county over the next half hour or so. >> with any of those storms it will put down rain and moderate and heavy around great falls. we've already seen three-quarters to just over an inch and take a look at radar tracking the system as it continues to move on through. most areas seeing light to moderate rain and down to southern maryland and light to moderate downpours and we've seen the storm develop and frederick county and you can see it right toward frederick and prince william county and i want to zoom in on this area and just to the north of leesburg and that's where you're seeing the lightning and if you live in the leesburg area you're probably hearing the thunder, too and head's up around the luckets area and head's up over the barnsville area and northern montgomery county. look at the oranges and the reds here. intense rainfall out of this and lightning, too, this is moving over the hay market over the next 10 to 15 minutes and on

this track it will be there at 6:05 and chantilly at 6:15 and it will continue in arreston or herndon areas over the next 20 to 30 minutes and head's up for that line. there's one more back to the west and that's what we will continue to trek this evening. >> take a look here on future weather and areas of fauquier county right on through montgomery county, frederick county maryland and you can see it advancing and the second one coming in at 11:00 p.m. to midnight coming together right over d.c. by the time we see this rain end at 3:00 a.m. in the morning and those areas in blue east of i-9a 5 will pick you have an inch of rain and we can see just over a half inch of rain and those areas shaded in green. more to come on top of what we've already picked up. doug? >> and we'll continue to watch this throughout the rest of the night, guys. and at the live desk i'm wendy

rieger with the journey of the runaway blimp. we've just learned that blimp grounded itself. a spokesman for norad says it never had any intention of shooting down the blimp, and that it deflated, causing it to descend although they're not sure why. they're also not sure why it broke away from its moorings at the aberdeen probing ground north of baltimore, but we did have high winds in the area and that could have been a factor. these are images of the blimp before it landed in a wooded area near bloomsberg. near section i-81 and i-80. a cable clockknocked out power 30,000 people and we'll go live to pennsylvania where a reporter is now on the ground with the blimp. back to you. >> thanks, wendy. >> breaking news out of northwest d.c. somebody shot two teenagers when they got off a metro bus. the investigation of the shooting shut down several

blocks around east capital street and benning road. pat collins has that story. what's going on, pat? >> reporter: it looks a lot different here. earlier, police had this whole area closed off for hours. this is how police tell the story. they say a metro bus pulled up here, two young men got off the bus. as they did, they were shot. one of the teenagers goes back on the bus to get help. the other is on the pavement. the two victims were taken to the hospital. they're said to have nonlife-threatening injuries. police from all over converged on the scene to look for clues and evidence. it -- this kind of violence. >> as a community we need to get together and stop the violence. it's ridiculous. >> i don't know why they don't got more protection out it's te.

it's getting worse. they're preyed on. >> it's crazy out here. it's nothing new. there's something out here every day. nothing new. >> what's going on in our streets? >> that's a good question. i don't -- i don't know if i have an answer for that. it doesn't seem like anyone does. >> reporter: are you scared? >> a little. >> that was pat collins reporting. this is a big night in the race for the white house. the third republican debate gets under way in just about two hours at the university of colorado in boulder. the focus tonight is on the economy and the matchup comes at a critical time in the race. steve handelsman is in boulder to break it down for us. hi, steve. >> reporter: the waiting is over in boulder, the mini debate, if you will, the pre-debate has already begun. the main event is in two hours and this is the media viewing room where people will watch the debate and all eyes will be on ben carson, the retired baltimore neurosurgeon told me

heel not get into what he called the slime pit even if he gets attacked here tonight. at the university of colorado, the candidates have gathered for the undercard debate with lower polls and the main event and at the center of the ten will stand ben carson and donald trump. >> how do you feel about being first nationally. >> carson is moving up, polling first in a new national gop survey and first in iowa in three polls. in iowa on his way to the debate, donald trump mixed more with voters. >> i am second. it's not, like, terrible, but i don't like being second. second is terrible to me. >> reporter: he sounded worried about tonight. looking forward, trump tweeted, to what i'm sure will be a very unfair debate. cnbc's john harwood will be a moderator at the debate focused on jobs, taxes and business. >> you can bet that donald trump is ready to get tough with ben carson. i think our goal is mostly to

pull them out on what they do on the economy. >> reporter: carson says if he's attacked he will not retaliate. >> i'm not going to get into a bunch of fights with people about personalities and individual attacks. >> reporter: ohio governor john kasich could be aggressive tonight. he's furious charging carson would end medicare and trump would deport $11 million people. >> what has happened to the party and what has happened to the conservative movement? >> reporter: frustration could explode tonight. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news at the cnbc debate in boulder, colorado. democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders will be campaigning in fairfax about an hour from now. he's hosting a town hall at george mason university and sanders is calling for tuition-free and debt-free higher education and some students planned to dress up as zombies and show up as the walking debt. get it? the walking debt. they say they want to scare

lawmakers into action. metro in the next few days is expected to tell us who the next general manager is. transportation experts continue to weigh in on how the agency should be run. our transportation reporter adam tuss has been on the story all week long and outside metro headquarters right now and adam, i guess, some people think it should be untraditional or what? >> reporter: that's right. untraditional in the sense that he shouldn't be bogged down by the board and the procedures there. instead, this gm should be allowed to be creative. a fresh start, a fresh vision and a longer leash to operate. >> but it's a new era. there are a lot of competitors and there's lift and uber and uber x and there's the bike share and walking and busses and so they have to recalibrate the system overall. >>as one transportation official put it, the gm needs to be allowed to change the strateg

strategic -- what do riders think? >> i think they're going to pay for things and it will keep people accountable and make sure it's safe and reliable. >> reporter: other riders like mallory scott give metro a passing grade even with recent delays and breakdowns. >> things happen. accidents happen. track work happens. that's life. >> reporter: metro's new pick for general manager expected to be named by the end of the week. now again, there is a new candidate. he has said he wants the job. now it's just a matter of getting the deal done. doreen, back to you. >> adam tuss, thank you. just a few minutes ago jurors ended deliberations in the charles severance' they tell us you what the jurors were told before they started their deliberations late today. >> nearly four weeks about a hundred witnesses and another hundred pieces of evidence. the case against charles severance now in the jurors'

hand, but before they enter the jury room the defense warned them, quote, everyone is suspicious of the middle-aged man with no place to call home, but suspicion of guilt is not enough, among the evidence, this surveillance video of the car, each if you believe that was his vehicle, being in alexandria isn't a kriecrime. they have to prove those crimes to you beyond a reasonable doubt. the defense worked to discredit several witnesses citing inconsistencies and changing stories and perhaps their strongest defense. they told jurors there is no forensic evidence in this case, adding not one shred, not one hair, and not one fiber and not one strand of dna. nothing that links mr. severance to these crime scenes, showing images of the three victims the prosecution painted a picture of a hate-filled, bitter, charles severance who wrote about his disdain for the elite and there's no evidence pointing to any other killer, but severance

saying, quote, three beautiful and precious human beings gunned down at their home and they did mow nor than answer a knock at their door. it is your opportunity to tell the families of ronald kirby, nancy dunning and ruthanne lodato that their deaths were not in vain. it is up to you to end it. jurors only had the case for 15 minutes today before they decided to recess for the night. they will be back tomorrow to continue deliberations. we noticed interesting exchanges between charles severance and the judge. i've chronicled a few of those in david, underscore, culver. david culver, news 4. >> a military blimp broke free leaving behind a trail of damage and we'll be live on the scene. allegations of abuse at a prestigious school in prince george's county and the actions are being called into question.

an officer fired after this video went viral and we're digging into his

storm team 4 radar tracking storms making their way into the area. prince william county, this is an area with a lot of lightning associated with this and the potential is there for strong

winds and if you're in frederick, very heavy rain falling right now and same thing around leesburg and the sterling region. they continue to track them for you and i'm up next coming up at 6:23. >> thanks, doug. the south carolina sheriff's deputy who slammed an unruling student to the floor has been fired tonight. his boss says the video made him sick and he's seen enough. nbc's chris clackum has more on the outrage. >> reporter: the viral video that's lit up social media since happening monday has led ben fields to lose his job. >> ben fields was terminated from the richland county sheriff's department. >> reporter: firing fields wasn't a hard decision to make. >> what he should not have done was thrown the student. i do not feel that proper procedures were used at that point and that's -- that's what's caused me my heartburn. >> reporter: deputy fields was called to the classroom at spring valley high school to

help deal with a female student who was being insubordinate. >> the school administrator got there. shee she was african-american and he attempted to get her to leave the class also and she was disrespectful to him. >> fields' response was excessive and firing him was the right thing to do and follows a tense school board meeting thursday night. >> you do not treat a child like that. >> that student was given ample opportunity to do the right thing and she chose to not do that. >> please stop blaming victims when they are the victim of excessive force. >> former deputy fields could now lose more than his job. once investigations by the fbi and the justice department are complete. chris clackum, nbc news. we did some digging and found out that fields joined the richland county sheriff's department in 2004. in 2007 a driver filed a civil rights lawsuit against the

department saying he'd used excessive force. a jury ruled in fields' favor in that case. the next year he became a school resource officer. fields is one of ten people named in a lawsuit that will go to trial next year. a student says the officer wrongly accused him of being in a gang and he was expelled. the lawsuit claims fields recklessly targets black students. >> former house speaker dennis hastert could spend some time in jail. >> today he entered a guilty plea in a hush money case in illinois. >> according to the indictment in that case, hastert evaded federal banking laws to pay someone nearly $2 million over a number of years to conceal and compensate for past misconduct. law enforcement officials have said that misconduct was sexual. it involved a male student and took place decades ago when hastert was a high school teacher and wrestling coach. prosecutors are recommending six months in jail.

hastert will be sentenced in february. and i'm wendy rieger at the live desk. the house just passed a bipartisan budget deal. this agreement would end the threat of government shutdowns at least for now because it resolves the fights over military funding and domestic spending and federal borrowing until early 2017 and that is after a new president is elected. the bill now goes to the senate. back to you. >> thanks, wendy. the republican caucus today officially nominated congressman paul ryan for the job of speaker of the house. the full house will vote on that tomorrow. while nothing is certain in politics, ryan's election is widely considered to be assured. he certainly did sound like a speaker right after the vote today. >> this begins a new day in the house of representatives. tomorrow we are turning the page. we are not going to have a house that looks like it looked the

last few years. we are going to move forward. >> another sign of congressman ryan's rise to leadership is that a security detail was assigned to him yesterday. a shift in strategy in the war against isis. the pentagon says it will step up attacks in syria and iraq including, quote, direct action on the ground by u.s. troops. nbc's richard engel is in istanbul with more on what that means. >> reporter: when american and kurdish commandos stormed into an isis prison last week freeing hostages, it was the first time the world saw u.s. combat against isis. defense secretary ashton carter told congress there would be more missions like this. >> we won't hold back from supporting capable partners in opportunistic attacks against isil or conducting such missions directly whether by strikes from the air or direct action on the ground. >> reporter: but direct action on the growth fuund sounds a lo

different from what the president promised. >> the american forces that have deployed to iraq, do not have combat mission missions. to some, it's washington double speak. >> anybody in combat is boots on the ground. the white house has been trying to play politics here and try to convince everybody that special operations forces are not boots on the ground. >> reporter: the u.s. has lost one soldier, master sergeant joshua wheeler in close con combat with isis. the u.s. admitting it or not, appears to be getting deeper into the war on isis. richard engel, nbc news, istanbul. a speeding car slams into a family's living room. two people were killed when that happened and we'll tell you about them and a crime that was

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new video just into our newsroom of a prince george's school bus on fire. this happened in suitland. nobody was on the bus, but take a look at what happened when firefighters tried to put the fire out, the bus starts rolling, moving across the parking lot on fire and it was eventually stopped by a tree. we're still working to find out how this fire started. this is a storm team 4 weather alert. >> and we're still tracking very heavy rain across the region. right now it's just to the west of the i-95 corridor. take a look at storm team 4 radar and one, toward the east and we're talking about areas around anne arundel county and prince george's county and calvert county and st. mary's county and that's the moderate to heavy rain and just happening to the west of frederick and right down toward leesburg and you'll notice lightning associated with that, too, and culpeper county. what we're looking at here, very heavy rain in and around

frederick and this has been here for the last 20 to 30 minutes and that will continue, watch out around frederick and you could see ponding on area roadways and maybe even moderate flooding in parts of the region and i'll take you right around the frederick region and right around the urbana area and you can see where the last lightning strike was and you probably heard that thunder and this is right along 270 and up around 70 where they connect and right around downtown frederick and we're dealing with the heavy rain and down to the south and we have more rain around the leesburg area and that will be around montgomery county around poolsville and down to the south. look at this area of rain just to the south and west of culpeper county and making its way in toward culpeper and as it does so, we'll see the very heavy rain, too and this beeline right towards warrenton and this will follow gainsville and 66 and very heavy rain here, too, and we're not out of the woods just yet and that's just one band of rain that's continuing to move on through and we have

one more back to the west and that's associated with the cold front that will sweep on through here and you can see that line in through portions of west virginia and there is some enhancement here through the rainfall and the storm. we may see some of those come through. and let's time it out and show you what's happening around 9:00. not much going on and this band of rain moves on out of here and we get a little bit of a break and here comes that band from the west and fredericks town around leesburg and down to manassas, quantico and that line coming together and over toward the chesapeake by 2:00. with this line just like with the current line, we could see lightning and high winds and maybe upwards of 30 to 40 miles per hour and very heavy rainfall and after that moves through we'll start to see that clear out and wooe talking about a significant difference and very cloudy and rainy and not a good day at all and we will see some sunshine and nice temperatures. 70 degrees and that's the

current temperatures and winds out of the southeast at 16 miles an hour and we have seen winds gusting up to 25 miles an hour and tomorrow completely different and mild 60 degrees at your start and 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. at the bus stop any both by the time you get off the bus. 72 degrees between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon and a very warm day on our tuesday, but a cool day on friday and highs only in the upper 50s to 60 and same deal on saturday and halloween will be a cool day, but not bad at all. actually, a very nice afternoon and what looks like a nice evening, too. i'm being trotracking the next heavy rain and coming up at 6:45. >> an unmanned military balloon drifted in mid-air for hours knocked out power to thousands of people and we'll have a report in pen. pen where it went down. coming up at 6:00, in five minutes, basically, i must tell you police found drugs and --

police say they found something in a car that crashed into this home. i'll have the story coming up. it's an update to a story you saw first on 4:00. a principal has been removed after allegations of abuse within the sch

now at 6:30, a wild chase after a military balloon broke

free and floated away. we'll have our report from the ground in pennsylvania. >> new fallout after a teacher at one of our area's top schools is accused of abusing students. >> he was struck by his teacher until he cried. >> a stolen car crashed into a house. two people killed. we'll tell you what else police found inside that stolen vehicle. two fitness instructors body shamed after being featured in the local paper. >> i cried. i instantly, eyes welled up. i was so upset. prince harry spends the day in d.c. in virginia. >> from that moment i knew i had the responsibility to help all veterans. >> details on his royal visit and the big event planned in the u.s. for next year. we start in northern virginia and incredible video shows the aftermath as a car crashes right into a family's living room. >> both people in that car were killed and now we're learning more about the driver and what investigators found in his car. the crash happened last night on

smithway drive in the alexandria section of fairfax county. shomari stone is there now with more on that story. shomari? >> reporter: good evening. right now police are trying to determine why this car was speeding, coming down beacon hill drive, crashing right into that house behind me. they are also trying to see what happened to the driver. we're learning more about the crash that took the life of 28-year-old antonio beatty and his 27-year-old passenger. tonight police tell us they found a gun and marijuana in the car. this isn't the first crash at this house. last year, police tell me a fire truck rolled over and took out the fence where the car crashed last night. this guy saw the fire engine last august. >> that pole, knocked it over, cleared the fence and it kept on going and ended up on the next yard tipped over. >> reporter: two more accidents happened near the intersection of smithway drive and beacon

hill road, but last night's was fatal. police tell us a 28-year-old man and his pass efrj eaenger were stolen car and they lost control and hit a curb and drove through rea wynder's yard. >> reporter: it was so powerful that under this cone, was there a fire hydrant and it snapped in half. last night the fire hide rand landed in the living room. >> i rushed outside and the fire hydrant had exploded full of water and there was mist in the wear, and i thought it was water, but it wasn't. it was debris from the car. >> reporter: the car continued through the fence and slammed into the two-story house. the mother and father who lived in the house along with their two young sons were at church and rea is thinking of putting up a barrier around her yard. >> i thought about putting up a stonewall in the back kind of around the edge of my perimeter. >> reporter: --

[ no audio ] >> that was shomari stone reporting. now to the story of the runaway blimp. people looked up in the sky this afternoon and saw this floating above their heads. it's a military blimp that broke free in aberdeen, maryland. the blimp caused all sorts of havoc before police corralled it in northern pennsylvania and randy gyllenhaal, and they arrived on the scene a short time ago and tweeted this video of the blimp on the ground. he has more now on the e for thes to recover that mrichl. >> randy gyllenhaal here on the ground in anthony township, montour county, pennsylvania. it's getting a little dark, but i can show you the giant white blob that is in the woods beyond this crime scene here and you

can see the police officers that have set up securing this area. we have members of the local fire department as well as members of the national guard here that are on scene, securing this site. think, the blimp took off from aberdeen, maryland and they're waiting for military officials to get to the scene so they can go down to the blimp, where it crashed and assess it, but military officials on scene here are telling me that this blimp came apart in two pieces, the main section behind me and a tail piece that fell off just a short distance away from here and took down a number of power lines knocking out much of the electricity to this entire area. randy gyllenhaal, news 4. >> a new clue in the search for a man behind an attempted rape in alexandria. police have now released a composite sketch of a man who attacked a woman in the laundry room of an apartment building. it happened on kanterbury square last friday morning.

the woman was able to fight the suspect off and she hit him in the face with the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner. she cut him before he ran away. >> allegations of missing drugs and nurses under investigation at a local hospital. tonight the d.c. health department and board of nursing are working with sibling memorial hospital to find out what happened to the controlled substances. two nurses have had their licenses suspended. four others are under investigation. officials are trying to figure out whether the drugs disappeared because they were unaccounted for or because of an error or something more. montgomery county is the fastest growing public school system in maryland, and today leaders presented a plan to help ease overcrowding, but as our chris gordon reports, one expense item does not seem to have anything to do with class size. >> reporter: $11 million is being budgeted for artificial turf athletic fields at 19 montgomery county high schools that don't yet have turf fields.

>> the recommendation is that this is a private/public partnership. we currently have six schools that have turf fields on their stadium field and so part of it is an equity issue to make sure that all of our fields have this. >> reporter: seneca valley high school in germantown is 40 years old. its principal dr. mark cohen showed me the roof leaking into the media center. the school, he says, is so crowded some students eat lunch in the hallway and water has caused the gym floor to buckle. >> this is the seneca valley high school basketball court where the varsity plays. there's the basket and the free-throw line and look at the floor in this area. you hear how warped its become? it was here in seneca valley that montgomery county unveiled the six-year capital improvements program that includes ten new classroom addition projects and a newe

elemee elementary school. >> we've had a big bubble in the elementary and we have an army of children moving on to middle school and high school. >> francis frost is the president of the montgomery county council of ptas. for parents, there should be should relief that some of the schools will be revitalized, they'll be expanded. >> reporter: montgomery county says it will need state help paying the $1.7 billion this construction plan will cost. chris gordon, news 4. and we continue to track some of the heavy rain right now over parts of montgomery county right along 270. you can really see a line here and we have the line from frederick to leesburg right on down towards culpeper county and this whole line moving toward the northeast and will continue to do so. more heavy rain over toward calvert county and this is the heaviest right around frederick where we've seen rain over the last half an hour and look at this, right to the north of gaithersburg and more rain just to the east of leesburg and this

continues to develop along 270 and on this track making its way up to the north and east at 30 miles per hour and it will be at 6:46 and within the next 20 to 30 minutes and head's up for that and then a move through warrenton and the next half hour and i'll be back in just a couple of minutes and we'll time the next line of storms coming up at 6:45. >> thank you, doug. income, two local women are bullied as they celebrate the start of a new business. why they got hate mail. >> prince harry is in town to help promote one of his favorite

>> two entrepreneurs say they've been body shamed and bullied. they own a fitness studio in the frederick area. the local paper wrote an article about them and after it was

published this clipping was mailed to them. someone wrote on it calling them borderline obese and then they wrote, quote, i hope to see an article in the future of you practicing what you preach, end quote. >> the two say they know who sent the mail because whoever did so signed their name and included their address. but the two women say they're not going to stoop to the level of calling that person out. >> i think that takes us down to a different level and that's not why we're here. we always want to elevate ourselves and our clients. >> we want to show women that you can totally rise above it. >> after sharing their story the women have received lots of support from others on their facebook page. in light of bullying prevention month, news 4 will host a facebook chat with kristen darling churchill. she works at child trends, a non-profit resource center that focuses on the well-being of children. you can join that chat by going to the nbc washington facebook

page tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. >> prince harry just wrapped up a late-day meeting with president obama at the white house. earlier today he joined first lady michelle obama and jill biden at fort belvoir in virginia. they watched wounded warriors play a game of basketball. prince harry spoke at the event to promote the 2016 invictus games and it's an international sporting tournament that he created after a visit to the u.s. in 2013 the invictus games in colorado. i saw the power this sport can play in the recovery of both mind and body. i thought surely everyone whether connected to the armed forces or not would be inspired >> prince harry's tour promotes good health for service members. still ahead, a highly regarded school at the center of controversy. a new fallout after allegations of abuse against a teacher.

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the principal of a prestigious school in prince george's county has been temporarily removed from his job. the school system made the move after a news 4 report. >> several parents claim the teacher was spanking students and they say the principal

didn't take action after he learned of the allegations. tracee wilkins has the story that you will see only on news 4. >> he was struck by his teacher until he cried. >> reporter: zander says he was shocked when his daughter said her brother was spanked in front of the kindergarten class. we asked our daughter how hard was he hit? the teacher hit him hard, but she hit this other boy harder. >> reporter: it happened inside the french emersion school in greenbelt, a national blue ribbon school. faber and his wife immediately filed a written report with the principal, nasir abi. >> there were kids who knew who the hitting teacher was in school. why is that even a thing? >> reporter: even after the teacher continued teaching at the school they questioned if the investigation was ever conducted. >> i said i would like a copy of the written report from the investigation, and what i was told is i'm not entitled to it.

>> reporter: we reported the allegations last week on news 4 and zander told his story to the school board. school officials told us no wrongdoing was found and now news 4 has learned that the principal has been temporarily removed as the school system continues an investigation into the allegations. a year after they were first reported. a letter informing parents sent home today also referenced our report on the allegations. the accused teacher no longer works at the school and has moved on to another district. >> we actually moved our children out of that school because we could not feel safe sending him there. we felt betrayed by this and you don't give your children to people you don't trust. >> reporter: prince george's county spokesperson want to be very clear that this is just an investigation and the fact that this principal has been removed does not mean that he has done anything wrong. the investigation is ongoing. in greenbelt, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. when is this rain going to let up on us, doug?

>> some areas continue to see very heavy rain. a very ominous shot behind us. spooky for sure, looks like halloween coming up in a couple of day and you can see exactly where this rain is and again, some thunder and heavier downpours developing it back to the west and northern montgomery county seeing some of the heavy rain and loudoun county down toward culpeper and fauquier county seeing rain and also toward frederick county. this is the line that extends from the maryland-pennsylvania border and right on down toward the charlottesville area and over toward the bay and lighter rain and still dealing with rain there. here is the heaviest rain around damascus, just to the only area around clarksburg and frederick right down toward poolsville and back towards leesburg and this is an area that's seen rain a lot over the last hour and we could see minor flooding in this area and down to the south and culpeper county really seeing that rain and that will come straight across fauquier county and you will see more of that

over the next hour or so and then across the river over toward charles county and prince george's county. this is rain that has developed over the last hour and it will continue to move through the north right on through the district there and you can see the latest update coming toward downtown and it will still cause fairly heavy downpours at times like this one to the south and east of waldorf. that's just one area of rain and the other one, you can see it really starting to become more enhanced here back into portions of west virginia and this is the area that i'll continue to watch and as we move this, let me get off of here. as we train this or follow this over, we're talking about five and a half hours and if you time that out, that's right around the 11:00, 12:00 hour and make sure you stay with us throughout the night and i'll continue to tweet, be on facebook and let you know where the line will come through. the medium-high risk as far as wins are concerned and heavy rain will be another issue with the next line. temperatures tonight, 72, 60 degrees for your day tomorrow.

60 on saturday, too, of course, and that's halloween. halloween looking pretty nice although it will be quite cool for the trick-or-treaters and temperatures falling into the upper 40s by the time they're out and another chance of rain coming up on sunday. all in all, not a bad weekend and we'll continue to watch out for that. as far as halloween goes, happy halloween, for sure. this system moves out of here and we get to 60 with some sunshine and it will be rather cool for trick or treating and temperatures in the 50s by the 6:00, 7:00 hour and the upper 40s by 8:00. if your kids stay out and they all want to it will be on the cool side by the time they get back in. >> thanks, doug. we're following breaking news now. metro has just named a new general manager. adam tuss broke the story and he joins us with the developments. hi, adam. >> hi, doreen. metro, yes, has made their selection and they're zeroing in on neil cohen. he is an executive with an

aerospace and defense systems agency based out of arlington known as atk systems. this is an interesting pick for metro because generally, transit systems pick other transit people. this guy, neil cohen, just reading through his bio, i've never met him. he has multiple years and 16 years' experience with northwest airlines and us air and he's been recently in charge of the finances of this agency, this aerodefense agency which has revenues of about $5 billion. so that shows you that he's got the ability to handle finances and have a large budget at his disposal, but what i'm told right now is that this contract is still being worked out. these two sides have agreed that they want to do business with each other, but the contract is still being worked out. they expect to sign it within the next couple of days and neil cohen will be the new general manager of metro. >> all right.

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so, are we talking small ball? is that what the theme is this year? >> small ball, fast ball. the wizards, we have sports wizards and the playoffs. we'll start with the wizards because kicking off the season we'll see what they've got and the season opener for the wizards will make magic in orlando and i heard it in the same sentence. the wizards led in nba scoring this season and 112 points per game and now we'll see if they can do it for real. and look for the wizards to run or not in orlando and they're finding ways to contribute and this is focusing on what randy whitman is calling it. more running means more conditioning and the point guard

known for his ability to get coast to coast in mere seconds and he's had to change his daily lifestyle. >> i had to get into shape. last year's shape wouldn't have helped me with just the way we were playing and help with my diet. this is the best year i've been in and i can still bet get in br shape. >> and not eating a lot of carbes and snacks at night. >> snacks, gummy bears and doritos and you know those type of snacks. >> gummy bears and doritos i understand gummy bear, but doritos is a late-night no-no in bed. >> the washington capitals are also in action tonight hosting the pittsburgh penguins and the first meeting of the year between these two rivals and they have a history and the caps were 3 and 1. the matchup on february 17th.

alex ovechkin and letang. he goes crashing into the wall and they were not too happy about that and tried to retaliate against ovi and he sits there and smiles and says that's the best you've got? no stranger to this rivalry. >> i've seen it. since i first came in the league, and it was crosby and ovechkin. i think i'll feed off the emotion in a positive way. i'm excited for the talent. >> there say dislike between the two organizations and that's a good thing. a fun thing and i'm all arc board now on this. it's fun. i really enjoyed playing with those guys last year and we want more of that. >> and we want more local sports tonight and we get it, the good game on the pitch and the knockout round for the playoffs for d.c. united black and red hosting united and the loser goes home. >> i'm hoping they get that game in there and it will be rain at

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