or join the conversation already ongoing on our wusa 9 facebook page. >> so today i can report that as promised the rest of our troops in iraq will come home by the end of the year. after nearly nine years america's war in iraq will be over. >> the president's address lasted about seven minutes and that's all the time he needed to announce the pending end of the nearly 9-year-old war in iraq. now it means that about 39,000 troops will leave iraq by the end of december. danielle nottingham is at the white house. >> reporter: president obama declaring an end to the war in iraq. >> our troops in iraq will definitely be home for the holidays. >> reporter: the president said all u.s. forces will be on their way home by the end of this year. his announcement came after a secure video conference with the prime minister. the two leaders congratulated each other and promised to move forward as allies. >> our diplomats and civilian diplomats will help. >> reporter: spending months leaving several thousand troops as a training force. a deal breaker for the obama administration. the nearly 40,000

of course, you can count on wusa 9 to have live coverage of all the events. >> ken, thanks a lot for that. freedom plaza is located across from city hall has gotten pretty crowded with a lot of diverse people and a lot of different issues. brittany morehouse reports on how everybody's getting along. >> reporter: with cursive writing etched in cement at freedom plaza. >> the idea you and i are now talking like this is just common. you approach me and ask could you interview me. that would be something that would be real unique back then. >> reporter: not today. you can see that everywhere. these demonstrators for d.c. statehood stand side by side with those against moore and occupy d.c. protesters. their causes different, but their connections the same. dan anderson is here on a one- way ticket. he finds himself tearing up after this man asks for a photo and then embraces him off camera. >> i've had more flags right here today welcoming me home than white people in the last 45 years. >> reporter: just like color, compassion comes in different shades as well. just ask fred, a homeless

let us know by going to wusa 9.com. click on weather and choose the mixed storms report. >>> a person of interest is in custody this morning in charlotte, north carolina in connection with a murder in germantown. >>> 45-year-old curtis lopez is the estranged husband of -- mcqueen. mcqueen's body was found. witnesses saw lopez removing things from mcqueen's apartment and there is no sign of 11-year-old william mcqueen. >>> today marks the start of another chapter in the murder case. the family of 17-year-old ali mohammed is expected to file a lawsuit against owners of a nightclub. >> mohammed was believed to have thrown a brick through the front window of dc 9 after he was thrown out. witnesses say he was chased by club employees and a struggle began. mohammed died in the struggle. the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide and several employees were charged. but a later autopsy found mohammed had a heart condition which the medical examiner said contributed to his death. >> mr. ali was alive before they detained hi

. >>> additional tips on our website at wusa 9.com. >>> researchers in africa may have developed a vaccine for malaria. an experimental shot cut the risk of the disease in young children by half. however the vaccine is only about 50% effective. a lot lower than other common vaccines, but it is still something that could help save thousands of lives. scientists say there will be three more years of testing to see how long it works on babies and how long the protection will last. >>> a new warning for women about high blood pressure and birth defects. babies born to moms who took ace inhibitors in the first trimester are at higher risk of birth defects. researchers established a link between ace inhibitors and second and third trimesters. >>> president obama he's healthcare program has the potential to improve the healthcare system but the united states has more preventable deaths than any other rich nation in the world. >>> a number of took friends you have may say a lot about the size of your brain. british scientists studied the brain scans of college students they found more friends on t

>> we have more information on our wide at wusa 9.com. surae? >> thank you andrea. >>> let's look at the new movies in theaters. first to the remake. in the thing, researchers unearth a strange creature. a paranoia spreads as the creature seems to inhabit the teen's bodies and kills them off one at a time. >>> it's been 27 years since kevin bacon rocketed to stardom in "foot loose ." dennis quaid takes on the role of his father. it is rated pg 13. >>> a comic trio co-stars in the big year. steve martin, jack black and owen wilson their characters are experiencing a mid life crisis. a late life crass sis and a no life crisis. the three dedicate a year of their lives to a bird watching competition. the rating is pg. >>> if you want to get your cause noticed a catch which i ad sure helps. >>> coming up in today's cool schools, we are introduce today students with their winning awards. jessica? >> bacon. we are cooking up tons of bacon this morning. before we get to that we love bacon so much. we are even wearing it. coming up at 6:07. you are watch

>>> here's a look at a response you posted on the wusa 9 fan page. log on to the facebook fan page and you can leave your response. >> we'll reveal the answer later this morning. >>> 5:21 on this monday morning. a couple of sprinkles possible. as the front slips through sprinkles fall apart by 29. the sun will return mid to upper 60s by noon. this afternoon we are going into the low 70s, going to be a great afternoon, plenty of sunshine here. even this evening, in the 60s to around 70. clouds this morning but a really nice start to the week. andrea and jessica, over to you. >>> thank you, howard. >>> the world series starts this wednesday and we now know which teams will be playing. >>> the card nals taking on the brewers. it was over early. sean markham didn't even make it through the first inning. the cards become national league champions and they will host the texas rangers webs wednesday night. now here's more on the redskins quarterback change. >> reporter: good morning, everybody, here's your first look at sports. it was a rough night for the

. >>> log onto the wusa facebook faint page and leave your response. we'll reveal the answer during the next hour.  >>> welcome back. potential for strong storms later on this afternoon and this evening. the rain is moving along i-95 and montgomery and heavier stuff down to warrenton and down i-95 and toward fredericksburg as well. the futurecast today showing the showers and storms scattered about. sometimes there will be a lull. mid-60s at noon. near 70 for a lie. we'll be watching for late this afternoon and this evening. andrea and mike. >>> tonight the world series gets underway with the texas rangers at the st. louis cardinals. >>> here at home caps fans have a lot to be excited about right now. >> reporter: good morning, everybody. here's your first look at sports. the consensus throughout the caps locker room was we have one four straight. and we are undefeated. we are not happy with the way we played. last night we took a step in the right direction as they put on a pretty good darn performance. johansen sneaks the puck under t

log onto the wusa 9 facebook fan page and leave your comment. we'll reveal the answer in the next hour. 5:22 on this monday morning. clouds and fog. sun will be coming out in the next 90 minutes or so. really later and later. 50 degrees this morning in washington with 3 in frederick. we'll go through the morning. lower 50s at can. sprinkles can't be ruled out in the mountains. showers here late in the afternoon, coming across high 60s to near 70. mike and andrea? >>> in sports the best of three games in the world series. >> bottom of the first, rangers josh hamilton a pep talk, there is josh hamilton rbi, doubles into the corner. later three run homer from nick naply. didn't -- from mike. basically shut down the cardinals. now here's more on the redskins and their loss. >> reporter: good morning everybody. here's your first look at sports. we have seen all season what panthers quarterback cam newton can do. puts up record setting numbers. yet the panthers have just one win to speak of. you can't shut this team down. you have to out score them if

. >> log onto the wusa 9 facebook fan page. we'll reveal your answer later this morning. for a great vacation you can't beat mississippi. sure you can, it's called louisiana. hang on, florida's where folk's want to be. that's only until they get a taste of alabama hospitality. we can't agree on which state's best, but we can agree on one thing, wherever you vacation in the gulf, you'll have a great time. great seafood, beautiful beaches and fun for the whole family. we've got intimate bed and breakfast right on the water. cafe's with views of the gulf. go blue water fishing, ride a kayak, or just enjoy the world's best weather and soak up the world's best sun. we've gone all out to make this year the best ever. and we are 100% open for business. you mean 100% open for fun. here in the best part of the gulf. louisiana, florida, alabama, mississippi. this could go on for a while. our futurecast today we start off quiet out here. basically talking temperatures and patchy fog. fredericksburg to orange and culpepper. also prince georges county, places like college park a littl

>>> on our wusa 9 facebook fan page. i would say a good scream always healthy to go in the freezer and belt out my from you frustrations. >> leave your response and we'll reveal the answer coming up later this morning. [ speaking french ] [ speaking french ] movie buffs! this film is tres bien, but the interest rate on your checking account is le pew. interest on your checking? earn more with new high yield free checking at capital one bank. your interest rate will be five times the national average. five times the interest! and free atms at any bank. show's over folks. make your way to capital one bank. what's in your wallet? were you crying? yeah. >>> 52:12. we are looking good this morning. you may need the ice scraper on the windshield if you park your car outside. we have fog up in cumberland. possibly building out west. by 9:00 we are sunny and 40. a few more clouds into the shenandoah valley. clouds star to thicken this afternoon. mid-50s here for a high. late this afternoon and this evening. a few showers sneakin

. >>> and don't forget, we are always on at wusa 9.com. stay with us. we'll be right back. >>> the days of cell phone bill shock, well, let's just say they are numbered. wireless carriers announced a new program that will send you alerts to warn you if you are about to go over your monthly talk, text or data plan limits. the carriers voluntarily agreed to a deal after a study found one in six of us saw unexpected overages in our monthly bill. those notifications will start by october of next year. analysts say the alerts may give you more protection, but there is no guarantee it will eliminate the extra charges. >>> a year? going to take them a year? >> blackberry apologize for his massive outages. but this time they are extendingal an olive branch with free apps and a month of technical support free. the apps are available in the coming weeks. the offer runs until the end of the year. last week's blackout impacted millions around the world and left the company struggling to keep pace with competitors. some of those blackberry customers said see you, we

let the debate begin and weigh in with your opinions on our wusa 9 facebook page. >>> for many troops who calm home from the war in afghanistan the mental wounds are worse than the physical one. >> sandra hughes has the story of one vet that made it off the battlefield to almost die at home. >> reporter: jennifer crane's first day of army basic training was september 11th, 2001. two years later the 20-year-old was on the ground in afghanistan. >> you basically make the sign of the cross and just drive and pray and hope you don't get blown up that day. >> reporter: the images of war quickly wore her down. >> we would see trucks of bodies just come to the base with brain matter hanging out of their heads and missing limbs and a lot of blood. >> reporter: crane became addicted to crack cocaine and lived in her car many suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. a just released survey finds she isn't alone. 31% of veterans say they have post-traumatic stress disorder. >> a trigger could be a sound, site, will literally trigger an experience as if the person is once again in that horri

go to facebook.com/wusa 9. we'll have the answer at 6:53. >>> welcome back. howard has your weather first. we are staring to pick up some of the rain returning, especially south and west of town around madison and ruckersville. we see the yellows and oranges and will watch that move toward us later this morning and be with us through early afternoon. showers and storms through midday. we get to around 70, 71 we finish with sunshine and 78. >>> thank you, howard. in sports,. >> reporter: it was 1999 the last time the skins were in first place this late in the season. hopefully they stay there. dc is counting on rushing offense to score and it is hoping for help in the passing game as well. >> we have to go out there and examine our technique and releases and make sure we are in the right place at the right time. >>> no word on the status of chris cooley for this weekend's game. he was limited at practice thursday. the coach said he had to get his knee drained to relieve swelling. >>> the washington caps are a perfect 9-0 to start their season. that includes a

we are here at wusa tv have our own workers taking place in this saturday walk. alexis mcdowell is with the event. monica and i will emcee this event. tell us what is going to happen on saturday. >> on saturday, everybody in the dc area will come together to raise $450,000 for the american diabetes association. all the money raised will go toward local efforts to help stop diabetes with awareness, education and research. but locally, we have a research project going on that we support at georgetown university for diebold beatic research. so more ways to support local efforts to stop diabetes. >> tell us about the event itself. where is it being held, what should we expect saturday? >> reporter: it is at nationals park downtown off the green line navy yard. 8:00 is registration. 9:30 the program begins you will be emceeing. and at 10:00 the walk starts. it is a for -- a two or four mile route. >>> now it is not too late for folks to get involved with us, is it? how can they reach out and potentially sign none. >> go to diabetes.org/nc astep out, support a team, st

learn more by going to wusa 9.com. >>> back to you howard. >>> should be good for that monika. chilly in the 40s saturday morning. the sun will be shining as opposed to today where we have been watching the rain moving up. we have had rain in spots coming down. you can see on live doppler 9000, hd, a little strip of yellow showing up along 95, off to the south. writer rains into charles and st. mary's and southern maryland. we'll zoom in even more and show you that none montgomery county, coming into howard county, we are seeing some of the heavy stuff, even here in germantown, moderate downpours. through woodbridge and quantico. a band of heavy rain. here look at this. going down toward stafford. a drizzle, relatively quiet there. rainy areas, a mild start to your wednesday. our day planner. 63 degrees at 9:00. we'll have rain on and off. mid-60s at noon. you'll notice the winds will turn southeast rate. late may also be the time when we see the strong to severe thunderstorms. 50s in the shenandoah valerie. gaithersburg, 61. even patchy fog here and there. this is what we are

facebook.com wusa 9 will have the answer. >>> welcome back. it is cool this morning. down in the 40s. clouds out there in spots. you might see a star or two but looking at partly toploftily cloudy skies today. temperatures get into the low 60s by noon sprinkles here and there. a better chance to see a few showers late this afternoon and this evening. 70 down south. andrea? >> thank you, howard. the quest for baseball's title is now down to a best of three series. the world series tied at two games apiece. >> game four was all about pitching. former president and former rangers co-owner threw out the first pitch. 25-year-old derek holland was amazing last night. he pitched into the ninth inning just giving up two hits, striking out seven. he didn't let albert pujols get a hit. rangers catcher got a big one this homerun here in the sixth. his second long ball of the series. game fiveton in arlington. >>> now before the game, the cards lance burke man and lance hamilton were at cowboys stadium for the coin flip. just hours before the world series, dallas got their thing

follow her at demand dia mccarron or through wusa 9. we have all that information on the front page. >>> we may never know what drove 80-year-old albert ballard to murder his wife and then kill hisself (sic). this was the scene yesterday. ballard was there, visiting his wife, who was a nation. witnesses heard gunfire from sandra ballard's room and found the couple suffering from gunshot wounds. >>> the nuclear regulatory commission will talk about the future of the north anna nuclear power plant. it has been shut down. the nrc will hold a public meeting next tuesday night at 7:00. at louisa county elementary school. >>> virginia governor bob mcdonald is asking for federal disaster aid for louisa county schools, thomas jefferson elementary school closed indefinitely because of damage. right now students are being taught in makeshift classrooms. commonwealth's first request for overall aid was rejected. >>> 6:38. we are helping you get hired. you might want to overnight your resume to one big company. fedex said it will hire 20,000 season

if you would like to join us go to the website wusa 9.com. thank you for sharing your story with us. you are obviously staying fit now and i doubt you will be having any more heart attacks the way you are taking care of yourself. >> no i choose to get out and exercise every day and live a healthy lifestyle. looking forward to seeing on you saturday. >>> let's switch gears to weather right now. we are going to move forward right now. we have temperatures this morning in the 20s and 30s. isolated fog toward cumberland. we start with sunshine. the clouds increase. 53 by 1:00. southeast winds at 5 to 10. if you want the sunshine, take the walk this morning. weiss winds at 5 to 10. maybe a shower late in the day. with southern maryland and the northern neck. halloween forecast, cloudy and ghoul. 28 in hagerstown this morning to 36. at the naval air station. 32 at fred ricksburg. a frosty morning there in cumberland, not just a chill this morning, still foggy from cumberland toward petersburg. and the in the mountains of west virginia. a half mile

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. >> reporter: in washington, i'm lindsey lohan, wusa 9 news. >> some expensive popcorn. >> a spokesperson in the gray office says it is still working the numbers of how much tax that would raise for the district. >> some people taking their own stuff in. >> some people already doing that. >>> we have heard opposition to maryland's redistricting plan but now one man is trying to actually do something about it. what he did. coming up on 9news now at 7 p.m. >>> what to do about drivers who block the box? that was the question today here in washington. i'm matt jablow. that story straight ahead. >>> and up next, the company already trying to make amends but is it enough tore blackberry users. more fallout in 2 minutes. >>> you could have something to gain from a lawsuit. a class action one filed in canada last night. its goal is to reimburse blackberry users for lost service during three days of outages earlier this month. blackberry's parent company research in motion says it can't comment on suit because it hasn't seen it yet, but the company already has offered users who were impacted $100

you can follow her at andrea mccarran or through wusa 9. and we'll have the latest information on our website at wusa9.com. >>> now we want to tell you about another a high profile murder case. the murder of a lacrosse player. george haguely is seeking access to yeardley love's medical records. he is accused of killing his estranged girlfriend inside her off-campus home in may of 2010. his attorneys contend that love died from an irregular heartbeat which contradicts the medical examiner's finding of trauma to her head. the trial is scheduled to begin in february. >>> sulaiman brown is now going to trial. he's been charged with driving without a valid driver's license. he was arrested last month driving on a suspended maryland license. he lives in washington, d.c. but he has a maryland driver's license that he claims is valid. >>> meanwhile a judge has warned brown he must obtain a d.c.'s driver license before returning to court next month. in a separate legal case brown said he was paid by vincent gray's mayoral campaign to attack then-may

on wusa for the doctors. we'll be back with more 9 news at noon in just a moment. >>> it is always an honor and pleasure to have the lieutenant governor of maryland with me. because he is my own personal lieutenant governor brown. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me back on the show. >> you know, jobs, jobs, jobs. maryland is below the national average in terms of unemployment. >> our maryland unemployment is 7.1%. so the good news is it's below average. but the bad news is there's tile still too many out of jobs today. we've got a proposal where we're going to invest in public infrastructure, putting marylanders to work. they found that we have about an $800 million a year deficit. so in other words, we need to invest $800 million more a year in roads and bridges and light rail in order to keep up with our growing and expanding communities. in order to pay for that, the blue ribbon commission says we have to increase the gas tax. they're proposing 15 cents. that sounds high, the governor and i hav

wusa 9.com. >>> have a great day everybody. see you back here in the morning at 4:25. captioning funded by cbs >>> would you please wait? are you going to keep talking. >> good morning. what may have been the perhaps the toughest or the most exciting in some ways republican debate yet. rick perry getting aggressive with mitt romney while all of the other candidates are picking atax herman cain tax plan. >>> a story hard to believe. police in ohio on the hunt this morning after dozens of wild animals escape from their cages and remain on the loose. >> there were grizz lie bears and black bears there. were were cheat takes. and there were lions and there were tigers. >> schools are closed and residents told to stay inside. we will bring you the latest on this search. >>> apple is hold ago private memorial for its former chief. we will tell you who is expected to attend and why there is new renewed interest in his $6 billion interest "early" this thursday morning, october 19th, 2011. a little wet out there. i'm erica hill. nice to have you with us. >> i'm jeff glor. chris