hello, i'm j.c. hayward, thank you for joining us. we have breaking news from arlington county. we're learning more about the suspect in that attempted molotov bombing incident at ballston common mall yesterday. that suspect has been

identified as 29-year-old leon traille. he has been charged with reckless endangerment and malicious body injury by jus of fire and also the -- use of fire and also the use of a fire bomb. 9news now has exclusive video of his arrest yesterday. police closed the mall yesterday after a flammable liquid was thrown from above onto the mall food court. it failed to ignite and no one was injured. a 9news now crew is on its way to the arlington courthouse. we will have further details today on our website, wusa9.com, and of course on our evening's newscast. well, there were problems on the beltway this morning. there were two separate accidents involving tractor- trailers on the inner loop at bethesda. traffic was blocked for several miles and both directions for several hours while crews worked to clear the cident scenes from fuel. the vehicles finally started moving again around 7:45 this

morning. there are only 18 days before election day. president barack obama is headlining a campaign appearance at george mason university. we're taking a live look now at the president in fairfax. let's listen. >> the failed economic policies of the past. but when it comes to issues critical to women, the rights to make your own decision about your health -- [ cheering and applause ] the right to -- to be treated fairly and equally in the workplace. [ cheering and applause ] governor romney wants to take us to policies more suited to the 1950s. even his own running mate says he's kind of a throwback to the '50s, that's the one thing we agree on. but he may not have noticed we're in the 21st century. [ cheering and applause ] and in the 21st century, a

woman deserves equal pay for equal work. [ cheering and alause ] this should be a no-brainer. but no matter how many times governor romney's asked whether or not he supports a law upholding that idea, he refuses to say. why -- why should this be hard? are you for equal pay for equal work? are you for sure making sure laws enforce that basic prince 8:00? he can't tell you, i can. i support that law. in fact the lilly ledbetter pay act was the first lochia i signed into -- law that i signed into office. >> he's on the campus of george mason university in fairfax, virginia. for more on campaign 2012, let's go to tara mergener. >> reporter: president obama headed back to the campaign

trail friday to rally supporters and try to sway undecided voters in virginia. mitt romney and his running mate paul ryan are focusing on another battleground state, florida. thursday night they got a brief break from campaigning and had a little fun at each other's expense. >> reporter: the president's remarks are brought to you by the letter o. and the number 16 trillion. >> reporter: romney also took a swipe at the press. >> i've already seen early reports from tonight's dinner. headline, obama embraced by catholics. romney dies with rich people. [ laughter ] >> reporter: the two candidates will spend the weekend hunkered down preparing for their third and final debate. president obama offered a little preview. >> on monday's debate is a little bit different because the topic is foreign policy. spoiler alert -- we got bin laden. >> reporter: the president also

took a shot at his republican challenger's wealth. >> earlier today i went shopping at some stores in midtown. i understand governor romney went shopping for some stores in midtown. >> reporter: monday's debate will be voters' last chance to compare the candidates side by side before election day. polls in those all important battleground states show the race is tightening. tara mergener for cbs news, washington. well, no matter who you're voting for in november, if you have not registered, you're running out of time. today is the deadline to register in the district. you can only register in person at the city's board of elections office. deadlines in register in maryland and virginia have passed. we have more on voter registration on our website, wusa9.com. click on campaign 2012. closing arguments are expected today in the case against two prince george's county police officers accused

in the 2010 beating of a university of maryland student. reginald baker and james harrison have been charged with second degree assault and misconduct. the beating was caught on tape as sunts -- students at the university of maryland celebrated a basketball win over duke. the video shows officers using their batons to hit john mckenna while he was on the ground. harrison took the stand yesterday, he said mckenna punched another officer and refused to drop an object in his hand. that object turned out to be a cell phone. the pakistani girl shot by the taliban is able to stand for the very first time. but doctors in england said that she still has a long way the go on her road to recovery. charlie d'agata reports now from birmingham, england. >> reporter: british doctors released this photo of malala yousufzai ten days after the taliban put a bullet in her head and tried to assassinate

her. doctors say the 15-year-old is out of a coma and on her feet. >> she's doing very well in fact. she was standing with some help for the first time this morning. >> reporter: doctors say she remembers being on her school bus in pakistan, then waking up in a hospital in a foreign country. >> one of the first things she asked to know was which country was she in. >> reporter: doctors say she has some damage to her brain and her injuries suggest she was shot from above at point- blank range. >> she was struck around here, just above the back of the left eye. and the bullet went down through the side of her jaw, damaging the skull. >> reporter: direct examination say it thereby at least -- doctors say it will be at least a couple of weeks before they can start rebuilding skull. first they have to deal with the infection from the bullet that came within inches of killing her. a group of pakistani women lit candles in birmingham to support her and women's rights. >> gir like she live in fear every single day. afraid of the taliban.

>> reporter: taliban fighters say they tried to murder her because she spoke out against them. the young activist won awards for her bravery as she defied the terror group's ban on education for girls. doctors say she knows about the worldwide attention she's getting, and is grateful for all the support. charlie d'agata, cbs news, birmingham, england. coming up, a member of the kennedy family is in our studio. i'm going to have an opportunity to talk with her in just a few minutes. >> also we have an update on that prince george's county officer who died in the car crash yesterday. stay with us.

prince george's county police are remembering a colleague, a father, and a friend. 28-year-old officer kevin bow den lost his life when his cruiser hit another vehicle and

then slammed into a pole. police have just wrapped up a news conference, our bruce leshan joins us live with the latest information. bruce? >> reporter: yeah, j. c., we are just learning now for the first time what caused this crash. what police below caused this -- believed caused this crash. now officer bowden collided with the driver of an suv there at branch avenue at surratts road and according to police, the female driver of that suv was initially in the left lane and for some inexplicable reason at this point, she crossed several lanes of traffic and ran into the officer. and that, chief magaw says is what caused this crash. but, he also said that the officer did some things wrong. >> we are look into all factors involved in this crash. including speed and based on the physical evidence on the scene, it appears that the

cruiser was above the speed limit. >> reporter: the trooper -- the officer also was apparently not wearing his seatbelt. but if you take a look at the videotape, everyone who was on the scene said even if he had been wearing his seat belt it would not have saved his life. there was incredible damage to the patrol car but i will they will you this is the fade -- tell you this is the third fatality in the last few yores and they are desperate here to get out the pressage to the officers that they have to -- message to the officers that they have to wear their seatbelts. back to you. >> bruce leshan reporting live, thank you very much. kevin bowden by the way was a four of a 10-year-old -- father of a 10-year-old son and a 4-year-old daughter. coming up we'll get the weekend forecast from howard. >> j. c., we had some storms

last night and this morning clouds starting to break up. a look at the local temperatures. crofton 71 and thick clouds and fog dulles sterling. 62. i'll have that weekend forecast and a warming trend next week headed our way when 9news now at noon returns.

i have a special guest and her name is really a household word across the country. i'm talking about eunice shriver. she is the granddaughter of the

late eunice shriver and also the daughter of anthony shriver who was the founder and the chair of best buddies international. this is an organization dedicated to helping people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. and you're inviting everyone to go on a special ride. there's a best buddies challenge. it's being held tomorrow. tell me about it. >> well, it's -- there's three parts to the event tomorrow. there's a run, a walk, and a bike ride. can the bike ride is 100-mile -- and the bike ride is 100 miles is. the iraq and the run -- and the walk and the run are 5 k and they start at the same time. you can see the whole thing but tomorrow i happen to be doing the ride with my dad 20 miles. so that should be fun. >> is that so? where should people show up? tomorrow? do they go down to the mall? >> yeah, the mall is where it starts and -- >> what time? >> it starts at 7:00. but the walk and the run start at 8:15. >> okay. all right. >> you can come out and support everyone then.

>> all right. we do hope so. you know, your family has been so involved with people who have developmental disabilities and this organization is special to you because you have a buddy. tell me a little bit about your buddy. >> i do, his name is lucas. he just moved this time recently to seattle. but i met him at a volunteer -- university of miami actually a day care center there. and i started in a room and it didn't really work out for me too well and i moved to another room. and there were other kids there in the room. like five other kids with down's syndrome and we just connected really well and we played a lot together and he would always come for me when i got the school. then i contacted his parents and we just started hanging out. we went to the park a lot. >> you're like a big sister to him and i want to let the viewers know they can become a best buddy. i'll put it on jchayward.com a link and if you'd like to be a best buddy and i encourage you to do so, get in touch with the

organization. congratulations. >> thank you so much. >> on best buddies. i hope that our viewers will participate tomorrow. go down to the mall, you can ride, you can walk. but you can really help an incredible organization. >> thank you. >> congratulations and we have her for the semester because she's a freshman at the university of maryland but she's doing a semester at american university. >> yep. thank you. >> and broadcast journalism she's majoring in. we're going to be partners one day. congratulations. >> thank you. let's get the weekend forecast from howard. the weekend, hello everybody we still have some clouds hanging especially wes of town. east we're seeing the sun break out a little bit. and temperatures are going to be -- it's sort of the average i'm trying to give you because we can be 75, 76 east and maybe in the mid 60s west before the afternoon is out. but more sunshine into the latter parts of the afternoon with 70-degree give or take a couple by 3:00 and 5:00. then this evening should be all right. got plans high school football. partly cloudy. 68 at 7:00 and 64 by 9:00. south winds will eventually

turn more westerly overnight. heavy showers and storms this morning. especially south and east of town, there they go up in the new york area. northern new jersey and the low clouds hanging you the back to the west. but -- tough back to the west. but they are starting the break up a little bit. look the green, these are dew points in the mid- and upper 60s. you get over the continental divide and the do you knows drop into the -- dew points drop into the upper and middle 40s. so i'm looking forward to this weekend. should be nice out there. still only 59 with the cloud cover and winchester. but on the other side of the equation with the sun out, we're 73 at tappahannock. 72 easton and annapolis. 62 gaithersburg. still cloudy and here in d.c. just starting to see some of the clouds break up. still mostly cloudy, temperatures 69 degrees with a south wind at 8. that's going to help eat up the clouds and humidity 84% and that barometer is going to be rising. a better afternoon and some of

us even got woken up early because of the storms. probably more sunday on sunday than on saturday with highs both days in the 60s and then next week even warmer. going to be in the low 70s on monday and then warmer than that tuesday through thursday. right now we got to deal with this big storm system still pinning in the great lakes. look how big this shin is. it covers a -- thing is. it covers a lot of real estate. back to minneapolis right now. we've got rain going up to new england and even down in south florida. here's that drier air trying towork its way in. you have past charlottesville and more sunshine later this afternoon. and then tonight, clear to partly cloudy. it will be on the cool side. low 50s in d.c. with 40s north and west. we'll go through the day on saturday, no problems here. maybe some passing clouds. temperatures in the mid 60s. now saturday night gets cold again. 30s in the suburbs and 40s in town. we'll see a good sunday with sunshine again on the 60s and

then the warming trend begins. it is going to be nice weather next week, i hope you can get a couple of days off to take advantage of that. mild this afternoon. 72 average. mid 70s east and mid 60s west. tonight 53 in town with 40s north and west. over the weekend partly sunny saturday, mostly sunny sunday. we got mid 60s for highs and here comes -- here comes the good stuff. monday 71. tuesday, wednesday and thursday, mid- to upper 70s. looking great. hey stick around, we'll be back with more 9news now at noon right after this.

today i am one-on-one with jury roomist and food writer charlotte druckman and she explores a different side of the restaurant industry. she has a new book. it is called "skirt steak." because she's focusing on

female chefs. it's very difficult. it was at one time. it's even still difficult today for women to enter into the profession. why did you decide to do this book? >> i felt that any time people talked about women chefs it was usually sort of in a negative where did they all go? why aren't they succeeding the way men are succeeding? it's not to say it isn't tough because it is but there are more women out there than people realize that are killing it. i wanted to talk to them about being chefs that happen to be women than to do a book that was once again the whole women complaining about -- >> not having it so difficult. well you know now with all the food shows that are on television, we see women in the profession. so that's a positive. >> it is although i think it's a little -- it's a little mixed because you tend to see more women being represented as professional home cooks whereas the men often are the ones that get presented as the

professional chefs and restaurants. i see. >> it can be a little bit skewed for women who are actual restaurant chefs. >> okay. now you -- write about chefs all the type. have you ever thought about becoming a chef? >> i love to cook. and i think i'm pretty decent at it. but i'm a huge klutz. i am an accident prone bone breaking klutz. and it occurred to me at some point that that was probably not the best place for me because you really need to have a lot of physical stamina. and i don't think that's a gender thing. just some people are less sieve than others and you really do need to have that -- that confidence of physical presence to be able to hack it in that kitchen space. >> one of my favorite, favorite, favorite -- i won't say chefs but owners was ruth fortell. she unfortunately died but she founded ruth's chris steak house. it's a -- ruth with apostrow fee s. and i love her story and now i understand that her son

has written a book about her. >> yeah. and it's -- it's really extraordinary because you find out who she was as a person. i mean we know who she is as a restaurantture and we have her restaurants you know as some kind of reminder of that. but it opportunitied out she was quite the target -- turned out she was quite the character. he talked about her building her mausoleum before she died but there are not as many -- there are a lot of women chefs out there and there are a lot of women chef owners of a single restaurant. but to see a women with an empire restaurant that's still extremely rare and i think it would be nice. >> the name of the book is "skirt steak." women chefs on standing the heat and staying in the kitchen. and that's what you've got to do. be sure and get a copy of charlotte druckman's book, it's very interesting and it shows you the kind of stamina and

gutsy attitude that women chefs have to have in order to stay in the kitchen. congratulations on your book. >> thank you. >> thanks for being with us. we thank you for become with us, have a -- being with us, have a great weekend. come back and visit us at 5:00 and don't forget to go to jchayward.com. bye bye. [ captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com ]