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. this is 9news now. halloween, a day given over to the children for fun, candy and harmless pranks. a day when kids should feel free to roam the neighborhoods without fear. >> however, in one neighborhood parents shadow their children keeping their eye open for the unthinkable. somebody there has been trying to snatch kids off streets and matt jablow spent the evening with the trick-or-treaters. >> reporter: ghost and goblins

weren't the only thing on people's minds tonight in spotsylvania as the result of three resent attempted abductions. parents were very much on edge this halloween. 13-year-old lexie barry was really excited about trick-or-treating tonight with her 11-year-old sister. their father greg, on the other hand, who was closely and vigilantly following the girls in his car had mixed feeling about the night. >> absolutely. >> reporter: haunted by the memory of two young girls and one young woman who were very nearly snatched off the street in spotsylvania by strangers. is it on your mind tonight? >> always. they know what is going on because the schools make us aware. >> reporter: the first two victims were both around ten years old. the third victim from an incident two days ago was about 20. all three cases were believed to be unrelated though they happened pretty close together within the past few weeks. lieutenant colonel michael tim

is with the sheriff's department. patrols are normally beefed up at halloween but were more because of of the attempted abduction. >> everybody's awareness is heightened and the fear factor goes up and this being halloween doesn't make anything any better. >> reporter: did you think about not having your kids trick-or-treating this year? >> no. because i'll go with them. absolutely not. i'm not going to stop them from having a good time and enjoy their childhood because of somebody is stupid. >> reporter: anyone with information about any of the three resent attempted abductions here in spotsylvania is kd to call 540-522-5822. in spotsylvania, matt jablow. right now dc police are working the scene of a double shooting. it is one of three in the district tonight. this one happened near georgia avenue and decatur street northwest around 9:30. we've gotten reports that both

victims are teenagers. they are expected to survive. there are other shootings. in both cases the victims are expected to live. tonight a local republican committee is catching the scrutiny of the secret service after a halloween theme picture of the president. it shows president obama as a zombie with a bullet wound to his head. alongside him were other holiday illustrations with a disfigured nancy pelosi. governor bob mcdonald has called on the loudoun pog to apologize for their actions. pog chairman said in an e-mail response to the associated press that it was a light hearted attempt to put satire human into the halloween holiday. gary nurenberg is joined by a long time member of washington's best known political satire group. gary. >> reporter: this is a founder of the capitol steps 30 years

ago. miss newport, this image over the line or funny? >> that is not something capitol steps would do. comedians always grapple with what is too far, what can you do, what is satire and what is offensive? and the line is always moving. but the capitol steps are always looking at a serious issue and saying what is funny about it. you know, you might take a hurricane katrina as a good example. nothing funny about a hurricane. people are really hurt. there is a lot of tragedy. but you've got fema. you've got -- you can make fun of fema. >> reporter: two sides here. one we're only ten months out from a congresswoman being shot and we shouldn't be showing a picture of a politician with a hole in his bullet. they're not advocating violence. just get a sense of humor. >> no. it goes too far. the capitol stuff wouldn't do that. you take maybe, though, dick cheney shooting a friend in the

face. we did make some jokes about that. and i think that was kind of because we all knew that the guy was going to be okay. >> reporter: you like funny. you make a lot of money with funny. [ laughing ]. >> reporter: has political discourse, though, become too mean instead of too funny? >> well, the capitol does think it's kind of important to lighten up on that stuff, because it has gotten very partisan. and we think it's important to occasionally burst a few of those balloons and have a good laugh over it. the world is going crazy. you can't be upset all of the time. you have to have a laugh. >> reporter: let me ask you this. is it going to be a laughing consequence or is it going to blow over? >> it's not going to last. there is all this stuff that comes through the news. people have forgotten that apt any tweeted his underwear. >> reporter: on that note, we know that derek is throwing some so we'll throw it back to him.

>> i am indeed, gary. we move from zombies to a witch hunt. that is what herrmann cain says is going on. during a campaign swing right through dc, the republican presidential candidate denied he had sexually assaulted two women. >> in all of my business experience running businesses and corporations, i have never sexually harassed anyone. >> now, cain did acknowledge the two women brought forward such allegations when he was head of the national restaurant association but he said they were investigated and found to be baseless. political report says they paid settlements to two women. he doesn't know in i go about settlements. the national restaurant association is not talking. a congressional committee

has reached some interesting conclusions about former dc candidate sulaimon brown and the claims that he's made against mayor vince gray. there is no direct evidence that the campaign never promised brown a job. number two, there is some indication he got money from the people with ties to the gray campaign. and, number three, that brown has in their words a poor grasp of the facts. a federal grand jury still investigating brown's claims. tonight this man who should have never been driving let alone in this country has been convicted in a deadly drunk driving accident. today a judge found 23-year-old carlos montano guilty of felony murder in the august 2010 crash. police say the bolivian national had a legal limit twice what it should be when he smashed into a toyota could row low cor row la.

-- corola. carlos is continued to be forgiven and we will continue to pray for him for the sake of his children and his family. >> they argued because montano has already been convicted twice before of dui, malice and intent were there this time because it was a reasonable siems driving drunk could kill somebody. he was waiting deportation because of his previous dui arrests. at the time of this crash, he still had a legal working permit. we were entering the second week of the lululemon murder trial, a trial that has shocked and surprised us with its allegations and revelations. andrea mccarren has today's developments. >> reporter: significant defeat for the prosn that evidence pointing to norwood's possible motive for the attack would be inadmissible. the victim jayna murray caught

norwood trying to steal clothes from the store hours before the attack. murray called the manager who said norwood would be fired the next day, but the jury would not hear any of that. the judge is effectively silencing the voice of the victim. referring to murray's call with her manager, he responded that's hearsay. also today blood splatter analyst testified that the greatest volume of blood flew off murray's body near the floor. even sending streaks of blood underneath a nearby book case. dr. vastberg testified murray wasn't in a standing position for long because the bottom of her tennis shoes had little blood on them indicating she didn't walk around the bloody floor. the defense, you would call it a quick time line. dr. vastberg, yes. that was significant because the prosecution has been trying to prove that the 20-30-minute attack pointed to premeditation.

andrea mccarren, 9news now. while she was watching us, the fbi had their eyes on her. and today the feds released surveillance video of russian spy anna chapman dubbed the sexy spy. she was one of the 11 sexy spies busted in new york last year. one of the surveillance tapes shows chaplain in a coffee shop where she was sending off coded messages. others show her hiding money in weeds and handing off documents in tunnels and walking with the children. the spies were traded with four russians convicted of spying for the west. the judge has found a dc woman guilty of trying to poison stray cats in the neighborhood. she is nico dauphine. she left rat poison out. call it ironic, but she is a researcher at the national zoo. she studied how domestic cats can harm wildlife, including

birds. well, tonight some college students in maryland have their fingers crossed to be able to move into their new place, a cruise ship. in the meantime, some 240 students will be living on the ship but they have been forced out of their dorms at st. mary's college because there was mold. cleanup will take months so the school decided rather than scatter the kids, why not put them all aboard this rented ship. and the college president says it's quite fitting. top. >> what you're looking at behind me now is once the students got to st. mary's. until the bridge was built, this is the way they got here. >> the students will pretty much have free run of the ship from the ballroom all the way to the satellite tv. now let's go to top. >> that's pretty nice. we didn't have it that nice when we were in college. pretty nice evening. most of the showers off to the east. we'll take you off with wake up

weather. light jacket good idea. sunglasses too. upper 30s and 40s and in the 40s with sunshine at 9:00. we'll come back and show you pictures in space of what the snow left behind and we'll take you through the rest of the week. still ahead tonight, take a look at dc's paranormal cast. >>. and if you're counting calories, we'll give you a list of what you

tonight lots of folks out in georgetown walking around doing their thing in their fancy funny outfits. you know it's halloween. the crowd is not too bad considering it's a chilly monday night. if you're planning on joining in, be aware a lot of the side streets are closed down into the wee hours. parking is a real premium down there. on m street, no parking at all from t bridge all the way down

to 25th. plus you can always walk. now, on this halloween night, loft yeah. >> our delia gongalves is with us. >> reporter: what a night this absolutely is a perfect night for a spooky tale or two. i'm standing outside one of our haunted locations here in dc. saint john's right across from lafayette square, also known as the president's church. legend has it when the bell tolls, six male ghosts wearing white robes appear at midnight sitting inside the president's pew and then mysteriously they vanish. they met at the square to discover a dc they never knew before and to get a spooky start to their halloween. >> she likes ghosts. [ laughing ]

>> she gets scared easily. >> to lafayette square. the most haunted square in washington city. mcphearson is also haunted. it's not a restful sleep. >> reporter: dressed in 19th century clothes, natalie has been walking the people through the haunted square for the last ten years, stopping by well known landmarks like the department of veteran's affairs and saint john's on 16th and h. >> one night a man was on security detailed here when he told me he heard organ music inside the church and i could see no one inside. i said what did you do. he said i waited for a few minutes. i could hear it as plain as you could hear me now and i took often. without warning, i was arrested. >> reporter: it includes visits with ghosts to bring stories to life and let visitors decide on their own what or who to believe. >> it is haunted. and the people that ask me the

stories say don't use their name. some of the stories are so disturbing. >> i think maybe people see things sometimes. maybe some of it's real, maybe some isn't. >> reporter: so it's really up to you if you're ever in lafayette square, take a close look around. maybe listen very carefully. if you talk to folks like natalie zanin, you may hear from ghosts from the past lurking around in the area. natalie zanin one of the five tour guides. the ghost tours big business, of course, especially on halloween. anita, derek. >> i can well imagine. you make it home safely, delia. okay. so by now your kids should be back home from trick-or-treating and their hull is looking pretty tasty. before you dive in, we'll see what will add the least to your waistline. let's start with the example.

twizzlers, eat these instead of candy corn. both have no fat but the twizzlers less calories. then they recommend eat this, the skit wills, instead of the -- skittles instead of star burst. and finally for the chocolate lovers, it's better to eat whoopers instead of tootsy rolls. i'm happy about that. the whoppers i like. >> can i have that for a minute? >> no. >> thanks. >> not a twizzlers man. >> did you see the candy corn. >> it was cold for them tonight. >> thankfully it wasn't like monday -- actually saturday night or sunday night in the 20s or 30s. a little better. >> yes. >> and snowing. >> and snowing on the trick-or-treating. >> actually dry. a couple of showers did develop east of town. that's about it.

let me show you first what the storm left behind. check this out. i'm going to show this to you. i posted this on my blog. the arrow is right exactly where the district is. and this is the snowfall left behind. a visual picture if you were up in space looking down. look how close it was. there we are right there in dc. you go up to clarksburg about three and-a-half inchs. you go up to northwest frederick county, 11 inches. and the same was true really outside of philadelphia. places with 12 inches. outside of new york places with 12 inches. and then in southern new hampshire, 31 inches of snow. that is impressive in the middle of wintertime. here is our live doppler. most of the showers now east of i95. they'll be kind of lingering around la plata for the next hour or two. they should dissipate by dawn. you should have a dry commute. temps, we're 50 downtown. in the 40s elsewhere. 45 in gaithersburg. 45 out in leesburg. 45 in manassas and 48 down in fredericksburg. so here is the deal. a chilly start tuesday morning

but not bad. really a pretty nice day. grab a jacket. going to be sunny. grab your sunglasses as well. and it will stay cool on wednesday. so a couple of nice days. not breezy either day. so it's going to feel a little nicer than the temperature might indicate. overnight mostly cloudy and chilly. a few showers primarily east of i95. and lows 38-46. about ten degrees warmer than it was the past two nights. winds northeast at ten. by morning mostly chilly. you'll need a jacket and sunglasses. 30s and 40s. winds northerly at ten. then by afternoon, mostly sunny and pleasant. a little below average. kind of slicing the hairs here. highs near 60. average high 64. winds out of the northeast at about ten. really a good day as we start the month of november. next seven days, on wednesday we're in pretty good shape. 63 on thursday. clouds come in late thursday. i'm going to keep it dry for now. very weak frontal system. we'll drop temps to 60s on

friday. the weekend looks fantastic. low temperatures on saturday. we have the heart walk. we have the terps in town. redskins in town. then we're looking at maybe a shower or too monday afternoon. >> okay. >> thanks a lot, top. okay. so it has been a really long drought for redskins fans now desperately thirsty for a victory. tonight derek remembers how the cool waters once tasted. >> i always say you know you are getting old when you talk about what you used to do. so while the years have not been so kind to our home town football team, still it may help us to remember that 20 years ago this year the washington redskins came very close to going undefeated. we were 14-2. super bowl champs. the quarterback, this guy. mark rippin. even back then not exactly a household name. but that year rippin lost his mind. he went unconscious. never had a season like that again. did you know rippin was only sacked nine times that year.

heck, this year's team gave up nine sacs yesterday. now, i for one appreciated how good we had it back then, but i did not expect the good times to end so soon or stay away for so long. and, by the way, i looked it up, halloween week 1991, the redskins played the then champions new york giants. we were losing. we came back to win 17-13. for the days. now let's be real. i really used to get annoyed with fans who spent a whole lot of bragging on the championships teams won years ago, but now i understand. sometimes years ago is all you have. anita. [ laughing ] >> it does seem like things should change around. right. it's time for the pendulum to swing back. doesn't it? >> wow. that's tough. >> you think. >> you would think. >> oh, how times have changed. right? >> wow. >> the redskins have a message for fans like derek mcginty.

stop writing eulogies. we're not dead yet. the gang with some words who think the season is over already. and the nats feel they found the right man to lead the crew. and he's sitting right under theirñññ

if you're a jaded redskin fan like derek mcginty, you're probably saying i have seen this movie and i hate the winning. the team's three and won start seems like a distant memory and their place in the division from first to worst complements of yesterday's loss to buffalo. total domination by the guy's wearing blue. if you listen to sports talk radio, you think the end is near. in other words, the confidence meter moo. how do players feel about that? >> i guess a lot of times it's easy to think. but us in the locker room, we don't feel this way. >> this is a different team. this is say different group of

guys. and all we can do is hope for the best. >> if someone wants to get up and scream and yell, if that helps them, let's do it. >> i don't think coach shanahan is going to let anybody hold it in. >> take that, derek. more problems. mike shanahan says fred davis has a grade one ankle sprain which is serious. he was seen today in a walking boot. his resume is pretty impressive. davey johnson has won a world series with the mets. last season after riggleman resigned, johnson guided the nats to a third place win. he exercised the option on the contract. he'll manage the team next season. west virginia is leaving the big ten. when must a school wait 20 months. after filing a lawsuit claim the big east is such an unstable conference, they should be able

to bolt. good luck with that. time for our high school football game of the week poll. go to dc.highschoolsports.net and vote on these games. dunbar cool ij, richard montgomery at northwest. loudoun county and briarwood for first place. crossman at largo. and finally you know the eagles blew out the cowboys last night. they did everything right except this play. they tell the center don't snap it until you feel pressure on my back side. so what happens here, guys? let's check it. let's look close. jason kelty just lets it go. [ laughing ] >> why those guys do that i