. >>> and only on 9:00, a woman who accused herrmann cain of harassment says she wants to come forward can't. >>> plus the serial killer praying on the innocent and unsuspected. tonight they take us on a dark descent into the mind of madness. >>> this is 9news now. >>> and we begin with late breaking news out of prince george's county. right now police are working the scene of a deadly shooting outside of the shopping center. >> it happened around 8:00 on the 3300-block of walters lane. that is in for it'sville. that is also -- forestville. that is where ken is live with the details. ken, what happened? >> reporter: that is exactly what police are trying to figure out right now. we have received late breaking information. the person has been officially identified as 27-year-old anthony washington. take a look over my shoulder. let's try to set this one up for you here. you can see police are still on the scene here of the penn forest shopping center. it was in this parking lot that that 27-year-old was shot and killed. let's go ahead right no and show you some footage from our sky9. th

that is what herrmann cain says is going on.ing a campaign swing right through dc, the republican presidential candidate denied he had sexually assaulted two women. >> in all of my business experience running businesses and corporations, i have never sexually harassed anyone. >> now, cain did acknowledge the two women brought forward such allegations when he was head of the national restaurant association but he said they were investigated and found to be baseless. political report says they paid settlements to two women. he doesn't know in i go about settlements. the national restaurant association is not talking. >>> a congressional committee has reached some interesting conclusions about former dc candidate sulaimon brown and the claims that he's made against mayor vince gray. there is no direct evidence that the campaign never promised brown a job. number two, there is some indication he got money from the people with ties to the gray campaign. and, number three, that brown has in their words a poor grasp of the facts. a fed

. >> the latest poll show herrmann cain still leading the crowded republican field. as his support slipping in the wake of those misconduct allegations. but cain is not shying away from the spotlight while it's all going on. tonight he was in green bay for a tailgating fund raiser prior to the packers-vikings game. >>> the controversy over president obama's health care reform law has reached the supreme court. the justices have agreed to hear arguments on whether it's constitutional for the government to force americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine. 26 states have challenged the law and several lower courts have come to different conclusions. legal experts expect the supreme court vote to be close as well. >> it's going to be hard for the court to avoid a controversial decision either way. what they need to focus on is to get it right. >> what is more the high court could issue its ruling in june putting the case at the center of an election year showdown. now, the last time the supreme court allotted this much time for oral arguments was in a case in 2003 wh

. >> mitchell: herrmann cain said he is not answering any more question, is the story going away. >> r. cain said the story is over but that doesn't make it so. the press will continue reporting it and his rivals who have been staying away from the pastfá sexual harassment settlement have begun to turn up the pressure a bit. rivals say that cain must come out and talk about these issues because republicans have to have a candidate who has been thoroughly vetted to avoid surprises during a general election matchup that might threaten their chance to beatback bam. >> mitchell: let's talk about the president. election day is one year from today, how optimistic is the white house these days? >> well, the president spaces a very grim landscape. unemployment is at 9%, his approval ratings are five points below the 50% mark which is need for survival and three quarters of the country says america is headed in the wrong direction. but the obama campaign is working hard, 2000 organizing events nationwide. today an effort this week to reach out 208 million younger voters who couldn't vote last

of the energy and is driving a lot of the campaign, has fuelled the candidacies of people like herrmann caine and congresswoman bachmann, and the rest of the party. that tension has been at the heart of a lot of the problems the republican party has had in the last year. >> try and be honest here. who do you most fear? who would you least likely to face? >> by answering that, i'm giving a massive fund-raising boost to whoever the person is. >> or you're killing it off. >> either one. i don't know what the effect would be but it wouldn't be good for president obama, so i can't answer that question. >> talk about herman cain. obviously, he came out of nowhere. he used to sell pizzas. he's not a politician in any conventional sense. in the last ten days he's been the center of this huge scandal. what do you make of herman cain as a character? do you think he'll is survive the scandal? what do you think of the prospect potentially of a black american against a black american in an american presidential race, which has never happened before? >> i'm not an expert on republican primary politics. obv

none of these women seem to be coordinating a smear campaign against herrmann mman cain.different parts of the country, different backgroun backgrounds, i suspect they don't even know each other, and now there's several different women making accusations against him. he's gone down in the polls, but as much as the sexual harassment allegations have hurt him, i suppose the gaffes he acknowledges in the sentinel for about 40 or 50 seconds, he seems to be confused on a simple question involving u.s. policy toward libya. i think stuff like that hurt him if not as much, perhaps more. >> we'll see how the cain train reacts to all this. thanks, wolf. appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> after the break, the hidden dangers of soccer? a new study raises troubling questions about a sport long embraced by parents. dr. sanjay gupta will explain. stay with us. >>> many people across the southeast woke up this morning to a rare november snowfall. we'll have details on that as well after the break. mine was earned over the south pacific in 1943. vietnam, 1967. i got mine in iraq, 2003. u.s.

of the other candidates who want to play that anti-romney role are keeping their hands off of herrmann caine is a view according to some of the rivals i've talked to that his supporters will reluctantly come to the conclusion, true or not this is such a distraction ultimately herman cain can't win. they hope to inherit that support if that comes to pass. >> to be continued. thank you both for joining us. david gregory and star jones. >>> now let's get a check of the rest of the top stories from natalie morales at the news desk. good morning, natalie. >> good morning to you, ann. good morning, everyone. >>> election results are in this morning. in ohio voters rejected a new law that would limit the collective bargaining rights of some 350,000 unionized public workers. labor unions there are calling the news their biggest victory in decades. and in mississippi the so-called personhood amendment that would have declared a fertilized egg a person was defeated. if passed, it would have effectively banned abortion and imposed strict restrictions on in vitro fertilization. >>> the remains of our fa