captions by: caption colorado, llc (800) 775-7838 comments@captioncolorado.com hello, i'm j.c. hayward. thanks for joining us. metro's farragut north station is now open for riders. officials closed it yesterday after a chunk of concrete fell

from the ceiling platform. kristin fisher is joining us live from metro headquarters. officials, of course, are talking about the latest safety concerns. kristin? >> reporter: metro says this was not their fault. they say it was ddot's fault. when contractors were building a median on connecticut avenue over the farragut north metro platform yesterday, metro knew about the construction. ddot had a permit for it but the contractors dug too deep into the ground and caused a chunk of concrete the size of a human head to fall and land on a bench right next to the platform or excuse me, landed on a bench on the platform. incredibly, nobody was hurt. now the big question is, why did it take metro over an hour to notify emergency personnel? i asked that very question to peter benjamin just minutes ago. here's what he had to say.

>> it's not clear to me that any passenger was ever in danger after the first incident occurred. in other words, the issue that happened here was construction above the metro station, which stopped immediately. as soon as it stopped, all of the danger stopped. it was immediately investigated and all of those actions took place that were appropriate, including sealing everything up. >> reporter: now, the other big safety concern discussed at this morning's meeting was metro's ongoing escalator issues. remember the incident on the national mall where an escalator suddenly started speeding up? we've known for some time it was caused by a brake failure. the brakes simply couldn't hold that huge crowd of people. today we learned metro has inspected 566ful 588 and it turns out 50 were found to have similar problems with the braking system. so that means that the same type of acceleration could have

happened on any of those 50 escalators. now 40 of the brakes have been replaced, 10 repaired and 16 are out of service. going forward, metro says the solution is to increase the frequency of their inspections. right now, metro tests the breaks every quarter. that's going to change. metro will start testing them every month. back to you, jc. >> thank you very much, kristin fisher reporting live. according to metro, farragut north is the fourth busiest metro station in the system. in 2009, on an average weekday, 25,000 people entered and exited the station. only union station, metro center and gallery place were busier. a u.s. park police officer fired his gun at a suspect. investigators are now trying to figure out why. we first told you about this story this morning. it happened in the 2500 block of southern avenue southeast near the suitland parkway.

the suspect was not struck but police took him in for questioning. right now, university of maryland campus police are looking for a robbery suspect. they say that a student was robbed last night near the mowalk lane parking garage. the victim told police that the suspect came up behind her and ordered her to give up everything. the suspect got away with the woman's cell phone and student identification card. she was not injured. another defendant in the brian betts murder case is expected to plead guilty today. court documents show that prosecutors expect sha riff lancaster to admit to his part in the murder of the principal. police found betts murdered inside his silver spring home last april. lancaster is facing a 35-year prison sentence. another suspect, alante saunders pled guilty in his role in the case last week. it is day two for

deliberations for jurors and the murder case against ingmar guandique. he is charged with killing chandra levy. she vanished in 2001, but her remains were found a year later at rock creek park. a fire in washington, virginia has closed a school for the rest of the day. officials say the electrical fire started in the main hallway near the cafeteria just after 9:00 this morning. smoke filled the school but no one was injured. classes are expected to resume tomorrow. now to the corruption investigation in prince george's county. police sergeant richard delabur is in court today one of three police officers accused in a drug and alcohol-running scam. the focus is on the ticktock liquor store in langley park, maryland. 22-year-old police officer sexic was in court yesterday. he is accused of using police

powers to provide protection to transport cop electric band. his attorney says that semic is a small part in a much wider scandal. >> reporter: what has happened since friday has been a frenzy. i think everybody needs to realize the process needs to work itself out and let this thing go forth in the normal course. that's what i was asking for today. >> semic was ordered held without bail. >> lesli johnson, the wife of the prince george's county executive jack johnson is also charged in this corruption probe. she was elected this month to the county council. there is now an online petition calling for her to step down. the petitioners say if johnson does not step down, they will "protest daily and block her from taking the position." state election laws do not prevent johnson from taking office on december 6th. today, the house ethics

committee is scheduled to decide the punishment for congressman charlie rangel. on tuesday, the panel found the long time new york democrat guilty of breaking house ethics rules in his financial and fund- raising activities. he could face a house vote deploring his conduct, a fine and denial of privileges. german police are investigating a possible bomb headed on a flight to munich. charlie d'agata reports the bomb scare comes one day after germany raised its terror threat level. >> reporter: an air berlin flight landed safely in munich after a bomb scare in africa. during routine screening, authorities found a bag with batteries wired to a fuse and clock but no explosives. more than 300 passengers and crew were ordered off the plane, and all of the luggage and cargo was rescreened. police in namibia are still trying to discover who're it

belonged to and could have had a label indicating its with a police security test. the incident comes a day after germany stepped up security at airports, rail stations and landmarks. the interior minister says the nation faces a heightened risk from islamic militants and intelligence is warning an attack could happen toward the end of the month. this woman says she is frightened and afraid. concerned over cargo on international flights has been high since last month when two mail bombs were found on flights from yemen bound for the u.s. one device went through a german airport before being discovered in britain. german police are headed to africa to investigate the latest suspicious package. charlie d'agata, cbs news. if you are thinking about kicking your smoking habit, today is the day to give it a try. find out how you can get help breaking your addiction to cigarettes. general motors is back on wall street. i'm alexis christoforous with

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there is new information about the rolls royce engines used to power the airbus a380 jumbo jet. about half of the 80 engines may have a faulty part that could cause problems similar to what happened on a qantas flight earlier this month. the sydney-bound flight returned to singapore where it

made an emergency landing after the engines caught fire. no one was injured. qantas has grounded its fleet of six a380s, each powered by four of the giant rolls royce engines. general motors is once again a public company. today it issued its first stock since the $50 billion bailout by american taxpayers. alexis christoforous has more on general motors' big comeback. >> reporter: general motors' smiling management team rang the opening bell marking the automakers' return to the new york stock exchange. the new gm shares started selling at $33 and immediately started to climb. good news not just for gm but also for taxpayers. that's because the government is unloading millions of shares today, cutting its stake in the automaker from 60% to 26% and raking in over $13 billion. >> great day not only for wall street but for main street because it transcends wall

street. >> reporter: to get to this point, gm had to streamline its business by dropping brands like saturn and pontiac and cutting thousands of jobs. it's also positioning itself as cutting edge with the new electric volt which was parked outside the stock market. gm is a welcomed change since the market has dropped in six of the past eight trading days. >> i think this is all basically positive stuff, but once again, it's not on its own, not enough to really get the market, you know, in this positive long-term positive buying. >> reporter: stockholders who held gm stocks before the bankruptcy were wiped out. at least taxpayers were on the way to recouping the $50 billion bailout. other carmakers and the obama administration hope gm's return is the start of a long lasting comeback for the american auto industry. alexis christoforous, cbs news,

wall street. coming up next, howard and his forecast. also, a pet. >> pet line thursday got rocky. we'll introduce you to him. it's nice right now. we've got changes up and down as we head through the weekend. the details on the forecast are just ahead. you are watching 9news now.

if you are a smoker or someone you love smokes, today is the day to quit. it's the great american smokeout. the 35th year for the american cancer society event. it encourages smokers to quit or start a plan to kick the habit. you can get advice by visiting the american cancer society's web site, cancer.org, and the results of a quit smoking hot line, 1-800-quit-now and you can get all of this information on our web site, wusa9.com. look under extras. howard's here. >> hey, nice out. >> it's very nice. a wonderful fall day. >> i thought it would be cloudier by now. right now, we're seeing a

decent amount of sunshine. looking at the satellite, we'll see some clouds. even doppler's picking up action out west. here we are with the day planner with the decent temperatures pushing in the upper 50s and maybe even flirting with 60s here by 3:00. by 6:00, whatever cloudiness we have will break up 53. 9:00 p.m. temperature in the upper 40s. winds turning from the northwest from the west at 8 to 10 miles per hour. we're down to 45 under clear skies. we'll be in the 30s by tomorrow morning. consider that if you are going out late. here's the satellite and radar. you can see how the clouds are increasing. we're seeing radar echoes showing up now toward roanoke. on live doppler hd, i want to show you west of town here, i- 81. this is not reaching the ground. the air is dry so as this falls it just evaporates. call it virga meteorologically. there is a sign we've got the

clouds thicker out to the west. i think so of that will affect us later on. let's start temperatures. they are comfortable with light winds. we've got 56 degrees. nationals winds are west at 10. the dew point 34. most of the temperatures right now running in the middle 50s out there and the barometer continues to rise. even though mostly cloudy, there's a lot of sunshine. one system in the northwest not too worried about that right now. this guy here, things are moving rapidly across the country. so you see how quickly this system is pushing through with the showers from new york state and western pennsylvania down into parts of the carolinas right now. it's kind of doing the d.c. split. some to the north, some to the south. for us, i don't think we'll see much from it except those clouds. high pressure not far from roanoke right now and another frontal boundary separating chilly air from the cooler air that we have with us right now. here's our futurecast. you see clouds and breaks here. in the mountains, rain and snow

showers up towards snowshoe extending even into garrett county up into parts of pennsylvania as you head into the evening hours. so cooler air filtering into the higher elevations. notice clear skies through tonight and tomorrow morning. still the snow showers and flurries going on out to the west. during the day on friday, it is a quiet day, a chilly day, only low 50s with plenty of sunshine. as we head toward saturday morning and saturday midday, another weak system passes here. you'll notice mountain showers of rain and snow. i think saturday's going to be nice around here. highs will push the 60 degree mark. so the next three days, got clouds around, some sun. upper 50s today. tomorrow, we will have a chilly day, 52. high school football playoff games. d.c. high school playoffs.net. saturday, 60 degrees. a nice, mild start to the weekend. then on sunday, we'll look at temperatures back in the 50s. tuesday looks warm at 68. by wednesday, thanksgiving

travel wednesday, we've got temperatures which will be pushing only 60 degrees and the threat for rain will be around. it's that time again, thursday at noon. that means pet line 9 with us. this is sandra from the prince george's county spca. and who's that, rocky? >> yes this is rocky. >> is he a beagle? >> this is a 5-year-old beagle. even though he's not showing it right now, he is a very active dog. he would be great for a backyard. >> i was playing with him a little in the green room area. >> a little timid a little shy. he's a stray. >> i think he's smelling when's in the kitchen coming up in the next segment. >> he loves to eat. >> so an active dog, not an apartment a yard? >> yes and even a kid that's 10 or over to play with him. >> and maybe even have buddies for him to play with.

>> he is a sweet dog. >> will not be at the analis show, but he will be at the shears and trusses show in laurel. it's on our web site as well. >> all right. this is rocky with the prince george's spca. please give them a call and you can get all of the information for them and rocky at our web site at wusa9.com. thanks for coming in. >> thank you for having us. we're going to the kitchen. we've got barbecue when 9news now returns.

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. from television journalist to award-winning author to now a business owner. i'd like for to you meet my colleague and friend dell walters. you know him. he's been around washington for some time. he has started a new venture and has his better half with him. the two of them are owners are guess what, a barbecue joint. >> a joint? >> that means it's good. it is called mow with you brothers. >> and we sell braasch cue with attitude. if you come in there and ask for pork, we'll smack you down. >> all right. how did you get into this business and why? >> her brother. we're born out of the bad economy. her brother, we all got tired of the on again/off again job cycle. this is what we did for friends and family and did it well for 25 years. he said if i map this place out, will you cook? i thought, let's see from

broadcasting to barbecue, will i cook? yeah. so robin and i are back in the kitchen every night. >> you're kidding. >> no, we're not. >> robin, does he really cook? >> yes. >> is he good? >> yes, he's really good. >> girl, excuse my fingers. >> all right. give me that. let me see. >> watch this. >> mm-mmm. mm-mmm. [ laughter ] >> mack you want to go outside and kick a dog? >> oh, yes. smack somebody. >> where's howard and that dog. >> what do you serve besides barbecue, ribs, which i have, pork. what else do you have? >> brisket. >> pulled pork, beef ribs, barbecued chicken. we even smoke turkeys for thanksgiving. >> did we say home made potato salad? >> everything is home made from scratch except the corn bread. >> i will get you some potato salad. >> the secret to good barbecue is the sauce and this sauce is good. what kind of sauce did you put

on it? >> these are all home made. one is a sweet and tangy bush cue, one is a little spicy and one is a little spicy -- >> i like a man who feeds me. she hasn't said a word. >> i know. >> these are all home made recipes. they are all family recipes. they are all sauces that we cook in our kitchen. >> this is unreal. how's business? >> we get slammed on fridays and saturday nights. we have jazz. catering for the holidays. we're filling up fast and then we're smoking turkeys, too. >> oh that is wonderful. all right. give us the phone number. >> 703-777-8632. >> and if you didn't get it, we're going to put it on the web site, okay, with the directions how to get there. leesburg, at the corner of south king street and in the little shopping strip. >> mm-hmm. >> look, go by see dell and

robin. them 'em i sent you so they can give you something extra. it is absolutely delicious. >> look at these people thinking they are going to get some. y'all ain't getting any. >> best wishes to you. you have so many talents. >> would you say it's the best barbecue in town? >> it's the best barbecue in town. >> that's all we want to know. >> so good to see you. thanks for coming. trapped in the trance of their shopping routine,

some people don't notice the difference between meat... and mystery, when they enter... the frozen zone. is it real chicken? or something else? some chicken nuggets and tenders look like they have mystery meat. with my perdue frozen nuggets, there is no mystery. just real all white-meat. made with 100% natural ingredients. no fillers. no preservatives. and a delicious taste your family will love. perdue frozen chicken. all white-meat. no mystery.