>> announcer: news 4 midda right now at the white house, the finishing touches are being put on a speech president obama will give to the american people tonight. we're getting new information on what the president is expected to say about the fight against isis. and a father becomes more desperate by the minute to find his children and wife. news 4's richard jordan spoke with the man just a few hours ago about what he's doing to help police. good morning, everyone. welcome to news 4 midday. i'm barbara harrison. now to a developing story. the president will make his case for fighting isis to the nation tonight. he'll reveal his plan in a nationwide address at 9:00 tonight on nbc 4. president obama is asking congressional leaders for authorization to train syrian opposition forces in the fight

against isis. the president may also wants more wide ranging airstrikes against targets in iraq and possibly in syria. right now police montgomery county are asking for your help to find a mother and her two children. kathryn hogel was last seen 48 hours ago. news 4's richard jordan spoke with the kid's children this morning. he said he is devastated. >> like an unreal horror story. just ridiculous but i'm going to keep praying and i'm going to find them. >> news 4's richard jordan is at a news conference in gaithersberg right now. look for his live update this morning. we're working to learn more about a fire at the washington convention center. d.c. crews say it started in a garage. no word on what caused the fire or if anyone was hurt. right now investigators are trying to figure out what caused this bus fire on the beltway. this was on the inner loop at

kennel worth avenue and green bell just after 7:00 this morning. one of our producers shot this as she drove by. prince gorges county says it was a commuter bus. no one was hurt in that fire. turning to our weather. skies slowly clearing out there. we're also warming up. storm team 4's meteorologist chuck bell joins us. >> good morning, barbara. promises of a little bit of sunshine coming our way. this cloud deck has been slow and stubborn. it won't budge anywhere across the region. mostly cloudy skies. no rain on storm team 4 radar anywhere near us. we are keeping a cm going through the great lakes bringing a chance through detroit, indianapolis and cincinnati. that's where the severe weather threat is. tomorrow we will be under the gun in the mid-atlantic for the possibility of strong to severe

thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and evening. for the remainder of today i think the clouds will continue to thin on out. by the time the kids are coming home from work and school, 2:00, 3:00, mostly cloudy. a bit more sunshine. temperatures up to 80 degrees. bo weather headline, clearing out. more about that with the timing of tomorrow's storms and your weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes, barbara. >> chuck, thank you. neighbors are on alert in blade denseberg. they're trying to track down a suspect in a sexual assault on a popular trail. they went back passing out flyers to warn neighbors and ask for help. >> i don't want anything like that to happen to my girlfriend. i don't want anything to happen to my children. >> both of my daughters come through here in the morning. i'm very terrified now. >> detectives are offering a

reward for $25,000. right now a water main break has the d.c. department of health working on a 12 inch break on the north capital between h streets and massachusetts avenue northeast. if you live or work in that area, u may be affected. d.c. water says there is no traffic impact at this time. right now a special ceremony taking place at the u.s. capital. coming up, the 9/11 heroes being honored by members of congress. why you may want to include yogurt with your child's lunch today. it could

i'm angie goff at the live desk. right now we want to take you live to the capital where members of congress are gathering as well as family members of victims of the september 11th attack. right now they are presenting the colors. you can see standing there. a second ago the speaker of the house, john boeh senate majority leader harry reid and mitch mcconnell and house democratic leader nancy pelosi all here for the unveiling of the three congressional medals that honor the lives lost at the world trade center, the pentagon, as well as in shanksville, pennsylvania, 13 years ago. starting with a prayer right now. the gold medals are the highest

civilian honor congress can bestow. also in attendance, the president of the national 9/11 memorial and the pentagon memorial fund. comes on the eve tragic event. barbara. >> thank you. a fairfax-county based firm is losing a major contract with the government after it was targeted with a cyber attack. the office of personnel management says it will terminate its contract with usis. they do the bulk of background checks. tomorrow is september 11th. the 13th anniversary of the attack on the world trade center. do you feel safer? we have the results of a new poll. chuck, what about the weather? >> reporter: we have a mostly cloudy sky in northwest

washington still promises of sunshine before today is through. heat and humidity and thunderstorm chances coming back tomorrow. that part of the forecast and a look at the weekend, too, coming

>> announcer: you're wat new calls for an investigation this morning after the release of the ray rice assault video.

a new jersey state senator wants to know why a county prosecutor allowed rice to enter a pretrial probation program rather than press charges immediately. last night steve busineisciot s they ask for the tapes. they said they should have pursued their own investigation more gorously. meanwhile, nfl commissioner roger goodell said the league also tried to get the elevator video but was denied. in an interview with cbs he was asked how tmz got the video if he couldn't. he said he relied on law enforcement and he dropped the ball. >> we didn't get this right. that's my responsibility and i'm accountable for that. i would tell you what we saw in the first videotape was troubling to us in and of itself, about you what we saw yesterday was extremely clear, is extremely graphic and it was

sickening and that's why we took the action we took yesterday. >> the league suspended ray rice indefinitely, but a new policy only calls for six game suspension for first offenders of domestic violence. that opens the door for rice to play for a different team later this season. goodell said he'd have to be confident rice addressed his personal issues and paid a price before allowing him to play again. this morning we're getting an interesting and maybe surprising perspective from the wives of several former nfl players. while they understand the outrage from the rice tape, many say the public shouldn't judge the couple while they're trying to rebuild. >> they're just feeling very ostracized, like you're not helping. everybody is continually making us re-live this when we're trying to heal and grow from this. >> i do believe the nfl mishandled this situation tremendously. the nfl can figure out who draft picks or potential draft picks are dating, what their grades

are in the school but they couldn't find this video. >> he doesn't have to remain a bad guy. he needs some help. you know, it was wrong what happened. >> most of the wives also added that they are not gold diggers and nfl families are not that different from any other family in america. encouraging, that's how doctors are describing the recovery of a third american infected with ebola. rick sacra is being treated at a specialized treatment facility in nebraska. his doctors say he is becoming more alert and active. sakra became infected while working in liberia. a fourth member arrived in the u.s. yesterday. he's being treated in atlanta where two other americans are being cured. dr. kent brantley is one of those cured americans, and he recently thanked the organization he was working for when he contracted the ebola virus. brantley and his family had been serving in liberia with

samaritan's purse for ten months when he fell ill. these are pictures from his address. yesterday he thanked staff members in person for their prayers. he said, quote, i'm going to keep telling my story so i can remember what god has done in my life. and right now the white house is starting the groundwork for international support against isis. secretary of state john kerry met with iraq's new prime minister in baghdad this morning. the u.s. has constantly pushed the need for an inclusive government for more support can be given it isis. kerry's focus will be on forming a coalition against the militants. new poll shows the american people are in favor of military action against isis, and for moren that we're joined by kerry dann, a political writer for nbc. good morning, kerry. >> good morning. >> tell us about this poll on how people feel. >> this poll showed a surprising amount of support for military intervention in iraq and syria.

61% of respondents to the poll said that they do believe that military intervention is in the national interest. now compare that to a year ago when the president was talking about airstrikes in syria. just 20% of americans said the same. obviously the threat from isis, the beheading of those two journalists that were so widely disseminated and so many people have seen that now, that's really increased american willingness to say, let's put airstrikes and even a third of respondents said i'm willing to put troops on the ground. >> we saw on that chart 40% want it limited to airstrikes. is that surpri low number or surprisingly high number? >> that's surprisingly high number. also another 1/3 of americans said boots on the ground are acceptable to them. combined you're looking at 3/4 of the american electorate saying we need to address this now. for a war weary nation, that's a big zblum that poll had a

question about the country's safety. do we feel more safe now or less safe than before 9/11. >> 47% of people said that they feel less safe than they did before theattack. that's the highest that number has been since september 11 itself, the highest number we've seen. 26% of people, one of the lowest numbers that we've seen, say that they feel more safe. obviously this threat from isis has really increased fear among the american people and concern that isis is something that could come home and they want to address this threat while they can now. the president has a chance to talkbout that tonight. >> will this make his job a little bit easier seeing these kind of numbers? >> i think it does. the president instead of trying to convince the american people, we need to do this. he's been in situations where he's tried to convince the american people that we needed to take military action. now he's meeting them where they are. he's supposed to announce airstrikes from syria. it looks like americans are by and large ready to say, sure,

whatever it takes. >> we will know 9:00 tonight what he has to say. i'm sure the polls will reflect by tomorrow -- >> right. >> -- how americans react. >> absolutely. we'll be watching. >> for more from kerry and the rest of the nbc news political team check out first read on nbc news.com. we will be carrying the president's address right here on nbc news 4. news 4 just received documents from one side in a bitter feud in virginia. this ad by john foust was filmed in the government complex building. he's getting backlash from barbara j. come sto. both are running and comstock says it's against the rules to use a government complex. >> moving to one of virginia's senate races now. one candidate has a giant lead.

mark warner maintains a 22 point lead over gop challenger ed gillespie. voters are split 53/31%. a survey was released by the wasan center for public policy. election day is less than two months away. time is 19 minutes after 11:00. student debt is not just for young adults these days. more people are paying for their higher education longer. plus, we show you a house that will have you living on the edge. we'll break down all the percs of this house.

the bill and melinda gates foundation is donating $50 million to help fight the ebola outbreak. the charity says it's going to give the money immediately to u.n. agencies and international groups to help them get supplies and bump up emergency response. that's the latest. back to you, barbara. >> thank you, angie. help your kids fight off a do cold during the flu season. give them pro biotic yogurt. european researchers found that children taking a pill containing pro biotic were less likely to catch a cold. when they fell ill they were less likely to get sick. new this morning, student

loan debt isn't just a product of recent graduates. a strong percentage of seniors are struggling to pay those off. in 2010 4% of americans between 65 and 74 still owed money on their federal loans. well, that's up 1% from 2004. about 80% of the student loan debt by seniors was from their own education. the rest was taken out for their children. target's new ceo is looking to refocus the retailer on a handful of key areas. brian kornell told "the wall street journ" that they will revamp baby products, fashion, health and wellness. they're trying to bring shoppers back to their stores following a number of set backs, including last year's massive data breech. a record year for car recalls, but what's even more alarming is the number of cars on the road right now with

recalls that haven't been fixed yet. "consumer report"er erica gonzalez has that number and a possible way to reduce it. >> reporter: talking about people behind the wheel of vehicles with open recalls. that means they haven't been fixed yet, and there are a whopping 37 million cars currently on the road with open recalls. that's according to car fax. the company that provides vehicle history reports says it has a way to reduce the number of open recall cars people are currently driving. it's a free app that allows consumers to keep up with recall alerts and even vehicle maintenance. we set out to learn how it works and, sure enough, we found cars with open recalls in this northern virginia parking lot. >> this one has a passenger airbag inflator that's been recalled. that means that the passenger airbag may not deploy in an accident. >> tonight on news 4 at 5:00 we reveal more recall alerts that we found just by entering

license plate numbers in the mobile app. we'll show. we're following developments from a tragic story. a father confesses to killing his children who vanished a week ago. soon there will be a new way for you to pay for metro. we break down the transit agency's new payment pilot program. taking a look outside right now, we have the threat of severe weather. severe weather. storm team 4 meteorologist chu mmm! ring ring! ring ring! progresso! you soup people have my kids loving vegetables. well vegetables... shh! taste better in our savory broth.

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. new developments in a tragic story. a south carolina father believed to have killed f his children. officials giving us an update. they said they're working to give timothy ray jones jr. there back to the state after he led them to a dirt road in alabama where the five bodies were found. the children were between the ages of 1 and 8. jones is charged with child neglect. we just learned he will be served with murder warrants and additional charges could come after the children's autopsies are scheduled for tomorrow. the cause of dea won't be determined until after that happens. no word why jones wanted to kill his own children. barbara. >> thank you. we will continue to follow this story. now here's another way that you can live on the edge, if that's something that you like doing. look at that.

it's a cliff house off the coast of australia. the five story home includes three bedrooms and a spa area where you can hear the sound of waves from the ocean beneath. the home has an open air jacuzzi, open air. and lower level with a place to barbecue hanging out there. there's even room to park two cars and a garage on the top level. i'm not too sure that that's the way i'd want to live on the edge. i'd rather ride a motorcycle, jump out of an airplane. >> the engineers have built it to stay. i wouldn't mind. i'd do t. a long commute to work. >> in italy on the coast, it looks kind of like that. >> i just think the commute would kill me. all the way from australia and washington and back, every day, you'd miss two or three days in the transit. >> tell me, we have dangerous weather heading in our direction? >> not today but tomorrow could be a very busy weather day. powerhouse weather storms

yesterday moved through chicagoland and those storms are moving through the great lakes and upper midwest today and they will be arriving tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. enjoy the relatively quiet weather while it's here. it's quiet outside weather wise but it doesn't make it sunny. 75 degrees at national airport. 65% humidity. here's the beginning of the improvements. southwesterly breeze at 6 miles per hour will eventually help to scour these clouds out. in the meantime, those clouds are hanging on tough. 75 in frederick maryland. 76 fredericksburg. hourly temperatures today, two or three slivers and we should make it into the upper 70s, low 80s. i think we'll have breaks of sunshine in abundance by the time we get to the 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 time frame. not much of a weather impact going on today. it's much nicer than it has been the last few days. no weather related problems. no need for the umbrellas or

rain codes today. that won't be the case. heavy rain late last night into early morning in chicago. leading edge of the rain near toledo, ohio. weather today from detroit, e cleveland, cincinnati. tomorrow the severe weather threat comes right here to the mid-atlantic. we will, indeed, be under the gun for strong to potentially severe thunderstorms tomorrow afternoon and tomorrow evening. the main threat will be damaging winds but localized flooding will be ruled out. shenandoah valley 2:00 to 6:00. the i-95 corridor, 5 to 9:00 tomorrow. breaks down beginning at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, not much going on. a quiet start. plenty of sunshine. hot and humid. up near 90 tomorrow. by 2:00, 3:00 in the afternoon, there's the beginning of the thunderstorms bubble up. by 6:00, 7:00, here we are with

the bad thunderstorms moving into the metro. by 9:00 moving into parts of southern maryland. we'll be watching this very, very carefully. we'll have an update later this afternoon. here's the first peek at the 7:00 forecast. 82 today. if we get a little bit of sunshine, it will be 82. if the clouds play hard ball, 78, 79. tomorrow, thunderstorms likely. afternoon and evening time frame. friday looks great. saturday may be content with some clouds and shower chances but sunday jacksonville and washington play in good weather, barbara. >> that's good news. >> yeah. >> we have to get through tomorrow. >> that's right. >> we'll go through some bad weather. right now police montgomery county are asking for your help to finds a mother and her two children. they've been missing for 48 hours. news 4's richard jordan is live with the latest in this search. richard, what's happening right now? >> reporter: we just got an update on the investigation and there are significant

developments to report. first off, police say they have not received any information on the whereabouts of those two missing children, a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old. no one has called in to report any sightings of them over the past few days. police believe that their mother, 27-year-old kathryn hoegel may have taken them someplace. they do have information on where she's been. they say they've been able to pull some surveillance video from sunday, which is the day that the youngest boy went missing at a place on darns town road in gaithersberg. they put her in downtown germantown yesterday morning by 5:00 in the morning. they're hoping someone may recognize her and call in a tip that could lead her now. now hoegel is diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic. first she said she dropped off her son at a friend's house, then she told the father of the

children that she had taken both kids, her son and daughter, to a day care. police b inaccurate. they say they don't know where the children are now. that is a big concern to them. listen here to the assistant police chief. >> whatsoever. we have not picked them up in any video footage that's been supplied to us and we've had no calls from the community regarding these children being seen since they went missing. that deeply co >> so, again, no information on where those two children are. jacob, who's 2 years old, his older sister sarah, she is 3 years old. police say they don't know at this point where those children can be, but they say they are optimistic. they believe that there could be somewhat of a happy ending here, that the children could be found safely. as we speak, police are now pursuing criminal charges against kathryn hoegel, the mother of the children. they say later on they will

discuss what those charges are. reporting live in gaithersberg, richard jordan. a teen is safe after she said men tried to kidnap her. it happened not far from the columbia pike. the 18-year-old was trying to get into her car when two men grabbed her from behind on monday night. she fought back and suffered minor injuries. the men ran away when they noticed a police car responding to another incident. well, you can soon buy a house on the chancellorsville battlefield in spotsylvania county. they report the county board of supervisors approved construction on the legends of chancellorsville. more than 200 homes will be built on the north side of route 3. using a smart trip card to hop on the metro may soon be a thing of the past. they'll test new payment options to make it quicker and easier. beginning in january metro will

test a program that uses your smartphone, credit card, federal i.d. card, even watches embedded with a chip to pay for your fare. a new fare gate will be installed at ten stations. >> sounds like a great idea. the less paper and plastic and things that you use, a lot more convenient for everybody. everybody got a phone. >> the new payment option will also be tested on select buses. you can begin signing up for the pilot program next months. in a few weeks you can park at another garage when you ride the metro silver line. the fairfax county board of supervisors reached an agreement with the owners of tower building on west park drive about a half mile from the metrn park at 100 spots. a connector bus will run every ten minutes to get people from the o metro.

right now the only parking is at the weston east station. the chairman of the group behind the effort to bring the 2024 olympics to d.c. will be briefing local leaders. in an hour ramsey will tell the council's government what needs to be done to bring the olympics to our backyard. he'll discuss the economic impact the games will have on d.c. and the suburbs. it's world prevention day today and coming up, important information to save a life. how to tell if someone you love is suicidal. plus, less than 24 hours after apple's big announcement on new products, we have the on new products, we have the latest on the deal that

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>> announcer: you're watching news 4 midday. in news for your health, a new study shows long-term use for many commonly prescribed drugs may be linked to alzheimer's disease. researchers followed people taking valium and xanax to treat insomnia and anxiety. six years later those who took the drugs for longer than three months were 51% more likely to develop alzheimer's disease. experts say these medications should only be used on a temporary basis. today is world suicide prevention day according to a recently released report, someone in the world takes their own life every 40 seconds.

worldwide more people die from suicide than from conflicts, natural ka tast thrcand welcome. go to see you. >> hi. >> you have some remarkable statistics that show how often this happens. tell us about that. >> so, imagine this. suicides occur in this country once every 13 and a half minutes. there are more deaths from suicide than from automobile accidents, and it's not even close actually. there are about 30% more suicide deaths than those from automobiles. >> that surprises me. it probably doesn't you because you see people who are ill and this could certainly be a tragic end to their lives, but this is amazing, isn't it, to think that that many people take their own lives. do we know how and why? >> we do, which brings another rema fact, i think. whenever you talk about suicide you have to talk about the means to suicide. over 50% of suicides are gun related. so really when you talk about

suicide you need to talk about taking away that access to weapons or guns because for some people suicide is a very impulsive act if they have access to a lethal measure then really there's no chance of survival unlike other forms of suicide attempts where people do have a chance of surviving if they overdose on pills or something to that effect. >> now it's hard for you to know after the fact, but are most of these people considered ill and would their families say we thought this could happen or is this something that -- because somebody is feeling bad at a moment? >> it can be both, but what we know is for the vast majority it's estimated that 80 to 90 people who have made a suicide attempt or who have successfully completed a suicide attempt, there was a history of mental illness. most often that's depression. it could be a substance abuse problem, bipolar, schizophrenia. in some of those cases they didn't have a clear mental health disorder they just had a

tragic event occur in their life, which is why particularly for younger kids, when kids go through a bad breakup or they don't get into the college they want to. >> bullying, victims of bullying, those are not times that they're making statements about wanting to hurt themselves. those are not times to say these are just kid problems, it's okay. real problems happen when you're an adult. you have to go with it, give it time. that's not the time to say that. you want to take them very seriously. >> a lot of people still mourning the loss of robin williams. what can we learn from his death? >> i think that robin williams teaches us that suicide can happen to anybody. doesn't matter whether you're white, black, hispanic, rich, poor, it doesn't matter. the other thing is that robin williams even though on the outside obviously he looked like he was a relatively happy guy, at least when he was on tv, et cetera, people are often hiding how they really feel. i think people need to think about the risk of suicide as we would for somebody to have a

heart attack. if somebody has a risk for heart disease, you follow them closely. if somebody has risk factors for suicide, being a male, being in their 60s, having a history of depression and drug abuse, they need to be followed closely. >> any symptoms we should look for? >> the main thing is you need to be on the lookout for someone not acting as they typically do. if you're worried about them, you need toeb willing to say to them, are you having thoughts to die. are you having s thoughts? that question could sav their life. >> if you're having those thoughts, seek help. >> absolutely. >> nbc 4 is working to change minds. we have many resources on our website. nbcwashington.com. search changing minds. there you will find a treatment locator on how to get help for yourself and others. there's a number you'll want to play close attention to if you're a nationals fan.

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>> announcer: you're watching news 4 midday. nationals fans, you are one step closer to seeing your team in the playoffs. the team's magic number now is ten. that means any combination of nats wins and atlanta braves losses that add up to 10 will

get the team to the postseason. the nats beat the braves last night. adam laroche put them up 5-0. closer drew stallen entered the game for another night in a row. the nats play the braves at 4:05 p.m. at nats park. ♪ ♪ doe, a deer, a female deer >> the story of the von trapp family lives on today in music and on the big and small screen. from "the sound of music" it also lives on in the next generation of von trapps and their new music. joining us are sophia, melanie, amanda, and august von trapp. the great grandchildren of captain and maria von trapp. welcome to all of you. i'm trying to see if you look like maria. they're not the real ones that we all know from television.

nbc, of course had "the sound of music" last year and of course the original screen version and the first one which was on the broadway stage. have you seen them all? >> yes. >> do you feel like, hey, that's my family up there? >> it's really amazing. our grandfather was portrayed as curt in the sound of music. our grandfather was the youngest boy. >> there was a real von trapp in the show? >> not in the show but -- because it was a movie portraying a real family. >> oh, i see, all right. >> it's so great to have you here. thomas lauderdale, you started the pink martini which is the band that they'll be singing with. how did you start that? >> started 20 years ago. i thought i was going to go into politics and i hated the bands that were playing at political functions. it's a cross between the united nations and breakfast attive nis. >> how did you find the von

trapps? >> christmas tree lighting a couple of years ago. they had a concert. they called up and said, we have the von trapps. do you mind if they come on stage? absolutely. now we have a new album that's just come out. >> you're going to be singing with the national symphony orchestra, pink martini will be playing tomorrow night. we'd love for the von trapps to sing us to break but we first want to let them know that sophia, amanda, melanie, august and pink martini will be there tonight at the kennedy -- >> tomorrow. >> tomorrow night. >> thursday, friday, saturday. >> thursday, friday, saturday .ight. >> welcome to washington. >> thank you. >> how many times have you seen the show? >> countless. >> "the sound of music." let's . ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i want to be someone of the

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we have breaking news out montgomery county. take you live. live look at crews miracle babies.

news 4's chris gordon was there for the celebration. ♪ happy birthday to you >> reporter: tyler and tyson crocker look like happy, healthy 1-year-olds as they celebrate their birthday. their dad is already making plans for them. >> he may not be as tough as everybody, but might be my golfer, tennis player. >> reporter: it didn't begin happily. they were born conjoined twins, their chests and bellies attached. they shared a liver. tyson also needed heart surgery. this is time lapse video of the 3-d printer surgeons used to make a plastic bottle of the boys' entire mid section to plan the procedure on the tiny twins who were then only two months old. >> this week i think i cried a couple times. i think when my nurses come out here, i'll definitely cry and my doctor. >> you can't do this kind of surgery without this kind of family because you really need the parents like this to do