one olney resident says the toppling of the camera is the best news that he has heard. another writes, quote, congratulations to whoever did it. by the way, the olney speed camera is one of the busiest in montgomery county. >>> a rare earthquake shook new england last night. the 4.0 magnitude quake hit three miles west of hollis center, maine. that's about 20 miles west of portland. the quake was felt as far south as rhode island and connecticut. >> i was sitting in this chair. i had my feet up. the entire table just shook. and i thought maybe the dog was under my feet and got up and shook the table. i looked. there was no dog. >> i never really thought we would have the earthquake. i know we've had them in the past but i didn't think it was, you know, an earthquake. >> the quake was first estimated to be 4.of magnitude, but later it was downgraded. >>> coming up ahead on 9news now at noon, there was a deadly bar fire in denver, colorado. investigators say it was no accident. >> plus, the fall of lance armstrong. the tour de france winner is cutting ties with his long t

we're at 37 north in olney, montgomery county. prince william county, manassas, 37. 42 in silver springs. at the bus stop, jacket required. some of you may want to break the gloves out. don't let anybody pick on you when you do. >> thanks, veronica. >>> i'm still tracking breaking news on the road. russell road trying to get on i-95, that exit ramp that's cleared. you should be able to take it very, very soon. they towed the car out of the roadway. fire department and police there gone. let's head over to i-95 and talk about delays. still seeing in quantico a three-mile backup, and your delays continue. as you get closer to fairfax county parkway, first accident in the left shoulder lane. you are seeing volume continuing northbound. you see another accident, this one in your right shoulder lane. travel speeds right now from quantico about 31 miles per hour. that drive is going to take you about 45 minutes at least. i'm back in ten. eun and aaron, over to you. >>> 6:33. right now thousands of people are about to start their weekend

here's where the rain is right now, over towards olney, to the east along 28 here. and right along i-95, over towards laurel, very heavy rain continuing down towards aspen hill. we move farther down to the south, wheaton, bethesda, north bethesda, the 495 spur right here that we were just talking about, 270, right around democracy boulevard and the montgomery mall, very heavy rain. and down towards the american legion bridge seeing heavy rain there, too. in the district, most of it on the western side. northwest d.c. getting hit fairly hard. mount pleasant, along connecticut avenue, wisconsin avenue, both seeing fairly heavy rain. farther down to the south in through fairfax county, 395, right on down through 95, in through springfield, franconia, and 123, very heavy rain. it is going to make for a very slow rush hour. once again, this is going to be moving through over the next few hours. look how small this little line of showers is. but the big area of storminess still back to the west. this is still a huge, huge storm. most of us are in the dry section. here's w

vehiculos que se encontraban sin llave en una residencia sobre la cuadra 3000 de la calle gold mine en olneyobaron articulos que incluian las tarjes de credito las autorades solicitan su colaboracion para identificar a los sospechos, quienes fueron captados en video y fotografia.. cualquier informacion sobre estos sujetos ... tambien esa misma policia busca al sospechoso de un intento de secuestro que se produjo hoy alrededor de la 1:30 de la tarde, en el restaurante macdonald de la calle colesville, en silver spring... un menor de 13 anos se encontraba esperando en el mostrado cuando un hombre lo tomo por la espalda y trato de sacarlo de lugar... cuando un guardia de seguridad intervino y el sospechoso libero a la victima ... el sospechoso es descrito como afroamericano de unos 50 anos.. una camara de vigilancia capto el incidente...cualquier informacion .. en fairfax, un hombre esta acechando a pacientes con condiciones medicas y su objetivo es robarles sus carteras y billeteras.. .claudia uceda nos tiene lo no se cubre la cara sino mas bien como si nada pretende trabajar en el mantenimien

right along 270, brief heavy rain north of gaithersburg, headed out to the olney area.on the lookout along the 270 corridor. to the west here, northern fauquier county, north of marshall, west of des plaines, virginia, these showers are generally trending off to the east. not a lot of rain here. but just right on the capital beltway between now and 7:00, you may want to slow down just a touch. so some thunder around here for the next couple of hours. by 9:30, 10:00, the cold front moving right on by. we'll clear out very quickly. we should end up with decent amounts of sunshine early on tomorrow. high pressure builds in for the rest of the week, seasonably cool nights. but a mild and dry pattern coming for much of the upcoming week. and after these rain drops today, that might be it for rain until maybe friday of this week. so, for overnight tonight, skies clearing out after midnight. scattered hit-and-miss showers. mostly in the upper 40s to around 50 in bayside tonight. a nice return to the sunshine tomorrow. mostly sunny. breezy and a little cooler feeling than today

breaking news out of olney, maryland. 4 over a townhouse fire in the 4500 block of cain's lake. fire officials tell us there may be a floor collapse so they are battling this blaze from the outside because it is so intense. again, these live pictures from olney, maryland. >>> let's take a look at our weather, which is about to change. chief meteorologist doug kammerer has the latest. >> yeah, we're at 70 degrees yesterday, so far today we're at 62. that's with plenty of sunshine. and the numbers are going to continue to go down. especially tomorrow night. 62 here in washington. 57 in hagerstown and 54 up towards pittsburgh. that's the cooler air that continues to settle on in. temperatures from new york down to richmond are between 5 and 10 degrees below average. even a little bit more in some locations. so we're in for quite a chill. not just tonight, but really tomorrow night. once again, some locations under a freeze watch. we'll talk more about that coming up in my forecast in just a little bit and i'll give you the r

a few toward olney and rockville over toward ne arundel county and prince george's county we're seeing them. upper marlboro. calvert you're getting in on the action as well as charles and coming out of king george. look at the low 40s west. so very chilly there. we've got 52 on the bay in annapolis. 48 easton and 49 here in d.c. it will be a better afternoon. your high temperature about 60 degrees. let's go to monika samtani at 6:00 ap. she has your timesaver traffic. >>> i want to start out by telling everybody penn line service has been disrupted between martins airport and perryville. you want to keep that in mind for your travel plans. also a pretty serious accident, the cleanup continues in annandale inside the beltway right here at route 236 at ravensworth. a couple of cars. some injuries as well. i'll show what you it looks like from our sky 9 right now. the cleanup is continuing. it looks like the tow truck has arrived on the scene. and it looks like actually traffic is beginning to get by. just be aware there could be residual delays from this accident on route 236 here in the

. >>> we're also following some breaking news out of olney where a fire at a townhouse grew to three alarms this afternoon. nobody was hurt, but that house was completely destroyed by flames. the red cross is assisting the two adults and two teenagers who lived there finding alternate accommodations, no word yet what may have started that fire. >>> tonight joe biden and paul ryan in their first and only debate of this campaign, 2012. good evening. i'm anita brikman coming to you live from usa today headquarters in mclean. we'll go back to the studio in a few minutes for more of today's headlines, but right now a preview of this all important vice presidential debate from reporter emily schmidt. >> reporter: tonight marks paul ryan's and joe biden's one chance to vie for the no. 2 job. biden joked with reporters. >> you ever seen me rope a dope? >> reporter: but this is his chance to make up for what was widely perceived as a loss by president obama to mitt romney in last week's debate. >> the vice president is very much looking forward to the debate tonight because there are really c

. >>> four people have to find somewhere else to sleep tonight because their home in olney has burned to the ground. the house is in the 4500 block of cannes avenue before a fire broke out today, that is, and completely destroyed it. it began inside and quickly spread. the red cross came to the rescue of the two adults and two teenagers who lived there. what started the fire, nobody knows yet. >>> sky 9 also out over the scene in silver spring where a 4-year-old boy fell out of a ninth floor window in a high rise in the 8800 block of piney branch road. police say that child was taken to children's hospital in serious condition and a source tells 9news that boy may have been home alone and that a maintenanceman had to let the cops into the apartment. police and child protective services are investigating. >>> the controversy goes on at galludet university. the school's chief diversity officer still on paid leave because she signed a petition that helped put maryland's same sex marriage law on the november ballot. so is this a violation of . ang la mccaskill's first -- angela mccaskill'

this happened along cannes avenue in olney, maryland, last night. one home is in total loss while two others were damaged. it started when plumbers were using a torch to work on the pipes. neighbors say they were shocked to see the homes go up in flames. >> everything the family had in there just went away, gone. it's mind boggling. i cannot believe it. >> the red cross is assisting those families, but it does not appear anyone was hurt. >>> new ethics questions for another member of the d.c. council this morning. according to an independent review, council member jim graham violated metro's code of conduct while serving on the transit system's board back in 2008. graham reportedly offered to support a developer's bid for a city lottery contract if the developer withdrew from a real estate project near a metro station. graham said he wouldn't comment until he read the report. the report says there was no criminal activity. >> a troubled transit center in silver spring is facing new delays. the center located right next to the metro station is alread

maybe trees around the olney area, maybe around the -- what am i thinking of?en a long day. rockvi lurks le. so we're going to continue to watch this as it moves ontowards the region. notice, this is the last two hours. this band of heavier rain has not moved over the last two hours. so you know we're seeing some heavier rain out there right now around the region. we will continue to see that throughout the rest of the night tonight. some will start to calm down. the winds will start to subside. but, once again, we're still seeing some high wind gusts. 52 in martinsburg. right now, near 50 miles an hour. so we're not quite done with the winds just yet. we're not quite done with those trees coming down. take a look at the rainfall totals. nearly four inches of rain in washington. nearly six in annapolis. nearly six towards pax river. about 1.8 inches in fredericksburg. so, once again, we're going to continue to watch as this rain continues to come down. over the next couple of days, we dry out by thursday, friday, saturday and sunday, we've got some sunshine. >>

you can see the lighter showers from rockville and olney toward columbia.aybe a few more moderate showers around upper marlboro back down 301 to waldorf over toward not quite andrews, fort washington and then down 95, manassas, dale city. we're looking at a few showers there. light stuff. northern montgomery county looks like they've cleared out so at least as far as the rain there may be some patchy drizzle there. there are the heavier showers in accokeek and waldorf and west of upper marl marlboro w. he still have some northwest of stafford toward bealeton, catlett, manassas and dale city. a little damp this morning. look at the temps down in the low 40s in luray and cumberland. oakland. a chilly morning at 34. it's 20 degrees warmer at the patuxent river naval air station and easton at 49. our michael & son weather camera, this is wisconsin avenue in northeast d.c. it is gleaming with wetness. 48. a windchill making it feel like 43 this morning thanks to a north wind at national at 12 miles an hour. so some showers on the east coast but our next weather

it's 44 degrees in olney, 45 in fairfax. chesapeake beach, 48. 47 in waldorf.gh the shenandoah valley. 45 in winchester, 44 in hagerstown. oakland, at the freezing mark in maryland. mostly sunny conditions today beautiful. high-pressure overhead. bright blue skies and sunshine all day. 62 for the high temperature. that's 10 degrees cooler than yesterday and roughly 10 degrees below average for this time of year. the susan g. komen 3 day walk is friday through sunday in washington. the weather will be very agreeable overall. a little breezy on friday. wind out of the east request. 64. saturday, 62 and sunny. sunday will be the warmest day but close to where we should be this time of year, high temperatures in the low 70's. that's great for the walkers. sunny skies through the weekend. monday is our next chance of rain. just a slight chance. slightly warmer temperatures in the low to mid 70's sunday into monday. the redskins against the vikings on sunday, looking good. now to angela for the commute. >> the drive got complicated out of manassas on 66. crash report

especially with the sunshine. 68 degrees the current temperature in olney.m still in leesburg, loudoun county, and franconia, oakton and tyson's corner at 70 degrees. 72 in prince george's county, landover and delphi now it's 72 degrees. we're expecting a pretty nice evening, to the mid-60s by midnight. tomorrow, we're close to 80. look at this. i wanted to show you the trend of highs over the next couple of days. focus in on the blue up to the north. that's the cold that will eventually be dropping in. mid to upper 70s still on friday, saturday around 70. by sunday, there's that cooler air finally coming in. we are talking about some rain that could be coming into the area as well on sunday. sunday, the marine corps marathon. 56 the temperature, in the early part of the race with a few clouds around. but it will be cool on sunday. until then, it's near record warmth for the next three days. here's a look at your high temperatures. 80 on wednesday. probably our warmest day of the week will be on wednesday. friday, high of 76. and then mid-60s for the early p

near laytonsville, olney, and across the montgomery county line. you may be seeing wet snowflakes mixing with the rain. else where, all the areas in green and yellow, that is rain. it is going to continue off and on for the rest of the day. it is cold. down to low 40s to mid-40s locally. and down in the 30s where the rain is falling on skyline drive. hour by hour, throughout the day, occasional showers. 8:00 a.m. noon mid-40s. late afternoon mid-40s. occasional showers with diminishing winds throughout the rest of the day. storm team 4 seven day outlook in ten minutes. a look at traffic now with danella. good morning. >> good morning. >>> still keeping my eye on an early morning crash in district heights. this is northbound pennsylvania avenue at brooks drive. accident still in the roadway there. let's talk about high standing water in upper marlboro. water street is closed between church street and pennsylvania avenue. please avoid the area. also, in silver spring, a live look from 29 between lockwood drive and university boulevard in montgomery c

our temperatures not too bad from green belt, mount ranier, olney currently at 69 degrees. reston and great falls, 68 degrees your temperature. gand afternoon to you. here's a look at what you can expect overnight, tomorrow morning, dropping to the low to mid-60les. fog early on. we'll talk more about sandy, its track and impact in a couple of mists. >>> again, we have to stress the importance of staying with news4 as we track hurricane sandy. it could be a dangerous storm. stay tuned to news4 and nbc washington.com. and keep up with us on facebook and twitter. and liz crenshaw will explain how to avoid some of the flooding that storms often bring. >>> lee boyd malvo is speaking out ten years after the arrest of the sniper shootings that terrorized our region and left ten people dead. he's serving a life sentence and says he's forgiven himself. in a phone interview with nbc's matt lauer, he asked the families of victims not to give him power by allowing the attacks to continue to haunt them. malvo also revealed he had been sexually abused at a young age, and the entire time

. >>> right now, about 80 firefighters are battling a townhouse fire in olney.er 4 flew over the very smoky scene a little while ago, in the 4500 block of can lane. they initially couldn't get too close because of the intensity of the fire. there are no reports of any injuries. the red cross has been called in to help two adults and two teens who are now displaced. >>> appealing the wrongful death verdict in the virginia tech shooting massacre. that appeal was filed today in the state supreme court. earlier this year, each of the victims' families was awarded $100,000. the parents of two students killed filed a separate appeal today. they want the university's president to stand trial for failing to alert the campus after the first shots were fired. >>> students rallied in support of gay marriage at the university of maryland today. a diversity official at the school is on leave for supporting a petition to ban gay unions. but as chris gordon explains now, the two sides of this controversial issue are finding common ground. >> vote for on question 6 and yes on e

back to the west just to the north of olney, seeing that rain. montgomery county. we'll zoom in to northeast d.c., you can see just to the east of 16 here, right along route 50 as you're heading to the beltway and around college park and green belt, some of that very heavy rain. down to the south, another area of rain has developed right along the potomac river through woodbridge and quantico, and just to the north of nangemoy. if you're going to be out, say, right around i-95 or east in the next one or two hours, take the umbrella with you just in case. >>> thanks, doug. >>> a driver faces charges for her role in a horrible crash that killed a prince george's county police officer today. today we learned the officer was not wearing a seat belt. there was an outpouring of grief for that officer's family. jackie bensen is at the district 4 police station in oxen hill, where officer kefen bowden was assigned. jackie? >> reporter: doreen, the man who served as officer bowden's training officer gave him the ultimate compliment a cop can give, he said he was the real po

and 51 also out to olney and brookville. chilly for the trick-or- treaters, temperatures 46 to about 52. have to keep the chance of a sprinkle in. mainly a dry commute tomorrow. that's nice. kids will need a jacket again in the morning with the 30s and 40s. and you'll probably need sunglasses too for part of the day tomorrow. tonight partly to mostly cloudy and breezy can cold and maybe a shower -- and scold and maybe a shower. -- cold and maybe a shower. winds west southwest at 150 to 15. now tomorrow morning becoming partly sunny breezy and chilly. i would grab a jacket in the morning, not take an umbrella. just a jacket. temperatures in the 30s and los and winds southwest southwest at 10 to 15. by afternoon partly sunny breezy and school and maybe a shower and high temperatures around 55 and winds westerly at about 10 to 15. so let's talk about the zone forecast then. oakland 33. snow shower. 44 in cumberland. 49 in hagerstown. not quite 50. maybe 52 though in mar tensburg. 54 warrenton and 55 fairfax and partly sunny and

. >>> more breaking news, this time in olney, maryland. chopper 4 over this townhouse fire, about a half hour ago in the 4500 block of king lane. firefighters tell us they can't get too close, because of the intensity of the fire. as you can see, the house has collapsed. we'll keep you updated on this one. >>> three robberies of students at the university of maryland, in the last 24 hours. two of them behind a new off-campus building. tonight there's a campus safety walk that is planned. jackie bensen is live at college park with this. >> reporter: hello, wendy. we have important images to show you. we received them just a short time ago. we are told that these images show the man who is believed to be the suspect in this case. now, all three robberies happened off-campus, but close enough for students to be concerned. >> i'm kind of nervous they didn't catch them. it's never happened behind my building before. and i don't want to tell my mom. >> reporter: prince george's county police say that on wednesday night about 7:00, a university o

and burke and bethesda, 60 in college park, but 58 in bowie and 55 out toward laytonsville and past olney. cover your plants tonight. dress for the 40s and 50s in you're headed out, cool, nice saturday, a very nice day saturday, breezy and warmer sunday and warm, but unsettled monday. i think the warmth will make up for the chance of showers. clear and colder tonight, frost or freeze possible, winds diminishing, lows 30 to 42. winds will become east, northeast at 5 to 10. if you're inside the beltway, you're looking at temperatures in the upper 30s to around 40, 32 in fairfax and rockville and college park 33 or 34. they expanded the frost advisories to include the district and prince george's county and points south and west. again, that is for tonight. next three days code green, cool but nice tomorrow, 62, warmer sunday, partly cloudy, 75, great day for the redskins and for the ravens. both are playing at home. a shower possible on monday, but still pretty warning temperatures in the mid- to upper 70s, no complaints there. next seven days we're looking at temperatures actually kind of

of course, rockville pike, through the wheaton area, olney, over towards potomac. very heavy rain right now. it has now moved out of virginia. it was over tyson's corner and mclean about 20 minutes ago. it has now moved to the north. montgomery county getting hammered pretty good here. springfield, toward burke center, 123 here seeing heavy rain. along i-95 and the beltway in virginia. and farther to the south, southern fairfax county and prince william county seeing some of that heavy rain just to the west of i-95. you're seeing it along i-95, also just to the west. give yourself some extra time if you're going to be out and about this evening. and make sure you take the umbrella with you, if you have anything to do in the next one to two hours in and around the district. then around the beltway, i do expect there to be some rain. heads-up for you folks. 73 in rockville. 74 in camp springs. at least it's on the mild side. leesburg, dulles, you should stay dry from this. but those showers move up toward college park and eventually toward baltimore. they should be g

olney, 8:00 a.m., near 50 there and partly cloudy. elsewhere, all around the region, hour by hour, a rapid warm-up. low 70s by mid afternoon. late this afternoon and into this evening is when we could get some thunderstorms coming through. looks like the timeframe, 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. some of those storms, slight risk that they would produce any wind damage. otherwise passing showers with thunder and lightning coming through. some lingering showers after that. into perhaps tomorrow morning. we'll look at the rest of friday, the weekend, and into next week. the seven-day outlook in ten minutes. a look at traffic now with danella. >> well, tom, keeping my eye on vw parkway southbound at 100, you'll find an accident in the roadway, maybe blocking at least one of your lanes. back over to i-270, calling about this. not seeing any reports of accidents, so if you're traveling southbound i-270 at father hurley boulevard, you're heavy on the brakes in this area. also keeping an eye on i-95, starting to see delays. so about seven miles, you

this happened along cannes avenue in olney, maryland, last night.ome is a total loss while two others were damaged. it apparently started in plumbers were using a torch to work on pipes. neighbors were shocked to see the homes go up in flames. the red cross is assisting those families, but it does not appear anyone was hurt. >>> new ethics concerns this morning for yet another member of the d.c. council. according to an independent review, council member jim graham violated metro's code of conduct while serving on the transit agency's board back in 2008. graham reportedly offered to support a developer's bid for a city lottery contract. if that developer withdrew from a real estate project near a metro station. graham said he would not comment until he read the entire report. that report said there's no criminal activity. >>> 5:36 now. a traffic alert in fairfax county today. right after the morning rush, vdot will shut down the left hov ramp from i-66 eastbound that goes to the inner loop of the beltway. that is in the maryfield area. vdot needs to

>> olney you have to look at and see if district today. -- all you have to do is to look at it and see that it is true today. as long as that goes on, kids are lost. >> we need short-term investments, but they need to be properly designed and the effect of the implemented. recent ones have not banned, but they have to be coupled with the concrete and forcible plan to deal with such structural to facets. we need policy reforms, operational reforms, and we need political reforms. on the political side, our country today is dominated by special interests, by the duo poly of political policies, and toward politicians who may or may not have had a real job in their lives, but once elected, they want to keep it. congress works three days a week, and it does not work that many days any year. it does not get paid for performance. if it did, it would owe us money. we need to have redistricting reform, integrated and open primaries, campaign finance reform, and we need to have term limits, 12- to 18-year term limits. the fis has been lit. what we need is two things -- extraordinary leadership fr