bring her home, bring her home! >> now at 11 -- >> bring her home! >> dozens of people march in support of missing 8-year-old relisha rudd after police say they found her kidnapper dead. tonight her family's reaction. metro's message to riders after a long commute home on the orange and the blue lines. so what can you expect tomorrow? and three federal workers drinking on a business trip. only two made it home alive. the news4 i-team uncovers how one of them still landed a six-figure job on the taxpayers' dime.

>> "news4 at 11" starts now. >> he evaded justice. that's what neighbors are saying tonight about 51-year-old kahlil tatum. >> the man wanted for kidnapping an 8-year-old girl and his wife is found dead. police say tatum killed himself. >> in the same park where they have been searching for relisha rudd for the last five days. tonight rudd's family still clinging to hope she is alive and with someone else. we begin our team coverage with jackie bensen and the latest on the investigation from the d.c. police headquarters. jackie? >> reporter: here's what's going on right now. investigators are combing through evidence found at that scene this afternoon, hoping for something that will lead them to relisha rudd. these distinctive ttoos are what lead police to say they have found kahlil tatum. after days of fruitless searching in and around kenilworth aquatic gardens for

signs of 8-year-old rely, rudd, the intensity heightened this afternoon when the body of a man was found in a utility shed. this evening, d.c. police chief cathy lanier confirmed the body is most likely that of the 51-year-old man who is believed to have relisha in his custody. >> we have tentatively identified the person we found today of that of mr. tatum. everything that we have is consistent with what we know about his appearance. and it does still appear at this point that this was a suicide. >> reporter: police believe relisha's mother gave the 8-year-old over to tatum's custody at the family center on january 26th. tatum, who worked there as a janitor, posed as a doctor to excuse her lengthy absence from school. she wasn't reported missing for a month. the news frustrated those who know the little girl and hold on to the faint hope she'll be found alive. >> i feel like he was a coward.

not only, that you didn't leave a note. now you're again and we have questions. >> reporter: late this afternoon downstream from the aquatic gardens, bubbles on the surface of the murky anacostia river show the slow pains take progress of divers searching the area inch by inch. tatum is believed to be responsible for the march 19th murder of his wife. the search for relisha rudd resumes tomorrow morning. live in northwest washington, jackie bensen, news4. bring her home! bring her home! >> dozens of pple showed their support for relisha rudd tonight in a walk in southeast where they prayed, sang, and lit candles. members of rudd's family were also there and told news4's erika gonzalez they're still hoping. erika joins us live at kenilworth park in northeast. erika? >> reporter: wendy, the search for relisha rudd will continue here tomorrow. tomorrow morning. meanwhile, as one month draws to an end and another begins, it's another day without relisha rudd.

>> she has been through enough. enough is enough. >> reporter: it's been nearly a month since mary young has seen her great granddaughter relisha's brown eyes. tonight the focus is not on an abductor, it's on a little girl, this face. she is just 80 pounds. she needs her family. >> she is only eight years old. i know she is scared and frightened, out there by herself. >> reporter: tonight friends and family walked in southeast. they walked for relisha. >> bring her home! >> right now my mind is wandering. >> reporter: melissa young is falling apart. she has been holding out hope long enough. when will see her granddaughter again? ♪ ♪ dream with me, we're all a part of god's body ♪ . >> reporter: if there is comfort in community, relisha's family has lots. but what they're praying for is a miracle discovery. >> in the name see these candles lit. we pray your light will shine in

the darkness. you all are confident she is out there? >> i will keep that confident that she is alive. and i will continue on praying that she's alive. >> reporter: we encourage you to go to nbcwashington.com and to check our twitter accounts for updates as this investigation continues. again, the search for relisha rudd continues tomorrow here at kenilworth park. live in northeast, erika gonzalez, news4. >> and you can find that information on nbcwashington.com. also news4 today starting at 4:26 tomorrow morning will pick up again as the search for the little girl picks up tomorrow. in northern virginia tonight, music teacher ruthanne lodato was honored for her passion and dedication to teaching at a special awards ceremony in alexandria. lodato was killed in her home in february. tonight her husband daughter spented the donna award on her

behavior. she gave piano lessons to hundreds of students. her family has heard from many of those former students in the past four weeks. >> i think the best way to honor my mother is to keep music alive in our own homes and hearts. and i hope you will join me in doing that for her. thank you. >> the alexandria commission for women also honored ten other women for their service. julie carey served as the emcee for the ceremony. new since 6:00 tonight, an escaped inmate is now back in custody. prince george's county police arrested lawrence godfry. he escaped from the dorsey run correctional facility in jessup this morning. he was in update for attempted murder. a tough commute home for metro riders on the blue and orange lines today. should it be better by tomorrow. this picture from twitter shows the farragut west station about 6:00 tonight. look at that.

trains had been single tracking because of a switch problem outside of the foggy bottom station. metro made a temporary fix so trains could run on both tracks for the evening rush, but they were still running at much slower speeds. metro says repairs should be complete overnight, and normal service is expected to resume tomorrow. right now, the race is on to get signed up for health coverage under the affordable care act. the midnight deadline less than an hour away. the online exchange, it shut down twice today because of software glitches and high traffic. there were long lines of people in prince george's county and across the country as they were trying to get help sign you think. americans who do not enroll by tonight, they risk getting fined when they file their taxes next year. but if you started that application process today, you will be able to finish without a penalty. voters go to the polls in just a few hours in d.c.'s race for mayor. candidates are making last-minute appeals and will be trying hard to get out the votes

tomorrow. election workers spent the day hard at work, getting precincts ready. the polls will be open from 7:00 a.m. until 8:00 p.m. it's a hotly contested primary race with polls showing d.c. councilmember muriel bowser running neck and neck with mayor vincent gray there are eight democratic candidates on the ballot. tune in to "news4 at 11":00 tomorrow night for team coverage and primary results. we also have a page dedicated to primary election coverage on nbcwashington.com. you can also follow us on social media tomorrow with the #decisiondc. d.c. is one step closer to legalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana, under an ounce. mayor gray signed the decriminalization law this morning, and now it goes to congress for a 30-day review period, just like all new laws in the district. 17 other states have already passed some form of marijuana decriminalization. hours before she testifies on capitol hill, the ceo of general motors met with families

tonight, families whose loved ones died because of a faulty ignition switch. gm's mary barra will answer tough questions on the hill tomorrow about why it took her company so long to fix the problem that is now linked to more than a dozen deaths. tuesday's hearing comes as gm issues another big recall. 1.5 million vehicles with power steering that could suddenly stop working. that makes more than six million gm cars recalled for various reasons since february. new tonight, chopper 4 over the scene as dive teams hit the water in prince george's county for repts of a truck stuck in the water. governors bridge road in bowie is near. divers confirm nobody was inside the truck. rescue boats searched around it with a helicopter providing a spotlight. they didn't find anyone. we didn't have any rain to worry about. in fact, it was a beautiful day today. doug, can we enjoy this for a couple days?

>> maybe another day, maybe another two. maybe another couple of days. temperatures today got up into the 60s and even the low 70s in parts of the area. take a look at the high. 67 in d.c. 70 in fredericksburg. 72 in culpeper. but we've got some unsettled weather coming our way. i'll break it down for you show you what to expect as we head through the week, coming up in a minute. next at 11, a federal worker resigns after the death of a coworker on a business trip. months later, he landed a six-figure government job. the news4 i-team investigates how it all unfolded. workers from around the world search the town devastated by that mudslide. what they're doing tonight to help find the people still missing. missing. and punched out at a

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well, mygoodness. now we've got fast food rage. a family woman punched in the face at a mcdonald's drive-through. it was caught on video. the victim claims it started with a fight over who should go first in the double drive-through lane. police used the cell phone video to track down the guy. he claims he was defending himself, and he was charged with simple battery. new developments in washington state tonight. a disaster declaration from the federal emergency management agency could come soon after that deadly mudslide there. late tonight, officials said they've now accounted for eight more missing people who were not caught up in the mudslide. that leaves 22 still unaccounted for and 24 people who are known

dead. crews are building makeshift roads over the mud so they can go deeper into the disaster zone. a government business trip that went bad. >> an investigation by the news4 i-team has unearthed the deadly incident involving three federal employees on a taxpayer-funded trip to texas. the u.s. department of veterans affairs is a major employer here in the d.c. area, and as scott mcfarland found out, it's now under scrutiny from congress for how it handles and disciplines its workers. >> reporter: june 2nd, 2010. >> emergency, i need some help, big time. >> reporter: three federal government workers. >> right now big-time help. >> reporter: in a government truck in dallas for a conference. but only two would return home. >> i have a girl that got hit by the [ bleep ] street. she got hit by cars. >> reporter: 38-year-old amy weed falls out of the truck and dies. blood on the truck and the wheel

well, her va buddy chad carney calls 911, slurring. >> she's in the car somehow. she somehow pulled her in the car which they probably shouldn't have. but i think she -- i don't know. it's very messed up. >> reporter: the police report feels the three government workers hit the town that night. a credit card statement and receipts police obtained show about a dozen drinks purchased at a bar including vodka, jagger bombs. the man behind the wheel jed had a 0.3 blood alcohol level, below the legal limit, but that he wasn't tested until about six hours after the deadly incident was reported, and 12 hours after they first arrived a tlt bar. >> did you have something to drink? >> yes, sir. i don't remember exactly how much, sir. >> reporter: police questioned him. >> i looked back there, and she was -- she wasn't there. she wasn't there. and so i said where is she? >> reporter: and they soon discover he is more than a

federal worker. he is a top executive with the department of veterans affairs in mississippi. >> i had no idea that what she was doing. i didn't know if she fell out or jumped out. i mean i just -- i had no idea what was going on. >> reporter: police arrested both men, chad barney for public intoxication and fillingham on suspicion of intoxication manslaughter. prosecutors would not file charges. investigators found no evidence of foul play and that she fell out of the truck on her own accord. but records unearthed by the i-team found the men were operating the truck outside proper guidelines, including by driving it while intoxicated. but before the federal investigation was complete, federal records show in november 20, fillingham resigned from the va in mississippi. and those records don't officially specify why. they also show by march 2011 the va rehired him for a new management job in augusta, georgia, back on the taxpayers

dime, again earning about $100,000 a year. >> why this person hasn't been fired is just beyond me. >> reporter: darrin sellnick is an independent consultant on veterans issues and he reviewed the records g up by the i-team. >> for them to not only rehire him, but on a fast track that is really abnormal shows lack of judgment at a minimum. >> reporter: we asked the va why they rehired him. they declined to answer, citing employee privacy reasons. >> the va needs to quit being afraid of disciplining people and firing them. >> reporter: florida congressman jeff miller shares the house veteran ace fairs committee. >> they don't seem to want t hold anybody account about for doing somebody wrong. >> reporter: the house committee in december ordered the va to turn over its internal documents on the jed fillingham case and to do so within ten days. the committee says it has yet to receive them. so we reached jed fillingham by phone. he refused an interview, though, saying only quote, that's on the va to answer those questions.

scott mcfarland, news4 i-team. not a bad way to start the week? >> 67 today. some areas even close to 70. i think we'll be close to those numbers tomorrow, though possibly a little cooler. maybe right back up there on wednesday. take a look outside there right now. notice i didn't say but. i've had tod+÷ do that just abo every forecast. not really this forecast. we've got a little butt in there. but not bad at all. right now very nice conditions as we look out towards the cathedral. current temperature out at the airport. still sitting at 55 degrees. a very nice afternoon. and a very nice evening. winds out of the northwest at about 8 miles per hour. we are starting to see some clouds filter on in. but those temperatures are staying up. 46 in winchester. towards culpeper. 45 in gaithersburg and 46 right down towards the river down towards patuxent river. storm team 4 radar is clear. it's going to stay that way through the next 24, maybe 36 hours. and then we'll start to see things get a little unsettled again. a few clouds trying to make their way in ahead of the next storage system.

right now we're still on the clear side. the big storm that came through over the weekend, and another big storm that is going to miss us almost completely here. it is going to bring us some cloud coffer during the day tomorrow. and that's why temperatures might be just a little bit cooler as well as our wind change. this evening, we've been on the mild side there go the clouds. see that little area of clouds? that moves through right on during the day. i think we see clearing. and by 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, i think we're look at plenty sunshine and that will allow temperatures to get back into the low 60s. then we watch our next frontal boundary. the storm system is way back here. but we've got a frontal boundary that is going to be draped right across our region. cool air to the north. mild air to the south. wherever that boundary sets up, if it's north of d.c., we're on the warm side. if it's south of us, we're on the cold side. right now it looks like this is going to meander just to the north that keeps most of us on the warmer side of things. i think that will last through wednesday. maybe thursday before we start to see things go bad. by thursday afternoon, that front might be down to our south. and it does look like we'll see a good chance of rain during the

day on thursday. should it be short-lived though. we're not talking about another washout. tomorrow we'll see clouds and then some sun late inhe day. still nice, though. temperatures 59 to 65 degrees. linds light and variable, about 5 to 10 miles per hour. next couple days, up to 67 on wednesday with a good chance for a few showers. a better chance of showers if not rain on thursday. temperature around 63. friday is the day we're really watching here. not much of a chance of rain. but cooler temperatures. 54 degrees for a high. that's also opening day. so we're hoping we can bring the numbers up. 63 on saturday. 58 degrees on sunday. and 52 degrees next monday with another chance of showers. so we're not talking about any real warm temperatures, as far as temperatures go, the average and that was up to 62. it look like most of the next seven days should be at least be around that number. looking pretty good. we're easing up. >> yeah, but, you know. >> we're getting there. >> good weather for voting tomorrow. >> true. >> i guess. we just need to frolic a bit.

and this isn't frolicking weather. >> wendy, you can do whatever you want. >> thank you, doug. still ahead, the wizards will have to wait for their play-off ticket. plall representatives are busy. please hold.

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this is the xfinity sports desk, brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. >> dianna, seems like the wizards have trouble getting motivated. >> one game. one game. >> that's all we need to do. and every time we think they're there, something happens. win and that's it. one victory and they're going to go back to the play-offs for the first time since 2008. with that motivation, they had their game in charlotte all but

won tonight, and then something went terribly wrong. a good sign on the bench there. they, nene. hope he gets back soon. ariz za is up 10. he drains it. wizards led by as much as 16 in the third quarter. back come the bobcats. chris. dry bucket and foul. cats within two. later, fourth quarter, al jefferson's first attempt a no-go. wizards fumble the rebound. al puts it away and in. bobcats win it, 100-94 over the wiz. that's definitely one that got away. to baseball. the nats opening their season on the road in queens, visiting the mets. no score, top of the second, bryce harper trying to break up the doubl play. his forehead hits the shin. he would be okay, though. this go to extra i think so. nats up 6-5.

john lannon. the nats start their season with a nice win, 9-7 the final there. in baltimore, the o's opening their season, hosting the red sox. game tied at one this the bottom of the seven. nelson cruz in his first game as anore an. the redskins roster is starting to shape up. ryan clark has signed with washington. this will be the second time in his career he will be in a redskins uniform. the guy rg3 wants to see in burgundy and gold, free agent wide receiver desean jackson. >> you know, that's my agent job. that's what i have an agent for, figuring out things. >> what is alluring about the

redskins? >> i'm excited about everything right now. it's a new beginning, new chances. thank you. >> is part of the process, is there a role to play? >> i'm not really too much worried than. i'm just moving forward in my life. appreciate it, though. >> paparazzi. desean jackson almost as sought after on the free agent market than he was at the airport today. he'll meet with team officials tomorrow. tonight some redskins players at benefit supporting loriana hernandez who is battling cancer. >> definitely a good player, makes plays fast, you know. helps everybody else around him get hyped up and makes plays as well. that's definitely a plus if we can get him. >> the more the merrier, especially when you see a lot of the teams that play great. you want those guys apart at what you're trying to do. so i'm looking forward to it. >> lots of support from the redskins right there. and guys, i have a little and g[ male announcer ]le at northrop grumman,

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