lease today and moving away from here because my daughter is scared. >> two men tried to lure three children playing nearby to their old blue pickup truck at about 6:45 in the evening. >> he says he had 3d glasses on, kind of like kid friendly glasses. >> everything leads up to a possible abduction. >> police are looking for an old battered mazda pickup truck like this one. they say it's light blue. it has a dented driver's side fender. it is driven by two hispanic men and the license plate includes the characters 6, 4, 1, and w. i'm audrey barnes, encounters an intoxicated driver and wastes no time getting involved. >> investigators say he spotted the driver behind the wheel of a fully loaded car hauler weaving across all lanes of traffic. then he slammed his big rig

into the guardrail. the southbound lanes of the beltway between grant avenue were shut down while the detective tried to get the man from behind the wheel. troopers rushed to the scene to help and they got the man out of the vehicle. he was sited for reckless driving and taken to southern maryland hospital for drug testing and detox. police say dui charges are pending. >> here at the fairfax hospital, people are quickly learning that h1n1 precautions will affect their visit. they are being screened. >> their loved ones don't want them to get flu on top of what they are being treated for. >> starting today, visitors will be screened. >> you have a fee or have you been ill? are you sick now? >> if the answer is yes -- >> we respectfully request that you not come to visit. >> the hospital is also prohibiting anyone under age 18 from visiting. >> we felt that this is the group that may be harboring the

virus and may be the ones that would pose greater risk. >> other changes include two people in a patients room at a time and they are reducing visitors hours. >> i think that limiting the hours during all this epidemic and things that are going on is really a smart idea. >> in fairfax county, i'm lindsey, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> every single state has been touched by the flu or h1n1 and a new report by the trust for america's health offer a bit of a troubling scenario. if 1/3 people wind up catching h1n1, 15 states could run out of hospital beds. that includes maryland and virginia. to deal with over crowding from emergencies, some hospitals are putting together surge plans. they would postpone elective surgeries to free up beds. for instance, when they might need to call for government help for mobile hospital units. >> and check out this crash scene. five teenagers were in this car when it skidded and flipped

over into the creek. they were driving through rock creek park on beach drive. police do not believe they were speeding. the teenagers say a van veered into their lane. the van's driver says she was trying to avoid a biker that was in front of her. luckily everyone is okay and no one has been charged. off now to warrenton, virginia, where a 17-year-old girl is almost beaten to death. police believe she broke up with her boyfriend and he just flipped out. cut her throat and beat her with a baseball bat. right now, she has broken bones in her face and nose, a ruptured eardrum and a broken arm. she is in stable condition. 18-year-old jonathan was arrested. he is being held at the fauquier county jail. he has no bond and he is charged with malicious wounding. >> do you recognize this fella? this is a composite sketch of a man who tried to rob a woman. the suspect grabbed her, pressed what she thought was a gun to her head and demanded a

wallet. he sped off in a gray or tan car. if this man looks familiar, call police. an update on the taxi cab scandal. dc cab drivers are calling for jim graham's resignation. all this in wake of the arrest of his chief of staff on alleged bribery charged in connection with the taxi industry. graham is the chair of committee on public works and transportation that has oversight over taxi cabs. waiting for a comment from the councilman's office. >> the water main break shut down part of queen chapel road. there was so much water at one point that one house had to be evacuated. crews are making repairs and 17 homes and businesses don't have water. and that is nothing compared to the mess almost two weeks ago in maryland. you remember that. well new tonight, officials granted a tax payment extension for the businesses affected by all that massive flooding. that six foot wide water main broke open and most of the town

was water logs. the controller says businesses have an extra month to get their payments in. this is for the withholding tax. right now, we go to topper for your forecast first. top, it's getting cooler and cooler out. >> it is. temperatures in the upper 50s and low 60s and temperatures are going to fall quickly tonight. for tonight, some clouds come in late, not a chilly, but plenty cool. mid 40s to mid 50s downtown. winds will turn south, southeast at 10. that's a good thing. we are on our way to warmer winds tomorrow. right now, 61 at national. but 57 already in frederick. 59 in winchester. we will come back and talk about the cold front. it has to roll through friday night and saturday. that hasn't changed. the weekend forecast has changed and we will explain. >> that's right. traffic easing in many areas right now, but we are still seeing brake lights here at university boulevard on the outer loop. it is heavier from new hampshire avenue all the way to

georgia. let's hop over to 270 southbound and see how things are looking there. real time traffic is slow and stretches from the beltway and route 121 to the truck station. let's head over to 66 westbound and we can get there. a 20 minute delay from the beltway and 123 slow from centerville past 234 and finally, we are going to hop on the american legion bridge as you can see here, still slow in both directions, but no incidents or accidents to report. derrick, back to you. rescue efforts in an indonesia and samoa will continue in a few hours when the sun comes up. the area is still seeing aftershocks. three earthquakes have rocked that area. the most powerful was an 8.0. thousands are thought to be trapped under the shattered buildings. that final number of dead could be significantly higher when they clear away all that debris. meanwhile, the embassy here in washington has become the center of local relief efforts.

>> the embassy will do our best to bring any effort to help people that are surrounding. >> the indonesian embassy will hold a fund raising effort on sunday. it is located at 2020 massachusetts avenue in northwest dc. up next, a new surprising revelation about the origins of man. you have to stick around for this new discovery. >> injured in the war two years ago. he'll be riding in the army 0 miler. stay tuned for this inspirational story.

profound and surprising revelations tonight about the origins of human kind. scientists in dc just revealed their research on the skeleton of a homonid they nicknamed artie. the fossils suggests our ancestors may have been working together far earlier than we ever thought. >> every human being has one common question. where did we come from? >> in the now wastes of

ethiopia, scientists are closer to an answer. they found the partial skeleton of an an gent homonid. and only now are they ready to tell us what they learned from her. >> we haven't seen anything like this before. >> artie is 1.2 million years older and far more primitive than the others fans called lucy. but artie did not drag her knuckles across the ground like a chimp. >> digital artie. >> she stood upright and walked on two feet and she evolved not in the savannah like scientists suspected up until now, but in a valley surrounded by the creatures of the rain forest. >> porcupine, a mongoose, a bunch of birds. >> one of the most remarkable things about artie are these small canines right here. in apes and chimps, the canines are huge and long and sharp for

attacking other males fighting, but artie had small canines. apparently because she was cooperating with others. >> working together as a social group, the essence of what it means to be human. in washington, bruce leshan, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> wow. and the discovery channel airs a special on artie a week from sunday and the research comes out in the magazine, science, tomorrow. topper is back with your full forecast, stick around.

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the vet. the dog located a tracking chip that identified his real owner. as soon as he is well enough, he will go to fredericksburg, which will be a happy reunion. a local solar who was injured in iraq was told he may never walk or even talk again. that was two years ago, now he is getting ready to be in the army ten miler this sunday. a devastating brain injury. >> just putting one foot in front of the other is a feet that doctors were never sure he would be able to do again. an iraqi soldier mistook him for an insurgent and shot him in the head. a bullet destroyed his language center. he had to learn to talk again and is reading to read and write again. his motor skills on his right side were badly damaged. >> hold it really tight. get that extra squeeze at the top. >> with hard work, he has

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because he knows he can make more gains. >> and patty plans to be by his side every step of the way. >> there's nothing i can say more is thank you to her. >> 9news now. >> great story, peggy. peggy will be covering the army ten miler sunday for our 11:00 news. well, they are fabulous and they are free. in tonight's living smart focus, goods and services that don't cost you a thing. from videos to stock trade, even televisions. it lists 30 of their favorite freebies. now that is a real money saver. and if you would like to grab some of the goodies, we have a link with a complete list, wusa9.com. click on living smart. are your allergies worse than ever? tonight at 11:00, a physical ailment some doctors say is causing an increase in the runny eyes and the sniffles and asks what you can do about it. what are we going to do

about this weather? the weekend had changed again. >> yeah, it's better. wait until you see how skinny the shower is. it's getting skinnier and skinnier. here's your forecast first. the next three days, we are in good shape tomorrow. we have a chance of a shower, yes, but temperatures go back into the mid 70s, which is about average. fall for fairfax looks better now. the terps game looks better. the shower is going to be over in the early morning hours. we should salvage the bulk of saturday. it will be much warmer, too. highs near 80 and sunday hasn't changed. temperatures in the low 70s. tonight, some clouds. not quite as chilly. low temperatures a 45 to 55 downtown. lows tonight, probably 4, 5 degrees higher than last night. but plenty cool. 45 in great falls. 47 in tyson. 46 in fairfax. even downtown, we are talking 54 for old town and 51 in bethesda. plenty of 40s in silver spring and upper marlboro. right now if you are headed out, temperatures are falling

quickly. upper 50s, 57 in gaithersburg and hills hillsborro. a slight chance of a shower. by afternoon, partly sunny, breezy, warmer. again, a slight chance of a shower, but the bulk of today will be nice. that wind out of the south at 10 to 15 should get us into the middle 70s. let's talk about october. the first of the month, today, 75 and 56 is average. by the end of the month, halloween, 64 and 45 is average. rain fall, not quite 3 1/4 inches. believe it or not, we average a trace of snow in the month of october with a tenth of an inch average at dulles. let's look at the satellite picture. this is a system that will roll through here on friday. notice a couple of things. most of the moisture is pulling due north. the front is going to spin through here, but it's not going to have much moisture to

it. whatever develops is going to go through very quickly. what develops isn't going to be impressive. it will be a skinny line of showers as we get into saturday morning. after that, it will be warmer in the wake of the front on saturday and cool down a little bit on sunday. zone forecast, all sixth zones still on our website, wusa9.com. manassas, woodbridge, 75. slight chance of a shower. other side, maybe 76 in waldorf. not quite 75 on the water and there are some small craft advisories post the. next seven days, 75 tomorrow and maybe a shower. 79 on saturday, but we salvage most of the day. almost 80. low 70s with sunshine on sunday. so we are looking at a pretty decent weekend. the terps game should be okay. skins game will be great and then we are in good shape on monday. low 70s. warmer again next week with showers and a thunderstorm.

we threw an 81 in there next wednesday. >> wow, i like that, top. >> not bad for the month we average snow. >> let's get to our weird news file. we already know florida has to prepare for hurricanes, maybe a pandemic or two, but how could anyone be ready when zombies attack? well, actually the university of florida does have a plan ready just in case there's a night of the living dead in its future. this video is from iowa city, iowa. but down in florida, the university website has a chapter on how officials would respond to and we quote, attacked by flesh eating apparently life impaired individuals. aka, zombies. now it also notes that a zombie outbreak may include documentation of moaning, because zombies always moan and it's not in a good way. the spokesman wanted to lighten things up.

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in the mail bag tonight, the early season tragedy that is our washington redskins. we found one frustrated fan, actually selling his fanship, we think he made that word up, on ebay. tonight, ross from woodbridge wants to jump ship as well. the fanship i'm selling comes with a coach included at no extra charge. that's a pretty common sentiment there, ross, but susan from ash burn says you are aiming just a bit too low. we can impeach a president, can we impeach a team owner? here lies the problem. susan, here is also the problem.

as problematic as the coach and owner might be, are they the ones not making tackles and dropping passes? i don't think so. pete from maryland says the problems are out on the field. i don't know why the team hasn't looked at bringing in younger players, too many of the current players look like they are on their last leg or don't have too much to give to begin with. if you look at their schedule the rest of the way, the redskins are on a losing streak of their own. the redskins are not that good as a team. well, exactly. after several seasons of having our hopes and dreams dashed over and over again, have we skins fans reached that awful zone, currently mostly populated by raider fans? where we hope not to be too awful? well if so, sue in resten says you are weak. i'm a long time cowboy fan and i'm amazed at how disloyal the redskins fans are when they are not winning. our job is to support the franchise and the players and our hometown.

i always stood by the cowboys no matter what. step up and be a true fan. okay susan, you have a good point and that is hard to say. but let me ask you a question, you live here, so you have been a cowboy fan from a distance. if you were in dallas and up and close with the season ticket lawsuits and the free agents and the years of performances, would you still buy a really expensive ticket to that fancy new stadium? i'm just asking. i'm also asking for some e- mails. the address, mailbag@wusa9.com. see you at 11:00. bye bye. just as we promise 100% fresh produce...

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