two women have been sexually assaulted on or near a campus in less than a week. >> in the past year alone there have about 20 sex crimes, some linked to that campus. >> reporter: the latest sexual assault took place around 4:30 a.m. wednesday in a foggy bottom alley. the victim had just left a bar near pennsylvania avenue and 23rd street when she was attacked. dc police are investigating. dw students are being extra careful. >> i just try late at night not to be anywhere by myself unfortunately. these things do happen. >> reporter: two days earlier another case of sexual abuse that happened at 2:30 a.m. sunday. >> this happens in all cities.

it is a little scarier because it is on a campus. >> reporter: 17 cases of sexual abuse or assault in the past year reported. it has helped in several student dorms, open areas and even the student union. while students give the campus good marks for call boxes, there are still concerns. >> i think they could beef up security and i think they should. >> reporter: the police department tells 9news now that not every victim in the reported cases were students or employees. half a dozen of the sexual assault cases are currently being investigated by dc police. >> reporter: a man that raped a woman on wednesday is described as a hispanic male, 6 feet tall, 200 pounds with short dark hair and police aren't saying if that matches the description of the suspect in the other sexual assaults that are still unresolved. >> reporter: however police tell 9news now that the look of

the hispanic suspect does not match any of the cases they are investigating. >> according to government stats one out of every five women that go to college will be the victim of some type of sexual crime by the time they graduate. it could be higher than that because a majority don't report it. out on bond tonight. she is seen with her sister. left the courthouse without her passport and with a monitoring bracelet on her ankle. the 30 year old was told not to drive. she is accused of killing ryan outside of a bar. ryan was hit and thrown 21 feet down conneticut avenue. today her mother shared her frustrations and her horrible grief. in an interview you will only see on 9. >> i feel bad for this lady. i know she didn't do it on

purpose but she had no business driving a car in her condition. my child did everything. she had a designated driver. now she is gone. 24 years old. just a baby. hadn't even started her life. hadn't had a chance to meet her love. hadn't had a chance to have children. and all of that is cut short. it is all gone now. >> francis ryan also had words of praise for the cyclists that helped track down the driver. >> i cannot say how grateful i am that they were there to give cpr to my child. the young man on the bicycle tracked this lady down after she did this horrendous thing and just ran like a coward and left my baby lying on the side of the road. >> investigators say davidson

admits she remembers pulling into her buildings garage thursday morning but she does not remember getting into any sort of accident. new at 11:00 p.m. the man suspected of stabbing three people in loudoun county is facing charges. he was indicted today. he is accused of stabbing a church custodian. also, currently in michigan where he faces charges in six stabbings. they believe he is connected to 18 attacks in three states. suspicious death in fairfax county. 61-year-old victim was identified. he was found murdered in his house. his lek lexus is missing. if you see this car they want you to call. 911 dispatchers get some alarming and strange calls

sometimes but imagine this one. send help. my 2 year old just ate some marijuana. really? well, yeah, really. tonight a young mother and roommate are behind bars in the prince william county jail and the little girl is with protective services. a woman called 911 and said the child ate the pot that was in their hotel room. they did not have to send the little girl to the hospital. one of a parent's worst nightmare. a shooting at a school. they arrested a man that started shooting at kids on an elementary school playground. it happened in carlsbad, california. up the coast from san francisco. here is one girl that saw the shooting. >> i started running. >> thankfully only two children were injured, shot in the arm. they are expected to be okay.

construction workers stopped the gunman before he could fire off even more shots. police have not released the suspect's name but they say it appears he was acting alone. tonight new information that could possibly turn the story of the kent state shootings upside down. >> it all has to do with an audio recording. national guardsman shot and killed four students during a vietnam war protest back in 1970. but now an audio expert who has listened to recordings of the incident says he detects the sounds of pistol fire 70 seconds before the national guard opened fire and if that is right the guardsman thought they were being shot at. it could back up witnesses that said warning shots were fired because of feeling threatened. two metro stations closed. they are closed for track work on blue and orange lines.

also no blue or orange line services at metro center. work should be finished by the time the transit agency opens on tuesday morning after columbus day. get ready for some road closures near the air force memorial in arlington on monday. part of columbia pike will be closed for filming of the next "transformers" movie. you can check out the entire list at wusa9.com. click on 9news extras. it may feel like you have been rubbed when you talk next to a meter but that could change in dc. >> some city council members are considering a rollback of the meter price increase they just recently passed. britany morehouse explains what that means for you. >> reporter: councilman jack evans says he received e-mails from people complaining about these puppies than anything else and he is saying people shouldn't have to pay for

parking after 6:30 p.m. if the idea sounds like music to your ears you're not alone. this musician made up a song about the proposal. rolling back meter rates to the way they once were before these badges were doling these out. >> i see them putting tickets on the cars all the time. it is outrageous. just a money maker. >> huge problem with the verizon center and so many theaters nearby shows can go longer than two hours you're guaranteed to get a ticket. >> for instance, we are waiting 45 minutes to go to dinner and we wait 45 minutes, sit down to dinner then our meter expires. >> i think it is a little ridiculous to pay until 10:00 p.m. tonight. >> and the price. >> now it costs $2 just to park for an hour and they should reduce that.

>> reporter: that might happen too. there was a price increase to generate more revenue to the city. one quarter buys you just seven minutes. evans believes the quarter should buy you 15. a change that could save you change. >> you get a ticket. >> reporter: and turn the anger into -- ♪[ music ] ♪ will you park for free. >> reporter: britany morehouse for 9 newest now. >> now -- 9 news now. >> that ticket you saw that britany morehouse was looking at was on her car. maryland governors will face off in their first debate this monday and you can watch governor martin o'malley and his predecessor on wusa9.com digital channel 9.2.

7:00 p.m. monday night. channel 203 on comcast. channel 461 on fios and channel 805 on cox. cooling down tonight after a high of 79 officially at reagan national today. not as chilly as it has been the last couple days. coolest spot. upper 40s. towards 60 degrees with your wakeup weather. i will tell you how long beautiful weather lasts. still ahead. just two minutes into the caps opener. paramedics rushed to the house. we will tell you what happens. a major bank says hold on before doing any more foreclosures. what you need to know is coming next. i'm bob ehrlich. i'm not the kind of guy who likes to hang on the sidelines. today maryland's in trouble. we're worse off than we were four years ago: dangerous debt, higher taxes, not enough jobs.

we need real leadership to turn this state around. fix the budget -- honestly. grow small businesses -- really. excellent schools -- everywhere. protect the bay -- finally. it's why i'm running -- to make the state we love not just good, but great. now let's get down to work. to make the state we love not just good, but great. woman 1 sync: i knew what bob ehrlich did as governor. man 1 sync: raised my property taxes 60 percent. woman 2 sync: let utilities hike our rates 72 percent. woman 1 sync: but i didn't know what he's done

since he got fired as governor. man 2: ehrlich's raked in millions. man 3: he worked for a wall street bank that took 10 billion dollars from the bailout. woman 3: 10 billion of our money. woman 4: our money. woman 5 sync: and he worked for another bank that collapsed. man 4: costing tax payers 17 million. anncr: tell bob ehrlich big banks don't need help. middle class marylanders do. for the first time in five months the dow closed above 11,000 points today. blue chips ended their week by closing up almost 58 points today. nasdaq rose 18 and a quarter. s&p 500 up more than seven points. home buying frenzy of just a couple years ago now seems like a distant memory as hundreds of thousands of americans are facing foreclosures. it is a problem in all 50 states but today some hope for the struggling as one of the largest banks in the country says it is taking a step back

to review the process. >> they sold my loan to the bank of america. >> this woman isn't even sure who holds her mortgage like so many people in america right now. >> they bought it from the original people that had our loan. i can't remember who that was. >> now banks say they are losing track too. one process that was admitted to signing thousands of foreclosure documents each month without reviewing each one in detail even though he swore he had. >> that is not a mixup that's intentional fraud. >> an attorney is trying to help one of the victims save her house. a process that has been on hold with today's announcement. >> they claim what they are trying to do is to hold these borrowers to their agreement. and yet they are breaking the law. >> the root of the problem appears to be the mortgage electronic registration system. it was set up more than a decade ago to replace lengthy

paper trails but now without that stack of paperwork lenders are scrambling to produce documents to prove they have the right to foreclose. >> it will complicate the market with questions that people don't understand and your average homeowner is confused on this. >> a lot of folks confused but the idea of stopping all the foreclosures is to make sure they verify the information. right now senate majority leader harry reid is calling on other major lenders to follow the bank of america's lead. montgomery county's office of consumer protection is warning pepco customers to take batteries out of the thermostats. they were given away as part of the energy wise program. the batteries are there for a backup.

so take them out. yes, get rid of that problem. lovely weekend ahead, though. right? >> right? >> we didn't see a cloud in the sky today. same will happen with a lot of sunshine. little bit dip in the temperatures sunday. then a few clouds coming around sunday into monday. we will explain that little dip into temperatures. 81. 76, 81. we continue towards mid- october. very warm temperatures. overnight here tonight. temperatures are dropping off. winds have died down a little bit. we will be cool once again. talking cool spots though. only upper 40s to 50 as we work our way towards the beltway to within. we will be in the 70s by mid- morning. by noon upper 70s. i don't doubt a lot of us will be 80, 81, maybe even pushing 82. what will happen on your doorstep now. nothing is going on from the

east coast until you get to the midwest. central plains. system moving in that drops a couple inches of snow at higher elevations of the rockies. only system in the pacific north west too. current temperatures. mixture of 60s. mostly in the 50s. 66 the warmering spots. 55 gaithersburg. culpeper 64. let's zoom out on futurecast. a lot of sunshine on saturday. all the way to the central plains nothing going on. a weak system will start to show sunday into monday. just a couple clouds sunday i think. little bit of rain trying to pop out. i don't have any rain in the forecast. just a few clouds coming in. monday, monday into tuesday this weak system trying to move in again. trying to break out rain here. zooming in closer. i will put clouds in the forecast at the most. i don't think we will break out into rain. such a dry air mass. such a weak system coming through. just cooling down a little bit. so there you see it.

some 50s mid-50s downtown. right around 48 gaithersburg. sterling 49. over in andrews should have been about 52, not 5. 81, 82 all around the washington metro for highs. going to be a warm day. 1, 2 degrees than today. even blueridge. higher appalachians up 70s to mid-70s. 82, 83. towards the mid-80s. then even upper 70s. seven-day forecast. topper talked about this. certain weather pattern that will hold through all the way through columbus day. slightly cooler air. next chance of cooler temperatures and rain thursday. >> how about that. >> don't want to think about it. >> get that. >> that's years away. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> when we talk about hockey if there is a doctor involved it is because there was a fight. >> but not a good one.

strange begins to the caps season. that's for sure. after a long off season digesting a disappointing off season the caps are back. a player was carried off the ice. we will give you all of the details on that. high school football. seneca valley. high school football week pick is coming up next. [ male announcer ] it's sunday afternoon.

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now 9 sports with dave owens. >> capitals didn't make any changes in the off season. why shake up the roster when you've got octane to outscore everybody. they know how to find the twine. opening night in atlanta. early moments of the game. ondrej pavelec collapsed and

lost consciousness. the medical team got to him and worked on him for about 10 minutes and wheeled wheeled him off the ice. he did regain consciousness. no word on what cause the collapse. once the game got going. all thrashers. andrew ladd with a goal. atlanta wins 4-2. wizards preseason. returning to his former home. how about the washington defense. gilbert arenas grand theft orange. johnny wall. wizards lose 107-96. redskins news. if the skins want to win this week they have got to put forth a defensive effort like they did against the dallas cowboys. that means pressure, pressure, pressure. brian orakpo with do that if he stops getting held on the field. we talked to him about it earlier in the week. here is what he said. >> i want some sacks too.

key word. my coach even told me don't get frustrated. four games i had two sacks at the same point last year. i whether keep working and do what i do. >> we shall see on sunday. let's get ready to set it off, everybody. falcons headlining week 6. eight games are coming your way next on 9. wearing shirts ♪

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dangerous debt, higher taxes, not enough jobs. we need real leadership to turn this state around. fix the budget -- honestly. grow small businesses -- really. excellent schools -- everywhere. protect the bay -- finally. it's why i'm running -- to make the state we love not just good, but great. now let's get down to work. what's up, everybody? don't do a double take when you look at the standings these days. two losses. what is the world coming to, right? things not getting any easier either tonight. game of the week. let me set the scene. 21-21. into the 2nd half of the game then dump it off to darren

harris. there it is. on a mission. 28-21. great play here. in trouble but able to flip it to the corner of the end zone. tying it. but mike -- but michaels scores. >> we are going through issues. everybody remembers two years ago we took two losses earlier and came back and won a championship and why can't we do that this year. >> certainly taking a stand. north west at seneca valley. battle for the trophy. got a question. eddie, are you okay? eddie, are you okay? are you okay, eddie? yes, eddie cunningham with a 13- yard score. then a little later on. check this out. matt nickelson. seneca valley rolling and winning. coyotes and cougars.

getting it on. up 20-6 in the 3rd. james mccallister. watch the camera. check out the fake. mike sheehan with a fake. 40-12 the score. patriots in black. check out the quick on hobby. set the scene for you. got a little punt return action going here. hobby going to the right, going to the left. he can dance, dance, dance all night. this one would get called back but patriots still rolling tonight. 44-8. to virginia now. i want to know who is the schedule maker for robinson. they won a nail biter. what do they get? a date with undefeated chantilly. all about chantilly senior

quarterback carson romine. chargers up early on. later on. he can dance all night long. chantilly wins 24-17. sky 9 above ashburn. fairfax versus stonebridge. stonebridge quarterback in the wildcat -- or should i say the wild bulldog. 1-yard touchdown to put the bulldogs up. 56-0 the score. >> we are the westfield high cheerleaders. you're watching the report. >> thank you, ladies, out there tonight. air attack on full display. jimmy boone dropping a bomb on me. or on west westfield.

game tied at 14. here come the dogs. bulldogs prevailing 21-14. back to the space ship. skylights from sky 9. marshall taking on langly. up 14-0. quarterback brayden anderson. a touchdown. time for our weekly segment when we shine the light on a play that made us say wow. it is our play of the night. we call it the light of the night. let's check it out. back to seneca valley. once again, it is quarterback nicholson who believes he can fly. to michael. nice score. seneca valley rolling 37-0. remember, you can always whrog on for -- can always log on. dc dot high school sports dot

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