the end of this year. this is 9news now. >> just days after dc officials announced the city's murder rate was on track to be lower this year, a violent night rocks the city. six people shot in five different locations. fortunately, all of them survived. bruce johnson is live in georgetown where one of those victims is clinging to life. bruce. >> absolutely, lesli. we don't know about the fate of that wufnlt across the. the multimillion dollar homes. you may have heard at 5:00, somebody inside this restaurant says they heard three gun shots, they came out and saw young man shot in the head, wounded, he is from southeast, don't have the specific address. police are not giving his name right now, but he's fighting for his life. one of six people shot last night, halloween. >> this should have been the scene from dc's halloween

night. ghosts and goblins everywhere. instead, there is police crime scene tape. six people were shot last night at five different locations. >> it's crazy. this is a neighborhood you never expect that to happen. >> a bullet is lodged in the restaurant across from the four seasons hotel where a 17-year- old youth from southeast was shot. >> it felt fairly secure. i sort of expected that. >> right. >> but it is sort of shocking. >> kathy lanier says an adult male has been arrested. a weapon recovered. he has not been charged with the 17-year-old shooting. >> i'm not aware of any trick or treating or costumes involved in this. >> last night in northwest, the 16-year-old male and 19- year-old female were shot. a block away, an 18-year-old female was shot. police believe the three shootings are related, no motive, no suspect. but two more shootings, one on

barnabie road, another shooting on ford avenue at staples street and that was another teenager, a 16-year-old. here's a stat for you. 418 shootings in the city this year. that's a lot. but it is still almost 100 fewer than we had this time last year. back to you. >> got to be a better way to settle a dispute, bruce. thanks for that. >> day five of testimony in the lumulemon murder trial brought the lead detective in the case to the stand. >> i'm andrea mccarren in rockville where the jury watch add video taped police interview with brittany norwood two days before her arrest. she asked me if there was any good news referring to the investigation says montgomery county police detective. he's a veteran homicide investigator with a soothing voice and a reassuring style. the murder was to be his last active case assignment before retirement. you're one of best sources because you were there, he tells norwood on the police video tape. norwood had been called to the

police station to submit hair samples and fingerprints. detective drury, i don't want to get ink in your cuts or anything. norwood, oh, it's not that bad. we now know norwood's blood was found inside jayna murray's car, which made the next line of questioning particularly relevant. detective drury, do you know what kind of car jayna drives? norwood, i don't. i saw it once. i don't know the make and model. andrea mccarren, 9news now. >> and new at 6:00, the department of defense is ponied up $180 million to widen the stretch of road that really could use it. it is a piece of route 1 that serves fort belvoir. four lanes will become six lanes. an estimated 56,000 vehicles use that stretch of road each day. we begin a big push at wusa9. >> every fall we ask for your help to feed families leading

up to thanksgiving and with the way the economy is going these days, even more people need your help. >> our colleague, anita brickman is live at the food bank tonight with more on how to get yourself involved. anita. >> there are so many ways to help. the capital area food bank is the largest nonprofit hunger and nutrition education resource in the area. first founded in 1980, it is distributed nearly 30 million- pounds of food to more than 478,000 people. but as the seasons change from summer to fall, the food bank gets easy and they are making sure that everyone has a solid meal on the table for the holidays. they run out of space here and needed to expand. that is how much this food bank has grown. >> they are now expanding, getting ready to triple their space and double their capacity to deal with the food that comes in here. that's a great success story for the food bank, but it is a

testament to the need in our region. >> it's a cramped warehouse where a stunning 30 million- pounds of donated food per year is handled and distributed to at least 478,000 individuals in need in our region. the capital area food bank is maxed out. which explains this, a new start from scratch facility. >> this is going to be the distribution center. >> 125,000 square feet under construction now along the metro tracks. it's the result of $37 million worth of fund raising since 2005. >> we will have the capacity for storing and distributing twice as much produce as we do now. we distribute 30 million-pounds now. we'll be up to 60 million- pounds over time. >> all this matters because of the scale of need in our region. washington central union mission depends on the food bank to fill gaps and needs a dependable and efficient source

of food. the mission is just one of 700 nonprofits that partner with the food bank to combine resources. >> the biggest problem with food for the pour is distribution. and it is absolutely wonderful to have a large organization like the food bank where you can concentrate the food and then those of us that distribute the food directly to the poor can come to them, pick it up in volume and redistribute the food to the poor. that's the way the system should work. >> we'll be able to food more people. we're going to be able to do it more efficiently. >> thanks to this new facility, the food bank is about to make a major leap forward. >> and we're going to use every inch of it. >> so, it's a $37 million capital project that is underway over there. it's going to be open sometime next summer. 37million. some of it raised from washington, d.c. government. some of it raised from a private donor.

the mr. and mrs. william conaway and their bedford falls foundation. and then lots and lots of donations from people like you and me to their capital programs. so even giving money that way really helps. >> people have to realize having the centralized location and then it can be fed out in a myriad of different ways. you need the bank there as the starting point. >> this is like a big grocery distributorship. it serves lots and lots of nonprofits. they are the ones that get the food into the hands of people. >> directly. and speaking of which. you mentioned that is one of the local organizations that benefit from the capital area food bank and that is where our own chief meteorologist is, topper shutt. >> the meals are over, but the volunteers are cleaning up and getting ready for the next meal because the next meal is breakfast at 6:00 a.m. and they are working really hard. now remember, you can go to our

website, wusa9.com. if you go to the bottom of the website, the food drive and a place to donate and the central union mission is on. we're at 14th and r in northwest d.c. please donate. all right, let's talk briefly about some weather. we have a nice cool night ahead. temperatures in the 50s and 40s. really isn't that cold. temperatures still 54 in manassas. 55 in leesburg and even 59 in fredericksburg. but 55 downtown. for tonight, clear and cold. low temperatures 34 in the suburbs. 44 downtown with light winds. we'll come back and give you a full forecast and talk more about what an incredible job the central union mission does. lesli and derek. >> they are doing a great job. >> coming up at 7:00, you probably heard about snakes eating small animals, but what about a 27-pound deer? don't believe us? we have pictures. >> like the screen says, that's quite a mouthful. i'm kristin fisher outside

the middle school where today a 12-year-old girl was honored for what she did when she called 911. i'll introduce you to her and her incredible story coming up. but first. >> it was a complete distraction. >> a mother is 30 weeks pregnant loses custody of her two-year-old after paying 50 groceries, but forgetting a $5 sandwich. the story that is creating a buzz online up next.

new at 6:00; a pregnant mother speaks out about what she calls a horrifying ordeal at a supermarket. nicole and her husband were walking through a safeway with their two-year-old last week when she started to feel faint. she grabbed a sandwich and they apparently forgot to pay for that $5 snack. the store manager called

police, the couple was arrested and their daughter was taken by child protective services. when they notified us that they would have to take her because we would be arrested, i couldn't believe it. i couldn't believe this was happening because i forgotten to pay for the sandwich. and that she's never been away for us from this long. >> the couple's daughter was returned to them about 18 hours later. even though they offered to pay cash for the sandwiches on the spot, they are due in court next month. safeway issued a statement saying it appears the situation may not have been handled in the best possible way. a coalition of health groups is calling for a boycott against one of the largest manufactures of health and personal care products. johnson and johnson. the campaign for safe cosmetics wants the company to remove two chemicals from its baby shampoos. the other releases

fermaldehide. is in the process of phasing out chemicals. i'm anita brickman at the capital area food bank and these guys, these boy scouts are going to play a huge part in helping feed the hungry and you are going to help us help them. that story is coming up after the break. ♪ [ jerry ] attention shoppers. your groceries are the size of idaho but the interest rate on your checking is small potatoes. earn more at capital one bank. get new high yield free checking. your interest rate will be 5 times the national average. that's huge. and free atms at any bank.

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i stayed calm. i talked clearly and i explained exactly what was happening. >> that is china campbell describing her call to a 911 dispatcher after a fire broke out at her district heights apartment complex last week. kristin fisher caught up with her today at school where she's been hailed as a hero. >> october 27, 2:00 p.m., a kitchen fire was spreading through the apartment complex. 12-year-old china campbell saw the smoke and heard her neighbors screaming for help. >> i was shocked, scared. i didn't know what to do. that's when i realized i was supposed to call 911. >> prince georges county 911.

>> there's a fire. somebody is stuck in there. they cannot get out. >> china was one of the calmest, most deliberate 911 callers i have heard in a long time. to be able to give the information, the detailed information she she gave about where the fire was, what their ages approximately were, is pretty unique. >> the fire chief credits china with help save the lives of these three people that were trapped on that third floor balcony. today he presented her with the fire chief's award in front of her entire seventh grade class. >> i'm thrilled. words can't explain what i feel right now. i'm so proud of her. >> i'm very proud of myself. this is the biggest thing i ever did in my life. >> in district heights, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> we salute you, too, china. >> we are looking for heros of

our own. as you can see behind me, we have a will the of food and products on the set. paper goods, toiletly toiletry items. they are the things they need this kind of year. anita brickman is there live with some company, right anita? >> reporter: oh, i certainly do, lesli. it is important to point out that those items are needed as well. right now we're going to be talk about scouting for food. let's talk to hank brothers and dan mullen with boy scouts of america. >> scouts throughout the region will be canvassing neighborhoods. they'll be dropping off safeway donated bags with information on how to donate and on the 12th, at following saturday, scout wills return to those neighborhoods, pick up those bags and take them to drop off

points benefiting capillary food bank, as well as others. in the district of columbia, moat safeway stores will have scouts on staff soliciting donations. >> and dan, this is going p to be happening. how do they know what to put in there? >> canned goods. nonparishable food. anything that doesn't need refrigeration. not get a break would be good. >> that's always helpful. >> the scouts will be happy to collect those and have some delivered to the food bank so they can get to the needy people. >> and there will be wish bags. >> and on the websites, we'll have items that are needed. >> you want to come on up here? >> we have two cub scouts and a young man who is about to join the cub scouts and they

have already brought some food into the capital food bank. >> awesome. this is that team spirit that we're talking about and wusa9 is so proud to be doing this as well. thank you gentleman for joining me. >> this is the 25th annual scouting for food drive. >> let's make it the best ever. >> sounds good. let's send it back to the studio. >> all right anita, thank you so much. and of course, all of those donations that iowa nay was talking about go to the capital area food bank to help feed people in our neighborhoods and our communities and together they provide more than a million and a half meals each month. now tonight, chief meteorologist, topper shutt is live at one of those distribution points. the central union mission. hi top. >> yeah lesli. this is a phenomenal organization. it's been in the neighborhood for 127 years. it's been here in northwest at 14th and r since 1984. and 160,000 hot meals come out of this window every year and

they also donate the equivalent of 400,000 grocery bags of food. as we talk to the director earlier, the food, they take trucks up to new brunswick, new jersey. they take 82 people off the streets every night and give them a shower and a hot meal in the morning. it's a wonderful organization and there is great success stories. people volunteering back here. some have been through out there with nothing and now they are in here running the whole program. all right, by the way, when they drop off the bags this weekend, the boy scouts, it will be a nice day to do that. it will be a very nice saturday. let's talk about the weather. we're looking at a very quiet tomorrow. temperatures right now in the 50s if you are headed out to walk the dog. it's going to be clear tonight. and we're looking at really temperatures generally in the mid 30s to mid 40s for low with winds under clear skies and lows inside the beltway,

certainly will be in the 40s tonight. 36 in gaithersburg. maybe 37 or 38 toward fairfax. tomorrow morning, sunshine, 30s and 40s and then by afternoon, we're looking at temperatures again near 60. we'll go right to the seven- day. and we're looking at really the chance of rain on friday, but it's not going to affect the weekend. sunshine on the weekend with temperatures in the low 60s. both saturday and sunday, we got the heart walk. the terps in town and the redskins in town on sunday. we want to thank everyone, our viewers, our visitors to our website, wusa9.com for donating food. we need your help to continue. go to our website and you can pick the organization of your choice, but remember, the capital area food bank, all that stays in the local area and the capital area food bank is one of the organizations that helps get food here to the central union mission. they get food from 40 organizations. go to our website. click on the link of your choice and let's just help

folks out before we get in the  crunch time. that's it from northwest at the mission. we'll send it back to the studio. lesli. >> topper, obviously need knows no season. you spend every other friday in that very kitchen. >> food server. >> giving back. >> giving back, doing what we have to do as topper said, doing some great work. they do great work down there. >> absolutely. let's talk a little sports. >> they need to do some great work and get it together. >> redskins have to do some work. they are another team struggling and the coach has some explaning to do. where has all the winning gone? sports is next.

about a week ago, some dumbny sat here and pondered, what if the caps go undefeated?

it was really me. the caps did look good last week. they since returned from the canadian west where they lost with too many penalties. 8 minutes more of playing with a man disadvantage. in hockey, that means you lose, and they did. >> we have had a goal scored against us and the last couple of games, i mean, it's been more prevalent because we lost the games and had four goals scored against us. so i don't think any of us are happy. >> stupid penalties and stay off the box. we have a good chance of winning a hockey game. >> mike green continues to be day-to-day. he did skate at practice today, but it would take a miracle for him to play tonight. read into that, he isn't playing tonight. college football was here. success equals fan attendance and attendance equals revenue.

the average attendance was $40,000. 15,000 below capacity. randy was brought in to bring new life into the program. it hasn't happened. a record of 2-6. a shocking fall from last season. last weekend you could hear the crickets. only 10,000 showed up for the bc game and yet it was bad weather, but not a good sign. the coach, addressing the lack of support. >> if you're going to be a fan, be a fan and be out there supporting them. that's what true fans do. true fans need to stay behind a team. >> who is going to be there is going be there, regardless to two or three, that's not really a big factor. >> more from randy coming up tonight. they play virginia. it's senior day coming up. >> that's it for us. the cbs evening news is next. derek will see you at 7:00. have a great night. çñ