i'm jackie bensen. a surprising development in a nearly four-year quest for justice for a transgender woman who claims she was raped in a dc jail.

cooler than this afternoon. i'll be walking you through your forecast hour by hour, coming up. a woman is accused of poisoning her co-workers. i'm shomari stone. i'll tell you all about it, at 11:00. >> announcer: news4 at 11:00 starts now. only on news4, a dc judge makes a surprising ruling in a jail rape case. >> a transgender woman claims dc correction officers deliberately placed her in a cell with he sexually assaulted her. her efforts to get justice went nowhere for nearly four years. >> but now a big development. news4's jackie bensen is outside the dc federal courthouse with the exclusive story. jackie? >> reporter: doreen, this new ruling is from a federal judge, and it allows the victim to sue the district and two corrections officers for placing her in a cell with an inmate who had previously been investigated for

>> because every day i think about, i was traumatized. i was raped. i can't -- i can't deal with it. >> reporter: those are the words of the victim, known only as jane doe, when she spoke to news4 in 2013, shortly after attorneys began representing her in a lawsuit that faced many that correction officers' actions on the job are protected by immunity. >> two of the guards were prevented from going to trial on constitutional claims that they violated the eighth amendment. >> reporter: in july of 2012, jane doe was serving time in the dc jail for a probation violation. court documents noted her file

transgender. ks means keep separate. she was initially housed alone in a protective custody cell. the lawsuit alleges on the night of july 17th, two corrections officers placed another inmate in her cell, a man who had a known history of violence in the dc jails. >> the guards knew what they were doing. this wasn't just an accident. >> reporter: the lawsuit claims that a review of security footage from that night during which jane doe says she was threatened with a knife and raped twice cell checks, standard procedure at the jail, were not conducted. >> nobody came to check up on me, no nothing. >> reporter: a spokesperson for the dc department of corrections says the agency does not comment on pending lawsuits. the trial is scheduled for december. live at u.s. distribute court, jackie bensen, news4. >> all right, jackie, thank you. you can hear that wind blowing in jackie's live shot. temperatures are falling fast in

and that's not the only weather development storm team 4 is tracking for you tonight. >> doreen, we're seeing the winds start to pick up. you can see the flags outside our studios in northwest washington. overnight tonight, we're going to have gusts from 15 to 20 miles per hour. what does that mean to you? not much tonight. it's not going to keep you up. the winds aren't going to be that strong. tomorrow, make sure those halloween decorations are tied down. if you're heading o you're dressed in layers, one of them being wind proof. we're going to have gusts tomorrow from 25 to 40 miles per hour at times. that's a pretty stiff wind throughout the day. right now you can see the wind gusts anywhere from 30 in manassas to 15 in gaithersburg. and that's going to produce an additional chill in the air. the latest check of storm team 4 radar, light rain in southern maryland. we're keeping a close eye on

move in. a lot of that will fizzle out. i can't rule out an isolated shower tomorrow morning. it's really all about the wind and cold tomorrow as we wake up to temperatures mainly in the upper 40s. i'm going to watching through your saturday hour by hour, coming up at 11:18. tonight the dc dmv can once again take credit cards after it was caught up in a massive cyber attack that disrupted everything from amazon to etsy. about this attack, the hacker used smart appliances to overwhelm the internet switchboard, including baby monitors and appliances, to swamp the services at dyn, a company that connects users to amazon, paypal, and other top sites. all of this started on the east coast. then it quickly spread to six countries around the world. >> a host of adversaries that

we have to make sure we have a resilient network that is able to withstand these types of probes. >> some websites didn't work at all. others have been running slowly all day. again, right up until earlier tonight, the dcdmv could only accept cash and checks. both candidates hit the campaign trail hard today. donald trump made stops in north carolina and pennsylvania while hillary clinton was in ohio. >> both candidates end game. tonight they're going forward with very different game plans. brian mooar has the story. >> reporter: the two candidates, doreen and jim, have one thing in common right now. the next couple of weeks are going to be tough. with two weeks left before election day, time is on hillary clinton's side. and she's hoping the numbers are. with 200 million americans now registered to vote. >> that is more than we've ever

our democracy. >> reporter: in ohio, the key to donald trump's white house hopes, she spoke directly to his supporters who are losing faith. >> i know you still have questions for me. i respect that. i want to answer them. i want to earn your vote. >> she's the most corrupt person ever to run for the presidency of the united states. >> reporter: in swing states north carolina and pennsylvania, trump took turns criticizing and the rigged system. he whipsawed to a message that was far from scorched earth. >> i'm going to fight to bring us all together as americans. we're a divided nation. we are going to be a nation of spirit. we're going to love everybody. >> reporter: but for the next two weeks it's still war between trump and clinton. trump is scheduled to kick off the last phase of his campaign

his closing argument and a preview of his first hundred days as president. brian mooar, news4. students who work on the newspaper at parkview high school wore either donald trump or hillary clinton shirts to school as an experiment. 76% of the kids at parkview high school are minorities, mostly hispanic. it revealed most students were candidate but found it tougher to dig deep on the issues. developing right now, the pentagon has named the american service member who was killed in iraq yesterday. u.s. naval officer jason finen died of wounds sustained in a rowd side bomb attack in mosul. the anaheim, california native was part of a team advising and assisting iraqi occurred fighters. finen was the first u.s. servicemen to die in combat

state held city of mosul earlier this week. a new hospital coming to prince george's county could heal more than patients. county leaders say the new prince george's county regional medical center will breathe life into largo. it's replacing the current hospital and will take shape at capital center. that development became a casualty of the economic crisis several years back. officials say the new hospital should stabilize the area and commercial development. >> we're bringing world class health care. we're also revitalizing what was kind of a not quite the right direction in terms of economic development at a metro station. we're fixing that. >> this is a partnership with dimension health care and the university of maryland medical system. crews plan to break ground this spring and finish by 2020. construction on the silver line will tie up traffic a bit longer in a section of herndon. we told you about this project last week.

station boulevard will remain reduced to one lane while water line work is done near the nearby silver station. a flagger will direct traffic there until the project is finished. a former law enforcement officer now charged with possession of child pornography. thomas joseph mueller lived in missouri but a stafford county, virginia sheriff's detective uncovered the crime while detective says he traced pictures back to mueller. once police in missouri searched his home, they say they found several hundred pornographic pictures of kids. it's national prescription drug take-back day, with 5,000 collection sites across the country. the dea organized the event.

people die every day, every day, from drug overdose, most involving opioids and heroin. workers at a local business poisoned. police say the suspect was one of their colleagues. find out what investigators found in the coffee maker. staring at screens is bad for toddlers. or is it? we've got the eye opening new and find out why someone

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shomari stone is live in loudoun county. >> reporter: i'm sure most of you have a coffee maker at your office with creamer, sugar, and cups. but this woman is accused of making more than a fresh pot. coffee machine to poison her co-workers at a freight company in sterling, virginia. tonight she's in jail, charged with felony assault. >> a really messy situation. >> reporter: he worked next door in this industrial complex. >> it's crazy. we share a coffee pot here. i can't tell you how many times i brewed a pot of coffee for my colleagues here. >> reporter: she took window cleaner, they say, and poured it

deputies arrested her after employees drank the tainted coffee, became sick, and reported what happened. she doesn't work here anymore. >> we used to go there and say hello all the time, packages would get delivered over there. we're shocked to hear. >> reporter: shomari stone from news4. investigators didn't tell us a motivate. we tried to talk to someone from the company. this woman works nearby. >> i hope everybody is >> reporter: tonight she's being held without bond at the loudoun county adult detention center. in sterling, virginia, shomari stone, news4. talk about a hair raising moment. someone thought they saw a child trapped inside jasmine turner's car in suffolk, virginia. so they called police. well, officers rushed to shatter her window trying to save that child. but turner doesn't have kids.

blankets. of course turner is upset and wants police to pay to replace that window. surveillance video at a high school in new jersey shows a deer running right into a bus, then bolted into a school's lobby. take a look at this cellphone video. you can see the animal trying to stand up on -- aww -- the newly-waxed floor. the deer is obviously sre disoriented. >> before, he ran into the bus. and his head sliced right here. so it was like, he was bleeding. and then in this video right here, his legs are just like done. >> that deer was stuck in the lobby for five minutes before running out and back into the woods. >> that's just sad. >> hope he's okay. everything in moderation, even screen time for kids. >> that's the new recommendation

pediatrics. for nearly 20 years pediatricians recommended no screen time for kids under 2 years old. now research suggests children younger than 18 months can recognize faces and learn over video chats. >> and for kids ages 2 to 5, the academy recommends no more than an hour a day of screen time. it also recommends no devices at all an hour before bedtime. nbc the community to prevent suicide. tomorrow i'll take part in dc's "out of the darkness" walk. it starts at the sylvan theater stage at the washington monument at 4:00 p.m. the event has already raised more than $200,000 for the american foundation for suicide prevention. i hope a lot of people will come out and join us. i'm a little concerned about the weather tomorrow afternoon, as are a lot of people. we have a lot of things going on in our area. >> yes, no matter what you're

layers. one of them should be wind proof. and you might even want the gloves. and when you're going to be out there tomorrow evening, doreen, you'll find temperatures in the mid-50s at that point. with the wind strong all day, it will always feel a few degrees warmer. certainly a shock to the system after a workweek filled with 80s. the 24-hour temperature change is anywhere from about 10 to 20 degrees cooler than this time last night. waking up tomorrow morning, stepping out the door, question in your mind that fall has returned to the area. and because of the winds tomorrow and the cooler temperatures, the weather having a moderate impact on your day. and there's so much going on tomorrow. it's going to be windy all day and just downright cold. dress in layers. maybe that isolated morning shower. but most of the day completely dry. as you head out the door, windbreaker, and if you get chilly easily, i recommend gloves, hat, scarf, sunglasses

waking up to 49 degrees. hard to believe that this morning, if you went out for a run, you're probably in a t-shirt. not going to be the case tomorrow morning or the rest of the weekend or even next week. now, noon, our temperature around 56. but with the winds, going to, it feels like we're in the 40s. we hit our high tomorrow of 59. 20 degrees cooler than today. and tomorrow night it's cold. 52 degrees at 7:00 p.m. heading out on your saturday night, you probably want the warmer jacket for sure. take aok the winds do relax on sunday. it's going to be breezy. tomorrow is the day you definitely want everything outside tied down. you don't need to worry about it on sunday. but winds are going to be strong enough to not produce any damage. monday, winds not a problem. monday as we head back to work, looking pretty nice for fall. we have boo at the zoo going on. if you're taking the kids, make

gold cup tomorrow, you want layers and maybe boots from today's rain. we didn't get a lot, so the ground is not really wet out there. if you're heading to the pumpkin patch, the better day on sunday. so many exciting college football game, howard, university of maryland, navy. make sure you're dressed in layers at those games. how many times have i said layers for this weather cast? sunday, 57 for a high, pretty normal for this time of year. sunshine. monday, really nice. we lose the winds. comfortable, highs around 66. then it's chilly on tuesday and wednesday. upper 50s. our next chance of rain, guys, will be on friday. then next saturday, jim, i know you're looking at wednesday, you have an event. >> that's right, outdoors. bundle up for that too. >> bundle up. it's that time of year. the 80s are gone. >> tomorrow morning will be a shock. >> yes.

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