He captured this video and for a time, two f16 fighter jets had to find the blimp as it travelerred at 16,000 feet and ton manned aircraft start to drift lower. People staal started calling 911. Who wonder what the blimp is used for. Theyre use in iraq and afghanistan for surveillance. The heliumfilled blimp part of a 2. 7 billion project by the pentagon called the joint land attack Cruise Missile defense elevated net senting system or j. A. L. E. N. S. They didnt know whether they should shoot it down and has classified and sensitive material on board. It could be dangerous if it came down in an area populated by lots of people. Were learning the blimp started to deflate and came down on its own. Cbs news david martin said National Guard helicopters had to scramble to secure is crash site and all the technology on board. Its part of a pair and you can bet the other blimp is ground. No one was hurt as far as we know but there will be a huge investigation to how this could have possibly happened. Yeah. Yeah. Back to you guys. That doesnt sound cheap. Im glad they didnt have to shoot it down or anything else worse happen. Deb, thank you. More breaking news out of northeast d. C. Two children shot close to the intersection of building road and east capitol street. Mola, what do you know at this point . Reporter were trying to find out those childrens ages. Its unclear but they were shot at benning road and east they were taken to the east. Hospital. You see the investigation behind me. Shots were fired. Witness heard several shots and people screaming andering. Detectives have been focusing on this metro red bus parked about 50 feet from the intersection of we think road and east capitol. They have been constantly going on and off the bus. Its unclear when they were shot or if the bus has anything to do with the shooting. Metro Transit Police are on scene and could be an indication the bus is involved. Police said theres no lookout for a suspect but they have not confirmed whether an arrest has been made. Now, as a result of the Police Investigation going on, there is a threeblock stretch you see going north this way that is closed on east capitol street going up to 46th and northeast here. Live in northeast, moola leng his. Mola, thank you. A jury is deciding the fate of charles severance, accused of murdering three prominent alexandria residents. Peggy fox is covering the trial. The question is if the Mental Illness will be a consideration here. Reporter not in term of whether he did it. The jury is not allowed to consider an insanity defense because the defense didnt make that. Brian porter said all the evidence points to one person only, the defendant. Charles severance blamed the people of alexandria for the loss of his shot and sought revenge by shooting the three prominent city residents. He called the murders signature crimes with similarities too great to be coincidental. All three occur in the same neighborhood at the same time of day in the same way spelled out by severance in his manifesto for his crimes. Introduce murder into a safe, secure neighborhood. It shutters with horror. Do it again and again. Knock, talk, have, kill, exit. Murder wisdom, severance wrote. The missing well,. 22 caliber gun he had access to. Ammunition in his parents home matched the murders and the only once identified severance in court as gunman. The defense said the description of the man with the shorter is beard is not severance. Defense attorney megan thomas told the jury the commonwealth is jumping to done collusions with absolutely no forensic evidence linking severance. Everyone is suspicious of middleaged man with no place to call home. Severance was an easy target, she said. She said if the jury believed this is severances red ford escort with the same dent and sticker is driving near the home right after the murder, she said, its not a crime to be in the city of alexandria. The Commonwealth Attorney brian porter said after ledatos murder, people were terrified but after severance was arrested, the murders stopped and he said that is powerful evidence of guilt. The jury elected a foreman and will come in at 9 00 a. M. To start deliberates if they havent already started. In fairfax, peggy fox, wusa 9. Peg, thank you. They have a lot to go through. The jury will go over nearly four weeks of evidence, including the testimony of 100 witnesses and more than 2,000 pages of severances writings. If convict of any of the three murders, severance faces a maximum life sentence. The deputy in this video who violently removed a student from her desk in South Carolina has been fired. Now, the sheriff says the officer did have a right to put his hands on the girl, but in this case, the sheriff said deputy ben field went too far. Classmates said it started after the teacher repeatedly ask the student to put her phone away and one student who ask his face be concealed says other kids in the class tried to defuse the situation. She was even told by the students to just get up and leave when the administrator came in. A mother claims fields got into a struggle with her son, who live with autism, when he was just a freshman. She took photos after the altercation which show a torn shirt and marks on his arms and shoulders. The federal investigation in this most recent incident is still ongoing. New detail in a crime that ended with one suspect dead at the scene and another in jail. On monday morning, police said two 21yearolds attempt to rob a liquor store but got caught. One suspect ran. Police said she shot at the officers. Wusa 9s ellison barber with the latest. Good evening. Reporter adam, these are the charging documents for the suspect that Police Caught and arrested there. Theyre very detailed because police said there were surveillance camera inside of that liquor store. According to charging documents, mcmillan and mcallister walked into Morris Miller wine and liquor at 9 05 a. M. Police said Surveillance Video inside the store showed the couple wearing glove and facemask. One had a construction vest and carried a pistol. Once inside, mcmillan walk to a stock room while mcallister tried to lock the back door. But in the process, both were spotted by store employees. Documents say mcalter met mcmillan in the stock room and fled out a back door. Moments later, mcmillan left the store and police said she was seen tucking a pistol in her waistband. She reportedly ran out the front door and that is when the shooting began. The officers got here quickly and as they were entering the parking lot, the suspect was coming out armed and just opened fire on the officer. Reporter mcmillan shot at officers two different times. Quite deserving the suspect immediately engaged police. Mcmillan was 21 years old, arrested in maryland once in march 2014 for seconddegree assault. But other than that, her criminal record is seemingly nonexistent. Her aunt, Stephanie Chambers told the Washington Post she couldnt believe mcmcmillan had a gun and said its out of character. After police took mcallister into custody, they found a bike that was register to him and in the back seat, they found all of clothes that one suspect was wearing in that Surveillance Video. As for mcmillan this is tually the block where she lived. We spoke to a bunch of different neighbors. For the most part, they didnt seem to know her, but one person we spoke to did and was shocked to hear her neighbor had anything to do with this. Reporting live, ellison barber, wusa 9. A decision that proved fatal. Thank you. Mcallister was taken into custody a few blocks away from the crime scene. The first appearance in court yesterday. He was charged with attempted robbery while armed. A man charged with Second Degree murder in the death of his wife. Disturbing detail in this story. 41yearold jason martin used a dumbbell to kill 42yearold Carla Dee Martin in their home last night. A neighbor called 911, reported trouble from the home on glen ridge drive. Three children in the home didnt witness the violence and they are right now in the care of other family members. To campaign 2016 now, and democratic president ial candidate Bernie Sanders is just a couple of hours away from his town hall rally in fairfax. Its being held at George Mason University at the recreation and athletic complex. The doors open at 6 0. The event starts at 7 00. You must have a ticket. Garrett will be there and will take us there live at 6 00. The third republican president ial debate gets underway in a few hours. After falling to second in the polls, donald trump will try to reclaim that spot from dr. Ben carson in colorado. Analysts say jeb bush is under the most pressure to perform strongly. The cbs news poll also shows seven out of ten republican primary voters have yet to make up their mind. Congressman paul ryan is one step closer to becoming the next salespeople speaker of the house. House republicans nominated the Wisconsin Republican to the leadership position and the move came despite ryans decision he will vote for a budget for the white house. The full house is expected to announce him as speaker tomorrow. Were first just get started on wusa 9 news at 5 00. A condo for sale is generating a bigtime buzz tonight. Literally and figuratively. Whats in the closet that has people talking. Thats on the way at 5 30. Rick perry in d. C. For a very special cause topper is back with more on when to expect this rain to come to an end. Plus right after the break, new information on the deadly accident involving a car that plowed right into the front of a fairfax home. The Washington Post endorses democrat Jeremy Mcpike for state senate. Applauding mcpikes ideas about getting traffic moving. The post warns republican hal parrish holds rigid positions against Medicaid Expansion and commonsense gun safety. And parrish was the deciding vot to restrict Womens Health clinics in manassas, forcing women to go elsewhere for cancer screenings and birth control. Jeremyik mcp is the better choice. Im Jeremy Mcpike, candidate for state senate, and i sponsored this ad. Two men are dead after crashing into a home in the alexandria area of Fairfax County. Police said they were driving a stolen car when they lost control on beacon hill road and crashed around 8 00 last night. Surae chin joins us at the crash site with much more information than last night. Reporter thats right. It was quite a dramatic crash and the police are saying that the driver was speeding. He lost control. He is 28yearold Antonio Beatty and went through the trees, losing control and went through the fence and into the house. Oh, my god, call 911. Reporter a frantic call from a neighbor as she call watched a car plow through the yard into a neighbors house. Her fiance heard it, too. Boom. Reporter police said the driver and passenger died when they rounded the curve at beacon hill road, crossed schmidt way drive and crash into a metal fence before landing in the dining room of the corner house. No one was home. Beatty and the passenger died. He was a cool dude. Reporter he went by train. I was asking what happened. My sister was like, chuckie died. Yeah, thats sad. It is. Rest in peace, chuck. Reporter Fairfax CountyPolice Believe speed was a factor. Residents are not surprised. Its a continuous problem, thats for sure. I wasnt shocked to hear anything and its you know, thank god nobody in the houses was affected. People coming down the hill too fast, simple as that. I have lived here since u78. Reporter signs are posted and lights warn drivers, although one of the flashing lights wasnt work. I dont necessarily think the corner itself is dangerous. I think the drivers and speed that people carry through it is dangerous. You cant really blame the corner. Reporter and this house has seen crashes before. Bdot will check on that light and make sure that the signage is appropriate. They also say there have been five crashes in the last five years. They mention that rumble strips are not ideal because its too loud for residents. They said a speed bump is also not an option because too many cars just come through, about 10,000 per day. Live in the alexandria area of Fairfax County, suffer surae chin. Police found a gun and some marijuana inside the car and are trying to see if drugs or alcohol were a factor in that crash. A royal salute today to wounded warriors. Prince harry was joined by First Lady Michelle Obama and dr. Jill biden for the launch of the invictus game. It brings wound Service Members to compete in a variety of events. Prince harry talking about the importance of the games to him. The Invictus Games seeks to change perceptions of physical and mental injury. One thing we have to talk about more is breaking down these barriers around socalled invisible injuries like post traumatic stress, just as we have for physical injuries like the loss of a limb. Prince harrys hillwind one day tour took him to the white house, followed by a reception at the British Embassy in northwest. Today is a yellow weather alert day. Now, heres wusa 9s first alert weather. I have been poring over data in the Weather Office and still kind of concerned about a line of shower and storms between 11 00 p. M. And about 2 00 a. M. From west to east so well show you on futurecast in a second. Live look outside on the weather cam. It looks cold it is gloomy but actually, its pretty darn warm. Its 70 downtown, dew point in the 60s and some light rain at national. Heavy rain at dulles. You can see the latest wave of rain and a few embedded thunderstorm from the southwest and pretty big activity in warrenton and west of town. Look at the Lightning Strike now just showing up around culpeper. The atmosphere is destabilizing a little bit and will not be a classic situation with big, tall thunderstorms and will get louttop thunderstorm that could produce heavy rain, hail and gusty wind. Heavy rain around chantilly and will be slow on 50 no matter what road you pick tonight. It will be a slow ride and with the leaves on ground son the roads, a little slippery, too. Going up 270, moderate rain from rock ford to germantown over to poolesville. Well zoom back out and track this one system toward middleton. 5 27. T headline goes like this. Thunderstorms until about 2 00 a. M. I still believe some could be heavy and a few could be severe. Bus stop temperature, 56 to 66, mild and try. Thats good news. Breezy and warm ahead of the next front. Were talking 70s. Cooler on friday but still nice. Were just going back to average temperatures, actually. So heres the futurecast. 10 00 tonight, scattered showers, temperatures still well in the 60s, bigger thunderstorms to the west, west of martins burg and west of i 81. Well stoll stop at midnight. Red line and storm up 95. Thats why were concerned about a late push of big storms. Then that will move through quickly. By dawn, well clear out and still mild, 59. At 6 00 a. M. In frederick, 59 in gaithersburg and rockville and bowie. Its pretty warm start. By 8 30, upper 50s to low 60s. You wont see the green blob. We could have a sprinkle west of i81 and thats it. Overall a good thursday. 63 at 70. 64 at 9 00. Average high is in the 60s. 59 by 1 00. I think many areas will be 70 by 1 00. Breezy and cooler on friday, 62. Again, still a nice day and great for halloween, 64 with sunshine. Next seven days. Going to move our clocks back one hour as we go from Daylight Saving time to standard time. The ravens game looks okay, near 70. A shower, just a slight, better chance on monday. Leftover shower tuesday. Still warm, too, tuesday and wednesday. Were back into the low 70s. Well take it. Topper, thank you. Dennis hastert pleading guilty in a hush money case. Illinois republican illegally withdrew 3. 5 million from Bank Accounts to conceal High School Student decades ago. As part of a plea deal, prosecutors recommend a sentence of up to six months. A judge will issue his decision february 29. Young athlete from our area joins the likes of malia obama and kylee jenner as most influential teens of 2014. Pretty remarkable. How kids can find the halloween house with the best candy. Plus amazons potential new plan to continue its retail dominance. Narrator for state senate, who shares our values . Jeremy mcpike supports school funding. Thinks women should make their own health care decisions. And favors background checks on all gun sales. Hal parrish . As mayor, he slashed education. Fought to block Womens Health clinics. Parrish gets an a from the gun lobby they oppose background checks to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people. Virginia extreme or mainstream . Vote mcpike for virginia. Feinblatt everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund sponsored this ad. The kansas city royal and new york mets meet tonight in game 2 of the world series. It will be hard for us to match the drama from last nights recordsetting game. The royals won 54 in 14 innings. There was a power outage that knocked fox sports off the air for 23 minutes at the top of the show. Expect blame the [ indistinct ] sleepy heads who roll in to work today. 1 30 a. M. . Must have been quite a game. The job market had people a little more anxious in october. A Business Research group said Consumer Confidence index dropped to 97point 97 points down, 5 points down from the previous gain. Amazons want to get to in your closet, considering launching its own fashion line. It will use the Clothing Brand to fill gaps when certain designer