it's been like living hell. >> reporter: violence is no stranger to edson place. murder, october 6, muhammad washington ambushed and gunned down as he was walking to the store on edson place. murdered, last night, 25-year-old markitia cunningham shot and killed as she was walking near her home on edson place. he's lived on this street for many years. his defense, the inside strategy. >> when you come home from work you stay inside? >> i stay inside. that's right. that's exactly what i do. >> reporter: how dangerous is it here? >> really dangerous. >> reporter: tina hill is the cousin of markita cunningham, the latest edson place murder victim. she says she's troubled by the violence in our city. >> every day i wake up to the news i'm hearing somebody in the district of columbia has gotten killed. this time it's home. it's my little cousin, and i'm very, very hurt, and i want that person to turn themselves in. >> reporter: so far this year in our city we're averaging three murders a week. live in northeast, pat collins, news 4. >> we saw a pretty good day on our th

here now another edson place murder story. the victim 25-year-old markita cunningham gunned down at dusk near her home on edson place. tina hill is her cousin. >> reporter: what has this done it the family? >> broke them down. they're destroyed. her mother is on-- i can't even explain of what she's going through with her oldest child. >> reporter: markita is washinging down the street and out of a sudden out of nowhere a group of men, they have ski masks on their face and guns in their hand and shots are fired maybe as many as nine shots and a man nearby is hit in the leg and markita is struck several times and she falls dead to the ground. >> i don't know why this happened. i don't have any understanding of it. i'm still in shock because she was such a beautiful person. >> reporter: if this story sounds familiar, you might remember another murder on edison place back on october 6th. that victim, muhammad washington. he was ambushed and shot in broad daylight as he was walking to the store. he ran around the corner for help an

the rest of the story from rich edson live in washington. >> dr.ben carson is putting events on hold to sell his new book on tour. carson claims he is taking no time off, citing several public appearances, fundraiser and dozens of book signings, hosting one in texas on sunday. today and tomorrow there are hand of g.o.p. candidates campaign in the to usual preelection year states, iowa and new hampshire. on sunday evening, the pressingwood baptist church in plano, texas, hosting several candidates including jeb bush, ted cruz, carly fiorina, mike huckabee, and rick santorum. >> rich edson in washington. >>> hundreds of palestinians taking part in a day of rage against israel. witnesses say one attacker dress up as a journalist so he can get close enough to stab an israeli soldier. we'll look at the efforts to calm the crisis. as we watch live pictures on the 5 freeway. look next to people standing on the side of the road because ahead all traffic is stopped because nothing but mud in the way. it is a disaster of epic proportion. 'll keep you updated

then there was a double shooting the 4200 block of edson place northeast, not far from the location of the first shooting. off-camera, witnesses say they heard rapid gunfire, possibly from a semi automatic weapon. the victims were both adults, a man and woman. the woman was critically injured. the police say she has since died. folks say they are so frustrated at this, especially that a shooter would be callous enough and careless enough to shoot at or near children. live in northeast, roz plater, abc 7 news. alison: new developments about the car that slammed into why home, killing two people. we showed you this last night. fairfax county police report the car was stolen. the crash happened on smith way drive at alexandria. the family was not home at the time. two people in the car were killed. .ne was identified the police a they found a gun and marijuana inside the stolen car. leon: alexandria police are asking for help searching for a man who tried to rape a woman in inaundry room friday morning canterbury square. the woman escaped after hitting the man with an industrial vacuum. i

. >>> police say a shooting happened with in the hour on edson place.e have a crew headed to the scene and will bring you anything throughout the night. >>> tc school leaders have something to brag about tonight. test scores for fourth graders up eight points in reading four in math. they say better teacher ands he resources and early childhood paying off. she said she has started extending the day for some. >> we need more time with them. we have lots of schools where we have extended the school day, any different amounts of time. in nine out of ten of them we have seen a lot of improvement. >> they say more work is needed to prepare high school students for college. only 20% of tenth graders okay in english. you can see more of the interview by going to the wusa9 mobile app. >>> who doesn't like thing when is they buy a new home? one condo sold with an interesting one. after all marijuana is legal in the nation's capitol. >> it sold with a grow closet. it's high up on the top floor. >> reporter: the new condo was near the columbia heights neighborhood

. >>> for the second time this month someone was shot and killed in the same block on edson place. >>s it been like living on this street? >> hell. like living hell. >> he says he only leaves his home to go to work and stays inside at night. wednesday night someone shot and killed mar quetta cunningham. she was walking him. police ambushed mohammed washington and killed him. >>> another teen is charge after making threats against his school. the alleged plolt involved brook point high school in stafford. the 15-year-old is charged with threatening to to bomb his school and shoot students. they found rifles locked up in his home but found no evidence of thought out plans. this days after two students were arrested at riverbend. they were charged with conspiracy to commit murder. >>> "news4" i-team shows federal workers on tape fleecing us taxpayers. they say they need more manpower to prevent it from happening again. they're swiping taxpayer funded gas cards and using the gas to fuel their personal cards. we've learned of 30 cases of gas theft this year costing tax pairs nearly half a

rich edson has the story. >> reporter: facing higher average premiums a penalty, customers can againoll in obamacare sunday. the administration says the affordable care act silver plan the second cheapest available will cost an average 7.5% more next year. the price changes vary nationwide from a decrease of about 13% in indiana to an increase of nearly 36% in oklahoma. separately the obama administration projects 10 million will be on taken health insurance through these exchanges next year, less than half the congressional budget office's prediction. >> the white house saying 10 million is successful but a major failure on the part of the program. it means there will be fewer people in the pool that means that rates will continue to go up. >> reporter: still under attack from republican opponents and as critics argue, it's unsustainable design, obamacare is entering its third open enrollment period. one health care analyst says obamacare is too expensive for consumers because too few premium paying customers are signing up. >> insurance companies by and large are losing lots of mon

congress hasn't passed anything yet. >> congress won't do anything, rich, edson, thank you.they were hon -- they already said we're not having a vote. the last leadership said there's no chance this will come up. there is a chance now? john busse from "the wall street journal." mission creep? >> there's a danger of that and evidence of that. this feels like the late 1950s, 1960s in vietnam. where there were a couple hundred in the late '50s -- >> advisers. >> right, 3,000 a year later and 50,000 by the end of the 1960s prepare president changed his mind. i looks like, as a result of circumstances changing on theground. russia's intervention. in a big way. iran's increasing intervention in a big way. remember, there's negotiations going on in vienna between these parties on what to do in syria. and so the united states now has more skin the game and is showing itself as more forceful and that also likely increases its voting heft in vienna. >> the negotiations on the ground regarding what to do with syria, include assad as continuing to lead? >> at least in a transition perio

this happened around edson place. we're working to learn his condition. police have not leased any information about a possible shooter. earlier in the day someone shot two boys near a benning road d.c. metro station. they were getting off the 97 bus when someone started shooting. both victims survived. right now police are looking at the surveillance video from that bus to see if they can identify a suspect. this was the third incident in 24 hours in which juveniles were shot in the district. >>> take a look at this sketch. this is a man a woman fought off with a vacuum cleaner because he tried to rape her. he grabbed her in the laundry room at canterbury scare friday night. he pulled out a knife. >> usually when i'm coming in, i'm on the phone, i have somebody on the line with me, but i do carry pepper spray. that's one precaution that i've taken recently. >> police warn the man may have cut his hair or shave so they want you to concentrate on his features. if you want to take another look at the sketch, be sure to download the nbc washington app. >>> j

we expect the crisis in syria to lead it up, rich edson is live at the white house. does the white house say anything bat strategy for how to deal with all of these competing interests and goals? >> well, shep, what we heard so far are more demand ford the russians to leave syria, to leave syrian air space. that's not happening. three days in a row of attacks from the russians and that's continuing, so we now defaulted to discussions how to avoid one another in air space. the white house says they imagine there will be further talks with the russians on those avoidance measures to make sure there's no problems happening when you have two different forces operating within the same space. as to the suggestion that perhaps it's only isis targets and that the russians aren't simply out there to try to help the assad regime remain in power, something by the way that this administration is in conflict with, what the white house is saying is that they are, the russians, hitting targets they are intending to do so nonisis targets and that, says thes who, is counterproductive

emily edson briggs from "the washington times," february 9, 1902. it was through mr. lincoln that my husband and i came to washington. with his kind thoughtfulness, the president offered him a position as financial clerk at the house of representatives. the day after our arrival, my husband and i went on a sightseeing tour and ultimately arrived at the spot near the present location of the peace monument. i mounted a platform to get a good view of the capital. while enjoying the splendid view, i heard the tramp of marching men coming down capitol hill and the clank of a chain as they marched. though this was previous to the civil war, there were a number of soldiers stationed in washington and i expected to see an attachment of infantry. to my surprise, i saw negro slaves under the command of an overseer armed with a long whip rounded the corner. they were hitched to a long, heavy iron chain which was stretched between each pair of men. what does this mean, i asked mr. briggs. we were told we were standing on the auctioneer's block. my husband helped me down. the negr

i have >> pam: edson i. appearance made national headlines now we see how a baby is doing after she's back home. in a local man burned fetas card damaged effort then if i found exploded and his hand. >> pam: 7 to the public safety. people find this unsettling? >> reporter: at first glance at the unsettling the details and not quite as bad across california of thousands of inmates working as firefighters have non violent offenders crew is going in and digging trenches fighting these fires these rules could change california struggles of consecutive drought conditions well fires across the state continue to grow every year in the inmate crews brightly colored uniforms supervised 24 hours a day operate under, fire the direction and cunning firebricks and hard to reach places currently. nonviolent inmates those who qualify drop from 4300 to 3800. he noted a boost those back of california department of corrections the proposed inmates convicted of violent offenses. assault or robbery to join the program. there wi

rich edson live in washington. how can these projections be so off five years later? reporter: roll out and implementation of this law have been haphazard. projecting much about it is pretty difficult. less than two weeks under obamacare americans can log on to healthcare.gov, sign up for private insurance with the help of government subsidies. in 2010, the congressional budget office estimated obama insurance exchanges would insure more than 20 million people. that projection is five years old. analysts from outside the administration conducted. critics charge disparity in the estimates congress designed the law poorly and insurance is too expensive for customers to afford. the administration is defending that target in a statement. health and human services secretary silvia matthews a burwell, sign-ups envisioned significant migration from employer sponsored coverage. that shift hasn't occurred. administration claims many americans receive insurance from their jobs and fewer need obama care insurance, bill. bill: what happens if too few people sign up for obamacare?

rich edson has more. rich?here are conservatives who have testified that there is too much interference and there are organizations and teachers unions saying they're being evaluated solely based on these test results. here's what the administration is proposing to change. they want the schools to reinvent the tests, cap the amount of time the teachers spend teaching the tests to 2% of the class time per year and they do not want the testing only used for teacher evaluation. the white house says they're simply correcting a flawed system. >> in many indications the tests were redundant, duplicative. we're not empowered parents to help their own children. so that's indefensible. >> these are recommendations. they would still have to pass a bill to have it actually take place, but, of course, school districts could also initiate them as well. jenna, back to you. >> rich, thank you. >>> the governors of new york and new jersey placing their betting. andrew cuomo and jay nixon each vow to wear the other team's jerse

this happened on edson place around 6:30 yesterday. a woman died and a man was rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound. we're working to learn his condition. police have not released any information on a possible shooter. >> happening today in prince george's county. they're going to hold a hearing on body cams and a recent spike in homicides. this is happens at the county administration building in upper marlboro at 1:30 this afternoon. >>> we expect the full house to vote on the next speaker. john boehner's last day is tomorrow. the wisconsin representative needs 218 votes today to officially become speaker. there are 247 republicans in the house. >>> marco rubio, why don't you resign, jeb bush, why have your numbers fallen? how about talking about the substantive issues. >> cnbc taking a lot of heat for last night's fw op debate. this morning the moderators almost more of a story than the candidates themselves. some questions were so pointed they t crowd booed before the candidates had a chance to answer. florida senator marco r

in washington rich edson fox news. >> retiring house speaker announced that the house election to replacetake place on october 29. the house republicans had planned to vote on thursday for a new leadership team. and their sudden resignation. kevin mccarthy remains their favorite, but faces that unexpected challenge from the republican jason chasic. >>> tensions will intensify today after the incident with the russian fighter jet. one of the military jets mistakingly flew in to their air space on saturday near that border, prompting them to scramble, which intercepted the aircraft and escorted iten out of the turkish air force. both are opposed to their new military campaign against the insurgent groups. >> by taking their military action in syria against their moderate group targets, that russia has escalated their civil war. putting further at risk the political resolution and preservation of their structure of future governance. >> it could amount to pouring gasoline on a fire. >>> you could be paying more soon if you're headed to the atm. the three reasons that the financial experts sa

for the second time this month a murder in the same block of edson place northeast. >> every time i wakep to the news, i'm hearing somebody in d killed. this time it's the home of my cousin and i'm very, very hurt. >> she wants them found. a group of people ambushed mohammed washington and killed him back on october 6th. no arrests so far in any of these cases. >>> an area teen is charged with threatening to bomb his school and shoot student. this alleged plot involved brook point high school in stafford county. police say they found guns and rifles locked up in the 15-year-old's home. no evidence of a thought out plan. this comes days after two students at river benld were arrested. they're accused of plotting a school shooting and they they're charged with plotting to commit a murder. >>> video caught on tape fleecing taxpayer. the government says they need to set aside more manpower to prevent it from happening again. they show federal employees swiping gas payer funded gas cards but using the gas to fill their personal cars. we've heard of 30 cases so far this year costs tax pairs ne

. >> she's perfectly fine. [ phone ringing ] >> a con-edson worker who heard the screams ran to help. he climbed up a ladder to grab that baby. child services is now investigating. >>> there has been more deadly gun violence on college campuses, in the meantime. police responded to shootings at two different university that is killed two people and hurt four. the latest was yesterday at texas southern university. this is in houston. gunfire erupted outside of a student housing complex, and a freshman was killed. another person was shot and is now in stable condition. two people have been taken into custody for questioning. they are not believed to be students at the university. a third person is on the loose. >>> the other gun violence on campus happened at northern arizona university. 18-year-old steven jones is charged with murder for a shooting that killed a fellow student and hurt three others. police say jones opened fire at a fight that broke out at a party in a parking lot. a student, colin brough was killed. three of the fraternity brothers of the victim were injured. now, jon

. >> reporter: edson volquez left the stadium before the game was own. he is in the dominican republic right now for his father's funeral expected to rejoin the team when the series shifts to new york on friday for game 3. but let's face it the mets came here to get a split. they can still get it with their ace jacob degrom on the hill tonight in game 2. we'll have much more coming up at 6:00. but reporting live from kansas city at the world series, otis livingston. back to you. >> thank you. >>> game one didn't end the way mets fans would have liked. but game 2 is just two hours away. >> and their ace is on the mound. so we sent cbs 2's vanessa murdoch to queens to capture the fans' moods. >> a mets fan? i have been a mets fan since 1962. >> how are you feeling today? >> i'm feeling very bad. we had a lot of chance. that first hit, the inside the parker. >> feeling low. >> exactly like my son feels. [ baby screaming and crying ] >> reporter: mets fans in mourning after an early- morning loss to kansas city in game one of the world series. what's your mo

this one turned into yet another case of murder. 42nd and edson place northeast. that's where it all began. they say a young man was walking down edison place. he was on his way to the store. that trip to the store cost him his life. neighbors say they heard a shot. just one shot. the young man was struck, and he starts running down 42nd street. about a block away at this corner store, the man drops some keys on this freshly poured concrete and then he continues down the street. but he didn't get far. maybe 50 feet from that store. maybe a block and a half from the shooting scene. the man falls unconscious. and ends up on this grass next to the road. i want you to hear now from a man we call greg. he's lived in this neighborhood for 30 years. >> got so bad out here, i try to stay out of the streets. i'm 58 years old and this violence out here, they need to do something about these guns out here in the street. it's getting ridiculous. >> reporter: now, we're averaging about three murders a week in our city, and it's taking its toll. not just on the victims and thei

rich edson joins us now. he is following this story live from washington.bout this today? reporter: good morning, martha. and house republicans have introduced this resolution to impeach the commissioner of the internal revenue service, john koskinen. this is days after the department of justice informed congress it is refusing to charge former irs official lois lerner. doj says investigators found mismanagement, poor judgment in her division's targeting of conservative groups aplying for tax exemptions yet explains poor judgment is not a crime. congressional committees also investigated lerner and house republicans came koskinen obstructed their inquiry and misled them, failing to preserve lerner's emails. >> we've tried to investigate it and under koskinen's guidance the irs has stonewalled us. i mean are we just going to walk away and shrug our shoulders, nobody is ever held accountable in this town and it needs to stop. reporter: irs destroyed backup tapes containing lerner he have emails. irs said there was breakdown in communication that allowed lerne

it's going to be matt harvey getting the start against edson volkez of the royals. as they say in rasa, t minus 14 hours. >> wow. all right. 6:14. time for weather and traffic on the 4s. exciting night ahead, chris. >> you're making me more nervous because of countdowns, michael. >> why, sir, you're not playing. >> watching sometimes is tougher than playing. i remember that. meantime, our headlines for today. starting out pretty frosty in the suburbs. indeed, a lot of 20s and 30s showing up there. rough day this week is tomorrow. rain and wind will increase going through. we'll talk about that in a bit. a little milder briefly before it turns cooler again towards the weekend as temperatures get closer to normal. 40s in the city. low 50s. upper 50s by noontime. near 60 by 3:00. that's the peak. the warmest part of the day. slowly slide back down into the 50s during the evening hours. mainly about the clouds increasing today. no rain to worry about. no umbrellas needed. tempe atures will feel uncomfortable. 32 in fairfield. 30 in west hampton. 29 in sussex. 32 in newb

sun edson is cutting the work force as a part of the restructuring. stocks sliding about 5%. how about 2.77%. sony splitting off the sensor business into a separate company. the unit has been one of the best performers in recent years. there you see the stock down about 1%. dom chu. >> tyler, cisco coming off its best levels, initiating coverage on the networking products with a buy rating saying most of the recent moves are growing profit margins faster than nay expect. the profit margin stories playing heavily into that trading. cisco systems is up 2% in today's trade. >>> china's ends became the fourth most used currency in august, overtaking the japanese yen. this as some of the big central banks are meeting this week in china. sorry, with coin, a big focus, hi there, seema. >> china the emerging markets slow down and the feds are likely to be discussed with central bankers. let's start with australia. they are suffering from lower commodity demand as the biggest trading partnerer. the aussie dollar has fallen as a proxy for china. despite these concerns, the cap rates un

the royals countering with edson vulces. las vegas has it as a pick 'em.you said earlier, neither time has won a world series in nearly 30 years. at least one of these fan bases will be very happy when this thing is all said and done. exciting! >> so we're going to go for kc. >> yeah. >> they instinctively must go against me. >> no, i'm not doing it to go against you -- >> tim, my husband, grew up in kansas city. >> i'm just being contrarian. >> i respect that. it's not like tim gets offered up as a reason that you do a lot of things. i feel like you use him as a scapegoat. >> no, for this one -- >> i'll give him one. >> everybody loses. >>> all right, meanwhile, let's talk about another story we're about to bring you. what's happening on the front lines in the war against isis? kurdish fighters are preparing a military offensive in syria and cnn is there. we'll show you what it is like on the ground, next. i'm mary ellen, and i quit smoking with chantix. i have smoked for thirty years and by taking chantix, i was able to quit in three months. and that was

. >> fox news correspondent rich edson is live at the white house. >> reporter: good morning.violence, the president called random violence that results in nothing more than hardship and insecurity. john kerry is in europe and going to meet later this would ek in europe in berlin with israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and in jordan over the weekend with the palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas. meanwhile in madrid today he previewed those discussions. >> i don't have specific expectations except to try to move things forward. and it will depend on the conversations themselves as to what it is that we're able to define. >> the secretary of state will meet with the leaders of saudi arabia, jordan, turkey and russia later on to discuss the with a are in syria. >> thank you for that, rich. incredible there. right? heather childress is here for heather nauer who is out this monday. >> nice to be here and everyone at home. we have stories we are follow for you. we begin with the fox news alert, another possible e-mail server security breach. high school hacker and s