charlottesville with more on the latest in this. >> reporter: wendy and jim, police calling today a major break. a major development in this search for hannah graham. now just a few moments from now, we're expecting a press conference. the chief of police here in charlottesville expected to come to the microphone out there to bring us new details when it comes to the update in this case. we're going to be standing by for that. meantime, the reason we came to today the way we got here, the new leads that police got came from the search of a nearby apartment. police tape up. investigators going in and out of the charlottesville apartment building all day. they say it's connected to the disappearance of hannah graham. >> that search warrant is to locate what we believe could be potential evidence that may be related to this investigation. >> reporter: we've shown enthusiast surveillance video from last saturday morning, one of the last known sightings of the uva second year. the video shows a man walking with hannah. that man has since come to

police to point the finger at another man, now a person of interest. the chief says that's what brought them here. officers had at least one tip leading them to a vehicle that was parked in front of this building. so they ted it to search it offsite. then they got the warrant to go inside the apartment. carrying out bags of evidence. possible clues in finding out what happened to hannah. >> there were persons present when the search warrant for the vehicle was being executed and the vehicle was being seized. >> but those people are not being questioned at all? >> those people are not. >> where are the people -- >> i have no idea, ma'am. >> reporter: meantime, more than 800 volunteers already registered for tomorrow's community search. their mission, to find hannah. they're registering tonight, planning to head out in the morning. >> well, we're always hopeful. and even if it's just a piece of information that leads us to the next, you know, move. >> reporter: at this point, we're expecting the police chief right now to be walking out to the podium. we're keeping our eyes on it. it's supposed to happen any

movement now. just a few minutes ago, they said within two minutes. so it could happen in this very moment. in the meantime, several questions we have for him as he comes out here. namely, you saw that search of that apartment building. they said three individuals were there as they came to that apartment building overnight. those three individuals they said they did not question. they did not detain and they did not take into custody in any way. so we're wondering why that is the case. we're also wondering what led them to that apartment building. what led them to that vehicle in the first place. how in any way is that connected to the search for hannah graham. and, of course, the biggest question, the question we all want answered, where is hannah graham. these are the questions being put forward to the police chief as he steps out here in just a moment. we're standing by for that press conference. again, police calling this the biggest, the most major break in development in this case that is nearly one week old. it was last friday night that hannah left her dorm, her apartment here in charlottesville. she went out to dinner with

friends. after dinner, she went to a couple parties. from that party, surveillance camera was able to see her leaving and walking around a pub, the outside of a pub. she never went into that pub. and then continued down, away from uva grounds, walking towards the downtown mall and that is the last the surveillance cameras were able to see hannah graham. we're going to stand by and bring you the developments from this press conference as soon as they come out. jim and wendy for now, let's send it back to you. >> i have just one question, david. i think the one thing that was sort of compelling in that video that they enhanced for us, you saw that guy walking, he steps into an alcove. she kind of walks by and then he comes out and starts in behind her. is that the guy that talked to police and they have cleared him of any suspicions? >> reporter: it's a great question, wendy. right now they're calling that gentleman, the gentleman we see in that video, they're calling him a witness. they say he came to believe on wednesday, he said that was me in the video and he pointed them

to another gentleman. we have released that description online to washing n washington.com and from that description they got several tips to that vehicle that was searched overnight. and from that vehicle, they then searched that nearby apartment. so they believe that that person of interest is connected to those two search warrants they executed overnight. >> okay, david. all eyes are on that podium. and i know you will give us a heads up as soon as those doors open and the chief comes out. we'll be seeing you in a bit. thanks, david culver. stay with news4. again, we will have all of the developments for you right up to the minute on this hannah graham search. and we're going to have any new information. it will be posted on nbcwashington.com, and that goes throughout the hour. an apology and a vow to change. nfl commissioner roger goodell is speaking out today for the first time since the league announced changes to its domestic violence policy. this follows, of course, recent criticism over the handling of the ray rice case and others

that arose afterwards. >> i got it wrong in the handling of the ray rice matter. and i'm sorry for that. i got it wrong on a number of levels. from the process that i led to the decision that i reached. but now i will get it right. >> roger goodell there. so what will the nfl do next? jason pugh will have more on that part of the story coming up in our next half hour. a contentious hearing today on the relisha rudd case, that little girl who vanished from the d.c. homeless shelter earlier this year and is still missing. today some city council members expressed frustration over a recent report, a report that found there was nothing the city could have done to prevent her disappearance. news4's mark segraves attended that hearing and joins us live at the wilson building. mark? >> reporter: well, wendy, that's right. you'll recall the report did say

that there was nothing d.c. agencies could have done to prevent the little girl from disappearing, but it also went on to say there were 14 instances where d.c. employees or contractors missed the mark, including where they failed to follow proper protocol and in at least one case a d.c. employee invited d.c. law. violated. >> this is getting kind of crazy. >> reporter: that's d.c. council member jim graham expressing his frustration as over and over again the deputy mayors who wrote the report declined to answer specific questions. >> council member, i cannot speak to the specifics of this case. what services of families would be. that is privileged information. >> reporter: but graham was able to get one new bit of information about the current criminal investigation. >> we continue to investigate relisha's disappearance. and charges against relisha's mother and others were referred to the u.s. attorney's office. >> reporter: and a d.c. school

employee did violate d.c. law by not reporting that relisha rudd had missed ten days of classes without an excuse. >> while that ten days absolutely is a line we want to draw very clearly for school staff, it wouldn't have changed the situation here. >> reporter: graham argued, it's impossible to know if reporting her missing from school would have prevented her disappearance. and he pointed out, at least police could have started to search for her sooner. >> maybe there was -- maybe there would have been a fresher trail of where she went or something of that nature. because this still was about seven days lost. >> reporter: in the end, the deputy mayors argued relisha rudd and all those living in a d.c. shelter -- >> we want to go back to our top story, breaking news, and police have gathered around that podium now. chief timothy longo in the search for hannah graham. >> developed information and use that information in support of a search warrant. i know you have a lot of questions. and i know i may not be able to answer a lot of those questions.

but we're going to do our best. but i want to make one thing absolutely clear. this press conference and every press conference here after is about one thing and one thing only. and that is finding hannah. everyone within the sound of my voice has that responsibility. if you live in the city of charlottesville, if you attend the university of virginia, if that young lady has touched your life in any way, you have the responsibility to help us find her. now hannah graham was on this mall last friday night and saturday morning. she walked from one end of the mall to the other end of the mall. and she walked past people. and now we have reason to believe she was inside of a bar on this mall. with an individual. who lived on heshing hills way. whose home we visited this morning. people saw her with that

individual. in that restaurant. videotape that you've already seen that detective sergeant will talk about, will depict signs of that individual, we believe. and so my point is this. people saw hannah. and people saw him. and people saw them together. and it's entirely possible, we believe, that hannah graham may have gotten into his vehicle. a vehicle that we seized pursuant to a search warrant. a vehicle that is characterized as a 1998 chrysler coupe, burnt orange in color. i believe that vehicle was parked last friday night into saturday morning on fourth street. >> somewhere in that area, chief. >> somewhere in that area. somewhere in the area of this

mall, that car was parked. somebody got out of it and somebody got back in it, and somebody drove away. if you remember seeing that vehicle, and you remember seeing someone get back in it, and you remember seeing it drive away, we need to hear from you. folks, we had over 400 tips to find hannah graham. and it was from those in large part, from many of those tips that got us to the point where we are now. the point that helped detective sergeant mooney and a team of investigators put together some facts and circumstances and support a probable cause, sit down with commonwealth attorney, get authorization to take a car. and as i said to you this morning, while they were there, executing that seizure, to the purpose of taking that car and transporting elsewhere to

conduct a search, again, pursuant to that warrant, they established probable cause to obtain yet another warrant to enter that house. now the question, appropriately so, has come up, well, was anyone at that house when the police arrived? yeah. there were three people. was the individual who we believe was with hannah graham there? yes. he was there. is he in custody? no. he's not in custody. was there probable cause to arrest him? no, there was no probable cause to arrest him. was there legally sufficient legal basis to detain him? not in the opinion of the ranking supervisor on the scene. not in the opinion of our commonwealth attorney. not legally sufficient reason. so that person is in custody. but we know who he is. others know who he is. and while i'm not releasing his

name right now, this man has not been charged with the commission of a crime. i have described his car. we know that he lived in the house that we searched this morning. we know that many of you were there. my suspicion is others know his name. and so there will come an appropriate time when i'll release that information. but right now the message is this. today was productive. from an investigative standpoint. it was productive. the reason it was productive, it advanced the investigation. it got us to the point where we need to be now. can bright legal minds debate that, probably. but when we arrest the person responsible for deconstructing the lives of mr. and mrs. graham

and this community, it's going to be a prosecution that's going to lead to a conviction. that's our goal. not to put together a case that's just going to result in an arrest. but to make an arrest that will lead to a conviction. we have the legal and moral obligation to do that. on behalf of hannah, on behalf of mr. and mrs. graham, on behalf of all of you. so i want to let detective sergeant mooney just for a minute -- be patient, because a lot of things will be left out. you'll say what about this, what about that. we're not going to be able to tell you. but i want you to get an understanding, how did you get from yesterday to today. and what happened along the way to get you there. now before i ask jim to do that, i'm going to preempt a question by providing you with this information. i'm not at liberty to disclose any items that we may have taken from that car.

any items that we may have taken from that residence. for lots of reasons. but the most practical right now, those items are still being evaluated for their evidence and value, if any. you could -- you know, probably can think of the kinds of things that police department would be looking for in a case like this. and you probably would be right. but it's too premature for me to say here's what we got and this is what it means to us. so understand, i cannot and will not share that information with you tonight. but i do want jim to let you have an understanding that how we got from last night or yesterday to where we are now. jim? >> i'll talk briefly about the video evidence that you're already aware. there have been numerous sightings of hannah on the downtown mall, as well as the video evidence. we know that she was at the intersection of market and fourth street. that she traveled eastbound on the downtown mall.

video evidence puts her in the 2 and 300 blocks of main street, the downtown mall. one of the videos, and this came from tips, eye-witnesses that saw people in addition to observations of the video. you see in front of one of the restaurants in the 300 block, you see a black male wearing all white. he has long dreadlocks walking westbound. within a couple seconds, you see hannah graham walking eastbound. you can clearly see this black male with dreadlocks cross to the other side of the mall and then he travels eastbound behind her. an additional video captured at a store on the mall in the 300 block shows that same black male with dreadlocks with his hands around hannah graham's waist. we know from witness accounts they entered a -- entered the

tempa restaurant, just on fifth street, just off the main part of the mall. we know that he purchased alcohol there. and we know that hannah graham was with him. we also know that within 15 minutes, they were gone from that bar, and that his car was seen heaving the area on video. and we have every reason to believe that ms. graham was in that vehicle. >> if you have a question that jim can answer, he will do that at the appropriate time. you know, i just want to add, just to kind of underscore, emphasize, highlight, the reason we're saying the tempo restaurant. because i want people who were on the downtown mall last night at -- or last friday, rather, at 1:00 in the morning between 1:00 and 2:00 to think about the tempo restaurant. think about the garage, think about fourth street, think about that section of the mall.

and replay in their mind, did i see someone that is a black male, 32 years of age, 6'2", 270 pounds with dreadlocks with hannah graham. did you see that? and if you did, what did you see? they weren't the only two people on the pedestrian mall last friday night, is my point. we need your help. we need people's help to find this young lady. jim and i sat with mr. and mrs. graham this afternoon about an hour and a half ago. and they want their daughter back. they want to know what happened to their little girl. that's all. and that's what i want. and that's what you want. so we've got to do this

together. when we leave here tonight, we're going to meet with -- my guess is a large number of volunteers that are going to want to help. and thank god for the virginia department of emergency management and the sheriff's department and all the people who have helped coordinate searches. because all day tomorrow, they're going to be looking. and as i said last time we were together and i'll repeat now, we need you to look too. if you live east of here, if you live east of here to the county line, be looking. if you live west of here, be looking. if you own a business or residence east of here to the county line, straight down market street and you've got a video camera in your house, or it's a business and you've got a video camera in your business, if you haven't talked to us, please talk to us.

if you live or own a business west of here, clear into the county and we haven't talked to you, please call us, we need your help. i'll take any questions you might have. [ inaudible question ] >> one of the most compelling news conferences in a while with an adamant and emotional chief timothy longo of charlottesville. desperate, clearly, to get a missing piece here so that they can make an arrest and find hannah. he is a father and it shows. >> that was an impassioned plea to the public. he wants help from anyone out there who may have seen something more than 400 tips a lot of new developments. david culver is putting it all into perspective for us. >> the car. she was in that car. she was in a restaurant with a black man with dreadlocks, 6'2",

270 pounds. he ordered drinks for her. she was in the car. they have talked to him, clearly. they do not have enough evidence to even detain him. >> went to the home. >> went to the home, took off -- >> the car seized. that man is not in custody, because there is not probable cause. sounds like very clearly he wants an eyewitness. that's what he needs, is more -- the more, the better. >> and he wants the -- he says he wants to make the right arrest. he doesn't want this thing to fall apart. so we will have more. david is down there with more on this in a few minutes. we'll take a quick break.

all right, doug kammerer joins us now. a lot riding on tomorrow's forecast. blue bird blues festival and you say lots of blue skies. >> i say a beautiful afternoon. temperature to 80, 81 degrees. so if you're heading toward prince george's county for the blues festival, looking good. as a matter of fact, who is your host tomorrow? >> that guy! that guy right there, mr. jim handly, he'll be out there. 78 to 82 degrees, warm and comfortable. jim, what times? >> noon to 6:00. rain or shine. but it's all shine. >> noon to 6:00. and jim says he'll be there from 8:00 a.m. until midnight tomorrow night. >> you know it. >> so 77 degrees right now, winds out of the east at 8 miles per hour. we do have some shine, but also some cloudiness to the south and that's kept temperatures cooler. onlyas arrested. >> it wasn't until the tip came

through that the police were -- they launched an investigation and at that point were able to follow the investigation and eventually charge the suspect. >> reporter: while the victim in this case is now out of danger, there's still a bit of a scare here that something so bizarre could have happened in their midst. >> it's weird that -- and it's kind of scary. >> reporter: now police say that teen is safe and this investigation goes on. coming up on news4 at 6:30, what they're doing here in fairfax county to make sure this sort of crime doesn't happen. something that parents should know to stop it before it gets this far. we are live in false church, derrick ward, news4. back to you. >> thank you, derrick. we go to chris lawrence with the latest on the search for the missing uva studen hannah graham. we just learned a lot from this news conference, chris. >> reporter: wendy, the charlottesville police chief laid it out. they know the car they think hannah graham got into, a burnt orangehr

a police car slammed into a doughnut shop this morning. if it sounds like a joke in there, we are not going to be the ones to make it. the crash happened here this morning in the new jersey suburb not far from philadelphia. no one was hurt. >> wow. terrifying moments for passengers on a jetblue flight after one of the plane's engines apparently just exploded. you can see smoke filling the cabin just after the jet took off from southern california bound for austin, texas. passengers say they feared the worst as you can imagine. they say flight attendants had to manually deploy many of the oxygen masks. and the pilot interrupted radio traffic to tell them he was making an emergency landing. >> runway 3-0. >> 1416, runway 3-0. wind calm on aablutely unaccept

completely fly in the face of the values we at pepsi cobelieve in and cherish. she called commissioner roger goodell a man of integrity and said she believes he will do the right thing. and a spokesman for marriott, the hotel change says, quote, we will continue to follow this matter closely and await findings of the investigations, at which time we will take the opportunity to review our sponsorship. wendy, back to you. >> all right. fans lined up for blocks. waited for hours. to trade in the jersey of the player who was at the center of the nfl's domestic violence scandal. baltimore ravens, the ray rice jersey exchange today. some say it was a bittersweet experience. rob roglund reports. >> reporter: the line went all the way around the stadium. it was like this all day. >> i'm glad to get a new jersey. >> me too. >> not necessarily getting rid of the ray rice

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