an injured hiker about to be rescued on sugarloaf mountain. the maryland state police chopper that's above sugarloaf mountain. the injured hike serothe harder more challenging trails for hikers and about a nine-mile loop and this is near dickerson maryland. we know a hiker is injured and we don't know the nature and severity of those injuries and we do see it hovering overhead and we'll keep watching and keep you up daded, but for now at the live desk this is scott for farland. >>> now to a blockbuster proposal designed to help ambulance response times in the district and this is from muriel bouncer and it calls from private ambulance companies to run some of the 911 calls and they spoke to the fire chief about how it could work. he's outside engine 9 on u street. mark? ♪ ♪ >> reporter: district officials point to a deteriorating fleet of ambulances as well as a surge in 911 calls as the reasons there have been so many delayed responses. d.c.'s new fire chief hopes by using private ambulances for some tran sports it will reduce those delays. >

chopper 4 was there as maryland state police helicopter lowered rescuers to sugarloaf's blue trail. that's where the man fell about 75 feet from an outcropping. the man is believed to be in his 20s. no word on the extent of his injury. >>> tonight we're learning about yet another lawsuit filed against the fig & olive restaurant chain. now this case is connected to the chain's west hollywood location. the l.a. county health department is looking into more than 20 cases of salmonella at that spot. here in d.c., as many as 150 people got sick after eating at the restaurant in city center. right now there is a multi-state investigation under way to see if there are any other cases out there. an attorney who represents two people in d.c. says tonight certain menu items seem to be a common denominator. >> it's interesting. the mushrooms, the croquets and the truffle oil, it seems to be a common denominator. >> the hollywood lawsuit also cites those menu items. fig & olive representative says they are confident they have adequately addressed the situation now. >>> actor paul walk could hav

news chopper 7 was there when the man was airlifted from the side of sugarloaf mountain in frederick county. man had fallen during a hike. rescuers climb down the side of the mountain secured him to a stretcher before airlifting him to the chopper. no word on his condition tonight. jonathan: changing emergency response of the district could affect emergency response times. mayor bowser putting a plan on the table. she is submitting a plan that would hire a private contractor to handle non-life-threatening calls. the d.c. fire chief estimates that four out of five calls are night and life-threatening. under the plan, emergency crews would evaluate the patient and transport only the sickest. the second would wait for a private ambulance to arrive to take them to the hospital. the proposal needs to be approved by the d.c. counsel first. alison: the columbia heights have association could gondola like railway above columbia pike, one of the many ideas people have suggested to ease congestion. supporters say the system could be built within a year. the arlington county board canceled the

everyone in this tour group has already seen sugarloaf and the statue of christ. today they are visiting one of rio de janeiro's favelas. the excursion costs 40 euros apiece. richard: i chose to travel on a tour of this nature just for safety's sake. and i'm expecting to see extreme poverty, but i think that there is beauty in everything. eileen: i wouldn't be surprised if they had mobile phones and scooters and that sort of thing. as it said in the press, it is a city within a city. reporter: they soon see the first buildings in rocinha. the shanty town extends all the way up the hill. richard: wow, quite amazing actually. you've got such a poor society living so close to a rich. its well worth a visit. i can't wait to walk it. reporter: tour guide marcos lelal leads the group into the heart of rocinha and one of the numerous shopping streets. eileen gerard from britain says not much here reminds her of a slum. eileen: i think the people are so resourceful, that they all find a living out of very, very poor conditions. and i mean it's like a very thriving busy to

be ableo use a lic >>> a man is recovering in the hospital this morning after being rescued from sugarloaf mountain in maryland. a maryland state police helicopter lowered rescuers to the trail where the man fell about 75 feet. you can see here the hiker being lifted into the chopper. it happened yesterday. the man is believed to be in his 20s. he suffered a head injury. there is no word on his condition this morning. >>> virginia has 11 days to issue driver's licenses that meet new federal security guidelines. the commonwealth's real i.d. extension runs out october 10th. congress passed the real i.d. act in 2005. it created a set of standard security checks for licenses to make them harder for terrorists to get. i.d.s that don't comply could be rejected at airports starting next year. virginia is currently in the process of getting another extension. >>> it is now 4:41. time for weather and traffic. looks like we need our umbrellas today. >> chuck bell will time out the drive time forecast. >> good morning once again. very cloudy and mild start this morning. little light rain now right th

. >>> it was a tricky rescue by both air and ground on frederick county sugarloaf mountain today. sky 9 was on the scene where a man took a bad fall and injured himself late this afternoon. rescue crews reached him in some rocks on the side of the hill. they placed him in a stretcher and then a helicopter for transport to the hospital. >>> you'll probably want to hang onto your umbrella really for the whole week. >> i'm getting more concerned about severe weather tomorrow. we mentioned it earlier in the show, but now it looks more and more likely. let's start with 3 p.m. tomorrow afternoon on futurecast. i'm starting here because we feel the biggest threat will be between 3 p.m. and about midnight tomorrow. so 3:00 80 downtown and you see the showers and storms developing out of the south, culpeper to fredericksburg, migrating northward. by 5:00 looks like a wet ride home for most of us and we're seeing yellow and orange out toward luray. it gets worse going through the evening. by 7:00 look at all the red between culpeper and luray moving northward. by 9:00 we got big storms in m

. >>> a man is recovering in the hospital this morning after being rescued from sugarloaf mountain in maryland. chopper 4 flew over the scene as a maryland state police helicopter lowered rescuers to the trail where the man fell about 75 feet. you can see the hiker being lifted into the chopper. it happened yesterday. the man is believed to be in his 20s. he did suffer a head injury. >>> and this morning, virginia's attorney general launched a program to train police officers how to use force appropriately. the announcement came in arlington a few hours ago. mark herring, seen here with law enforcement from around the area and the state, said police should be trained to de-escalate dangerous situations and recognize potential biases that they may bring to the job. herring says the training will not be mandatory but will be made available to police agencies across the state. >>> a new controversy over police using a taser in fairfax county. police are saying they had every right and why others see it as excessively forceful. >>> the family of a man tased by a fairfax county police offi

this is sugarloaf mountain. you see the people gathered on the gro you understand and you see the red harness lift from the ground to a helicopter above and we don't know the nature of the injury and so the age of the hiker and this hiker was injured significantly enough and they had to scramble the maryland state police hospital to do that rescue and see the hiker moving through the air there. those personnel hanging out of the door and the helicopter bringing the platform and the hiker onboard the helicopter and en route to a hospital. and this happened on schullerloaf mountain in maryland and we'll get you the condition of the hiker as soon as we get it. i'm scott macfarlane. >>> a man is facing charges for shooting at office building in northern virginia. officers took him into custody accusing him of shootings in herndon. this is the video of the aftermath. the shattered glass and boarded up windows and in some cases there were employees inside an office building that was shot at. no one was hurt. >>> if yo

>> the man you see in the video recovering in the hospital this morning after being rescued from sugarloafmountain in maryland. chopper 4 above the scene as maryland state police helicopter lowered rescuers to the trail where he man fell 75 feet. the hiker being lifted into the chopper. this happened yesterday. the man is believed to be in his 20s, he suffered a head injury. >>> it is now 6:41. time for a check on your forecast this morning. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is standing by at the tidal basin. >> a serene scene here at the tidal basin. seeing the first light of day now, the air is rather humidity, cool now. and the winds are calm, i'm here with the storm team 4 radar showing all the sprinkles we had an hour ago are out of the metro area. stand by later today, you'll need the umbrella and wet roads for the afternoon, maybe a few roads damp north of washington this morning. in the afternoon, have the wiper going and umbrella handy as well. melissa, now, checking on a new crash, what is happening. >> this one in rockville. a report of an accident in the intersection. t

this beautiful, i love sugarloaf off in the distance, 1,282 feet.id you know it was that tall, 1,282 feet. another great shot. not a cloud in the sky this evening, very, very nice, thinking about taking dinner outside, no matter what you're doing, leaving the windows down on the ride home or keeping on the windows up at home tonight, you can turn off the a c maybe, 85 degrees, very low humidity, so we are talking extremely nice conditions, 81, gaithersburg, 82, fredericksburg, 79 towards the annapolis area. the radar is clear for now, but you don't have to go too far to the goes see were the next area of storminess is, back toward the ohio valley, the thunderstorms toward portions of ten and then backed to best. that's the actual front that will sweep on through the area tomorrow. starting off at 8 a.m., future weather timing it out for us. tracking this at 8 a.m., not quite here yet. i think tomorrow morning starting off dry, but the clouds come in. by around 11, we start to see the showers developing, the storms develop around noon, 1, 2:00. notic

. >>> more breaking news, sky9 over the scene at sugarloaf mountain frederick county, maryland, where a rescue operation is underway. emergency responders and medics are trying to reach someone hurt in a fall. we'll bring you more information on this story when it becomes available. >>> you could call it the exclamation point on its ugly season for the washington nationals. the team's suspended closer jonathan papelbon for four games without pay for this dugout fight with bryce harper. that means he is done for the 2015 season. nats gm mike rizzo called papelbon's actions unacceptable. this all happened one day after the team was eliminated from the playoffs. andrea mccarren is live outside nats park in southeast with some reaction to the fight. wow, andrea. >> reporter: wow indeed, lesli. whether deserving or not, as you know, professional athletes are role models for a lot of kids and that's one reason why reaction to that dugout brawl has been so strong. >> i just wanted to know why, why did they do that? >> reporter: he's only 11, but j.p. king summed it up well. >> yeah. i was di

the shot right here, look at reston town center in the foreground, look at the background here, sugarloaf1,282 feet, did you knee? 1,282 feet. been to the top of that a couple times. we look out toward the south and west, toward the white house from the airport, look at beautiful conditions, 85 degrees, calm winds right now, a beaut. night. 82, gaithersburg, 83, fredericksburg, 82, leesburg. no issues at all no rain on the radar. so, if you're thinking getting out and maybe dining out tonight, dinner outside, refreshing, clear skies, temperatures falling into the upper 60s most locations, low 70s ininside the beltway. this is what is coming our wake nothing over the region now, nothing back toward the west, chicago and ohio, kentucky, tennessee a storm system moving our way a cold front moving our way and going to bring us two things. one, stormy conditions tomorrow and then much cooler weather for sunday. here's future weather, timing it out hour by hour, 8 a.m. tomorrow morning, most of the area on the dry side, will stay that way through 10, 11:00, around 11, we start to see those show

this area in montgomery county is near boyds near the foot of sugarloaf mountain. >>> also tonight presidentialandidate bernie sanders who is surging in the polls is in virginia today and he spent the day in an unlikely place, the evangelical college of liberty university in lynchburg. thank you for joining us. i'm lesli foster. >> i'm bruce johnson. his next stop is manassas for a rally tonight. peggy fox, what's the turnout look like now? >> reporter: we've got about 5 or 600 people here just now going into the arena where bernie sanders will speak tonight. i've been talking to some of these people and they say they're here because they find bernie is around authentic. they say he's connect -- sanders authentic. they say he's connected to the people, he'll hold wall street accountable, he wouldn't be bunt by anyone. it's those kind of issues -- bought by anyone. it's those kind of issues that really connect him with people, even those at liberty university. what message would bernie sanders bring to the conservative liberty university in lynchburg? the presidential candidate from vermont ht