peggy fox is live in woodbridge to tell us more about that. peg. >> warren mitchell had his power washer stolen over the weekend. he came here and filed a police report. we covered the story last night to tell everybody what had happened to him and we got lots of e-mails in from people wanting to help. and one man tracked down warren himself. >> ken buyers saw on 9news sunday night that someone stole warren mitchell's power washer. he found mitchell's cell phone number and called him. >> you can sympathize with those folks that are trying, but circumstances have come into their life out of their control. >> transportation was a problem, 9news made the pick up and delivery. buyers, a complete stranger gave mitchell his hardly used $600 power washer. >> thanks again. the people that came out to support. thank you very having a heart. >> mitchell realized rights away that his new one is a lot stronger than his old one, opening up new opportunities. >> that's right, with the more powerful power washer, he'll be able to wash houses, vinyl siding, d

peggy fox has more. >> reporter: the a. x. e. food pantry serves 4,000 needy people per month but a 40% spike in demand emptied their shelves. >> this is the worst i've ever seen. and we were just -- couldn't even put together a basic bag. >> reporter: hungry people looking for a bag of food were turned away. >> it was heart-breaking. it was a very difficult decision to make having familying come up to the far -- families come up to the door because we don't have groceries to give them, it's very hard. >> reporter: part of the increase came from the 400 displaced people from the holly acres and village mobile home parks which were flooded out in tropical storm lee. >> follow we're feeding about 1,000 families a month coming in for assistance and now we have the tropical storm lee families coming in for

i'm peggy fox reporting live. back to you, j.c. >> thank you very much, peggy. >>> coming up next, howard will have our forecast. [ screaming ] [ zapping ] there goes dwayne's car. oh, man. there goes dwayne's house. whoa! whoa! and there goes dwayne. man, that thing does not like dwayne. [ male announcer ] state farm's got you covered. nice landing. it was. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. >>> howard has our forecast. >> temperatures will be approaching the 70 degree mark this afternoon. upper 60s. some spots will make the low 70s. but with light winds, it will feel real good out there. this evening, skies stay clear. we fall to the mid-60s. by 9:00, 61 degrees. right now, we're in the 60s. 64 here. 70 at the tappahannock airport. low 60s for the shenandoah valley. i think just a gorgeous, gorgeous day going on with sunshine and 64 at national. winds are calm so it even feels warmer than the 64 and the dew point only4 degrees. high pressure is going to be building in over the next couple of days. tonight

reporting live at the chows, peggy fox, 9news now. >> thanks peggy. coming up later tonight at 9news now at 7:00, you can find out how the kind of mistake that you might make that might really irritate you actually really pay off for one lady. this is a fascinating get rich story. you'll want to be here for that. >>> the bad economy affected homes for sale, but it's also created a safety hazard for real estate agents. i'm lindsey mastis in rockville, that story is coming up. >>> we had a fantastic day and look at the numbers, just about average. average can be good in october. high temperatures 74. low 53. very close to the averages. we'll come back and take you through the weekend. >>> and up next, honoring a name sake. in two minutes, we'll talk about when you can see the new memorial at the airport, bearing his name in arlington. >>> new at 6:00, a date for the unveiling of a statue at reagan national airport honoring its name sake. this morning, the washington airport authority announced that new statue of ronald reagan will be on permanent displa

in dumfries, peggy fox, 9news now. >> it's so much out there. and something uplifting and positive.ery cool stuff. now, our weather forecast is looking chilly, but the weekend is coming and that looks better. >> yeah, each weekend, it will be nice. it's getting a little cooler, but they will be working their way through october out here. it's all good. we'll start with the fall color. this is the weekend no doubt to go after skyline drive. i mean, even in our suburbs, thecolors are getting pretty good. we are talking about that out here and all that stuff, the good stuff out there in the area. now, if you jumped the divide, you're kind of passing it once you get into oakland and garrett county. all right, temperatures, 58 downtown, 65 in gaithersburg. 65 in manassas. temperatures in and of themselves. not too bad. it will make it feel a little cool. you jump the divide, it's 36 for our friends in oakland. winds are still gusting downtown. 18 miles per hour wind gusts in frederick, but they are better and not as strong as they were during the day. with the wind gusts over 30 miles pe

peggy fox has been covering the trial since it began and joins us with more now as it all unfolds, peggy? >> reporter: well, it took a jury of eight men and four women just six hours to convict carmela dela rosa, to find her guilty of first-degree murder. and now, the jury decided to sentence carmela dela rosa to not life, but 35 years in prison. the jury did not buy her insanity defense. her attorneys tried to prove that she did not know what she was doing, the night she threw her grandchild, 2 1/2-year-old off the 35-foot high sky bridge at the corner center, right if many front of the baby's mother and other family members last november. and now, a short time ago, family and friends, they left the courthouse, there were a lot of tears in the courtroom today. and no sense of victory. >> i thought the case was, you know, a difficult case for both sides, nothing really surprises me in the jury system. i'm disappointed. >> she was really mean and an angry person. they certainly played a role, but certainly it was not an excuse for killing a child. >> reporter: now, a judge will be reviewi

i'm peggy fox, back to you. >> thank you, peggy. you certainly can't beat the weather we had today, but don't get used to it, right top? >> yeah, today was exceptional, it really was. clear skies, temperature made it to 68. we're going to salvage a decent day on wednesday. really right now still in the low 60s downtown. in the 50s in the suburbs. 55 in manassas and 59 in leesburg. 54 in gaithersburg and 55 in frederick. so for tonight, we're looking at clear to partly cloudy skies. winds southwest at 10 to 15. we'll come back and talk about a cold front that approaches the metro area and what that means for our end of the week and possibly our weekend. >>> coming up on 9news now, putting veterans back to work. how people in deposition exhibit dc are trying to help out our heros who are facing a double digit unemployment rate. >>> plus, speed cameras handing out half a million dollars in tickets. where do you want to slow down? that's up next. >>> the numbers are in on prince georges county's brand- new speed camera program and in ju

in dumbfries, i'm peggy fox. >>> and join thus weekend for a special on martin luther king, jr.,. a monumental life, we will take a look at the highlights of the new memorial on the national mall. that's tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. right here on wusa9. >> our three for three my friend. >> we are. weekend rolling in. >> i want to bring back bad memories remember the first weekend of october. it poured. things will turn around. now temps will not be as warm as last weekend and still in fine fall weekend and speaking of fall it's time to really take a drive out to skyline drive. the colors are peak around i-81 and toward laray. wruns you get passed frederick and hagerstown we are talking about peak. a lot of good color and the immediate metro area. plenty of color in montgomery county and downtown and points to the west and south and there are some colors you get down into southern maryland. we are still about a week and a half and two weeks away for peak color downtown. temperatures, everyone is in the 50s now. at least in the immediate metro area. 58 downtown. 52 in gaitersburg. 55

peggy fox, 9news now. >> and the fairfax county schools say their lunches are nutricious. they are working with parents and a task force to make some positive changes. >>> well, today students all across prince george's county took a stand against bullying. >> i pledge -- >> i pledge -- >> to take a stand -- >> to take a sandy. >> against bullying. >> against bullying. >> students taking the pledge against bullying. the school was joined by guest speakers. >> i never got bullied but i did have a very negative attitude when i was young and it was only when i changed my attitude and my thought process and became a more positive person that i really saw everything change in my favor and that's the story i tell all students. >> good story. october is family engagement and bully prevention month. sounds like a good thing. >>> topper, you're telling me that my bike riding future on saturday morning is bleak? >> is bleak, yes. just stay inside. >> okay. >> you're not going anywhere. in fact, the new information in the weather office, the snow line keeps getting farther and farthe

i'm peggy fox, reporting in germantown, back to you. >> thanks, peggy. >>> our other top stories tonight. a teacher accused of having no class. she's on trial for abusing her students and it's day two of the testimony. >>> plus, president obama is the victim of theft and we all may fall victim to some severe weather tomorrow. topper joins us from the weather terrace where you can see the graphics, severe weather alert day, warning. tom? >> by the time you wake up tomorrow morning an entirely different story. let's start with the satellite picture and radar combined. showers and rain entering rolle and roanoke,. temperaturewise mild. 70 inlers burg. 7 -- in leesburg. 66 downtown. for tonight, clouds will be on the increase. breezy and mild. showers and thunderstorms by dawn. some will be heavy. you have until midnight to walk the dog until the rain rolls in. winds increasing out of the east at 10-15. we'll come back and talk about what threats are in store for us on your monday morning, on your way to work and what areas are more likely to see severe weather. >> thank you, topper. >>> mon

peggy fox picks up the story from there. >> it was overwelming.it was like, man. >> that is warren mitchell describing the midnight phone call he got from a stranger last night. a man named ken buyers who lives in reston. it was a call that would turn his despair into opportunity. >> i just felt sorry for him because of the situation, you know, somebody stealing his means of making a living. >> he is talking about warren's power washer that somebody stole over the weekend. 9news now featured warren last week washing our satellite truck. we hired him after he shared his story about his family and others who depend on the ax food pantry. it closed because it ran out of food. the community responded with overwelming support. now a similar turn around has happened for warren. ken buyers wanted to give warren his power washer. because warren's pickup needs brakes, we drove to buyer's home in reston to pick it up for him. delivering it to warren in woodbridge felt like christmas morning. >> unbelievable. look at that. >> what do you think? >> i can do m

in dumfries, peggy fox, 9news now. >> all right, and if you want to help, go on over to wusa9.com. we'll show you how. >>> new at 7:00, a military helicopter forced to make an emergency landing today right in the middle of northeast d.c. the chopper went down safely and we are told the pilot had communication problems. that's what forced them to bring the chopper down. another was brought in to help make repairs and before long, both aircraft were able to rise up and get out of there. >>> if you happen to see more ambulances and helicopters moving around our region, the reason, a big disaster drill designed to put the medical system to the test. hundreds of mock patients were flooded into four hospitals simulating a terrorist attack. for the very first time, rescuers rolled out a whole new system for keeping track of disaster victims, including bar coded tags and hand held devices similar to what you see delivery drivers using. >> these hand held units will be used on every transport, every ambulance in the region. >> we need to know what is coming, where to distribute the patients

i'm peggy fox, reporting live. back to you. >>> thanks peggy. >> they had great work to be all the way up there. >>> not too windy. nice temperature. >>> all right. let's talk about the fall colors. because it is really this weekend is probably the weekend i would recommend to go out skyline drive. we get a lot of e-mails and calls about that. facebook comments. they are pretty much near peak. they are pretty much past peak once you go west of the divide. especially in garrett county up into the laurel mountains in pennsylvania. we have good color around the immediate area. some color south of us into southern maryland. all in all a vibrant fall. keep sending those pictures in. we have a great best shot for you tomorrow. >>> upper 60s in fredericksburg. generally in the 60s, but this is average for this time of year. 67 in hagerstown, 67 at andrews and back to the west. 60s in cumberland. you jump the divide you go back in the mid-50s. we have one system in the midwest and we'll watch that. the real storm we are wa

. >>> i'm peggy fox in manassas where carlos montano has been found guilty of felony murder in the dui crash and death of a nun. >> reporter: carlos montana walked into court knowing he would go to prison for a long time, but how long was the question? >> how do you plead, guilty or not guilty? >> guilty. >> reporter: he pled guilty to five counts in his drunk driving crash that killed his sister and two other nuns were gravely injured. here the driver that day hugs the marine reservist who happened upon the scene and gave the women first-aid. >> have him sit in jail and and think about what he's done, the harm he's caused. >> reporter: because montana had already been convicted twice before of dui, malice and in tent were there. >> taking the innocent life of a person applied to the felony rule. >> reporter: the judge agreed. >> and agree and find the defendant guilty of felony murder. >> reporter: peggy fox, 9 news now. >>> giving folks a break on parking tickets is starting to pay off for d.c. three months into the city ticket amnesty program, the department of motor vehicles said m

our peggy fox has been there all afternoon. sort of issuing a call for people to come out and help fill those empty shelves there and peg, how are things going? >> well, lesli, it was a heartbreaking decision, but they had no choice. the people who run the ax food pantry here in dumfries had to close temporarily on monday because all of the shelves look like this. they were completely bare. they had nothing to give the families. they serve a thousand families every month and the need has escalated 50% increase since february in part because of the economy and also two mobile home parks that were flooded out in tropical storm lee. you see these donations here. this food has come in today and yesterday. they can't even open because these shelves got emptied every three days. they need the backup supply stocked. that means two levels of boxes up on that top shelf and also the storage places that they have as well. you see, they need people to understand that their donation requests go all yearlong. >> it's not just a holiday need.

. >> our peggy fox back out in dumfries where the ax food pantry back open today. we are talking about an outpouring from the community. >> reporter: oh, it has been incredible, anita. they are in their second session right now of getting out groceries to needy people. they were able to reopen today after that outpouring of support. in one week, they raised $120,000 and 30,000 pounds of food. >> we have a family size, usda. yes on milk, yes on eggs. yes on cereal. >> after a week of being shut down, the ax food pantry came to life at 1:00. >> it's great. i think it's great. i feel so bad that there wasn't food for everybody to have when they needed it and i hope they will get it today. >> volunteers and staff squeeze by each other filling bags with bread, meat, milk, produce, in its first few hours after reopening, the pantry took nearly 100 people. >> my father is on a fixed income. he is retired military and i have no job. i have been looking for a job. just trying to make ends meet and i'm glad they opened the doors back up. >> every person in line requesting gr

as peggy fox reports, the coalition is hoping a growing petition will convince governor bob mcdonnell not to sign the new regulations. >> this is our small lab. we're certified. we have inspections regularly. >> rosemary is the director of patient services at the falls church healthcare center, abortion accounts for a third of the procedures they perform here. anticipating stricter regulations when she set up the center nine years ago, she had large hallways and doorways installed but the state went further. >> i could not believe that the state legislature and the board of health would take away the right of women like this to come to their doctor for all kinds of reproductive care. it is just -- it is overwhelming to me. >> reporter: they require her to make this 15 square foot room even bigger. >> i'm estimating if i had to comply with not only the construction but very onerous business practices. >> how much would it cost you? >> a half million dollars. >> do you have it? [ laughter ] >> i wish i did. >> she's vowing to find the noun stay in business but others may not be able to.

peggy fox has this uplifting update. >> the shelves was just dull and bright again. >> reporter: the color is slowly coming back to the bare shelves. all day long people have been bringing in bags of food to help replenish the ax food pantry. >> this is america. nobody should go hungry. nobody should wonder am i going to eat today? >> reporter: people have been turned away here since they had to temporarily close when they ran out of food on monday. >> that's why i came because i couldn't imagine being a mother that says i'm sorry, i don't have dinner tonight. >> that's sad. that's sad because now you don't even have a backbone. if you hungry, you hungry. >> reporter: lauren mitchell knows what it's like to be hungry. >> i slept in this and my kids slept in my bag. >> reporter: mitchell says ax has helped him turn his life around by kicking drugs and alcohol. now he's focusing on his car wash and detail business he runs out of his truck. but he and his family still depend on the food pantry even though his wife has a full-time job. >> i'm going to be a part of society but i want to b

peggy fox is live in dumfries with a look at how you can help. peg. >> reporter: i'm here inside the ax food pantry where on monday, they had to make the difficult decision to close temporarily because all of their shelves look like this. they were completely bare and they could not serve the families. the 1,000 families who come in every month. the demand has increased by about 50% because of the economy and also the two mobile home parks nearby that were flooded out and people had great need. after hearing about this closure, people started bringing in donations. take a look at this. all day today, people were going out, spending their own money at the grocery store and bringing in bags of groceries to replenish these shelves. now you can help as well. they need food and they need money. money is the easiest thing and the best thing to donate. go to our website. wusa9.com. there's a banner at the top of the page and you can find out how to donate and we'll tell you later how much they raised today. back to you. >> we have a great community of g

. >> peggy fox spent the day at william's neighborhood in germantown and peggy, there must be some tough conversations tonight for william's classmates and their parents. >> that's right. we are here at his school at martin luther king, jr., middle school and there were a lot of tears and sadness here when his friends and fellow students learned he would never be coming back. minutes after martin luther king, jr., middle school let out today, a girl stood holding a sign that said, in memory of william, rest in peace. >> shocked, horror, anger that something like that would happen. >> this was william mcquain's school, where news of his death was like a punch in the gut. >> he was a good kid. he was very funny. he was just a good friend. >> roman had two classes with william. he said today was a normal day until the principal made an announcement. >> 4th block, ms. davidson came on the announcer and said they found a body and it matches william mcquain and everyone started crying. >> knowing he would be upset, his mom gave him a ride home. >> the day they issued the amber alert and he was

i'm peggy fox.will tell what you some fairfax county parents want to change. >>> ignoring a cry for help. a surprising turn in the lululemon murder trial has some asking why do some people fail to act when life may be on the line? >>> we are going to take a moment now to look more carefully at some of the testimony that has come out during the ongoing lululemon murder trial in rockville. and we were all stunned to learn that witnesses in a neighboring store actually heard the brutal attack in progress but apparently ignored the cries for help. our scott broom joins us now to talk about a phenomenon that is pretty well known and documented called the bystander effect. >> reporter: it has been around since a famous murder and rape that happened back in 1964 in new york. it sparked dozens of psychological studies over the years. and if you're wondering how someone could simply ignore clear signs of trouble you might be surprised to learn that the human brain is hardwired to do just that. march 11th in

peggy fox has more from today's testimony, peggy? >> reporter: anita, prosecutor ray morro comes as agreeable. but today he took a hard stand against a defense witness, a neighbor of dela rosa about an encounter where she felt like dela rosa was not understanding what she was talking about, and raised their voice saying we are not interested as to what you felt or thought. we are interested in what you heard. well, dela rosa's good friend was more certain about what she heard. carmela dela rosa loved her granddaughters so much that she had thee nicknames for them, g- baby, love i have -- lovey, and the love. last fall she became so troubled that she became suicidal. she thought by ending her life everything would be okay. in late september, two months before dela rosa allegedly threw one off the tyson's sky bridge, she drove her minivan off of skyline drive, surviving with an injury. they read a suicide note they found, saying, "i'm so sorry for all the wrong i have done, from the bottom of my heart, i love you." and around the same

his trial has been delayed until january. >> peggy fox reporting, back to you. >> okay peggy, thank you. >>> sky 9 was over a mitchellville, maryland, shopping center where a woman was stabbed. it happened outside a target store in the marketplace. investigators say the suspect was tasered. so far, no word on a motive. tonight the victim is in stable condition. >>> a 16-year-old district boy was sentenced to almost seven years in prison today for two stabbing attacks at the national zoo in one day. michari stabbed a 14-year-old last easter monday. at today's sentencing, the judge recommended he receive psychological and drug treatment along with life skills training. >>> tonight, a possible break in the search for a missing activist from alexandria. police say they have found lenny harris' 1994 toyota corolla. they found it early this morning in prince georges. but still, no sign of the 53- year-old man. he has been missing since september 21. detectives are trying to figure out who used harris' bank card after he disappeared. >>> some stormy weather heading this way. topper shut tracki

i'm peggy fox reporting live, back to you, lesli. >>> thank you peggy. we have much more on this story at wusa9.com. you'll also find a time line there of the events in this case and a photo gallery of young william mcquain. >>> new information tonight in a story we first brought you last week. the d.c. council voted unanimously today to stop police from arresting people who are caught driving vehicles with expired tags. now the district may be the only city in the country that treated expired tags as a criminal offense rather than a civil offense. bruce johnson reports even with the new law, driving an unregistered vehicle will cost you plenty in d.c. >> and they said by the way, we now have to arrest you. >> last week, you heard this woman describe for 9news now how she was arrested for expired tags after a vehicle had been hit by a bus. >> they cuffed me and put me in the back of the police van. today the d.c. council voted unanimously to stop police from arresting drivers, merely for expired tags. >> we wanted to change with the fact people being arr

our peggy fox is back out there live tonight with an update on the situation. though shelves are looking better, peggy. >> yes, it's been very exciting as they are getting ready to restock a lot of things there. the activity back there, the kids are restocking the shelves. we've got a lot of volunteers today. and take a look at why they closed in the first place because of the shelves. there was a 50% increase in demand and they simply did not have the food to give out. it was a heartbreaking decision to close and they decided that they had to stay closed until november 1 to get their supplies replenished. but when people heard the news, we started reporting this information and people started coming in, and with bags and bags of food. and it has been very exciting today. but they need more than just the shelves filled. >> yeah, we go through this much in half a day. i mean, these boxes here, we go through that much in half a day sometimes. once it is gone, it really goes out there quickly. >> did you get them all filled? >> yes. >> we need everything, all these

i'm peggy fox at the fairfax county courthouse. >>> a sudden turn in the case of a fairfax county toddler found understand responsive. the 11-month-old nehemiah williams died. it was this home on lakewood drive. that's where the child was left with a caretaker yesterday. they say that caretaker then took the baby to his mother in reston but when they arrived the little boy wasn't responding. she called 911. the baby was taken to the hospital. last night almost midnight he died. >> i never knew there was any young children, babies like that. >> no stroller, no car seats, no sign of a baby? >> no. they never mentioned a baby. >> relatives say he would have turned 1 years old on october 23rd and police are now investigating this case as a suspicious death. >>> more americans are back on the job. that according to the u.s. labor department. some new numbers out today show employers added just over 100,000 jobs last month. however, that was not enough to even make a dent in the nation's 9.1% unemployment rate as an estimated 14 million of us are still without work. meanwhile, analysts say the

peggy fox, 9news now. >> and saturday's rally in richmond is at monroe park and it will run from 1 to 3 p.m. near the state capital. >>> virginia has some of the toughest regulations for abortion clinics in the whole country. are those regulations stepping on a woman's rights or are they long overdue? the address is mailbag@wusa9.com. or you can just make a post on the wusa9 facebook page. >>> tonight's other top stories. we are at the site of that suspected assassination plot against the saudi ambassador. there is a new warning out there for americans. >>> also people in stafford are getting that sinking feeling. massive sink holes are opening up. >>> if your tags are expired you better fix it fast f you're caught driving dirty you may go to jail. >>> but first, a check on this very wet forecast. topper? >> showers moved back into the metro area. we won't be done with showers for a while. nothing heavy good news. live doppler. you might want to download our weather app. light activity around the district, down south 95 and also out towards leesburg but nothing heavy but they won't go

but our peggy fox joins us live at fairfax county courthouse. peggy? rosa threw her granddaughter off the bridge two detectives med her her miranda rightses

peggy fox joins us from the acts food pantry in dumfries virginia with more on the story. a happy story to tell peggy. >> reporter: the story is ask and you shall receive here at the acts food pantry in dumfries. on mondays the shelves were bare. they told the community about it. we helped them tell the community about it and take a look. they've gotten so many donations in that now the problem is they've got to figure out where to put it all. bright and early a huge truckload of food showed up from the capital area food bank with pallets of all kinds of food. after news of the pantry's temporary closure, the community responded big time. with more than 12,000 pounds of food and $60,000 in donations. >> it's pretty -- pretty mind blowing. it's -- it's amazing i mean one day everything's bare on the shelves. the next day it's -- i mean look at it. just crazy. >> reporter: the pantry can now open a week earlier than planned. tuesday at 1:00. >> on a regular tuesday we usually see over 100 families and i think we will far surpass that this tuesday which is a good thing. it wil

peggy fox says the coalition is pushing back trying to get the governor not to sign the bill. >> we areed. >> reporter: rose mary is the director of patient services at the falls church health care center. abortions a lot of the procedures they fill here. when she set up the center nine years ago it

peggy fox, 9news now. >>> i love it peggy. thank you so much. >>> maryland's governor is asking drivers to shell out 15 cents more per gallon of gas to help pay for schools and roads. but will that fly in the general assembly? >>> another spectacular evening. we'll show you temperatures just about on the button in terms of averages. upper 60s, low 70s, 68 in bethesda. 70 in rock falls. we'll talk about big changes on the way in the middle part of the week. >>> there are 23 people that lost their homes after a devastating fire. wait until you hear what one woman did after she allegedly started this fire. coming up. >>> traffic moving once again tonight following a tractor trailer accident. look at all of that. a big rig carrying all that lumber struck a bridge this morning on allentown road and lost that load. it shut down the area for much of the morning rush hour. the driver of the tractor trailer though was able to walk way the from accident. >>> traffic also tied-up this morning on 295 south after a massive pothole opened u

i'm peggy fox, back to you. >> thank you peggy. >> some serious questions about a murder in prince georges county. not about who did it because the suspect is under arrest. the question 9news now is investigating is should that suspect have been in custody before the murder ever happened? matt has been working the story. what do you have? >> as you know, it's among the most serious questions that a law enforcement agency can ask. did we do everything we could to prevent the murder? that's what the prince county georges sheriff department is asking itself. >> deangelo walker was arrested on friday for a murder in prince georges county a few weeks ago. >> found a male in the street. suffered from a gun shot wound. >> a murder that we're now learning probably could have been avoided. >> the timing really probably couldn't be any worse. >> it happened back on september 19, just before 9:00 at night. that's when walker allegedly shot and killed a man here in capital heights over some type of argument. >> we believe some type of dispute between the two led to the actual murder. >> here's where t

peggy fox has been covering this trial since the beginning and has the latest. peggy. >> reporter: well as this psychologist told the jury that carmella delaware la rosa had distorted and dilutional thinking, one juror was shaking their head. >> the expert witness, board certified clinical psychologist, dr. michael hendricks determined carmella did not know the nature of what she was doing last november 29 when she picked up her grandchild and tossed her over a 45-foot high bridge. hendricks diagnosed delaware dela rosa. dr. hendricks described her suicide attempts and said each one made her a greater risk for another. public defender asked dr. hendricks when someone attempts suicide, what does that mean? he said, it means that their mental illness is not getting better, it's probably getting worse. someone in a major depressive episode can have psychotic and dilutional thoughts. the night of the incident, de la rosa said she felt her family had a secret language that they used against her. that was dilutional thinking and so was her thinking about what would hap

right in our our peggy fox is reviewing this videotape as well as the interrogation. ggy will have a live report coming up at 6 p.m. >>> the fairfax county animal shelter says it has got a flood of rabbits ready to be adopted. seems last month's heavy rains left rabbit cages in area homes filled up with water, therefore the owner could no longer take care of the animals. there are 15 of them. i'm assuming there soon may be more. each rabbit has its own cage and its own water bottle. you know what happens if you put them together. >>> pet owners with limited means are getting help from the humane society. 50-dollar vouchers that can be used for a vet exam and vaccines for their pets. there is concern people are skipping shots for their dogs because they are so expensive and they want to change that. >>> imagine getting a wash, rince and dry in a matter of minutes. we are not talking about your hair. this is a new doggy washerette. it opened on washington avenue in the district. city's first state-of-the-art self-serve dog wash machine. i don't think i could get my black

peggy fox joins us with more. >> warren mitchell filed a police report here with prince william county after his power washer was stolen. that wasn't just any kind of theft. this power washer is his main form of making money. after pulling himself out of homelessness. we reported it last night and after we did so, take a look at this. each one of these is an e-mail. we have a power washer, we want to help. the person he wound up getting a power washer from never sent us an e-mail. he called warren mitchell directly last night. >> it was overwelming. it was like, man. >> that is warren mitchell describing the midnight phone call he got from a stranger last night. a man named ken buyers. it was a call that would turn his despair into opportunity. >> i just felt sorry for him because of the situation, somebody is stealing his means of making a living. >> he is talking about warren's power washer that somebody stole over the weekend. 9news now featured warren washing our satellite truck. we hired him after he shared his story who depends on the food pantry. it closed because it ran out of

our peggy fox has been in virginia covering this story all week long getting the word out and peggy, it is fantest tock hear that people heard and responded. >> reporter: they responded big time. i have been watching all week as people continuously brought in bags of food. you can see all of the food here. it's come in this week. about 20,000 pounds of donated food. 65,000-dollars. and that means that the food pantry will now be able to open earlier than expected tuesday at 1:00. >> i never seen us have to close down and i never seen this kind of reaction. >> reporter: everyone at the food pantry has been amazed watching donation of money and food coming in this week from families, individuals, businesses and organizations. >> my brownie troop collected a bunch of food. we are dropping off. >> all kinds of stuff. >> the pantry is still closed until tuesday. it's received so much produce and bread they are covering those perishable items to anyone who needs it. >> it's helpful. i'm a full time student and i'm not working. i have child support. this helps. this really helps. >> thank g

peggy fox joins us live from dumfries with more on the efforts underway to reopen those critical doors. peggy? >> reporter: well i'll tell you what, derek, the community has responded, things are looking so much better. take a look at these shelves. they are almost filled up, even the back-up supplies up top are getting filled. but if you take a look back there, you can still see some empty shelves. if they are to open before november 1, those need to be filled up. >> those shelves were just dull, but now, you know, it looks bright again. >> reporter: the color is slowly coming back to the bare shelves. all daying long, people have been bringing in bags of food to help replenish the food pantry. >> this is america, no one should go hungry or wonder if they will be able to eat again. >> reporter: it temporarily close when they ran out of food. >> that's why i came. >> reporter: they are giving away parishables, but not meat, cereals, other foods that people depend on. >> it's sad because, you know, now you don't even have the backbone. if you're hungry, you're hungry. >> reporter: he kn

i'm peggy fox reporting live in dumfries, back to you. >> good to know some people in our community will have food to eat. >> in case of the pooper scooper, the jury finds the defendant not guilty. it took jurors minutes to find there was too little evidence to convict the dog walker. a failing to clean up after a little baxter. there he is, after taking most of the day to hear evidence in this. bruce leshan is live at the fairfax county courthouse with some stinky details. what's going on? >> i tell you what, anita, you can almost hear the judge and jury laughing from all the way over here. they almost got to the point where they were asking witnesses to pick poop out of a lineup. they had pictures and they were like, is this a picture of your dog's poop? or is this a picture of your dog's poop? it was bizarre, crazy. here is the doggy in question. little baxter, a 19-pound westie mix. her neighbors accuse kimberly of having her friend's dog poop on purpose right under their front window and then failing to pick it up. they say she even bragged to another neighbor that she did it on pur

. >>> a rash of burglaries in falls church has folks out there on edge and peggy fox is here to tell me police are scared of these guys. >> they are scared of these guys because they are brazen. they are kicking in doors, breaking windows and taking expensive things, like computers, anything that they can stick in a bag and get away. >> lauren chin headed out to costco one evening, leaving his house mate asleep inside. a thief walked in the back door. >> someone broke into my house and took away my touch pad. i just bought that a couple days ago. >> how much was it? >> around $400. >> it's one of at least ten burglaries in falls church in arlington county since september 2. most of them occurred between 6:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. they hit occupied and unoccupied homes. they kicked in doors, broke windows, cut screens, and ignored an alarm and got away. >> if you are kicking in the basement door or a front door, a double dead bolt lock. that's brazen. >> thieves have taken all sorts of expensive things. anything they can carry in a backpack, bag, or pillow case. >> it appeared they were

peggy and e.j. there's still the question about sarah palin because we're going to ask the question about palin until it's absolutely clear she's not in the race. she was on foxis week and this is what she had to say about her decision. >> through my process of decision making with my family, and with my close friends, as to whether i should throw my name in the hat for the gop nomination or not, for 2012, is a title worth it? does a title shackle a person? are they, someone like me, who's maverick, you know, i do go rogue and i call it like i see it, does that prohibit me from being out there, i'm out of a box, not allowing handlers to shape me, and to force my message to be what donors or what contributors or what political pundits want it to be. >> e.j., clearly the presidency is not big enough of a platform? >> planetary, or, you know, the universe. my process of decision making, that's her next book. that's going to be a fascinating book. i'd like to know what it is. she's playing us so brilliantly. i do not think she's going to run for president. you just gave her that nice clip. and good for her. but she's not going to run for president. >> but i mean