their monday off to a good start when all of a sudden, a stolen suv plows into a police car, shots were fired and a suspect ends up dead on the ground. people in frederick are just not accustom to this sort of thing. it happened at this sheetz in frederick right in the middle of the busy time this morning. >> i've been in frederick 27 years, and i've never seen a shootout like this downtown. never. never somebody ram a cop like that. this is one of the busiest stores. >> reporter: it happened when a stolen suv rammed this police car and when the suspect began to run away, a maryland state trooper guns him down. witnesses say the cop yelled out a warning. >> i just saw a police officer and state trooper approach a vehicle and shouted many times get your hands up, get your hands up, get your hands up and

the next thing i heard were tires squealing and he was leaving the parking lot in a rapid pace. >> reporter: investigators spent hours on the scene collecting evidence, taking measure ams and police say this lincoln navigator was stolen in baltimore last night. they say the suspect didn't have a gun, but when the cops said to stop he kept on going and then the trooper did the right thing? hear now from some witnesses. >> i don't think the trooper was out of line at all. it sounds like he did what he needed to do. >> the officer did what he had to do because he might not have gone home to his family tonight. >> reporter: so far police have not released the name of the suspect. this incident will undergo a complete review. doreen, back to you. >> pat collins, thank you. now to that fire fight outside a popular store in the district. police say it started as a robbery along the busy georgia avenue corridor. news 4's meagan fitzgerald is outside morris miller where businesses are seeing a troubling trend.

>> reporter: doreen, it's a trend and armed robbery and something chief linear admits is a problem in the city and you can see officers are still investigating nine hours after the latest incident and detectives are seeing a pattern and they believe that's helping them make arrests. >> it was an armed robbery that went bad. the owner of this liquor store says he called 911 after two suspects tried robbing his store. >> they have interrupted this robbery in progress this morning as did employees of the business. >> metropolitan police chief kathy len ear says one suspect took off and was arrested minutes later and she says the other man started shooting at officers from a parking lot behind the store. >> the officers did engage and respond with gun fire from one of the suspects on the scene that resulted in that suspect being killed. >> it was a shot and that was very scare for me. >> the armed robbery and

shooting that followed was a shock for neighbors like lisa stalwor stalworth, but not for police. >> what we have a challenge with is robbery. it's not just street rob reeshgs but commercial robberies. >> this liquor store is where there have been 75 more armed robberies in this area than last year at this time. when we see robberies typically it is small groups of individuals who will commit multiple robberies over a period of time. >> reporter: linear says over the last few days police have arrested several armed robbery suspects and on monday morning they were able to arrest one more. >> it's a tragedy, you know. it's something that shouldn't have happened. >> reporter: now police say no one was injured during the shooting or the robbery and we are told that investigators will remain on scene here until they're concluding their investigation. jim? >> thanks, meagan. >> in maryland tonight, there is a mystery along the bw parkway.

police have pulled a car out of a pond. it was found there overturned and a body inside. >> jackie bensen is on the scene now and investigators are trying to figure out how this happened. >> and they jumped out of the car and they ran down the hill trying to make a rescue of the man and the overturned vehicle, but he was already done. >> investigators are not sure when the car went off the ramp from northbound bw parkway to 198 and it came to rest in a heavily wooded ravine and they're mowing the grass on the sides of the parkway and discovered it around 2:00 p.m. and one lieutenant from the park police and the officer from the fish and wild life service responded and they ran down the embankment and made entry into the vehicle where they found an adult male subject and he was later pronounced dead by anne arundel emergency medical personnel. >> reporter: the investigation is in its very early stages.

>> i took a look down there and it is very thick foliage. it is very difficult to see from the top of the roadway. >> reporter: and we are told it is very possible that car could have been in the woods for some lengthy amount of time. live in laurel, jackie bensen, news 4. back to you. two teenagers accused of planning to shoot people at their school in spotsylvania county in virginia have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. police say those boys plan to call in a bomb threat to the riverbend high school in fredericksburg and say the boys then planned to shoot people as they came running out. school administrators say classmates helped prevent that attack. they reported threats posted online. later in our broadcast, darcy spencer will tell us what the school is doing to help kids deal with that incident. to politics now, the iowa caucuses are fewer than 100 days

away now and we're seeing a shift in that state's republican race. three new polls show ben carson in the lead and steve is on capitol hill with donald trump's reaction with second place. >> donald trump frequently brags about the positive polls and there are plenty of those. he says he does not believe that he's falling behind in iowa polls. >> one crumby poll and it wasn't even that bad. >> reporter: in a rally tod today --? ladies and gentlemen, donald trump. >> reporter: the town hall in new hampshire where he does lead in every poll. >> it was one poll and then a second poll and small polls. >> reporter: in fact, ben carson tops three iowa polls and carson at 32% and trump at just 18 and the monmouth survey of iowa republicans, trump and carson were tied in august and a non-politician like trump, carson is also controversial.

yesterday opposing abortion even after rain or incest. >> i would not be in favor of killing a baby because the baby came about in that way. >> reporter: but carson is low-key and religious and that's appealing to christian conservatives. >> i think ben carson is a good, decent man and he's saying basically the same thing donald trump says only he's a little bit more finesse with it or something. >> reporter: jeb bush polling fifth in iowa laying off staflers and huddled with his family in texas to plan a campaign reboot. trump attacked. >> he's meeting now with mom and dad. [ laughter ] no, it's true. he needs counsel. he went down after the iowa front-runner. carson is lower energy than bush. i don't get it. i saw him being interviewed and he's lore energy than bush. gop candidates have their third debate on wednesday. >> trump goes into the cnbc-sponsored debate in boulder colorado from the new national poll. the associated press found that

70% of republicans now believe trump has the best chance to beat the democrat presumably hillary clinton and the general election november 2016. i'm steve handelsman news 4. >> we are hearing more now from vice president joe biden on his decision to stay out of the presidential race in 2016. >> i'll be very blunt. if i thought we could put together the campaign that our supporters deserve and our contributors deserved i would have gone ahead and done it. dealing with the loss of beau, any parent listesintening who h lost a child it doesn't follow schedules of primaries and caucuses and contributors and the like. it just -- and everybody grieves at a different pace. >> beau biden, the vice president's son died in may after a battle with brain cancer. the vice president says his family has only recently emerged

from the deepest stages of their grief. an interview aired on "60 minutes" last night. now to our weather and the remnants of hurricane patricia. the floodwaters are starteding to fall now in parts of texas, and up to 20 inches of rain fell across that state causing huge problems this weekend. raw sewage spilled on to roads when houston's sewer system was overwhelmed. closer to dallas the raging waters washed up debris and washed away roads in others and the system is headed our way next and doug is tracking the impact on what it could have on us later this week. >> think it will have an impact on us especially during the day tomorrow and into wednesday with the potential for very heavy rain across our region. take a look. you can see the remnants now toward new orleans and really spinning down across the gulf coast and it will all move our way over the next 24 to 48 hours. the heaviest rain arrives

tomorrow night and into the day on wednesday. rain, some heavy at times and one to two inches in some spots and not too worried about flooding and that's good news and again, one to two inches is a lot of rain and winds could be gusting 25 to 35 miles an hour and much more on this storm and when it hits and what to expect. i have the full forecast coming up in a few minutes. >> thanks, doug. >> metro is coming close to picking a new leader. that transit agency has been without a permanent general manager for about a year now and many have criticized the agency for taking so long to fill that important post. tonight, though, sources are telling our transportation reporter adam tuss that an announcement could be only days away. >> reporter: down to the finalists, multiple sources tell news 4 metro expected to pick a new leader in the coming day. right now there are two finalists and reaction already starting to come in. jim is the head of the greater washington board of trade. >> our hope moving forward because we understand they're at the short list now is to get

somebody in there that can help restore the credibility and restore confidence in the metro system. >> news 4 has been able to identify a candidate who was in the running and is no longer a candidate and he's emilio gonzalez, the head of the miami international airport. yes, the head of an airport. that's not the traditional type of transit candidate. >> the fact that the metro board has been looking outside the transit industry is important and they're looking for a, quote, change agent and something that local leaders have been calling for. >> we reached gonzalez by phone and he relished the opportunity to turn metro around because, quote, that's what he does, but he will not be the pick. he is not a true transit professional and the candidate does have transportation experience with rider frustration at an all-time high, the feeling is that now is the time for the metro board to make its pick and get its finances, safety and reliability back on track. it may not just be a transit expert and it may be a general

manager who can oversee all of the implementation plans. >> it's time to put the polish back on metro. in the district, adam tuss, news 4. new clues about the driver who plowed into spectators watching a homecoming parade. what we're learning about her troubled past and the red flags that went unnoticed by her family. a motive for murder. investigators laying out their case after a young man was found dead in a local park. nearly a year later there are still no answers after a deadly plane crash. what investigators are now

five people were dilled after a whale watching tour boat sanction off vancouver island in canada. it happened yesterday after a may day distress call went out. 21 people survived and one person is still missing. we're awaiting an update from canadian transportation investigators. in the meantime nbc news learned that the tour operator was involved in another accident in 1998 and a smaller boat capsized in turbulent water. a captain and passenger are killed in that instant. >> more than 260 people have been killed in a powerful earthquake that rocked northern afghanistan and parts of pakistan today. that quake was centered 160 miles northeast of kabul.

hit with a magnitude of 7.5. the violent shaking lasted two minutes, we're told and it sent people running into the streets of kabul and islamabad. about a dozen students at an all-girls school were killed in a reported stampede as they tried to get out of the building. this is one of the worst war-torn areas in the world. communications and power have been cut in areas that already were under siege by the taliban. tonight, we're learning more about the woman behind the wheel during a deadly accident at a homecoming parade in oklahoma state university. four people were killed and dozens more were injured. today the suspect adacia chambers was held on $1 million bond and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation. nbc's jay gray reports. >> two days later, police and the shattered community continued to search for answers and some kind of understanding.

[ screaming ] >> reporter: after this horrific crash, a car plowing into the car during homecoming festivities at oklahoma state university. >> she -- she accelerated. she's never hit her brakes. >> four people were killed. business student nakita prabhakar, professor marvin stone and his wife bonnie and little 2-year-old nash lucas. >> he was so young and so -- he was just such a good boy. he didn't deserve that. >> reporter: police arrested 25-year-old adacia chambers at the scene on suspicion of driving under the influence and her family spoke publicly for the first time since the crash. >> i'm very sorry for those victims. >> reporter: they don't believe that alcohol or drugs were involved. >> she may have problems, underlying problems that i wasn't fully aware of. >> reporter: chambers attorney suggests she has a history of mental issues and may have been

off her medication when she was behind the wheel and still doesn't understand the consequences of the crash. >> she seems to lack in her ability to understand what we're doing right now. >> reporter: as the campus and community now try to deal with the effects of the tragedy here. jay gray, nbc news. here at home, there are new details about the motive behind the murder of of a man at a montgomery county park. our chris lawrence is in our newsroom with developments there. >> this might have come down to a drug deal gone bad and over the weekend police arrested two men for killing darren mcclose. a judge ordered earl bennett to be held without bond and the other suspect was picked up in d.c. and shan techs, gladden is awaiting extradition to montgomery county. he was shot in the brigs cheney area of silver spring. the suspects told mcly to meet them in edgewood park for a drug deal and that's where they robbed and killed him.

today his mother described him as a kind, gentle person and he's asking for help in prosecuting the suspect. >> garrett would vold untear at homeless shelters and he was a kind hearted person. i want to know anybody who knows garet and anybody who saw something and we know there are people out here who witnessed this and they know what happened. we need them to please, come forward to the police and tell them what they saw. wye need this. we need justice for garrett. >> reporter: again, the two suspects have been charged with armed robbery and first-degree murder. doreen? >> chris lawrence, thank you. nearly one year after a deadly plane crash near the montgomery airport the national transportation safety board says it has no timetable for the release of its findings, but in a series of public records request scott macfarlane has

learned what investigators are looking into. scott? >> the ntsb said they remain in what's the longest part of the investigation of the crash and they call a fact finding phase. the crash last autumn killed three people aboard the plane in gaithersburg and a fire on the house on the ground that was triggered by the crash and killed a mother and two of their children and the ntsb's investigation could involve the review of details and the plane and the pilot including a 72-hour, a three-dereview of what the pilot was doing before the crash whether he was getting enough sleep and among other things his experience and hours of flying and the ntsb says it is possible it would disassemble or tear down the plane engine and its components to review them. the investigations could include plane maintenance records and a recent news 4 i-team found in the months since this crash, county leaders and the faa have been under pressure from airport area neighborhoods to reduce the

number of flights at that airport including later evenings and training flights. >> and that since, no changes have been ordered. doreen? >> scott macfarlane, thank you for the previous coverage including the husband and daughter of the man killed in that house. there is new video that shows the takedown inside metro. employees risking their lives to save others from a potential threat. a mother is killed by her husband who then turns the gun on himself. coming up on news 4, she was a prince george's county employee and what her job was doing in her honor. plus researchers at odds over new studies that finds a over new studies that finds a link between red meat and

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we ended our sunday on a pretty good note. we've seen a pretty good start to the workweek on our monday. tuesday, wednesday, though, things going downhill in a hurry. >> the sun goes down tonight and actually it went down tonight nine minutes ago at 6:15. the reston live camera showing the colors and just transfer over to night mode in downtown looking at some pretty good color and temperatures right now into the 50s. 57 degrees and winds out of the east at 6 miles per hour and i

mentioned sunset at 6:15 and a week from today, daylight savings time ends this weekend so monday our sun will go down at 5:07 in the evening. i not excited about that at all. 52 in win chester and 49 in culpeper and it is going to be a very cold night tonight and i don't think we'll see anywhere -- any temperatures close to freezing, but some of you may get down into the mid-30s overnight. no rain in the forecast tonight and however, tomorrow, a different story and we've got some clouds down to the south and some high clouds streaming across the region right now and that's all because of our system down to the southwest and this is the remnants of hurricane patricia came across mexico and in toward the gulf of mexico and you can see it clearly spinning down here around new orleans and tons of rain down there and this whole system moves our way. he's not going get here tomorrow morning and look around noon and

the vain down to the southwest and notice most areas in northern virginia and that's where the light rain moves in and take the umbrella to work. i do think we'll see a rather wet rush hour tomorrow evening and look at tomorrow night we have a good chance for everybody to see the rain and the heaviest rain will be back to the north and west. and back along 66 and up around frederick, maryland and south and east of i-95 and southern maryland and a better chance for you folks will see light rain from time to time. watch what happens on wednesday afternoon, and seeing showers and look at the enhancement here of the showers and potentially some thunder if that was to happen, we could see very strong winds with this system, too. rainfall intensity on wednesday, you probably already know and take the big umbrella and we could see downpours as we make our afternoon on our wednesday. at the bus stop, no problem, 42

degrees and it will be cool and dry, the clouds will continue to roll on in and between 3:00 and 4:00, with a high temperature of 58 degrees and we're calling weather alert day and 67 degrees for a high temperature and good idea, and download the nbc washington app and much better weather and how much rain will you see in your area coming up at 6:45 i'll break it down for you. >> still ahead, some disturbing new details in a murder-suicide. why leaders in prince george's county say these type of domestic-related crimes are on the rise. i'm juliecare ney fairfax county where defense attorneys for accused killer charles severance are putting a different spin on testimony given earlier in the trial, why they say a woman who believes she saw severance right before one of the killings may have actually seen another man. a lot more nightlife in d.c.

than there used to be and some officials want to tone down the noise that comes

first at 6:30 tonight, a couple, newly married and the parents of four children rode their motorcycles together and belonged to the same club and yesterday they died together involved in a murder-suicide in

prince george's county. >> their death is the latest in the number of domestic murders in the county. bureau chief tracee wilkins has more on this. tracee? >> we've been speaking with friends and family and folks who know this couple. they say that this is a shock. >> a family places a burning candle and rearranges nowers on the front steps of this home in memory of what happened. meanwhile, workers move out belongings of the home that was the scene of a murder-suicide just yesterday. >> we believe that there was some sort of argument between mr. sullivan and his wife prior to the murder-suicide. >> reporter: it unfolded sunday morning in upper marlboro. prince george's police say tanya sullivan was shot and killed by her husband antoine sullivan and the two were only married for a few months.

>> reporter: all of that is a part of the investigation. d.c.'s protective services protects buildings owned by d.c. government. sullivan used his service weapon to shoot and kill his wife and then take his own life. >> frankly, staff who worked closely with her were just shocked when they found out about it. >> reporter: tanya was a recent employee from the prince george's county department of permitting, inspections and enforcement and the agency provided grief counselors and the agency is working to provide help for the four children tanya leaves behind. >> they will be hard for them as far as grandparents and whoever will be taking the children and they'll try to do things that will focus their children for thanksgiving and for christmas and there a after as much as we can, and as long as we can. >> there have been 12 domestic murders in prince george's county this year, in comparison to 19 total last year. the prince george's county state's attorneys office and the

sheriff's office are both working to try and deal with this issue of domestic homicides along with the police department as well. reporting live, i'm tracee wilkins back to you in the studio. new video tonight shows the chaos as two metro employees took down an armed robbery suspect. it is a little bit difficult to see, but we've circled the station manager who was holding down rondez tibbs on the green line saturday. tibs is accused of robbing a punish at gun point, robbing them of $40 at the anacostia station. police were able to arrest him. shomari stone is speaking to one of the managers who took tibbs down and we'll have that at 11:00. defense lawyers for charles severance are beginning to wrap up their case with no physical evidence tying severance to three murders ini alexandria. the lawyers took aim at testimony placing him near the most recent shooting.

there's our northern virginia reporter bureau chief, that is julie carey. >> early in the trial, this woman who lives near the murder victim says she noticed a man who now believes is charles severance in the neighborhood shortly before ruthanne lodato was killed. >> the woman called detectives and described an older bearded man wearing a tan jacket. a man she says so unnerved her she began walking her dog on a different route, but defense attorneys suggest she might have seen this bearded man instead. >> they brought an alexandria detective to the witness stand who stopped the man two days after lodato was shot to death in the doorway. a jacket matching the woman's description. defense attorneys also put a much different spin on a card game severance created called mental disorder. this is a photo of severance posted on his website several years ago showing the avid gamer with some of his cards.

robert wagon is the owner of a chantilly game store called game parlor. he said severance was a frequent game playing customer for years and wagon testified he play tested and began selling severance's mental disorder game back in 2000. prosecutors say the game reflects the accused killer's anger toward the mental health profession and other authorities, anger they say drove him to kill two prominent alexandria residents, but defense attorneys showed wagon's testimony to say he viewed mental disorder as a legitimate game. it was quite innovative, testified wagon, a copy of it sold in 2013. their private investigator will finish her testimony tomorrow. in fairfax county, i'm julie carey, news 4. some d.c. music club owners are cutting back noise levels and a bill says sound can't be plainly audible from 50 feet away from a bar or restaurant at night. >> right now inspectors had

meters to measure noise at a public meeting and neighbors at some bars and clubs say the noise keeps them awake at night and business owner say the changes will hurt their bottom line and after that nightclubs could be fined and could have their licenses sub pended. >> we are going to this, ed walker. a radio man all of the way down to his bones and all of the way to the end. >> if you were of a certain age you may have grown up with willard scott. >> the joy boys dominated washington airwaves from 1955 to 1972. it was a daily radio show. the program was owned by nbc. we saw a lot of ed and willard here in this building back in the day usually together and ed was born blind and often explained his affinity for radio and said it was everything to him as a kid and including comic

books and neighbors and movie. he was the host of a radio nostalgia show that runs on sunday nights on wamu radio. it's called the big broadcast. it was just two weeks ago that ed walker announced that he had cancer and would retire. earlier this morning he died just a few hours after he listened to the tape of his final show. >> you can see a lot more about ed walker on our app, nbcwashington.com. heated debate over a new study that claims red meat causes cancer. we're separating fact from fiction. also new guidelines from the obama administration could mean fewer tests for your kids. doug? >> take a look at what we'll see the next couple of days and what to expect on a wednesday. rain, some of it heavy at times and one to two inches in spots and the winds gusting 25 to 35 miles an hour and a yucky wednesday, but what a

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many of the nation's top educators say we do too much testing of our kids in public schools. the president and those educators are now calling for new limits on standardized testing. they say testing has exploded in the last decade. the average big city student now takes 112 standardized tests from pre-k through high school. education secretary arne duncan met experts at the white house today to talk about a way forward. >> the goal here is not just to test and the goal is to improve teaching and learning. the new plan recommends schools use no more than 2% of classroom time for taking standardized tests. >> more than a thousand people have filed comments about changes to the holiday calendar at montgomery county public schools. the i-team broke the story about the school district considering eliminating references to religious holidays.

1200 online comments have since flooded into district headquarters in rockville and they include comments from people as far away as saudi arabia, brazil, morocco and sudan. >> the board meets again tonight at 7:00 to talk about that issue. >> a lot of debate tonight about a new report that links certain meats to cancer. that report was from a group with the world health organization. it's the processed meats, things like bacon, hot dogs or canned meats cause cancer. it also says that red meat probably does, as well. a meat industry group took issue with that part of the report by slamming it as dramatic and alarmist. nutritionists say there's no need for people to cut red meat completely out of their diets. lean red meat that is produced appropriately, and cooked appropriately and has no relationship whatsoever with the initiation of the condition. >> experts say lean red meats

provide proteins and other nutrients we need. >> we have a link to five of the most commonly asked questions about the study in the nbc washington app and just search meat. it is not snowing yet. you probably noticed that, but local leaders already have a plan to keep people safe. when it does, i'll tell you why you could be forced to pay some money. >> i'm darcy spencer at riverbend high school in spotsylvania county where two teens have been charged where they planned an attack on the school, and i'll t

>> two teenagers are being held on charges they plan to shoot up their school. a letter has been sent home to parents with children at riverbend high school in fredericksburg, virginia. tonight darcy spencer tells them what's being done about their fear about the foiled attack. >> how nervous are you? >> i have a pit in my stomach. >> reporter: sfunt studented re to riverbend high school for the first time since two of their classmates were plotting to attack the school. counselors are helping them deal with their fears. >> our counselors will be ongoing until our students don't need them anymore.

we're going to keep them in place. it's not like at the end of today we're going to close up shop. >> reporter: students say it was all anyone was talking about throughout the day. >> i'm very anxious and very nervous about this. >> reporter: authorities say the 15 and 17-year-old boys planned to call in a bomb threat and then shoot as students and staff evacuated. >> reporter: several of the students we spoke to say they know the older teen who has been charged and they were stunned to find out that he was allegedly plotting to harm people here at the school. >> i knew one of the kids. >> reporter: did it surprise you? >> yeah. a little bit. i didn't think it was like that and that shows you how much you know your friends. >> reporter: authorities and school administrators are crediting students. they reported a threat posted on the internet to staff and the resource officer. >> that's the bottom line. you see something, you say something and that saves a lot of lives. >> reporter: the students are charged with conspire so to commit murder. authorities say they did have

asses is to guns. they don't believe anyone else was involved in the plan which was still in its early stages. >> very concerned. very, very. kudos to who turned them in. scared to death. >> reporter: in spotsylvania county, darcy spencer, news 4. >> we have just learned that two teenagers found dead in prince william county died of stab wounds. the medical examiner says 17-year-old indya davis took her own life. the manner of death for 17-year-old lyle ferringer is still pending, we're told. the teenagers were found inside a minivan on hamilton drive in woodbridge after they were reported missing by their families. >> when you have kid, you know you always worry about them and just don't want to have any kids. so very sad. yeah. >> davis attended osbourne high school and ferringer went to garfield high. both in prince william county.

>> it won't be long before those autumn leaves turn to snow and this winter the district is cracking down on people who let the snow pile up and a new law takes effect this season and homeowners in d.c. can be fined $25 for not clearing their front sidewalks within 24 hours of a storm. businesses could face fines of $150. a team of 40 inspectors will hit the streets after each snowstorm looking for violators and residents can also make an anonymous call to report their neighbors, seniors and disabled residents are exempt from the requirement in the district and inspectors won't ticket them, but volunteers will come out and clear the walk for them. >> that's a good idea and you're probably one of those volunteers, huh, doug? you'll be all over the place. >> whatever you need, i'll be there for you and i think the start of the winter will have a tough time with snow, but i think february could be a good

month. >> if you're a snow lover, i think february might be a good month and the official forecast comes out in just about a month and we'll show you what's happening right now. we do have a very nice sunset, though. look at that, the sun went down tonight at 6:15 and it's been down a good half hour and we're just getting the last of dusk and look at that with high clouds streaming across the area and 57 degrees and temperatures will drop fairly quickly tonight into the 50s and into the 40s in the city and most of you in the suburbs may get down into the mid-30s. >> 48 gaithersburg and already 47 down towards the warrenton area and as far as the rain is concerned, not much going on and we're not going see rain tonight and we'll see rain coming up during the day tomorrow. it's all coming and circulating around the old remnants of hurricane patricia making its way our way and bringing in the

moisture off the gulf and moisture off the atlantic and sets the stage where it's going to be a rainy 24-hour period and how much rain are you going to see in the region. here's my computer model and anyone in the purple here is well over an inch of rain so you can see what we're talking about? >> down toward st. mary's county, and i think that's a pretty good look at what we'll be seeing. tomorrow, i'm not expecting much in the way of rain and clouds thicken and showers will come late in the day and still take the umbrella and most holds off into the overnight hours, and high temperature tomorrow, and a weather alert day here on wednesday so you make sure you download the nbc washington app and 70 on your thursday and 60 on friday and right now halloween looking very nice 62 degrees and sunshine pretty good for the trick-or-treaters, too, and then you have to set the clocks back and daylight savings time come to an end on saturday night and sunday morning. >> time marches on.

thanks, doug. >> remember the talk about third quarter wipe outs and that kind of thing and not having any kind of juice at all? forget about it! and we'll tell you also why kirk cousins has become a viral sensation. >> you like that? you like that?

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this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfini xfinity. your home for the most live sports. >> you like that? you like that? you like that? you like that? >> hey, we can't get enough of that. >> when you see kirk please tell him for all of us, yeah, we like yeah! [ laughter ] >> so the answer is yes. i think everybody liked that. we've seen him excited before, but he took it to a gnaw levnew after yesterday's historic win. have you seen him like that at redskins park behind closed doors? not really. it comes after the amazing win, the intensity and the unbelievable historic comeback victory down 24-0 in the first half, cousins and he office target leading the back and the final drive and the magic with

cousins and 80 yards a drive in two minutes and he was poised, confident and finding jordan reid with the go-ahead t.d. and largest comeback in teen history. coach jay gruden. yeah, i like that, and i'd like to see more of it. >> he's shown flashes of being one heck of a quarterback and he's had times when you scratch your head sometimes and that's what a lot of quarterbacks go through from time to time and he's been announced a starting quarterback for the first time in his career and i think he felt he needed to earn the respect and he was excited after the game as we all were, but i think you'll see more and more of that passion with the more success that he has. >> you like that? >> more passion from kirk, now that i'd like to see. after ryan kerrigan, it couldn't have come at a better time and broke a bone in his right hand yesterday and today he had surgery and talked to him via text and he said he is doing great and the hope is he won't

miss any time and he'll return in time for the next game and he'll probably have to wear a cast with the new england patriots. jason, you heard me right, the new england patriots, the super bowl champs. they are up next and the redskins have one practice tomorrow and then they're off for five days and you know they're thinking about that next game already. >> the patriots look like the best team in the nfl right now and that should be an interesting week after the bye week and thanks so much, carol and we'll move on to the wizards and a sad news for the organization and for everyone around the nba and former wizards head coach flip saunders passed away to cancer and he was being treated for hodgkins lymphoma and they talked about his legacy and the impact he had with their professional careers. when they first got drafted and he worked out and be with his family and they brought me right away and wanted me to be great and they wanted me to be well and they deal with tough times

early on and we'll keep working. >>. >> he was a good friend for me many times to pick me up when i've been fired or when something in my family has gone wrong and it's a tough day. >> it is officially game week for the wizards and they're getting ready for their season opener this wednesday in orlando and the wizards went all four last season. outside the verizon center, quite the honor for point guard john wall and you know you've made it when they dedicate a bus to you honored by the ride of fame today and the double decker sightseeing bus complete with it is own seat will join fellow d.c. superstar alex o vefrp kve with this honor. kind of a big deal. >> we want him to be on the big wall and the mural thing.

>> that's not it. >> we'll take it. >> the bus is good. >> that's it for now. "nightly news" coming up next.

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