wusa and gannett are committed to continuing those negotiations.ent saying the issues involve use of the company's commercial skipping technology found on the dvr systems that it provides. the complete statement of wusa and gannett's position can be found at wusa9.com. there is some good news in all this. wusa is available over the air oner of rye -- verizon, fios, and others. "game on" overtime after we're finished here. a preview coming up. >>> the big news in sports spreads from the baseball diamond to the football field. the redskins lost the game 24- 17 against the falcons today but they lost more than that. franchise quarterback robert griffin iii got knocked out of the game on a hard hit and could not return. he was seen by a neurologist and diagnosed with a concussion. >> after talking to him, he said he was cool, but i know how this league is when it comes to tough hits. you have to make sure they're call. he gave me the heads up that he was all right so you really just don't want to see them have to leave that way. >>> in the baseball pla

a complete statement of wusa and gannett's position can be found at wusa9.com. there is good news.usa is available over the air on verizon, comcast, rc n, cox and other cable providers. >>> okay. other knew -- news now. the critics didn't care for it but the audience loved it. taken 2 twice as popular as the original. $50 million in receipts. it doubled the haul of the original which hit theaters in 2009. took in $24.7 million in its debut. the baseball drama pitch perfect. >>> the price is right welcomes its first ever male model. >> lady gaga gets ready to accept an award in memory of john lennon. >> reporter: lady gaga is being honored with a peace prize in memory of john lennon. for her work to promote equality for gay, lesbian and transgeneral deered people. gaga will accept the award in iceland tomorrow. >>> murder and mayhem in the new dark comedy the details starring to be did i mcguire and elizabeth banks. >> she is so out there and it is so unlike anything i have been able to do before. >> reporter: the details opens in theaters on november 2nd. >>> rob wilson come on dow

gannett stations including wusa9. gannett and dish have been in talks to keep all of the company's stations on dish. the agreement means dish users won't miss any wusa 9news cast, hit cbs shows or n.f.l. football. really important and exciting stuff for us here at the station. >> happy about that for sure. >> did thanks, jess. >>> -- >> thanks, jess. >>> time 6:07. still ahead, highlights or maybe low lights when talking about the nats-cards game. things are looking promising when it comes to rg3 following his concussion on sunday. >> we're marking 19 years of buddy check 9 when we return. >>> i will be a five-year breast cancer survivor on october 17. i'm producer of the d.c. expedition which is a series of large-scale portraits of young women surviving breast cancer shot by fashion photographer david jay. buddy check is important because women must be their own best advocate in their breast health. i want to congratulate andrea for 19 years of supporting women before, during and after breast cancer. thank you. >>> w

it's sponsored by gannett's u.s.a.agazine points of light and newman's own. >> this has been a 20-year partnership. why did gannett think this was important to put its full efforts behind? >> our purpose is to serve the greater good in the communities that we serve. so in addition to providing news and information as we do, we'd like to inspire people to go out and make a difference in other people's lives so that's part of why make a difference day is so important. >> it's not just happening make a difference day in this area or in this country. this is now a worldwide effort. i wonder if they ever imagined that would be the reach when it started ten years ago. >> it's amazing. it started 20 years ago on a leap year day whether we had an extra saturday. u.s.a. weekend asked its readers to go out and make a difference in someone's life with the extra day. millions of people have been helped. >> what are some of the projects people can get involved in? can they still get involved in since it's tomorrow? >> it is tomorro

a complete statement of wusa and gannett's position can be found on wusa9 9.com. wusa is available on verizon, comcast, rc n, cox and other local cable providers. >>> still ahead, firefighters who made the ultimate sacrifice to help those in need are being honored in maryland. >>> and researchers are learning more about your brain and the way it works. >> 9news is back, right after this. >>> we have a few clouds starting to roll in here to washington. partly cloudy skies overhead and certainly jacket weather this morning with readings in the mid-30s. you may even need a little rain here as showers will redevelop. 3:00 temperature 53. a high of 54 and by 6:00 showers around and 52. i'll be inside in a few minutes with the 7-day forecast. got some warmth on the way. right now inside to monika. >> reporter: northbound georgia avenue right before the beltway the right lane is blocked with police activity in the forest glenn area. on the beltway itself here at university boulevard traffic running smoothly in silver spring. back to you jess. >>> i have been combing thro

. >>> contract talks between dish neck and gannett continue this morning.ot been able to agree on new fees but decided to continue negotiations beyond last nights deadline. without an agreement dish could lose the right to show gannett tv stations in 19 cities including sacramento, st. louis, and denver. so far viewers have not been effected. >>> big crowds turn out to be big business over the weekend. with almost a dozen major events happening in the city hotel rooms were booked. that left some people searching for other options in nearby cities. cab drivers and sightseeing tours said their profits were triple what they normally are on a given weekend. the cash is a big boost for the local economy. >> business has been great. it's a big week for the city. fleet week has brought a lot of people into the city. we are fortunate to be close to the dock where they get the ships in. >> some are calling this the busiest weekend in san francisco history. busy streets brought major congestion. coming up we'll tell you which public transportation agency is celebrati

magazines published by the gannett and moore's company.illiam gannett was a notch burner and he created something called giant ox the end. giant ox david garrett. if you had it come it would cure it. it was a little tablet and you plopped it in water and drink it and always mean well. it brought comfort to your life. the mail order catalogs at that time were actually magazines. so instead of what we would see as the sears catalog or the montgomery ward catalog, we've had these magazines full of stories. and in the stories, you needed to take ox again and it would make your life better is. in some ways it was a way to bypass advertisers, bypass traditional publishing and sell your project directly to the market. this is late 19th century or early 20th century. 1880s to 1930s. because maine, particularly acosta, have access to the pope and to make paper, water and rail transit. things are published here. and made more sense to actually print these periodicals and aghast at headship them out. a gust has this enormous post office, which is a c

defines as a boost to the country's fighting capabilities and case violence spills over artie's gannett's account has more on the move and the intended message. according to defense secretary leon panetta they send their troops to syria jordan bordering case violence escalates in syria and spills over the border leon panetta did not go into details as to how many troops and so on but another u.s. defense official speaking on condition of anonymity said the forces are made up of one hundred military personnel and other personnel who stayed on in jordan after attending an annual exercise in may and several dozen more have flown in since they're operating from a joint u.s. jordanian military center north of online that americans have used for years of the news about u.s. military personnel so close to syria actual actual boots on the ground suggests an escalation in the u.s. military involvement in the conflict even as washington pushes back on any suggestion of a direct intervention in syria but jordan is not the only place where the u.s. has military presence if we look at syria and the u.

sign of continuing disarray that's reigned in libya since the western backed profile was artie's gannettshe reports. a year after the killing of warmer khadafi not only has the new government of libya immediately illegal to criticize the favorite revolution of last year but a group of militias affiliated with the country's defense ministry is the shelling parts of the country which were considered khadafi strongholds that bombing it from the air and rockets because they knew when he was one of the towns which stood against the intervention of the outside world in bani walid local media report that the strikes have killed around a dozen people including children but apparently the people of bani walid are not the only ones persecuted by various militia groups in libya we saw the total wiping out of the thirty thousand strong town we're told want to go many are black libyans which the misrata brigades which are also laying siege to bani walid call themselves the brigades for the purging or black scheme it's such as a wonderful humanitarian and freedom lobbying. and discourse that they wipe

gannett, our parent company is in negotiations with the right to carry on dish. even though today's early morning deadline has passed. >> dish issued a statement saying the issues involved the use of the company's commercial skipping technology found on dvr systems it provides. there is some good news in this though. wusa is available over the air on verizon, comcast, rc n, cox and other local cable providers. >>> we are going to have the answer to today's question of the morning when we come back. keep it here, you are watching 9news next. >>> welcome back to 9news. 6:93 and a chilly 46 degrees one big story this morning has been this police activity in silver spring on the northbound side of georgia avenue. it is just inside the beltway blocking the right lane. as you head north, scoot over to the left, you can exit to the beltway without a problem. we'll take a live look first inside the beltway, seems like traffic is still doing well. it is columbus day with that holiday. we'll take also a live look at the beltway, as i said, it is not affecting the beltway a

this morning all the way from iowa is political columnist kathy from the des moines register, our gannett- owned sister paper. the format as we said, ceapt, is a town hall de-- kathy, is a town hall debate with the voters. we're having some mike problems. howard is going to help us out. thank you very much. howard. it's town hall format so we have the voters asking some questions but it's really only 11 people who are going to get to ask questions. usually the voters have totally different issues on their mind than what the media and political analysts have. so does this debate favor one candidate over the other? >> it makes it a little harder to predict. one thing about this town hall format is that i think it's going to make it a little more challenging for barack obama to come back and be more aggressive than he was in the first debate. he was criticized for being too passive, didn't go after mitt romney enough. in the town hall format, that can be tough because you have actual voters who are asking those questions. if you brush aside the question and go after your opponent, you might

even the people who own our company dan net says mobile -- gannett say mobility is the thing of the future. if you have a cool school, we'd love to hear from you. send your idea to mike hydeck and we could be featuring your program in the next coming weeks. >>> 6:15. great story. here's howard with the forecast. i don't know if we can call it great. >> pretty good. we'll take pretty good. we're going to get some rain. most will fall at night though so i think the implications in that regard will be minimal. but some of those storms could be on the strong side, maybe severe even. we have a slight risk of that. we start with the bus stop forecast speaking of the bus, mike. the bus stop forecast. get you mobile on this thursday morning. temperatures in the 40s and 50s. you'll need to grab a jacket out there. it's dry. clear to partly cloudy. a patch of fog in frederick and culpeper. visibility in frederick still a quarter mile. culpeper has increased from half to one. stafford down to a mile and a quarter. we'll have to watch these areas generally north and west of town for the isolated areas

. >> reporter: oakland trib photographer bob gannett caught the shot. lopez caught the officials huddling at midfield. 27 seconds later -- >> looks like a street person who got on the field is the first person who maybe signals touchdown it's good. then it just is insanity. >> it became just pandemonium which was great. it was brutal. >> reporter: fans mobbed the field. cal got the trophy known as the axe. and to this day the play remains controversial if not hotly disputed among ardent stanford fans but lack in the locker room on that day -- >> only one thing you could say. the bear would not die. >> reporter: as for moen and terrell after viewing our footage they offer each other a few words of advice. >> gary, if you are out on the field strap it on. >> i would say to kevin you have to hit me harder if you want to keep me down. >> reporter: yes indeed, the rivalry continues. dennis o'donnell, cbs 5. >> undoubtedly the greatest college play ever. we have posted some of the raw rarely seen videotape including interviews with the coach, players and the

today" are both owned by gannett. we're glad to have you here with us. the debates have been hiked as game changers but even last month the obama advisors were saying they expect mitt romney to get a big boost from the media and in the polls after wednesday night. is that what we should expect to see? >> it's amazing how both sides can fall over each other to say nice things about each other right before the debate. i think the one and only time they'll say anything nice about each other. it's an interesting situation, for mitt romney, this debate is very important. he does need a game change. he's behind. there's time but time is running out so he needs to reverse momentum. for president obama, he needs to keep the momentum going. he wants to keep romney on the defense and that's what he's going to look to accomplish with the debate. >> it's going to be very tough. we're talking about the economy and the president has to answer that infamous question are we better off today than four years ago. seems like his advisors have even had problems answering th

take a look at the two-day move in news corp., "washington post," gannett, all trading in negative territory. news corp. down about 3%. >> see if the man from the bbc can turn the "times" around. >>> shares of pandora are a key focus on news apple's new music service will roll out early next year. some are suggesting it could be a buying opportunity. thus, call it outrageous, call it incredible, call it magnificent. it's one hell of a boat. our wealth editor robert frank will take us for a spin. robert. >> it is like a mansion but it is actually the hallway of a super yacht. and not just any super yacht. the boat is more than 12,000 square feet. more than 280 feet long. in fact, it is the largest boat built in america since the 1930s. we'll tell you the amazing story of this boat called "cakewalk" and how much it could sell for coming up on "power lunch." >>> good news on the economy and the gdp report. but you know what? buried in the numbers there, there may be a real warning sign about inflation. we're going to dig in on that. >>> also the internet has disrupted all kinds of businesses. r

so the stories in this book were exceptional and i knew that my role as class president of 2002 at gannett the stories and connect the box and bring the canal -- personalized together to weave together but that could define the decade so i call carol anderson. carol anderson lost her son richard in a helicopter accident. i called her on the phone and as i did all the mothers who wrote in the book who lost sons and i said carol my name is joshua and i would like to talk to you about richard. are you selling t-shirts? no maam, and from the nail academy class of 2002 and i'm on the board of trustees and i have an important project i'd like to talk to about. this is not about switchers. i don't want to talk to the naval academy. she was actually torn at the time. she was suffering about her son's loss and she hadn't been reached out to buy the academy family and we could do better. i said maam we are writing a book to honor richard. are classmates, over 100, 33 will make the cut and we would like to hear your voice. do it for richard and do it for those who been. a few weeks ago after we sold

. >>> negotiations condition between dish network and gannett. at 2:00 p.m.ime the deadline passed without agreement but the two sides agreed to keep talking. dish carries gannett stations in 19 cities. >>> unitedhealth care combined with amil, paying $4.9 billion in cash for 90% of amil's outstanding shares. >>> and the house intelligence committee saying that american companies should avoid doing business with china's two leading technology firms because they pose a national security threat, a year-long probe suggests that huawei technologies and zte corporation both suppliers of telecom equipment and mobile phones oppose a security risk and the equipment could be used for spying. the committee recommends the government systems should not include any components made by the companies and they may have violated some u.s. laws. it is likely to become fodder for the u.s. presidential campaign, and there was a big piece -- >> on "60 minutes" and "wall street journal" and chavez won. >> apparently this is just a rumor, the bls the entire of bureau labor statistic

in the meantime, citibank as third quarter earnings, seeded expectations as did media giant gannett and pakistani activist shot last week by taliban assassins is about to arrive in england. tens of thousands are praying for her recovery. >> to mark the anniversary, the jfk presidential library are posting thousands of pages of confidential documents. >>> just 22 days until the election but will you not be seeing president obama or mitt romney anywhere on the campaign trail today. that's because you know it, they're hold up doing those las last-minute practice sessions for their second debate tonight. president obama dropped off some hot pizzas to his campaign volunteers. joining me now, robert zimmermann and ron bonjean. >> nice to be with you. >> this is going to be a town hall style debate where the candidates can walk around and talk to people who ask them questions. who does that favor, robert, obama or romney? >> of course both sides are going to say it favors the other to lower expectations. but fortunately for president obama, he's conquered the high expectations problem. i think

you can see gannett down 1.5% after revenue on the publishing side for them fell 6.6%.een that your ocean continuing for print advertising. the one area they did well with the television station business where they saw politicaa advertising moving higher. the big picture is another tough quarter for the newspaper business and print advertising. the dow jones industrial average up 97 and a half points right now as we speak and the s&p 500 up three quarters of 1%. back to you. dennis: thank you, nicole. over 34 years old and undergoing a facelift to create a midlife crisis, to treat one. joining us now for small business, big ideas. why the change in work and other small businesses learn from it? >> first, dennis, everybody has to reinvent themselves. 34-year-old mexico train owned by bob evans. we call it our french revolution reimaging program designed to take us back to our roots essentially we are a french inspired concepts. trying to become more prevalent, more contemporary for the way the guests want to dine today. people want more of an adventure, don't just want a