We will check in with him in a few minutes. Also new today, police have charged the man accused of throwing a molotov cocktail into food court of people the ballston common. Leon alphans traille jr. Is accused of throwing a bottle shattered but did not ignite. The trial is under way of two county polices beating accused of of maryland student basketball win two years ago. The prosecution will use an of the shooting. The defense will be able to show before the beating began. Updates tonight at 5 00. A man who admitted to playing a d. C. s worst guilty today. Ded Nathaniel Simms was part of a shooting that killed at least five people. The other suspects were yearsced to between 30 and life in prison. Rain is making things tough everywhere. Connecticut avenue, that flooding before sunrise. Appear there is a dry weekend ahead. Is here with our forecast. It still looks fairly gray outside for most of us, but not us. Of conditions will be improving and weather for gold cup this weekend as well as lief peeping. Out the great fall foliage. Grayhe most part, we are except in the region the day where we have a little of clearing going on. Checkout chesapeake. 70s aoday, the a mid around downtown with a bit of humidity in the air. There is cool air around the great lakes. Dallas is not so bad at 81 degrees. Around the great lakes and the upper midwest including chicago and detroit. Full forecast coming up. We talked about the commute morning and what a mess it was. Jackknifedtrailers and brought the commute to a halt for of hours. Smoother ifs moving get onto theg to beltway here in Montgomery County. Whaito ofw yo like early on this the lanes ofall of the interlude for shutdown of two separate oop were interlu because of two separate accidents. Two tractortrailers jackknife. One was on the side of the highway. Maryland police were trying to tanke some of the fuel ruptured when they say a oecond tractortrailer als jackknife. Around 4 40 a. M. The fuel tank of the second alsoortrailer was ruptured. Police said they had to shut so they coulday fuel tanks of both trailers before they away, but traffic was a nightmare. Every lane was stopped. To local businesses who had a lot more customers. We had people popping in not getthey could anywhere. Stopping in, getting damages, things like that. Was nice. Of Montgomery County schools open today. Say things could have been a lot worse if school buses on the road. There were no injuries to either of the tractortrailer drivers. Investigation as what caused the accident still continues. Charges have been filed. Thank you. Lets get back to Prince Georges County where we continue to learn more about the killed a police officer, the second death to hit matter ofment in a months. John gonzales has been at the conference all morning. John, what did you find out . Tragedy striking again in the two months. The police chief is speaking at hour and tells us it is in theery early investigation, but they believe suv involved in blame. Al collision is to a female driver was apparently to change lanes and make a lefthand turn. H a 27yearoldt officer. Chief is saying this afternoon that the officer was a seatbelt. A big part of this investigation will be the speed. How fast the officer was going snd how fast perhaps thi of the suv was going. Terrific accident occurred after 3 00 in the aft horrific accident occurred just after 3 00 in the afternoon. Was a six year veteran and a father of two. The police chief is speaking right now. S to say. Hat he ha the preliminary investigation theals that the actions of the suv involved in crash caused the collision. Been aver had originally lane and at some point to cross several traffic, colliding with a cruiser. Looking into all factors involved in the crash, including speed. , we mentioned, this the second officer to be in two months. Back in august, another officer of his cruiser pursuing a robbery suspect. Since 2010, three officers here the county have died in related accidents. Again, a lot of information out now. We will get back inside and latest of 5 00 this evening. Live at Prince County Police headquarters, john gonzales, abc news. 18 days until the election a fullcourtre is the swing states, including virginia. President obama is speaking in just moments at george mason university. Hundreds of people lined up to make surerning get inside is event. And they know how important will be in this election. Both candidates know this is crunch time. With just days left in the race the white house, president obama is back in the stagewealth, a crucial the campaign. With candidate choices displayed hats and shirts, hundreds lined up this morning to get in. This is the second rally here in than two weeks. Many voters know that virginia to watch. Virginia is crucial. Close and to indias traveling and doing the absentee ballot. Virginia is the key. About ohio. Worried virginia is the key. Mitt romney is in florida, win state. T according to a gallup poll, points,leaves by 7 p but a a leads by 7 points, but other polls show different results. , the two men took a from the campaign trail to comedy at a fund raiser in new york. Of you may have i had a lot more in the second debate. I felt really well rested after the knapp i took in the first page. Now i took in the first debate. President obama and i are each of someone to lean in our corner. S i have and. He has bill clinton. The final debate is scheduled for monday. Topic is foreignpolicy. Vice president by an appeal Vice President biden appealed to florida voters today. The Romney Campaign is also h bothg florida hard wit romney and paul ryan speaking there later on. Speak inistie will richmond today on behalf of the Romney Campaign. Michelle obama talked about life house, here husbands reelection bid and howard has been reacts to watching basketball games of his daughter. He talks the refs, and one , a sitdown. S like of aming up, the case molesters started single voice. We will hear from the first of jerry sandusky. Plus, this candidate says one argument for abortions is never valid. We have a look at the weekend weather. Ike leggett gaming generated one hundred and eighty. Million dollars for maryland schools. Question seven will double it. Rushern baker question seven will add table games and. A new casino, generating millions of dollars. Every year, thout raising taxes. Leggett and audits will ensure the money goes. Where its supposed to. More jobs, and millions for schools. Baker question seven will be good for our kids. Our teachers, and our schools. Leggett keep maryland money in maryland. Baker please vote for question seven. 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Security officials in lebanon car bomb in beirut has killed 50 people and the worst attack seen in years. There has been a rise in stemming from the civil in neighboring syria. The pakastani school girl shot in the head by the taliban is showing signs of recovery. Doctors say the young girl is freely inate writing and she stood up today. She is still not speaking n herse she has a tube i throat. Several suspects are under arrest in pakistan. Another controversial statement abortion. Here it is. Asthere is no such thing the mother. As far as life of the mother, advances in Technology Health of the mother has tool for abortions any reason. Any joe walsh is running a fierce against tammy duckworth. Instancesere are no record of an abortion be necessary to save a mothers life. Just last year, a representative the house floor of in that exact position. Workersn of electrical ratify a four year contract. Marjah than 1100 employees were verge more than 1100 awere on the verge of strike last month. Time for a full look at our forecast. Somee going to see sunshine at some point . In the metro, it is still fairly gray with low clouds. Better conditions this weekend. West, especially we have someand, beautiful fall foliage. These were put on facebook. Thank you so much. I wish i could sure all of them not have enough time. This is the chesapeake beach. This is a gorgeous tree. , bradn northwest d. C. Posted this great picture. Just from this morning. You can see the leaves just with littlern red from the showers overnight. Elizabeth posted this vote. Beautiful red tree is just starting to shift. And rickey, you always take such pictures. Is this data from just a few days ago. There is still low cover in southern maryland. Good color in virginia and Montgomery County. In the appalachians and the time ofsilence, we are in a peak color. Weekend to go check out the foliage, especially sunday. Saturday may still have a great background, but sunday coppola sunday, the skies will be live. Rain not going to sunday will be a better photo ops. 63 currently in frederick. This is the view from the roof of camera. S cloudy and gray, but that slowly change over couple of hours. Dew point of 54 in the district. You can actually feel the humidity in the air today , but that is going to change over the weekend. In southern maryland, the toshine will continue appear. A new front began overnight. The only impact a and it will is the areas of rain the is thepact it will have we saw thisn morning. Tonight, we will be down in the 40s. Low 50s downtown and in the beltway. Better days on sunday. Saturday and sunday are pleasant. Humidity d. C. , Maryland State Police and park police are all involved vehicle chase right now. Moment theyre traveling avenue se. Ma have a crew on the scene and bring you more information as we get it. Up, were going to meet as we get it. Upresident obama im barack obama and i approve. This message. Anncr victims. Dependent. Thats what mitt romney called fortyseven percent. Of americans. Including people on meredicare. But what about his plan for you . Romney would replace guaranteed benefits with a voucher system. Seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. A plan aarp says would undermine medicare. Youre no victim. You earned your benefits. Dont let mitt romney take them away. And balanced the budget every year. And tim kaine and i both cut our own pay as governors, to lead by example. Mark warner and i reached across party lines to get things done. We were a great team in richmond and well be a great team in washington. Im tim kaine and i approve this message. Because well Work Together to restore fiscal responsibility, grow our economy and create jobs. [ male announcer ] tim kaine. Bringing people together to tackle the challenges of tomorrow. Hearing for the first time from the first person up and say that jerry molested him. You were unable to say this monster. He is sexually assaulting me. I could not do it. Why . Embarrassment. Fear of not being believed. Aaron fischer was referred to victim number one throughout the sandusky trial. Hear his full story tonight on. On 20 20. B this kid has survived something so terrible, as all sexual victims do, but here there was something more. His abuser was someone seen as santa claus. In penn state, football is a religion. They worshiped him. It took three years for there to be an arrest. People assume that when kids forward they are coddled them. Support this kid was told to go home. The jury would never do these things. Hampshire brings never do thesed things. Brings this kid forward to nine. Other people are inng victimized by people jobs where theyre supposed to be protecting them. That is why we are doing the story. It goes far beyond penn state. Forward to the story tonight. 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We have started to see some the sunshine you were talking about. In parts of virginia, closer to fredericksburg. It will be pleasant but cloudy saturday, pleasant and sunday on sunday. Have a great president obama im barack obama and i approve. This message. Anncr victims. Dependent. Thats what mitttt romney calld fortyseven percent. Of americans. Including pele on medire. But what about his plan for you . Romnmney would replace guaranted benets with a voucher system. Seniors could pay six thousand dollars more a year. A plan aarp says would undererme medicare. Yore no victim. You earned your benefits. Dont let mitt romney take them away. Athats what the plan georged allen supports. Would cost our economy. Newspapers called it economically destructive. Like allens votes to give tax breaks to companies. That ship jobs overseas, his economic plan would. Help big corporations, devastating the middle class. Allen even voted against tax breaks for small businesses. Virginia cant afford to go back to george allen. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign committee. Is responsible for the content of this advertising. Would ban all abortions and contraception seemed a bit extreme. So i looked into it. Turns out, romney doesnt oppose contraception at all. In fact, he thinks abortion should be an optioion in cases of rape, incest, or to save a mothers life. This issues important to me, but im more concerned about the debt our children will be left with. I voted for president obama last time, but we just cant afford four more years