in ashville from shouting four more years. >> i appreciate the four more years but right now i'm thinking about the next 13 months. >> reporter: here in washington republicans didn't waste any time slamming the bus tour calling it nothing more than a taxpayer funded campaign trip. >> we sat appropriate on the taxpayer's dime since it is clearly campaigning and i must say again i've never seen an uglier bus. >> reporter: senate democrats could bring up the first part of the president's plan this week. it contains $35 billion to help states keep hundreds of teachers, firefighters and police on the job. susan mcginnis for cbs news, washington. this morning, police are scheduled to resume their search for an 11-year-old william mcquain. >> after a week of searching for william police are still coming up empty. his mother jane mcquain was found dead inside their apartment last week. her estranged husband curtis lopez has been charged with her

murder. he is awaiting extradition from charlotte, north carolina. yesterday a team of eight people spent all day searching for william. children accusing is montgomery county teacher of physically abusing them may be called to testify against her later today. >> lieu san lee burke was a teacher until her arrest in february. at least seven children say she punched, kicked and choked them when she was angry about their behavior. burke denies the allegations. an aruban judge denied gary giordano's request to be released from jail. guard has been in jail for several weeks without being charged with the crime. the two traveled to aruba together back in july. gardner disappeared in august.

he claims she disappeared while they were snorkeling. a staffer agreed to go undercover for prosecutors investigating the election campaign. >> howard brooks has been wearing a wire and has recorded at least one conversation about the campaign. there's no word yet whether brooks will get -- what he'll get in exchange for the level of cooperation. we do know brooks was named by soul monobrown as one of the people -- sulaiman brown as one of the people in the gray campaign who gave him money. brown says he was also promised a job which he got but then was fired. mayor gray says if there were any irregularities in his campaign they happened without his knowledge. >> i haven't been called for anything at this stage and we want to cooperation with the investigation as we said we could and want to continue to provide whatever witnesses, whatever documentation is requested of us. >> but you're going to be

surprised if it turns out there were irregularities in the campaign. >> i'm surprised this happens in the first place. >> green has also denied brown's claim that she gave him money and the job. so would you be willing to pay more at the pump if it meant getting more jobs for maryland residents? governor o'malley has a plan to do exactly that. >> the plan calls for a list of road and school construction projects to help get people back to work but funding the plan would also mean a propoised gas tax hike of 15 cents. the passed it would bring the state's gas tax to 38.5 cents per gallon. >> what are we willing to do in order to get people back to work more quickly? >> there are indeed a lot of people in pain and the idea that they're going to be able to afford additional taxes in this time of economic struggle is wrong. >> hearings on the proposal are set to begin today. maryland they're scheduled to vote today on governor

o'malley's redistricting plan. one democrat even and one republican. under the plan, the district represented by republican congressman bartlett of western maryland would be changed to add heavily democratic areas of montgomery county. gop leaders see this as an effort to vote him out. on the other side of the aisle, donna edwards also voiced her concerns about the plan. she says it would break up several districts around washington which have mostly minority populations. >> the greatest amount of population growth happened in the washington suburbs. and therefore, that is where this disruption of lines has also been the greatest. >> it splits communities. it splits neighborhoods and it hurts the minority population and hurts those of us wholly in and represent -- who live in and represent rural areas. >> leaders say they are hoping to approve and finalize a plan

by the end of the week. here's a look at the other things making news now this morning. a long awaited prisoner swap with israel and hamas is complete. hamas released gilad shilat this morning five years after he was captured. he was turned over to egyptian mediators in exchange for more than 1,000 palestinian prisoners. israeli president perez defended the deal saying saving one jewish soul is like all israelis. investigators are combing through a home in philadelphia where police found four mentally disabled adults in the basement. three dogs were also confined in the space which was so small an adult could not stand up. there were also buckets of human waste. police believe the four were imprisoned by people who planned to live off their disability checks. so far, three people have been arrested. close to 40 years after the

murders of their family members, the list of people in illinois are giving dna samples now. this is all an attempt to identify the remains of eight people believed to have been killed by serial killer john wayne gaysy. he is known to have killed 33 men who lived and works in the chicago area between 1972 and 1978. the countries of the former british empire are expected to ask to be -- to be asked to legalize homosexuality by next week. leaders from all 53 countries will believe with the australian -- will meet with the australian city of perth in the meeting. they hope to decriminalize homosexuality. the countries represented at the summit account for 30% of the world's population and 60% of the aids cases. our time is 4:36. at 4:40. a popular winter ski getaway has filed for bankruptcy. jessica doyle has the story in

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4:39. a chilly morning. we've got 40s and 50s out there but a nice day today. plenty of sunshine. upper 0s by noon and -- 60s by noon and low 70s this afternoon with north to northeast winds at 5 to 10 miles per hour but get the rain gear handy. you'll need it tomorrow. right now monika is here with timesaver traffic. north of town in alni where there had been live wires

across the road in georgia avenue. it's all been cleared up and you are good to go through the area. coming up a closer look at maryland roads in my next report. back to you guys. it is time for the first your money report of the morning. >> headline time. jessica doyle is here. uh-huh. not a great day yesterday. >> what goes up can come down especially these days on wall street. yeah. absolutely. you know we've had big gains the last week. and asian and europe markets are already down big again today. the hang seng lost over 4%. these declines come after germany's finance chief downplayed solutions next week and weak corporate earnings here. check the numbers the dow standing just 11,400 this morning. lost 247 points. the nasdaq down by 52 points. the s&p 500 was off by 23. all losses was about 2% across the board. have you ever received a

cell phone bill that was unexpectedly high because of data usage? these days of cell phone bill shock could be ending. wireless carriers and the fcc announced a new program that will send alerts to warn you if you're about to exceed your monthly talk, text or data plan limits. the carriers voluntarily agreed to the deal after the the fcc found in a study one in six mobile users saw unexpected overages. netifications the all right -- notifications will start by october of next year. the filing stems from an alleged assault on nearly $30 million in loans to build a golf course community near the ski resort. the company says the filing gives the resort some breathing room to seek new investors and despite the filing the general manager expects the resort to open november 25th weather permitting. so we can still get our skis on at wisp apparently this year. >> that's good news. >> it is good news. >> thanks jess. federal government provides

some much-needed money for local transportation project. and engineering interceptions at the -- inspections at the national cathedral are now underway. we're back with those stories and more in two minutes.

good morning and welcome back to 9news now. it's 4:43. one more day of good weather. >> yes. exactly. and then tomorrow we'll be -- eh, kind of wet. kind of breezy. thursdays cool and breezy and then if you're ready for some just real fall-like weather -- >> we're ready. >> 50s? and sunshine and briskness and good stuff to get to the pumpkin patch at the corn maze or you know just to be outside. >> walk on saturday? >> that's right. the autism walk also is going on saturday downtown. so both those days it will be fine just kind of chilly in the morning. i think you will be in the 40s for those walks. here's a look at today though. we're looking fine, the bus stop forecast, a little cool and chilly. 40s and 50s out there so jackets for sure. sun is not up until 7:25 at this point. wow, it's coming later and later. our day planner today, 56 degrees at 8:00. by noon, a very pleasant 67. winds will be out of the northeast at about 6 miles an hour. in fact today, northeast to east winds 5 to 10. that's a good range for us.

71 at 4:00 p.m. and then by 8:00 we're back in the 60s. tonight is when the clouds will be thickening and tomorrow the clouds will produce rain and a breeze out of the northeast 10 to 20 miles an hour. almost a nor'easter moving in here. this morning a few clouds in spots up in pennsylvania. a few light sprinkles there. partly to mostly cloudy even north and west. 40s to low 50s. 55 in culpeper and fredericksburg this morning. easton is 52 while gaithersburg is 49. here in d. c. we sit at 55 right now. dew point 53 and the humidity high at 93% and reporting clouds at reagan national this morning at a north wind at 6 miles an hour. storm system actually two pieces of the storm system yesterday was in the rockies. today it's coming through areas in the mississippi valley. yesterday, this thing came through lubbock and winds other 70 miles an hour. quite a -- over 70 miles an hour. quite a dust event for them.

east texas, louisiana through little rock now coming to memphis and st. louis. we're -- we've got to get this out of here because tomorrow the wild card is hosting the world series can you believe it there with the rangers? tropical moisture though down in the southeast gulf of mexico. trying to develop. this may not happen but regardless the moisture is going to start moving northward in response to the storm out west. for us that means we're going to turn wet and breezy tomorrow. looking at the futurecast put it in motion, a few clouds around this morning and then we get into partly sunny conditions for the middle of the day and the afternoon if not mostly sunny. so we're okay for the drive home. a great deal of sunshine. then tonight here come the clouds and the showers arnold. clock tomorrow at 6:45. looks like the heaviest rains across the coastal areas. during the day tomorrow. showers to moderate rain at times. here we are through 6:00 p.m. looks like a wet day. and maybe not bad though.

the wettest wettest day here but by thursday morning we start to clear out and even see higher elevation snow showers here on thursday as that cooler air starts to move in. thursday's highed around 60 beg -- highs around 60 here. places like snow shoe and the valley and garrett county could see snow showers thursday. 72 today. breezy tomorrow 67 with the rain around: rain and showers at times. breezy thursday behind the storm. winds will turn to the west at about 20 miles an hour. 60 and as we head toward the weekend, look at that. friday, saturday and sunday i'm keeping temperatures in the 50s for highs. low 40s in town. that means some 30s in the suburbs, the first frost over the weekend in spots? not out of the question and by monday still cool and around 60. monika samtani? we had bad earlier this morning, i'm happy to say this is cleared up.

wires down in olney. everything's been cleared up you're good to go. right now though you still have construction on both loops of the beltway north of town on the outer loop between new hampshire avenue and georgia and on the inner loop as well as you leave connecticut avenue. stay left to get by both of those. to the beltway on the south side of town. the wilson bridge, the span went up at 4:00 and everything is fine right now as you can see. at st. barn bus road late clearing on construction as well and now 270 past 121 to the point where the lanes divide all lanes are open. in my next report another look into virginia coming up next. back to you guys. the u.s. department of transportation is giving our area $928.5 million. in grants and public transportation projects. transportation secretary ray lahood made the announcement monday. the money will help fund new commuter buses in maryland, a study of transit options and a new system for metro to help

keep track of the buses and trains. the engineers who inspected the washington monument are back at work in d. c.. this time, they're inspecting the damage at the national cathedral. the cathedral itself is structurally sound but it's been closed since the earthquake because some stone carvings might be unstable. yesterday two engineers began inspecting the outside facade using cameras and ipads to keep track of what they found. >> this is the type of ornament that we're going to be looking at on these two towers. we want to make sure if we see rotation in these pieces about anakusis such as this we're less concerned with the stability. if we see lateral displacement, some evidence there may not be a dowel. those are the types of things we're going to be looking for. >> they don't expect to find much damage. it's expected to reopen november 12th. most doctors recommend annual mammograms for women as a way to test and detect breast cancer. >> but information about the

tests is raising some new questions. karen brown reports from los angeles. >> reporter: fran is a breast cancer survivor. >> i was going every year. and they found something on that mammogram. >> reporter: she says her annual screenings helped catch the disease early but getting screened every year can also have a downside. >> breathe. >> reporter: according to a new study, more than half of women who get annual mammograms will get false positive results at least once in 10 years. and as many as 9% of those women will have an unnecessary biopsy. >> i think most women would rather suffer with a little bit of anxiety than have a cancer that's caught later. >> reporter: but most doctors still recommend that all women have an annual mammogram starting at age 40. and this study confirms there is some risk to not being screened every year. >> small percentage of women will have later stage cancers defected if they wait every

other year. >> reporter: 61-year-old fran still gets an annual mammogram. she feels in her case the test saved her life. >> i know there's anxiety. i had anxiety. obviously until my biopsy came back then i had even more anxiety. i think it's just part of the process we have to go through in order to protect ourselves. >> reporter: it's been 15 years and still cancer-free. karen brown, cbs news, los angeles. >> experts say you should bring your previous mammograms with you each year to reduce your chances of being called back. that way your radiologist has previous images to refer to or maintain the same doctor over the years. pediatricians are saying once again, moms and dads turn off the tv and the computer. when it comes to babies and toddlers. in a new policy statement the american academy of pediatrics says young children learn best from interaction with people. not screens. the group recommends keeping kids under the age of 2 as

screen-free as possible because it is best for their development they say. family members of people who have weight loss surgery may also lose a few pounds. the study in the journal archives of surgery looked at 35 patients who had the surgery. a year after the operation, their obese family members weighed about 8 pounds less and they saw their waistlines get smaller as well. hair stylists could help in the fight against skin cancer. researchers at brighamton women's hospital in boston surveyed more than 300 hair professionals and many reported looking at their customers' face, scalp and neck for suspicious lesions and more than half of the stylists recommended a customer to see a doctor about an abnormal mole at least once. excessive drinking is costing our society financially in a big way. centers for disease control estimates excessive drinking costs society about $224 billion per year. that's about $2 per drink.

researchers included the costs such as lost work productivity. property damage from car crashes, medical bills, alcohol associated medical problems and money spent to lock up convicted drunk drivers. before we take a break it's time for our first look at our question of the morning -- >> what do you think it is? add your guess the our facebook -- to our facebook page. we'll reveal the answer and comments in just a little bit.

welcome back. coming up on 4:56 with your weather first and we are looking at the 9:00 hour. temperatures in the 50s to near 60. a few clouds north, more sun south as we go through midday, should be partly to mostly sunny. even 70s south here of lunch and a nicer afternoon and temperatures running upper 60s to low 70s at 3:00 and for the drive home, still looking good. 6:00 p.m. sunny and 68. monika? well, we're going to take a live look here in college park. no problems to report heading south on i-95 and from laurel down to the beltway and on the outer loop watch out for the late clearing construction between new hampshire avenue andgeorgia. first lady michelle obama invites dr. jill biden helped

renovate a home for a wounded veteran. they worked with the organization rebuilding together at the d. c. home of army sergeant johnny agbee. he was wounded in afghanistan. dozens of volunteers are working to make the house wheelchair accessible. >> great organization. "sesame street's" youtube site a back online after being taken down sunday after hackers apparently posted porn on the web page. message shows it informed users it had been shut down due to repeated or severe violations of community guidelines. it appears the videos were online for less than an hour and that "sesame street" received no viewer complaints because of it. the message posted on the page before its removal claimed responsibility for the videos in the name of youtube users. one of whom denies that responsibility. new york city rolls out the red carp for a new movie about the start of the 2008 financial

crash. and a british actor heads to the top of the empire state building. realal pinkston has those stories and more. >> reporter: kevin spay see thrilled the crowds last night at a special screening of the new movie "margin call." it takes place in an investment firm during the first 24 hours of the 2008 financial crisis. >> there are $8 trillion of paper around the world relying on that equation. >> we were wrong. >> reporter: the movie opens nationwide this friday. actor atkinson is also in new york to promote his return as the bumbling british secret agent johnny english. the actor posed for pictures on the 86th floor of the empire state building. atkinson plays an intelligence officer who must stop a group of assassins. >> you're really rooting for him you know. even though of course being johnny english he makes it look a lot more difficult than it

should. >> give me 24 hours. >> reporter: "johnny english reborn" opens this weekend. justin bieber is the latest addition to dick clark's new year's eve show. he will join lady gaga. new on dvd this week the latest in the "pirates of the caribbean" franchise on stranger tides and cameron diaz's latest comedy "bad teacher." that's your eye on entertainment. randall pinkston, cbs news, new york. i'm andrea roane. >> we'll talk more about you. >> with cameron's big heart. >> great line. >> it was a funny movie. i'm mike hydeck, good morning, here's monika samtani. laughing as usual in a good mood. howard bernstein over to you my friend. tomorrow we get the rain and good news here we'll get the rain out of here midweek