moderator chuck todd says remember when a politician doesn't like a question or doesn't want to answer a question, default is to attack the media. centurie centuries-old tradition. nbc tracie potts joins us in a few michbltss with more on the winners and losers of last night's debate. >> tomorrow on capitol hill we expect the full house to respond to the next speaker. it's somewhat of a procedural step. members of the house republican congress voted in his favor yesterday, some of them, the hard-lined members of the gop. ryan needs 218 votes to officially become speaker. there are 247 republicans in the house. speaker boehner is resigning from congress. he served as house speaker for five years. right now, a lot of you are still talking, tweeting, meming

about that runaway blimp. that unmanned army surveillance blimp broke free from a texter in howard county and traveled more than 100 miles into pennsylvania. fighter jets and police officers scrambled to track it down. there was a #blimpon ttheloose. it's vent yeventually deflated broke in two pieces. >> we have a look at the weather. chuck bell is here. >> good morning, aaron and eun. low clouds and reduced visibili visibility. there are pockets of low visibility out there. no troubles in and around the metro area. we're not 100% done with our rain chance yet. it may ring out another passing

shower or two this afternoon but by and large from this point forward, most of us will stay dry today. it is mild this morning. in the upper 50s and low 60s. as you plan out your day hour by hour, the sun is down. temperature is near 60 degrees at 7:00 in the morning, near 70 by lunch and highs will be into the low 70s. it will be a nice one although on the breezy side. bus stop forecast and what the kiddos should be wearing in ten minutes. traffic time. >> talking about this problem, inner loop at old georgetown has the crew on the way to this jackknifed trailer. right now it seems like only the minor traffic is getting by. if that changes, of course, we'll let you know as the morning progresses. taking a look at prince george's county, no problems. everything rolling along just fine. 270 at montrose and southbound,

everything clear. plans got put on hold because of all the rain that was falling. right now 95 want co-to the beltway, you're going to take 17 minutes. nice and green. no major problems. i'll see you in ten minutes. 4:33 now. we're following a pair of stories in the district. first, d.c. police looking for whoever carried out a double shooting. this happened around edson place. we're working to learn his condition. police have not leased any information about a possible shooter. earlier in the day someone shot two boys near a benning road d.c. metro station. they were getting off the 97 bus when someone started shooting. both victims survived. right now police are looking at the surveillance video from that bus to see if they can identify a suspect. this was the third incident in 24 hours in which juveniles were shot in the district. take a look at this sketch.

this is a man a woman fought off with a vacuum cleaner because he tried to rape her. he grabbed her in the laundry room at canterbury scare friday night. he pulled out a knife. >> usually when i'm coming in, i'm on the phone, i have somebody on the line with me, but i do carry pepper spray. that's one precaution that i've taken recently. >> police warn the man may have cut his hair or shave so they want you to concentrate on his features. if you want to take another look at the sketch, be sure to download the nbc washington app. just in, the tennessee highway patrol just now holding a news conference moments ago about the search for two suspects, one accused of

shooting a police officer in tennessee and then shooting at troopers in kentucky. now, police stopped a car overnight. that's the video you're looking at here. police arrested two men. one is a known associate of floyd cook and they arrested another man as well. listen to police here talk about the two that they arrested overnight. >> so these are not -- these are not somebody who's just shoplifting a bag of chips or soft drinks from a convenience store. they're extremely dangerous individuals. they fled from law enforcement. they have a reason to flee from law enforcement. we want to know what that is. >> so people in tennessee and parts of kentucky have been warned to lock their doors and schools have been closed all week while police search for these two men. aaron? >> thank you. it's 4:35 now and the jury heads back to work in the case of accused serial killer charles severance. he's accused of killing three people over a ten-year period.

severance's attorney reminded the jury there's no forensic evidence linching him to the three killings. happening today in prince george's county, council members will hold a hearing on police body cameras and the recent spike in homicide. there will also be an update on the county budget from the fiscal management committee. this is taking place at the county building at 1:30 this afternoon. there's a good chance the nationals' next manager is drawing up plans. sources say bud black will be managing them next year. he was manager of the padres for eight years. rizzo wanted someone who could relate to the player. bud black also won manager of the year award five years ago.

>> you see that? right now many of you giving this story some really positive feedback on our nbc washington facebook page. a d.c. police officer in a danld-off with a high school student. the officer responded to a call. as the crowd started to disperse, 17-year-old started to dance. the officer took one look and said you know what? i can do better than that. take a look. i think they're doing the bop. anyway the officer matched the 17-year-old step for step as everyone turned them on. she said the encounter changed. >> i was in shock. i was like, wow -- she said, what's your name. i was like, oh, yeah, we need more cops like you. >> she can dance. she has the moves.

she called the dance-off a tie. the d.c. police department declined to name the officer in the video. but it looks like they had fun. maybe this will be a movement. >> wouldn't that be something. if you haven't stepped outside, just wait. you're going to notice a bit of a warmup. will it last? chuck bell will let you know. another story we're keeping taps on this morning. the minor crisis womping europe. hundreds of people looking for a better life. new details involved the scandal in maryland's public housing. who's getting inv

this morninging we're getting a look at draw massic rescue. migrants were dumped into the water after their boat overturned. at least three died. the coast guard brought 242 survivors to the island. almost two dozen were children. baltimore's housing commission says the federal investigation is now under way. 11 women living at three different public housing complexes have filed lawsuits against the baltimore housing

commission. they say the maintenance workers demanded sexual favres for repairs. the lawsuits were filed last month. we want to get an update on your forecast now. we'll start with meteorologist chuck bell. >> all right. thanks, aaron. eun, a fairly mild start to the day. there's one more little round of showers here near parkersburg, west virginia. at the rate they're going, you're about six hours away from the metro. that puts them at between 10:00 and 11:00. for later on today, it will be t-shirt weather for sure as temperatures should climb. out of the 60s now. up into the low 70s this afternoon. bus stop weather, a mild morning, dry for now. breezy. a lot of puddles out there on the playground. we're talking about the weekend forecast. for now, traffic at the top of the hour. >> you can see we still have

lots of green on the maps that does not seem to be slowing things right now. we do have a crew today to show you what's happening. outer loop, we had a report of a crash. not seeing anything there. i just wanted to warn you in case you're headed out there sometime soon. near g.w. parkway, we have standing water. because of all that rain, 66 inbound no problems. going to take you ate minutes. i'll see you in 10. >> the third presidential gop debate in the books. who won? the numbers coming in this morning showing you what you think. >> get ready. we just received a new update on bei bei. the new milestone the ♪

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a quick update now from the live desk and that was a bomb threat. megan mcgrath did check out the scene a few minutes aelg and found out it is, in fact, clear after someone phoned in a bomb threat to police this morning. so that's the latest. back to you guys in the studio. >> marco, when you signed up for this, this is a six-year term. you should show up for work. >> it appears senator marco rubio was ready for that attack. that's what "meet the press" moderator chuck todd tweeted right after the skparj. the florida senator's team quickly calling that a win for marco rubio. jeb bush's team also declaring a

win, releasing bush's attack without rubio's response. tracie potts is on capitol hill with more on the winners and losers. tracc tracy, theci tracie, there's a new cnbc poll out. >> yes. you know, depending on where you look, social media out there sort of all over the place in terms of who won this thing. facebook, most of the discussion on facebook was about ted cruz. twitter, donald trump actually did get most mentions on twitter, 22%, but that's way down from the 37% he got on the last debate. >> tracie, i want to talk more about marco rubio. a lot of people saying his perform was wrong and sort of might catapult him more this this race. >> he had a big clash with rubio. he came in with a scathing editorial about his boating record in washington, why he

submitted so many votes and he was clearly ready to enter it. he got into it with jeb bush, bush saying, look, you need to show up to the job. rubio's response saying i don't remember you making that same criticism of john mccain when you supported him. someone must have told you that this would help your campaign. >> they say he fell flat trying to create a moment. what is this about a promise to kiss democrats? i think i missed that last night. >> that was pretty interesting. if they can come up with certain budget deals, he'll give them a big fat kiss. there were a lot of moments last night. and some of them were for the undercards. there were people like john kasich who really came out swinging at donald trump saying, look, we geesht to elect someone

who can do the job here and some of the criticism and review of the debate, some of the candidates not at the top of the polls had pretty good moments. as a group, maybe it was the undercard candidate. >> and the analysis continues. tracie potts on capitol hill. thanks. >> i'll be a president that works for all of us and not just for billionaires. >> while republican candidates campai campaigned, bernie sanders did his own. he said there are too many people in jail. we told you about this story that was developing yesterday morning in the alexandria section of fairfax county. the driver antony beatty and a passenger describe. fairfax county police tell us the two were speeding on beacon hill road going the wrong way on

that street. they lost control, hit a curb and drove through rea wynder's yard. >> i thought there was mist in the air. it wasn't. it was debris in the car. >> last year a fire truck broke through. the family that lives there was not there during the crash. police are looking to see if the driver was under the influence of drugs or alcohol. a reward for information on who hit a marine has gone up. authorities bleak that truck will have damage on its passenger side. there is a billion-dollar battle brewing in our area, one that's been going on for years and could directly impact the health insurance rates for millions of people in our region. at the center of the fight is

carefirst blue cross/blue shield and is looking at whether they're complying with requirements to spend federal funds. they want them to freeze any rate until they start paying out. >> we're talking $56 million at a minimum, we think. some of it could go to rate reductions. some of it could go to build clinics. some of it could go to public health education campaigns. >> carefirst says d.c. is wrong and there is no excess surplus. the district's insurance commissioner is expected to render a final ruling in early december. >> the d.c. health department is trying to figure out what happened to drugs that went missing from sibley memorial hochlt two nurses are without their licenses at least for now and four others are being investigated after being accuse of stealing drugs. officials are trying to figure out whether the drugs are unaccounted for because of an error or something else.

the national zoo's 2-month-old panda cub, look at her -- at him. zookeepers say that's earlier than she did with either of her two previous cubs. you remember tai shan and bao bao? bao bao still lives at the zoo. >> i don't remember that. >> they were worried that mei xiang may be a little rough, but she's an experienced mom. he's growing at faster rate, so he might be bigger and turfer. >> trust mom. mom knows what they're doing. >> they are large animals. they get big and tough and ferocious. >> next thej you know, you have a bear on your hands. it was an open window drive in to work this morning. temperatures in the 60s around

the metro area. the cooler air is coming our way but it won't arrive until the sun goes down tonight. we'll still have plenty of clouds outside early this morning. most of the rain has temporarily ended, although there could be a spotty shower or two. rain chances are fairly low, but they're not quite zero. right now, though, it is a mild 64 degrees. that is our average high temp for this time of the year. here it is. mid-60s early in the morning. mid-50s in the shenandoah valley. 59, culpeper. big view. there's the main area of low pressure that's bringing snow to the great lakes. here's the next little shot of moisture coming our way. most of this, according to our computer models is going to dry up. if it holds together, it's about 5 to 6 hours away. here's future weather on our high resolution model. by 10:00, it has most of that first rain chance drying up as it comes on by, but it does bring back some clouds this afternoon and maybe a hit or

miss shower. southern maryland by 3:00 or 4:00. it never really bridges any real chances for rain to the metro. you can get away but the pocket that you height on your desk at work just in case, you may need that. temperatures, nice and mild. all right thinking about your weekend? i know you are. saturday for trick-or-treaters, looks like it's going to be cool and try. we fall back, move the clocks back one hour before saturday night and change the battery in your smoke detector. and now to the traffic, melissa mollet. >> we could start to see a little bit of a slowdown. this morning we had megan mcgrath on the way.

inner loop at old georgeton, 66 and 95, we don't have any problems. everything looking good. no rain to speak of. 270 at old hundred road. that's not old hundred road. that's 270. everything's looking fine. i saw it. in the district, moving along fine. no problems there. "weather & traffic on the 1s." we'll see more with problems aet the top of the beltway. it sounds like something out of a horror story. it's actually an i-team investigation, why a stretch of road in rockfield is spooking a lot of people. and it's something a lot of parents don't do, so why did a prince george's county principal spank a student. the allegations made. waiting to shop until you drop. the report this morning on when is the best time to do your holiday

if you run over somebody, it's usually because you were driving too fast or you didn't look before you turned or you didn't stop for someone in the crosswalk. always be alert. pedestrians don't come with airbags.

right now. starting to see a slowdown. a jackknifed tractor trailer forcing everybody to the right side of the roadway. that's the only lane getting by. we have a crew on the way. details coming up. a principle at a school in prince george's county is off the job this morning, at least for now. the school administration made that move after a report. several parents claim the principal was spanking students.

>> we asked our daughter how hard was he hit, and she said, well, the teacher hit him hard, but she hit this other boy harder. >> a spokesperson from the prince george's county school says they want to make it clear that this is just an investigation and that the principal did not do anything wrong. today is the day some of you anxious holiday shoppers have been waiting for. adobe just released its forecast for the best day to shop for holiday deals. they predict prices overall will be the lowest on thanksgiving day with an average discount of 27%. the best time to buy toys will be the saturday before thanksgiving. electronics, the monday before, and monday will be the best day for deals on jewelry. a "news4" i-team investigation racing concern about a threat of towing lots. take a look. this is what you would see if

you went there at night. warning signs and barbed wire down a stretch of pitch black road. the i-team learned there have been moformal complaints about e lot because they are scared. >> i'm a 200-pound man. the uber driver didn't feel safe leaving me. >> the i-team called the tow companies to ask about it. one responded saying they don't own the lots but rent them. they say they did install a motion detecting light near their front gate. breaking news. have a jackknifed tractor trailer with only one lane getting by. we'll talk about that. a big look at the beltway. we