clinton when something happened that caused the police cruiser to crash into a poll. they also said that the suv and sedan was apparently involved. this all went down after 3:00 this afternoon. again, the intersection of branch avenue in clinton. that they are actually recreating the scene for you right now. we'll let the chief tell you exactly what is happening with that investigation. >> there is a collision for them. and that they will be interviewing the witnesses at that time. en you look at that chopper video, certainly there is an suv in that area right now. and what do we know about this officer who passed away here today? we are finding out information that he actually leaves behind

two children. a 10-year-old son and a 4-year- old daughter. and that he was a 6-year-old daughter. and that will be here for 28 years old. i can tell you that it will be a very sad situation. here tonight lots of prince's county police officers who fell behind us before hugging. . >> well, this is the second time that the prince george's county police officer has been killed in the car crash. as we mentioned back in august, the 23-year-old died when his patrol car struck a guardrail as he hurdled down i-95. >> the other big story we have been following all day, one man accused of trying to fire bomb the boston common mall -- at a ballston county mall.

>> reporter: this cell phone video shows the suspect being captured by police with their guns drawn near the arlington county courthouse. he's put in handcuffs and dragged away by officers. putting an end to a panicked afternoon in arlington. >> there were many witnesses due to the fact it was the food court and a quick response by the police department that apprehended that subject. how many times do you see this when no one is in custody? this is a great victory.

>> yes, and it reeked of gasoline. these were very strong powerful smells. that there is ass everywhere. they had a lot of people there pointing up towards the door. they were looking up pointing. >> reporter: they found at least three more of the same devices in a bag left behind by the suspect. >> and people are still coming to get lunched as it was packed. a smell of gas or oil, it smell like oil to me. i said this is a little strange. the safest thing is to go on out and leave. >> reporter: and it was described as cocktails, never ignited. no one hurt, but the smell scared off a massive response, prompting the mall to go into lockdown mode. >> and it will be lifted where the mall will be issued for the rest of the night as for that suspect in police custody. and that they will try to interrogate that there, asking them the question that everyone is asking tonight, why did he try to do this?

we are live in ballston, 9news. >> that's indeed the question of the hour. thank you. we'll report with we get some answers. now at 7:00, new tonight, one man, a video camera, two very frightened women. police said that the men you see in this video hid the camera inside the condo on montgomery road. the condo shared by the women. the camera was found last month, but detectives believe it was placed inside the bedroom of one of the women back in june. investigators say that the pervert came back into the home and moved the camera to the other bedroom and left it there, but they still don't know who this creep is or how he got inside. detectives are on the hunt for a white male in his 30s with a heavy build, bald on top. short brown hair on the side and back. call the howard county police if you think you might know who he is. >> he comes here with, again, the purpose of committing some sort of a gihad here in the

united states. >> a man behind bars tonight accused of trying to bomb the federal reserve building in new york city. that's after agents said they caught the 21-year-old student trying to set up a terror cell online. he was arrested yesterday after trying to detonate the fake explosives. another dramatic gay in a courtroom of prince george ice county with two police officers accused of solving the university of maryland's student taking the stand for their own defense. >> reporter: with the second of two police officers accused of assaulting the maryland student testifying today in his own defense. responding to questions asked by his attorney. the officer said that he was initially concerned by john mckenna's bizarre behavior. at the university of maryland -- the university of maryland student walked down the street waving his arm. during the rocket's celebration of maryland's victory over duke on march 3, 20 so. officer harrisson said that he

began hitting him with his baton after seeing him punch baker in the head with a clinched fist, containing what officer harrison claimed he thought could have been a weapon. out on the campaign trail today, the former president bill clinton is teaming up with bruce springstein. obama will be back in fairfax tomorrow morning holding a rally. mitt romney spent most of his day preparing for monday's third and final debate. both men, they will be at a charity event in new york city tonight raising money for needy kids. right now, two former

governors are in their final debate before the election day in the race for the virginia senate seat. you're looking at the live pictures of the democrats tim cain squaring off. and for the, you can watch the whole thing here. it will go on through 8:00 p.m. on our website, wusa9.com. awe man, you've got to love the fantastic fall days, but typical. they don't last out in the weather center with more on that. >> yes, we have a boundary there to the west, producing showers and thunderstorms. but you are right, it looks great. 72 is the high. we'll look at your radar and see the heavier activity still in the mountains as we needed to talk about it yesterday in the evening hours. it'll be an overnight event for most of me -- most of the metro area. and it will be northward up through the county in maryland and points even farther north up into pennsylvania. so you can see a lightning strike. pretty good area here for you

on into eastern extreme eastern west virginia. now earlier, we saw showers develop. they are still kind of hanging around through parts of the immediate metro area, mainly light as we will see a little bit of the yellow here. but it's not the main event by any means. it will be enough to get the roads wet, at least as you are headed off to the north. temperatures in the 60s. 66 in manassas and gaithersburg and 67 downtown. we'll come back and attract these storms for you hour by hour. we'll also let you know if they will linger on into tomorrow morning's early morning commute. >> thank you, topper. coming up, what we found inside the boy scout's secret perversion files. disturbing details on sex offenders right in our neighborhood. watching out for your best interest? and they will be overstepping their bounds. right after the break, why your local government may get the final say on where you could get your fast food stance. that's coming up.

well should your local government get the final say on what you could eat and where you can find it? a measure proposed in prince george's county would give the officials power to decide whether or not the rest of us serving food will be debt premental to your health could even open up your doors. it's called extreme zoning restrictions, introduced at the city council yesterday. and desperate times call for desperate measures. the city of chicago is struggling to put an end to gang violence. well now the cook county board president would like to tax the sale of every gun and every bullet. the bullets would be taxed a nickel. firearms are $25. and at last count, they reported about 409 homicides this year. that's compared to 324 during the same period last year. and a live look outside. even as we speak, topper's got your full forecast after the break. also after the break, secret sex offender documents. boy scout leaders don't want you to see these. what's inside the so-called

perversion files. that's up next.

20,000 pages of the boy scouts so-called perversion files were released today. despite some strong objections from the boy scouts of america themselves. the documents show that the scouts failed to report hundreds of child molesters to the police. and as bruce leshan explains, dozens of those abusers are from right around here.

virginia, maryland, and d.c. >> i loved it, it was awesome. i didn't think that anything bad could happen out there. >> reporter: stories repeated over and over. early and another boy abused by their scout master. >> how could you do that to somebody? how could you bring yourself to do that? >> reporter: the boy scouts released box after box of the so-called perversion files. that they would build on details already released. commended by presidents and the executives despite allegations of abuse. and even after he confessed, the scouting officials promised not to tell anyone about it. he was finally convicted of oral sex on 20 boys. >> we are talking about hundreds, if not thousands of

unidentified men who should be registered sex offenders, roaming free to society. >> reporter: the scouts have been keeping the volunteer files since 1935. and the documents released under protest, they covered the years from 1959 through 1985. lawyers are pushing them to release more. but the organizations, they insist that they have implemented new policies to protect children. >> ensuring at least two adults on all activities. >> reporter: the victims remain suspicious. >> it is such a loosely run outfit that i would not feel comfortable letting my kid on into it. >> bruce leshan, 9news now. well, get ready to rumble from right here as they took part and took cover in an earthquake drill. now you know where they were really taking this thing seriously. and remember that was where the quake rattled d.c. in august of last year. it was set up in the county and

damaged every school there. next week they break ground using the tough seismic safety codes. >> topper, there are no other places there. >> thank you. >> yes, just practicing my drill there. >> that was a good move. >> yes. you can still keep it here, a yellow alert as they will continue overnight. and some could be heavy. the threat of the severe weather has diminished here somewhat. take a live look outside. and 72 is the high. still 67. not really like october, more like september really. the dew points in the mid-50s. and the pressure is up a hair at 2924 inches of mercury. a pretty good line of showers and storms now entering extreme western virginia and exiting west virginia as they will go

up through elkins into the panhandle of maryland. that's what we're worried about here. right now we have minor showers pushing through the metro area. enough for you to wet the roads as you are getting home late. and i've got some wet roads and also out here for you in loudoun county. mostly green. a little light activity showing up. temperatures in the 60s. it is mild everywhere. we're looking at 65 in rockville and great falls. 65 in vienna. a pair of 65s in fairfax and berk. mid-60s also in bowie. so now yellow alert, storms overnight. the morning commute now, it could be wet, especially from i- 95 eastward, okay. evening commute is dry. and a very warm finish to the week. ironically friday will be warmer than today. all right, here's a look at your future cast as you have the showers to the west of us. that's the light activity. but this is the line that we're watching. the computers have been pretty consistent, forecasting this to kind of peel off to the north between about 11:00 and 1:00

a.m. so hagerstown, martinsburg, winchester, you'll see some reds and oranges there. pretty heavy activity possible. then it kind of dwindles a little bit by 2:00 to 3:00 in the morning. and then another batch tries to develop between about 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. this is the batch that will kind of delay folks coming on in from annapolis, coming down from baltimore or coming north from fredericksburg. after that it will be clearing out rather nicely. we'll salvage a pretty nice afternoon. showers and storms overnight. some heavy, breezy, mild. 48 to 58. winds are increasing a little bit for you north to west. becoming partly mild and sunny. early showers, especially east. 50s and 60s. then bit afternoon, a nice day. partly sunny and warm. a light chance of a shower. with highs around 75. the next three days. we'll keep it green. warm on friday. isolated showers are late. 75 and then cool, but nice on saturday and sunday for you want we're in the 60s. lots going on over the weekend. at homecoming for the university of maryland. howard university, we've got

the gold cup. it looks great. now next week it looks even better, derek. this looks like september. mid-70s on monday. mid to upper 70s on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. maybe a shower on tuesday, but i think we could put up with that. >> we can put up with that. hopefully it will continue over the weekend. >> let's not get too crazy. >> that's what i was worried about. some weird news files. sadly no use here for that. but here we go to tokyo where they love this kind of stuff. the hair washing mechanical groomer actually senses the shape of your head and then scrubs your scalp with those 24 motorized fingers. you've got an itch up there too? well the robot could handle that as well. all you've got to do is put your instructions into a touch screen. about50 robots developed by companies and university teams are on display there. i guess they do all sorts of things. but the hair washing guy, that's interesting. >> yeah. no tip necessary. >> right, no tip necessary. if it scratches too hard, you're also on your own.

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tonight, reactions to my let's be real tonight for you at 11:00, that basically this week's free reeling debate is perhaps the best such debate for you ever. let's never go back to the podium and the time limits and all of that, to which our good friend here says that yes, you can have it. personally i can't stand to see debates where everyone is polite and milk toasting that it does not ring true. while surfing around, it seems like women were a bit taken back by the confrontational style. i believe that they will believe something and that they are bound to get that back up

and show it. that it will be a good thing to show the emotion and conviction. i don't see being glad when one cares about the issues. a great debate indeed. some women may have found it uncomfortable. but like anyone else that, depends on the women. i have talked to more than one that loved it. and then this on the subject of question 7 for you in maryland. the gambling in maryland, who said that those in maryland voting no on question 7, they should consider the following. if you vote yes, then you will have a 50/50 chance of money going to education. if you vote no, you'll have a zero chance of money going to the education. that it will be up to you to decide which way you would like to go with question 7. you know what, i could hardly put that out there. the oppositions to question7 p's entire arguments seem to be, well, don't vote for question 7. you might not be as good as you say. and it is not just the school funding at stake. also the questions of the economic growth. okay, now, say that we do not get to the 10,000 new jobs they are talking about it. suppose it is only 5 or 2. it is still more than what you have will now.

now, look, i'm no huge fan of funding the government here, but if you would like to stop it, you will probably need a little better argument. if you've got it, send it to the mail bag at wusa9.com. at's the address. and that is our broadcast. i'll be right back here at 11:00 along with anita and topper. we'll see you th. have a great one. tainment tonight,"

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