Dozens of district paramedics involved in the Navy Yard Shooting were honored this morning for their courage during the crisis. The fire chief gave more than 30 paramedics the chiefs medal of excellence. Gunman aaron alexis went on a rampage killing 12 and injuring four. I cannot tell you how proud i was of each one of you. Your service that day was spectacular. The scene was chaotic. Duck, theres more gunshots going on. That was stressful. The ceremony follows news that d. C. Fire houses were understaffed during the shooting. A recent report uncovered 81 vacancies at the d. C. Fire and dms including paramedics. A victim being remembered this afternoon. Family and friends of mike ridgell. The 52yearold was the Security Guard at building 197. His funeral is tomorrow morning. A High School Student has been laid to rest nearly a week after being stabbed to death. A couple hours ago, friends and family said goodbye to 18yearold kenny diaz. It took place at our lady of Angels Catholic church. 12 people are facing charges. They believe a 19yearold stabbed him in a public park. Friends of samuels and diaz were engaged in ongoing disputes over drug deals. The police are looking for two suspects who beat up and robbed a hotel clerk at gunpoint. It happened on arlington boulevard in falls church. They grabbed the 62yearold clerk, assaulted him, took money from the register and ran off. One of the suspects had a rifle. Right now, a vie legitimate Home Invasion has residents in Prince Georges County on high alert. It happened just after midnight in glen dale. A man suffered life threatening injuries. Police say he is recovering. A second person inside the home was not hurt. Police are looking for two men seen leaving the area. Its not clear whether the suspects took anything. Today Prince Georges CountyBusiness Owners got details about plans for a casino. They met facetoface with mgm executives. A second meeting included vendors and contractors. Mgm wants to make sure Business Owners are prepared to succeed at the new casino. If mgm gets it contract, they are hoping to open three years from now. A patriot, man of action and great leader is how George Washington was remembered dedicating a library to the first president. Hundreds gathered at the facility. Theres a rare collection of washingtons books and manuscrip manuscripts. Washington understood there were timeless values that the revolution was fought for and to the degree america maintained the principles, we would be a great nation. The new library took 100 million to build. Unlike other president ial libraries, it does not receive federal money. Another historic treasure, the National Mall is getting a much needed helping hand. The company that makes john deere tractors is donating equipment to maintain the turf and grounds of the mall. They announced the partnership today. The donated equipment includes motors that run on alternative fuel. It Marks National public lands day which takes place tomorrow. Right now cloudy but dry outside. We need more rain to mow more grass. Amelia segal is standing by in the storm center to tell us what the weekend is looking like. Dry weather for the weekend. Tomorrow, more sunshine than today. We are going to start with clouds across the area. Here is the day planner for saturday. Chilly if you are getting up early. Temperatures only in the upper 50s. Cooler in the suburbs. Then, during the morning hours, we are looking at partly sunny skies. Sunshine for the afternoon. Once again, we are comfortably cool. Now, sunday, temperatures will be a little bit warmer. Ill be back in ten minutes with the other half of your forecast. A pilot suffers a medical emergency in mid flight. How passengers on board try to revive the pilot and land the plane. Maryland drivers hang up the cell phones or go hands free. Tougher penalties around the tougher penalties around the corner. Im terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. For 30 years ive worked as an obgyn, my job is to protect the health of women. So im particularly offended by Ken Cuccinelli. Cuccinelli wants to make all abortion illegal. Even in cases of rape and incest. Even to protect a womans health. I want a governor whos focused on schools and creating jobs, not someone who wants to do my job. Whos Ken Cuccinelli to interfere in the lives of women across virginia . You can now use the Capital Bikeshare Program in maryland. The first of say stations opened today at montgomery lane and maryland avenue. 450 of the bikes will be stationed on both sides of metro red line with stations in silver spring, rockville and bethesda. Its the first time theres been a Bike Sharing Program in maryland. They link cyclists to the program in alexandria and arlington. Right now, if you are caught talking on your cell phone while driving in maryland, you will get just a warning. Its going to change. Adam tuss is in bethesda and breaks down the details about the new handheld laws. Reporter the sign here in the middle of wisconsin avenue says it all. Hang up or go hands free. New cell phone law starts october 1st. Thats next tuesday in maryland. If a Police Officer sees you talking on the handheld cell phone, they can pull you over just for that. Previously, it was a secondary offense, meaning they had to have another reason to pull you over. Now, you talk on the phone, the Police Officer will pull you over. Drivers we saw in maryland may want to consider putting the phone down altogether. Come tuesday, theres no wiggle room. Get caught once, a 75 fine. Twice 125. Three times 175. Local drivers have already paid the handheld price. I got caught twice in d. C. In my neighborhood and another time one of my daughters teachers were walking by. It was embarrassing. Reporter did it change your behavior . Yeah. The fine is big, too. Reporter well have more reaction from drivers and some who might continue press k the issue. In bethesda, adam tuss, news 4. Another alert, drivers beware, the Maryland Transportation Authority will use a video system to catch people sneaking through tolls without paying. Next month, video recorders will be placed in all eight of the toll entrances to record the license plate of anyone who doesnt pay. Anyone caught will have 30 days to pay the fee otherwise, a 50 fine added to each unpaid toll. In virginia, transportation officials want to hear from you. The i495 easy pass only lanes that stretch from springfield to the north dulles toll road have been opened for almost a year now. Virginia Transportation Leaders want your feedback. Go to 495expresslane. Com rescue. A little girl pulled from the rubble of a building hours after it collapsed. Will it be a dry weekend . Rescue workers in mumbai india pulled a little girl from a collapsed building nearly 12 hours after the building caved in. Crews managed to get about 30 people out. They dont know yet what caused the cave in. The government owns the building. Most of the people who live there are city employees. Itis the third deadly collapse in mumbai in the past six months. Protesters let out a scream of frustration today outside a scientific conference in stockholm. They are frustrated with a lack of action on climate change. Inside, the top climate scientists agreed human activity is to blame for the rise in temperatures over the past 60 years. Human influence on the climate system is clear. The scientists are part of a United Nations panel on climate change. The steps to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions are not taken soon, catastrophic damage to the planet may occur. Amelia, are we going get rain . No rain this weekend. Since september 1, we are two inches under where we should be. A dry weekend and we need rain. The weekend is coming. Outdoor plans, rain free this weekend. It was cloudy out there today. The high, 72 degrees. Comfortably cool. The clouds continuing to break up as we finish off friday. We hope you have a nice week and weekend as we scan the horizon. Temperatures across the area, right now, low 70s. Here is the evening planner. You are heading out tonight. You definitely need a jacket. Its another chilly night for the most part. Temperatures out and about this evening will be mid to upper 60s. Overnight, once again, we turn cool with a low in washington of 57. Areas by the water will be in the low to mid50s. Suburbs and up to the north and far to the west, mid to upper 40s there. So, kind of a repeat weather continuing. Really not going anywhere. And for tomorrow, we are starting off with a little bit more cloudiness, once again. Partly sunny skies. 68 degrees by the midday hours. As we get into the afternoon, highs will once again generally be in the low 70s. 74 for a high tomorrow. Another pleasant day and another falllike day you can enjoy. Getting into the evening hours, we will cool quickly, once again. Maybe you are going to go out this weekend, take a nice drive to the west to try to catch some fall color. Here is the foliage forecast for the weekend. Just starting to see it, low color change. If you are planning a weekend drive to portions of western maryland or virginia,heading up to pennsylvania, head to up state new york to see a little bit more color. Sunday, temperatures a little bit warmer, in the mid70s. More sunshine on sunday as well. Monday and tuesday, we are looking at partly to mostly cloudy skies. Look at what happens with the temperatures. A small change but i think we are definitely going to notice it. 77 on monday. Then, we warm into the 80s. For tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday, but still you can see this is a rainfree forecast. So, tuesday is going to mark the beginning, kind of our temperature warm up. Summerlike warmth. Like i said, we are still remaining dry and again, looking at the next seven days without precipitation on them. Pat and jim . Thanks. Just in, Scott Macfarlane has new pictures from a violent attack in a Northern Virginia drugstore. This is a cvs, is that right . Thats right. The police are trying to find a couple crooks responsible. They grabbed cosmetics monday morning. One of them is seen spraying pepper spray at an employee while escaping. When another worker tried to intervene, the suspect hit her with pepper spray, too. The police are asking for the publics help finding the two criminals. Im Scott Macfarlane. This weekend marks the last time you may be able to visit the national aquarium. The washington landmark is located in the basement of the commerce building. They are forcing them to close it monday. More than 1,500 animals are housed in the aquarium. The majority of them will be moved up to baltimore. Milsz teen usa is expressing sympathy for the man accused of spying on and blackmailing her. Hes charged with extortion. Investigators say he took naked pictures of kassidy wolf and other women hacking into their web cams. He then sent emails threatening to publish the pictures. They found the images on his computer at home. She explained her mixed emotions on the today show. Im relieved and glad they were able to find the person. On the other hand, it was somebody i went to high school with. He was young, my age. I think its sad that this is, you know, he chose to do this and put himself in this big dilemma. Hes on house arrest. Today, his Attorney Says he has Mental Health issues. His family apologize zed to the victims. A new reason to eat Peanut Butter. Eating it twice a week could help you down the road. Local busines once upon a time, an insurance clerk stumbled upon a cottage. 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Even when we offered it, our employees still couldnt afford to purchase the insurance. Reporter under the new law, they wont have to offer the insurance because they are under 50 employees. Insurance is no longer an option. It could mean better rates. Up the road its a different story. A company with 140 employees will be required to offer employees insurance. They have seen a drastic increase in premium costs. With the Affordable Care act, we have seen significant increases in rates. We, like Many Companies received a 29 rate increase. Reporter to navigate it, Many Companies are getting creative in using insurance brokers. They are faced with mayor increases. Theres fees and taxes built into the premium that is were not there before. Reporter as october 1st gets closer, both the president and employees have become educators about the law requiring insurance and what the options are for people who will get it on their own at the health care exchange. 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New video shows the damage done by some thieves who robbed a Prince Georges County jury store. It happened in oxon hill back in may. The thieves got away with 500,000 in jewelry. More than three d. C. Paramedics are being honored. They got the chiefs medal of excellence for their extraordinary courage during the crisis. News 4 learned some federal workers are being unofficially notified today if they will be furloughed on tuesday. Should the shutdown come to pass. This afternoon, the Senate Approved a bill to keep the government running and toss the ball back to house republicans. Steve handelsman live up on capitol hill where it is shaping up to be a very long weekend. Steve . Reporter thanks. After the senate vote, president obama warned the house, warned the tea party, they can shut government, but they cannot kill obama care. In the bill, as amended is passed. Reporter the senate voted to keep government going, most republicans accepted thekt not defund the health plan. The American People deserve better than a government shutdown. Reporter they cant stop it tuesday. Its not going to happen. The marketplaces are going to be open for business on tuesday. Reporter Tea Party Senators vowed to fight down. The only thing we want to shut down is obama care. Obama care is a train wreck. It is a nightmare. Reporter with three days to go until the cut off of paychecks to troops, democrats called the process in congress a nightmare and called out the tea party. You want to create chaos. You want to create confusion. We lurch from crisis to crisis. Reporter this crisis lurches to the house where conservatives vow they wont cave Like Senate Republicans th