ñññ we begin with breaking news from wall street from the dow is getting clobbered. thank you for joining us. i'm jessica doyle in for j.c. hayward. it was bad right from the start of the opening bell. a global selloff today is being blamed on a call by greece's prime minister for an unexpected public vote to approve the debt deal. taking a look at the big board right now we have the dow off

304 points at 11,650. the nasdaq is currently off about 76 points. the s&p 500 is down 35 points. a violent halloween night in the district. six people are shot across five different spots in the city. you can see the scenes are spread out. stretching from georgetown to pet worth to congress heights. no one was killed in any of the shootings. surae chinn joins me right now live from georgetown with how residents caught in the crossfire are coaling, hello surae. >> reporter: you know halloween is supposed to be a fun night where folks enjoy the atmosphere and look at the costumes. but if you talked to franklin ramirez, he says halloween turned to horror last night. >> everybody was just like crazy and then everybody was calling for police. >> reporter: franklin ramirez was in his dad's mexican restaurant when shots rang out. >> i heard like about three

shotguns and i come out and saw everything running and stuff. i saw the body laying there if all the people were like screaming and stuff. >> reporter: ramirez had been waiting for his friends to join the georgetown festivities but at the choofing -- after the shooting there wasn't much to celebrate. >> i seen it in movies and stuff but never seen it like right next to me. you know. it was really sad. >> reporter: police say someone shot the teenage boy in the head just before 11:00 last night. detectives are looking at bullet holes and possible rounds that may have landed in ramirez's restaurant. there were several shootings across d. c. on halloween night. and the violence at this corner wasn't the only one in georgetown alone. the a and c vice chair says there was a strong arm robbery near georgetown university and he witnessed groups of people out looking for trouble. >> last night was a little bit different. we had roving groups of young men and women too just causing

trouble. >> reporter: investigators blocked off 28th and m streets during rush hour this morning. >> i'm stuck for the longest time. >> late for work? >> yeah and i have to go. >> we have to address the notion of should halloween continue in this kind of mode in georgetown. is it necessary? >> reporter: did you catch just what advisory neighborhood commission vice chair bill just said? he said they are going to have to address if halloween should continue the way it is in georgetown. it will be the topic tonight at the commissioner's meeting. jessica? >> thank you surae chinn live in georgetown. turning now to the lululemon trial. testimony today came from forensic experts who collected evidence from analyzed it. a footprint examiner spent hours on the stand talking about how many shoe prints were found in the store and why that was significant. andrea mccarren joins us from

u.s. district court in rockville with the latest. hi there andrea. >> reporter: hey jessica, well, david mcgill a montgomery county police shoe point examiner, testified that he and others at the crime scene made what he called vigorous attempts to locate a third and fourth shoe type among the bloody footprints the bloody tracks all across the lululemon trial. clearly they were working on the theory that there were two victims and two suspects in the case but police only found two different shoe types among the track. a size 7.5 belonging to brittany norwood's shoes and a men's size 14. joining me now is our legal analyst with more on the significance of the testimony. what jumped out at you? >> on the footprints we even learned a new fact today. they were able to establish that one set of footprints were left before the second set. one open top of the other -- on top of the other. and this feeds into the defense

which is showing the amateur nature of this setup. the -- professional testimony stands in stark contrast to what they found. bloody shoe prints were underneath objects that were laid on top of it with no blood on top of those objects. >> reporter: very poor staging, also it is shaping up to be an extraordinary afternoon. we will hear from police detective jim drury who investigated it and interviewed brittany norwood for more than four hours, we will see the videotape interview and also significant and despite the defense objections, we will see phyllis murray, jayna murray's mother take the stand. why is that so extraordinary? >> the defense rightly objected to the testimony and the judge correctly overruled them. i will say when the prosecution said she's relevant to identifying the cell phone. i would have stipulated she's relevant to identifying the car and i got rid of relevance now

what judge? it's all sympathy, unfair. but that wasn't the case. interesting testimony this afternoon. >> reporter: thank you so much for your insight. of course the very latest on rockville at 5:00, 6:00 and 7:00. back to you jessica. a boeing 767 from newark airport had to make an emergency landing with more than 230 people on board this morning. in warsaw, poland, it's a dramatic story you have to see to believe. manuel gallegus has more. >> reporter: the polish airline's boeing 767 carrying 230 passengers skidded down a runway in warsaw touching down on its belly after the landing gear failed. sparks shot out after it landed on special materials firefighters late out on the runway to help prevent a fire. the airport was on alert after pilots discovered problems with

the landing gear about hour before the plane was on ground. the airliner dumped fuel as it circled the airport. after the plane made the emergency landing crews doused it with water and foam as a precaution. passengers then evacuated the aircraft. no one was injured according to an airline spokesman. the plane was bound from newark, the airport was immediately shut down until wednesday. manuel gallegus, cbs news, new york. a pedestrian is struck and killed while crossing the street in new carlton this morning. prince george's county police say the unidentified 57-year- old woman was crossing garden city drive near the new carlton metro station. authorities say the woman was not in the crosswalk when she was hit. the driver stayed at the scene to talk to investigators, so far no charges have been filed. if you have to take brookville road in chevy face, chase, you may have to -- chase, you may have to find an

alternative. they're making emergency repairs to a broken water main. it is not causing any service issues, however, they warn heavy equipment and crews working until 6:00 could cause trafficbackups for this evening's commute. parents kept an extra close watch on their trick-or- treaters in spotsylvania county, virginia. that's because police are investigating three attempted abductions there in recent weeks. so concerned parents either tagged along or closely followed their youngsters in the car. someone has tried to snatch two girls and a young woman with the latest attempt happening on saturday. deputies also beefed up patrols in the area. they are filing charges this week in the death of a little girl from reston. 1-year-old wreef wafy almutiri drowned in a bathtub on september 18th. both of her parents were there. and now 27-year-old wafy abdulah almutiri and 21-year- old maryam masaad almutiri have turned themselves in to face

child abuse and neglect charges. turning to the race for president. gop hopeful herman cain is still fighting to get past what he calls false accusations of sexual harassment from 12 years ago. cain's story about the incident changed slightly and has doing reports -- as danielle nottingham reports, it could cost him his lead in iowa. >> reporter: republican presidential front runner herman cain is doing damage control. still addressing allegations of inappropriate behavior when he led the national restaurant association in the 1990s. >> i have never sexually harassed anyone. >> reporter: anonymous sources told politico at least two women complained and were eventually paid a settlement. cain first said he knew nothing about the money. >> i am unaware of any sort of settlement. i hope it wasn't for much because i didn't do anything. >> reporter: but hours later, he recalled a payment to one employee. >> she ended up leaving with

several months' severance which would have been what she would have left with if we had involuntarily dismissed her. >> reporter: cain insists he is not hiding anything. he says an investigation turned up no proof that he behaved improperly. some strategists say his evolving explanation of the situation could hurt his campaign. >> if any of this comes across as being inauthentic, he's trying to change his story line or not being truthful about it. that's problematic. >> reporter: the chief of staff said they have one of their best fundraising days monday. right now he's leading the pack in iowa where voters have about two months before they choose the candidate they want to see as the gop nominee. danielle nottingham, cbs news, the white house. >> cain's lead in iowa could be a thing of the past, he's

skipping the event tonight and so is mitt romney who's trailing cane by just a single point in the latest poll. now to a death in the clinton family. dorothy rodham the mother of secretary of state hillary rodham clinton and mother-in- law to bill clinton has died. a statement from the family says rodham died shortly after midnight on tuesday in washington surrounded by family. secretary clinton canceled a planned trip to london and istanbul to be by her mother's side. they plan a private memorial service. she has often credited her mother with inspiring her by overcoming adversity and abandonment. she was 92 years old. today is the last day for folks in virginia to apply for a mail-in absentee ballot. if you need one for next tuesday's election, you have to get your request in by 5:00. but if you want to vote absentee in person, you have until saturday to do so. still to come when the news continues, find out how you can

help 9news now and the capital area food bank make a difference this season for the families in need. plus, howard has the forecast. we're going to be right back.

when it comes to reducing the deficit and the bipartisan congressional supercommittee. house speaker john boehner says quote, we're having some difficulty. now with us right now is

virginia congressman democrat jerry connelly. there's a thanksgiving deadline for the supercommittee to come to a deal. if they don't reach agreement there's going to be automatically triggered $1.2 trillion in cuts, can they agree in time? do you think there's room for negotiation here? >> i do but i think everybody is going to have to sort of get out of their orthodoxes -- >> howard bernstein steps in with the microphone change. thank you howard, saving the day. you were saying you do think there's room for compromise. >> i think there's room for compromise. it is not rocket science. we're talking about $1.2 trillion over two years, frankly if everyone gives a little and we have a balanced approach there's no reason we can't reach the goal. >> it's good to hear optimism. we've heard sort of digging in of heels on both sides. the concept of raising taxes is the big stumbling block. republicans don't want to see the taxes raised on the wealthy

and democrats do. is there wiggle room on this issue? >> there has to be. we cannot balance the budget on that alone. that's too high. but revenues at 15%. that's historically way too low. you have to lower there and raise that. that's what any corporation and any state or local government would do. that's from the federal government would go. >> let's say thanksgiving rolls around and there isn't a deal on the table. the cuts are triggered automatically. so what? what's the problem with that happening? >> i think that's a mindless way torgoch. i think it would -- to govern. i think it would represent a single failure by the congress to do its job. we created this supercommittee equally divided to come up with a package the congressmen can act on. that's our job, that's what the people sent us here to do.

we need to do our job. >> the debt ceiling issue, obviously was a problem. weeks and months ago. it's now back on the table with this deadline coming up and thanksgiving. there have been some signals about if there isn't an agreement we could potentially see the u.s. debt cut again. would that be a problem for the comply? >> i think a huge problem. when standard & poor actually downgraded u.s. bonds. it cited some of the reckless rhetoric from some members of congress who said well, maybe a default wouldn't be all that bad. the united states since alexander hamilton has been good for its debt. and talking about defaulting, even for members of congress or especially from members of congress, was a very irresponsible thing to do. so we don't want to repeat that. >> well, congressman connelly. thank you for coming in to talk about the issues, these are tough issues facing america and thank you very much. >> we can do it. >> we can do it. and still to come, we've got howard up with the forecast. keep it here. >> yeah jessica, outside right

now just a couple of clouds mixed in with the sunshine but a very nice afternoon. allergy count still coming in but with the freeze is the end of the growing season just a tiny bit of grass polen and a little bit of mold out there. seeing good news there. and a pretty good seven day forecast. i'll have it for you when 9news now at noon returns.

according to the national capital food bank, one in six people in our area is in danger of experiencing hunger. and just a few weeks ago, a food bank in dumfries was in danger of closing because of high demand and low supply. tonight at 5:00, anita brikman and topper shutt will be live at area food banks highlighting the growing need in our region. we'll show you how you can help. see how the food banks can turn $1 donations into $14 worth of food. and introduce you to people who say food banks saved their lives. so join ostents starting at 5:00. and you know you may have noticed we have food all over the set. well, this is going to be here for the next few weeks to remind you how important it is to donate to food banks and times are tough. and i know a lot of folks are struggling and you know, if you can help those who are less fortunate, please dig down deep and do so. >> makes such a difference, absolutely. and you're here with the weather. >> it's going to pretty good here the next few days and even the weekend. any question marks it will be friday right now but let's talk about this afternoon because

that looks pretty good. we've got partly to mostly sunny skies and the day planner calling for temperatures to go to the 60-degree mark the next few hours, it's early november now and sure beats the snow we had on saturday. temperatures by this evening, low 50s and by 9:00 50. this is reagan national. lighter winds, dry air, clear skies. we'll be dropping into the 30s once again tonight in many many areas. in fact our weather headlines, nice through thursday. at least chilly nights. 30s to low 40s in town and by the bay. some mild almost warm days as we'll see temperatures getting entomb the 60s and it might -- up into the 60s and it might rain. it might rain. this storm system this morning slid just south and east of us, we had a few showers especially east of town in southern maryland and the east of shore. but behind it this afternoon skies have cleared with the clear skies we're seeing the comfortable temperatures new morning.

skies were cleared out west. it will be low 30s. in fact 30 in martinsburg and frederick but the cloud cover kept temperatures in the 40s at la plata at 45 and 50 along the bay in annapolis and patuxent river. at noon we're in the middle 50s in places like leesburg and manassas and gaithersburg. they're enjoy ago fine afternoon. mid 50th also out to the east easton and cambridge and reagan national a very pleasant 57 with mostly sunny skies. dew points are in the 40s and the air relativitily and a light east northeast wind at 5 miles per hour. now across the weather it's pretty quiet from texas to chicago over to us now we're seeing the sunshine. florida's cleared out. the next weather maker is going thereby the guy. this front -- to be this guy. this front will make its way east and southeast. plenty of showers inman common and wisconsin this afternoon. this morning, that's now pulling out to sea. we've got clear skies behind it and but some cooler northerly wind and its wake and we'll continue to see this thing kind of spin out on the atlantic.

behind it. the weather is quiet. so high pressure kind of parks overhead. drifts from pennsylvania to maryland and virginia for the next day, day and a half. and then that front, this front is going to start to move toward us as we get to the end of the workweek. now on thursday, as the high slides to the south of us, winds turn more southwesterly. that will bump temperatures i think to the mid 60s and then this storm through the carolinas, if that happens we're not going get much out of the front at all. tonight i said another chilly night. 40s in washington. some areas will be near freezing and no more frost or freeze advisories. growing season is over and don't worry about that and pax river one of the warm spots at 42. then tomorrow another decent day with temperatures around 60, 61. may see cooler temperatures tomorrow up north. but not a bad stretch of weather to start the month of november. tomorrow around 60 after being in the 30th most areas in the -- 30s most areas in the

morning. then friday may or may not see a shower. the weekend looks good. 60 on saturday and 64 sunday and don't forget saturday night, we go from daylight saving time to standard time. so a 25 hour sunday is in our future. stick arnold, 9news now at noon return -- around, 9news now at noon returns in just a moment.

i've got a fine afternoon today, tomorrow, 60ish. friday maybe a shower and then the weekend looks good. you know i don't have it on there but the terms are home with virginia -- terps are home saturday. theskins on sunday. the weather and going fob fine and maybe -- to be fine and maybe another shower late on

monday. >> that's it for 9news now at noon. we're going to be back at 5:00 and of course you can check us out 24 hours a day on the web at wusa9.com. have a great day and enjoy the sunshine. >> yeah, we'll see you tomorrow starting at 4:25. dark and early. [ captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com ]