Welcome to fox5 snews morning. G a lot of election news to update you. Update. Breaking news from the bw parkway. This is an accident acide involving a motorcycle and twoen other vehicles. Skyfox over that scene rightr tt now. S the northbound lanes of the bw parkway are closed at route rou 193 in greenbelt. We know that one person was w medevaced from that crash scene. Its unclear whether they were w on the motorcycle or in one ofcl the cars. Well have more on this isntssn just a moment. Om in the meantime it is ai a race to the finish line for f donald trump and hillarymp poll shows the candidates aredie essentially in a dead heat nationwide. Nati Hillary Clinton trying to clt bank as many voters aser as possible through early votinglyg including in places like the t district in maryland where voting has already started. Taed doug luzader joins us withs w more on how her campaignamig thinks that strategy he is paying off. Good morning. Reporter good morning and first of all, some of these polls are just all over the map. Orter rst ofs ar ae p poll o utp po showing that Hillary Clintonnt over donald trump. Ubonald tru on the other hmpand there are other new polls out including one from foxpolls news that sho that this race may actually be b tightening as we get down to t the wire. Ir how close are donald trump and u Hillary Clinton . Nationallyatiy at least a new fox news pollewpo puts the race at just three points factoring in libertarian and green partyian n candidates. To behat would seem encouraging news for trump. Rump i do think that were we probably an early indicatorndict here. I think that youre seeing a f nat yarrowing in then race as repub come home. There are more republicans tocas come home. The question i s whether its enough and whether he can get g enough juice out ofough independents to get to where he needs to be. Heameporter the same pollts t shows trumps numbers amongmo independents do seem to beto b rising in recent weeks. Wee he was in charlotte yesterday hoping to boost lackluster numbers among minority numbers and talking about g a newmi deal for black america. Me whether you vote for me or not, i will be your greatestreat doubt concern among otherconc things about theer rise of rise independent conservative Evan Mcmullen in utah who couldhoou spoil trumps efforts to win the rely plea republican state and clinton still dealing with email leaks just about everyve day which detail herer campaigns early efforts tofforo diffuse her email scandal. Scal and she is trying to lockdown ln votes now. To the point where clinton nt whelint herself is all but holding voters hands and walking themkim to the polls. You can go to any early voting site between 7 00 a. M. M. In fact, the county center onero east kennedy boulevard is just s a 10 minute walk from here. Her [cheers and applause] appus reporter and both and b campaigns take early voting votn pretty seriously. Ioly the numbers certainly bearc that out. About 12 and a half million mli people nationwide have alreadydy cast votes in this election. N. Back to you guys good dougd dou thanks. Early voting kicks off in o i maryland in just about one abouo hour from now. Roow. To get to a poling place inlacei chevy chase. Evy c vote early between 8 00 a. M. A. M and 8 00 p. M. M Montgomery County will open 10w0 Early Voting Centers princers pe georges county executivey ecuti Rushern Baker will be at a be at polling place in fort wash. You can also register to vote rv the same dayot you vote early. Y other news happening right t now Police Continue to guard a d Prince Georges County condocouo building that remains in thenhe dark after pepco shut off allff the power because the bill for the building wasnt paid. Pai residents plan to rallyto ray hoping to get legal action togai fox5s Melanie Alnwick isck i live from temple hills nowe hil with the latest. Th t latest. This continues, mel. M good morning. Reporter and steve and allison, this has beenhas been continuing for a long time. Lynn hill condominiums has a a very troubled history. The association filed foron bankruptcy he because of 500,000 of unpaid bills. D bill. Problems continued. Continued. Fare failure to fix fire codeiro violations, fire damage fromage repaired. Water has been turned off inbee the past because of o nonpayment. Condo association pleadedatn pl guilty to multiple charges of o Reckless Endangerment of tenants. There was another bankruptcy bay filing in 2012 yet here we are and they owe more than are Million Dollars in unpaid uaid power and gas bills. We it is now day three andr today residents and supporters wantrtn to ask a judge to force the utilities to turn the powerheow and the gas back on while a settlement can be reached. Ch families have been formed out ft of the building after it was Prince Georges County countyles Fire Department has the buildings under c depar a fire t an hourly fire watch until thent power is restored. Tored. The Condo Association says itayt did try to settle up with pepco and Washington Gas but the utilities wanted a 20 too 25 percent down payment and the condo associatinton dow saii simply didnt have the money m for that. Residents wanted answers from and assistance also from county executive rushern re baker and state senator anthony mews when they camemewse Rushern Baker finally acknowledged the problem withemt the condo had been going on for years. Rs. We said to them, you need cause we knew therenewe was issues. Iue you need to deal with this. Thi you need to negotiator with t pep he company the Water Company to make sure electricito y stays onne c and n sure its habitable because ifai it isnt we have to come ine i and shut you down. This is a private entity herere so we cant force them to doo d anything unless it our codes our health codes. Reporter and that is where they are now. Orte. For his part state senator anthony muse in addition toion t seeking that court order too get the utilities turned backlii on he says hed like to use u state taxpayer money to frontont the down payment to the condotoo association so that people canst move back in here but steveut te and allison as we discussed disd before when you look at thatyou litany of problems and realize e that it is a private business,u, that might be a tough sell for some maryland lawmakers. Awke Melanie Alnwick, fox5 localal newsnw. Ic still a lot of questions a there. Lot mel thanks very much. Uc tuck we talked a lot aboutbt whats coming up down the road months a heads of time. Im what about today. Well talk more about winter again. Our socialociaonatll t platforms. Plrm we put out our winter forecastor today. Da showers back in the forecast fes not as much this morning. Mng this will be an afternoon event. We have a cold front cominga cot through later on today andodnd again scattered showers around here id say between 1 oclockck and eight or 9 oclock oclo tonight. Tonight. 51 degrees milder thanreilder everybodys about 10 degreess ab warmer than yesterday when weay had freezing temperaturesemperau across the area. Across look whats happening up inppenn new york and binghamton,amn, 29 degrees. Reason i mention that theyret getting Winter Weather upter there. Look at that. Three tolo 6 inches of freshs e brand new snow expected inn upstate new york and parts ofaro vermont. All right. U for us its just rain showers. You can see the bulk of the e th activity ie s tobulk o our nortb well have some scatteredatte showers around here a little lie later this afternoon. R all right, im giving itthg, all away in the seven day. Even y well focus on the friday, holiday time frame coming upe nu but monday looks good for halloween. Pay for the forecast. No, no its a free servicefree he does every day. D he doesnt have to give itt t away for free. Fe. Hello. Thats good advice. Hatgood yes. Have some s 7 08 we problems on the roads. Oads. Bw parkway northbound remains rs shut down. N. Serious crash. A medevac has already left the scene carrying a patient with injuries. Inries two cars and a motorcycleorcy involved. In bw parkway northbound shutdhu down space Flight Center. Ace southbound traffic is verynd slow leading past that scene. Northbound side you cantyou ca access bw parkway from them the ramps from 193 either and youre basically parked from before 410 so huge delayshugeely there. I would say take route one upoue to the beltway. Routote oneoute one north or 95 north to avoido avod that delay. Del lets switch it over becauser b this is not the only big problem were dealing with ande take a look at the inner loopder at one of our cameras. Cameras. Inner loop is basically parkedke from branch avenue across thecr wilson bridge. E. Were seeing a ton of t congestion there. Ngestion the well take a look at our maps. 295 on the northbound side byidb laboratory road, that is is adding to those inner looper l delays as folks wait to getwaite through that area. Thatrea. Also, a new crash, 270 south0ou in urbana at 80 youree basically parked from 70 pastm s there scene. Were dealing with that crash ts blocking the left lane. An and then heavy traffic theffic rest of the way so about a 45 minute delay from 70 down to70 e bebeltway. Theres a look at that crashra 295 northbound at laboratoryaby road and a better view of that a red line that i showed youd from the camera through oxonougo hill the inner loop is just is s parked. 295 benning road in the delays day from 50 on down past pennsylvania. Nnsylvia. And then again 50 inbound iou through cheverly basicallychev parked because folks heading in on 50 are also hitting thataa delay on hinew york avenue at bladensburg. Bl lay market 15 crash closed in 1 both directionscr at 55. T hearing theyre starting totartn let traffic on the northboundonh side through in one lane butan were still seeing such a huge g backup there. He. 66 backed up 234 to 28 and a then we have a crash on the outerrash loop after colesvillel a lot of bad traffic this thi morning. Green line delays. Green li wesll take a n closer look ata that next. Th allison. N. 7 he 09 and lets get toet t more headlines now on a thursday morning. Ni we have a tragic update toet share on a story thats been stn developing since last night. Sin we have learned that a man whoe was shot behind a Movie Theater in Charles County hasrl died. The shooting happened on mallsan ci mrcle drive in waldorf around p. M p. M. Police say the victim, a young man, was with friends when he he stopped and had aad a conversation with the suspect s who then pulled out a gun and ad shot him. That suspect is in custody. Us sentencing day in Montgomery County for the man who hit and killed policet an officer noahd leotta. Ltt luis reluzco pled guilty ingu i may. Police say he was drunk whenrune he hit officer leotta in rockville last year. Prosecutors want reluzco he to t spend at least 10 years in l0 prison. In Prince Georges County police needs your help locating thisnce gece n man nicc rashaad young is wanted innted i connection with the shooting shn at the shops at ive stve preliminary investigationinary t revealed the 20yearoigld waso involved in a dispute that tha ended with young shooting theg e victim before running from the scene. Sc sup on our fox5 and sociald sol media platforms this morning. Questions and comments from our viewers about how this could be possiblforme. S s were talking about aand ers vi polenost ire tncidentking beo local Police Officers and theere confusion thats followed. Flow. Maureen umeh joins us now with w the full story. To mo, whats going on. Ats g o thats that fallout thatlo came from the shooting youm thsn told us abg out just awhile ago a d. C. Police officer who washow Walking Around near the scene of that shooting at the shops at iverson has now comeom forward to say that he wast profiled by officers fromers fro Prince Georges County andeorg then he says he was b Robert Parker who is assignedne to d. C. s Harbor Patrol says say he was thrown to the ground and punched in the head evend ev as he was identifying himselfeni as an officer obeying allbeyinga command. He says he was stopped because he matched the description of the suspect involved in that shooting. After thatoo parker claims he was blank blamed for his treatment. Tr they blamed you. Yes. Woo did they he say. Why didnt you tell m theeu oore a Police Officer in the firstidll micoffi place. Place why dunn tell me you were going to pat me down. Prince georges county police told fox5 that theynce ge believe their officer actedacted professionally and with wit restraint and that therain confusion was caused becauses cb the d. C. Police officer had a gun. Prince georges county issuing a statement that says in parte wet bthelatieve s our officer c affected professionally and with restraint during a patter down. Our officer discovered the manie had a gun on his waistbands. Aisa at that point our officers took the man to the ground during a brief struggle. Ug a he preliminary investigationni he reveals it was only afteryer the man was restrained by the original officer and backup officers did he identifyfy himself as a Police Officer. Of. Of course hundreds of followers on facebook have commented on this story and we t want to share some of thosee ofe comments with you now. Ow brenda wrote on facebook thisoh is exactly why i worry about aut my Police Officer grandsonrandsn when hes not in uniform and carrying his service weaponce wo which they are required to do. Just sickening and yes he was profiled. Jackson commented quote my estition why. Why dunn identify yourself yours frisk you thats when you wereas to tell him i have a service weapon. Apon. Matthew wrote he could see the s Prince Georges Countyce g officers perspective saying. Sn i understand it fully. He matches the description andhd he felt a gun. Elt a g i understand the guy says hesya a cop but i think you have to detain him first and then get his i. D. His i. D. If you dont and hes not a hea cop then he has thep then hs opportunity to shoot you. Y to sy now of course he as we said sai this is getting a lot of attention on facebook. On steve and allison i think from you can see that there aretsseet multiplehe sides to the storytoy each one bearing a lot ofne b merit. You know, did he identify himself in time as anea officerr you have to take the the precautions to apprehend aeh would be suspect but, you know, procedures obviously being called into question. He said he he did identify himself. When did you identify yourself, was in t adihead of tt to avoid this or did you do itoi after and sort of helped this escalate . Its a tough oneoughe Facebook Comments that weok picked out here so no com easyas answers here but im sure anuran investigation will ensue. Ue three of many comments. Omment keep the comments coming. It is 7 14 right now. Terrible story here. A dog found in the trash. This morning the search for the dogs ownerning t continuess bob barnard following thiswing i story in the district. In the di. Plus, from the white housem to best selling author to fox anchor. Ch dana barinas joins us live. Le. We dish on the president ial tnt el help bridge the divide in our . . It only takes a second for an everyday item to become dangerous. Always keep laundry pacs away from children. Keep them up, keep them closed, keep them safe. Tide pods now come in a child guard zip pack. Y pacs safe and your child safer. . . 7 16 right now and you are taking a look atri someght nasy backups. Baltimorewashington parkway northbound is closed between 193ewand i and goddard space ff center dealing with a crash dea liinvonglving a w motorcycle anl blocked and traffic is parked ip all the way back to 410. 4 your best bet to get aroundro that exit at 410 from bw parkway and take route one route northbound or the beltway over h to 95 northbound because yourt b dont want to sit in thatat backup. You can see all the trafficn se being diverted talherel th at 13 well certainly keep youyou updated on this crash. Ted on ths not the only big problem were w dealing with this morning so s lets switch it over for aswit look at our maps. Ap metro delays as well on the green line. L train malfunction at greent gree light. Residual to branch avenue. Inal t urban blocked by a crash at 80. Youre basically parked from pao 70 down past 80 and then the delays president ial candidaterei up again through germantown. Heavy traffic as you try tode get down towards t thehr beltra. 295 northbound crash atrash at laboratory road has us parked ud from the beltway to laboratoryto road and then look at thatook at inner loop delay. Delay. So many folks trying to getge onto 295 that is backing upki the inner loop from beforerom bf branch avenue withstand stillti traffic to across the wilsonilsn bridge. Be prepared for. That 395 northbound ceiling95 n with delays and 295 south a crash at benning. Or crassh aop a crash aelays t tucker barns, its busy over here. How you hanging in there. N t not too busy over here. Here. You hanging out livingiving dream. Decent news to talk about this week. Yeah, as we gett inent o i friday, saturday, sunday,y, monday its going to be auautiful. Nice late fall feel. F you deserve a break today. Od thank you. Thats. Catchy. C thats catchy. Tcatc where have i heard thatre h before. 51 now in washington. Noticeably milder than we werate 24 hours ago1 no. Thanours 50 up in baltimore. Almore remember yesterday we had a lo out there and again werere about 10 degrees warmer thisthis ing. Ing. Still chilly culpeper andpe and manassas 39 degrees. 39 46 for you in leonardtown. Nardwn clouds will quickly increase. Ie if you have any sunshine atany e all it will not last today as ty a cold front comes through andhu you can see that the heaviesthei of the activity is up intont pennsylvania and new york at new this hour and will remain upain there today but well have scattered showers in the forecast this afternoon. St thi so, if