latest. >> reporter: a short time ago shooting suspect duane williams arrested in this community without incident by the prince william county police. our shomari stone and countyman carter were there when police took this suspect into custody. and so ends this massive manhunt. in the air, on the ground and in the water scores of prince william county police conduct a massive manhunt. they are looking for 28-year-old duane williams, a suspect in a shooting incident outside a mcdonald's on dale boulevard. this afternoon police officers say they spotted williams in the montclair community, a residential neighborhood that borders on a large lake here. as police move towards williams they say he ran towards the water and then disappeared.

people who live here have been told to stay inside their homes, to keep their pets inside so dogs can track the trail. there is almost a cop on every corner here as they essentially surround the place in the event that williams tries to walk out. for some neighbors it's been an unnerving day. >> seen a lot of cops? >> yes, sir. >> with long guns. >> a little scary? >> children at home? >> they are at home. >> reporter: a little nervous? >> my oldest is nervous. we talked about it and the importance of catching people who break the law. >> reporter: police say williams shot and wounded a 23-year-old man last night during an argument in the parking lot of the mcdonald's on dale boulevard. williams has been on the run ever since. at one point he carjacked a man in his effort to get away. with williams at the time of the incident a woman identified by police as jamie boyar.

she is still at large. so now all clear in this community shooting suspect duane williams is now in police custody. i'll be back with more details about the arrest coming up at 6:00. live in prince william county, pat collins, news 4. >> thank you. now to two communities united in grief tonight after a local teenager and three other students die in a fiery pne crash. the small plane had just taken off from a regional airport about 15 miles outside of cleveland when it went down last night. 18-year-old abe pishevar died. he was a freshman at case western reserve university. pishevar was on the wrestling team there and two of his new teammates also died. >> it is not something you expect to get into as a coach.

there is no instruction booklet or preparation for it. and i think that is part of coaching is adapting to what 457ens with your team. that is what we are doing today is just coping and mourning and figuring out how to move on from losing three of our teammates and family. >> we have learned the group was going out for a quick night flight to see the city. a prayer service for pishevar and his family just wrapped up at georgetown prep. the tight knit school community is devastated by the loss. chris gordon is live near the school this evening. >> reporter: georgetown preparatory schools well recognized, well known, highly regarded and tonight the community is grieving for abe pishevar. he was a well-known wrestler and leaves a lot of friends behind. >> the wrestling team is like a family. so abe was a lot like a brother to us all. >> reporter: michael sprag was a

co-captain last year of the wrestling team along with his good friend abe pishevar. abe distinguished himself at gorge town prep. in his senior year he suffered a football injury and couldn't wrestle. >> he was looking forward to wrestling at case western. i talked to him last week when he moved in, actually. one of the first things he did was go right to the wrestling room and sent me a picture in the wrestling room. >> reporter: the georgetown prep community is devastated by the news that 18-year-old abe pishevar was one of four students from case western reserve university was killed when this aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff last night near cleveland, ohio. georgetown prep held a prayer service in the school chapel. just before the service i spoke with athletic director by phone. >> he was an energetic,

enthusiastic, fun young man who probably wanted to please you more than any other young men we have. >> reporter: friends oth family shared their grief at the home where abe's mother lives in rockville. she had already left for cleveland. family friends say they have known abe since he was small. >> all his life. he was very smart, athletic. he was handsome, smiling. always a smile. he was such a sweet, sweet, sweet boy. god bless him. >> reporter: a lingering question hangs over this tragic death. why did abe get on that flying club plane last night and take off after dark with a pilot who was a fellow student and only 20 years old? we will look into that part of the story coming up tonig on

news 4 at 6:00. that is the latest live at georgetown prep. developing tonight on news 4 at 5:00 a possible audio recording of the moment michael brown was shot in ferguson, missouri. the attorney for the man who recorded it said it was handed to the fbi. nbc news has not confirmed its authen tisity and law enforcement says at this stage it is impossible to know the tape's significance. here it is. >> you are pretty. you are so fine. >> the man claims he was recording the conversation with a friend on a video chat service at the same time brown was shot. he says he heard six gun shots, a pause followed by four more shots. we must disclose that it has not been authenticated and we don't

know how what happened before or after the recording or if it is the brown shooting. response after local police officers complained the union is taking sides in the michael brown case. $1,000 was donated to help the officer who shot the teenager. the head of the f.o.p. says the donation is not about race but about supporting a fellow officer. the black police officers association sent letters complaining that the decision lacked regard for men and women of color. tonight investigators in maryland have closed their probe of credit card purchases by the montgomery county school board. some of the purchasers were revealed by scott macfarlane. in a letter released by the school district today the maryland office of state prosecutor says expenses made by board members do not rise to the level of criminal misconduct. the i-team found some board

members used their taxpayer funded credit cards to buy pricey meals including lobster and to stay in hotel rooms in d.c. despite being minutes from home. the board recently voted to strip its members of those cards and to place new limits on travel expenses. a massive plan to change d.c. school boundaries for the first time in 40 years may not happen after all. two leading candidates for mayor say they won't implement the plan next year if they are elected. tom sherwood reports that many parents are concerned about the planned upheaval. >> reporter: the mayor announced the new plan just last week but he is a lame duck and won't be around to enforce it. thousands of students and dozens of neighborhood school patterns would be disrupted if the mayor's year long effort to rewrite school boundaries takes effect as planned. >> confusion, a little kind of

distressed. >> reporter: with two children leads parents groups at bancroft elementary. students would lose access to one of the city's most popular middle schools. sdpl i have only recently started to pay more close attention to how things are going. >> reporter: but paren may not have to worry about any boundary changes soon. council education chairman and candidate for mayor said monday if elected he would delay it indefinitely and said the plan needs more work. >> there are unanswered questions. essentially setting schools up to fail by virtue of how the schools are being arranged. >> reporter: candidate muriel bowser could not be reached. she issued a brief statement tuesday saying she wouldn't

implement the current plan either. only the next mayor can address the plan's unanswered questions. parents across the city say they are looking for clear guidance for schools from the candidates. >> as a future elementary school parent it is important for certainty. we are hard at work for unity. sdpl we will hear about the boundary plan being too important to delay. prince george's county students wrapped up their first day of school today. this year there are a lot of new faces in the classroom. 1,200 new students. more than 800 new teachers. we stopped by today. they are excited about their new international program and the staff played the role of international flight crews to guide the students through their global journey. >> the world is theirs. that is what we want to push our scholars to believe.

think outside of the box. >> new this year 20 prince george's county school buses are fitted with cameras to catch drivers who don't stop for t bus whethe lights are flashing. violators could end up with $125 fine. there is an investigation underway into the lane lines on i-66. the stripes on the pa are now fixed. crews worked on them through the night. the crooked lines were just laid down last week and somehow they peeled off. v-dot told us today they will be testing the bad stripes in a lab. they hope to figure out whether the tape was damaged before it was put on the pavement or if bad weather played a part. the lines caused quite a confusing commute yesterday. the bags were scattered with the dismembered body of a victim inside. the new approach local police are taking to find a brazen killer. tonight's the night and the traffic is already starting to back up. a live look as maryland's newest

casino will open its doors in hours. >> reporter: chances are if this was your commuter route you wouldn't be too happy about the bumps. this is a major stretch that handles commuter traffic. i will tell you where it is and how long it will be like this. >> i know where that is. hot weather coming in. we haven't seen a lot of it this summer. it is on its way. thin

a major repaving project has turned a busy commuter road into a trip for the mechanic. this road is in such bad shape everybody is wondering what is going on. here is where this is happening on connecticut avenue between east west highway and the d.c. line. news 4 transportation reporter adam tuss did digging for us to find out more about the problem and when the road is going to be fixed. >> reporter: what a mess this project has become here on connecticut avenue. it was supposed to be a repaving project. take a look. the road is chewed away. when we started asking questions to the maryland state highway administration they agreed saying this road is in bad shape and now a new layer of asphalt goes down tonight. the rubber meeting the road and ither is agreeing with one another right now. the maryland state highwa administrio t ag in control here tells news 4 after

the top layer of the road was milled down it became very clear that the base of the road was deteriorating too fast. drivers left to navigate a virtual minefield of dirt, dust, debris and has been like this for days. don't bring your car here if you just got it washed. >> i come this way every day for work. >> reporter: a veteran of this road and not thrilled with the current state of affairs says her car is telling her, as well. >> because of the pot holes my tire pressure gauge got thrown off and says my right front tire is 0 which we know is wrong. >> reporter: others left feeling jared. >> absolutely, it is bumpy. it's like you have to swerve around. >> reporter: maryland state highway administration sent us this statement saying we understand the surface is in poor question and are working quickly to determine our next course of action. a determination has been made

that the road can't stay like this much longer saying a new layer of asphalt will start going on tonight. the northbound stretch will be the first to get the new asphalt. back here now live new asphalt going down tonight certainly is good news but it is going to take a while to get it all patched up. the entire project not expected to finish until october. reporting live in chevy chase, adam tuss, news 4. let's check our forecast. doug is talking heat wave. >> heat wave. >> here we go. it is coming. we have not had many heat waves at all this summer. i think we are talking about the warmest weekend in the forecast that we have seen all summer long. that is saying something. >> it is beach weather. the last weekend of the beach for many of us is looking pretty good. take a look outside right now. a very nice shot around town. plenty of sunshine. you wouldn't know it was this hot.

you guys, what do you think? >> 82. >> 87. >> 90. yes. that is because of very low humidity out towards reston we have sunshine and not too much in the way of cloud cover. temperatures today as i said we did get to 90 officially at the airport. we have low humidity. the numbers are absolutely perfect. the humidity will be going up as we move towards the weekend. no rain to talk about. i think we will stay dry. car wash yes or no? s! dry for days. get the car wash. it will be on the hot side, for sure. from d.c. towards nk ralghactordthwt no clouds in the sky for the most part. only rain back towards chicago. once again, that is drifting down to the south. it is a frontal boundary that will try to make its way this way tomorrow, just not going to have an impact on our weather as we stay on the dry side.

off to the hurricane to the east of jacksonville. hurricane cristobalhas gotten its act together. may strengthen a little bit. expected to remain a category 1 storm. it is well off our coast line but still going to have an impact at the coast. this is right along our beaches. heads up for rough surf and rip current threat during the day wednesday and thursday. just like with bertha we could see a lot of problems towards the beaches. that is about it. the rest of us aren't going to notice a thing if you are inland. 89 in martinsburg tomorrow. 92 the high temperature in d.c. a little more humid tomorrow but the humidity still not a factor during the day tomorrow. at 92 it will feel more like 92. 93 in fredericksburg, 88 in gaithersburg. tomorrow afternoon 88 to 93. more sunshine. hot, not too humid. the humidity comes in this weekend. friday, saturday, sunday and look at the weekend numbers.

92 on saturday. 94 on sunday. one of the warmest days we have seen this summer. 91 for your labor day. right now the weekend looking very good. slight chance of a shower on sunday. better chance of showers on labor day. these are thunder showers and a typical summer variety storm not worried about that at all. >> never too late for summer. we bet a lot of folks are planning to do a little bit of betting tonight. >> the newest casino in baltimore opens in a few hours. the state's fifth casino. guests will have more than 100 table games as well as a poker room and 2,500 slots. the casino will stay open 24/7. let's go up in the sky for a live look from chopper 4. right now the casino staff is getting ready for a vip party about to begin. we will have a live report from baltimore coming up news 4 at 6:00. he was just a tourist but this sight seeing trip launched

a security scare and landed him behind bars. are you sick of it yet? the ice bucket challenge? it has raised tens of millions of dollars in just months for als. we will tell you who is now telling schools not to dona. i'm dianna russini at redskins park. a redskins player suspended for an illegal hit. one teammate says that is

welcome back to news 4 at 5:00. i'm dianna russini. the redskins will play in their final preseason game on thursday. in just over a week and a half they will play in their first regular season game. unfortunately, the team will be without one of their best defenders, brandon meriwether. he was suspended for two games. he put a high hit on ravens receiver torrey smith on saturday night. he says he will appeal the suspension. his teammates were sounding off today. >> it is a very fast decision and harsh decision and rash. i think it is incorrect. nobody is concussed. i think it is a tough call. >> reporter: do you think it is something the nfl needs to be

district about because knowing so many young players are watching you guys. >> it is football. it is a violent sport. after a while we are just going to put flags on and run around. >> they are making it get to a point where we have our hands tied behind our back. you can't touch the receivers, can't hit them and can't touch them. what is going to be next? >> the violent part of it is what made it so severe. he is a violent tackler. if he would have let up a little bit he wouldn't have got suspended. he is such a violent tackler. >> reporter: so what is head coach jay gruden going to do now? he said he has shown the team 20 clips of illegal hits to make sure the guys are aware what the refs are looking for come regular season. make sure you check out redskins/tampa bay. we will be live on the field starting at 4:00. we will be there 5:00, 6:00 and

after the game with our post game shout. dianna russini, news 4 sports. >> other than him and i is there anyone on earth who has not done the ice bucket challenge? >> this has taken a new twist today in the commonwealth of virginia. one religious group is urging followers to think hard before they donate. the diocese sent letters to catholic schools, their issue, they say the als association uses stem cells in its research which goes against the catholic church's beliefs. >> pour water on people's head to bring an awareness to the disease. our issue is where is the money going? >> a spokesperson with the archdiocese here in washington tells us they do not discourage donations to the als association but they ask people to use

prudential judgment. als, by the way, has now raised more than $88 million for alsa. right now at 5:00 the former governor of virginia in the hot seat being cross examined for more than 20 hours. >> we are live at the courthouse next. >> reporter: bob mcdonne has just wrapped up on the stand. i will tell you whether prosecutors scored points with the jurors. police return to the scene of a gruesome discovery today. learn what our crews found when the cops showed up. we learned what really happened to a local football player who died playing t

right now at 5:30, the gadget that sparked a mid air dispute. we talked to the local inventor who came up with a way to make sure seats cannot recline on an airplane. he climbed the brooklyn bridge and got caught. what he claims he was doing other than launching a security scare at a national landmark. police turn to social media to try to catch the killer in a gruesome murder in prince george's county. a short time ago prosecutors wrapped up. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us with new developments. >> reporter: right behind me you see bob mcdonnell coming down

the sidewalk and a swarm of photographers and reporters. he just wrapped up more than four days of testimony on the stand. we heard from his defense team. they plan to call only one more witness. that will happen tomorrow. further maureen mcdonnell's defense team told the judge they expect to only need three hours to present their case. and that means we could be to closing arguments in this case by the end of this week. in another harsh cross examination today prosecutors tried to expose holes in bob mcdonnell's story. he, however, stood firm to his ground. bob mcdonnell, his daughter by his side bracing him. many focused on the $50,000 check that jonnie williams gave to a small real estate company. mcdonnell insists the williams loan was a business transaction between friends and not payback for his help in promoting the

ceo's company. prosecutor asked you knew that march 6, 2012 loan was really a personal loan to you? mcdonnell replied mr. dry, that is absolutely false. >> what michael dry continues to beat home here is that bob mcdonnell's innocent explanations for these activities don't hold water. >> reporter: the prosecutor grilled mcdonnell on the timeline of the case connecting gifts and loans to actions allegedly taken on behalf of williams. an example, an early 2012 e-mail from maureen mcdonnell to her husband. the next day as the first couple drove together to events in d.c. maureen sent an e-mail to mcdonnell's top aid. it reads guv wants to get this going. mcdonnell testified he didn't instruct her to send that message.

asked the prosecutor, your testimony is your wife is e-mailing mr. eige sitting next to you and you have no idea the e-mail is sent? dry mocked the governor many times. so again this case that has drawn out for nearly five weeks now appears to be on fast forward. we could have closing arguments by the end of the week. coming up i will tell you how bob mcdonnell's own words in a 2012 tv interview were used against him in court today. i'm julie carey, news 4. as investigators continue to look for clues we have new reaction following a gruesome murder in prince george's county. the body of a man was found sunday dismembered and stuffed into trash bags. today tracee wilkins found out where the victim lived and talked to one of his neighbors.

>> prince george's county police were back on the scene again today. they are still trying to figure out where their murder scene is and looking for any information to help to lead to an arrest in this case. prince george's county poce were back on the scene this afternoon visiting the building. the 28-year-old lived in. >> everybody is shocked. and that's such a gruesome heinous crime. >> reporter: lives upstairs from his apartment. >> puts you in a funk. i mean, i don't know what else to say. >> reporter: police say perez's dismembered body was found. he was left in trash bags near his apartment building. it happened in thearden point apartments. neighbors say he was a day laborer and lived with a number of men who went to work every day and kept to themselves. >> we passed each other on the stairwell and on the ground and have small talk. >> reporter: detectives knocked on perez's doorg this afternoon but there was no answer.

yesterday police went door to door passing out flyers. they believe the murder happened nearby but so far have not found the actual crime scene. she says she still feels safe in her home. >> i don't feel nervous or afraid or frightened to be here. i think it's just something that happened cht. >> reporter: prince george's county police are still looking for their suspect, a motive and the actual crime scene in this case. if you have information you can get up to $25,000 if that information leads to an arrest and conviction in this case. you are asked to call prince george's county police. in laurel i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. he was a healthy football player but the heat may have been too much. a medical examiner says mar quis meadow died from heat stroke. a recent physical exam found no reason for her son to have

medical problems on the field. now to a developing story. nbc news learned that an american jihaddist was killed in syria identified as minnesota native douglas mccain fighting for isis when killed. defense experts warning about the attack of lone wolf attacks of americans who go overseas to be radicalized. outrageous and inexcusable how the president explained the behavior. today he promised to fix it. president obama spoke before the american legions national convention in north carolina today defending the administration's handling of the veterans affairs scandal but said change is on the way. he announced 19 executive orders intended to give veterans access to quality health care. >> we are going to get to the bottom of these problems.

we are going to fix what is wrong. we are going to do right by you. we are going to do right by your families. that is a solemn pledge and commitment that i am making to you here. >> reporter: the president's address comes as the specter general's report is set for release tomorrow morning. michael sam became the first openly gay football player to be drafted by an nfl team. there are already new allegations that he is being unfairly treated. and it is a flight that went too far. we are live at the airport for a look at how the battle over leg room got nasty. impact forecast over the next couple of days and really for tomorrow is going to be a hot one, but that impact will be on the very low side. really almost no impact. hot but no humidity. a heat wave in the making just in time for the weekend. i will show you how

in news 4 your health medical marijuana could be leading to fewer deaths from pain killer overdose. that is the finding of a new study of the journal of the american medical association. it found states with medical marijuana laws on the books had an average 25 fewer deaths from prescription drugs. researchers say the longer the laws have been implemented the fewer the deaths.

experts caution more studies need to be completed. people who smoke ecigarettes should go outside to light up. the recommendation from the world health organization. it wants indoor smoking bans to extend to ecigs. the report says the water vapor emits air borne toxins and can lead to health problems. experts differ on the long-term effects of smoking e cigarettes. new calls to tax your sugary drinks. congress woman is pushing for a new bill called the sugar sweetened beverages act. she says she wants to raise awareness on the dangers of sweeteners like sugar and high fructose syrup. the money raised would fund obesity prevention problems. the obesity problem is getting worse and says the tax would

lower health care costs. >> the rates are tripling for children 6 through 11, qua drupeling for children 11 to 19. it is very, very serious. >> little or no impact on obesity. >> reporter: the meas would impose the tax of 1 kent per teaspo teas > called the knee defender and a lot of people are searching for it on the internet right now. we talked to the inventor of the gadget, a gadget that sparked a fight in mid air. >> reporter: a new way to check your snail mail before it arrives at your door. i'm erika gonzalez. i will show you the new service you co

we have yet another reason to be unhappy on an airplane. it has sparked a fight on board a flight recently. >> it sure has. it shows how far some will go for a little bit of extra leg room. the united flight was in route from newark new jersey whenhe fight forced pilots to land when a man used a gadgetnown as knee defender. a flight attendant asked him to remove the device and he refused. that is when the woman stood up

and threw a cup of water on him. both were sitting in economy plus section. neither facing charges tonight but the faa could fine them both. so we wanted to know how much personal space means to you when you fly. >> we spent zachary kiesch down to reagan national airport where he discovered other unwritten rules of flying. >> don't kick the back of the seat. don't talk loud. and be courteous to the other passengers. >> seating space on airplanes is pretty tight. that can be frustrating to passengers. there are unspoken rules when it comes to flying. expensive tickets and packed flights might be contributing factors after 28 years and

16,000 flight hours one says etiquette is a problem. >> passengers sometimes don't get along. it is like any other part of life. as far as etiquette we don't have set rules or standards. it is something we would like to see. >> reporter: some go to unusual lengths to protect their personal space. yesterday a united flight w divert when two passengers got into a heated exchange. others heard about it and had to laugh. he does have his own or having his personal space invaded. >> sitting with your arm crossed for five hours is not nice. >> reporter: which brings u another po whoe the arm rest? >> i usually do. >> reporter: some are even willing to fight for it. >> me and the guy went back and forth. >> reporter: who won that one?

>> i did, of course. yes, i did. >> reporter: had a good time today. she headed to kansas city to meet family. coming up tonight at 6:00 we hear from travelers who react specifically to how they would move forward if they were not able to recline on an airplane. >> you are how tall and where do you fall in this battle? >> reporter: i'm 6'5". the first thing i do when i jump on an airplane is stake out my territory and stretch my legs out. i figure i paid for the flight and try to be respectful to people around he and apologize and say i'm just a big guy. >> yes, you are. thanks. you probably haven't heard of the knee defender device that started all of this. it has been on the market for more than ten years. two small plastic clips that slide on to the seat tray in frupt of you. if the passenger in front tries