bloody as police arrested 300 people many for trying to block city streets. >> police just stormed in and started grabs people and throwing people to the ground. >> reporter: the protests come just days after police cheered "occupy wall street" headquarters here in the park. the slight restrictions of no tents and sleeping bags demonstrators remain defiant. >> people better start listening because this is growing every day. >> reporter: that sentiment is felt across the country is. hundreds of activists marched through downtown los angeles thursday. they pitched tents in the middle of the street before police moved in. >> we are getting arrested because we're showing to the u.s. and l. a. and california the need for a change in this country. >> reporter: in chicago demonstrators jammed this bridge while police in oregon clashed with protestors outside a chase bank. there appears to be no end in sight for the two-month-old movement. occupy oakland is calling for another day of action tomorrow. terrell brown, cbs news, new york. >> here in d. c. it seems

planning pays off. >> more than 200 demonstrators marched through georgetown and then lined the key bridge with signs in hopes of spot lighting the country's crumbling infrastructures. police worried the group would create traffic nightmares but basically it all went down rather peacefully. on the virginia side only 1% of the 99% showed up for the rally. the congressional supercommittee is struggling to reach an agreement to trim $1.2 trillion from the federal deficit. it has a deadline of next wednesday. and if they fail to pass an agreement it would result in $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts and they start in 2013. it would be evenly divide between defense and nondefense spending. the man suspected of shooting at the white house now charged with trying to assassinate president obama. oscar ortega-hernandez went before a federal judge yesterday in pittsburgh. those who know ortega-hernandez

say he had become furious with the government and considered president obama to be the antichrist. >> he seemed very sincere in what he believed but he did seem very -- you know rather troubled. >> no word yet when officers will transfer ortega-hernandez to d. c. to face trial. as for last friday's incident, police say several bullets were fired at the white house including the upstairs living quarters. fortunately no one was hurt. the virginia tech campus was the scene of demonstrations both for and against guns. survivors of the campus massacre from several years ago rallied in fehr of a gun-free campus. meanwhile the progun virginia's defense league lobbied for carrying guns at the school. virginia tech's board of visitors is considering banning concealed weapons on campus. here's the other stories making news now. republicannable presidential candidate herman cain is now getting secret service protection. he was granted the extra security thursday following request from his campaign. he's the first republican to get that protection in the 2012

race. president obama is in be a lee, it's the final stop on a nine day tour of the asia pacific region. the president is holding economic talks with several world leaders. they include the indian prime minister, the president of the philippines and the malaise january prime minister. mr. obama returns to washington tomorrow. even though he's overseas the president still took time to acknowledge the 36th annual great american smokeout. he notes 46 people -- 46 million people are still addicted. mr. obama fought his own smoking habit and did it by chewing nicotine gum. also a move to hike the cigarette tax in million dollar to $3 a pack. the time right now 4:34. at 4:40, triple a releases its holiday travel predictions for thanksgiving. at 4:41. are you serious? this is a story you do not want to miss. passengers asked to pay thousands of dollars for fuel. we'll explain. we're back in two minutes

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welcome back. 4:36 on this friday morning. happy about that. sunshine also, we don't have the rain or the clouds or the wintry mix like yesterday. today lots of sunshine but a chill by one. by noon only 43 but lighter winds this afternoon out of the south and southwest at about 5 to 10 miles an hour. for the ride home clear but chilly. that means 30s for the high school football games tonight. i'll be back with a look at the weekend in about five to 10 minutes. right now here's beverly farmer. not looking bad, pulling the construction barrels out of the way in the beltway in virginia, east on 66 approaching the beltway may find the ramp closed to the outer loop but you can still

make the left exit. here's 395 at the pentagon with a couple of cars as the northbound side, picking up the roadwork at colesville road. back to you. 4:37 the time for the first your money segment of this friday morning. >> all about the content. here's jessica doyle looking at the markets. >> it's been a rough couple of days for wall street. the investors are really worried about the debt crisis. interest rates soared in spain, that's a bad sign as the country struggles with its own debt issues. the rating warned that u.s. banks could be greatly affected the europe continues to struggle. europe trading off by about a percent. checking the numbers here at home --

now stocks fell despite more evidence the job market is improving albeit slowly. the number of americans applying for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in seven months. that is a sign, layoffs are starting to ease. another big bank though is downsizing. swiss giant ubs plans to cut 2,000 jobs over the next five years as the exits or shrink several businesses in its investment banking unit. in all they are expected to announce 200,000 layoffs by the end of the year. more people plan to hit the road this year than last year. triple a says 42.5 million people are expected to travel this holiday. that's 4% more than last year and this is the highest number since the start of the recession. they're going to be paying more to do it too. the average price for a gallon of regular so far this month is $3.42 a gallon. up nearly 20% from last year. airlines are charging passengers for the food, for the drinks, for the baggage. but extra for the fuel?

hundreds of passengers traveling from india to britain were stranded for six hours in vienna when their airline flight stopped for fuel. the charter service asked the passengers to kick in more than $31,000 to fund the rest of the flight. to birmingham, england. >> is that legal? >> no. >> who does that? >> they're looking at ways to reimburse them, but can you believe it? okay if you don't pony up -- >> they actually were referring to this as ransom. the passengers say we were ransomed to get home for a flight we already paid for. >> does a charter flight not have credit they can fill up and pay them back? >> they're claiming the travel agents never gave them the money for the tickets in the first place. >> that's crap. soak the passengers. >> i just think of my little exxon -- my exxon thing you swipe. can you take this? >> easy fast.

yeah. >> easy fast. >> regular unleaded so it's cheaper. >> watch out for those charges. so speaking of airlines and the airports you know the new high-tech security scanners? do they actually cause cancer? >> they're singing a different tune across the atlantic. we're back in less than two minutes with your weather first and more on that.

good morning, welcome back to 9news now. on this friday morning, you will definitely need to bundle up this morning. heavyweight gloves maybe. >> i had to put the little ones away and get the big heavy thick ones. >> is this the normal overnight low for november or a little bit? excessive warm tonight. >> highs are in the 50s now and lows in the 30s. tonight we'll be down in the 20s most everywhere so a little bit below normal but the weekend once again temperatures are going to rebound. >> snuggle weather. >> good leaf raking weather perhaps. >> that's my job this weekend. >> i said snuggle. >> snuggle at night and leaf rake during the day. you'll be tired. you want to snuggle by then.

good snuggling weather. you got it. let's go to the bus stop forecast this morning. this is the type of morning you want to wait in the car with mom and dad if they let you do that or stay in the house as long as possible. clear, breezy and cold. 29 to 39 but clear skies. with sunshine all day. 41 by is 11:00. by 1:00. 44, winds northwesterly this morning and a little breezy early but this afternoon the winds go southwest and look at the temps. mid 40s. maybe topping off about 47 or so here in washington. down south we might get, might get to 50 if we're lucky. but a chilly day ahead. 36 easton and the shenandoah valley. and oakland and garrett county, i'm sure the snow guns are flying tonight and wisp and snow shoe and also in seven springs as they get ready to open here in a few weeks. 30 in washington eight now with the retch -- right now with the windchill down in the 20s. just about everywhere though feeling like 10 with the windchill in oakland. 36 this morning at reagan national with a west wind at 7.

look at the dew point, yesterday they were in the 40s. dropped some 30 degrees, the air is really dried out. the humidity at 43%. the barometer rising quickly. so yeah, it's the pain index is high today. we've got the jet stream dipping in the northwest. you can see all the unsettled weather sam lee rains, mountain snows coming in here to the pacific northwest and northern rockies. just then coming across the northern part of the country and taking a dip in the east. that zonal flow, that moves things quickly so the cold air is going to depart rather quickly. chilly air with us today as the high pressure builds in. the winds are going to calm down especially tonight. light and variable. another cold night. 20s to low 30s now tomorrow that high pulls away wind turn more south than southwesterly. so the morning chill will get out of here. lots of sunshine for saturday. by sunday though a few more clouds and might even get a stray sprinkle in here by saturday night, sunday morning

as that moisture returns. but generally looking like sunshine will give way to a couple more clouds on sunday. today we've got temps in the upper 40s to perhaps 50 in culpeper 45 in hagerstown and tonight a couple of high school football games out there. temperatures will be dropping from 40 at 6:00 to 37 at 8:00. clear skies but light winds and you can get tall scores later on at dc.highschoolsports.net. the forecast for the next three days we have temperatures today chilly. lighter winds tonight. 20s to low 30s. 64 sunday, a few more clouds and mainly a dry day. skins are home on sunday with a dallas weather should be okay. 64. monday a few more clouds, maybe a shower then 60. and then better chance that we'll see some rain here later on tuesday into the first part of wednesday. and then a chillier thanksgiving but sunny. should be good weather for the turkey bowl. high of 49.

beverly farmer working mornings and nights and working all the time. howard i tell you we're glad it is friday. and we kind of get a break as far as the roadways are concerned. this time of the morning picking tunnel construction barrels looking live at the traffic cameras the beltway route 7 tyson's where there had been roadwork each day overnight. that's out of the way. pulling the barrels out at 66 eastbound approaching the beltway. no early troubles northbound i- 95 heading out of fredericksburg stafford, on to quantico and into springfield. approaching the inbound 14th street bridge, all lanes open into town. just a few folks, gw parkway's been looking good. overnight construction had been on the inner loop of the beltway at colesville road in maryland right near colesville the rest of the paving operation. here at four corners things are looking good to get down to the beltway and should be pulling the barrels out. mike back to you. metro trains will not be running all weekend long on parts of the blue and yellow

line. crews are going to be doing track work on the king street and pentagon city stations which means crystal city, national airport and braddock road stations will be closed from 10:00 tonight until 5:00 a.m. when the system opens on monday. here's the question, do airport body scanners increase your risk of cancer? it's an ongoing debate in the u.s. but in europe it looks like they've picked a side. european officials are ordering airports to stop using the security scanners because of the possible cancer risks. u.s. radiation expert dr. david brinner says they can deliver up to 20 times more radiation than originally thought. but others call it an overreaction. >> than any risks you may have of cancer or even death from that particular machine. >> when i worked with radiation, and personally i wouldn't want to have to go through that in i have a choice. >> the eu will consider lifting the ban on the scanners if it gets convincing evidence

they're not safe. tomorrow morning, dozens of people will be lacing up their shoes and hitting the streets in olney for the run. it raises money for a living well cancer fund at the institute. >> it provides free acupuncture and wellness coaching to cancer patients. she died in 1996 from complications of cancer, but the 5 k was renamed bitta's run in her memory. the patients explain how it's helped them. >> in january i discovered that i had breast cancer. >> about a year ago last october, diagnosed with prostate cancer. >> i was diagnosed with stage iv colorectal cancer. such a rare type. about a year ago august 2010,

during my recuperation i found out i would have to stay on chemo for the better part of the unforeseen future. >> there were points where the pain from the toxic here was so bad i was like crawling to the bathroom. like i just could not stand up. >> when i first started this i was very depressed and didn't feel like this was something i wanted to deal with. >> i was searching for a way to move beyond my treatment you know to help me with my healing and the side effects of the chemo. the other medicines i take and just the pain and discomfort of cancer. >> just not clearly sticking needles in people but taking our time to know what it is they need on a body, mind spiritual level and incorporating that into treatment. >> it's not a cure all but really helps you like say they live well the fact that you have cancer. >> because it's a group setting, i really look forward to seeing the people. we come and we give each other hugs. we pray for each other. >> i think that our bodies have innate wisdom and when we ourselves know that our bodies

can heal themselves, that it empowers us. >> i'm so grateful to be in this program. and ownership looking forward to my healing -- i'm looking forward the my healing and moving beyond my treatment. >> i feel happy actually after the treatments. >> those of you out there that think that acupuncture is something that's voodoo medicine or anything like that, you're totally off the mark. really makes a difference. >> steve is her husband. the two were married 14 years, the run is tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. the plaza in olney, maryland. to register or donate. log on to wusa9.com for a link. well, an mri may not be the most effective screening test for breast cancer. doctors at sloan debtorring in new york say it can be useful for detecting breast cancer in high risk women but not all women. the mri doesn't always lead to better surgical treatments or even survival rates in patients. the economy may be the best

form of birth control. a new report shows u.s. birthed dropped for the third straight year and money worries are the reason. experts suspect it drove down rates in 2008 and 2009 as women put off having children. with the 2010 figures demographers say it's turned into a certainty. worms may unlock the mystery of how the skin heals itself. biologists at the university of california san diego have discovered some genes in worms which identify wounds and trigger chemical reactions that heal them. the finding could eventually lead to new wound treatments especially for diabetics and the elderly who have a harder time healing. eat up, cheese may not be as bad as for your cholesterol as other types of animal fat. scientists in denmark say people who eat cheese daily have lower so-called bad cholesterol than people who eat the same amounts of butter. they didn't increase their total cholesterol despite adding more fat the their diet.

smuckers is recalling jars of its chunky brand because of possible salmonella contamination, they have a best used by date of august 3rd and august 4th 2012. they say no illnesses have been reported though. 4:52. before we head to break it's time for the question of the morning. >> here's one of our viewers with today's question. >> 67% of all workers feel happiest on the job when -- a., during lunch, b., when the boss is away, and c. on friday. i would say on friday. >> i would agree. here's that question again. >> we want you to participate. again, 67% of workers say they feel happiest on the job when a., during lunch, b., when a boss is away or c. on friday. >> leave your response on the wusa9 facebook fan page. we'll reveal the answer later this morning in the 6:00 hour.

welcome back. 4:55. howard here, your weather first. bundle up. it is going to be cold. the air temperatures won't be climbing very much. and normal highs about 57. we're probably going to be about 10 below that for a high

today as winds turn to the southwest this afternoon. lunchtime temps low to mid-40s and we top off mid- to upper 40s in most spots. and a cold night coming un. i'll be back with your weekend forecast coming up during 9news now at 5:00 a.m. right now beverly farmer is in with timesaver traffic. howard, friday starts pretty good. overnight roadwork to pull out of your path but no other big incidents, beltway at colesville road pulling the barrels out. still the far right lane with the cones, northbound on coalsville road may still block the ramp there until they get everything out of the way. mike, back to you. marketing minds of benton have done it again. get this the italian fashion label has a new ad campaign not sitting well with some world leaders. this is why. it includes doctored photos of heads of state kissing each other like the president puckering up with china's president there. he also in one respect kisses hugo chavez. the white house says it does not approve of this. the vatican says we'll see you

in court in some cases they will actually probably pull that particular pope picture down i've learned. they were just trying to promote peace and love and understanding and they plan to pull the pope ad down. all the leaders are going to keep on smooching except for the pope one. >> they know how to generate publicity don't they? in 2004 nascar launched the drive for diversity program. >> now one young man is starting to make history when he hits the track. dave owens has the story. >> darrell wallace jr. hopes to follow the likes of busch -- and biffle as winners in nascar's sprint cup series. he's about to begin the journey. if he makes it he'll be a rare sight. a black man in nascar's top series. there have only been five. ever. >> it's a tough sport. i mean it was predominantly white sport.

>> in 2010 he became the first african-american to win on the knn east pro series. and in 2012, he's scheduled to compete in a nationwide series event for joe gibbs racing just one level below the sport's top series. >> this is awesome to think about. i mean going out there and you know making my nationwide debut. >> also a product of nascar's drive for diversity instituted in 2004 to attract women and minorities. like this one at langley in virginia where 25 applicants from the united states and latin america got their first taste of driving fast. >> all that we've ever known in nascar is white males really. and i think that it's great you know, that we are bringing more diverse people in. >> wallace hopes he can write a different legacy, his alignment with joe gibbs racing is a good start. the team has been as aggressive as anyone in trying to foster more minority drivers and he himself embraces the chance to

represent a different looking nascar driver of tomorrow. >> with me being able to go to the next step in the nationwide series, hopefully that attacks more attention. >> dave owens, 9 sports now. good morning and thank you for watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. i'm andrea roane. >> happy friday, i'm mike hydeck, beverly farmer is in for monika samtani and she'll have traffic momentarily. weather first time now, howard, good morning. >> good morning, got the long johns on and ready to be outside all day. it is chilly. >> 36 right now in northwest. >> get the gloves, the hats, i mean we got windchills down in the 20s in many areas and highs today only in the 40s. about 10 degrees below normal for this time of year. let's show you the day planner where sunshine, 37 at 9:00. 43 at noon. you got to work outside today, yeah, you're going to feel it. but it won't be raining like yesterday at times it was. 5:00, 44 degrees with clear skies. and the winds get lighter this afternoon