foster. virginia's republican candidate for governor is on the defensive tonight. but as the digital correspondent reports, their opponents can't pay and hope that there is a moment that will turn the race around. they made statements in the master's degree though sus he wrote at conservative region universities in 1989. and in the paper, he describes working women and feminists as true to the families. >> any indication that i gave in that paeup

-- when your sailboat is stuck in the water, new puff of wind helps. this might not be enough to get them moving again, but it is exteemly welcome -- extremely welcomed. what they have done is put the mcdonalds on the defensive side. >> they said that this is far from that moment and they won't change the race much at all. people who suspected that they have views like this, they are now concerned. but the career in the state legislature indicates that these are his views. he dismissed the paper as an exercise from long ago for a city that noing longer believes what they wrote then. peggy fox, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> if you would like to read that out there and the

republican parties for the visions and the families, we have a link on our website, wusa9.com. tonight, the family of two women, struck by a hit-and-run driver are appealing for your help. montgomery county police say that a driver dragged those women as far as 100 feet and they kept ongoing. scott broom live at the police headquarters with more developments in the case. scott? >> well first and foremost, the family has them briefed on the medical condition of these women. both of them are in serious conditions out there in the hospitals. and both families, they are stunned by the idea that there is still a hit-and-run driver out there potentially. still behind the wheel. >> reporter: the husband of the 29-year-old, the mother of two boys, speaking through a police interpreter. >> they made a really bad judgment. and to hit somebody and just run away. i think that it was something really bad for this person to do it. >> reporter: she was with the 22-year-old maria. her family is also stunned. the pair were leaving a cleaning job in

silver spring and walking in this crosswalk saturday at 10 in the morning. when they were struck by a hit-and-run driver. she was dragged more than 110 feet. police displayed this grill from a dark colored or black toyota four runner suv, model year, 1998 to 2000. they want the driver. >> we just can't believe that the person didn't know that he or she struck these two women. >> reporter: my family, they would like to send the message to this individual. to face responsibility. and they have seen two people working there, working very hard. >> reporter: and police, they are convinced that the grill will lead to some kind of a tip. if you know anything about it, then they want you to give them a call here on montgomery county. a little irony to destroy that as well. the street and no sidewalks are difficult for the pedestrians there. there were signs up that said that the county planned to improve the pedestrian walkways there. reporting live from the mount

tkpwopl recounty -- montgomery county police quarters. all right, thank you for that. the family of the man killed by a falling tree limb, whole riding his motorbike in the county is suing. a huge tree limb, they struck the 48-year-old jones, as he road along west old baltimore road. and he died in the hospital two days later. the family's lawyer, they say that many of the trees along the stretch were dead. and neighbors, they had complained about them coming down. they are suing montgomery county for $6 million, saying that the county, they were negligent. >> and the family, they are quite upset about that because it is clear that the county, they should have known and that we believe they did know that these trees, they were dead and that we're a hazard to the residence of the montgomery county. >> she also leaves behind four childrens, ages 5 to 20. but the police report said that he was not wearing a helmet. >> and we have two 9news followups to tell you about first. the holocaust museum, they are scheduled to be arraigned later

this week in federal court. and the 89-year-old, they were indicted in july on seven counts including first-degree murder, by their motivated crime and killing in a federal building. and four of those charges, they are making it ineligible for the death penalties if they are convicted. we're also learning that injured cbs news correspondents out there, they will be back in the eys. as early eyd than will d continue to refor ghd rit tetrright s. militarydp y. ho military sp r m fod germany. she for injuri atth ivreedce when they exploded in afghanistan back on at pwionl r. at peswil foth the u.s. fo. es anthd the me . and e onld tiesoher,y were killed. two others were severely hurt. >> no major problems reported on this first day back to school for students in montgomery and howard county. at one high school this morning, even a pet rally atmosphere with the seniors leading the way. stp-rz >> and we're talking about them out there. >> it's weird, like it's weird

being on top out there. it's exciting. i'm are the excited to see them. they are not going to do work. but other than that, it'll be fun. >> that will be scary for them. and stuff like that for them. they don't want to go through it. >> and now in prince george's county, more than 400 students were still facing those class schedule problems. but that is way down from last monday when 8,000 of them had either no class schedules or a partial one. administrators blame glitches in a new computer system. >> more than 100 special education students never got their bus rides to the school in the district today. and still, they were ready but the school bus, they never arrived and they blame it on a computer glitch. >> officials, they say that the bus routes were changed and some of the students names out there were accidentally kicked out of the new system. they are working so hard behind me. they have been working day and night literally trying to get them back on route. so we have left some kids

unrouted as a result at home. not on the street corners, but at all. >> and more than 4,000 special education students, they are transported to and from their classes every day. and in many cases, they are traveling to private schools as far away as baltimore and stafford county, virginia. sky nine captures a scene of a town home fire earlier today. one person in the hospital. that house went up around 7 this morning. right now fire officials are on the scene at victoria square searching for what caused the fire. expect some delays next week on interstate 95 in virginia and watch out for overnight road work crews. they will begin a project to add another lane to the highway between woodbridge and springfield. most of the work will happen between the rush hours and the very early morning hours. still to come when 9news now returns, what to do when you can't afford to buy something and you want to rent it instead. we'll tell you more in living smart. plus, the race to trace a

killer. see how crews are fighting dry conditions and roaring flames out west. plus, topper? >> this weather is about a month ahead of schedule. i don't anybody is going to complain. you can access this via the web, wusa9.com. 76 and 64 going into the books. the averages are 84 and 66. record high, 100. and the record low is 49. we'll come back, we'll talk about the rest of our week. and we'll talk about whether or not southern california can get some rain from the tunst

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skphr-frpblgts tonight, a small community in georgia is gripped with fear after eight family members were found dead inside a mobile home. one victim is clinging to life. investigators, they will not say holled on sard ki tu edon e perdle living near murders, they are on edge. >> it is very upsetting. and the people here are very nervous until this killer or killers are located. >> police arrested the 22-year-old gay heinz on drug charges for allegedly lying to police and tampering with evidence. he's the one who called 911. running short on money in resources, officials investigating june's deadly airplane crash saying that they

still cannot explain the accident. and 228 people, they were killed. shortly after that plane took off from rio easters a on june 1. the sáerpbl has failed to turn out the plane's slight recorder. as a result of the crash, the european aviation officials wanted them to replace the sensors like the ones on the flight. the former louisiana congressman, they say that they are cash strapped. and he's the lawmaker convicted of corruption after he was found with cash in his freezer. and they filed for bankruptcy last week, claiming that they are as much as $10 million in debt. this is some fbi surveillance footage that helped prosecutors convict jefferson earlier this month. two firefighters are dead as fast moving wildfires ravaged the west. the 45,000 acre blaze that claimed their lives is just 5% contained. and as they report, try conditions and warm weather, they are not helping. >> a blazing orange wall of flames on the ground.

a huge plaque mushroom cloud in the sky. los angeles county firefighters, they continue to battle the massiving an wills national -- los angeles national wild forest. >> we'll do what we can to protect the homes and the properties. they are posing the biggest challenge for the first r responders. >> we have extremely dry brush, and also, well, they have not burned in over four years. the commanders, are calling it the perfect storm. >> from the air and by foot, hundreds of firefighters are trying to get a handle on the blaze which is not close to being contained. flames, they are coming dangerously close to the mount wilson observatory where 20 television and radio transmitters, they are located.

authorities have already declared a state of more than. >> when the people are, well, to know that i'm fully committed to, you know, the public safety. and it is extremely important to us and to the safety of our lives and the safety of the properties to save the memories. >> reporter: emergency officials, they are advising the residence to heave the evacuation warnings before hanging onto property. in washington, i'm samantha haze. they will go to families of police officers and the firefighters killed until the attacks. and this is a youtube video of the former death jammer executive according to hbo's real time with them. what grade shall we give the forecast for today's back-to-school weather? >> we'll grade it as a b plus. >> okay. >> only because we're going up

higher tomorrow. >> all right. >> we're going to raise the bar a little bit. a few clouds, a few showers in southern maryland and also in the northern area. now, let's take a break here and show you the hurricane. this is the eye of the hurricane, jimenez. and it is moving out of the north, north west. well, what we're thinking it could provide a little bit of moisture, maybe some rain. at least a little bit of moisture for our friends in southern california. winds are 155 miles per hour. gusting up to 190. you don't see that too often. another reason i'm showing you is a category five, moving into the baja of california, weekend rather quickly, making landfall between the two or three. then as it moves northward, a possibility that all the

moisture here just sort of stays in arizona. some of it will get into parts of southern california and nothing else, it gets the humidity. that's something else that they need to think. you might as well have higher humidity. that'll help with the 35,000 acres that are burning. and the 35,000 acres are like 85% of the districts on fire. and becoming clear to partly cloudy tonight. quite cool. one of the cooler nights. low 50s in the su burns and low 60s downtown. winds are light, northeast at five to ten. most folks in the 60s. and they are 55 at silver spring. 54 out here. upper 60s down towards andrews. maybe 62 or so in alexandria. and well, most everybody in their 50s tonight. tomorrow morning, mostly sunny and cool 50s and 60s. winds are northeast to 10. by the afternoon, what could you say? spectacular. mostly sunny, highs out there, northeasterly at 10.

they will sink south, pushing them out there. the forecast, all six zones on our website, wusa9.com, 76 in wind chester. >> would you like us to read a poem while we're reading? >> a little haikus.

>> the only ones i know are dirty so i'll skip them. >> really? >> yes, thank you for cleaning that up. >> the upper 70s. 80s and then the holiday weekend is a bit unsettled. but not a disaster unlike my show. >> it was fine. >> appellantly, they are having some issues. >> i was making that before the seven-day forecast. >> all right. these things happen. you can redeem yourself later. >> tomorrow i'll be redeemed. >> how are you going to follow that up? >> we'll talk about the kickers who they talk about that now and they are kind of important when you have that to win the games. we don't know who they are. little guys that make a huge impact to kicking battles. the rage is on. we'll tell you why that race is too close to call. and roger encore. we'll show you what he d di coming up. the new mcdonald's bacon and cheese angus third pounder.

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well, for all the injuries we were talking about in the

first two weeks of training camp, the redskins approached this final preseason game. remarkably, healthy. in fact, the season opened up tomorrow. all 22 starters would be ready to go. the starting cornerback for the skins, they have played just one quarter this preseason. and they won't play again this thursday. as he continues to struggle with a calf injury. and based on the way that tom brady tore up the secondary on friday night, they could use him back now. >> that is very concerned. because i think that carlos, he must have reps. so now as we bring him back and then he's got to go play out there, continuing to run and just a different side for them, and all that training, so i mean, we still have time. they are progressing to that game a whole lot. >> well, one other guy that set out at practice today is albert, the defensive soup -r star to miss the last two days with the stomach issues. when you are 350 pounds, there is no such thing as a small issue. meanwhile, the grim reaper, they are lurking for 20 of the

guys still on the preseason roster. they need to get down to that much on friday. one of the victims will be a kicker. no idea which one. the incumbent, and the new guy, they are reportedly still neck-in-neck in the kicker competition. neither guy has a chance of a preseason. he has tried one field goal hitting it from 25. squeezing the hit from 20 and missing from 52. that's all we got. so now, we kick on that one. >> i'm going with the same mind set to try to make every kick and capitalize on that i guess. it's all based on the individual kicks. if you don't get a lot of them which you don't, obviously practice becomes more important and you know, coaches need to figure out how to make a decision. >> you can read more about that battle and police, their thoughts on some of the other guys who were fiting for their careers this week. check out the skins uncensored blog on wusa9.com. national fans are hoping by next april, that he has been promoted to the mothership and is in the rotation, leading the

teams insurgents. the first step actually happened today. they were photographed here in the spring training complex in their first workout as a nationals, throwing for 10 minutes, doing some work for them and introducing themselves. enjoy your bus trip this weekend. they plan to have them in the arizona fall league next month. nats in san diego tonight, hernandez making the second start for the team since coming over from the mets. he hit six strong for the team last wednesday. and he stopped to make no decisions. the last time that roger lost a match at the u.s. open, president push was in his first term and the iraq war was five months old. that was in 2003. for the last five years in the last 35 matches, the world number one has been per if he can at flushing that. trying to extend that streak today. first day of the open, first round against the 18-year-old, the american, britain, who just won the ncaa champion as a freshman. but well, this is the big leagues, young man. the fcc, they mite be good, but they don't have any out there. and that took

less than 90 minutes. meanwhile, defending their title out there for them and knob problems -- and no problems either. they play tonight. finally this evening, sometimes the most dangerous place in a baseball game is in the dugout. padres marlins last night. chase swings and cabrera winds up with a bloody nose. now because well as you watch the replay, the foul ball goes through the padre's dugout, hangs the left and goes right into his nose. but he's a gamer, he just stuffed a little tissue paper up there and got back into the game. that's what we like. they are, you know, if you did that you get a bloody nose and you shove that up there and you're good to go. >> right. >> that is baseball. not exactly the kind of excitement here. >> but they say that baseball is not a context sport. >> there you go. >> all right, seven days? >> very quickly. just spectacular. 80 on wednesday and then, low 80s on thursday. maybe some showers on friday and the weekend looks okay. we'll, they get closer to it when they la