. hello and thank you for joining us. i'm andrea roane in for jc hayward. two weeks from today, voters go to the polls to decide who will be our next president. last night president obama and republican challenger mitt

romney had their final face-to- face debate. tara mergener has more on last night's clash and today's campaigning. >> reporter: president obama hit the campaign trail early rallying supporters in del ray beach, florida after his final debate with mitt romney. >> during the debate, he said he'd want more troops in iraq but he was caught on video saying it was unthinkable not to leave 20,000 troops in iraq. >> reporter: romney posed for pictures with police officers this morning before heading to nevada and colorado. both candidates are beginning an all out blitz of key battleground states in the final two weeks of the campaign. during last night's foreign policy debate, the candidates clashed over military sides and spending, russia and iran but their answers often drifted back to the economy. >> america must be strong. america must lead, and for that to happen, we have to strengthen our economy here at home. you can't have 23 million people struggling to get a job. >> both at home and abroad, he

has proposed long and reckless policies. >> reporter: when it was over, a cbs news instant poll of uncommitted voters gave a clear victory to president obama, 53% to 23%. romney surprised some debate watch whers he didn't attack the president for the administration's handling on the deadly attack in benghazi, libya. paul ryan defended the strategy on cbs this morning. >> we didn't want to go in all litigation of it because what mitt romney wanted to do was lay out his vision for the country, thousand have a strong economy. >> reporter: the extremely tight race comes down to swaying undecided voters in the nine states still considered up for grabs. tara mergener for cbs news, the white house. >> both campaigns are expected to spend more than $45 million on tv ads in these final two weeks. ten-term republican incusm bent rosco bartlet finds himself in the fight of his life thanks to redistricting.

one of the hottest races is in the sixth district between representative bartlet and his challenger john delaney. tonight on 9news now at 7:00, both mr. bartlet and mr. delaney will be in our studio. that's right here on 9news now tonight at 7:00. right now here's a live look at the big board on wall street where stocks ha fallen sharply after 3-m and dupont drastically cut their third quarter earnings. dupont also said it would be cutting about 1500 jobs. the dow is waiverring between 249 -- waiverring between 249 points, the dow's biggest decline since june 1. good washington go the way of new york city and ban the sale of sugary drinks?

several members of the d.c. council say they'd support it. kristin fisher has more from outside of the home of the big gulp 7-left gln this is not -- 7-eleven. >> this is not right. >> reporter: just mentioning sugary drink bans enough to set off this store owner. how is it going to affect your business? >> big time. >> reporter: it's not a done deal. not even close. no action of any kind has been taken by the d.c. council but according to wtop, during the recent at large debate, two current council members said they would vote to ban the sale of large sugary drinks. new york city has already banned the sale of sugary drinks over 16 ounces. that's the size of 7-eleven's gulp, the smallest in the big gulp family. so in new york, the big gulp is already banned ant don't even think -- and don't even think about the whopping 64 ounce double gulp. >> i never even drink half of the big gulp. it would be fine with me.

>> reporter: supporters say the ban could help curb obesity and diabetes. >> i think americans do need to watch their health and it costs the general public a lot of money for diabetes. >> reporter: but opponents call it overregulation. >> it's probably not going to accomplish very much because people will just go with the smaller drink size and buy more of them. i think you could do a lot more with education on this issue. >> i think with all of the other problems that we have in the district, poverty, education, this seems to be a waste of time. >> reporter: in washington, kristin fisher, 9news now. >> according to wtop, three sitting council members have already said they would support a ban. two others and the mayor says they would consider it. a new jersey mother is charged with assault for boarding her child's school bus and giving two alleged bullies the smackdown. rebecca claims three children have been tormenting and even sexually assaulted her 9-year- old daughter. she said she complained to

school officials and last week she boarded the bus, called out the bullies and smacked both of them. >> no parent, no person should be going on the school bus. if they have a problem, contact their local police or school officials. >> reporter: did you get on the bus? >> id he rather not say -- i'd rather not say. >> she was charged with simp pool assault, criminal trespass and -- simple assault, criminal trespass and making terrorist like threats. the two boys were treated by the school nurse. one was later taken to the hospital for a neck injury. this november voters in montgomery county will decide if the police chief or the union boss should determine public safety policy. coming up next, we'll speak to a police union official. he'll explain why he thinks question b is a bad idea. and late near today's buddy check 9, -- later in today's buddy check 9, we look at how doctors are making improvements in diagnosing cancer in women with dense breasts. we'll be back.

just a few days ago, montgomery county police chief tom manger appeared on our broadcast with jc hayward urging support for ballot question b. the act would cake the scope of -- would change the scope of collective bargaining in some cases. here's what he had to say. >> it's a very narrow scope of bargaining. the county council unanimously passed a law restricting. we're asking people to support public safety, accountability and vote for question b. >> but the police union says it's all about the quality of life for those who risk their lives. with me now is the past president of the county's fraternal order of police. thank you very much for being here with us. the chief is talking about effects bargaining. as it stands, that means the union can negotiate any action by the police chief that has an affect on employees. the chief wants to deploy

officers where he says there are high crime areas and some other things. these strategic deployment, his look at how the force should be directed. what's wrong with that? why do you want to keep the law the way it is? >> we've had this law for 30 years without any controversy or problems. now all of a sudden it's a problem for this police chief. has the ability to do what he needs to do. this law is clear. it cannot impair management right. anything to the contrary is not true. this is not about e-mail, never was about e-mail. it's not about holding officers from going to silver spring. by his own testimony before the council in montgomery county, he was able to do that. this doesn't behinder management one way or the other. question b fails or passes. it will not change management in the police department but it will affect police officers and their families. >> talk about how it's goang to change the -- it's going to change the lives of the officers and their families. >> it's going to take a lot of the agreement that we have in the police department and throw

into costly and long-term litigation which we don't need. montgomery county has an excellent police department. one of the reasons why we have an excellent police department is for 30 years we've been able to be at the table and have a say on those things that have an adverse effect. theyave to deal with narrow -- have with scheduling. when you get your schedule changed from #k a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and you get changed from 4:00 p.m. to midnight, that has a huge impact on your life, your family and your children. what we have done through effects bargaining is help soften the impact of the decisions that management is going to make and is going to implement. all we have is a very narrow opportunity to talk about the effects on us. we cannot impair our management rights. >> you can hold up the chief from making this decision on his own for an extended period of time based on the language in the contract right now? >> this is a legal issue. >> changing the shifts and things of that nature. because that's in

essence what he'd like to do and sounds like the all hands on deck in disk where they were calling -- in d.c. where they were calling on longer periods of time for police to address high crime areas. >> all it does is it provides a narrow window of opportunity between when they make a decision and they implement it. the only purpose is to work out any unintended consequences or negative impact. it's date certainly. it can take no more than 50 days. if it's about public safety, they can implement it immediately and we come back afterwards and deal with the ill effects. >> because it seems to be confused in the electorate, how do you see the vote going for or against question b right now? >> i wouldn't call it right now. i don't really know but i'll tell you there's a lot of bad information out there. it's being spread by montgomery county. it's being spread at taxpayer expense. they have information that's incorrect in the libraries. they have information that's incorrect on eir website. they have information that's incorrect on the sides of buses. it is a no holds barred winner

take all philosophy they have right now. they want to beat the union. that is clear. >> mark zifack, past president of the fraternal order of police. he wants you to do your homework so when you go to the polls november 6, you'll make an informed decision. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back.

he's not expected to be alive on november 6 but the family after gravely ill world

war ii veteran is letting the world see him cast his final ballot. the 93-year-old has inoperable cancer. he filled out his absentee ballot as soon as he arrived. relatives read him the names and he either nodded or shook his head. he joined the army after being placed in an internment camp. he wanted to let his country he wasn't an enemy. fatty breasts versus dense breasts. is having one better than the other? women with dense breast tissue are considered at higher risk for developing breast cancer. it was also believed their prospects for a recurrence, even death was poor. but a new study offers surprising ruts for women in both cat -- results for women in both categories. >> this is a very dense breasted person. >> reporter: a majority of women have dense breasts. the term has nothing to do with breast size, shape or firmness. it's just about the type of tissue that makes up the breast. >> we depend on high quality

digital mammography and good positioning to separate out the structures. >> reporter: on a mammogram, dense tissue shows up white but so does cancer making it much harder to detect. >> in a fatty breast, it's like looking through a clear brook and we can find the white spots much more readily. >> reporter: this woman's risk for breast cancer is still higher than the woman with fatty tissue, but digital mammography has been an imaging game changer. a new study offers encouraging news for women with dense breasts. the study followed some 9300 women over a six and a half- year period. it concluded that higher breast density had no impact on the mortality risk once the disease had developed. surprisingly, that wasn't the case for some women believed to be at lower risk. >> obese women with fatty breasts were actually found to die more frequently of breast cancer. that's kind of unfortunate because those are the ones that are easy to find breast cancers in earlier. >> reporter: doctor zerbia

believes the issue of dense versus fatty breasts has been overblown. having one is not better than e other. what the study does prove is that every woman can benefit from high quality digital mammography which she says is safe and effective at finding breast cancer early. >> i am all in favor of finding bansers early, but by making -- bansers early but -- breast cancers early but by making women saying women with dense breasts ever or safe is sending the wrong message. >> we have a lot to learn about breast tissuened and its -- tissue and screening. for more on this story, go to wusa9.com. to keep yourself and your buddy in check, text for a monthly -- text to 25543 for a monthly

alert. howard bernstein is here and he's concerned about what his models are showing about sandy. >> we'll show you the hurricane center's track which takes it to bermuda but i have reservations that it could stay closer to the coast. if we do get affected by it, looks like maybe monday, tuesday of next week. we have a lot of time to watch t. let's get you with that. our forecast for this afternoon, gorgeous. it is beautiful out there. temperatures are into the 70- degree range. we'll be climbing into the upper 70s for highs this afternoon. winds south 5 to 10. some high thin clouds making the sky a little hazy at times. a beautiful evening. maybe want to have a little dinner on the porch or something. no problems there. by 7:00 still 72 degrees. by 9:00 we are down to 68. going to about 60 for the low tonight here in town with mid- 50s north and west. had a couple of sprinkles this morning. bill in smithburg told me he had the shower or two earlier. now we're watching it weaken in

eastern pennsylvania. more showers in ohio moving off toward the east, northeast. we're going to stay on the dry side. temps are still cool. a couple of 50s. remember it was raining in hagerstown earlier. 72 culpeper. 77 in petersburg, west virginia. always at the tappahannock airport with 74 in cambridge. beautiful weather outside. 74 also in gaithersburg. here's a look outside on our michael & son weather camera. see some of the high clouds out there. not the prettiest sunshine but some filtered sunshine as i like to call it. 70 degrees. mostly cloudy being reported at reagan national. again the high thin clouds but no wind and the humidity at 51%. so a very comfortable lunch hour. temperatures are certainly warm, almost hot in south texas. that warmth spreads towards us. that's why we're in the 70s. you'll notice the big cooldown in the northwest. big storm in the pacific northwest, british columbia bringing rains and mountain snows. follow the jet right here. the fast moving clouds, that's the jet stream coming into california. then is goes up through the plains and well north of us. see the showers north of us.

they're going to stay generally along and north of i-70. south of that jet is the warm air. that's where we're going to be with temperatures in the 70s today. 80s tomorrow. even though we'll have high clouds again tomorrow and then maybe even mostly cloudy for a little while. i still think we'll be around 80. on thursday we watch some clouds which try to come in off the atlantic, a sign that a cooler air mass will try to work its way here but still pleasant. we have td19, could be tony. don't worry about that. here's sandy getting better organized as we speak. it will be moving up toward the north, northeast toward jamaica where hurricane warnings are now posted for tomorrow. then cuba. then the bahamas and the hurricane center is giving it a track toward the north and east. my concern is that it could come more up the coast toward us. that would be late sunday or monday, tuesday. lots of time to watch it. today 78. tonight about 60. tomorrow 80. 60 in town. 50s in the bushes.

-- burbs. as we head toward sunday and monday, low confidence in the exact details of the forecast because it all depends on exactly what happens with sandy. but it will turn cooler. we'll be right back. going to the kitchen when 9news now returns.

welcome back to 9news now. we have something sweet in the kitchen just in time for halloween. i'm joneed by home chef brian reed from salt and pepper. he's here with a recipe that everyone will recognize for halloween. the carmel apple. >> carmel apples. what goes better with halloween than carpal apples. >> it's something -- carmel apples. >> it's something families can do together. >> we've done this the last couple of years since i learned how to make it. this is something fun for the kids to join in because all you

do is you -- three main ingredients. you have water, sugar and you countercream. >> maybe four? >> well. then you can always add in-- >> the apple. >> yes, of course. the apple is the star. i just want to say we got all these apples and all the ingredients from whole foods at kentlands. they're having their big apple fest this weekend. you can get everything you need right there. >> that's happening at all the whole foods from 12:00 until 4:00 p.m. on saturday. you have the milk, the sugar and the water. >> you take your water, about two cups of water. then you put in about a cup and a half of sugar. you get that to a boil. then you slowly add in your heavy cream. that's going to get to where you're going to be here. then you let it reduce so it's going to get -- all those sugars are going to caramelize. that's where you get the carmelization. it's starting to thicken up a little bit.

it will get thicker than that, just like the normal hard, semisoft. when you see that happen, you have to keep an eye on t. when you see that happen, it can very very quickly from very fluid to very hard and burn. you want to keep an eye on it. >> you have to stay by mom or dad at the stove and keep stirring. >> right. this is a little delayed gratification. you can sit here and stir and wait. >> how do you et get from there to -- how do we get from there to covering our ap ?l. >> you drizzle the carmel over and you can dress it up with the walnuts. you can take some chocolate of course. i've got a couple different kinds here. this one is a little bit of mint on there. then of course the traditional milk chocolate. >> i see the sticks. usually you think of the apple on the stick drenched in the carmel cream. >> of course. you can always do that. >> but this is easy to handle. >> this is bite size. to add in a little more flavoring, you add in a little bit of lemon juice and vanilla beans. put the seeds in there.

it adds a little more flavor to the caramel. >>it's all easy and in the spirit of the season. thank you, brian. you can see him at kentlands whole foods and you'll see us tomorrow at noon. the next news is at 5:00. have a great tuesday. bye-bye.