in chantilly, virginia, rt. >> and now, a special programming note for you. over the past months, i have been conducting an in-depth investigation into the growing popularity of synthetic drugs, speaking to families affected by the drugs, legislators trying to and it, specialists, the dea, and more. here is a sneak peek of what my team and i have uncovered. >> when he walked into the house, he looked fine. half an hour later, he jumped into his car, and people were calling 911. miles an hour down the road, weaving in and out of traffic. his car ran into a house. it was a horrible ending to a beautiful life. if it could happen to him, it could happen to any kids. >> and the impact these dangers goes behind and beyond the human factor. tune into rt all this week to find out what synthetic marijuana is. it is unlike any media coverage you have ever seen on the issue, so do not miss it. that is going to do it for now. i am meghan lopez. see you right back here and at 8:00 p.m. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- saw . >>> hello and w

thank you you bet well they call themselves the freedom fighters over the weekend dozens gathered in chantilly virginia to take part in the liberty political action conference where people like ron and rand paul justin amash and mark stanford gave their tarrance talking about what's wrong with the american political system today artie's perry and boring had a chance to catch up with a few of those headliners and she brings up on us a wrap up of those events. former congressman and defeated republican presidential nominee ron paul refuses to let his campaign die. last week he hosted the liberty political action conference for el pac where he brought together the biggest names in the liberty movement they call themselves the freedom fighters and are working to end overzealous government and take over the white house his strategy begins with grassroots education you have to change people's minds before you can change the people in washington and that is what's happening right now now that's why we should be excited representative thomas massie a freshman at freedom fighter explains from the end s

it is 56 in chantilly. our final stop takes us to rockville. a high of 72. temperatures are chilling. fredericksburg, 56. marilyn in the lower 60s. plenty of cool air. heading to the west, temperatures in the mid-70's. area high pressure to the north of us to cap wins out of the least -- out of the east. winds will change direction as we move into next week. a southwesterly flow. temperatures at 80 degrees by tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. it will be drive for the weekend. cloud cover will increase a little bit during the day on saturday. no rain, no drizzle. nothing at all. a move cooling as through the overnight hours. temperatures to the west will be in the upper 40's. we will call for plenty of sunshine. waking up around 64 degrees. lower 70's. by the afternoon hours. elizabeth -- a little bit warmer the further south you go. a beautiful outlook. temperatures around 80 degrees on tuesday, wednesday, and thursday. 's.httime lows in the 50 the fall color change, already seeing some color. we have to wait another 3-4 weeks. >> what is going on? >> talkin

. >> plus rug digging the up >>> in the mail back, changes, our good friend john from chantilly wantsknow what is up like that my brother? well, we have had company for the last 10 days so i haven't been watching the news. and i come back last night and things have change! anita is gone. your coanchoring the 6:00 news and you now have a sidekick at 7:00?! i hope you aren't going to be leaving the 7:00 news which is the only newscast i can watch from start to finish. >> well, john, as you know, everything must change. but i personally plan to be here for the duration. and i should probably news you to my sidekick, as it were, she is actually our new anchor. so john, meet jan jeffcoat. and we are really blessed to have her. >> go on. >> happy to be here. although now that you called her a sidekick i don't know. >> i think -- look, i have been called much worse. that's actually very nice. thank you for all of your emails. good and bad. we like them all. derek will read them all. >> he will do that, too. >> jan and i are your wusa9 team at 7 p.m. and 11 p.m. weeknights. i hope you'll chec

it's happening at the dulles expo center in chantilly. tonight, shomari stone found out why some folks are crossing state lines to attend. >> a little built overwhelmed because it's such a rush. >> elgin is rushing, doing last-minute shopping before the new maryland gun law goes into effect next tuesday. he lives there. >> the ban is going to wipe out a lot of guns. and this particular style of gun that i had is going to be banned. >> elgin bought an ar-10 assault weapon like this one. he's at the dulles expo center in shan tilchantilly to by maga. >> i wanted to make sure i had something i won't have an opportunity to buy again. >> maryland legislators passed the strictest gun laws. people who own them are allowed to keep them, grandfathered in. it also requires fingerprints to buy guns. in maryland next tuesday, you cannot buy 20-round magazines like this one right here, but you can buy ten rounds or less. >> i think that they're hurting the wrong person by changing the laws. >> tonight, maryland governor martin o'malley released a writ

temperatures still in the upper 70's. 65 in silver spring. 62 degrees in chantilly. 66 in frederick. 68 in quantico. we will drop tonight rather precipitously on the thermometer. 67-59 degrees. overnight looking under crystal clear skies to drop between 42- 50 degrees. a lot of sunshine in our forecast. i will be happy to share the seven-day coming up. >> and emotional day at the high school. students mourn the loss of a life cut short. he died over the weekend after being stabbed at a local park. the search is on for his killer. we are live from the school on how students honored him. >> grief counselors have been here all day long helping these students cope with their loss. they're also helping each other. they all decided to wear red to remember their friend kenny. a single rose, a reminder of a , rises from the spot where kenny diaz was killed. >> it is hard. >> the park has recently gotten a bad reputation because of drug activity. >> sometimes you do get cars coming down here late at night. they are not supposed to be in your after dusk. remembered thees senior linebacker. the

westfield high school is located on the western part of the county by the dulles airport area in chantilly, virginia. we have approximately 2,750 students here. we do have a student services department here at westfield. it comprises of these school counselors. we have a school psychologist and school social worker. i kind of look at the counselors as always being the first line of defense. they want to make sure that kids in this school succeed, and they want to make sure you do your best at all things, even if they have to push you a little bit. what we try to do is be proactive, rather than reactionary. we sit down and talk every year about our programs and what we do here, to try to see how can we sort of more get ahead of the issues, rather than just reacting to 'em. some common issues that students face is peer pressure, especially with drugs and alcohol and all those things. and i think for mental health, it's more of a "we don't talk about it" mentality. it's hard to kinda be open about it, 'cause you don't want to alienate yourself. the earlier you catch it, in most cases, the mor

program manager from chantilly says the feeling in the office today only gets worse as the stalemate between politicians continues right up the street. agendas,ave their own and mean all, people like us are suffering. 800,000 federal workers will feel the impact of a shutdown. so-called essential employees, military personnel, food inspectors, would continue working during the shutdown, but nonessential employees, service workers, landscapers, museum staff, would face furloughs. >> this professor says as congress jumps from crisis to shutdown,w the federal workers become more and more disillusioned. >> the politics is terribly frustrating, because when you consider this as a professional, you wish the politics were out of it. >> a contractor who commutes to d.c. from virginia beach is not holding back. >> i think the inability of our government to compromise is a .unch of bs >> a sentiment we heard a lot today in washington. most of the federal workers we spoke with today said if the shutdown does happen, it would probably last up to two weeks. they hope that it ends quickly. >> jeff

when congressman tom massey speaks tonight as well as the rock star himself a doctor ron paul and chantillyvirginia i'm perry and boring artie. well late at night old houses creak and make strange sounds cupboards open and close at strange times and sometimes you can actually trick yourself into thinking your home is haunted it's usually not the case but for a group of students living off campus at ohio state university the haunting in their basement was real here's what the students told their university newspaper behind the locked door years we're going to use their days in a warm his day when their realtor finally opened the door what they found shocked everyone a bedroom that someone else had been living it you know what they used to be kidding me. well the unwelcome guest wasn't from the spirit world turns out he was just another student at the university looking for cheap rent he got a key to the house from his cousin who lived there the year before and with a bathroom and sink in the basement get access to everything he needed the secret resident was of course less frightening than a

educational programs or campaigning this movement is deep rooted and has on the limited possibilities and chantilly virginia area and boring party. and now a special programming note for you over the past two months i have been conducting an in-depth investigation into the growing popularity of synthetic drugs we've spoken to families affected by the drugs legislators trying to ban it chemist specialists the da and more here's a sneak peek at what my team and i have uncovered. the moment when he walked into the house he looked fine half an hour later he jumped into his car and people were calling nine one one thing we see a car going one hundred miles an hour now on the road needing to get out of traffic his car only ended and there. was a horrible rendering to a beautiful life. you could have been america you could have been to. and the impact of these dangerous goes beyond the human factor tune into our t.v. all this week to find out what synthetic marijuana is who is behind it why it is so hard to regulate and how terrorism ties into all of this it's unlike any media coverage that you have ever

chantilly at 67 degrees. university,ngton now 73 degrees, no rain to speak of and nine anytime soon. temperatures are cooling, going to drop into the 60's. quantico road now 70. lexington park, across the bay to eastern, 72 degrees. temperatures are warmer, just off to the west of us, mid 80's. pressureon why, high- giving us the easterly flow, keeping our temperatures dan. that is where the warmer areas located. we will see warmer temperatures as soon as wednesday and thursday of next week. hovering around 80 degrees. it is quiet and drive. here is the cloud cover for the day today. in newessure in control york state, a lot of sunshine there. for us, our clouds begin to break apart. this is our computer model. i think it overestimates the cloud cover. i'm going with the 70's. the same on sunday. and then a little bit cooler on monday. i will have a warm up next week. here is the forecast, skies will turn partly cloudy. 65-72. moving through the overnight hours, 40's to the west. to appear 50's in the distric

earlier today, i went to fairfax county in chantilly. i want to say hello to all the kids at the elementary school. they had phenomenal questions about the weather. we talked about tornadoes in virginia and hurricanes in the region, too. i want to say hello to all the second graders. kisses to you, too. kissing to you, too at popular tree elementary school. as far as what we are seeing around the area, storm team 4 radar, nothing to show you. for all the kids today, they went to recess after the talk. they were able to get out a little of that excitement. across the region, nothing going on. frederick, baltimore, cambridge, fredericksburg, not a single cloud in the sky. nothing wu sunshine. we are going to see another cool night. 54 in d.c. 44 in gaithersburg. 39 in frederick and 39 in manassas. 41 in winchester. another cool start to the day on wednesday morning. you need the jacket as you head outside. tomorrow afternoon, back into the 70s and warmer. 77 in d.c. 75 in frederick. 78 in manassas. culpeper, 76 degrees under mostly sunny s

, 59 degrees little bennett elementary school in clarksburg 54 degrees at freedom high school in chantillyly wind and huge shout out to all of those schools. it's friday, kids. we've got clouds, though that have turned out in the overnight hours associated with a little bit of moisture with that easterly wind that is bringing in a little bit of atlantic moisture. but no worries no rain just some clouds to start the day. don't worry i think we'll see sunshine by late afternoon and evening temperatures today climbing in the lower 70s. let's turn things over to amanda meadows in the wtop traffic center. how are the roadways looking? >> they're very busy for commuters in virginia and then we also picked up a new crash on the inner loop or oil, excuse me in connecticut through montgomery county. 95 in virginia first, we can see that one on the cameras. you can see you've got that right -- looks like they moved it over to the left shoulder there on 95 approaching the springfield interchange and that is going to be headed toward the beltway again, on the left shoulder. luckily they did get that m

loudoun county, you folks in chantilly off to a bit of a start first thing. temperatures generally in the 50s. we'll stay in the 40s and 50s through 8:00, 9:00 this morning. more sunshine than we were treated to yesterday should make for a pleasant afternoon. temperatures later on today generally speaking in the low to mid 70s for a brief time. back to work and school forecast coming up in a few minutes. >>> a government shutdown looms. new from overnight, republican-led house approved a temporary spending bill that delays the affordable health care act until next year. >> because of that condition, the white house has promised to veto the entire bill. lawmakers began voting just before midnight, sending it to the senate for its consideration. brian mooar has all the action on capitol hill. >> tonight, the republican majority will vote to shut the government down! >> saturday night fireworks on the floor of the u.s. house. >> you can yell all you want. >> with a government shutdown looming on tuesday, republicans passed a spending package doomed to fail becau

host: chantilly, virginia, democratic caller -- caller: thank you for taking my call.h soldier in the u.s. costs $2000. they send in their own people and train their own people and give them the same amount of money rather than send in our troops to pakistan or some other country? they are not even effective where you send them. the un misuses the funds and people they send them to to protect them. name one country where un soldiers have done something good. watchedout there and like a vacation. they have not done anything for anybody and it's a waste of money. guest: i think i can name and number of countries where the un has done some good. if you look at places like sierra leone, liberia, east timor, haiti, the un has played a central role in restoring order to countries that would otherwise be utter wrecks. i think the un's record is deeply imperfect as we have already discussed but overall, un peacekeeping forces do save lives and bring stability where the alternative is chaos. why don't we give money to the people in the countries affected by violence? during aiv

host: chantilly, virginia, democratic caller -- caller: thank you for taking my call. train their own people and give them the same amount of money rather than send in our troops to pakistan or some other country? they are not even effective where you send them. the un misuses the funds and abuse the people they send them to to protect them. name one country where un soldiers have done something good. they go out there and watched like a vacation. they have not done anything for anybody and it's a waste of money. guest: i think i can name and number of countries where the un has done some good. if you look at places like sierra leone, liberia, east timor, haiti, the un has played a central role in restoring order to countries that would otherwise be utter wrecks. i think the un's record is deeply imperfect as we have already discussed but overall, un peacekeeping forces do save lives and bring stability where the alternative is chaos. why don't we give money to the people in the countries affected by violence? after a civil war or during a civil war, you cannot simply