released a breakdown of how much the shutdown has already cost d.c. $1.5 million in meals for seniors. and $23 million in temporary assistance for low-income families. more from our interview with the president coming up at 6:30. i asked him what he would say to federal employees who are caught up in the middle of the mess. >> that's interesting. but anybody paying attention can't help but notice the obama care. >> that was the big thing all of last week. today from several different directions it seems the republicans stand to delay or destroy the affordable care act has been set aside. that may be a sign of progress. >> confrontation on capitol hill caught on video today. d.c. mayor gray got in majority

leader harry reid's face. tom sherwood was there and joins us to tell us more about this. >> jim, this is just not the way they do things on the senate side. and harry reid, he wasn't happy. mayor gray led a spirited protest today, asking the democratic senate to back a republican house move to free the district from federal budget restrictions. darrell issa joined grey. but the senate has dismissed gray's appeal when grey learned harry reid was standing nearby holding his own press conference, grey left his own event. he pushed into reid's and stood right by him. a rare disruption. then grey confronted reid on his lack of support. reid didn't sound pleased. >> i'm on your side. don't screw it up. okay. i'm on your side. >> the majority leader abruptly left, leaving gray to explain his actions. >> what i wanted to hear said is

we're going to go in there and be able to allow the district of columbia citizens to spent its own money. during the confrontation, she stepped in trying to calm the situation. >> we cannot expect the majority leader to negotiate with us or to speak with us in any detail. >> just a second, just a second. >> the majority leader said mrs. norton -- >> we don't know that. i'm on your side. don't screw it up. >> i don't know what it means. >> i don't either. >> the mayor returned across the plaza to greet citizens who has cheered his move. fs unclear if the mayor made things better or worse for d.c. on capitol hill. the question, what did this event today, how did that affect

the mayor rees relationship with harry reid? >> it would seem it wouldn't help the mayor. >> i was surprised. i thought the mayor was doing the right thing. why didn't he wait until the press conference the majority leader was having was over and then walk up to him. rather than walking in the middle of the process conference while the senator from virginia was speaking. and there was a lot of people there. i'm not sure. we'll have to see. harry reid's office is not commenting on what happened. >> nobody likes anybody stepping into their space like that. i step in a lot of spaces. we know what we're doing. they tried to fix the unintended collateral damage. death benefits not being paid to the families of the fallen

soldiers. >> well, this was such an oversight. such a bim boll of dysfunction here in washington that both sides did join forces to roll it back. defense secretary chuck hagel went to dover air force base amid outrage that the shutdown standoff went too far. the remains of four u.s. troops killed in afghanistan were returned. but because of the shutdown the usual death benefit to help

families with expenses were not paid. 26 families a. >> what a train wreck? how can we tax people from not buying a product from a website that doesn't work? >> that was a sad reminder that much of government is not working for families as well as it could. and after this is over, be reimbursed by government. >> thanks, steve. another big story tonight.

rain, lots of it. it is expected to last for days. down in norfolk, virginia, people saw several streets already flooded today. i don't think we'll see scenes like that here. we'll see that again with this event. we're looking at the radar now. especially from i-95 down to the south and east. and then light irrain around loudoun county and leesburg. now getting in on the lighter rain. right around fairfax and southern maryland seeing the rain now. and look at the flow here right off of the ocean. that's going to mean more rain

for us. only 56 in camp springs. as we stay in the east, only in the 50s. 57 in winchester where you're in for a cool, rainy and windy couple of days. you can always download our weather app or of course with google play. >> janet is on track to become the first woman ever to lead the world's most powerful central bank. president obama just nominated her to become the fair of the federal reserve. she's been the vice chair of the since 2010. yelen would also be the first democrat to lead the federal reserve since paul left back in 1987. crews are inspecting an

arlington sidewalk grate where a man fell 50 feet today. he was walking to a meeting when the steel grate collapsed. he fell down to a concrete slab. it took rescuers nearly an hour to pull him out of there. he suffered mostly bruises and cuts and is expected to make a full recovery. a woman today was hit and killed trying to cross a road in fairfax county. she was not the crosswalk when she was hit. the driver of the truck did stay on the scene. alcohol is not a factor. the victim is identified only as a woman in her 30s. republican ken cuccinelli added up the campaign promises of terry mcauliffe and put a price tag on it. >> ken cuccinelli opened a new

line of attack on democrat terry mcauliffe. cuccinelli put his own price tag on mcauliffe's campaign promises. he claims it could cast a family $1700 a year more in taxes. they cast the opponent as someone who doesn't fully understand government. >> virginians can't afford another $1,700 in higher taxes, especially in the current economic climate. >> the mcauliffe campaign shot back calling the numbers fabricated, adding ken cuccinelli has sunk to a new low with his latest round of attacks on mcauliffe. he argued cuccinelli is really driven by social issues and

further restricting women's reproductive rights. inside a lawsuit on the abortion clinic regulation was being argued. cuccinelli said it should apply to all clinics. >> we have made a commitment not to be closed by the attorney general cuccinelli's intimidation. >> but cuccinelli says further restricting abortion is not at the top of his agenda if he's created governor. he says creating jobs is driving him now. who would steal equipment to help kids? the father of the child who snuck on an airplane to vegas is talking about his son's situation. situation. >> redskins owner wri

"i'm terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad." these are birth control pills. more than half of american women use them at some point in their lives but ken cuccinelli sponsored a bill that could have made common forms of birth control illegal, including the pill. cuccinelli was one of only five senators to support this "potentially radical intrusion into domestic, family and individual decision-making" why is ken cuccinelli interfering in our private lives?

he's focused on his own agenda. not us.

earlier this week somebody stole more than two dozen

laptops from an elementary school pat collins is live outside with more on that. jim, another break-in at another public school. this time 25 laptops ripped off. >> that is tragic and terrible. why would you steal from a school? that's crazy. >> it's familiar. thieves breaking into d.c. public schools, stealing electronics and computers. it happened last september at mckin lee tech. >> i think it's horrible that they would steal the computers for kids who need them desperately. >> reporter: some time over the weekend someone or someones took 25 laptops from the school's library.

look at the official police report. it lists all the stolen items. laptop, laptop, laptop. just the sheer volume indicates it too many hands and a vehicle to pull this off. parents are wondering what kind of person would steal from these learns? >> from what i heard, it sounds like somebody pretty young themselves. i don't know. so are all these thefts related? we won't know for sure until there's an arrest. the father of the 9-year-old boy who snuck onto a plane held a news conference today. he hewore a disguise to protect his family. just weeks alaska he said the

boy stole a delivery truck and crashed it into a police car. his father says the latest incident comes as a shock to the whole family. >> how would you let a 9-year-old child go through security checks without stopping him and questioning him? how can that be? >> investigators say the boy got through the security check point by blending in with a nearby family. authorities were not called in until flight attendants noticed him alone on the plane. doug is here with more about our weather and the storm about to decent upon us. we won't through probably three to four weeks of just fantastic weather. so we can deal with three to four days, maybe five or six days of a nor'easter. that's what is happening now. >> it's coming. it's here. it's going to stay around for a while. out here now towards union

station, you can see the flag blowing in the wind. winds will not be huge with this storm. we're talking 10, maybe 15 miles an hour. gusting between 20 and 25. and it's just a steady rain. i don't think we're ever going to see heavy downpours. but we will see moderate rain. this has been on the lighter side. montgomery county seeing the light rain. the in through the city of fairfax. right on down to springfield. and as we look on towards the south, you folks will most likely get the most rain out of this. and it will continue. a also seeing the heavier rains. and this is just a sign of things to come. here's the storm right down to the south. but that storm is interacting

with a storm to the north. and that's driving in all of the moisture off the atlantic ocean. what i mean is it's an area of high pressure. when you combine the two, that's when you get the easterly flow or northeasterly flow. that's continuous for 24, 36, 48 hours. that's why we call it a noer easter. as the storm moves up the coast, it will continue to bring up the flow right off the ocean, and that means rain. here we are friday at 5:00. still rain. still rather windy with the winds gusting over 20 to 30 miles per hour. so this is not a bad storm. 59 degrees right now with winds out of the east and northeast. but watch what happens through the next few hour ls. winds gusting to 30 # miles an hour. around 41 towards the river. they will always be closer to

the bay. they'll always be stronger there steady rain. heavy at times. coastal flooding, minor coastal flooding. we are looking at that. winds up wards of 30 miles an hour. that's what we can expect here. periods of rain. steady at times. minor flooding along the potomac. so not a huge storm. it will make travel a bit difficult. 63 on friday. 60% chance of rain on saturday. this is light showers and drizzle. and right now out of the next seven days, only one day has the

chance to be dry. >> next on news 4 at 6:00 it's called the pickle. require look at a powerful tool to keep safety in check.

workers in the middle of the largest rebuilding effort since the system was first built four years ago. one of the newest tours in the transit agency's collection of things they use in the fairness system is something that looks odd. but metro leaders tell us it's a critical piece of the rebuilding puzzle. transportation reporter adam tuss takes us on a one of a kind tour. >> >> reporter: the staff call it the pickle for obvious reasons, but the kidding around about metro's track geometry vehicles stops right there. you realize this is no ordinary ride on the rail. >> we find the cracks within the rail. >> normally when we're all sleeping a wall of kpeerts,

gadgets and gizmos you and i can hardly comprehend glides across the metro system. metro cease second in command says you should be happen they are using the vehicles. >> we found one last night. we were able to replace the rail before it became a service disruption. >> this is a chance to take a unique look at the metro rail system. we don't have much platform. we are underneath the station. and metro will come out and turn on the bright lights and take a look at the rock and formation and see what is growing underneath. >> as news 4 first reported problem with water leaking into the tunnel along the red line have been spotted. this vehicle helps metro get a close-up look. >> we can take all this data and look at it and we can manage our assets in the best possible

situation. along the rail, adam tuss, news 4. >> the price tag on that vehicle is $12 million. next at 6:00. i stat down with president obama for an exclusive interview today. today. we'll hear what he says to the

february, 2013. a landmark transportation bill is up for consideration. even though it's backed by republican governor mcdonnell... ken cuccinelli joins tea party republicans to block the plan. but terry mcauliffe believes it's time to break through the gridlock in richmond. mcauliffe presses democrats to support the bill. and the bill passes. terry mcauliffe. putting virginia first. "i'm terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad."

what do you say to those families? >> well, what i say to them? >> now at 6:30. president obama's direct message to families who are feeling the impact of the government shutdown. redskins owner dan schneider writes a letter to the team's fans. why he doesn't think the team should change its name. >> and following up on a story we told yesterday. why lawmakers are using the capitol gym during the shutdown. >> the impact of the shutdown can be seen all over the nation. i asked mr. obama about all the federal government workers who are feeling disrespected by their own government. >> we have nearly 400,000

civilian federal government employees here in the washington area. i think if you took a poll of them they would reveal they're feeling very disrespected right now by all the politl politicia and the american people, too. what do you say to that? >> part of the atmosphere that allowed for the shutdown to take place is the attitude that the folks are not providing important services and values to the country. and they're dead wrong about that. those politicians who are always complaining about federal workers, you know, i guess they're doing it for political reasons. we'll have more tonight at 11:00. and you may want to keep your

umbrella handy. it's rough out there. >> yeah. we talk about the rain continuing right on through the night. the leading edge of the rainmaking it way in through clarke county in virginia. look at this train of moisture just continuing to come right off the atlantic ocean i will break this down for you. how much rain to expect in your area. >> rain in california has part of a major highway shut down there. jim? >> this is the sun valley area north of l.a. take a look at this video. four lanes of the i 5 freeway covered in mud. only one southbound lane is

getting by. we want to bring you new information after shots were fired at a federal building in wheeling, west virginia. a man with an assault type rifle fired shots at the courthouse. the man has died. and one officer was hurt by shattered glass inside the courthouse. no other injuries are reported. >> back to the government shutdown now. a local man who was injured serving overseas in a combat zone came home to no job. a woman is using her life savings to keep her home. they're all victims of the shutdown. >> jerome is a 24-year military vet now serving in the navy

reserve. his full-time job is with the department of veteran affairs. >> i was called up for active duty in december of last year. >> while serving in the combat zone, matt was injured. he just returned to the united states. >> now i'm on regular medical leave. but that leave terminates tonight at midnight. >> ending his medical leave would have been welcome news under any other circumstance. now the federal government shutdown, it doesn't look like that will happen any time soon. >> reporter: matt says with his medical leave ending, that means his reserve pay will stop. since he's furloughed from his full-time job, he's having trouble finding a landlord who will rent him an apartment. for now he's forced to live in a hotel near the air force base. >> it's depressing.

it leaves you feeling empty. you come back here and everything is in uncertain. >> lisa knows what it's like to live off your savings. >> try not to panic. she was unable to make her mortgage payment. the bank is trying to work with her, but she's afraid she'll lose her home. >> if i don't somehow come up with a mortgage at some point. jerome wishes he extended his tour of duty. >> you're better at the combat zone than here in the nation's capitol? mark sooe graves, news 4. a very strange exchange today as an irs official testified before the reform committee. he tried to mock republican efforts to demonize her. the democrats adds sarah hall if she's ever read the book "the

crucible." it's about the salem witch trial. >> all right. so let's get to -- have you been consorting with the devil? >> not to my knowledge, sir. >> our reports that you fly accurate? >> greatly exaggerated, sir. >> have you been involved in any way in trying to -- our youth in salem or anywhere else? >> i certainly have not, sir. >> you sure? >> yes. >> some gop lawmakers have been hammering her for months. tonight, priests are looking for three men who police say robbed a fed-ex driver ats gunpoint. it happened in the washington

highland area this afternoon. for the first time washington redskins owner dan schneider is speaking directly to fans on why he doesn't want to change the team's name. he says he does hear the critics and respect their opinions but he says the main reason is tradition. after 81 years the name redskins holds the memories of where we came from, who we are and where we want to be in the years to come. a representative from the onita indian nation invited schneider to meet with him writing during his visit, we will organize a special meeting of the family where mr. schneider can explain to them why he believes they deserve to be called redskins. coming up tonight, members of congress drafted new laws to shut down the congressional furloughs. check out this collision caught

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next time you get pulled over, police officers could record you. body cameras are being used across the country to prevent police from becauabusing their authority. u they now say they support the use of police body cameras. it will record everything an officer does while working. tonight some business owners in downtown leesburg, virginia, are not happy. the town council voted to move forward with some renovations to king street. as we first reported last month. the plans call for the

elimination of two blocks of parking. it will make the town more ped friendly. the meeting ended just past midnight. the tracks were found in eight columns on the south corridor. the building should be fixed by november. the project, they say, will cost more than $80,000. tonight a new york city police undercover officer is charge with gang assault and an attack on an suv driver. a new video tape not released to the public shows the police officer smashing the suv's rear window and riding away before the driver was pulled from the vehicle and beaten. there are also indications that five other officers may be involved. the internal affairs department

is looking to see if those officers were there. we'll have more. >> tonight, new demands stemming from our i-team investigation into a gym still available for the members of congress. >> you're going to need it all for the next couple of days. the rain is continuing to move in. storm team 4 radar has it all for you. how much will you see in y

jim handly is at the live desk with new developments. for the 2002 sniper killings.

malvo is challenging the sentence after a recent supreme court decision. it outlaws mandatory life sentences without parole for juveniles. malvo was 17 at the time of the killings. the attorney general office said the ruling should not be applied retroactively. they also say the senate shouldn't be challenged because he struck plea bargains for some of the killings. from the live desk, i'm jim handly. >> thanks, jim. oh my, oh my. a truck driver tried to wave that train down to stop, as if he might have, just before the train slammed into the trailer. the driver wasn't injured. he jumped out of the cab when he realized he couldn't move in time. the driver stopped to let other cars g by, and then he was blocked by traffic with a trailer still suspended over the

tracks. police in texas say they're going to give him a ticket. strong reaction to a news 4 i-team investigation. they will close the private members only gym in the u.s. house. at least until the government shutdown is over. scott macfarlane broke the story. the exclusive gym that was supposed to be closed because of the shutdown remains very much ope open. >> the u.s. house members have retained one of their perks. this private gym behind these closed doors. one day after the news 4 i--team captured it the house members are either walking in or walking out of the gym despite promises it would be closed. they are drafting former legislation to make them close it. on day nine of the partial government shutdown, it was the gym that became the topic of

debate on the house floor. >> some of the most fanatic about inflicting unnecessary pain on the american public are regulars. enjoying our house gym members do pay a fee for the use of the gym. the former legislation has been introduced now but has just two sponsors. thanks, scott. tonight police are looking for people driving with a cell phone in their hands. officers handed out 115 tickets in the last nine days. just over 5 # 0 tickets were issued in all of last year. the new law went into effect last week making the use of a cell phone behind the wheel a primary offense. that means that police don't need any other reason to pull you over. the goal is to cut back on deadly crashes caused by

distracted drivers. doug is here with more on the weather. days and days of rain. >> yeah, that pretty much says it all right there. back to you guys. now this habit of days and days of rain on the raes. now the leaves are beginning to fall across the area. and at the airport, call ahead. we're not talking really bad weather. but i wouldn't be surprised to see some flights delayed. 59 and cool air at the airport. rain at 7:00. rain at 9:00. rain at 11:00. it's going to be a chilly, very breezy and very rainy the next couple of days. the lighter rain up to north still has not reached the i-81

corridor. in maryland we are dealing with the rain. it's been raining most of the afternoon. and you can see a lot more rain to go as we move on the next 48 hours. potentially more than that. this is tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. rain. rather breezy. tomorrow at 5:00, rain, rather breezy. i think the heaviest rain will fall overnight and into tomorrow. i'm thinking one to two inches in this area in purple. the read here, that's two to four inches of rain. back to the west, another read area of winchester, not buying that so much. maybe half inch to inch for you

folks. but you'll have to watch the computer models giving you more. i think you'll see periods of rain. mostly light. and a low flood threat. you will see the least wind. the rest of us will see showers and increasing winds. then an afternoon rush tomorrow afternoon. that's when we could see the heavier rain and the winds increasing as we move on through the day tomorrow, too. high of 59 tomorrow. a chilly day. 63 on your friday. saturday and sunday, still a chance for at least showers and maybe drizzle. and then monday, tuesday and wednesday, it gets a little better. tuesday is the only day we're looking at dry weather. >> our guys back at practice today. diana racini was out there. how are they look sng. >> rg# is fresh and ready for >> rg# is fresh and ready for the cowboy, but how exactly is

for the first time ever, i am supporting a democrat for governor. i am proud to support terry mcauliffe because he's focused on creating jobs for the commonwealth. i hope you'll join me and vote for terry mcauliffe for governor. diana has sports, but i got something to say. >> what else is new, right? >> he's been getting his act together lately. i told you about the the dream i had the other night beating the cowboys. i know how we're going to do it. make that boy's life miserable.

tony romo. i don't like him anyhow. but we're going to make his life miserable. mark my words. very specific. maybe you should take it. you have all the answers. roll with it. when albert morris was holding his ribs after the open game there were a lot of questions and a lot of scares. today the runningback said he's good to go. having the past sunday off gave morris and rg3 time to rest. griffin says the knee is fine that time off is always good when you're recover. the redskins started by losing three games. some thought it may have been

more beneficial to return after this past week. and while he admitted he hasn't been at his best, he does appear to be getting more comfortable every day. >> everybody has a lot more energy coming off the biweek. just ready to do what we have to do. and then as a team, i think we're all just moving on from those first four weeks. we got the win going in. which is real beneficial to us. but aside from that, we didn't play like we know we can play. so we have to get back to doing us. that's the kind of approach i took as well. just relax my mind and get back to being myself. >> so while rg3 spent the biweek at a resort with his wife, other redskins decided to get on a plane, that that was a much better option. i probably walked about 25.

playing with my daughter. >> just went home. i got my mom's cooking. her chocolate chip cookies and i was very, very happy with that. >> after i moved, i sat on my couch and that's all i needed. that's it. my couch. >> he went to puerto rico burg break. what did you do? >> man, i wish i got some time off like that. i went home to mom and dad. laid on the couch. did the family thing. who in in this locker room would you like to do a trip that they did? >> moss went to the bahamas. i would love to do that. just to get away. island, a caribbean. good food. loud music. either way. but i'll save that for the offseason. i got work to do. >> they are recharged. there's one bi-week event. and chris baker popped the

question to his girlfriend and she said yes. nicklas backstrom was back at practice a day after his girlfriend gave birth to the couple's first daughter. he said he was a little nervous that lisa would go into labor while the capitals were playing in dallas on saturday night. the baby, though, arrived at 4:00 a.m. tuesday morning. his life is about to change. >> obviously it's going to be new chapter in my life. in our lives. so it's great. so instead of laying on the couch after practice, i'm going to change a couple diapers. so i'm happy to do that. >> congratulations. >> forget about the bahamas. playing with your daughter and eating your mom's cooking, it don't get any better than that. >> is he crazy? when our little girl was born,

we got a subaru.

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coming home. as fallen soldiers return to american soil, washington still can't put partisan politics aside to get these families the benefits they were promised. so in the midst of this government shutdown, a charity steps in to do the government's job. on the brink of default. as in not paying america's bills. tonight a warning about how hard this could hit mortgages, savings and retirement. and making a difference with a powerful idea. the extraordinary families that decided making kids happy is the best way to remember the children who were lost in an american tragedy. also tonight, the president introduces to the nation the woman who may be the most powerful in the world. "nightly news" begins now. good evening. the government shutdown is now in itsth