sources tell news4 the chase started in washington where the suspect carjacked someone. he assaulted the driver and took off with their camry. police went after him and he drove across the state line. now they're allowed to give chase and stopped him in southeast d.c. he shot at the officers. they fired become and hit him. >> and we've en working several breaking stories for you tonight since we saw you at 6:00. good evening. i'm jim handly. >> and i'm doreen gentzler. it's been a rough night on the roads in our area. emergency crews responding to several crashes during the first evening commute after daylight saving time. >> one of those crashes killed a 9-year-old girl. it happened on woodyard road in clinton, maryland tonight. that's where we find shomari stone. shomari? >> reporter: moments ago, the father of that 9-year-old girl just came to this intersection. he drove up and said i'm her father. he got back in his car and drove away. he is very upset, as i'm sure you all can understand. and this neighborhood is devastated.

>> that's a shame. >> reporter: allen lehman is saddened. a 9-year-old girl died in this crash near his house in prince george's county. >> this is a bad intersection. they have accidents probably once a month. but this is the first time i recall a fatality. >> reporter: police tell me the 9-year-old was a passenger in this bmw. her mother was the driver. they tried to make a left on to canberra drive from woodyard road. they turned in front of this car, police say, causing to it flip over. the driver has two broken legs. and an injured back. the 9-year-old died on the scene. and her mother isn't seriously injured. >> it's going to be tough on them and her. not to mention the rest of the family. >> reporter: it's the second crash tonight. at about 6:30 this evening, a car hit a pedestrian at

kenilworth avenue and riverdale road in riverdale. medics found one person with serious injuries. police haven't told us if it's a man or a woman. authorities did tell us the end of daylight savings could be cause mortgage accidents. according to the national safety council, traffic fatalities are three times greater at night than during the day. >> a shame. >> reporter: now police have not released the name of this 9-year-old. her father told me that she goes to school near this intersection. live from prince george's county in clinton, maryland, i'm shomari stone, news4. we want to thank you from the bottom of our heart. >> we had long ago lost hope that justice would ever come. >> now that the defendant is found guilty, we can finally start to mourn. >> tonight the beginnings of relief and closure for three families terrorized by a killer. now that man is expected to spend the rest of his life in prison.

the jury convicted charles severance on all ten counts today in the murders of ruth ann lodato, ron kirby and nancy dunning. they remmed three life sentences. in court kirby's widow recalls the last time she spoke to him, saying the last time he ever said to me was to call me when you get lost, and i am truly lost without him. the verdict brings a sense of closure to an entire community >> there is no cold case for a homicide of this nature. unfortunately, other victims got in the way of this particular person who committed these crimes. today hopefully that person will never harm anyone in any community again. >> charles severance is scheduled to officially be sentenced in january. his attorneys are expected to appeal. it's back to the drawing board tonight for metro. the year-long search for a general manager hit a huge snag today. news4 was first to report last week the transit agency had zeroed in on neil cohen.

but this afternoon, metro announced negotiations had ended. transportation reporter adam tuss now with what is next for metro. >> reporter: well, in the end, an aerospace and defense expert with a financial background and a background in aviation was not the man to run metro. neil cohen will not be the general manager of metro, even though the two sides were this close to signing a deal. sources say cohen became increasingly uneasy with his name out in the public before he had even signed a contract. and now what the metro board has to do is go back to the remaining candidates. we're told there are four other candidates that the metro board will go to, tell them the position is open once again, and see if they want to be the person that runs the transit agency. in the district, adam tuss, news4. >> the process to find a new gm started over a year ago when then general manager announced in september of 2014 that he

would be retiring. but just a month after he left the job, three finalists withdrew their names, forcing metro to start over. fast forward almost eight months, the fta assumes safety oversight in metro in part because of a lack of permanent leadership. then adam learned just last week that neil cohen would be tapped for the top spot. that all again changed today when metro announced it and cohen mutually agreed to part ways. right now d.c. police are trying to solve a mystery inside a home near capitol hill in northeast. a young couple found dead here on tennessee avenue here this afternoon. news4's jackie bensen has been tweeting updates from the scene all night. jackie, what are you hearing? >> reporter: doreen, i know that there is tremendous concern in this neighborhood about what is going on here. and right now i can tell you we have been given no official information from d.c. police about how these two people died. now they are described as a man and a woman, a couple in their late 20s or early 30s.

according to neighbors. now what we can tell you is that police are calling this a death investigation. not a homicide right now. and that the commander of the first police district is calling this an isolated incident. now there was an initial crime alert that went out this evening that referred to this as a shooting, we are told. that was in error that is not correct. now we do know police were called here around 3:30 this afternoon to check on the welfare of the couple. neighbors tell us they were in the process of renovating this town house and when we arrived, every window on the second floor was open. it is not clear whether police opened them. investigators also examined photographs and then towed away a vehicle that was parked nearby. my sources tell me there was no sign of forced entry into the house. so right now it appears that police are saying this was an isolated incident.

should it not be caused for greater concern in the neighborhood. but we have absolutely no confirmed information at this point about how these two victims died. live in northeast washington, jackie bensen, news4. >> jackie, thank you. part of the district shining a bit brighter tonight. community members organized the event to draw attention to the problem they say is plaguing their neighborhood. they tell us the area is way too dark at night, and there has been an uptick in crime because of it. tonight people brought flashlights, urging police to pay more attention to the northeast part of the district when it comes to crime prevention efforts. surveillance video helped police find a man accused of assaulting a 13-year-old boy in arlington. 31-year-old ahmed al khatib is accused of touching the boy while he slept in a room near the boston mall. the boy says he woke up and found his pants down. he quickly ran away and told a

cousin who works in the building. police arrested el khatib after looking at the surveillance video. big shake-up tonight at the top of the gop presidential field. in a new nbc news/wall street journal poll, dr. ben carson has taken a six-point lead over donald trump. carson's 29% is the highest number a gop candidate has received so far. the front-runners have also more than doubled their competition. marco rubio at 11%. ted cruz at 10. jeb bush in fifth right now with just 8%. tomorrow the man who has led alexandria for more than a decade could lose his job. mayor bill euille is waging a write-in campaign hoping to stay in office. he lost the democratic primary in june to allison silberberg. voters have to correctly write in his name in order for the ballot to count. democrats need one seat to swing the balance of power in the

senate. you can find four things to know about the virginia elections in our app when you search "election." in maryland, several municipal seats are up for grabs, including mayoral and city council elections in rockville, college park, and laurel. and we're talking about some very warm temperatures over the next couple of days. into the 70s. and we're even talking the upper 70s. much more about that. also notice the cool weather toward the weekend. that's all coming up in my forecast. next on 11, the odds already stacked against you. now some local casinos want to make it harder for you hit it big. the news4 i-team finds out who is in line to win. pick pockets targeting women at a local shopping center. >> it's a scary scenario. >> why it's taking days for the victims to find out. the changes just announced for fairfax county classrooms after the fire that sent five students to local hospitals.

at the top of the show,we told you how dangerous the roads have been tonight, and then just like that we've seen yet another accident. let's take you out now. we have live pictures. chopper 4 is up in silver spring, maryland, where there has been a hit-and-run. this is right around columbia pike near tech road that that is south of cherry hill road. again, this is all happening just in the last few minutes here. police are saying they are looking for a dark colored car that probably has some front end damage. again, a pedestrian crossing the street hit.

the driver took off. right now there is no confirmed fatality in this case. but we are keeping an eye on it and we'll stay on top of this story as it develops. doreen? >> thank you. two major developments in the wake of that chemistry class fire in fairfax county last week. we learn but all but one of the five students injured in the fire at woodson high school have now been released from the hospital. the students still in the hospital is undergoing surgery for serious burns. the fire started while a chemistry teacher was doing a demonstration last friday. today the school superintendent banned the use of open flames in the classroom until further notice. she also ordered a review of the school system's science curriculum and all science teachers will need to review safety protocols for the classroom. a pair of crafty thieves are using the art of distraction to rob women blind in montgomery county. police tell us the people in this surveillance picture stole from women in federal plaza in rockville.

one distracts the victim while the other steals a credit card from her purse. but they leave that purse behind. the move means it can take victims days to figure out the cards are missing. and it also gives the pick pockets more time to ring up a big bill with the cards. he is referred to by the fbi as the forever loyal bandit for the shirt he has been seen robbing banks in over the past couple of years in fairfax county. tonight new pictures of a serial bank robbery suspect in his latest attempt friday night in falls church. take a good look. maybe you can help find him. the fbi believes the man seen robbing the capital one bank in the seven corner center friday afternoon is the same man who robbed three other banks in the summer of 2014. maryland casinos want the right to make it harder for you to win at their slot machines. casinos have asked state leaders to lower the amount of money they're required to pay out when you pull the handle. a review by scott mcfarland and

the news4 i-team say some fear it's maryland's problem gamblers who might end up losing big-time. >> reporter: everyone hates to lose at the slots. but some people hate it more than others. watch these players at maryland live in recent month, beating, head-butting slot machines, breaking them. the video obtained from state police. some have even fired off e-mails and letters to maryland's state gaming commission complaining of low payouts. saying these machines have a low to nonexistent payout. i'm taking my money to delaware. another questioning if maryland is driving out gamblers on fixed incomes. >> the combinationsed on permutation and the noise and the themes. >> reporter: michael rosen says it's easy to be sucked in by the slot, even when you don't win. he should know. see a recovering problem gambler. >> you zone everything else out, especially today. when i was younger the slot machine was a one-armed bandit.

you pulled the handle. but now it's like playing a video game. >> reporter: he says it isn't money motivating some addicted gamblers. >> you're playing for the adrenaline. absolutely for the adrenaline. >> reporter: and soon even fewer gamblers could walk away winners. state officials say maryland casinos are now asking for permission to drop the payouts lower. using public records request, news4 team found the payouts at every casino in west virginia, maryland, delaware, and new jersey. and as you can see, most maryland casinos are near average. for now. a formal regulation change under consideration now would allow maryland to lower payout to as little as 87 cents on the dollar on average. lower than the payout at casinos throughout the region. and only one of the state's casinos, hollywood would tell the i-team why they're pushing for potentially lower payout, saying it's an opportunity for the casino and state-backed taxpayers who get a cut to

collect additional revenue. but some would worry what would happen next. >> problem gamblers are not very sensitive to payout. >> reporter: >> that's particularly problematic because lower payouts may attract more gamblers, may encourage people to gamble longer because they're hoping to win back the money they lost. >> reporter: even if the state rakes in more money from losing gamblers, it would not be required to spend more on programs to help problem gamblers. as of now casinos must pay $450 per slot machine each year into a fund to help the addicted. but state gaming officials say even if payouts are lowered and the regulations change, the fee would stay the same. >> the state would keep more money there would be more revenue from the slot machines, but there wouldn't be more money going to the problem gambling fund. >> reporter: michael rosen says no matter what changes are made the addict ready always drawn back until they seek help. >> there is always the hope they're going to hit. >> reporter: hollywood says it must stay competitive. it has no plans to change the

payouts of its slot machines and they want the change to allow casinos more flexibility there are safeguards in place to help problem gamblers in maryland, including a voluntary exclusion program in which more than 900 people have registered to ban themselves from state casinos. scott macfarland. on our app, more of the casino complaints the state received. you can check them out. click on investigation. doug is here with a check on our weather. we're getting a little bit of a break for november weather. >> we are going to see a very, very warm first week of november. today high temperatures into the mid-60s. the next couple of days, we're this the 70s. and by friday, we could get close to 80 degrees. out there right now, it's a nice cool night after what was pretty nice day. we're seeing a lot of cloud cover. now clearing skies, and that's allowing temperatures to cool. down to 52 right now with calm winds. a very nice night across our region. look at the numbers.

45 gaithersburg. 46 huntingtown. not cold for this time of year. the average low in d.c. is 44. i don't think we get anywhere close to that. i think we'll stay around the 50 degree mark. no rain to talk about. we've been on the dry side. look likes we're going to stay on the dry side through the next couple of days. chance of showers on thursday. we'll get to thursday in just a second. the rain was making its way up here. just like we told you, it would all stay down to the south. that's exactly what is going on. you can see the whole storm system moving to the east and taking the clouds associated with it out of here. a lot of rain for the carolinas. a lot of rain towards georgia today. but for us, we just saw the cloud cover around the region. for tomorrow, that storm system moves out. well see plenty of sunshine, and we are looking good. temperatures around 52 degrees. 57 by 9:00 a.m. rising into the 70s by around 1:00 or 2:00. it is really going to be a beautiful afternoon. and that means great for the kids at the bus stop. 7:00 to 8:00 a.m. nice temperatures around that 50 degree mark. nice and mild. this is in some of the suburbs, just outside the beltway. 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon.

once again, around that 70 degree mark. just in time for recess, we'll be in the low to mid-60s. recess possible is very good. maybe wear the jacket early. but that will be coming off during the day. the impact forecast is going to be on the low side for sure. mild, sunny, and very nice. the weather will have a very low impact on your day tomorrow. next couple of days, here is what you want to see. the temperatures 72 tuesday. 72 on wednesday. 68 on thursday. now, again, thursday we are going to watch for a chance of showers on thursday. let's take a closer look at thursday with 68-degree temperatures. still above average. a few showers possible. but most of them will be on the light side, if we see any at all. they will be very light. take an umbrella with you, just in case. now on friday, we'll see a cold front come through. that cold front out ahead of it will boost temperatures to 78 degrees. that's going to be a very warm day for sure. a lot of wind too. could be rather breezy. 30% chance of showers that would be late friday night. maybe by the time you're out to dinner. the weekend, 67 degrees on your saturday. 54 degrees on sunday. temperatures will actually fall

during the day on saturday. there will be more sun on sunday. and it's going to be a little bit of a chilly weekend. but all in all, not bad out there at all. the weather really looking quite nice by next monday. temperatures a little below average, but highs in the upper 50s. we'll take that too. right now enjoy the seven. >> we'll make the most of it, thank you. the redskins get ready for the super bowl champs and some much needed help might be on the way. >> carol is up next. but first here is jimmy fallon. >> thank you jim and doreen and everyone in washington, d.c. bryan cranston is my guest. bryan cranston is my guest. plus rachel

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is the xfinity sports desk, brought to you by xfinity, your home for most live sports. >> and before we get to sports, it's worth pointing out that doreen is rocking the gator orange and blue, true to her word. >> stop! >> you're wearing it well. >> it was a terrible game. >> did they get a field goal or did they get a field goal? >> no, no, just three points. georgia scored three points. >> the bulldogs gave it away. >> that is funny. >> next year. >> you know what is going to be even more shocking is if the redskins can pull it off. it's not crazy to think about. it is possible. it is. they have been double-digit underdogs before to the patriots in 2007. o of course they game they lost. d-jacks is back. desean jackson. he told us today he has been medically cleared to return. the official injury report will be released on wednesday. today the skins returned to work. it was so good to see number 1

practice jersey back out there. jackson says that hamstring is 100%. he has been given the green light to play. he strained the hamstring in the second week. there is no better time than against the patriots. >> they're a great team, super bowl champs. they're having a great year this year. and i feel it's a great opportunity for me to come back. you know, the team off of the great win last week. so just trying to get the momentum and go out there and play a good team and hopefully knock them off. >> we know how good they are, how well prepared they are. we just have to be as prepared as they are, and play harder and make some things happen and protect the football. and they put on their pants just like we do. we're going good out there and compete our butts off and play. >> i mean, i can't get over there. i think they do put on their pants like we do. elsewhere in the nfl, d.c. native and former maryland terp vernon davis is on the move. the two-time pro bowl tight end

has been trade from the 49ers to the broncos. not a bad deal for davis. he gets to join forces with peyton manning and an undefeated denver team. he was drafted by the niners in 2006. he is sixth in franchise history in receiving yards and fourth in receiving touchdowns. san fran just 2-6 this season. and guy, i'm hearing tonight they're benching colin kaepernick. fyi. frank beamer is retiring after head coach. the longest tenured coach in the country. the tears started flowing today just minutes into his official announcement. >> the tough part about retiring if you're leaving the people that you love the most. but mean the most to you. that wasn't an easy time. but i appreciate them. >> coach beamer has been -- been so much more than a football coach to me and a lot of other guys, man. we still talk to him to this day. so definitely we're sad about

it. but i know he is ready to kind of be done with this chapter in his life and move on to being a grandfather and, you know, being a father. so wishing the best for him and hoping he can find the right replacement. >> a list of guys trod replace him. he is trying to make three more games to coach. he is trying to make his 23rd straight bowl appearance. we just wanted to mention this story floating out if there right now picking up steam on social media. that the nats may be rethinking bud black as the manager there is a report on cbs, on twitter that says dusty baker is maybe going to get the offer. we'll stay tuned on that. just want to give the jaw-dropping news tonight

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that does it for us. it feels like 12:30, doesn't it? >> it kind of does. >> the tonight show is next. >> good night.

not yet. not yet. not yet! not yet. pull the peach! milk, fruit, cultures. mmmm, yoplait. ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- bryan cranston. rachel maddow. musical guest, andrea bocell