woman was stopped here, left turn lane, left arrow. it's red. officer bowden going straight. he has a green light. the woman suddenly, for reasons unknown, decides she has to go from the left lane to the right lane, make a right. she clips the officer here, he goes off the road, smashes right into the utility pole. >> the actions of the driver, the suv involved in the crash, caused the collision. >> reporter: investigators believe bowden wasn't wearing his seat belt, neither was morris, follow ejection from his vehicle and skidded on ice in march of 2010. >> we can't take those risks anymore. we just can't. >> reporter: the 61-year-old suv driver is still in the hospital. she's expected to be okay.

it's going to be up to the state's attorney to decide whether to charge her in officer bowden's death. bruce leshan, 9news now. it can be a long time against two cops from prince georges. we just learned that those jurors have ordered themselves some dinner. accused of beating up university of maryland student. that incident caught on tape back in 2010 as students hit the streets to celebrate a basketball win over duke. police identified the man in this video being arrested for attempting to ignite a fire bomb at a local mall. leon trail was in federal court today and being charged with arson after throwing a mallsal cocktail. nobody was hurt, but police found even more explosives afterwards. he's expected to be back in court on monday. well, today the dow jones

industrial average had some black monday deja vu. after declines, sank 205 points, closing at 13,334. that's only a drop of 1.5%, but the market's worst day in four months. other industries also dropped. ford dropped 1.7%. and every stock that roads, four others sank. mayor grey is taking credit for the rising unemployment officials in d.c. the jobless rate fell from 8.8% to 8.7%. that would make the seventh straight month the numbers have gotten better. mayor grey said his job creation and economic job policies are working. 18 days to go now until the presidential election and president obama was making his case for another term in the swing state of virginia today. he spoke to a friendly crowd.

>> reporter: from the local pastor -- >> our civil rights activist. >> reporter: -- a virginia congressman, -- >> i have a simple answer because i have a daughter. >> reporter: -- and the president's talk on wooing the voters. >> in the 21st century, a woman focuses equal pay for equal work. >> reporter: mr. obama coined a term for romney. >> we got to name this condition he's going through. i think it's called romnesia. >> reporter: accusing him of flip-flopping on major issues. >> i want to go over some of the symptoms with you, because i want to make sure nobody else catches it. here's the good news.

obamacare covers preexisting conditions. >> reporter: in fairfax, virginia, saray chin. >> women haven't forgotten how they've suffered under mr. obama's economy of higher taxes and unemployment. mr. romney is scheduled to hold a rally in florida tonight. unemployment tonight in several swing states. according to the labor department, rates dropped in ohio, florida, wisconsin, iowa, nevada, and north carolina. numbers in new hampshire have remained unchange, but nevada still has an unemployment rate of 7.8% and north carolina is 9.6%. a bunch of virginia voter registration forms tossed in a dumpster. the man allegedly did it facing charges of voter registration fraud. his name is colon small and hired by the virginia republican party, taking place in harrisburg. the gop said it fired smalltom

the moment they learned it. they will be allowed to use trayvon martin's school records and social media in court. the records show that if martin had violent tendencies. martin was suspended from school when zimmerman shot him. the neighborhood watch volunteer said he shot martin in self-defense. most of you may be dry right now, not everybody is out of the woods just yet. erika? >> we have showers and periods of heavier rain moving through the d.c. and metro area. let's look at live doppler 9000. the heaviest rain to the north and east of the district itself. as we take a little bit of the closer view here, we see that moving through st. college park and areas in princegeorges county with the heaviest rainfall at the moment, but none of these showers are producing any severe reporting.

so the winds are below 58 miles per hour. any hail is smaller than penny size. haven't seen anything too big, but there's reports of pea-size hail. it's that isolated area of thunderstorms that's moving through and in fact, some of this thunderstorm activity spawned a tornado warning in northern parts of baltimore county. so it was a pretty intense little cluster of thunderstorms as it moves through, but this is it. we're not going to see anymore thunderstorm activity as we move through the overnight hours and beautiful weather moving in for the weekend. i'll have more details on that coming up in your seven-day forecast. eric, back to you. >> hail in mid october. don't see that all the time. coming up in the mail bag, a tragic accident killed a police officer, but talk about why he wasn't wearing a seat belt. we'll have that later in the newscast. but up next, we'll tell you about the raise when a bus driver kicks a pregnant woman

with a kid off the bus.

a pregnant woman kicked off the bus because her baby's diaper is just too stinky. this happened in seattle. nicole said her 1-year-old said had diarrhea and the driver said she had to kick off a half mile away because the smell was just too awful. >> she said your baby is -- smells really bad and it's not certain we all have to smell bad. >> seattle's metro transit apologized but said that's not enough. she wants to sue. metro is standing by the driver saying she didn't violate policies when she acted for the comfort of the other passengers. this is perfect. was the bus driver right, should the needs of many come

before the needs of the one or should the driver have taken her? this is a pregnant woman with a sick baby and found some other way to try and help her out. your thoughts are helpful. write them in mcginnty's mail bag at mailbag@wusa9.com. the woman was forced off the public street into the bushes. there's a liquid under her nose. she woke up hours later at good hope and neelor road. washington redskins trying to protect rg iii. hit with a $20,000 fine for not properly reporting the quarterback's concussion. after leading against the atlanta falcons, reported that he was quote, shaken up. the weather outside and the all-important seven-day and

weekend forecast. and have you heard of diabesity? how one car dealership staff is trying to fight back, up next.

did you know americans suffer from diabesity? it's diabetes and obesity put

together. the car dealership has the staff feeling glamorous. >> reporter: at the car showroom in bethesda, you're struck by the glitz, shiny new luxury vehicles and an atmosphere that exudes sexy. but this slim handsome sales manager wasn't like this. >> i hated having to hold my breath to tie my shoes. i mean, i just couldn't get all the way down there and continue it. it just was a progression, you know? every year, it got a little bit worse or put on a few more pounds. >> reporter: in fact, not only has greg kept the weight off for over a year, but he inspires eleven coworkers to do it too. >> i lost 29 pounds. >> 45 pounds. >> 70 pounds. >> 41 pounds. >> 70 pounds in five months. >> yay! >> reporter: all together, that's nearly 500 pounds. and the weight loss has had other benefits. >> all the diabetes medicine

the doctors had me on, even opened a bottle for that at all. >> you're not diabetic at all anymore. >> not at all. >> reporter: body tech, getting weighed and measured weekly consulting can owner larry kay to change eating habits. >> it's usually a direct result of diet. so we do our best to correct these problems with food. >> reporter: type 2 diabetic charlie harmel is happy with the results too. >> i hear more energetic, i experienced this myself. it makes them more productive at work and also in their own personal lives at home. >> it's nice to feel healthy and to go out and ride my bike and be active and not feel overwhelmed or tired or, you know, unattractive. >> important stuff. by the way, monica and jessica doyle will be at the stop

diabetes event tomorrow morning at the national harbor. registration at 8:30 and go to wusa9.com for more. sunscreen is supposed to protect your skin from frying in the sun, right? imagine putting it on and then you burst into flames. it happened to a handful of people and tonight, banana boat is pulling a half million bottles of spray on sunscreen off the store shelves. apparently, the lotion can ignite when it's exposed to fire. texas land mark went up in flames today. check out big tex. burning down. greeted visitors at the state fair. the fire will be for the next year. how's the weather for the diabetes walk tomorrow? >> i'm glad the thunderstorms we have out there are pulling out. the d.c. metro area into

saturday. so improving weather in the forecast. let's take a look at our 9 doppler at the moment. you can see that most of the thunderstorms have moved to the north and east, but we have some of the stronger storms moving in the baltimore metro area. and up to the north of that in baltimore county. so improving weather for all of us throughout the area. but right now, we have light rain at reagan national at 66 degrees. that dew point is still high at 61. winds out of the west at 63. i think the winds increase a little bit into the overnight hours. here's a look at the weather headlines as the storm system pulls away, to enjoy a great weekend. improving weather in the forecast. it will be cooler, but it will be less humid. also, a return of the sunshine and we will see warmer temperatures moving in as we head back to work and back to school next week. right now, our temperatures are starting to cool down as the backside of the storm system pulls away at 61 degrees right now in good gaithersburg.

satellite and radar shows one little isolated intense cluster of thunderstorms that pushed through the beltway area and is now moving up into oh, let's say the redding, lancaster, pennsylvania area. the backside of the storm system has plenty of showers, lots of clouds with this. cooler temperatures. this is going to miss us to the north and west because it's going to follow the trajectory in up state new york, avoiding the beltway. overnight, partly to mostly cloudy. won't be as cool as last night. 43 to 53. west/southwest winds at 5 to 10 miles per hour to help bring in the drier air mass and bring the sunshine in the forecast as well. tomorrow morning, it will be partly cloudy and pleasant with temperatures in the 50s and the winds will stay on the light side tomorrow. it looks like really nice

weather in the forecast, though there's still the chance for the sprinkles. not a big deal. even if we do see a sprinkle, it will be very quick and don't have to cancel your plans tomorrow. might not even need the rain gear. 63 to 67 for the forecast highs as winds remain out of the west/southwest. 67 for your high tomorrow in leesburg. same in nassas. 62 in warrenton. only 50 in oakland and the beltway, upper 60s for the most part. 66 in gathisburb. code green for us. beautiful on sunday. a lot of sunshine and a high of 67. the sunshine continuing on monday. as we head back to work and school, temperatures will be rising close to 80 degrees by tuesday, 78 here with a mixture of clouds and sun. same deal on wednesday. there's going to be a storm system approaching from the

west that could trigger a shower or storm on friday. it's going to be dry and warm feeling more like june than october and here, people are getting their halloween costumes ready and all that kind of stuff. we're looking at temperatures more appropriate for sunglasses and bathing suits here. >> oh, yes. not going to complain. >> looks good to me. weird news tonight. ♪ i believe i can fly, i believe i can touch the sky ♪ in china, taking the word daredevil to a new level. guys on suits with wings and then jump off. yeah, wee, right? and then open your parachute and you land safely. supposedly. some wild costumes that actually looks crazy fun with the operative word being crazy. stay up as long as possible. the guy's time in south africa

was 23 seconds. as far as we know, nobody died. >> nobody died. that is good news. >> yeah. >> looks like it would be a spectacular feeling, beautiful landscape too, did you notice that? >> yeah, probably if you were flying down, just fear. we'll be right back. >> we want to hear what you think. mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back.

in the mail bag tonight, there is sadness over the tragic death over 28-year-old prince georges police officer kevin bowden killed in a horrendous car accident yesterday afternoon but this would be the second prince georges officer to meet the fate in the last few months, neither man wearing a seat belt and johnson chantilly said there's tough questions that

must be asked. it's truly asked that p.g. county lost two apparently fine police officers in the last few months in car accidents but i got to ask, police officers are supposed to enforce laws and in maryland, seat belt use is required for all passengers in the front seat of a vehicle. the result of noncompliance with the law is painfully obvious. we must acknowledge there's many who may seem to say the wreck was so serious, the officer may have been killed regardless whether he was belted or not but similar sentiments from bill in martinsburg, west virginia. so sorry for the car crashes. why weren't they buckled up? it's the law, right? these same officers wrote tickets to people for not having people buckled. do they think they're above the law? i will not presume the judge the officer's mental state, but the justification for the reluctance of some officers to wear seat belts sounds similar

to the excuses civilians use. it will slow me down, hard to get out in an emergency, et cetera. it's a bunch of nonsense since we know the likely deadly emergency behind the wheel of a crash and when that happens, being slowed down by seat belt is what the doctor ordered and prescribed the mail bag. mailbag@wusa9.com. that's our broadcast. i'll see you tonight at 11:00.

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