drop it. put it down, cat. [ gregg ] back off, captain. put the weapon down, cat. anabella set me up. cat, listen to me. - put the weapon down. - she's telling the truth. james, drop that weapon. there is a bomb on the ferry, and my mother is on it, john. caitlyn. caitlyn, listen to me. put that weapon down, please. cat. [ baker ] please, cat. sullivan, drop the gun. come on! please, cat, listen to them, okay? lower your weapon. they took my son. they took nico. i need your help. [ sobbing ] drop your weapon so the captain can figure this out, please. [ sobbing ] they're gonna kill my son. cat. do it. put it down. they're gonna kill my son, cat. don't do this, cat, please.

drop the gun. come on. [ esposito ] drop the gun, sullivan, now. [ baker ] it's over. cat, put it down. [ sobbing ] put it down. [ growls ] step back. back. get back. get back! - shooter! down! - [ gunshot ] - no! - get down. gregg. oh, god. it's okay. [ groans ] it's okay. it's okay. esposito, call an ambulance! it's okay. it's okay. hey. hey. - ronnie, please tell me where you are. - i'm at the airport. damn. [ sobbing ] i always loved you, cat. please don't do this. [ sobbing ] don't say it. please don't say it. please don't say that. no, no, no, gregg. gregg. hey. hey. hey, stay with me, please. hey. don't die on me. come on. don't die on me!

[ sobbing ] [ cat sobbing ] come on. please. you're under arrest. [ cell phone ringing ] [ cat ] gregg. nico? [ speaking french ] [ nico ] papa. papa. [ man ] you have less than one hour to turn yourself over, or we kill your son and his mother, and it won't be pretty. [ baker ] oh, my god. [ gasps ] oh, no! [ sobs ] [ screams ] [ sobbing ]

the mission laid out. >> we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil. >> response coming in to president obama's case for military action in iraq and syria. a missing mother now a suspect in her children's disappearance. new only the, what led police to search a montgomery county trail? and a controversial assignment. a local school gives students homework comparing a president

>> first, new details about the search for two missing children in montgomery county. >> police have been searching an area near seneca creek and they've released new surveillance video of the children's mother. now the latest on the search for her and he >> reporter: she is now facing criminal charges of child neglect and the investigation thus far indicates, she may still be in this area. this security video shows 27-year-old katherine inside the chick-fil-a in germantown around 6:00 p.m. monday. she and troy turner, the father of her three children, will stopped there to report the youngest missing. turner grew concerned after being unable to get a straight answer as to the children's whereabouts from catherine who has been diagnosed as a paranoid could leave, catherine slipped out a side door. investigators beli she walked to a nearby bus center but court

documents say hogle was seen on video surveillance at 7:14 that night and 4:14 in the morning. the building is described as not an institution catherine hog.gle has authority to enter. her personal credit cards were found there. meanwhile troy turner has been doing everything he can to find his children. >> right now, my hope is getting my kids back. that's it. getting my kids back and healthy. that's all i'm trying to do. >> reporter: investigators searched the seneca creek green way trail this aft say why. that concern turned up nothing as concern escalates because of her illness. news4 has received a copy of a complain she filed last year. page after page about minute detail about the alleged theft of clothing. today's charging documents revealed that catherine's

parents texted her while she was at this chick-fil-a saying they were talking to the police about the missing children. she apparently texted them back, falsely saying the children were with her. live in germantown, news4. >> our objective is clear. we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil through a comprehensive and sustained counter terrorism strategy. >> it's the plan many here in washington and around the world have been waiting for. president obama outlines his strate defeating a violent terrorist group. it is a plan the president promises will be different from prior wars in iraq and afghanistan. so the question now, will it work? and how long will it take? nbc's steve handelsman has our report from the white house. >> reporter: we must destroy isis, president obama told the american mahinmi people in his prime time speech. >> thes it took the lives of two

american journalists. while we have not yet detected specific plotting against our homeland, isi leaders have threatened america and our allies. if you threaten america you will find no safe haven. >> reporter: he has a plan. the united states, france and others to strike isis from the air and iraq with no limits and in a major escalation to strike isis in syria. iraqi government forces, kurds and others to strike isis on the ground, along with anti-isis syrians the u.s. will support. 475 more american advisers will go with the president's promise that's were not in his words, getting dragged into another ground war in iraq. >> it will not involve american combat troops fighting on foreign soil. this do you meaner terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady relentless effort to take out isil wherever they exist, using our air power. and our support for partners, forces on the ground. >> u.s. pilots and advisers will be in danger. >> they're in a combat situation. they say they're not is

obviously untrue. >> reporter: but others assume the front line risk. >> if we deceit isis, it will be the people in iraq and syria do that with the support of the united states. >> reporter: president obama says our nation's security depends on our willingness to take on isis. he said he has the authority now to implement his man but mr. obama welcomed the support of congress that he said would show the world america is united. i'm steve handelsman, news4. >> the president's address comes hours before the country marks 13 years since the terrorist attacks on september 11. a new nbc news "wall street journa poll reveals nearly half the respond yenlts believe the united states is less safe now than any time since those attacks. memorial services will be held tomorrow at the world trade center and the pentagon as well as shanksville, pennsylvania. >> park police won't explain specific buzz they say they will have enhanced security measures

in place. some staffers have been told to be prepared for the possibility of evacuation. d.c. police confirmed an officer was shot. the man tried to run over an office order south dakota avenue. >> reporter: we're learning more about what happened here and the big question is what exactly led up to this police involved shooting. behind me, the scene is clear. we drove out here to the 2800 block of bladensburg road for a report of that shooting. police closed several streets around the area with crime scene tape. we saw this crash, two cars collided. police questioned people nearby and then a few blocks away on south dakota avenue, northeast and 31 place. we found another scene. this one had police taking photos of an officer and a honda crv. we waited fo a then around 10:15 tonight, d.c. police told us around 5:30 this evening, police tried to arrest a man in a vehicle.

we say vehicle because they won't tell us if it is the crv or the cars at the other scene them say the suspect put his vehicle in reverse, hit an officer and that officer fired a shot at the suspect. the suspect left the scene but policet him not too far away. people in this neighborhood are concerned. >> what's your reaction when you see that scene right outside your house? >> kind of scary. yeah. i have my kids and they walk home from school so it is kind of scary. >> reporter: the suspect and that officer are going to be okay them don't have serious injuries. police tell us it is very early in this investigation. we'll be asking them more questions about what happened out here tomorrow. in northeast d.c. news4. we turn to our weather now. an sbenls line of storm left their mark on the cleveland area. wind knocked down trees, tore roofs off homes and heavy rain brought high water that caused a number of cars to stall on a busy highway. >> now those storms could be headed our way. let's get the latest from doug kammerer.

>> temperatures today, a little warmer than they were yesterday. tomorrow we'll be warm he still. that will set the stage for what we have coming our way. a high 83 in d.c. temperature tomorrow, five to ten degrees warmer and that will add to the fuel for these thunderstorms that could develop. this line of storms rate now coming through the cincinnati area right down to the south of st. louis. this right now, a very strong line of storms. we did see possible tornadoes back toward ohio as that line moves in. it is going to account on that very warm and humid air mass. the temperatures close to 90. we'll talk much more about when you can expect the storms to go through. how strong they will be and what to expect behind that storm system. we have some big chains coming in >> major new developments in the ray rice investigation. the announced it will hire a former fbi to investigate its response to rice's case.

>> we are just learning that they will hire exfbi director robert mueller iii. he will conduct an independent investigation into the rice situation. the focus of this investigation, the handling of the ray rice evidence. this announcement comes as criticism of the nfl grows. some are calling for roger goodell to resign as nfl commissioner. but according to the "washington say goodell resigning is not a consideration. another adding, there is quote, no chance of his stepping down. more details are emerging about that night. according to espn's outside the lines, which talked to several staffers at rebel casino after knocking his then fiance janay unconscious, ray rice reportedly. she was intoxicated. she drank too much. i'm trying to get her back to the room. the staffers revealed when janay did come to, she said how could you do this to me?

i'm the mother of your kid. end quote. so this independent investigation begins and the commissioner pledges, they will cooperate and hand over all nfl records. we continue to hear the nfl network saw that tape. did the baltimore ravens see it? we will hear from the ravens owner coming up in sports. >> looking forward to that.. to the latest developments in the ebola outbreak. new photos somehow an infected doctor sitting up and talking to his wife through a video monitor. he contracted the illness while treating people in liberia. they say he is more alert and even making some jokes. meanwhile, more humanitarian aid is on its way to west africa from our area. a nonprofit group called pci shipping hundreds of haass hazmats suits to lie beer. i can't they are trying to protect the doctors and aid workers treating the ebola patients. there's a worldwide shortage of those suits because you can only

wear them once. doctors in virginia are on the lookout for people with a mystery illness. the health department warns an unsplanld clusters of a respiratory illness that may be the enterovirus. doctors don't know much about it but it seems to affect more children than adults and is more dangerous for those with as max you should look for symptoms like mild cold, coughing, trouble breathing, sometimes also a rash. it is not clear if the illness showing up in virginia is the same one that has sickened hundreds of kids elsewhere in the country. next, homework under fire. the assignment in one local school drawing protests on social media. >> new protests in ferguson, missouri. what happened when hundreds of people tried to stop rush hour traffic on the interstate? and new clues about what brought down a s.

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new at 11:00, toronto mayor rob ford is in the hospital with a tumor on his abdomen. he was rushed to the hospital today with what is described as unbearable stomach pain. now he'll have to have a biopsy to determine what kind of tumor it is. the mayor made international headlines last year after admitting he got drunk, smoked crack cocaine. a protest in ferguson, missouri doesn't go as planned. demonstrators showed up by the dozens trying to shut down interstate 70 outside st. louis. it didn't work. several were arrested. they're calling for justice more than a month after a police officer shot and killed unarmed teenager michael brown. that ignited several days of rioting. there are a lot of questions tonight over a homework

assignment at a local middle school. it asked students to draw comparisons between an american president and adolf hitler. remember diagrams where you used two circles that intersect to show the relationships between things. parents here are pretty upset about the venn diagram assignment their students got. the assignment for the class of sixth graders. do a comparison and contrast. at least one parent found that troubling on a number of levels. he said there is an obvious apples and oranges relation and they see a certain lack of respect for the office of the president. then the words in the instructions. read boll both men who abused their powers. that apparent complaint represents opinion as fact. a slippery slope on which to build a lesson for sixth

graders. the d.c. chancellor of schools has been made aware of the assignment. we've reached out to the school system for comment and we're still waiting for apply. it is the next best thing to a white house tour. today first lady michelle obama cut the ribbon on the newly remodeled white house visitor's central. the museum on pennsylvania avenue was closed for two years for a $12.6 million renovation. it reopens to the public this saturday with new exhibits, giving visitors a glimpse inside the first family's home. >> investigators blame heavy fog for a plane crash in southwest virginia. this plane crashed right on to interstate 77 after it hit a blanket of fog and clipped some trees. the pilot is from ohio. he was seriously hurt but he is expected to recover. both the ntsb and investigators are investigating the crash. we've got more changes coming in the forecast. >> this is the time of year we start to see the changes.

summer moving to fall and that's what we've got over the next 24 hours. tomorrow, temperature near 90 degrees. by tomorrow night, you're going to notice that fall-like difference. look at that. the moon, a beautiful shot. just some high clouds. almost a full moon. the moon was fulfill just two nights ago. so right now, it is a definite beautiful shot. 75 degrees, th the current temperature. notice the numbers. everybody above 70 for the first time we've seen that in the last week or. so 71, martinsburg, 72 in patuxent river. a little more of a mild night. tomorrow you will notice the difference when you stem out the front door. storm team 4 radar. nothing to show in the immediate region. some showers and that's a warm front. that warm front passing by the area. the cold front is back toward the west. you can see the storms elongated on that frontal boundary coming into the cincinnati area. that cold front will make its way our way over the next 24 hours and really over the next 12 hours. by this time tomorrow it will be

right on our doorstep. what does that mean? let's take you through future weather. no problems. we could see a couple areas of fog but we won't be dealing with too much of that in the morning commute. it is the evening commute. around 4:00, 5:00, 6:00 that we see the storms come through. and a few of those could be strong potentially, even severe. that's something we'll watch out for. i'm not calling for a lot of storms during the day. it is only going to be a few. those storms could pack a punch. right now the biggest threat looks like from washington right down toward the south around the fredericksburg region. right around that 4:00, 6:00 hour. by 8:00, most of those are toward the south. they get out of here. what come in next is some pretty breezy conditions into early friday morning. friday morning you wake up to a different set. the temperatures will drop by about 10 degrees. by friday afternoon, i'm talking about some fantastic weather. a fantastic friday for sure. especially after that noon hour.

89 degrees for tomorro in d.c. 91 in culpepper, 91, fredericksburg. what will we be seeing tomorrow? your impact forecast, hot and humid. that puts us in that moderate range. a few evening thunderstorms. if you get caught in that, you will be impacted greatly for sure. 77 on friday. much cooler numbers. and then still cooler. there will be a slight chance of a shower but it won't be much. don't cancel any plans. 69 degrees for an overnight low. sunday morning, most of you will wake up to the 50-degree mark. back to the west. wouldn't be surprised to see some upper 40s for the first time this season as we make our way toward monday, tuesday and wednesday. the temperatures, moderate just a little bit but re we remain well above normal. then we go below average a little bit. >> sounds like we should start our weekend on friday. >> i'm in. >> thanks, doug. we just showed you derrick ward's reporting on the middle

school. moments ago we got a statement from the d.c. public schools the homework asignment comparing bush to hitler. the teacher deeply regrets this mistake and any suggestion to malign the presidency or make any comparison in this egregious way. the teacher admits to poor judgment and will apologize to students. have the the rave.

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just a couple minutes ago you were reporting the nfl is in the former fbi director to look at the evidence. >> it seems the smartest thing to do. look at all the evidence involving ray rice and whether or not the nfl received this video. also for the first time since the second video was released, the ravens owner speaking on camera about his former running back ray rice. he said the ravens never saw the video but the owner taking the blame for not doing more after hearing about the incident initially. >> that's my fault. because we love ray. we have a tendency to hear what we want to hear and see what we want to see. the explanation that he hit her with an open hand, that she was aggressive, i was picturing her

wailing on him and him smacking her and maybe her head was this far from the wall and with her inebriation, dropped. so why did i conclude all that? because i wanted to. because i loved him because he had a stellar record and the cops had already seen the video so i assumedt forceful blow that moved her head three feet into that wall. that's what i regret. >> a difficult time for the ravens organization. they play tomorrow night against the steelers. talking baseball, the nationals inching ever closer to a playoff berth today. parachute team dragging right down. tried to drop the magic number to nine. stephen strasburg with two on. freddie freeman with the nasty curveball. one of eight strikeouts in the

game for strass. justin upton at the plate. off the glove, adam laroche brings in the run and the rbi single for upton. the braves take a 2-1 lead. six innings and three runs allowed. then in the seventh, upton again. this time with two other. takes to it left center. one run come in easily. bryce harper cuts this off. off the mark a bit. a two-run double for upton. he had two rbis in the game. 6-2 in that magic number. stays at 10-10. orioles fans, cheering their birds against the red sox. the top three. the o's already up 1-0. two on for adam jones and he continues to have a great season here. taking it down. all the way to the wall. two runs come in to score. jones, the swek the double. his 84th and 85th. top five now.

caleb joseph at the plate here. catcher, ready to knock this one. crushes it to the top of the green monster. a two-run shot for him. three rbis in the game. the orioles go on to win it. 10-6, their magic number down to 8. so doug, i know you can say that you're all excited about this fall weather but you know what it tells me, the playoffs are here. as soon as i feel the cool air. >> i cannot wait this season. i cannot wait to see how far they take it. >> the fact that we're talking magic numbers. i love that we're keeping up with these teams. can you imagine? can you imagine, i mean, what will happen with the

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