The latest local news impacting D.C., Maryland, and Northern Virginia.

Today’s top news stories: Will the government shutdown cause millions of Americans to go hungry without federal assistance? Hurricane Melissa is losing strength…but she’s still tearing across Cuba as a destructive Category-Two storm.

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