their welfare and today we can put that to rest. >> first, closure on a crime spree that has rattled nerves for 11 years. >> three prominent alexandria residents killed in their homes and one man is going to prison for the rest of his life marking the end of a long, painful chapter for family members of the victims. >> we have team coverage tonight. we begin with david culver. he's at the courthouse in fairfax now with reaction to the verdict today and the sentencing. david? >> reporter: the jury took their time with this case, 13 hours in deliberations over the course of two and a half days and then another two hours when it came to deliberating this sentence. in the end they did what prosecutors asked of them. they showed charles severance little mercy, convicting him on all ten counts that he faced and giving him the maximum punishment. the murders of ruthanne lodato, ron kirby and nancy dunning stretched just over a decade and left the alexandria community

frozen in fear. tonight, charles severance convicted of the horrific killings will spend his life behind bars. the victims' family members took the stand ahead of his sentencing. >> we had long ago lost hope that justice would ever come, and our relief today is mixed with anguish that our dad is not here standing beside us finally feeling the weight of cruel and unfair suspicion being lifted from his shoulders that had already carried a too-heavy load. >> dunning's daughter told the jury her boys never got to meet their grandmother killed in 2003. some day, hopefully a long time from now i'll have to tell my boys what happened to their grandma. i want to be able to tell them the man who killed your grandma will be in jail for his entire life and you don't need to be afraid. marilyn kirby broke down and said i've lost my hero and my best friend. >> kirby's widow said the last

thing she remembered her husband giving her driving directions. the last thing he said was call me if you get lost. i'm truly lost without him. it's hard to recall those times. ruthanne was kind caring, pragmatic, loving, calm and loyal. she was the best mother and partner. she loved me and for that i'm truly grateful. >> ruthanne's absence in our lives is an unfillable void. this verdict provides more strength to our family to continue our lives in a manner that would make her proud. >> really an overwhelming amount of emotion coming from that courtroom today and severance will be back in court in late january. it's then, doreen that the judge will decide whether to uphold the jury sentence. >> david culver, thank you. we just heard from relatives of the victims, but the question all along has been whether jurors would be able to convict

charles severance without any physical evidence in the case. the prosecutor just answered that question. let's go to darcy spencer live with that side of the story. darcy? >> reporter: doreen, obviously we were hoping to speak at length to some of these jurors about their deliberations. unfortunately, they were not up for that tonight. they were escorted out to their vehicles to the parking garage. i was able to get a couple of quick comments and he was saying one, he was very happy about what he was able to do as a juror and they would let the verdict speak for itself and they were doing difficult work listening to grueling testimony and very awful testimony about the murders of three people. this is very hard work and then they had to render those verdicts and then today go directly to sentencing, recommending those three life sentences. as you said, was there some concern whether they would deliver the guilty verdicts

because of these cases being largely circumstantial, but just minutes ago, the prosecution, they expressed confidence in the case. >> in most murders you'll have to rely on circumstantial evidence. dna itself is circumstantial evidence and so the reality of it is, the circumstantial evidence if it leads to one and only one conclusion is power and the jury agreed with my position on that in this case. >> the defense attorneys did not offer any comment today. severance's parents have been here throughout the trial. they issued a very brief statement. they did not go on camera, but their statement says, in part, we respect the verdict that the jury reached today and they expressed their deepest sympathies all three families and their son now facing three life sentences. back to you. darcy spencer, thank you. charles severance was not the only person that police investigated. find out what police said today about a former sheriff who died under a cloud of suspicion.

that's coming up in our next half hour. breaking news now on a story first seen here on news 4. back to square one at metro. that agency's top candidate for general manager is now out of the running. transportation reporter adam tuss joins us now. it's the story you've been following for weeks now. >> reporter: this is frankly unbelievable. metro was this close to signing this general manager and neal cohen had a background in aerospace and defense. he had a financial background. he had a background with the airline, and it just didn't get done. we are told with sources over the past couple of days after cohen got out there he grew increasingly uneasy with all of the attention that was being put upon him and the two sides had a conference call this morning and finally withdrew, the talks broke down. what happens next? metro will have to go back to the remaining candidates that it had set up. remember, they had a search firm, lackland partners that has been looking for general managers to run the transit

agency and metro will in essence have to go with its tail between its legs to the candidates and finalists knowing they had wanted this one guy to be the general manager and ask them if they want to take the reins at the transit agency. what a mess. all we can hope for is that metro finds a permanent general manager soon because the transit agency needs that in a bad way, jim. >> adam tuss. thank you, adam. looking at the presidential race and the unrest. the candidate lining up new debate rules and donald trump says he will negotiate his own terms. in the meantime, jeb bush trying to reboot a stalled campaign. steve handelsman has our report. >> i know i can fix it because i've done it. >> reporter: jeb bush means fix washington, but after disappointing many in the last debate he's trailing in a new florida poll done since the debate. donald trump is far ahead and then marco rubio, ben carson and

jeb bush. for the slam to rube io and tru. >> the solution won't be found in someone who has never shown the capacity to implement new ideas and you can't tell congress you're fired and go to commercial break. >> reporter: also in florida was ben carson who notes it's voters putting him high in the polls. >> it tells me that they're a lot smarter than anybody thinks they are. >> reporter: carson is a leader in the push to reformat the debates. >> the last debate was a farce, and something needs to be done about it. >> reporter: bypassing the republican party. candidates aides are drafting proposed changes for debate sponsors like more substance as opposed to gotcha or frivolous questions. no asking for raised hands and no lightning round and no candidate to candidate questions. >> how that might help rand paul who is polling 3% nationally or chris christie who is at 2% is not clear. >> i hope this next debate will be focused on the issues that matter to folks. >> the one-time front-runner

went to orlando to try to fix being fifth in the race. >> candidates are working on their demands for debate changes and the next debate is a week from tomorrow. it's pretty tight said ben carson today to settle on new debate rules. i'm steve handelsman, news 4, doreen? >> thank you. there is a key vacancy at d.c.'s board of elections before next year. executive director clifford tatum is resigning next month. that resignation comes after a rough year for the board and it was criticized for paid for and electronic ballots and polling places had problems gathering and reporting results from the 2014 mayor's race. only two of the three board positions are filled as the search begins for the new executive director. just days after thousands of prisoners were released from custody, the president is announcing new initiatives to try to help them find jobs. he detailed the plan at a drug treatment facility in new

jersey. today the most significant one is called ban the box. it means federal job applications will no longer have a check box for criminal background. >> it is relevant to find out whether someone has a criminal record. we're not suggesting ignore it. what we are suggesting is when it comes to the application, give folks a chance to get through the door. >> several states including new jersey have already banned the box and there is a bill in congress to do the same thing nationwide. a man o's body found near a popular shopping center and police are trying to figure out what happened to him. he was 22 years old and found along contour road near the montgomery village plaza today. someone found his body this afternoon in a wooded area nearby and called police. other than the man's age, police are not releasing anymore information in the case at this time. >> now to a warning about a couple of credit card thieves.

police believe they work in tandem and spend big bucks on other people's dime. they're targeting shoppers at a popular rockville shopping plaza. pat collins is live with advice to keep your cards safe and secure. pat? >> reporter: doreen, when you go shopping what do you do to keep your credit cards safe? >> honestly, it's in my purse and i keep that close to me, but it's not very safe. >> my purse is always on me. >> reporter: at all times. >> at all times. never leave it on the shopping cart. always up under my armpit. >> reporter: all of the time? >> all of the time. the scene, federal plaza in rockville. police say some distract and steal thieves are targeting women shoppers and stealing their credit cards and sometimes day goes by before they suspect anything. >> most likely she leaves her purse unattended shopping, doesn't notice the suspect go into her purse and he removes a

card or two and places her wallet back in her purse and simply walks away. >> police release pictures of two suspects in the case. they say these two use just one stolen credit card to go on a shopping spree at five stores and then stop to eat at mcdonald's. >> what's going on here has shoppers on alert. >> i'm really careful. >> reporter: very careful. >> i'm extremely, very careful. >> reporter: because you never know. >> because you never know. that's very true, but i will be even more careful. >> reporter: now police believe there may be even more victims, people who don't even know they're victims yet. jim, back to you. >> thanks, pat. still ahead today, a busy intersection and a dangerous history. tonight there are calls for change after a deadly hit and run in alexandria. >> plus new crews after a russian passenger plane crashes

as isis takes responsibility, but the black boxes could be the key to revealing what really happened. >> we saw a lot of cloud cover today, but the rains stayed just down to the south. that storm system moving out. i'll show you what's moving in next in my forecast. narrator: for state senate, who shares our values? jeremy mcpike - supports school funding. thinks women should make their own health care decisions. and favors background checks on all gun sales.

hal parrish? as mayor, he slashed education. fought to block women's health clinics. parrish gets an "a" from the gun lobby - they oppose background checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. virginia extreme or mainstream? vote mcpike for virginia. feinblatt: everytown for gun safety action fund sponsored this ad.

a dedicated effort under way to find what caused a deadly

crash of a russian air leaner. both of the planes' black boxes were recovered from the wreckage that was strewn over seven miles in the sinai peninsula in egypt. the flight recorders, that is, should reveal exactly what happened before that airliner crashed on saturday. nbc's bill neely reports now the airline and the russian government are already at odds. >> reporter: investigators have two huge pieces of evidence to work with. the two black box flight recorders that egyptian and russian investigators have been working with here all day in cairo. those two black boxes will eventually tell them and us a great deal about how this flight seemingly fell from the sky. >> one of the things that you can't rule out at this time is whether or not there was an explosive device of some sort on the aircraft. >> we know that the plane fell very quickly, that it broke

apart in mid air and that the pilot didn't issue any may day call. the airline that operates the plane, metro jet said earlier on, the only feasible reason for the break up in the air was some sort of impact, the mechanical and physical impact in the aircraft. >> this is the only explanation why there was not a single attempt to establish communication to report the emergency situation onboard. >> the russian authorities came back quite quickly and said that wasn't true. they said that claim is premature and not grounded in real facts. dozens of investigators have been looking at the 12 different areas where major sections of the plane came down, looking for evidence of something explosive from inside the plane or indeed, something that might have struck the plane from outside. >> most of the bodies of those who were killed on this crash have now been taken from cairo and are back in their home city

of st. middle of hurricane joaquin. there were 33 crew members onboard. a lawyer for one of them just announced a lawsuit earlier today. it's been nearly six months since the mansion murders horrified people in our area. now the house is up for sale for $3.75 mi $3.75 25 million, it was boarded up after being set on fire. inside the house, first

responders found four murder victims, savopoulos and their house keeper and a many named darren wendt has been charged in the case. if you play the slots in the casinos in maryland your odds may change. a new rule that would let cass inos lower the average payouts from their slot machines. scott macfarlane and the news 4 i-team found out they have customers concerned about how much they win or lose. >> the i-team pulled casino records and found maryland slots pay off an average amount for now, less than most casinos in delaware and more than some in west virginia, but we also obtained surveillance footage showing maryland casino gamblers head butting machines. they were complaining they don't pay out enough money.

the new regulation maryland is considering that truly could cut the amount those slot machines pay at local cass inos and why health experts say it's problem gamblers who could pay a big price for it. >> the state would keep more money because they would be more revenue from the slot machines and there would aren't be more money going into the gambling fund. >> how much would players notice if the slot machine payouts drop and why they want to lower the payouts in the first place? our full report tonight on news 4 at 11:00. back to you. >> tomorrow will be an important day for some local voters. every general assembly seat in virginia is on the line and there is also a mayor's race that's gotten pretty interesting. the man in charge of alexandria for more than a decade could lose his job and he is down to a write-in campaign in an effort to keep it. >> how are you? >> democratic nominee for alexandria mayor, allison

silverberg, physically hobbled by an achilles tendon injury and aggressively campaigning in tomorrow's general election. >> we're a city of great neighborhoods. >> silverberg is trying to turn back a well financed campaign by bill yule. he lost to silverberg by 321 votes in the june primary, when donnelly split the vote. donnelly now supports eulle. he faces an up hill task. he's not on the ballot. voters must correctly write in his name and so silberberg and other issues disagree with the development in this historic, but growing city of 150,000. polls are open at 6:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. tomorrow. in alexandria, tom sherwood, news 4. we just published four things you should know about the election in the nbc washington

app. to find it search election. coming up, an outbreak of e. coli linked to chipotle restaurants. why more cases are likely to pop up as health officials try to figure out the source of a problem. problem. >> an uber driver i'm jill mccabe, candidate for state senate, and i sponsored this ad. all the mouthwash in the world won't help dick black. because what comes out of his mouth is just offensive. black said gays and lesbians lead "lifestyles that are harmful to the culture of this state." he dismissed rape in the military, calling it "as predictable as human nature." black opposes the use of birth control

and voted to force women seeking abortions to have intrusive transvaginal ultrasounds. dick black. so extreme, it's dangerous.

and now your storm team 4 forecast. we're looking at a pretty good forecast over the next couple of days and if you wanted to hold on to the short sleeves and you wanted to put it on for the next couple of days, here's the one big difference from last week. the sun set over an hour ago. sun set tonight was at 5:07 and now down to 59 degrees and still dealing with clouds, but starting to see some clearing and that will help temperatures to cool over the next couple of hours and 52 in winchester and still 57 in fredericksburg and temperatures will cool tonight, but it's still going to be a mild night. talking about the shorter days. yes, the sun went down earlier this afternoon at 5:07 in the evening. sunset, though, before 5:00 and it goes down at 4:59 on november 10th and stays in the 4:00 hour all of the way to january 4th. we've got a lot of short days coming over the next few months and nothing on the radar and you can see some returns here and

that's nothing going on and we've got the rain down to the south and nothing in our region and we're now starting to see some clearing as far as the cloud cover is concerned and this is a storm down to the south that did bring a lot of rain to areas like georgia and the carolinas even into southern virginia, but it never made its way our way and good news there even though we could use the rain. that storm moves out and what moves in is some very mild air and good day to get out on the golf course, 65 by 11:00 and by 3:00 in the afternoon looking good around 72 degrees and that's 10 degrees about the average high and look at the numbers around the region and 72, manassas and 73 in fredericksburg and again, abundant sun shooen will be the rule during the day tomorrow. the impact forecast with the forecast like that and that impact will be on the low side, and i really think we'll have a low-impact weather week for the most part and it will be mild, rather sunny and nice. the next couple of days we will see a little bit more of an impact on thursday and friday and that's because we have the

chance for shower activity and tuesday and wednesday looking great and highs in the low 70s beth days and that's in most locations and 72 on tuesday and wednesday. 7 of 68 on your thursday and we are calling for a 30% chance of a shower and i'm not too worried about it and 68 degrees and a few showers possible, but most of those showers will be very, very light. take the umbrella, yes, but you can most likely just keep it in the purse during the afternoon and keep it in your pocket and take the little umbrella and that's the one we're talking about because i think we'll be dealing with pretty nice weather for the most part on thursday. chance of showers on friday and a high temperature of 78 degrees and coming up around 6:45, we'll talk much more about that and the november heat will last through the weekend and just how cool some of those numbers will be and we'll talk about that coming up at 6:45. >> thank you, doug. we'll see you then. a deadly hit and run near a local high school and it happened at a busy intersection with a history of problems and why some say why a change may be

making matters even worse. while charles severance's conviction may bring closure to the families of the victims and why one he hopes one law enforcement officer who died under the cloak of suspicion gets closure, too. we're following breaking news in the district. two bodies have been found inside a home in northeast d.c. this is on tennessee avenue about a block or so from lincoln block. officers went to the house to check on someone's welfare and found a man and woman dead inside. detectives are calling their deaths suspicious, but aren't saying much more than that. jackie benson is on the scene and we'll push

now at 6:30 we're working on several big stories including a deadly hit and run at a busy intersection. why neighbors say something needs to be done before tragedy strikes here again. a local police department is cutting overtime hours and now some homicide detectives are saying they're working for free so they can close some priority cases. >> first, a serial killer sentenced for three high-profile murders. the conviction of charles severance is bringing calm to a community that's been yearning for answers for more than ten years. mark segraves joins us live with

reaction. mark? >> reporter: that's right, and you heard from the victims' families including the dunnings family who said that this verdict not only brings closure because their mother's killer is behind bars, but their father's name has now been cleared once and for all. >> during the trial of charles severance his defense attorney was allowed to tell the jurors that nancy dunning's husband, sheriff jim dunning had been considered a person of interest during the investigation and that some had considered him a suspect. alexandria's police chief hopes today's verdict puts that suspicion to rest once and for all. >> i hope and pray that his family will be able to do that for him. we can't go back. his own health issues, obviously he lost his life before we could get here. mr. dunning was a sheriff and he was a law enforcement officer, within our community, i would have liked to have seen to be

exonerated in anyone's mind that he had anything to do with this homicide. we will never be able to do that for him, but hopefully we can do that for his surviving family. >> reporter: neighbors of all three victims feel safer now and are happy to have this chapter in alexandria's history closed. >> very scary. yeah, i'm glad they cut him and definitely feels better about where we live. >> i don't know what closure is. it's nice to know that somebody was found culpable and it's sad. it will never bring ruthanne back, so that's the worst part of this whole thing. >> neighbors in both of these neighborhoodeds tell us they're glad charles severance will spend the rest of his life behind bars and they add it will never bring their friends and neighbors back. jim, back to you in the studio. >> thanks. a concierge at an apartment building in arlington has been accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy.

police say it happened early yesterday morning inside the building on north randolph street near the boston mall. the victim says this man ahmad el khatib touched him inappropriately while he was sleeping in the building's club room. the boy woke up, ran away and told his parents and police arrested el khatib after looking over security video. tonight changes to a busy road in fairfax county as police look for a driver in a deadly hit and run. the man was hit and killed near brooklyn road inial dpand alex. derrick ward reports on what neighbors want done. >> reporter: police say 64-year-old ali kahn was trying to cross franconia road here, close to the intersection with brookland road and he made it half way across that was hitting the vehicle leading west and it kept going after hitting him. >> we're looking for information

that anyone may have witnessed the evidence to please contact us. >> reporter: kahn died on the scene and the car that hit him was a white or light-colored van or suv. it's been a troubled road for quite some time. >> if you go too far it's taking a chance to walk across the street. it's a busy road. >> yes. definitely, we need traffic lights here because it's very, very dangerous. >> reporter: roxanna alvarado says folks with the neighborhood association at brookland estates have been calling for some sort of measure, thing is there is a light and cross walk just yards away and it's here partially because of a death. michael leary says that victim was his friend. >> she was hit right there in 1996 and to hear that happen again and they have a light there is a shame. >> reporter: the only description police have of the

vehicle that hit mr. kahn was a light or white suv. it may have sustained damage. derrick ward, news 4. staff cuts and cuts in overtime have created a bigger case load for homicide detectives and some of them say they've been working extra hours without pay. today our bureau chief, tracee wilkins learned that the police department is making some changes in an effort to solve that problem. >> it's the cases that have gone a little bit cold that need more investigations and the guy needs to come in on a saturday and not being authorized overtime to do that. >> today the police department says it has hired three new detectives and it is making staffing adjustments in order to lighten the case load. trouble at a popular fast food chain and an e. coli outbreak forces chipotle to close dozens of restaurants and

why dozens could get sick even though the risk period is over. an uber driver forced to fight back after he was attacked on the job. a quick move that helped him get away. >> we're seeing warmer temperatures over the last couple of days and rising 10 to 15 degrees above average, as we head into the weekend. i've

an uber driver says he's done taking passengers after this violent attack in california over the weekend. edward caban says the trouble started the moment he picked up the passenger, the guy was drunk, screamed profanities and lost consciousness several times. when he told him to get out of the car the passenger attacked him. he maced the guy and called police. he said this attack was the last straw. >> i wanted to make sure he didn't get away. i have lost so much money on people like him, and i am just done dealing with it.

people like that take the food right out of my mouth. >> the rider was arrested and is now facing assault charges. uber has banned him from ever using the service again. only one of the students burned in a chemistry -- in a fire in a chemistry class in fairfax is still in the hospital tonight. five students and the teacher were injured on friday when an experiment led to the fire at w.t. woodson high school. the student who was still in the hospital is undergoing surgery for burns and we have just learned that the fairfax county schools are making changes after that mishap. the superintendent says she has stopped the use of open flames in all classrooms until further notice. the board of education also is reviewing the science curriculum and high school teachers will be required to undergo safety training immediately. we could still see new reports of illnesses linked to chipotle restaurants out west

even though dozens of restaurants are closed. the change shut down 43 looks in oregon and washington state out of an abundance of caution. 22 case of e. coli poisoning are linked to six restaurants in that region. health officials say more people could still get sick because e. coli infections account get sick after eating tainted food. no chipotle restaurants in our area have been impacted by this outbreak. the man they're calling the forever loyal bandit may have struck again. we'll show you the video that might lead to his arrest. another sign of our times and why the high cost of housing

narrator: for state senate, who shares our values? jeremy mcpike - supports school funding. thinks women should make their own health care decisions. and favors background checks on all gun sales. hal parrish? as mayor, he slashed education. fought to block women's health clinics. parrish gets an "a" from the gun lobby - they oppose background checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. virginia extreme or mainstream? vote mcpike for virginia. feinblatt: everytown for gun safety action fund sponsored this ad. you may think all people who run for office are pretty much the same... but not jill mccabe.

she's a doctor... who's a pediatric emergency room physician at inova loudoun hospital. she's a mom... who knows the value of a quality education. she's a community leader... who will work in the state senate to reduce traffic and use some common sense. jill mccabe. she's not a politician... and in richmond, she'll work for us.

i'm chris lawrence at the live desk and we have an update to the news that adam tuss alerted us to just in the last couple of hours, the fact that metro's top choice to be its new gm is no longer in the running. virginia governor terry mcauliffe just issued a blistering statement on this latest setback. i'm going to read you just a little bit of what the governor said. i am outraged by this latest setback in a process that would be comical if the need for new leadership at metro were not so great. he talks about identifying and qualifying is the responsible

and they have to get in there to oversee the operational changes that are essential. the leaks and petty political sniping that have come to define the work of this board are harming the metro system and the region that is serves. it's lang past time for the board of directors to bring this process to a board. >> neal cohen, the first choice for metro to be his first gm and we just found out a couple of hours ago that he is no longer in the running and metro has been operating with an interim gm. we'll stay on top of it and push you any alerts and bring you updates at 11:00. >> the fan the fbi calls the forever loyal bandit, they have returned to the scene of one of the previous crimes. >> he got that nickname because of the t-shirt he wears during each of the holdups. saying, forever loyal. >> today, fairfax county police released these pekt frurs a robbery of a capital one bank,

and it happened on friday at the center corner center branch in the falls church area. that was the same bank robbed in the summer of 2014 when the forever loyal bandit first struck. he is now responsible for three bank hold ups and one attempted robbery. >> we've heard a lot about millennials, it seems and now there's this. local city planners are trying to figure out a way to keep them happy. as adam tuss report, 34% of the population in the metro area are now millennials. >> reporter: the millennials they love what the d.c. metro region has to offer. >> i like being in the city, broadly speaking. that's where the scene is and where everything fun is and where the good food is. >> many like joseph katz don't like the rising cost of rent something that could drive him away, far away. >> it's half my paycheck everyone month. >> you need a livable, walkable,

bikable community and make it affordable and that's not an easy task. io landes yolanda cole is trying to rethink the design of buildings as millennials get older. >> maybe we can take some of the amenity-rich apartment buildings and instead of being a club room, it could be a play room or you could have storage for those big, plastic toys that everyone has and change your dog washing station to a toy washing station. >> another finding, everybody wants outdoor space, a premium in a place like d.c. according to this study, about 6 in ten millennials want to buy a home in the coming years. if everyone moves away, that will put a huge extra demand on roads and routes and it becomes more important to keep people in the right places. in the district, adam tuss, news 4. now to the weather where the heat is on in november. it's nice out there. >> it happens every once in a while. the temperatures in the next

couple of days in the 70s. >> gotta love it. >> a lot of people don't like it. you know what we like? >> sunshine? >> we like that you were honored last night by the washington steeler lab. you had no idea. >> no, i didn't and someone should have told me, but go ahead. >> what fun would that be? >> to make theater education available to everyone regardless of income. he's been involved in this since 2004 when someone took the stage -- >> somebody should have warned me. >> the shakespeare theme in pajamas. >> we did romeo and juliette in pajamas. >> what was that about? >> it was about her calling me romeo, romeo, where you be? is what she said. >> 20 minutes of the most embarrassing time i've ever spent in my life. we have the sound of it? oh -- >> we do? >> i want you to know that that was doreen's most and she'll tell you, her most embarrassing

moment of her entire life. she and i were in pajamas doing romeo and juliette. doreen is what they call my tv wife, but we ain't that close where doreen is going to call me romeo and ask where evfore art ? that ain't how she rolls. >> the benefit raised $240,000 for the theater lab scholarship outreach and education programs and by the way, chuck todd, political director and "meet the press" moderator is there to present the award. >> pretty good stuff. >> if there is anybody in washington that's busy, it's chuck and for him to take a sunday night. we had the world series and what's his name? >> aaron rodgers. you had -- anyway, a lot of things going on and congratulations to you. you've done a lot of stuff for the theater labs and some of it

embarrassing and a lot of it good for the community. good for you. >> can we go to weather now? >> you bet. >> i want to show you something else. another surprise for you. >> this is the sunset. take a look at this. the sun going down on what was a beautiful afternoon and we saw eight lot of cloud cover and look at that, just gorgeous. 59 degrees and temperatures dropping through the 50s by 11:00 and some of you into the 40s. so it will be a cool night, but that's what we expect this time of year and temperatures will be above average and 57 toward the springs. the radar, we're not going to see much rain over the next couple of days and just beautiful and warm. 68 to 73 degrees and really a great day on our tuesday and wednesday looking nice for the kids at the bus stop. 58 degrees with plenty of sunshine and by the time they're

at 3:00, 4:00, temperature around 70 degrees and recessed between around 10:00 and noon looks absolutely perfect. they can wear the shorts tomorrow. temperatures in the 70s and 72 degrees on wednesday and we see a chance of showers coming up on thursday with a high of 68 degrees and that chance of showers very, very low. friday a high temperature of 78 degrees and that comes with the cold front. that cold front comes through can bumps the temperatures way up and then we see temperatures falling for the weekend. friday, a chance of showers late in the evening and that might be out around the time for dinner and you may need the umbrella handy for that. falling temperatures during the afternoon and more sun on sunday, but we're talking about a cool sunday and most areas, upper 40s to low 50s as we make our way during the day on sunday. not too bad. can't complain about those 70s. >> thanks, doug. we have sports coming up. some familiar and very important faces back at practice out at

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we'll go out there and compete our butts off and play. >> no, they don't. >> i'm not sure how they do it. they put it on more confidently, i think. >> the patriots, they're just like us. they eat soup with a spoon. i want to see the evidence. the redskins and patriots, the redskins are on the road in new england and right now the redskins are double-digit underdogs. pat's favorite by 14 points and double digit underground status and that means disrespect. jason pugh reports on why the skins have a chance. >> the redskins are fresh off their bye week and this team is feeling refreshed and they're looking forward to facing the defending super bowl champions and they know for this matchup they'll need to bring their a-game. >> we have our work cut out, and i don't know how they feel and just to see them on the field it's very refreshing that we got everyone back on. >> as banged up as we were to

see the guys get the team back and start to take it, it feels good to make the late-season push and the division is there in front of this man and hopefully we can get guys back that have been hurting and we'll go out and compete. >> you want to go out with the guys and going into battle and doing what we're doing with the sport and being patient, but i'm just working through it. >> the biggest playmaker from a year ago has barely played this season. >> desean jackson was back at practice by two weeks and his california home was broken into by intruders and he became a father. >> i'm doing everything i can. it's a blessing to have my son here and i can focus on being an athlete and a dad at the same time. it will be good. >> getting back desean jackson would be a huge addition for the redskins team and the patriots have lost one game at home since the 2013 season. >> from ashburn, i'm jason pugh, news 4 sports.

>> thanks, jason. one other nfl note, vernon davis was traded to the broncos from the 49ers. good luck to him. frank beamer has said he would know when the time was right and after 29 years of coaching at his alma mater he said it is time and he's stepping down as virginia tech's coach after 29 seasons with the team. the announcement came today during an emotional press conference. >> the tough part about retiring is leaving the people you love the most and mean the most to you and that wasn't an easy time. the relationships and that's definitely what i'll miss the most. >> the coach has been so much more than a football coach to me. everybody always asks me when i first got in the league and why did you go there over some of these other schools? it's that personal connection and it's that personal touch that those coaches just created with me and a lot of other players that they were able to

recruit and get to come to blackburg. >> frank beamer, a heck of a football coach and dancer apparently, as the video says. >> he'll work like heck to cement a 23rd straight bowl game. 2015 world series is history and guess who is the odds-on favorite to win 2016. >> who? >> the chicago cubs. >> yes, 10-1 odds and today it came out, the nationals a team with slightly lower odds and last night in kansas city royals it was a party. they completed the mission and they fell just shy of last year and the runners up in 2014, trailing 2-0 in the top of the ninth and casey rallied, with the victory over the mets and the royals' first title in 30 years and a parade is planned for tomorrow in kansas city. blue milk for everybody in kansas city. and guys, we just learned that kansas city public schools canceled school tomorrow. >> wow! >> all those kids were out to go

for the parade. that's our broadcast for now.

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