a beautiful autumn day, mostly sunny skies. clouds will increase tonight. a storm system will be developing. that will give us heavy rain off and on and into the early night time. cooler temperatures in low 60's thursday and friday. that will last through weekends with the cool temperatures. slight chance of showers on friday. cleaning -- clearing a on the weekend. mornings in the 40's, afternoons in the '60s. >>> 95, 395, looking good. 66 eastbound, exit to go north on 495 is still closed. beltway construction is gone. at new hampshire avenue, moving smoothly. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 56 degrees on this wednesday morning. >>> police need a name to go with a face caught on camera, the latest for the search for the stabbing suspect in college park. >>> i don't understand what the elevators are constantly under repair. >>> a new report highlights mitchell's latest problem. latest problem >>> good morning. :45 on this wednesday. rescuers are bringing up the miners then have been trapped underground two months. 6 have been rescued so far. they are bringin

. >> sit turning autumn back. we're down into the 40s and 50s throughout much of the region. 56 at national airport. arlington, fairfa montgomery in the upper0s on mid-40s farther st and north. the region in the 50s and 40s. the last 12 hours we have had clouds passing to o south produce agriculture a few sprinkles with virginia. otherwise, a dry day today with highs reaching upper 60s. rain likely tomorrow and much cooler. maybe a passing shower friday. saturday should be sunny, 60s. sunny sunday, too, in the 60s. remaing cool and dry the next week. >> tom, from the west on 66. heads-up. early accident. just watched a bunch of emgency equipment just after the virginia visitor center. i suspect we'll have more issues to deal with. 66 yn bound. along -270. volume only so far this morning. out on the rails the problems we had earlier, metro clearedment we he delays manassas on vre, 322 delayed 15 minutes because of a switch problem 841, 843 and brunswick 870. eun. >> jerry, thank you. >>> we are following breaking n

but on the whole it will be a tranquil and mild autumn day. the week ahead shows more showers out west and in the south. along with gradually lower temperatures pretty much all over. ♪ what's new, pussy cat?

. >>> tomorrow, it will feel more like a late autumn rather than the beginning of autumn. of days. we need one more 90-degree day to make it past the record. fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, and not in sight. the rain and the wind continues to blow. upwards to 20 to 25 miles per hour. at this hour, the stops on our weatherbug network, our first one will take up this to northwest washington, wtop radio. 50 degrees with over one-tenth of an inch of rain having fallen. ocean city, winds around 25 to 27 m.p.h., over two inches of rain. 58 degrees. our final stop takes us to western maryland, accident, maryland, 45 degrees and no rain to speak of. live doppler radar shows showers beginning to break at prince george's county, heading into northwest, d.c., arlington, fairfax, reston, leesburg looking at moderate showers at this time. it will stick around for about another couple of hours, and then another bout of moisture on the way. a daytime high of 67 degrees at reagan national airport. the record will still stand. it is an old record, 92 degrees

. >> reporter: it's a date some parents might shoot for but not autumn. this first-time mom is just happy with her healthy baby boy, and it turns out numbers run in the family. >> she was born on the 10th too and on a sunday, same with him, and then my mom was born at like 11:11, and i'm like 7:11 so it's kind of all numbers all together. >> reporter: this time around, it's a memorable birth on what some call the luckiest day of the year, but autumn and nathannial's dad feel lucky enough already and want the same thing for their birthday boy any new parents would. >> it's just like the perfect end. >> reporter: and of course autumn says little nate would be special no matter what, his unique date and time of birth, just make him that much more so and, of course, there's the added bonus of birthdays, now impossible to forget. at edward hospital in naperville, tom negovan wgn news. >>> northwestern university professor is a winner of this year's nobel prize in economics. he's more associated with the university of chicago. he won for his work on a theory th

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is this the autumn. >> this is the summer. >> and it has been like july and autumn so often. see the last once the hurricane a band of clouds out in the atlantic and has cleared out. and 61 will be the high today. lake effect clouds with the sun. there may be a sprinkle. and sunny and we could get close to 70. and and tuesday. and and we thought we would do it again. >> and it has been normal this is typical weather. >> while we can. >> it has been cast over. >> and nicholas. orchestra. catch them performing live tonight. ♪[music] ♪ >> looking for action, sky was midnight blue and clouds flashed a red. the we heard the sweet reaction, my science was glowing like a skin of flashy new threads.

it's autumn and time for the harvest. it's very important to grow our own food so that we don't have to buy it from overseas so that we have you know that the food traveled so much but that it's really fresh food and food. elliot sank spies' happy to see the bumper crop strictly speaking growing tomatoes is not his every day job he's in charge of the generation next project at findhorn organizing programs for young eco settlers. and he had maintains that life without physical work is impossible in the eco village. my body in my mind in a different way. people. can be really engage in a different word for. some of the vegetables i gathered this morning will end up in the community center kitchen where the food. in this kitchen. for use in. the. schools and. the community center the kooks finish preparing the food for. everybody is expected to join in. the history of what is now a well known community goes back forty seven years. with their friend mclean to live in a trailer near the village. when their efforts to grow vege

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it feels like mid autumn.f anything it may feel like november or early deet december for some of you. 50 in baltimore. 57 up towards new york. but 40s pack towards the west. it's the cool air. the covelettal storm is yet again riding itself a very slow movement up to the north. wrapping in cold air and the wind around that coming out of a counterclockwise direction. it's north to northeast for us. it will be gusting 15 to 20 2/5 miles per hour and closer to 30 along the shorelines. we are expecting to have the rain pretty much locked in all day long. and that is going to keep us chilly. we were talking about the potential of getting a record here. a record low high temperature that would be 54. we were 53 at midnight and we will see if we can get back in the afternoon. rain stays with us. a moderate rainfall through lunchtime. keep it indoors and looks like the wet weather tries to lift up to the north by the evening. watch low pressure up towards long island and southern new england to get stuck and wrap itse

licorice was harvested for the first time this autumn. during the experiment, the farmers found it wasn't that difficult to grow the plant once it took root. they believe the scarce medicinal herb could soon become a valuable crop. >> translator: many elderly people have abandoned farming, growing licorice may be a good chance to revive our farmland. >> reporter: but the hard part of growing licorice is making sure its medicinal properties are strong enough so it can be used as a remedy. last month, the farmers sent some of their licorice root to the professor for examination. >> translator: these roots look good. >> reporter: the farmer said they incorporate once production increased. the future of natural resources is being discussed at the ongoing u.n. biodiversity conference in nagoya. china, along with resource-rich developing countries, wants to secure greater share of the benefits from products that come from nature by setting a new protocol. it's not certain whether the roots will cover traditional medicinal herbs such as licorice

next week itill feel like autumn each take with highs in the six to near 70. storm is coming next week. now let's check on the traffic for th friday morning. ashley, how is it looking? >> well, we have breaking news. vre, all the manassas trance trai trains closed down. trains running 45 miles per hour. add 45 minutes to your commute. between 50 and the beltway, it is stuck on the red x. fortunately, as yocan see here, past 123 headed for the beltway, it's not causing delays at least right now. eun and joe, back to you. >> thanks ry much, ashley. >>> future metro riders could soon carry one less cardin their wallet, according to the metro examiner. metro officials are working on a system that would allow riders to use their credit or debit cards to pay for their trip. that was brought on by the smart chip card was no longer being manufactured. the remaining supply was bought out by metro and is expected to last two years. metro board member say the new payment system would not replace smart trip cards but operate alongse the current system. >>> andou may need

the autumn only draft has begun in russia with more than two hundred seventy thousand being called up to serve in the country's military for a year the conscripts joining the armed forces as new reforms are brought in to help improve the lives of soldiers they see a bit uncertain. arteta the russian tanker gate and veterans put training and practice while welcoming new recruits. fighting begins a regular as a regimen for nearly two hundred eighty thousand young men between the ages of eighteen and twenty seven all of whom are required to serve for at least one year autumns call to duty comes with some changes including a parent's rights clause which allows them to present proof of a draft these lack of readiness to lift a provision allowing soldiers rights advocates to accompany them to new posts and a pledge to help soldiers feel better connected to home by providing greater access to self. this group of soldiers trained under last year's performance with reduced mandatory service from two years to one hazing and other abuse it's played the service and challenge morale in fact it is

october will regain its dignity as an autumn month by tomorrow.unusually warm day on the way. not as hot as yesterday. i'm meteorologist tom kierein. under this partly cloudy sky, it's now 65 at national airport. and we do have a light breeze coming north-northeast there. elsewhere, temperatures near 60. montgome and prince george's county. some of the rural areas of virginia around the blue ridge, mid-50s there. southern maryland, chesapeake. weather watchers there reporting temperatures in the mid-60s this morning. and it's even cooler in western maryland and many locations in west virginia wher it's in the 50s and upper 40s. and around virginia's tidewater, lower easte shore, lower six. showers rolling across pennsylvania, now up no eastern pennsylvania, northern new jersey, new york city area the next couple hours. students at the bus sto will be a pleasant morning. low to mid-60s with a few clouds coming through. sunrise around 7:1 and then for the rest of the day, we'll have a partly cudy day, afternoon highs near 80 with small chance of iso

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the wind shifted into the northeast it brought in the autumn chill that's still in the r this morningthere's a live view from our sky watcher camera. there's a tinge of aumn color of northwest washington. off in the distance is arlington, horizon is fairfax county. the dew point is low and winds coming out of the north and east. we're in the upper 50s to near 60 degrees. prince george's, arlington, fairfax and ntgomery counts as well as throughout much of virgin and maryland and around the bay and on a eastern shore. the wider view the temperatures showing in the mid-60s in southeastern virginia. mountains this morning was in the mid-40s in western maryland and parts of west virginia. right now they are just in the throw mid-50s. quite a cool change has moved in and finally we got the weather to go along with the autumn color that's beginning to show up. over the last 12 hours we had high pressure moving across to our north and pushing some of the cloud cover down to our south. a few showers around the virginia-north carolina border and these continue to track off to the east and will

that's the forecast. >> nothing like autumn in chicago. >> gorgeous time.ging now, too. >>> thank you. >>> thank you for joining us. >> have a great afternoon. remember, we were back at 5:00 and 9:00. more live music now from nashville's own bobby bear, jr. see tonight. ♪[ music ]

still out of the northwest but bringing us dry, cool, autumn air. tomorrow but a better sunday. quickly for the satellite-radar picture. there's the culprit. area of low pressure in new england. raining in boston and providence. the next area of low pressure. this is not going to concern us. just looking at high pressure that will pretty much move in to give us the sunshine and the winds the next couple of days. we will talk about the autumn colors in a bit but let's talk about this now. 65 today. 66 tomorrow. near 70 on sunday. great day for redskins as well as they host the colts. >>> that's right. go burgundy and gold. we have a winning forecast when we talk about the traffic. everything is out here. we want to dc -- everything is clean and green here. we want to show you the prince william parkway. building volume to 123. should only take 20 minutes or so but now taking drivers 25. back to the maps, 495 in virginia the next focus. on the inner loop, we are finding the traffic there is slow from braddock to 66. that drive time we are looking at 1

her name is autumn and she is 8 years old.he has really got a lot of people raising her eyebrows. >> she is so talented, her work goes for $25,000 apiece. >> she is being compared to some of the late painters of the last century. very cool. >> the new crowd in the real estate market, a national investigation launched into the fiasco that put a freeze in foreclosure sales. how will that impact you? details ahead. >>> we want to begin with a tragic death played out on live television. jury selection now under way at the trial of a woman accused of masterminding a bizarre bank robbery that resulted in the death of a pizza delivery man. you probably remember this story. ron allen is in eerie, pennsylvania with more on this. good morning to you. . >> reporter: good morning to you. federal investigators say this is one of the most bizarre strange cases and all along said it was more than a bizarre bank robbery. the trail led to a former schoolteacher with a violent criminal history. marjorie diehl-armstrong is already serving a 20 y

and you, autumn. >> she looks like a very nice which. could wear this to something else. >> all of the costumes are meant to be reusable. save them for your little brother and sister, machine washable, they will get a lot of use out of it. guenther is a dinosaur. this is nice for mom, because of this one piece with a matching hat. again, this is machine washable, durable, $22.50. it is comfortable, right, hunter? >> thank you, hunter. good job. >> fantasia is sporting a more fashionable cost him, a one piece with a great tutu, which is very in season. something that she could wear after halloween. >> to a play date for having fun with the girls. >> thank you. >> here is one of my favorites, the vampire. sean is getting into character. his costume comes with a cable attached. >> he could recycle that and where it again. he said that he loved this after halloween. >> all right, thank you very much. >> all of the customs are on sale. >> how much? >> between $29.30 $9 in stores. >> i feel that she could wear this to a huge party. very nice.

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it's a beautiful autumn here. maybe because we've had so much sunshine to see it all.is one of the sunniest octobers in 25 years in chicago. it's been gorgeous. it really has. you're looking a the beginning of a big east coast storm. and the thunderstorms that went through here through the morning hours. we're going to animate this the next two days. you'll see this storm develop off the east coast. watch it here now. we'll run through it a couple of times. see how it explodes up the coast there. and by the time it sends its winds into massachusetts and vermont, new hampshire, and maine they'll be slamming into the mountain ranges up there. you get up to the top of the mountains, and have formidable snows. rain and wind will be the big story out east. dropping in from canada, brings the cool air in here the running down the length of the lake the day after tomorrow. lake effect that cool bunch there? then we warm up night -- nicely. then watch what happens next week on this ten day forecast. the real chill dumps in there. so by next week, it could be chilly. that shows

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it is autumn glory weekend coming up at mccaffrey and oakland for the next few days.is a great time to be out in western maryland. air temperatures will be comfortable around western maryland around the bay, 71 degrees with scattered clouds. there should be fantastic weather as well. 75 degrees tomorrow and saturday, with mostly sunny skies. there will be great football weather on sunday. there is a chance for char monday evening at 20%. that lingers into tuesday. there will be a slightly better chance for showers on wednesday and thursday. >> the tough economy is paying off for pawnshops and mortgage rates have dropped to historical lows. >> it seems that mortgage rates have fallen to a record low. rates for 30-year mortgages have dropped to 4.27%. that is the lowest since they started keeping track back in 1971. 15-year mortgage rates fell as well. and despite the low rates, there has still not been a jump in home sales. according to the national association of realtors, in august, existing home sales were the second lowest on record a positive sign -- on record. a

still delightful early autumn whether -- early autumn weather . >> all right, well done.is building is open for business. it had its first -- its first opening today. this ego from the building features a plant covered roof. the waterfall actually want the building up in the winter. >> i imagine it must be soothing watching the water. >> absolutely. coming up, when your child goes to school, is your school prepared for possible allergies? >> abf pampering at redskins park, but not for the players. >> nfl players sported the color pink over the weekend for breast cancer awareness. but we're live from redskins park with more. the -- >> we are live from the redskins park with more. >> the women who are the survivors of breast cancer treatment today, they were the vips at the park. she was 37 weeks present -- pregnant with her son, connor, when she found a lump in her breast. >> six weeks to the day i had a double mastectomy. my son was in the hospital for purchases at the same time. it has been a world wind. -- was in hospital for pertussis at the same time. it has been a wh

great fall weather out west for the autumn gory festival. you have to get into the far northern sections of new england and in new hampshire and up into maine where the follies are at their peak color right now. they are getting past peaks in some sections. can see the clear skies here stretching all the way back to the rocky mountains. it is a big strong area of high pressure that will be with us for a couple of days. ahead of affront dropping down from upstate new york and trying to move south toward baltimore tomorrow afternoon. we might see little cloud cover with that and that is about it. we will have to wait until monday when some showers began to make their approach from the north and northwest. 72-77 tomorrow, sunny skies, low humidity and just a few fair weather clouds. out on the chesapeake bay, waves around 1 foot. if you are going west into the mountains to get into the autumn glory festival, it will be beautiful. afternoon highs of in the mid 60's. on the chesapeake bay, a few puffy clouds and a high of about 75. the lower east

. >> we talk about autumn temperatures. like it's romance.'s gorgeous and the leaves are changing on top of that. >> and 100-dollar bills with falling from the trees. >> and a -- that's not happening. unfortunately. there was a study once that said the ideal temperature for the operation or chemistry of the human body was 77 degrees. how in the world they came up with that i don't know but we will be close to that today. if you believe that, then another reason to love this gorgeous day not a cloud in the sky at the moment. little frontal come through with a patch of mid-level clouds this evening and a wind shift and that's about it and then back to the serious business of enjoying sunny skies. not bad when you consider the alternative and we will show you areas in the alternative weather regimes out west and out to the east in a moment. it went down to 30 this morning in rochelle and joliet. 35 at chesterton. 33 at south elgin. i guess you would summarize in saying frost those scattered in some areas far less extensive this morning than it h

the rest of autumn tends to turn cooler than normal. and so does the winter.t have followed in the years that were comparably warm, the winters had a slight edge towards being snowier than average. in the short-term, there are storms east and west of us. that will contribute to the clear skies and keeping us warm. it hit 80 degrees today and pass at itasca and rockford. there's quite a downturn coming later next week. 69 tonight at o'hare with a southwest wind blowing. that will soon turn northwest. because there's a front that's coming through and it doesn't do much more than shift the wind. there's no moisture with it. look at the dew points. no way to get frost out of these temperatures or dew points tonight. look at the storm out west. beautiful shots from bluffdale, utah. here's tooele, utah. other rains have swept that area. this is one of those days where the deserts were cooler than normal and even had some tornadoes in northern arizona. and parts of utah. we checked arizona since 1950 has had a total of 218 tornadoes in october. this is a weird time o

but changes. >>> feeling like autumn here. by the way in chile it's spring time in the southern hemisphere. it's been cold there, too, the last seral mornings. we're the 50s throughout most of the region. loudon, frederick, washington counties and in maryland and frederick county, virginia and pab handle of west virginia, 50s. mountains, 40s. highs of upper 60s. overall quite a bit of sun. rain lookly tomorrow. chilly. a passing shower. sarday, sunny, highs in the mid-60s. low 40s. sunday, monday, tuesday, each day. sunshine. morning lows in the 40s. afternoon highs, 60s. good weather for the skins, colts game. jerry, good morning. how is the traffic? >> good morning, everyone. we're doing wl south of town. u head from 210, 295, across the wilson bridge, smooth sailing. if you're headed the opposite direction from alexandria on the outer loop, that, too moving along nicely. travel lanes are open and it's not raining. >>> thank you,juniorry. 5:12, 55 degrees. the secret weapon for democrats about to be unveiled. who the first l

much. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] ♪ thank you, fall, for occasionally going by the name autumnpplause ] [ light laughter ] thank you, oven mitts, for making me look like a hockey goalie when i'm pulling casseroles out of the oven. [ laughter ] [ applause ] my last thank-you note, right here. [ audience aws ] shh, not today. not tonight. not ever. 'cause -- 'cause i'm gonna do this thank-you note. and i'm gonna do it for each and every one of you guys out in the audience. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ i'm gonna do it right. i'm gonna do it right. i just hope it's funny. [ laughter ] ♪ thank you, katy perry, for having your "sesame street" appearance pulled because you were showing too much cleavage. [ laughter ] which seems a little hypocritical since, in every episode, big bird is completely naked. [ laughter ] there you have it, you guys. those are my thank-you notes. we'll be right back with kristin chenoweth. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ huhh...a spider web. is it real? no. it's just decorations. i'm going to make the biggest pumpkin of all. the biggest pumpkin? ♪ i need to make a

friday or saturday, it will feel like autumn in the lower 62 he. >> we are counting on you to tell ushich halloween costumes we should have for our children. >> the weekend box office when we return. >> it is not yet halloween, but everyone is in for a good scare. 2" was no.l activity t 1 at the box office this weekend. wasaction comedy "retad" among the top five. >> the redskins turned it around. another nail biter. no. 92, talk about playing with a heavy heart. no. 92, talk about playing with a heavy heart. we will tell you what he right here in this neighborhood, i grew up learning strong families and hard work means opportunity. and that starts with good schools. it's a tradition here in maryland-- and why in these tough times i've put education first. we've made record investments in our classrooms... doubled the number of charter schools... and we've frozen college tuition for four years in a row. and it's working. experts say we now have the number one schools in the nation. when it comes to expanding opportunity in every neighborhood, i know that we must do even better. new lo

should be pretty autumnal after this warm-up.you see the temperatures above where they were 24 hours ago. and we have no wind tonight. humidity 64%. a dew point of 41. low values for the hay fever suffers of mold, ragweed, and pollen. we're coming out of the heart of the hay fever season. here's our forecast for the chicago area. it really is quite nice when you consider this is early october. 22nd coolest october open in 140 years around here. we're going to start eating away at that as we warm things up the next couple of days. few patches of frost inland. 36 coolest outlying areas. 46 will be the official at o'hare. sunshine tomorrow with increasing clouds. high tomorrow 75. there could be 25 mile-per-hour southwest wind gusts. and partly cloudy, milder than in recent nights. they don't bring much cool air in. on thursday, we're in a bubble of high pressure behind that front and the specific air. so we'll be in the low 70s. but that's not bad. >> not at all. >> we do have an 80 late in the weekend. we'll tell you about that co

after that warm autumn, this is the 50th warmest autumn of the last 140 years.ows a morning where we had the coolest temperatures since last april. mid-20s sugar grove. kankakee. these are the lows across the area. a little nippy. won't be nearly as cool tonight because of the winds blowing and we have those high clouds acting like a blanket. winds are south at 9:00. 45 at midway. 44 this hour at geneva. in the 30s at lansing. there's the view from dekalb county today. beautiful day albeit on the cool side. you can see from the satellite, gorgeous weather. see these high clouds? they come up over a ridge and right into our area. these are little ice crystals and there's a dome of warm air here. look at the rain over the next two days. the next two weeks we'll see only 30% of our normal rainfall continuing a very dry trend. we've seen so far this month. and with high pressure to the east of us, the one that brought us the cool air this morning, low pressure to the west. there'll be a good gradient. we'll be back into the winds tomorrow. then the cool high pressur

as we head through friday, saturday, and sunday, beautiful autumn temperatures just around 60 degrees. >> the toyota sports desk, brought to you by local toyota dealers, moving forward. >> the redskins won yesterday, but are they good or just lucky? >> i think it is a combination of all of that. but mike shanahan is trying to get a stable attitude on this team where they are trying hard and they know they are not that great yet. >> but the ads -- the redskins get the bottom line after yesterday's 17-14. a win is a win. most of the talk today is about record gain.'s he had that 92-yard interception return for a touchdown right here. one of nine picks in the nfl yesterday. and in hall's case, it looks like jacob are was just plain catch with them -- it looked like j. cutler was just playing catch with him. >> there is no reason to shy away from him. that is hard for me to say with the four picks that i got, but if we had to play him tomorrow, it would be good. >> we're definitely putting pressure on them and making them throw the ball. >> albert haynesworth is a boller. yesterday, he wa

it will feel a lot like autumn.w, columbus day, a lot of folks have the day off. >> the sprinkler in the front yard and let the kids go crazy. all right, thanks, steve. >>> still ahead can a smartphone be its own guardian angel ? can it keep an eye out for itself, literally show and tell you where it is when you don't even know yourself ? droid can with lookout mobile security, one of thousands of free apps for the droid x and droid 2 by motorola. available on the ever-expanding android market. when there's no limit to what droid gets, there's no limit to what droid does. my dad is the supervisor of a train station and my mom's a teacher. my dad's an auto technician. my mom's a receptionist. i'm not sure i would have been able to afford college without the tuition freeze. while tuition in other states is rising out of reach... governor o'malley made the tough choice to freeze tuition. he made my dream of going to college into a reality. i'm the first in my family to go to college. my brother and i never would have b

. -- it has been a very wet autumn so far. this is only about six weeks worth. the sunshine is welcomed. temperatures now are in the 60's, just beginning to bump into the 70's. out -- out in the mountains, readings only in the 60's. technically, we will be running a couple of degrees below the average for the season. here is our big tower. we have sunny skies today around our area. a big high-pressure system is blocking all of the stormy weather from coming in. there is that rain over new england. there is the unsettled weather out west. there is very dry air above us and storms cannot get into it. we have a very good forecast. the stormy weather out to the west, storms will tend to follow this track and will drop further south. we might see something come through early tuesday or wednesday. 5 to 10 miles per hour. out in the tropics, a couple of things going on. as it moves to the northeast away from bermuda, is not a big problem really. it looks like that will be a non entity. sunshine for the game on sunday, seasonably mild, 72 degrees at 1:00g. go, ravens. t

and near peak west of the divide toward oakland and this week is the autumn glory festival in oaklandnd it will be peak around the 10th. skyline peak the 16th through the 20th. we usually peak the latter part of october in the suburbs and downtown you have to wait until early november. so right now we don't see anything that will change the times. if they vary a little bit, we'll update them. here is the next three days. nice tomorrow but as nice as tomorrow is, friday and saturday are going to be tough to beat. low 70s tomorrow, breezy and mid-70s on friday. high school football is great at night. and then 80 on saturday. we'll come back and take you through the weekend and let you know if it will last through the redskin game. >>> caught on tape, a young horse goes for the ride of her life when she is pulled out of a 15-foot well. >>> and new at 6:00, a case of mistaken identity. >> the maryland animal lover, not the d.c. officer who shot a dog here in adams morgan. >>> we are always on at wusa9.com. stay with us, we'll be right back. >>> check this out, this horse being rescued fro

of guilt, statues of isabella butter flisse -- butterflies, and extinct alpha betts, a teaspoon of autumn leaves, a shepard playing with the winds, some animal begging for snow. mix vigorously like the mountain mixes up its slopes. preheat the bed of a star to -- 240 light-years away. thank you. and next is -- [cheers and applause] >> next is robin black. >> hi, robin! >> oh, ok. i had to know. this is called "eviction notice." the police turned us away. 11 years old eating baby food. days warm like the occasional free matsoff from next door. no plates the cups were yoplaits. i stepped on a nail taking my sister through the yard the drinking from beer bottles that tasted like warm quarters the i caught fleas from cookie puss sleeping on my stomk keeping us both warms. at that age i lost the comfort from lies. stranded on a crescent move, floating in a sea of ash littered with diamonds the i swallowed past lives to spit these alternate futures. >> one more big round of applause for our very talented apprentice program. fantastic. >> i honor each and every one of you for coming out to the l

and one large pond was created that's been apartments and especially now in autumn you've got the sun and everything i really like it yeah i think it's really cool especially we were walking down the road and there's this beautiful. bed just in the back you stand out on the road which was faster going which is both of the angles and through their winter. skating. and. from exercise into feeding the birds thousands of locals and foreigners come here every day and with ducks fish and swans galore you can see how popular parts are actually pretty good local wildlife a magical way sis in the concrete capital with many buildings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the historic area is an island trying quality in the heart of moscow but what about the various seasons surely that changes the area's appeal. it's a lovely place to hang out out stalls here whatever the season from ice skating on . here during the cold winter months are coming here with your family and friends during the summer and having a picnic the fresh air lack of noise lack of tourists. and grand archite

. >>> nearly a month now into autumn but it feels a lot like summer out there. the temperature in san francisco, already 75 degrees. therethere is a little bit of fog right along the coast of the national weather service has a heat advisory in effect temperatures are expected to get up to 90 in some places. >>> fire restrictions are in effect for certain parts of the bay area. steve paulson will be along in just a bit to tell us when the fog might return. >>> we're following incredible news out of chile. a few minutes ago, the 20th man was pulled from safety after being trapped two months in a coal mine. tara moriarty in our newsroom with the latest. >> well, we've seen the dramatic scene unfolding all morning long. crews plucking coal miners out. these are live pictures of the efforts. the 20th miner just made it to the top a moment ago. he's been reunited with his family. there's been concern about a sudden drop in blood pressure as the men are being pulled up. but so far there have been no injuries. now, the crowd chanted and cheered as the 16th miner was ext

in autumn next year. mitsubishi president osam osama masuko told reporters the automaker will launch sales in japan, europe, and the u.s. and aims to make electric cars that people worldwide will want to drive. >>> and india is bustling as hindus celebrate the traditional diwali festival. and thanks to the fast-growing economy the whole nation is shopping even more vigorously than usual. nhk world's rakesh inagar reports from new delhi. >> reporter: throngs of shoppers are flocking this mall on the outskirts of india's capital, new delhi. it's packed with people buying groceries and daily goods. >> we buy a lot of things. earlier they used to carry handbags. now they carry big trolleys. >> reporter: this man is the general manager of sales and marketing here. he says customer numbers have been growing 25% annually. since the mall opened three years ago. >> more people have jobs in india. the disposable incomes are higher. the indian economy is booming. and that is why they are doing more and more shopping

. >> it has been an autumn of extremes. firss it starts off hot.>> so my question is: what's3 next? emmly gracey is back with the sky watch forecast. %->> hi guys. wild couple of months and year for weather. we saw the pass couple of days, ú%all caam over the harbor.g, temperatures cooling down. we are down to the mid 50s here in balttmore. clear skies aiding in the cooling. and calm winds as well. so the humidity at 80 percent right noo. we have seen aalot of rain over the past couple of days. reeord breaking rain, at bwi tturgood marshall airport. 6.09 innhes yesteeday, 4.99 in washington and up and dowwnthe westcoast we dealt with the3 weather. moving out..3 and dry conditions right now. although imppcting new england as it continues to depart to the north and east. at home. high pressure is building into thh forecast. and that will be the case for, at least, a day and day nd a half possibly, until the next weather system comes in. watching a couple of weather systems impacting us by the end of the weekend. a low pressure system cooing in from t