not just good, but great. now let's get down to work. first up tonight, a crash on the set of the transformers between a stunt vehicle and a police officer cruiser. now we're told that both drivers are okay, although the

officer was taken to the hospital just as a precaution. fans filming a chase scene caught the whole thing on tape. the yellow camaro crashed in to the side. boom, of an suv on third street. the street was closed off but police say their officers are allowed to go through think close roads with the light and sirens flashing. >> when i saw the bumblebee just got crumbled. my heart dropped like oh, no. not bumblebee. >> reporter: bumblebee is the name in the movie of the yellow da pair marrow. the crash is urn investigation and the officer was responding to a call of a suspicious package elsewhere in the city. also tonight, filming resumes in arlington and brittany morehouse is live near the set where things have i guess calmed down by now. >> yeah. no yellow is a marrow sightings but we have been watching as the parking lot has been building from a collection of

orange cones to all of this. all kinds of equipment. anything movie making, you can imagine it is in the truck and behind it n the way far back parking lot you will see the megamonster bad guy. we are told the scene here will roll through the parking lot here where we are standing. all the way past these orange cones, over here and to the entrance of the air force memorial. we are walking through the parking lot now. you have been seeing a lot of people gather on the side of columbia pike road. they had it closed at certain points in time and they have a lot of -- we're told to this area is blocked off for the balance. what we are told is the scene will be them planning their attack at the air force memorial. i don't know if you can see it is lit up with this equipment and a beautiful breathtaking view of the nation's capitol. that's what we know so far.

and we will of course bring you much more at 11:00. >> looking forward that. thank you so much. taping continues tomorrow in dc and there will be a lot of 0 road restrictions in place. most along 17th, 88th and 19th streets. and around the national mall and this is one of the stories from where you live. that's the section on wusa9.com we have a list of closings there there. out of control, two women running from the cops crash and are thrown from their vehicle. and the next story is graphic in nature about a strange sexual assault that happens in a library. i'm peggy fox in takoma park where police have a person of interest in custody after a bizarre sexual assault happened in the campus library.

it happened in the library's resource center building. police say a female student was sit thong upper level when a man walked by and ejaculated on her. she told police she turned around to see the man with his private parts pulled out of his pants. >> that's so gross. >> you have to be crazy to do something like that. that's not sane, that's insane. >> reporter: while the victim was reporting it to the reception desk the suspect came back and spoke to the woman. he fled again with campus security chasing him. >> he got in to a car and left. they were able to capture a description of the vehicle and also a license plate, which they provided to takoma park police. >> reporter: i'm in riverdale. two women are fighting for their lives at this hour after fleeing from police. they lost control of their car here at the intersection of baltimore avenue and east-west highway. they plowed through poles, came here in the yard, knocked down signs. another sign here and even

taking out this fire hydrant. the car hit a tree and barely missed this house. a beer bat bottle and -- bottle an pack of smokes stands out. >> the screech lasted three seconds followed by an intense banging. >> reporter: the women were alive but severely injured. both thrown from the car and landed near this brick wall. police say their night started less than a half mile away when they entered the parking lot of the alamo plaza on kenilworth avenue. when the officer walked up to the car, the women took off. >> reporter: this is bruce leshan in potomac a beautiful neighborhood, a vacant foreclosured home and a deal to buy it that has been frozen in the paperwork crisis. >> the brick is starting to pull away from the house. >> reporter: nick thought he had found the perfect fixer upper. >> it is a in rough shape. >> reporter: the bank agreed to unload it for $470,000 and he was hoping to close later this week, but then came an e-mail from the title company.

>> pnc has put on all closings for at least 30 days. >> what was your klein's reactions? >> he's pretty upset. he had prepared everything with his family to have the house closed. he has contractors lined up and ready to get the work started. >> reporter: the fear this frozen deal prepa peteed tens of thousands of times could schedule. the recovery in the housing markets. a heated debate in maryland's race for governor and things got personal as incumbent governor martin o'malley squared off with bob ehrlich in the first debate of their 2010 rematch election race. the men took swipes at each other from everything from negative ads to taxes. >> i mr. pledge not to raise taxes like you raised property taxes when you were governor in easier times. i will pledge not to jack up college tuition by 40%. i will pledge not to increase by 300% the annual filing fees

for every small business incorporated by maryland. >> governor, you said you cut state spending. we added up your budget over four years. you know what it adds to, $124 billion. mine, $101 billion. that's not a rounding error. that really counts. that's big-time money. wusa 9 is airing the o'malley ehrlich debate tonight on wusa 9's 9.2 channel. no. we are also streaming it on wusa9.com and it started 7 minutes ago at 7 p.m. thursday live at noon we will carry a second debate hosted by the "washington post" and i have the honor of serving on the panel that will be asking questions. aheads up for federal workers the u.s. department of agriculture's special evidence ises building will be closed because of small fire that broke out over the week.

the address is the usda center at river side. that is 4700 river road in riverdale, maryland. we don't know if it will be open for business on wednesday but will be closed tomorrow. check in with patranya bhoolsuwan on the evening rush. supposed to be a holiday but it got a little rough. >> slow in some stretches but no major incidents or accidents to report throughout the metro area. that's the good news. go to the live camera oh the american legion bridge. as you can see quite a bit of volume between the toll road and 270 spur. drivers are making good time between bethesda and college park on the inner loop right now. i-66. this has been heavy all afternoon from route 7 to nutley. it will take drivers around 25 minutes. derek, back to you. let get over to topper with the 9 forecast first. i know we don't have any complaints about this one. >> i hope not. temperatures like late may early june. a nice day. the forecast, a nice evening tonight okay.

clouds rolling in. mostly cloudy, mild, 64. winds westerly at ten. temperatures are very mild. 76 downtown. 72 gaithersburg. 70 frederick and 73 out to leesburg. we will come back and talk about the changes. it can't last forever. we will tell you how drastic they will be and who broke the record today. marijuana is on four state ballots come november. just ahead how one of those states wants to make weed the new cash crop. up first -- >> thousands of bicycles in the area these day and many are not following the rules of this road. it can get you hurt and also ticketed. we will have the story coming up. wha 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. two governors, two different approaches. even in good times bob ehrlich didn't make education a priority. he increased college tuition by 40%, cut school construction by $200 million, and ehrlich voted to eliminate the department of education while serving in congress. but in the toughest of times, martin o'malley has made record investments in public schools, new school construction, and o'malley froze college tuition four years in a row. with martin o'malley, our children always come first. in the washington area, 20

people were killed in bike accidents in 2008 but it is not always the driver's fault. >> you know you are going the wrong way, right? >> yep. >> reporter: local drivers are having to share limited roads with more bicyclists and it is leading to resentment and more serious accidents. >> right through the light. >> i think the police should enforce the law. i mean that's it. they don't. >> early sunday when a bike collided with an suv on 20th and n streets in northwest. michael was injured but police say he was at fault. he was ticketed for riding south on a northbound one-way street. >> this is how it is supposed to work. the biker is supposed to be in the street riding with the traffic. on this one-way street on sunday the biker was coming in the opposite direction, facing traffic when he collided with the suv. >> that's a bummer. >> he was ticketed for going the wrong way on a one-way street. >> really? >> i didn't know you could get ticketed on a bike for that. >> this capital bike share rack in dupont circle, a rider can see some bikers have their own

set of rules for the road. >> i try to follow the rules as best i can. it is dangerous. >> reporter: visitors from beijing where there are more bikes than cars. >> there are separate rules for bikers but usually vehicles feel more superior to bikers. >> reporter: washington is the 8th largest city for bike commuters. they are looking to move up in the ranks. there are 48 miles of new bike lanes. listen anderson of aaa sees problems. >> we have a truck that is parked in a bicycle lane. if you are a bicyclist coming this way you have to swerve in to traffic to get around that truck. >> reporter: bikers have their own concerns, belligerent motorists who feel bikes should be on the sidewalks and drivers who are blind sided by the bikers, and never see them until it is too late. bruce johnson, 9 news now. >> last year across the country, 58,000 people were injured in bike and vehicle collisions. the federal department of

transportation says that's a slight decline, however, over the previous year. just ahead, topper is back with the full forecast. up first, a streaker taking center stage at an event for the president. the naked details when we come back.

now to a health alert an an amazing first in stem cell research. anita. >> reporter: for the first time, doctors are testing a human embryonic stem cell

treatment treatment on spinal cord injuries the first human patient to get the therapy in atlanta, the stem cell drug is being injected in the spine within two weeks of an injury to see if it helps regenerate the nerve. the company behind this plans to follow eight to ten people across the nation for ten to 12 years. while the study is privately funded it comes a future of embryonic stem cell research is in doubt. a federal judge ruled in august the obama's administration's promising policy for research prohibited a law for using tax money in any research that involves the destruction of human embryos. the justice department is appealing but a hot topic with a lot of debate ahead. voters in four states will see marijuana on their ballots this coming november. folks in california, south dakota, arizona and oregon all making decisions regarding the so-called gateway drug. so johns takes a look at what yes votes could mean for

americans in the future. what was once called the gateway drug, the so-called evil weed that led to cocaine, heroin, ruined lives and sent thousands upon thousands to jail could suddenly after all of these years be okay to do for fun in california. the three other states with pending legislation, oregon, south dakota and arizona are looking to either legalize marijuana for medical purposes or to modify the medical marijuana laws they already have in place. it turns out, coast to coast, 14 states and the district of columbia already allow medical use, which is something a former national antidrug czar sees as a problem. >> an intoxicant does make feel feel euphoric. it is part of the pathway to addiction. it doesn't mean there is medical method 0 method, crack or heroin. this is a sham. >> reporter: this criminallologist says attitudes have changed about marijuana, especially since medical

marijuana, though controversial what, has become a legal reality. >> it does give an aura of usefulless to this drug, which previously in every public presentation by any official agency was always very negative. >> reporter: use of the drug hasn't exactly skyrocketed recently, but the one thing that has changed is the economy. money hungry states are looking for new sources of revenue and already wondering whether pot is the next cash crop. >> governments certainly, if they become promoters of eelized marijuana legislate that clearly for, in most cases will be for revenue reasons. >> that was joe johns reporting. for now keep in mind the legislation is just a pipe dream. some predict that legalization in california could cause chaos starting in the courts because experts say that state law would clash ' federal law and

launch a big battle that could end up in the supreme court. we know the weather like this can't last. >> 88 today at national. not a record but there were -- one spot set a record. start with that. dulles hit 86. the record was 78. they blew that out of the water. that was in 1980. remember those records go back to 1963. downtown record 90, high 88. 89 in baltimore. their high was 85 and that was safe. a footnote here, this is the latest we have ever had a 90- degree reading in the month of october. we will tie the number of days of 67 days t 0 or higher if the year. 70s across the board right now. temperatures are going down the next three days. 80 tomorrow.

going down a bit. maybe a shower, maybe a thunderstorm and then 689 on wednesday. big change and light rain or showers on thursday with highs struggling to get to 60 our average high is 70 right now. we will break down tomorrow. maybe a shower to start. 78 by lunchtime. it will be warm tomorrow 80. slight chance of a shower. maybe a thunderstorm. most of the activity is north of us tomorrow. for tonight, clouds come in, mostly cloudy and mild. 56 to 64 and winds westerly at ten. temperatures tonight, comfortable. although downtown even above average. we should be in the 50s this time of the year. 63 downtown. 59 college park. 58 bowie and plenty of 50s to the west. 58 fairfax and reston, maybe even 58 in leesburg and 60 to 62 in arlington. tomorrow morning.

by afternoon we are looking at variable clouds, not as warm. shower or storm possible. highs of 80. winds from the north at ten. and 88 today and 86 but the record high tomorrow at dulles is 80 and that will be threatened. satellite picture, radar combined. big thunderstorms to the north of us for this frontal system. most of the activity is in pennsylvania and new jersey and new york. most of it will stay north of us tomorrow. clouds roll in tonight. that's about it. okay. next seven days, 80 tomorrow. maybe a shower. much cooler on wednesday but dry. cooler still on thursday, and wet. showers mailinger in to friday morning. it will clear up in time for high school football. saturday looks great but cool. the dog walk out in potomac. and nice for the redskins 74 the high. the game time in the 60s and warm next monday. >> thank you. weird news like we usually don't have here. unbelievably bold guy at the presidential rally on sunday.

and he had a million dollar agenda. let's get to the video. 24-year-old juan rodriguez arrested after streaking in front of the president. now this stunt, according to reports was actually smart because he wanted to claim a $1 million prize. allegedly offer bade billionaire to the first person who streaks in front of the president. right now rodriguez is in jail, though. he is charged with indecent exposure, open lewdness and disorderly conduct. we can only hope the billionaire doesn't say i was just kidding. >> well -- >> [ laughter ] 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.

we want to remind you about the great hangup campaign going on right now at wusa 9. it is an effort to get everyone to stop using cell phones illegally while driving. if you have been distracted by -- if you have been affect bade distracted driver, tells your story. in the mail bag on the, one more on the sugar industry. gavin from greenbelt, maryland liked my comments last week critical of the industry's new ad campaign. these ads claim to support working families who wish not to have food taxes. in fact sugary beverages like

soda have almost no nutritional a value and don't body the body a good source of water because we must use water to process the sugar and carbonation in the water. thank you for being candid on how silly the issue is. >> frank from west virginia not feeling me as i defended the west borough ban chest free speech rights . what that group does goes against everybody's rights except the first amy and that it protects the free speech of those who are cruel and inconsiderate. it is part of what the lost soldiers died to protect. and a bit more joyful row

&. the redskins win over green bay yesterday except craig in king george, virginia found much not to like about it. especially the inosinate offense line -- i'll also take your e-mail. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. that's our report. back here tonight at 11:00 with anita brickman. see you

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