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sheriff's deputies there say 51-year-old don spirit shot and killed his daughter and her six children. those kids range in age from three months to 10 years old. spirit then called 911, waited until deputies arrived and then shot himself. investigators say some people at the house were left alive. bell, where they lived is a town of only 350 people. we'll have the latest on all this tomorrow morning on news 4 today beginning at 4:26. an outdoor amphitheater wasa the university of virginia was packed with students tonight, thousands of them hoping and praying for the safe return of hanna graham. she was 18 years old -- is 18 years old, senate been seen since early saturday morning. david carr has our report. >> despite the many questions that remain in the disappearance of hanna graham, tonight her fellow students are holding out home she'll be found safe.

their message tonight, bring hannah home. ♪ >> reporter: they filled the outdoor amphitheater, packed it full, overflowing even. thousands here for one reason. one person. hannah graham. >> and tonight, we are one community, united to bring hannah home. >> that message carried on a banner. the second-year uva student hasn't been seen since early saturday morning. here disappearance has left her classmates, unsettled, uneasy, just wanting things to go back to narmal. hannah's friends writing her a alert and sharing it with all. >> simply put, we miss you so much. >> reporter: a few of hannah's favorite things also shared. >> like the british flag behind me and the skis in front of it, you'll also find pink star burst

on your seats. all of this put together by hannah's peers. dean of students tells me he's not surprised by the number who showed up. >> the objective is to both bring hope to our community and our students, but also to focus people's attention on the fact that we believe hannah is still out there and we want to bring her safely home. >> reporter: hannah's friend ended their letter with a shared hope. >> you make things good, hannah graham. where are you? we want you back where you belong. >> reporter: at one point, the student body president asked all his classmates to pull out their cell phones and log on to a website and register for a community search to find hannah. that will take place this saturday. on the grounds at the university of virginia in charlottesville, david culver, news 4. >> the people who live in the community where hannah grew up, also gathered tonight on pray for her safe return. a prayer vigil was in the

alexandria section of fairfax county, it was also streamed online. police in charlottesville say the man seen with graham on this surveillance video, just before she was last seen is cooperating. he claims another man acted as though he knew graham, approached her moments after this video was taken and put his arm around her. police say, they would like to speak with that man. you can get all the latest about this investigation and all the surveillance video that's been released. go to our website, nbc washington.com. a report detailing the disappearance of relisha rudd and the weeks that lead up to that disappearance, will get a second look tomorrow. d.c. council member jim graham is holding a hearing on that report. he has grave concerns about the findings. the council has been critical in the report for being lenient

with the agents that interacted with rudd's family before she went missing. that was more than six months ago. tonight, members of congress are going home until after election day. the u.s. senate before they left passed president obama's plan to fight isis by arming and training syrian rebels. the vote came hours after a deadly isis plot was broken up in australia. >> reporter: an isis suspect far from iraq in australia. sydney, industrial. police are holding six people who got orders from a senior isis leader to behead random australia. >> to conduct demonstration killings here in this country. >> reporter: the u.s. faces that danger, say federal officials. >> that americans will take u.s. passports after fighting with isis, after training with isis, to come back and commit unspeakable acts of terror here at home. >> reporter: to fight isis, the senate followed the house. >> the joint resolution is passed.

>> reporter: okaying the training and arming of moderate syrian rebels. >> so there are moderates. if we train and equip them, they can be effective. >> reporter: the vote helps president obama keep his pledge not to put u.s. boots on the ground. >> a majority of democrats and republicans in the house and the senate have voted to support a key element of our strategy, a plan to train and equip in the opposition in syria so they can help push back these terrorists. >> reporter: but some see another iraq war that could end in chaos. >> intervention is not always the answer and often leads to unintended consequences. >> my fear and i think the fear of the american people is, we've all heard this before. we've all lived through this already. >> so what's the alternative? do nothing? >> but this is not iraq. it's a totally different thing. >> reporter: near baghdad today, the iraqi army cleared roads and set out to take territory back from isis. the australians sent military advisers to help. and the french formally

announced they will bomb isis in iraq. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. it's early morning in scotland and the votes are the independence referendum are still being counted. 4.2 million people were registered to vote and officials predicted a 90% turn-out. if scotland votes to leave the united kingdom, it would end a 307-year union. results are expected to be announced in about two hours. the polls going into election day were too close to call. a push to legalize marijuana in the district looks like it might be successful in november. an nbc 4 washington post/maris poll asked voters if they would favor legalization. nearly 2-1, they said yes. only 2% said they're undecided at this point. meanwhile, in the d.c. mayor's race, tonight was the first time all three candidates shared the

stage. tom sherwood moderated at american university tonight and chris lawrence is there now with what the candidates had to say. chris? >> well, bowser said david kit annia seems to take credit for every good thing that's ever happened in the city. he said that bowser has voted for every single one of his education proposals. and so it went as the candidates both touted their own accomplishments and aggressively went after each other. >> david kit annia accused of front-runner of not having a record to run on. >> when you ran for counsel in 1997, you promised to make education your number one priority. in seven years, you introduced a resolution with no specifics, no plan. -- >> and in seven years, mr. -- >> bowser cast him as a hot head. >> mr. kit annia wouldn't go to the baseball stadium because he was still sore after the baseball fight. and that's just kind of speaks to his temperament. >> reporter: they're trying to win over a diverse group of voters. >> i just moved to d.c. about a year ago.

>> edwin washington is concerned about services for seniors. he voted for gray, but admires kit annia. >> even as a republican there were some things that he did that i thought were for the people. >> daniel murphy worries about affordability. >> i want to build a family here, i need a safe community and making sure my kids have the right school to go to. >> on the boundary plan -- >> tom sherwood kept the candidates honest. she said she would not back the new school boundary plan. >> i think boundaries could happen within a year. >> there was one point all three candidates agreed. they all want to craft legislation that is as strict as possible to comply with the new ruling from the court that basically outlawed d.c.'s ban on carrying firearms. reporting from northwest d.c. at american university, chris lawrence, news 4. >> thanks, chris.

there's a new effort tonight to help find a 77-year-old man who's missing in prince george's county. oswaldo mutu was last seen on maxwell drive last weekend. police say he was wearing an orange shirt, blue jeans, and black shoes. they're asking anyone with information to give them a call. developing tonight, u.s. secretary-general banky moon said the number of ebola cases is doubling every three weeks in west africa. the united nations is now asking for a billion dollars to fight the virus. the nation of sierra leone is in effect shut down. all six million people in that country, confined to their homes as that nation tries to stop the spread of ebola. volunteers are going house to house to search for victims. it's believed 2,600 people have died from ebola in recent weeks in west africa. home depot says a cyber

attack went on for months and affected 56 million credit cards. the home improvement retailers the malware has been eliminated. so far there's no evidence that debit p.i.n. numbers were compromised or that customers who shopped online were affected. next at 11:00, allegations of fraud against a school counsellor. shocking. we'll tell you about the lawsuit filed and the impact on potentially hundreds of other students. outrage aimed at the nfl, but tonight, one washington player is coming to the defense of adrian peterson. temperatures cool for one day, but then summer makes a big return. i'll show you when in my fo

new tonight, a teenager has filed a lawsuit against a montgomery counsel school board. he says the board was negligent when it hired a school counsellor who lied about his qualifications. that counsellor worked in montgomery county for 12 years, and testified in a custody hearing when the boys' parents were divorced. shomari stone reports now. the boy claims the counsellor was a fraud. >> reporter: tonight ronald karp filed a lawsuit against the board of education of montgomery county on behalf of an 18-year-old man. why? carp tells me the school district employed a phony psychologist with fake credentials for 18 years. the psychologist called himself dr. david flemmer. his real name was duane flemmer.

>> if they looked into his credentials, they would have known he was using a bogus name, he wasn't a ph.d. that he forged all his documents. >> he counselled his client for years beginning when he was 8 years old. the boys' parents were going through a divorce. >> when you can walk into court and say i'm dr. david flemmer, montgomery county school psychologist. you have instant credibility. >> in 2006, the judge removed the boy from his mother and gave custody to his mother, allegedly based on dr. flemmer's testimony. in 2012, flemmer applied for a new job out of state. his new employer contacted the maryland board of professional counsellors and therapists, to check his credentials. after an investigation, the board found flemmer created a

flawedulent psychology license using an expired license number and forged signatures of people who had served as board members for the board of psychology. duane flemmer killed himself a year later. tonight in a written statement, the montgomery county school spokesperson confirms that flemmer worked for the school district from 1998 to 2010, and said, quote, we've not had the opportunity to see any legal action at this point, and do not discuss legal cases in the media. in rockville, i'm shomari stone, news 4. a reminder of the ongoing scandal in the nfl was circling above the game tonight in atlanta. the women's rights group flew a banner over the georgia dome that read "goodell must go." they want him to resign because of his handling of domestic abuse cases.

fans of the game do not agree. 57% of football fans disapprove of how the league handled domestic violence issues, but less than a third believe goodell should resign. when it comes to the child abuse charges against adrian peterson, 60% of americans said it is wrong to discipline children with a switch. however, 51% of those surveyed in the south say it's okay. williams was peterson's college roommate at oklahoma. new tonight, battle of the name of washington's football team is heating up in congress. before leaving for fall recess, three u.s. senators introduced a bill that would revoke the nfl's tax-exempt status if the league continues to promote the name. more than 300 tribesi

representing two million native americans say that name say racial slur. doug is here now. and we have temperatures that are chilly, then warm, then chilly. >> yep. >> we got a little variation coming our way. >> we got ourselves september. >> come on. >> that's what september brings us, the first real cool air of the season, but also continues to bring us a little bit of summer weather, exactly what we have over the next couple days. tonight, one of those cooler nights, with moisture moving in, not in the form of rain. some foggy areas and clouds, could keep temperatures up. while others, temperatures are going to be falling. a pretty good shot of the lincoln memorial. 68 degrees right now. look at the dew point as our cold front meanders around the region. cooler to the north, 57 hagerstown, 57 in frederick. warmer to the south, 64 in

fredericksburg. >> the front will country to move to the south. earlier, we saw showers around southern maryland. those are now out of here and you can continue to see that front just down to the south. it's going to stay down there towards that regi, but watch out for some clouds. southern maryland, light fog, around fredericksburg, charlottesville, you could see fog tomorrow. friday looking very, very nice. a fantastic friday with temperatures a little bit warmer. future weather, rather cooler on your friday. notice the cloud cover to the south. but sunshine from washington to the north. during the day, we see a little bit more of a easterly flow, a chance of a shower, maybe a sprinkle, most likely towards the portions of the chesapeake bay, but that's really going to be about it, saturday starting off with cloud cover, maybe some light areas of fog. then saturday, we start to see summer return.

so tonight, 56 down towards fredericksburg, 61 in paut ux set river. cool start in some of those areas tomorrow. your morning commute, you may need to have the heater on in your car as you move on. something we haven't seen a lot of us, but could be there tomorrow. temperatures there around 65 degrees. that sun will be out in the afternoon. sprinkled to the east of i-95, but comfortable, 71 to 76 degrees. as we move to the next couple days, 76 on friday, 81 on saturday. 86 on sunday with a good chance of a late storm. most of us will be on the dry side, but we will see a couple of late storms as another cold front moves through. that will bring in the really cool air. 76 monday, 76 on tuesday. but notice the low temperatures. down in the lower 50s in the city. i think some areas could get down to about 40 degrees come next wednesday and thursday.

we're talking about most of the suburbs. loudon county, frederick county, we're in for a little bit of a cooldown out there. i think a lot of people are actually ready for it. >> i think so too. you got to love this time of year. >> i know i do. my windows are down. your top's down. >> what else could you ask for? >> i need one of those. >>

this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. nats have one crown, sure like to have another one. >> the party is over. get the first stringers back. the everyday players back.

because they want to win. the washington nationals find themselves in another dog fight down the stretch. it's a race for the best record in the national league. you know what that means, home field advantage for the playoffs. right now they have a two-game lead over the dodgers with ten games left. that's after they get back to winning in miami tonight. span fans are everywhere, even in miami while facing the marlins. but the guy they call the buffalo, he deserves love too. ramos flying it deep to center field over the head of marcell ozu ozuna. anthony rendon represents the tying run, but the nats not done. later in the inning, franzen ripping a single to right field, bryce harper comes in. throwing error at second base, and that allows cabrera to come home. slides just under the tag. al five runs scored in the fourth inning. gonzalez on the mound pitching a strong game, but he also got some big-time help from his d.

jeff baker, fly ball to left center. watch this! denard span, oh no he didn't! we get to see it again. it was beautiful, what a play! nats win. win number 88 on the season. 6-2 the final score. redskins and the eagles are this sunday the football game. the story all week is about desean jackson. chip kelly revealing why they let him go, saying it has zero to do with off-the-field stuff and all about getting bigger at the wideout position. now whether that's a full story, we may never know, but man, does jackson want to make him regret that decision. that's tbd, because desean jackson did not practice. he's questionable with a sprained shoulder. he did get some individual work, catching a few passes. >> look how hard he's breathing there. >> he's got to push himself tomorrow and see where he's at.

and jackson says he's got some extra motivation to get healthy. that's while the cameras were rolling. back to baseball, yankees, got another tape for you. they're most likely missing the playoffs. we have desean jackson reaction? want to run that still? sorry, guys, i messed that. run at, let's hear what he has to say. >> it was obviously a huge time in my life. a huge part of the beginning of my nfl career. obviously it's going to be a huge game for myself and something i always look forward to ever since everything went down the way it went down. >> we're not going to put him out there in any circumstance where he's going to be playing in pain, because that will take away from his style. he's a reckless player, a fast player, and he's not 100%, he's not worth being out there, but he's a tough kid and i think he'll get right. >> at the end of the week, we'll see how it plays out, but i don't think it's jeopardizing my

career in the long haul. i don't plan on missing this game. >> oh, no. extra motivation. that's what we're talking about. yankees now. they're most likely to miss the playoffs for the second straight year. that means no celebration for them. and they don't like to see anyone else celebrate. one fan trying to catch a foul ball tonight, spills his beer over his friend. look at mark teixeira. that's not right. probably the only time they'll see a drink poured over someone's head. someone's head. he's

in cases of rape and incest, just someone's head. he's like the right-wing republicans in congress. they want to overturn roe v. wade. so does she. "i think roe v. wade should be overturned." barbara comstock even voted with right-wing republicans to require women seeking an abortion to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. that's all i need to know. i'm john foust and i approve this messge.

whole bunch of people in bethesda tonight camped out to get themselves a new iphone 6 and 6-plus. they go on sale a 8:00 tomorrow morning. already been record demand. four million people preordered them last friday. those folks really want a new phone.

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