west africa. we begin with the calculated attack in canada. right now, police are not speculating on a motive for today's shootings in ottawa. >> what we know so far, a man with a gun ambushed a soldier at the war memorial and then he raced into the parliament and got into a gun battle with guards. >> ottawa embassy was locked down as a precaution and they're already looking into any ties to terrorism? . >> reporter: the attack at canada's parliament began with a killing of the canadian soldier by the war memorial, by a gunman witnesses said had long hair and his face covered. >> there was a guy with a rifle on the bark corner and just pow, pow. >> reporter: then seen and heard in this phone video where the gunman ran into the parliament

where prime minister stephen harper and lawmakers were at work. there was furious firing. [ gunshots ] >> reporter: the gunman was shot dead reportedly by parliament sergeant-at-arms kevin vickers. police fanned out to see how many more gunmen might be part of the terrorist attack. just two days ago two soldiers in montreal were run down, one killed by a suspect said to have ties to isis. canada has sent six warplanes to help bomb isis in iraq. today's attack looks like retaliation. >> these are i conic government targets exactly what isis and propaganda have been pushing people to attack. >> reporter: president obama said the u.s. is on alerted even though it's not clear what happened or why in canada. >> it emphasizes the degree we have to remain vigilant.

>> reporter: back in ottawa, police ordered people to stay indoors and way from windows. >> we're treating this seriously. >> police fearful one or more terrorists were loose. steve handelsman, nbc news washington. the deadly shooting spree is having a ripple effect in our region. extra security in place at the tomb of the unknown soldier at the arlington national cemetery. military officials said it's just a precaution and haven't said how long this extra security will stay in place. and we're hearing about an intelligence video from the white house two weeks ago warning about isis sympathize ers in the u.s. and stems from an isis web forum last month urging homegrown extremists to retaliate or air strikes in iraq and syria. the president says there is

concern for the u.s. but would assist canada if necessary. >> and putting extra precautions in d.c., you can see the flag half-staff on pennsylvania avenue next to the museum and a few blocks from the u.s. capitol. they locked the front doors and access doors but people were still allowed in and out of the embassy. our coverage does not stop there. get updates and watch for a live report on nbc "nightly news" at 7:00. take a check now on the weather. dark, cold, pretty gloomy? for some, the rain still sticking around. >> i think you have to keep the umbrella handy. this nor'easter continues off the coast. for us, our winds have been out of the north, portions of bonuses and new england. they're getting hammered by this

thing. for us, the rain and we have rain in southern maryland and prince george's county and calvert and st. mary's. toward the north, look at carroll and howard and mo montgomery, in and around the district. we're not done with the rain just yet intensifying with big winds for boston and new york city area and will bring in stronger winds. we will talk about that coming up. >> thank you. >> a d.c. charter school rocked by scandal, woman arrested accused of having sex with a student. she just appeared before a judge and spoke to reporters befoas s left the court. >> reporter: as her parents sat in the courtroom and watched, 22-year-old symone greene cried and was shaky as she made her first appearance before a superior court judge. >> do you have any commencement

at all? >> reporter: greene entered a plea of not guilty in and give an court date for last month and refused to talk to reporters. >> it happened last friday while school was still in session, 22-year-old symone greene met the 17-year-old student on her first day at work at options public charter school. the two were texting each other about sex on the same day. the student asked her if she was kinky. she texted back, i don't tell i show. while most students were at a pep rally that day, the 17-year-old student returned to the teacher's classroom and asked her to perform oral sex on him the same number of times that corresponds to his football jersey number. the student secretly videotaped the encounter and showed it to members of the football team. that's when school staff found out. in a statement, the school principal writes, when school

administrators learned of the incident monday morning we immediately contacted the child and family services agency, the metropolitan police department and family of the student. mpd responded immediately and began an investigation into the incident. >> reporter: these just released court documents reveal greene might be facing additional charges. in these documents she tried to convince the 17-year-old victim to lie to police and that could mean obstruction of justice charges. she's due back in court in mid-november, reporting at d.c. superior court, mark segraves, news4. new details in a shooting that left a d.c. teenager dead. 13-year-old tyronn caldwell was accidentally shot by his 14-year-old last month. it happened inside an apartment on downing street northeast. according to court documents, the 14-year-old was showing his friend his mother's gun while a

magazine fell out and didn't know a bullet was still in it and pulled the trigger. the mother could face charges. the cdc announced everyone traveling from a country hit by the ebola outbreak will be monitored for weeks just to make sure they're not carrying the deadly virus. live at dulles international airport, how are the travelers reacting to this? >> reporter: most of them are saying this sounds like a good idea. they also wonder if it will work. the cdc calls it a care kit or a kit to check and report ebola. in it, a thermometer, tracking log, a description of symptoms and pictures and who to call if they get sick. every person arriving to the u.s., whose traveling or nates in sierra leone, guinea and liberia, they will use these

kits to report how they're doing everyday for 21 day, the ink bigs period for ebola. at dulles international a lot of opinions. >> that way we can prevent our country the u.s. helping not spread very fast. >> it's for everybody. [ inaudible ]. >> people arriving in the west african countries will be required to report to state and local health officials. >> if they can keep track of it, i think it's a good idea. that's the question, will they? >> reporter: we're told if these travelers don't check in everyday during that 21 day peri period, health officials will take immediate steps to find them. live at dulles airport.

breaking news, we have just learned one of the dallas nurses to be diagnosed with ebola no longer shows signs of the virus. amber vinson no longer detected with ebola. earlier this month, a local nurse shared a flight with vinson and worked in the district. the hospital did not identify this nurse but says she properly reported her travel and since reported to work. the has since gone back to work because she shows no risk of the disease. more on the home coming for an nbc news photographer who has been declared ebola free. a lot of young journalism students weren't even born when ben bradlee ran the "washington post." tonight, they're able to appreciate his life and influence in part thanks to a special study program here at the university. >> reporter: it's a sad day in

journalism, a really sad day. >> reporter: on the american university campus, author and professor ckraznow telling journalists about ben bradlee equipped with cell phones and laptops but not born until after he bradlee. >> actually, i never heard of him before and what i read about him was very fascinating. >> reporter: monday night they were listening to bob woodward and carl bernstein and asked if bradlee was more important than they were. >> yes. and he was tough on them as he should be. the truth emerges as one of his philosop philosophies. it takes time to get truth and you need truth in journalism and today there is a lot of

immediacy and impatience. >> back home, it seemed like prying into somebody's business and i never realized how much aid it brings to the public. >> ben bradley made the difference. >> reporter: trying to explain his brass personality. >> did he cuss when you talked to him? >> yes. but he was so reflective, cutting, honest, edgy humor that lit up your soul, really. >> reporter: for just about everyone who knew him, that's about right. tom sherwood, news4. >> ben bradley was a giant. search for hannah graham. the renewed effort to find a teenager in another high profile case. >> we know what a truck driver was doing that caused this dramatic train derailment in maryland. there was a cracked rail.

it's a morning commute a lot of metro riders would probably like to forget. thousands stuck for hours last month because of a cracked rail. tonight's report not only shows metro made missteps in response to that problem, there were indications the transit agency might have had a sign the whole ordeal was coming. adam joins us live with detail >> reporter: after looking at the action report, one thing is clear, metro wanted to get its people here faster. 41 minutes to get to dupont circle during the morning rush. that's how long metro says it took to get here to start fixing this rail which snapped straight through last month and the

supervisor that was sent out to make the fix went with the wrong crew and ended up getting stuck in traffic. 41 minutes is a little bit late, right? you would like to see it quicker than that? >> i would like to see that to be as quick as possible. >> reporter: further complicating matters, metro said crew members had to wait to make repairs while the right equipment was brought in from the street. cracks happen on metro. they noticed an anomaly on this track 13 days before the snap and revealed nothing imminent and two days later a break and they say it will be changing. >> i know when i take longer rides it doesn't work so well. >> every time i get on there, i'm expecting, at what point are we going to stop again? >> reporter: live at the dupont

circle, the metro board of directors will get a full report on this tomorrow. adam tuss, news4. >> no umbrella over adam's head, a good sign. >> he does have the jacket on. he obviously listened to us at 5:00. i like when the guys are listening. >> and what about ahead? >> adam, if you're listening to me, you need an umbrella later on. we're talking about the wind as well. 23 miles an hour wind gusts in manassas. 33 miles an hour wind gusts the top of the hour. twub in baltimore. the wind is what we're dealing with this evening. winds 20-30 won't have that big of impact, will make things feel colder. 54 degrees in gaithersburg and 56 in martinsburg, 56 degrees, on the cool side for sure.

here's the rain through maryland and fredericksburg. i want to focus on these showers around eastern fredericks county and damascus. heads-up for your area. these are drifting to the south. montgomery county you will see those showers again. don't think we're done. bethesda, more rain around prince george's county and this county. it will continue the next few hours and more st. mary's county and leonardtown and mechanicsville seeing rain. the heavy rain is going out of our area. look at all the heavy rain and thunderstorm activity just off the coast as it continues to ramp up. as it does so, look at the low pressure. notice the cloud cover associated with it.

i think we're in for cloud cover and more wind during the day. 8:00, 9:00 tonight, most of the shower activity out of here. keep that umbrella handy in case. cloud cover and rather breezy cool conditions. notice that out to the bus stop or walking to school or work. we may start to see breaks and that would be welcome news and sunshine. your commute erimpact. wet roads for shore. 53 degrees around that 6:00, 7:00, cool and dry with temperature around 50 degrees. i think the road should be better tomorrow morning. we will see rather breezy conditions so give yourself extra time. next couple of days, 63 on thursday. 66 on friday, better day here but the weekend looking good. 68 on friday, and a little breezy on friday, the marine corps marathon running there.

and 72 on tuesday, 75 on wednesday! >> wow, can't beat that. a developing story. for the first time tonight we're hearing from the nbc photographer who has now been declared free of ebola. >> there were a lot of rough moments for me personally. i'm so fortunate to be alive. >> what he's saying about his rod to recovery. the big announcement

back up. >> tonight we learned that train crash was caused by a truck erwho did not look before he crossed the tracks. it happened in may of last year in rosedale, maryland. 17 people injured and the cars derailed. the truck erwas using a hands-free cell phone at the time. recommended to ban cell phones while behind the wheel for

truckers. finding one especially sensitive part of our area, people are not paying attention. in the past few months, capitol police have stopped hundreds of reckless drivers near the capitol buildings, including streets where senators, and others cross on a regular basis. they captured a lot of drivers taking calls and taking pictures of the capitol building while behind the wheel. >> we shouldn't be protecting members of congress more than the neighborhood. by protecting members of congress they are protecting the neighborhood. >> the i-team mcfarland took pictu pictures of how often this happened and those on the hill. in may, someone hit and killed a senate starff erwalkin home. tonight, more than 3 million

vehicles are being added to a big airbag recall bringing the total number to 7.8 million. the u.s. government says metal fragments can fly out of the airbags when inflated during a cash. more than four people have been killed. they urge you to go to your automakers site and enter your vin number to see if your car has been affected. in charlottesville we wait for identification of the remains found this weekend and also tell you what the fbi is now searching that could link this investigation and suspect jesse mathieu to yet another zrrps. new at 6:00, a dermatologist appears in federal court accused of a false cancer diagnosis for patients and how far he took this health care fraud. a dangerous mix of bikers, walkers and driver is in a tough spot and

tonight several law enforcement agency are investigating possible links between jesse mathieu and several other unsolved cases accused of abducting uva student hannah graham. prosecutors in tied him this week in a sex assault in fairfax. meanwhile the largest search we have seen since saturday in the walnut creek park area where human remains were found this weekend. david is in charlottesville with the new developments. >> reporter: the fbi is searching the car of alexis murphy. she disappeared last year in nelson county, virginia. investigators are looking whether there is a possible forensic link between murphy and

jesse mathieu. >> i think resuming is the wr g wronglawrong language because they've never stopped looking for her. >> reporter: that's the great-aunt of alexis murphy, her body never found. >> when god is ready for us to find where alexis is he will reveal it. >> reporter: new search efforts start in orange county. randy taylor is serving two life sentenc sentences for her death. >> at this moment, she is the next girl. not to take anything away from alexis' case it was very important we find hannah so her family doesn't have to go through a year and three months of waiting. >> reporter: we asked the question before, could jesse mathieu, the man linked to hannah's disappearance be involved in this one, too. but fbi is looking for a

possible forensic link to mathieu. look writing the still unidentified human remains were found this weekend we noticed stepped up searching raking through the heavy leaves and deputies walking through the woods. they say they're looking for clothing and personal items possibly connected to hannah. >> the only people who can understand what we're going through and what the grahams are going through is very important. it's important we stand united and people see us as a united front. >> reporter: neither have released an exact timeline when we can expect an forensic test on alexis murphy's car and we still haven't gotten confirmation on the human remains found this past weekend. live tonight in charlottesville, david culver, news4. >> thanks, david. dark sky, damp roads, doug is

here to tell us when this rain will finally move on out of here. >> i think that will be tomorrow. for some of us and most of us west of i-95, we are done for tonight around westchester, frederick, warrington and then maybe prince william and southern maryland we have a couple more hours of rain and coming through montgomery, they will come through the district and fairfax county the next couple of hours. we will take a little bit of zoom. prince george's county taking rain, steady rain around the brandywine area and sunderland. let's zoom in around bald eagle and sunday erland and dunkirk we're continuing to see the rain coming in. we're not done just yet and i will show you how high our numbers go over the next couple of days. thanks. new at 6, a local dermatologist

is about to go before a grand jury after he was accused of performing dozens of unnecessary surgeries. a jury trial against the man that owns the skin and laser center in vienna and misdiagnosed patients telling them they had skin cancer when they didn't and then performing invasive surgeries and submitting fraudulent insurance claims and accused of doing this about 53 times. she almost got away with it. how police tracked down a jealous lover in connection to a maryland man. pat is live with details. >> reporter: they described this as an execution. first, she had sex with him and then she shot him in the head. she could have gotten away with it except for one thing.

katrina ben, 37 years old. she's a trained nurse and now a convicted killer. prosecutors say she killed her boyfriend when she found out she wasn't his one and only. >> i guess she felt that the relationship was more significant to the victim than she believed it to be. when she found out she was not exclusively with him, she murdered him. >> reporter: june 6, 2012, the sixth floor of this apartment building in silver spring. 34-year-old eric found shot to death in his bed. there was a bullet casing found nearby. police interview add number of neighbors including katrina ben. she said she had a romantic relationship with samoa but was not involved in the murder. she told police she didn't even own a gun. >> then came the big break, a guy driving his car along the b welt way sees a paragrap paragraphs -- beltway sees a partially dismantled gun and

turns around and gives to it the cops and turns outhat's the gun that killed eric. where did the gun come from? the detective figured that out. >> reporter: detective rubin traced the gun through its five previous owners to this pawn shop in columbia, mississippi, where he learned it was purchased eight years ago by katrina ben. she was arrested and today convicted of first-degree murder. >> she thought she got away with it. thought she got rid of the gun but the good samaritan finds the gun and we have great detective work by detective ruben and the mystery is solved. >> reporter: katrina ben now faces aossible sentence of life without parole. live in rockville, pat collins, news4. >> thanks. people call it the intersection of doom.

there's a dangerous mix of pedestrians and bicyclists trying to cross the street and driv drivers getting off 66th. construction only adds to the problem. tomorrow morning, arlington police officers will direct traffic at the intersection to keep things moving and make it safer. his death sparked protests and captured headlines. the autopsy could shed more on michael brown who was killed by a police officer. and jackie kennedy'

there's a car that went into the back of the house. all the way back into the house. >> still no word what caused a car to slam into this house in montgomery village yesterday and happened on ridgelawn drive. we're told the driver is not

facing any charges at this time. the home has been deemed un uninhabitab uninhabitable. a leaked autopsy is bringing out different theories what happened when a police officer shot michael brown. the teenager's death led to weeks of protests in ferguson, missouri, some of them violent. the autopsy was given to the st. louis post dispatch suggesting brown was shot in the hand at close range. outside experts not involved in the case disagree whether that means he was reaching for the police officer's gun. the autopsy shows brown had recently used marijuana. a new book revealing never heard before details about former first lady, jackie kennedy. the author claims for decades she suffered the effects of post traumatic stress disorder. kennedy biographer said jackie kennedy would retail every graphic detail of president kennedy's assassination to friends and family and even mentioned thoughts of suicide.

she didn't get help for this until years later after her second husband died the book titled jacqueline bouvier kennedy onassis goes on sale next week. an nbc photographer infected with the ebola virus is now out of the hospital. the nation's new ebola zar gets to work. to work. and claims and a pump at

he's been called a super lobbyist, the ultimate washington insider. ed gillespie paid millions to lobby for the oil companies for a student loan company that overcharged taxpayers. his firm even lobbied for five foreign governments including a dictator now awaiting trial for war crimes. and then there's enron. gillespie lobbied for them while they committed the largest corporate fraud in us history. ed gillespie. the million dollar lobbyist whose never looked out for you.

there are big new developments in the fight against ebola in the u.s. where they are treating nurse amber vinson said there are no longer any signs of ebola in her bloodstream but stopped short of calling her ebola free. and the nbc news photographer talking about him. >> every breath i take is how precious life is and important it is to make good use of it. i think in the future i will be

much more delicate about the risks i take. >> meanwhile, the centers for disease control gets ready to step up for the travelers. >> reporte starting today, travelers from the ebola plagued countries of liberia, new guinea and sierra leone and ordering active 21 damontoring of each passenger to make sure they're not carrying the deadly virus. this comes on the same day american free laynlance cameramh shika mukpo was announced ebola free. >> there's nothing better than taking a serious patient and make them better and we've done that. mukpo off erred praise for his doctors and prayers for those in

west africa. and the two nurses are doing better. it's encouraging news for ron klain, the nation's new ebola czar on the first day of his job. his first order of business was a white house meeting this afternoon with president obama and other key players for the fight of ebola. >> this is a disease where if caught early and the hospital knows what to do early doesn't present a massive risk of spreading. we have to make sure everybody is aware of it. >> reporter: encouraging words amid uncertainty about ebola. brian moore, nbc news, washington. back here at home, somebody got careless while filling up and spark add fire at a gas pump in laurel. it happened at a shell station on washington boulevard. i'm told someone tried to drive off with the gas nozzle still in their tank, pulled the whole pump down starting a fire and

with all the gas coming out the station had to close all the other pumps as well. that's what you call bad morning. >> bad day at the gas station forsure. more rain on the way and with all the leaves on the ground not a good combination. >> no. and any time they get wet it's more slick on the roadways. we are dealing with at least some clearing in our area, even enough to see a little bit of sunset towards the west. sun went down at 6:20 this evening around 7:00, 8:00 tonight and breezy and rather chilly to the 11:00 hour. you will still need the umbrella. about 5, 0.07th of an inch to the west and half-inch in washington and quantico.

a lot more closer to the i-95 corridor and a coastal low and prince george's county and montgomery county starting to see showers along the bethesda area and 270 and bowie and annapolis and heavier rain arou around this region and calvin beach and st. mary's county continuing to see that rain. all with the area of low pressure spinning off the coast. boston, 50 miles an hour and power outage and trees down, too. we're not seeing the worst effects of the nor'easter but the rather dreary conditions. we move along the city, pennsylvania avenue, the old post office pavilion and i think

we will clear out around, 8, 9:00 tonight. by tomorrow morning, maybe even more sunshine. not early but during the afternoon. mostly cloudy, especially early. 58-64 degrees and we will be on the cool side thursday. friday, a little better, 66 degrees with less wind and lots of sunshine saturday high of 68. winds gusting 20 miles an hour or so. not bad. 65 degrees with sunshine and it gets a whole lot nicer and warmer. temperatures going up nicely. 72 on tuesday, 75 degrees next wednesday. >> thank you, doug. >> that will feel good. diana has more news on the return of rg3. >> why not? >> jay gruden says he isn't sure what the status of rg3 will be

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a lot of fans see rg3 on the practice field, why can't he play monday night? don't do it. >> last night was the first time we saw him do a team drill and today a full drill. did rg3 take snap backups? they are not ready to say he's ready to return. they told me there is zero chance griffin will play on monday and won't even be the backup. >> i'd like to make the decision

tomorrow after practice really just because i want, a, the team to know who the quarterback is and b, the quarterback to know who the quarterback is and c, we need to know who that is for game plan purposes. we'll battle this thing and try to get a better idea after practice where we're going. >> starting or not, good to sea to a healthy rg3 running around with the team. this is really the first time he's been allowed to go full steam in team drills. he has a brace on his ankle. he may look healthy here. gruden says he needs to see more and still starts with a go ahead with trainer larry hess. >> larry has to clear him and say he's ready for full contact and robert has to feel he's ready to go in his mind. i know he will say i'm ready to go. he was ready to go four weeks ago probably in his mind and a football decision whether or not we think he's ready to go with not getting any reps the last six weeks. >> say he's medically cleared,

you think they should hold him? >> definitely. >> not worth the risk. >> why play against a 6-1 team, wait, hold them, play against an okay team and get the win and get ready to go. thanks. >> yeah. you're so smart. the caps start game one of a three-day road trip. they are 2300 miles away in canada and the other two games, calgary and vancouver. road trips always equal good bonding time. >> good opportunity for us and good test and off the ice to get to know guys a little bit more. hang out a little bit more. at home you don't get to see many guys. it gives us a chance to gel. >> this gives us a chance to get to know each other a little bit and play cards on the plane and going curling thursday or friday, i can't remember. have a little bit of fun and enjoy each other and get to know knew guys on the team which road

trips are great for. >> i wonder who is good at curling. the wizards in new york before their final season team. one game before the opening. and you see bradley beal, webster, glenn rice junior all dealing with injuries. rice, the only one who may return for the start of the season. >> the wizards signed point guard john lucas the third yesterday. lucas is 31 years old and played with four teams in six years but says d.c. has been his dream. >> i've been trying to get here for two years with the wizards. i kept praying and look it finally happened. my wife went to howard, i was born here, my dad went to maryland. it's where i always wanted to be. after i was in chicago i always wanted to be here and saw the way this organization was going and the way the team was set up and how they was flowing and it was something i wanted to be a

part of. >> john, if you're a third, d.c. automatically loves you. >> at 7:7:30 today. big honors and georgetown is picked second in the poll. head coach john thomson the third is ready to put last year's disappointing season behind him. >> last year was a year as a coach, i felt like every couple of weeks there was something else being thrown at us. by the end of the year we had to figure out how to win in a much different manner than starting the year. we're a much different team. the energy on top of everything else is much different. we want to learn from that pain and move on. >> just do that and you'll win all your games. slam-dunk like that. >> who cares about baseball. we have basketball. >> there you go.

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on our broadcast tonight, shots fired in canada's halls of power. a soldier and suspect both dead. the capital city placed on lockdown. and in this country the fbi put on alert. free and clear, our nbc news cameraman fresh out of the hospital talking with us tonight about surviving ebola. sudden impact, a new warning about those defective airbags. passengers are now being told to stay out of the front seat until it's fixed. and making a difference, in detroit a sanctuary for young people that was in danger of closing until so many of you stepped up. "nightly news" begins now. from nbc news world headquarters in new york, this is "nbc nightly news" with brian williams. good evening. this was an awful day