Another breaking story tonight, the deadly crash of a commercial spacecraft. Witnesses say the craft exploded during a test flight over californias mojave desert. The local sheriff says one pilot was killed and a second pilot ejected but seriously injured. No one else was aboard. The wreckage just scattered across the desert. This was a suborbital passenger craft called space shape 2 developed by billionaire Richard Branson virgin galactic. Hundreds of people put down deposits hoping to someday fly aboard the craft. Virgin galactic said the spaceship experienced some sort of inflight anomaly. The man charged with kidnapping Hannah Graham appeared in a Fairfax County courtroom today in a different case. He was arraigned on charges of attempted murder, abduction and Sexual Assault from a case back in 2005. Peggy fox was in the courtroom this morning. Did matthew say anything . Yes. We heard him say a few things today. When it appeared that the judge was about to appoint the Fairfax CountyPublic Defenders Office to represent Jesse Matthew, he raised his hand and told the judge he wanted the same attorney who is representing him in the charlottesville case. We have the case of jesse leroy matthew, jr. Reporter Jesse Matthew appeared in a video link from the albemarle regional jail. Sitting next to him is jim ca mr. Blos jim camblos. Mr. Matthew did, you want to Say Something . Yes, sir. I would prefer to have mr. Camblos my attorney if its possible. Reporter the head of the fairfax Public Defenders Office argued that his office should be appointed, but camblos argued he could provide continuity between the cases. I have developed a very Good Relationship with mr. Matthew since he was arrested in texas on the missing the graham girl who was missing. Ive also developed a relationship whim on the harrington case and we have discussed this case on many, many occasions. Reporter judge dennis smith said he would appoint both. I have a very great reluctance to have cocounsel with the public defender. Reporter then the judge appointed the public defender lead counsel. The attack matthew is charged with happened september 24th of 2005 off jermantown road. A woman was picked up and carried to this field where she was brutally attacked and sexually assaulted. She is coming and she is relieved i think. I dont want to say happy because theres no joy in any of this for any of us, but i think shes satisfied that maybe well get some resolution. Reporter the woman moved back to her home country of india, but according to Commonwealth Attorney ray morrogh she is absolutely ready to testify in a case judge smith wants to hear quickly. My intent is to have this trial relatively soon. Were not going to be slow about this. Reporter before the judge appointed those attorneys he first established the fact that Jesse Matthew is indigent and didnt have a job or any money. Camblos filed a motion for a psychiatric evaluation. The judge wants to read over it first. We expect to hear that motion during the next hearing in two weeks november 14th. We compact to see matthew in person and expect him to enter a plea guilty or not guilty. D. C. Police need your help to find a man who ambushed and attacked an officer with an axe early this morning. It happened in the brookland neighborhood of northeast d. C. Debra alfarone is live from that community to fill us in on a bizarre attack tonight. Reporter what happened was unprovoked. It was scary and the chief told me right here the Patrol Officer was here. He saw a suspicious man. He goes down here and he comes back, circles back, come down this alley in his patrol car. What happens next is that suspect comes at him, ambushes him, takes that axe, swings it into his window shattering it just inches from his face and then he takes off. I want to show you a picture right now of that actual axe that is in that window. Its still embedded in that window when that picture was taken. An officer run after him. While hes trying to take him down he gets hurt. The suspect drops the axe, takes off and he is still out there. Police are looking at the axe for clues and also looking for video from the neighborhood. That officer is expected to be okay the chief tell says us. This dangerous suspect on the loose and its halloween, so with more people out tonight more than usual, they could cross path with this person. So the chief says this is a top priority getting this person off the street. If you know anything at all, call 2027279099. When we come back at 6 00, well go in depth with chief lanier on why her first phone call this morning was to new york citys top cop. Live in the brookland section in northeast d. C. , Debra Alfarone, wusa9. Prince georges county police made sure this candy did not end up in your childs trickortreat bag. County and state narcotics officers seized several boxes of candy infused with marijuana. The candy includes taffy, mint and blueberry and banana walnut chocolate bars. If you look at this stuff and raid your kids halloween candy and pull the peppermint patties or whatever you like and arent paying attention, you or your kid could easily open it up and eat it. Its relatively innocuous if you look at it. The boxes arrived in Prince Georges County from the west coast and colorado. Investigators would not comment on any arrests since this is an ongoing investigation. So what kind of weather can parents expect when they take their kids trickortreating tonight . First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt is in the Weather Center with answers. We just want it dry. It will be dry. A little bit of sunshine now. Its actually pretty nice. Lets start with the halloween forecast, temperatures in the 50s to start, maybe some mid to upper 50s if youre downtown at 6 00. By 8 00 51 and by 10 00 temperatures in the burbs in the upper 40s and around 50 downtown. Well come back, talk about our yellow alert tomorrow, tracking some of the coldest air of the season and yes, its going to snow in the mountains and well talk about whether or not you can salvage one of the two weekend days. A couple tried to abduct an 8yearold boy and tonight the search is on for those suspects. It happened yesterday morning as the boy was walking to the bus stop in the 2900 block of brinkley road in hills. A man got out of his car, pointed his gun at him and a woman got out the other side of the car and told him to get in the car. That boy took off running and the suspects drove away. Something were taking very seriously. Officers and detectives were out all day this morning canvassing the area looking for further information. The boy said the two people were in a light colored, maybe even gray car. Anybody who has any information should call Prince Georges County police. The numberrous your screen. Also a man in Prince Georges County sentenced today to life in prison plus 30 years for killing a high school student. 21yearold travon bennett was found guilty of Second Degree murder and Armed Robbery in the death of 18yearold marckel ross. Ross was shot and killed two years ago while walking to Central High School in capitol heights. Right now investigators are trying to figure out if leaflets found near a Marine Corps Base in quantico are associated with isis. A Government Employee came upon the leaflets while running through quantico on wednesday afternoon. Our partners at the military times report the flyers have a reversed image of the Islamic State group flag and writing in arabic that is translated as we are here from mexico and came by train. No extra precautions are being taken, but investigators are taking this situation seriously. A maine judge has rejected a bid by state Health Officials to restrict the movements of kaci hickox, the nurse who defied a quarantine for medical workers who have treated ebola patients in west africa. The judge ruled hickox can leave her home and ride her but but must have daily monitoring for ebola symptoms. I have been compliant with the directive monitoring the cdc recommends. I will continue to be compliant. Shes violated every promise made so far, so i cant trust her. The 21 incubation period for the ebola virus ends on november 10th for hickox. Well switch gears to a lighter subject, football. Washington fans received some great news this week, the starting quarterback is healthy and he spoke for the first time. Dave owens is in our Sports Center and all ears are on what he had to say. He called it a freak injury and hes ready to return. Now maybe minnesota is the perfect platform. Remember, robert had some electric moments against the vikings. You remember that 76yard sprint against minnesota his rookie year . Burgundy and gold nation was in love after that. Time to reignite the relationship if you ask me. Griffin full go for the vikings this weekend. Here he is at practice looking to get his timing back in the zone read attack. Bound to be some roughs. Its been seven weeks since he dislocated his ankle against the jags. Griffin sells that, but physically he says he is ready to go. I feel great. Its been a process. We went through it. Coach, doctors, trainers, everybody working together to make sure i have the proper amount of time to be ready to go back out there and coach made the decision to allow me to play with the guys. He certainly is excited, but he doesnt have any dilutions of grandeur. Im going to have to rely on my teammates to get me through this one on sunday. Well have much more coming up later on. For now back to you ladies in the studio. Fans are going to turn out to watch the burgundy and gold play in minnesota sunday and thousands are expected to protest the teams name at the very same time. Surae chinn brings us the latest on the battle off the field coming up at 5 30. Reporter a crowd taunts the man suspected of killing a Pennsylvania State trooper as he makes his first court appearance. Im Wendy Gillette in milford, pennsylvania. Reporter im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek. Coming up an east capitol market cited with rodent droppings on the shelves. Reporter trickortreat. Thousands are expected to hit georgetown tonight for halloween celebrations, but with halloween on a friday on gun safety, larry hogan isnt being straight. After filling out their questionaire, hogan was awarded an a from the nra. But now he refuses to release his responses. The nra opposes comprehensive background checks. They want to weaken marylands gun safety laws. Even support letting suspects on the fbi terror watch list buy guns. On gun safety and terror the nra is wrong. Hogan gets an a from the nra. On protecting maryland we just cant trust him. And now the wusa9 restaurant alert app. Im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek. To track inspections text food to 25543. Enter greenway market on northwest capitol street northeast. Click on that to see 12 Violations Including rodent droppings on the potato chips display shelves. Some bags appear to have been eaten through. It passed reinspection and is back in business. Text food to 25543 for the restaurant alert. Ghosts, ninjas and a princess or two have taken georgetown for halloween tonight. Our mola lenghi joins us with more on tonights festivities. Let me just say very creative selection for tonight. Reporter i got to look the part. It looks normal right now out here in georgetown, but in a few hours you wont be able to recognize this place, one, because youll have thousands of people flooding these streets dressed up in their Halloween Costumes and two, you also wont be able to recognize the traffic patterns, parking and police presence. It will take on a different look tonight. With it being a friday night its certainly good for the folks coming out here to enjoy themselves, probably no work or school tomorrow, but it could also mean theyll be out here partying harder than if it was say a monday or tuesday night and they did have work or school the nice day. Metropolitan police say they twill be out here increased will be out here increased presence in georgetown in the immediate surrounding areas. The main area is the key bridge to the west to 28th street to the east and k street on the south to p street on the north. There are also new parking restrictions throughout that area. They kicked in at 4 00 and run till 6 a. M. Youll notice the temporary signs out here that are posted pretty much everywhere. Cars parked illegally will be towed. Weve already seen about a dozen tow trucks roaming the streets towing cars. Also dozens and dozens of georgetown step blocks will be closed to vehicle traffic city blocks will be closed to vehicle traffic beginning at 6 30. In a little over an hour many of those city blocks here. We have more information on www. Wusa9. Com. Have fun. Be safe and, of course, eat a lot of candy. Im mola lenghi in georgetown for wusa9. Its only just beginning. One place sure to be hopping tonight is fright fest at six flags of largo. This is some video this morning of ghoulish dancers getting ready for the festivities. Right now on the wusa9 mobile app well have a list of the best places for your kids to do some trickortreating. Download the app or update it for free for your apple or your android devices. Many of you have taken the time to share your halloween pictures with us. This is from our friend sandy richie, what a cute uniform costume. Dogs need costumes, too right . So here are ella the bumblebee and lucy. You can upload your halloween pictures on our wusa9 facebook page. We had grand plans for costumes. It just didnt come together, but you are wearing orange and have on a pumpkin tie, so i think weve got it colored. I did put gibby in sort of a picture. Did you take a picture . I did. Dogs love it. You dont have the twitter right now . No. Follow me on twitter or instagram. I got to look for it . Yeah. I said hes prepared for tomorrows yellow alert day. Lets talk about folks going on the road from here to happy valley. Terps up playing the nittany lions. Its going to be a tough day up there. Temperatures 47 to 52, tailgate temperatures in the 40s and oh, yeah, showers and clouds. So going up there, bundle up and also take some stuff thats waterproof. It will be showering much of the day, nothing crazy heavy but on and off all day. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, still pretty nice out, see some sun and trees are still muted off in the distance, havent been impressed with vibrant colors this fall, sorry. 56 now, relative humidity 32 , pretty dry air mass, winds turning east to northeast now 5. Chilly for High School Football. Yellow alert tomorrow for showers, a little rain east of town, east of i95 but nothing heavy, just blustery. I said it yesterday. I think its going to rain tomorrow. I dont think the Little League games will be canceled. If your kid is in a soccer league, get ready. Dry and cold for the Navy Notre Dame game at fedex tomorrow. You can watch it here on channel 9. Well get a little detail in a minute. 52 at 8 00 tonight, 48 in leesburg, breaks in the clouds and notice the green which is rain and the snow and magenta which is a mix across the divide and mountains. By 10 00 still dry, 40s and 50s and by midnight if youre out super late, dry and showers defined to the mountains primarily west of i81. We get into tomorrow morning. Here comes a batch of rain and showers moving east to west. By 8 00 were all in the 40s, some showers along i95, kind of moves across the metro area into Montgomery County and Loudoun County and back into manassas, but notice how its not well organized and theres no real colors here, just green, light to moderate activity. It will be tough on the coast. Theyll be hammering our ocean resorts. By 1 00 we have breaks in the shower activity and by 4 00 were just cloudy with much of the showers gone. Were not looking at a lot of rain tomorrow but a miserable blustery day. By 8 00 start of the game temperatures already in the 40s downtown, probably 48 at fedex. We get into the 11 00 hour, now were seeing clearing sky, temps falling to the low 40s and seeing more snow toward petersburg and oakland. Tonight mostly cloudy, chilly, a shower possible late, low temperatures 40 to 46, winds northeasterly at 10. Tomorrow morning mostly cloudy, breezy and cold with showers. I think 40 to 50 with winds out of the north, northeast at 10 to 15 is cold. If youre spectating a soccer game tomorrow, youll agree. 49 at 9 00, 50 at 11 00 and only 50 at 1 p. M. Next three days bright but brisk sunday, 52, monday full sun. Remember move your clock back one hour because we go back to standard time on saturday. So 70 on tuesday, 74 wednesday, perhaps a shower thursday and 50s next friday. Authorities in pennsylvania say they finally have their man and now they want justice. A crowd of spectators booed and taunted accused cop killer eric frein as he was hauled into the courthouse in milford, pennsylvania. Coward low Life ReporterPolice Ambush suspect erick green got ambushed himself by eric frein got ambushed himself by crowds jeering. Frein has a swollen nose and cuts on his face. He already had the injuries when he dropped to his knees and surrendered thursday evening without a fight authorities say. It ended a 48 day 10 million manhunt. Following his rain. Authorities berated arraignment authorities berated frein in front of the crowd again. During a routine sweep u. S. Marshals captured frein near an abandoned airplane hangar about 30 miles from the state troopers barracks where he allegedly shot two troopers. Frein did not enter a plea during his proof court appe