but the intelligence officials recognize a weakened al-qaeda remains a threat. meanwhile, strong reaction to the radical cleric's death came from the northern virginia mosque where he was the imam in 2001 and 2002. that mosque released a statement that is critical of both al-awlaki's preaching violence, but also for what it calls the extrajudicial assassination of a human being. especially an american. andrea mckaren reports. >> as worshipers flocked to the islamic center for morning prayers, their former imam's name was never uttered. never spoke attacks against americans. >> nothing anything that is violent or jihadish or anything like that. i was very surprised that he is in yemen and doing this and that. >> we are not supposed to kill nobody. we are not supposed to hit

nobody. that's what i believe. >> al-awlaki spoke with 9 justice of the peace 9news, concerned about the impact on his mosque. >> working on providing enough security so we can work with our community. >> after he left this falls church for yemen in 2002, he used his perfect english and internet savvy to recruit aspiring terrorists. >> we don't have to worry anymore about this person teaching hatred and using his excellent communication skills to convince younger, naive muslims to come and attack. >> that voice has been silenced and the peaceful community he left behind still wondering what drove him to violence. >> the statement from this mosque was highly critical of the assassination of a u.s. citizen by americans, saying we are concerned the attack sends the wrong message to law-

abiding people around the world. in falls church, andrea mccarren, 9news now. d.c. police say a man who lost his life after a fight outside a mcdonald's may have been the one who started that fight. 33-year-old pat casey died after four days in a coma. police say the afghanistan war vet was disturbing customers at the mcdonald's and even blocked people from leaving. they believe he may have been drinking. >> the initial push came from, we believe it was mr. casey. it may have been someone that was with him. we are ironing that out. but that was the initial push that put a subject down on the ground. >> now captain michael says someone from that group pushed or punched back. casey fell, hit his head, he suffered a severe brain injury and he died on tuesday. his parents told a far different story. an unusual sentence was handed down in a montgomery county hate crime case today.

it is not the prison time that got our attention. everybody on this case expected the suspect, steven armstrong would be sent to prison. but as scott broom tells us, nobody expected the judge to ban him from returning to his own home once he gets out. >> i'm scott broom in wheaten where a neighbor was sent away to prison today for committing hate crimes against his hispanic neighbors and told by the judge once he gets out of prison, he will not be allowed to live in the neighborhood again. steven armstrong conducted a personal campaign of hate and intimidation against latinos in his wheaten neighborhood by targeting vehicles for nearly 100 mysterious late night tire slashings over at least two years. >> i'm afraid for my life. >> and now it's unlikely armstrong will ever return here. he was banned by judge robert greenburgh from coming home during the three years of probation he'll serve after getting out of prison. armstrong was sentenced to year behind bars.

>> he can live somewhere, but he just cannot live among the people whom he victimized for so long. >> it's a big deal. it's a big deal for me. it's a big deal for our community. >> in wheaten, scott broom, 9news now. >> a warning tonight if you are ogling a craigslist car ad that seems too good to be true. some armed robbers are taking advantage of people who are eager for a good deal. three times this month, buyers have agreed to meet the sellers and exchange cash for that car and instead, they have ended up staring into the business end of a handgun. fairfax county police are urging people, be really careful. >> try to meet in a public place. you don't have to meet at their home or your home. meet in the daytime. not that it is unsafe to meet at night, but daytime, more visibility, there's more people out. >> good advice. now the robbers hit two different buyers at the same intersection down in lorton, virginia. police are looking for those robbers. >> we all seem to be a bit

addicted to our phones. when you are driving in maryland, you better put the phone down. starting tomorrow, october 1, it will be illegal to read a text or e-mail while you are driving in maryland. that ban was passed in '09, but a loophole that allowed you to read a text. the new tougher law is also a primary offense. that means officers do not need another reason to pull you over. >> a police officer can pull you over and fine you. the fine of $70 for the first offense. if you are convicted, that's a point on your driver's license. >> another law that takes effect tomorrow, stiffens the penalty for any driver whose negligence leads to a deadly accident. well, we were hoping for sunshine, but it is not going to work out that way for the weekend. topper, topper, topper, what do we look like for tonight? >> we have a nice friday night. nice for high school football, too. look at the temperatures. it's not turning cold just yet, yes, it's 45 in oakland.

but we are still 68 downtown. 63 in gaithersburg. 64 in frederick and 66 in fredericksburg. so the football forecast for high school football, not bad. temperatures in the 60s throughout the game. maybe 62 or 61 by 9:00. but it will be dry, a couple showers south and east of town, that's it. d.c..highschoolsports.net. check it out for the latest scores. for us, partly to mostly cloudy. breezy, colder. lows 45 to 52. we'll come back. we know it's going be chilly this weekend. we'll tell you how wet it's going to be. >> thank you topper. a judge in pennsylvania says retail giant, wal-mart, has to pay a woman $100 for over charging her by two cents at the register. the judge awarded mary bach $100. on two occasions, she went to the store and bought sausages

priced at 98-cent, but they charged her a whole dollar instead. wal-mart tried to refund her change, but bachman refused. so, what do you think about this one? did she go overboard just to save a few pennys on this? send your thoughts to mcginty's mail bag. or just post your comments on our facebook page. a man's will to live is put to the test. >> supposedly just lost control. there was a bright car and if you saw where the accident happened, several cars have gone off. >> a father manages to survive for nearly a week trapped inside his car, which had been driven off a cliff. we'll talk about it, how he was rescued. it's all coming up. >> also still to come, those new bank fees have plenty of people upset tonight. we'll try to get to the bottom of why they are coming and maybe they are a good thing. stay with us. we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag.

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democratic party. michelle says he loved it. having become an independent because of my dissatisfaction with the current political system, it was refreshing to hear someone criticize the black community in general of not being open to more conservative ideas, which as embodied by kaine, do tend to emphasize more personal responsibility instead of always wanting a free government handout. government should be an enabler, not a security blanket for those who want something for nothing. michelle, i'm glad you liked it, even though we had no liberal voice to offer the other side of the story. don says we didn't need it. mr. mcginty, there was no need to apologize for not having the democratic point of view. afterall, you were there. you are obvious for any and all things republican. if you are trying to seem impartial, it does not work. i respect your point of view. well don, i respect you, too. i thank you for that. i gave up trying to be impartial a while back and i

endeavor mightily to be fair. i hope that is just as apparent. apparently we could use more e- mails. the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. or join the discussion on our facebook page. it looks like the cooler temperatures and rain is heading our way. topper shutt will have your full 9news now weekend forecast. but first, he survived on nothing but grass and bugs. now a man trapped in a car has been rescued nearly a week after driving off a cliff. his story when we come back.

a remarkable story of survival in southern california. david spent six days trapped in a ravine after his car plunged some 200 feet off a mountain road. he is 67 years old and managed to stay alive on creek water and whatever else he could find to eat. that includes grass, ants, even bumblebees. it was his kids who found him yesterday. when they didn't hear from their dad, they started to search on their own. >> we stopped at every ravine and looked over every hill and then my brother got out of the car and we kept screaming and the next thing we heard dad say, help. help. >> very, very emotional time. now he had broken his arm, dislocated his shoulder. he has multiple fractures in his back and ribs, but he is

still alive. his vehicle landed near another car that had gone off the same road and that driver was not so lucky. he didn't survive. a new jersey police chief may be spending a few nights on the couch. he gave his wife a ticket. lodi police chief ordered an officer to ticket his wife after she had double parked while dropping off their five- year-old son at school. he did not want her to get any special treatment just because she's his wife. >> it's the right thing to do. she's not above the law. nor am i or my family and he issued the summons and brought it to me later on that morning and i went to the court and paid it. >> dude, you're rough. not the first time his wife had been ticketed. the chief ordered another officer to ticket her two years ago after she forgot to move their vehicle for street cleaning. the bank of america getting hammered in the court of public opinion over plans to charge a $5 monthly fee for the use of their debit cards to make

purchases. b of a stock, which was trading at $6 fell further as enraged customers accused the bank of gouging them and promised to that i can their business elsewhere. one fox news anchor went so far as to cut up her debit card on the air. not being a b of a customer, i have no need to go that far. i have some questions for terri green. he's a branch manager. he's also president of the national lenders alliance. terri, glad to see you. >> glad it see you, derek. >> first of all, is this a move by a desperate bank down on its luck or something we are all going to be dealing with? >> this isn't a desperate move. the government has taken away their ability to collect a merchant fee. they are trying to replace that lost profit. >> they can collect some merchant fee, just not as much. >> debit card, they are not collecting any fee now. just from credit cards. >> $5 a month is not a lot of money. it is $60 a year. most people could afford that.

the principle of the thing, when people blame banks for our economic trouble, taxpayers help bail them out. some of the same taxpayers are being fore closed on. they think it's too much. >> well, they do. but it's a good thing. the way i see it, i have been preaching for years for people to cut up their debit cards. your credit card is the one you want to use. >> your debit card does not get you in debt. >> that's part of the reason why it is not the right card. it's four really good things you get with a credit card. you get to help your debit score. debit cards do nothing for your credit score. your score starts to rise so you can get better rates on everything. >> that's the problem. most people don't charge it and pay it off. they charge it and begin to build up debt. >> i think it's time for people to grow up and learn how to face their responsibilities and pay that debt. that's what it is all about. you need to establish a good credit score. >> the the end of the day, we

are going to be paying extra fees. let me ask you this question. it used to be the bank and you had a deal. they paid you interest. they made more interest by loaning it out or whatever. you wrote some checks, got a credit card or something. that was the deal we had. what's wrong with that? why is that no longer a viable business? >> good question. because the banks have lost their ability to make money on the money. the government regulations are limiting what they can do, so they are losing revenue. they have to pick it back up. >> you keep blaming the government regulations. a lot of folks are saying the banks are getting involved in more and more risky things. the profit is the only goal when they could do safer things, still make some money, and not charge us so much. >> well, that's true. and with the regulations, it has helped because now the loans they do are good. the new loans are all safe. banks aren't lending out money that is going to get foreclosed on right away anymore. that's good. they are doing smart things, but they need to pick up the lost revenue. >> they have to survive. >> so, when you look at the

way they are trying to pick up the lost revenue, what other charges are we going to be dealing with? does it have to be the small guy that has to end up paying the charge for check something. >> he doesn't have to pay the charge. he can tear up that debit card. bring the checkbook out. there's no fees for that. >> all right, thank you sir. we appreciate you. the idea that maybe this is a good thing, we'll have to mull that over. let's go to top in the weather center. >> all right. let's talk about wet septembers. think it was wet and cloudy? yes, you're right. ended up in 5th place. not too long ago in 199, we had the fourth wettest september, over 10 inches. all time record, 17.45. that is a record for any month. live doppler 9,000. we have been talking about this all evening. most of the showers are to the south and east of town. the only place you'll have a

wet field. a little bit of anne arundel county. temperatures are still mild. cold air is not here yet. it's coming. not here yet. 65 in rockville. 64 also in arlington. and 63 in great falls. 64 in reston. and 68 in college park. okay, here's the deal. more like november than october this weekend. tonight breezy and turning colder. wet and chilly tomorrow. the first flakes will fall in the mountains tomorrow late and tomorrow night into sunday morning. that's west of the divide. and chilly, but not as wet on sunday. so some good news for sunday. here's a look at the future cast. by 2:15, it's just cloudy in the metro area. but we see some showers begin to build back to the west. in martinsburg and winchester. put this into motion by 8:00 in the morning, here comes some showers. not enough, i don't think, to cancel the little league game. enough to make it miserable. take your umbrella and sweatshirt and notice this. this is pink and blue.

that's some snow. garrett county and mineral county and grant county, west virginia, we'll put this back into motion by 11:00, still some showers. it's all light, which is light activity. which isn't going to be pleasant with temperatures in the 50s. by 2:30 in the afternoon, the showers go north from leesburg to gaithersburg up into frederick. don't worry, they come back down by evening. pretty much across the entire metro area. a very unsettled day tomorrow. nothing heavy, but pretty miserable in terms of the type of day it's going to be. partly to mostly cloudy tonight. breezy and turning colder. we showed you those. 45 to about 52. downtown, we're talking low 50s tonight and in the suburbs, 40. this is cold stuff. 47 in gaithersburg. 48 in rockville. 47 in fairfax. tomorrow morning, light rain and showers, chilly. 40s and 50s. breezy, too. by afternoon, mostly cloudy,

breezy, and chilly. quite frankly, most folks hold in the 50s tomorrow. next seven days, sunday, some showers, but a little better. improving slowly but surely. mid 60s on monday. more sunshine. and then a nice stretch of weather with sunshine, temperatures in the 70s. we will see you tomorrow at fall for fairfax. i'll be out there from noon to 3:00. howard is out there, amy is out there. andrea roane is out there. you can have fun with the kids. you can also duck inside the government center as well to warm up and get dry. >> wear a slicker. something along that line. we'll be back. : high school senior voted to be on the homecoming court. why fellow students think she should be crowned queen. after the break. [ male announcer ] at green giant we know nature

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it takes more than just a beautiful dress to make a homecoming queen. a young woman in texas who students say surely fits that bill. meet mariah slick. the high school senior was born with down syndrome, but she has not let that get in her way. she's an excellent student. plays sports, and she always cheers for the home team. she is on the homecoming court and parents are losing their minds with pride. >> for the kids at the school

to, you know, love mariah and want to nominate her, i feel so blessed. >> the homecoming queen will be announced during the halftime at the football game later tonight. that is our report. topper and i will be back tonight at 11:00 along with anita brickman. have a great evening. bye bye. look at that, someone just gave me

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