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. in just a short while, the first of those 33 trapped chilean miners will be hoisted to the surface in a rescued capsule.

you're look live at the rescue operations. the miners have been on the ground for nearly ten weeks. they say that they are actually much more relaxed than the rescue crews up on the surface. well tonight, there's a crowd gathering at the chilean embassy in northwest dc. watching the operations, hoping for success. brittany morehouse is with them. brittany? >> reporter: that's right. trapped half a mile underground for 69 days. it feels like a personal victory. i'm going to have them look forward and show you what they are watching. a huge screen with the pictures coming straight out of the rescue. you can see people here. just the emotion comparable. they are gathering their faces and they are very happy. basically what we have been seeing all night long. these men dressed in typical guards. they will actually do a dance after the first miners have seen where the ambassador will

speak here. doing a typical chilean host. they have also been passing out some stickers to people who are wearing on their clothing. when the stickers, they are bearing the symbol, the actual what was printed, when the miners were rescued. it continues to build through the night. we'll be here when we bring you much more at 11:00. >> all right, brittany morehouse, thank you for that. and by the way, we'll be monitoring that rescue operation throughout this program. now, we move onto tonight's other top story. another metro maintenance mishap. forcing some commuters to have to climb more than 200 feet. plus, student stabbing. a from the celebration gets way out of control from the heart of college park. and clues uncovered in the murder mystery, but the investigators have many more questions. >> i'm peggy fox in fairfax. where police, they are optimistic about catching a

killer. it could hold the clues that police have been looking for in a murder mystery. last week, they were found dead at his home in fairfax station. his wife found his body on thursday afternoon. hissed gold 2002 lexus, ls470 had been stolen. and today, an alerted police officer spotted the car parked miles away on americana drive, just off the beltway. police have confiscated the lexus and they are going over it inch by inch. >> they will be looking for anything out on the vehicle, either fingerprints, dna evidence, anything that will help us identify the suspect and lead that person to an arrest. >> i'm scott broom in college park. we're after a stabbing of three students last night. the university of police, they are vowing to push the county, to shut down the establishment for the fight that started.

>> in short, the thirsty turtle has become an attractive nuance. >> reporter: the business has suffered at least $1,000 in fines since 2008. >> i'm ready to padlock it tonight. but it's not my fault. >> i want the thirsty turtle to comply with the local and state laws. >> you need to make sure that they are in age. >> reporter: last night's intimate fight started acing among two men inside the bar. they were ejected. the fight moves on to the corner where at least one knife came out. three students, age 19 to 20 were injured as well as the 23- year-old man. and police, they are looking for a fifth person who ran. >> i'm lindsey mastis in the wheaton metro. the escalators are broken and the commuters are having to walk. >> you're getting a good workout. that was a long escalator. >> reporter: this isn't the only metro station affected. an independent audit found serious problems with metro's escalators and elevators. detailing problems that include failure to clean and adjust the switches. they are making their way into

the machine room and work areas. mechanics need more training and there is a shortage of supervisors. riders say they just want the problem fixed. >> they need to do better. this is uncalled for. i think they should get these fixed as soon as possible. >> only one is working. maintenance crews are hoping to get the other up and running by tonight or tomorrow morning. >> and we are looking live right now on the flip screen rather at the scene in chile, where those 33 trapped miners will be hoisted to the surface. and the rescue capsule you see right there, they will come up one by one. just keep in mind when we first began this ordeal that it was summertime, august, when we talked about back to school. now it's ten weeks later. talking about october. we're talking halloween. and those 33 miners have been underground all that time tonight. the first of them will see the light of day, we hope, or shall we say just the the surface. it will be nighttime by the

time they come up, showing you as it happens. meanwhile, obviously, they just got a bit longer by about 20 minutes to be exact. they are planning some major traffic changes, starting tonight, and it will go on for two years. they are giving us the good, the bad, the ugly, of the new construction. >> the sights and sounds of progress. >> this will be taking time and a part of the time, a little pain. >> drivers better enjoy the ramp while they've got it. starting tonight, this exit, 495 north off 123 will be shut down for the next 18 to 24 months. instead, drivers will have to merge over to these two far left lanes where they will hit a set of traffic lights at the green arrow. they will then loop back onto 495 north. the new pattern allows crews to work on the beltway hot lanes for the high occupancy vehicles. and starting wednesday, the

lanes on 495 north will shift to prepare for the demolition of thed old beltway bridge. >> so we'll have a bridge right across here. >> yes, this was one of the high entrances on tyson's corner. >> reporter: they say that the project opens a door for a simpler way to travel in the future. >> and for the first time, people will be able to leave their car at home, get on the bus, come into tyson's corner. >> for the immediate impact, it will be a lot of inconvenience to everyone. >> reporter: but they say look on the bright side. we're only two short years away. in tyson's corner, 9news now. >> okay, did you get all that? if not, no worries. just log onto our website, wusa9.com. and you can map out your routes. all right, speaking of routes, check the evening rush with patranya in the traffic center. >> hi there. we're dealing with a number of the accidents here in montgomery county. starting off in silver spring. this is westbound at university. we're going to be out here any

time soon f. you'll want to avoid the intersection of the pedestrian area for the five vehicles there. police are on the scene, expecting the lane closures. let's take a live look at the picture over the american legion just before at carter rock. we do have an accident scene on the left side of your screen there. it looks like it just reopened a lot of the traffic moving on to the outer loop. just past this side here into virginia. deke, back to you. >> let's get back to topper it in the nine sports cast. first off, great looking day one more. i guess what, that's it? >> well, this might have within it. 83 the record high at dulles. here is your forecast first now. for tonight, if you're out late, it's going to get rather cool. in fact, partly cloudy and much cooler. mid-40s to the mid-50s. winds are out of the north at about 10. temperatures right now, they are still comfortable, after the high of 83 both dulles and national. 74 in fredericksburg as you head south and as you go up to 270 in gaithersburg and also frederick. and 73 out here in culpepper. we'll come back. we'll talk about the big

changes in the forecast when you're going to meet your coach and when you will need your umbrellas. and the sheriff deputy, allowing some serious trouble brewing there tonight. a grand jury, hitting them with charges of soliciting a bribe from a woman he pulled over, giving false information about the case to his supervisor. that deputy is the 27-year-old, jason warren. of west virginia. he is on leave with pay. turning now to fairfax county, where the police went door to door in the area of the road. they were notifying neighbors of the burglary and an attempted burglary. both taking place overnight. investigators are looking into the possibility that those two crimes, they are connected to a hole string of the burglars committed over the last few weeks. >> we are continuing to work with residence to keep the awarend tieing the situations. and again, to remind people to lock their doors, lock their windows, and stay vigilant. >> police are investigating more than 50 burglaries and

attempted burglaries. all that might be connected to the same group of thieves. investigators say all too often, those burglars enter through a door left unlocked. up next on 9news now. >> this is bruce johnson if many montgomery county. and the league died as they are lifting them as the democrat. what is that all about? i'll have that story coming up. 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. they have been misidentified. >> made in the widely voter's guide, published by the league of the women's voters in montgomery county. and governor o'malley is demanding a corruption. >> what you see from these ads are the half truth. it's get over to the next election thing. is >> it's a hard fought rematch in which the former republican governor is trying to unbeat the democratic incumbent. >> you have the ability,

governor, to do what i did, which was to freeze college tuition. >> the polls show that every vote in the maryland's race will count. that's what makes the mistake all the more significant. >> and that is definitely not right. >> you think that they should change it? >> i certainly think that they should change it. they should fix it. you're talking about the voter's guide. and inside, they misidentify them as a democrat. >> they lift him as a democrat. >> you think that is correct? >> he is what they say he is. everyone knows he's not a democrat. >> yeah. >> he is not a democrat. really a republican. >> the democratic state leader won a corruption, calling them inappropriate. >> what we have done due to this error is apologized on our website, apologized to all the candidates. >> the county league add that changes were made to the web page. and they say that the group

could not impress the $11,000 to reprint the guide. >> i don't believe that there will be many areas or incorrect are votes because of this. >> privately, early supporters could see that they could be o'malley territory. he's expected to win big this year and in neighboring prince george's county and in the city of baltimore. >> they call it an innocent mistake saying that the candidates are not especially concerned about the slip ups. produce johnson, 9news now. and we've got to tell you earlier, that the governor, they will debate for a second time on thursday. and you can watch it live right here at noon on wusa9.com. i will serve as one of the panelist. if you want to send us our question, look at the mail bag. this is just one of the stories that you'll find in our where you live section. keep up with what is happening in your neighborhood.

contact us and be a part of the wusa9.com team. and once again, we're monitoring those rescue operations. live if many chile. and stay with 9news now as they lower that capsule and pull up to first of the 33 miners trapped underground for the last 69 days. 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. a man and his dog killed.

his body found in his dead, his dogs right nearby. firefighters believe that the fire could have been just smoldering all night long. neighbors say that they smelled smoke last night around 10:00 to twelve o'clock, but no one could find the source of that smell. this morning around 7:00, a woman driving by and a neighbor investigating the smoke, saw the house on fire. >> i knocked on the door here on the driver's side. and there wasn't anyone around. >> we have fire upon our arrivals, down to the basement, coming up through the first floor. and they went in and they head back, having problems due to things behind the door in the contents of the house. >> firefighters couldn't find any smoke detectors in the victim's house. >> it has grabbed some national headlines. they have disappeared more about five years ago. now, prosecutors are targeting their husband. they have charged him with killing her, but the case is a

bit unusual because the body has never been found. they headed off for the motley crew concert in dc and be not giver there. the only trace of her, finding surveillance video in her car. >> and there is even a murder committedded, much less to keep them with their client, who felt that murder. >> they were arrested late last year. prosecutors were hoping for a slam dunk. this driver was suppose to last only two weeks. well, don't ask, don't tell. don't buy it. the federal judge has issued a worldwide injunction. and that immediately stops the military from enforcing the don't ask don't tell policy. for the past 17 years, that rule has blocked openly gay men and women from serving in uniforms. they called the policy unconstitutional. now, the justice department, they have 60 days which to appeal. the obama administration says they are lifting that on the

deep water oil drilling in the gulf. imposed after the disasters for the bp oil spill. the administration has been under heavy pressure from the industry and others in that region to lift the ban on the grounds that they have cost jobs. well, it's not the adventure that the sky diver has planned on. after jumping out of the plane in massachusetts. he landed in a tree, more than seven stories up. the most powerful part of the sky dive might have been the last 70 feet. because he spent three hours dangling from a shoe harness that had snagged in the branches of those tall trees. >> two, you could even steer this. but he did not do what he was suppose to necessarily or he just didn't know what was going on and let the parachutes fly. and he put himself in the trees. they had to rig up the special ropes to get the rest of the way.

>> i hope that they would hold the bottom out here. >> had yeah, exactly. >> all right, 83 today. you know what, we're not going to go from warm to crazy cold. here is your forecast now. they will be in the upper 60s. 69 to 70. thursday, rain and showers develop, primarily in the afternoon. friday, cool. highs in the 60s in the morning and then clearing out very quickly in the afternoon. another great night for football, high school football, that brings a sweatshirt for the temperatures falling into the 50s, very rapidly. all right, let's break down tomorrow. 55 to start. sunshine, 62 at lunchtime. and then that 65 in the morning is translated to the 40s in the burbs. upper 60s by the evening. all the sunshine. and that's a pretty good idea. temperatures are falling like last night where they just flow it down. they will fall pretty fast down there.

and gaithersburg, 70 none frederick. the low 70s in manassas and the mid-70s down fredericksburg. partly cloudy and cooler. the lows are in the mid-40s for the suburbs. mid-50s downtown, about 10 degrees cooler than last night. winds are out of the north at about 10. lows tonight, look at gaithersburg. 48 in rockville. 49 in college park. 48 in bowie. and downtown, they are seeing the low to mid-50s. still ten degrees cooler this morning. and 48 in reston and 46 in leesburg. 46 in middleburg. 46 in manassas. now tomorrow morning, partly cloudy and chilly. 40s and 50s. winds are still light. by the afternoon, partly cloudy and cooler, a very nice day. highs between 65 and 70. and winds are easterly at ten. satellite picture radar combined. another hurricane, hurricane paula, right here. maximum winds are about 100 miles per hour. located about 185 miles southwest from the western tip of cuba. it's going to brush the young

tan and then go back to the northeast and affect the western cuba area over the weekend. they could affect south florida next week. we'll keep you posted. track that on our website at wusa9.com. and in the meantime, showers, a few thunderstorms from the midwest back to tennessee. that's begin to be, like our rains getting into wednesday and thursday. we'll have a nice rest of it in between. the next seven days. 68 tomorrow. partly cloudy, then cooler. thursday, friday, the low 60s on thursday. with primarily the afternoon rain. a few morning clouds on friday. we finish strong. nice on saturday. the dog walking the potomac at 10:30. more information on that on our forecast page. 70 on sunday. what a nicer football for sunday night. but wow, grab a sweatshirt. keep cool and then beautiful next week. upper 60s to the low 70s. >> i'm looking at those 45 degree nights. >> yes, it's coming. and from our weird news files in a contest, i was pretty sure that my 4-year-old nephew could easily win. then i saw this.

>> no, no one is getting beaten. just the loudest voice contest in a small japanese town. believe it or not, about 600 folks showed up in this thing as men, women, children, they all took the podium. and to scream their hearts out. no one wears the beat. and here it is right here. and it is a tasty flight. apparently this area known for real good meats. that might have count for the big turnout. in the meantime, they went to a 40-year-old woman who shouted at 110.8. that's louder than a car horn. >> we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back.

in the mail bag tonight, your opportunity to help me grill the two men who want to be the governor of maryland. and i will be a part of the panel asking the democratic incumbent, governor o'malley for their debate. we'll broadcast it live right here on wusa9.com. we ask you some of your questions on our facebook page. so here are some of what you would like to know. marish asked, what -- marsha asked what are your plans to eliminate reduction days?

that's a good question. craig wants to know, what will you do to help up the debate, not just words, action. brandon miller wrote to ask derek to ask about the purple line project. where both o'malley stands on that issue. that debate happening thursday at noon. i'll be happy to take more of your questions along with me. send them on our facebook page or go with the e-mail. mailbag@wusa9.com. well that is our report. i'll be right back here tonight at 10:00 and 11:00 with anita. we'll see you then. bye.

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