now at 11:00, bethesda blackout the lights go dark for tghusands to >> hopefully the power comes back on. >> slowing traffic and metro, too. we are live with the latest on restoration. nbc a woman accusing judge brett kavanaugh comes forward.

>> can you describe to me what you saw him do? >> while the fbi investigation grows. no charges. more than a year after a deadly crash, tonight, a grieving family wants some answers. news 4 at 11:00 starts now. >> hi, everybody. firs up tonight, a blackout for thousands of people in bethesda. th lights went dark, metro escalators and elevators stopped right in their tracks. >> yeah, we showed you some of the video that doug put on facebook. he was in the middle of all of this. they've been working on the problem for more than three hours now. >> theyinre m some progress. news 4's jackie bensen is live for us along a wisconsinnue with the latest. jackie, what is the word? >> reporter: well, jim, they are working hard. take a look behind me. and making quite a bit of progress. the updates that about 350 customers,ng includi two hotels, we're ld, are still in the dark, but 6,000 customers, and a

customer is a blding or a home, not a single person, were without power at the height of this, which began about 7:30 tonight. now, chopper 4 captured images ofhe congested streets of powntown bethesda without lights. ce directing traffic because the traffic lights were out. for a time, metro was sending trai throughhe bethesda station without stopping. thes escalator there one of the longest in the system and we are told that people weren that escalator and inside the station's elevator when t e lights wenout. a numberf restaurants and other businesses appeared to have closed early. nosa as i , we've been watching crews going up and down the street here, bringing the b lighk on block by block. we are not sure exactly what caused this, but we're told i was some type of problem with equipment at a pepco substation. live in bethesda, jackie bensen,

news 4. leon harris here at the live deskn the newsroom following developments in the brett vanaugh confirmation fight. today, the white house gave the fbi the gight to expand their atinvestigation. first, they were only able to interview four witnesses. they opened it up to other witnesses today, and that could mean other accusers. a new photo shows judge kavanaugh pictured with deborah ramirez in the late 0s. they were in the same wedding party more than a decade after ramirez says that kavanaugh exposed himself to her in a college dorm. nbc news also reports that text messages appear to kavanaugh asking a mutual friend to defend him onor thed against ramirez's allegations those allegation's went public. and in an nbc news exclusive

tonight, julie swetnick spoke for the first me. she says she was a victim of a gang rape in the early '80s. she has not saidan that kgh was her attacker. kavanaugh has denied all of ayis. president trumps he thinks the fbi will vindicate >> can you describe to me what you saw him do? >> he was very aggressive. very sloppy drunk, very mean drunk. >> should the fbiinterview all three of bret kavanaugh's accusers in. >> w mldn't bother at all. now, it depends. i don't know all three of the accusers. certainly, i imagine they're going tointerview tw the third one, i don't know much about, but it wouldn't bother me at all. >> mitch mcconnell says there will be a voteghver kavan this week. regardless of how many more interviews there are, the fbi has to wrap up its investigation by friday. h'll watch and see it happens and we'll of course report it. doreen, back to you. >> leon, thank you. new tonight, police are

investigating two deadly motorcycle crashes i the latest happening this evening in rockville. montgomery county polic tel us 26-year-old priscilla alvez collided withhe car near red gate golf course. that car was attempting to make a u-turn when the motorcycle and hicle collided. in landover, a man is dead and d chs in critical condition. prince george's county police motorcycler was on a when it colluded wiided with a . they were both rushed to the hospital where the man later died. theriver of the car stayed at the scene and was not hurt. a year after a mother of three was killed in a crash, no charges have been filed in her death. her mother blames a driver who crossed the median and hit t car her daughter was riding in. news 4's shomari stone spoke to her family tonight.

>> reporter: deborah redd is devastated. >> i just mis >> reporter: as tears roll down her face, her beloved daughter is gone. >> i'm just sad. >> reporter: this weekend, pdeborah put balloons and flowers on the 2400 block of good hope road southeast. thiss wheretalida was killed about a year ago. the mother of three was a lyft passenger heading home from work when police say a dodge pickup truck crossed the center lines and hit t lyft car head on. both drivers survived. deborah blames the pickup truck driver for causing the crash. police launched an investigation. a year later, the case is still open and no one has been charged. d deborahands answers. >> nobody called back or anything. it's just like she wasn't

nothing, but she was something to me. >> reporter: tonight, we e-mailed d.cpolice and u.s. attorney's office for the district of columbia. they tell us that this case is still under inv they won't comment further. meanwhiwh mee, talida williams' mother and children pray that they can one day have aense of closure. in southeast d.c., i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> some answers tonight for detectives arrested a teenager for the shooting death of 18-year-old taquan pinckney last month. police fou him shot to death in southeast on stanton road. his family said he'd gone to buy a soda at a corner store and never came home. today, officers arrested 17-year-old elijah jarmon. he'sharged as an adult with first degree murder. pinckney had just graduated with high school last spring. he was part of horton's kids, the program helps students graduate high school andrepare for college. happening tonight, an annual

leicht cgemony to recognizele fear leadership in the fight against domestic violence. it's the fifth year furple light night in prince george's county. the sherf's department shared information and resources with the community. the department also handed out purple lights to s night during domestic violence awareness month. sheriff melvin high says the number of homicides related to domestic violence in prince george's county is decreasing. >> we have to have that tough goal for ourselves, and that touch goal isnc zeroents. so, we continue to make strides and one year, we'll get there. >> you can find what you need to know about news 4's safe at home initiative, shining a light on domestic violence in our nbc washington app, search safe at home. let's turn to our weather now, and a summer-like start to october today. >> yeah. >> we liked the beginning, doug. how is tomorrow looking? >> tomorrow is looking summer-like, too. we're talking shine in the

morning and a chance fortos tomorrow afternoon. so, yeah, kind of a little bit more summer-like than fall-like, and that's going to be the trend as we head to the end of the week, as well. out there right now, take a look at what we saw earlier today. a high of 81 degrees, d.c., 84, hagerstown. 80 in philadelphia. the average high the now 74 degrees, we are well above that. we're going to beve well a that over the next couple of days, too. here's the headlines for you. storm chances morrow, i'm going to take you hour by hour in a second. the heat returnor near r high temperatures here, as we make our way towards the end of the week. and tracking your weekend. it's a tough t forecast for weekend. if you have plans on saturday or i've got that for you coming up. >> all right, doug, we'll see you then. one year ago tonight,s las veecame the scene of the worst mass shooting in american history. gunman fired down from his peopleoom, murdering at a concert. he injured hundreds more.iv sus and victim's families

held a moment of silence. some people pced crosses in front of the vegas welcome sign to remember the victims. otherttended a benefit concert. in about two hours, the las vegas stripill go dark to mark the exact moment that shooting started. >> evil in darkness cannot take over us. our families or our lives. together, we are vegas stro. >> one of the many wounded in the attack wasin frost. the aroundel high school graduate lost her right eye. she spent months in rehab learning to walk again. chef has since moved back to diego, where she lived and worked before the shooting. a big debate tonight to help voters decide on who should be the next montgomery county executive. democrat mark elrich, nancy fluorine and. >> reporter: republican rob lynn flicker answered questions. the biggest topic, declining tax

revenue and how to attract new business to montgomery county. >> we need to create a positive climate people to add money to our tax base so that we can allrosper and pay our bills. at the end of the day, that' what's most important to everyone. >> as county executive, i'm not going to give you anyrorty increases over the rate of inflation for four years. they are certain to y give such an increase. >> may well be a recession, and my goal is t try to lean out the county enough that we have some space that if asi rec does occur, we have options. >> but i would like, absent a recession, to be able to make sure this county b runster and runs more efficiently. >> the debate comes two days after "the washington post" endorsed floreen in this race. she's a democrat running as an independent. elrich has support from the outgoing county executive. up next, how can you tell your ridehare driver is not who they claim to be.

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when you climb into a lift, dowou really k who is behind the wheel? maybe not. >> well, there is an underground market that allows people to drive for lyft, even though the company hasn't vetted them. randy mack from our sister station in los angeles explans just how it work >> and he'slike, oh, oh, and he starts backing or. >> repter: this woman recently took a lyft ride she won't soon forget. >> this is an interesting way to

get on thehighway. i'm like, do not do that, he's like, no -- i was like, no! >> reporter: the driver backed onto a freeway and later turn into oncoming traffic. >> i w really thinking, like i am not going to dieith my lyft driver. >> reporter: what she didn't know, lyft didn't hire him. doesn't even have a lyft account. instead, he rented one. it's a way drivers can sneak onto lyft's late form dodging baground checks. >> i'm supposed to be checking them. >> reporter: we easilyonfirmed is. an nbc producer rented an account. we didn't use it. there's a name and driver's licenseo linked the account, and it belongs to a real person. this one. >> really more confusing than anything else. >> reporter: he didn't want us to useis name, but agreed to talk on camera. someone stole his identity,it ud o create the account and started renting it out. >> there shodn't be a way for someone with just information to

open an account in my name b witheing able to prove and verify that ity s actua opening that account. >> reporter: but it's happening to others, too.ze of consumers filed complaints, saying their identities were used to create ride share accounts. in california, the dmv says this is a new scam and it can investigate. >> this is brand new to us. >> reporter: but it says lyft should be the one taking action. so, we asked lyft what it's doing. the company declid an on-camera interview, simply saying in a statement, what's being described is extremely concerning. we have a dedicated team that investigating fraudulent behavior, wch may result in immediate deactivation from the platform. p thisassenger says lyft needs to do more. >> makes me not want to keep knowing i lyft, don't have any sort of protection. >> that was randy mack rerting. now, nbc found uber accounts for sale, as well, but did not rent any of them. uber says it has safety measures in place that would prevent

successfully renting an account. it is nearly impossible to determine if you're riding with a driver who is using a rented account. that's why california's dmv says it's important for the ride to prevent this kind of fraud. some people might call it rma caught on video. surveillance cameras spotted a guy trying to break into a prince george's county restaurant last month. but things didn't go as planned. or yourself. he tries to use what appears to be a brick to smashhrough the window. what he doesn't figure out is that he's tossing it at bullet proof glass. on thehird try -- yes, i said the third try, the brick bounces back and smacks him in the head. he eventually got up off the ground and left. olice are still looking for hip. >> payback, karma, whatever you want to call it. embarrassing and it's caught on camera, of course. >> yeah. so, doug -- what's -- what do we

have to look forward to tomorrow and the rt of the week, because the weekend and today have certainly beenta splar. >> okay, so, i seeded my lawn about three weeks ago, right? >> okay. >> and that came back very nicely, because owl all the rain. >> the grass is that high. >> i had to reseed a little bit today, i'm going to have to water my lawn this time and all ithat really means that it's going to be dry the next couple of days. did you get thathrough 30 seconds -- >> that's the long version. >> that's the long version. g let' right to the forecast and show you how it's going to be for you folks. we will be dry. look at the highs today. 81, d.c. 84t dulles,ge. the aveigh this time of year is 74. so, we're well above average. ul nighting at a beaut tonight. 71 degrees. winds out of the south at 8ur miles an this is extremely warm. our average low this time of year in the mid 50s close to 50 degrees for some of you in the

ouburbs. we're not going be anywhere near that any time soon. on the radar, no rain, either. we're not going to see much. we have a chance for tomorrow afternoon, and it's all coming from a storm system to the west. you can see nothing around our area now. as we widen out, you canee the clouds and a storm back around the chicago area, bringing in some thunderstorm activity, right in here. that's b a front andary during the day tomorrow. tomorrow morning, no problem. the kids get off to school okay, you have no problem driving into work early tomorrow morning. at least weher-wise, no problems. a few clouds tomorrow and i do clouds onsee tho the increase. by noon, a great day to get lunch outdoors. no problem for recess for the ki., eith watch what happens here, we start to see the showers and storms move in around 2:. and around the d.c. metro area around 4:00 or 5:00. thesere not widely scattered, they're just a few and far between. around frederick, parts of northern virginia, through the d.c. metroar , and 6:00, 7:00. 7:00, right along the i-95 we should see a stronger storm

or two, but i'm not too worriew. the actual front comes down, 11:00 tomorrow night, yeah, we could see heavier downpours with ,hat front as it moves through, once it bu things get better. speaking of a lot better, this pattern haseen really over our area for the last couple of months here, a trough across the east. that has mnge t very warm and very wet along the east, fromda flo back to dallas texas all the way up the coast. back to the west, it's been and dry. this whole trough shifts to the west. what does that mean?or well,us, that means we stay warm, but we are on the dry side of thetrough. cooler air. the stormy air way back to the west. this pattern is changing. warm and dry for the next two weeks is what it looks like out there. bywarm, i'm talking about temperatures close to ten degrees above average orhigher. 83 tomorrow, that's close to ten degrees above average. chance of storms late in the day.h look at the h on wednesday, though. 86. thursday, 88.

we m c bese to -- we may be near 90 on thursday, so, that's something to watch out for. the record high is 94. don't think that's in but we're going to be pretty darn close. 78 on fridcl. ds on saturday and sunday. if i have one question about this forecast, it's not the sunshine nex week, it's how much cloud cover do we have this eekend and how cool are the numbers. right now, in the upper 70s. we'll see if we get there. >> okay. got it. thank you, doug. >> okay. ,k3w4ri coming the champs get their rings. we've got an up close look at the caps' snley cup championship rings. >> cool. sp look. it's over. i love you, but i'm not in love with you. she says i can't see you anymore.

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this is the xfinity sports desk. all right, some preseason overtime. you're getting o.t. tonight. youarely made itback. you called it. >> i know. i went to a basketball game and aasall game broke out. this thing took forever. 2 hours and 45 minutes. just about now at capital one arena, they should be cleanin up for tomorrow's maroon 5 concert. >> that's tomorrow? >> it's tomorrow. tonight, it was about the five on the floor for five periods. yes, it went to overtime, as ths wiza opened their preseason against the new york knicks. dwight howard wasn't one of them. he's still nursing a sore back. but it was a start for other names you know, including, you ready to say aw, bradley beal with his son, bradley beal ii. you love that. and then john wall, healthy agn, and look atthat. nde quick move in the first, gets the bucket the foul. wall showing the quickness we want to see. played just nine minutes and six points. the wizards want to be better on defense. listen. watch this. this is called defending the

smrun. jasonh, get out of here. big rejection. showing off the defense. hope thatas continues this on. i think you can put that on a poster, right? also time to meet the n rookie, troy brown jr., in the spin move. he was fouled, makes the shot. nice play by t rookie. he had four poinwe. ome to d.c. the wizards lose in overtime, it's only preseason, though, 124-121, but it was almost three ho hours. all right, the redskins back to work after their b week. good news, morgan moses back prac practicing. he's been cleared from concussion protocol. the running back oup, a little thin. adrian peterson dealing with the ankle injury. chris thompson got a veterans day off. the redskins wentnto their bye week with momentum and they are still feeding off that energy. >> i've seen tod that guys came back in with the same exact attitude and just ready to, you know, continue to prove ourselves throughout this season. going into the bye, we had a gofeeling, so, let's continue that good feeling.

also know that we got a challehie coming up week with brees, and so, we got to do everything to prepare for everything and be ready for everything when it does happen. hey, the rgs are re. the capitals receiving their stanley cup rings. these things aren't too shabby. look atalex ovechkin's. oh, not too bad, huh? and then nicklas backstrom, brooks orpik, alex ovechkin, posing with the cup. just a great night for the caps. oh, baby. i mean baby. we've got game 163, we like showing kids tonight. dodgers hosting the rockies, trying to decide the n.l. west. scoreless.the fourth, man on for cody bellinger. a twrun shot for him. dodger stadium going bananas, nuts, whatever they do in california. l.a. leads 2-0. in the fifth, sll 2-0, dodgers. max munsey up with a man up, and fans want to see more, right? munsey delivers. this is going opposite field,

left-center. that's gone. 2-0 shot for him. dodgers go up 4-0, they beat the rockies,5-2, win the n.l. west. they host the braves while the rockies will play the cubs in the wild kard game. >> already. i like that caps ing. starts on wednesday. >> showed kids, that's good for the ratings. the ratings. >> yeah, they're up watching.

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