right now the head of the secret service taking some t lawmakers want to know if the president and first lady are safe after several major security breaches at the white house. >> we are desperate to find hannah graham. >> that's why this mother is making a plea to thean police now say is connected to the disappearance of graham and possibly her own daughter. and packed in. a tough morning commute on metro after a cracked rail slows trains. good morning and welcome to news 4 midday. i'm barbara harrison. we begin with the white house security problems. right now julia pearson is testifying on capitol hill as new reports are casting.

according to the latest report, omar gonzalez made it much further into the white house n service first said. the wast post says he made it into the east room before he was tackled. gonzalez is in jail right now. te post also reported an alarm box was mental crueltied and an officer fail box was muted and an officer failed to lock the front door. >> pearson so far appears forthcoming. already accepting responsibility for the incident 11 days ago when omar gonzalez jumped a fence in the white house and made it inside the executive mansion with a knife. he's are live pictures of the house oversight committee unfolding right now. we heard some of the issues when it comes to protecting the mansion. they say six people have jumped the fence just this year. back in 2011 bullets hit the

residence. sasha obama, the first daughter and first lady michelle obama's mother were inside. it took four days for secret service agencies to invegs gait and determine e seven hit the white house. they believe this points to a problem with leadership. >> it's clear our security plan was not properly executed. i take full responsibility and will make sure it does not happen again. >> we'll be hearing from the secret service director throughout the hour. after this hearing there's a classified meeting where we are expecting more information to be . >> thank you, richard. big problem this morning on metro's red line. take a look at pictures from viewers. packed platforms at union station in silver springs because of a track problem

outside dupont circle. zachary kiesch is live with more on how things are getting back on track. zach? >> reporter: barbara, nothing is worse than getting your day off to a late start. we've all been there before. this is what happened to many of the red line riders. cracked rail here caused single tracks. i talked to a number of people who spent morn on the platform. anything to get away from all the hask down on the platform. number one is this is from 8:00 a.m. to 10:15 this morning. the issue is now resolved. you're going to see residual effects of the delays. number two, they made a temporary repair, a long-term repair during the

overnight hours. if you're thinking of taking the red line home tonight. metro told me this should not impact the evening commute. i took the red line for years getting out there, and i know when things break down here it impacts the whole system. reporting live at dupont circle. back to you. >> it can be a real mess out there. thanks so much, zach. turning to the weather and anotr cloudy morning out there. chuck bell is joining us for this tuesday forecast. >> good morning, barbara. skies are still mostly cloudy here in washington. s but our friends and neighbors in shenandoah valley are in full sunshine now. it's going to be a while before we get full sunshine in the metro area. plenty of low clouds. nothing is showing up on storm team 4 radar. we'll be dry here for the next several hours. the only place to have an

ene places where the sun is currently shining. 66 in hagerstown. 64 and the clouds are main fairly thick. here's the hourly planner for the remainder of the day. temperatures moving up to the low 70s. afternoon highs in the mid to upper 70s. a chance for showers mainly out west of the blue ridge. we'll show you the timing on any rain chances coming up. e for now rain chances are low but climbing soon. and a cool down is on the way in the second half of the forecast. >> all right, chuck. thank you. a woman is in serious condition after she was stabbed at an apartment complex along pioneer branch road in silver spring. news 4's megan mcgraft tells us about the search. >> montgomery county police are trying to track down a knife wielding man who stabbed a woman in silver spring last night,

very seriously injuring her. it happened a little before 8:00 right near the entrance of the forest park apartment. police say the suspect tried to rob the woman and became violent, stabbing her. investigators say there were witnesses in the area. they came to her defense, calling 911. but the suspect got away. now we spoke to a monowhose sister it happen. he didn't want to be identified on camera. >> >> she said she witnessed the the the dude trying to grab her. he stabbed her a couple of times. i was glad that she was sai. the woman didn't die. so that's luck. we hope she's better. initially it appeared the victim was going to make it. she had very serious stab wounds. however, once she was taken to the hospital they were able to

stabilize her and she is expected to pull through. anybody with information about the whereabouts of this armed suspect, you're asked to call police. megan mcgrath, news 4. students at the university of maryland are on alert after a pizza delivery man was robbed. this happened late last night at a student apartment complex on boteler lane. an armed man came up to the delivery man and showed the gun and demanded cash. the delivery man was not a student and was unarmed police sent out an emergency alert on campus to warn students of the incident. and we are waiting to learn the specifics of the evidence linking suspect in the uva student hannah graham's .isappearanc we break down how police came to this big break. ch. >> these cases span nearly a decade. in 2002 jesse matthew was expelled from liberty university. prosecutors tell us they inve

inve him for an on-campus sex assault but never charged him. in 2005 a woman was assaulted leaving a supermarket in this fair fax. survived. four years later virginia tech student morgan harrington disappears at a concert. months later her body was found. forensic evidence connected her case to the fairfax rape. now in 2014 today, matthew is the main suspect in the disappearance of hannah graham. she was last seen on surveillance with him leaving the downtown area of charlottesville two weeks ago. police say evidence taken from jesse matthews' home and car links him to harrington's case and the fairfax assault. .atthew is not charged in eith >> morgan harrington's parents spoke exclusively to matt lauer on the "today show" this morning. while dealing with their own grief, fwhatheye been involved

with the hannah graham case. >> we've experienced firsthand just the anguish of having a child missing. and we don't feel that period of time was more difficult for us, than wail knowing morgan was dead. i would like to appeal to him to please give the famin where han. we need to find hannah graham. >> matthew will be in court to face a charges in han ha disappearance this thursday. and wf new information about a body found in fairfax county. police have identifieded the body as 16-year-old kara lynn goliath. police discovered her yesterday afternoon in the hemlock overlook regional park. the medical examiner is working to determine what caused her death, but they say they do not suspect criminal activity. she went to fairfax high school. we were at the school this

morning. students wore blew in her honor. that say she was very quiet, but a very nice girl. we're hearing from passengers who twr on an american airlines plane that blew its tire on the way to the airport. when they say they knew that problem was happening. and we are gathering information on a developing story out of north carolina. a shooling at a high school we'll get an update from the

i'm richard jordan at the live desk. a school shooting in north carolina, this is just east of charlotte. two students getting into an argument before school this morning. one shooting the other in the leg. this happened at albemarle senior high school. haven't received information on his or her condition. the other student was taken into custody. police say he did not resist. we still don't know what this argument was about in the first place. barbara? >> thank you, richard. american airlines is examining a plane that blew a tire. 140 passengers didn't arrive until after 1:00 this morning. they were supposed to get there about 8:55 last night.

the plane took off at 5:00 p.m. yesterday. shortly into the flight a tire blew. pilots circled the airport for two hours to burn off fuel for an emergency landing. passengers on board told our sister station all they could do was sit there and hope nothing else went wrong. >> when the plane first took off, the plane was c it was a little disconcerting. >> yeah, we could smell burnt rubber on and off. >> passengers got another plane and eventually made it safely. > good and bad news about traffic cameras in the area. coming up, believe it or not, there's a downside of fewer people getting tickets. we'll explain. and i'm meteorologist chuck bell outside on the storm team 4 weather deck. it's a beautiful day outside. nice and mild and little spots of blue are starting to appear

in our sky. is that trend going to continue? what about rain chances over the next few days? all that's coming

new developments out of hong kong today. prodemocracy protesters say the government has one day left to meet their demands for election reform. hundreds of thousands spent

another night in the streets bringing one of the financial hubs of the world to a standstill. they want hong kong's chief executive to step down and for officials to hold democratic elections. the government says it won't negotiate with protesters and will continue prescreening candidates for city elections. well, some of the protesters in hong kong are labeling this movement the umbrella revolution. demonstrators are using the umbrellas to deflect pepper spray and tear gas deployed by local police. american officn hong kong to sh restraint and stop using tear gas on the citizens. rjs australian authorities arrested a man during an anti-terrorist raid. he is australian and gave money to an american who joined isis in syria. he's accused ov giving $12,000 to the u.s. citizens. investigators say it was used to fund the american's travel to syria. police say the two men connected on social media. they do not believe the man who

was arrested was plotting any attacks and say there's no specific threat to the public. meanwhile, syrian fishes are blasting president obama. they say they've been trying to warn the u.s. about the threat from isis for three years. syria's deputy foreign minister told ann curry ha the assad government would welcome cooperation against ter rich. on sunday president obama said u.s. intelligence officials underestimated isis in syria. but the president also said stabilizing syria would only come if ast saud left power. american troops will stay in afghanistan after the end of this year. the day the u.s. and the afghanistan signed a deal to allow 10,0 troops to stay through 2015, signing this deal was one of the first acts of afghanistan's new president, who was inaugurated yesterday. the u.s. and the former afghan presidents had never come to a deal on allowing troops to stay in the country.

a republican canra is gettis morning. we're taubing about in zbr this is a very competitive race. one of the cop congressional contests in all the country. viewers paying attention have probably seen the tv ads. one thing worth noting, barbara is very close to mitt romney. she helped him on his presidential bids. and so him coming to pitch out and try to help her in this race is no surprise. they're very close. >> expect them to be effective in tha mitt romney nearly won the district in 2012. he lost virginia by a fairly wide margin. that was in a midterm year. they were hoping to get out as many votes.

but republicans really unable to use former president like george w. bush going to the mitt romneys and john mccape. >> why not bush? >> he's still not that popular. >> is there a favorite in that race? >> i think most handicapers see it as a toss-up. i would give barb are a narrow advantage knowing he was able to win the district. but it's going to be close. the democrats can say look, we've got nice wins for us on election night. >> saturday marks the 20th anniversary of the republican party's contract with america, the newt gingrich plan. is that party still using that today? are are theying forward to a new contract? >> it's been replaced by a conth fearly nothing. the republicans haven't laid out

a lot of policy agenda items. if they take back control of the senate and house of remitives, what do they do in the next congress? and it's drawn criticism on the other hand. we're probably in good shape. that seems to be what they're doing on the policy front. >> 2016 is looming large. they'll have to come up with something. >> normally when you see them drive more policy, you see them with congressional members. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. and for more on the nbc political team, check out first read on nbcnews.com. fewer people are getting tickets from d.c.'s speeding cam. that could have a major impact on the city's budget. the district is expected to take in $93 million from speed cameras by the end of the month. but at the end of august, they only generated $26 million in revenue. city officials say they're happy fewer people are getting

tickets. they say mayor cuts could be needed on the next budget because of the shortfall. are you watching your weight? if so, you may want a piece of chocolate today. plus, a new link to childhood obesity parents may have a hard time avoiding. but first, here's a look at nbcwashing

you can treat yourself to a lunchtime concert today with music for a world renowned violinist. recognize him? that's joshua bell. he's back in wn and taki his talents to the metro station. he'll be with nine other musicians he's been mentoring. seven years ago bell performed incognito in metro stations and almost no one stopped to listen. that performance was part of a social experiment. they didn't recognize his music. in news for your held, too many antibiotics can lead to childhood obesity. researchers at children's hospital in philadelphia found kid who take more antibiotics at .n early age are more likely to doctors say antibiotics may affect the organs in their

intestines, leaving them vulnerable to weight gain. a new study suggests it's good to have a cheat day. weight watchers polled 2600 people and found 94% of people said they incorporate unhealthy food into their diets once a . those who let themselves have something bad were more likely to lose weight than those who starved themselves. and this just in. a virginia teacher facing serious charges for inappropriate relationship with a teenager. coming up, where the woman taught and coached and the evidence police say that they have against her. plus the steps being taken to find out who is responsible for a fight that seriously injured a teenager at six flags. and. storm team 4 meteorologist chuck bell is back. the the chance for rain appears several times. stay with us.

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if you were out early this morning, you most likely ran into fog. the fog is gone, but the clouds remain. we'll talk about when the clouds are going to get out of here. >> that's right. . the clouds are going to be slow to budge in the last couple of hours. but gradually with time as we warm things up a little bit. we will be scour most of the clouds away. it will be a while before we see a 100% blue sky in the washington area. outside for now there's a view of u.s. capitol building.

still a mostly cloudy sky. there are breaks of blue starting to appear before the sky. current temperature is at 70 degrees. high humidity at 73% and a light south wind at 6 miles per hour. the humidity fall and the south breeze inreesing, but we're not going to break suit into full beautiful sunshine any time soon. and on the west side of the blue ridge, finish sunshine in shenandoah county, page county. all sunshine for now. east of the bridge, leesburg into fairfax and falls church, prince william county, all still sitting in the clouds this morning. and these clouds may take a while longer before they burn out. they're not rainmaking clouds but they're sun blocking clouds to say the least.

temperatures are the warmest now. 72 in winchester. and 68 degrees in martinsburg. but where the clouds remain the thickest, temperatures only in the mid 60s right now. we see increasing amounts of sunshine by later on. it will be a warm day today. and area wide temperatures for the most part up in the mid and upper 70s for a brief time. there's a disturbance coming our way that may generate isolated showers especially west of the blue ridge. and it's going to go outside and take a run like me, it's going to be a warm one for sure. temperatures in the mid to up the overall impact the weather will have those will be mainly west of d.c. most of them wes

not a big deal. you'll probably get away with it for today. here. there's the rivet of cloud cover through the metro. breaking up with time. by 4:00, 5:00 this afternoon, most of the clouds will be breaking up. but just as they're disappearing, showering bubbling up in the blue ridge of the shenandoah valley. by 9:00 most of that is done. a little bit later, couldn't rule out a couple of stray showers in the mountains. nothing on radar jus that's the rain chance for later on today. seven-day forecast time. yes, indeed. it's a mild .ust hit and miss shower chances with hope, the game will already be done with a win by then. the we

and we're going to go to richard at the live desk with what's happening. >> right now a teacher is in jail accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her students. this is erica mesa. she's 27 years old. a geometry teacher. she's being held without bond charged with having a sexual relationship with a male student who was 16 when the relationship started back in february. we're also learning mesa's husband is a teacher at the same school. he teaches history and government. right now the investigation is still ongoing. police say they could file more charnls later. well, there's now a criminal investigation into t fig at six flags. prince george's county police are looking for whoever we told you three people were hurt including this 15 yeerl boy. he hit his head on concrete and is in a medically induced coma right now. doctors say he's improving,

though. they managed to avoid surgery on him so far. a local father wants the state of maryland to step up efforts to find his children. the 3-year-old and 2-year-old went missing three weeks ago. but governor martin o'malley's offices are zning this request. >> i drove down 270 and for days i've seen a black screen above my head how is it going to look to put my children on the board with their ages and that they're missing. >> the mother is in custody. she is not helping police. they they sa say there w never would harm the indication children. the nfl just released a statement saying referees made a mistake during last night eels game. the controversial call came

against city chief's safety. the refs flagged him for drogs to his knees after the touchdown. it's technically a violation of the league's celebration rulest celebrating prayer. the ref says he shouldn't havg flagged for praying. for the first time a drug named for me using an ad up, what's behind the new strategy? >> from scheduling activitie gen

i'm richard jordan. olympic gold medal swimmer michael phelps busted for dui last night. tmz just broke the news on their website. phelps was arrested last night in maryland. we don't know what jurisdiction just yet. of course, phelps is from the baltimore area. back in 2004 he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence. he struck a plea deal with prosecutors at 18 months probation. we are waiting to find out more about this latest arrest last tmz reporting michael phelps was busted for dui. tomorrow breast awareness

month begins. and tomorrow a woman helping women around the world deal with breast cancer. she knows how it feels firsthand. she was diagnosed at the age of 32. we have more with what advice she has o other women. for being here with us. >> thanks for having me. >> why don't you tell us quickly what it was like. >> my mom got me to do my breast exams at 13 years old. i've been doing them for 18 years. i never thought i would have breast cancer. i have no family disease of it at all. at 31 i found a lump in bring breast. came back false negative. which meant it wasn't cancerous. but i had never had a lump before. i pushed for a biopsy. i was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer. mostly aggressive in black women and women of jewish decent as well. my life turned upid down.

>> and how long have you been battling. does the balt l continue? >> i had to have a lumpectomy. i lost my hair, eyebrows. eyelashes. it was a challenging year. i had radiation after that. i'm officially eight years cancer free this year. >> congratulations on that. >> thank you. >> and you want to help other women to be aware of the possibility. so at what age do you think women, you said you started -- >> my exams at 13. >> well, women tend to need reminders. if you begin a healthy lifestyle practice at 13 years old when your breasts form, you learn which lumps are there because it's your period or because it's your body is getting more cystic. if your find a lump like i did at 31 years eeld, i nudely it wasn't there before. i nudely to seek professional help and tell my doctor the mammogram came back false negative, but something is wrong with me. i have to get a bipsy.

>> teenagers, women in their 20s and 30s don't think they're e awire of your breast health. knowing your parent's genetic history is important. eating healthy is important. exercising and doing your breast exams on a regular basis. perhaps once a month. in your 20s start doing clinical brea exams at your doctor's office. mammograms are really good tools for breast cancer. >> people say they hurt. but cancer hurts more. so i tell people that all the time. and because women have denser breasts under 40, it may not work for women who are younger. i would say also do ultra sounds and 3d mammograms as well. >> you started the tiger lily foundation. >> i began that as a blog in chemotherapy to help women understand the risk of breast cancer. my doctor told me i did not have breast cancer. to go home and come back in six months. i want to get doctors aware of the issue, women aware and the

community as wel well we provide women with peer support. it's really about hands on supp not research. it's www.tigerlilyfoundatios so much >> thanks for having me. i appreciate it. >> we're going to breast cancer month. a good time for people to start taking a look at themselves. >> you are your best advocate. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> start planning now. we have new information on when the nationals are g >> talking to this w is emotional for me because i have the ability to sit within myself and say what if it were my child. >> and tune in today at 2:00 for the steve harvey show here on nbc 4. steve talks to the mother of michael brown. the teenager shot and killed by police officer in ferguson, missouri..

well, viagra is running a new tv ad targets women and instead of n. they're talking to women whose male partners may be experiencing sexual problems. this is the first ad for viagra doesn't feature a man talking about the benefits of the drug.

recently they've been trying to boost sales after the patent expired and generic forms of the drug went on the market. well these days many spots offer everything from manicures to botox to liposuction. we have a look at why this can be dangerous. we certainly see the ads for the medi spas. they can do der mall fillers. and you think it's a real problem. >> it's a problem because it's a medical procedure. and you have people not qualified. such as medical assistants or nurses who don't have training that are not overseen by a physician. and they're in their clinics or spas doing medical procedures. that's where the issue u becomes

serious. >> it's a medical procedure because it goes under the skin. >> whenever you penetrate the skin or alter the natural living skin, it is considered a medical procedure. i know working with the d.c. medical board of medicine, many spa traffic forces were trying to define those types of issues in what institutes practicing medicine. >> let's look at what these fillers are used for. and you can tell us, is there anything they should not be used for. >> fillers -- there are some fda approved for specific sites. so to plump thin lips, yes. improve wrinkles and the appearance of scars. yes.

there are fda approved products. >> those are medical procedu and you have risks. of course. whenever you enter through the skin, you can potentially have bleeding or skent bruising or swelling. howe don't want to dash the skin. you don't want scarring or things we can see o happen. on a daily basis i'm treating patients in my office for adverse events that occur outside of my office, and usually they're in a facility that doesn't have any oversight position. >> clod the same things happen if a doctor were performing those? >> yes, of course. but deciding factor of if you know how to treat them.

wrinkles be treated. you have to know the skin that you're in. you need to know the an topical features the are more severe complications. are they trined to do this specifically in medical schools these days? >> yes, and no. some programs do not have training in cosmetic. a lot do. but certainly they don't have it in nursing or miranda warning management. they don't have it in the specialties thaw you really our time is 11:50. coming up, apps to help moms keep t of their busy schedules. plus, chuck bell is back at another look for rain this evening.

new information coming in on the arrest of olympic swimmer michael phelps. we're learning where and when it happened. it was at 1:40 this morning on ft. mchenry tunnel. the maryland transportation auy saying one of the officers noticed phelps driving 84 miles per hours on a

45-mile-per-hour zone. they're saying phelps may have been twice -- may have been nearly twice the legal limit. the alcohol content in his body at the time of his arrest. he w students aren't the only ones trying to survive the school year. for parents balancing activities and homework can can stretch you out. andrew goff shows us helpful apps and websites designed to simplyify your life. >> pack the backpack feed the dog and don't forget to have a good day kind of morning is when jennifer knows well. >> anything i can do to save five. it's like a daily ga. and this pr executive finds herself now the ceo of her kid's calendar. >> they're very tailored to me. i can sign up both daughters.

>> she recently discovered activity rocket. a website that speeds up the process to use them f it was started by two local moms fed up with the process. >> the beauty is to be able to use it to make our lives easier. more convenient. at the end of the di you feel like you're doing a good job. >> i watched her find a ten misclass for her two girls. you can plug anything from zip codes, dates, time, genter. there's more than 60,000 activities to search. >> there. >> from scheduling after-school activities to getting help in the classroom, there's online and mobile tools to keep in mind. >> getting started sd simple. for kids 3 to 8, lern with homer

has won big awards for helping kids learn to read and understand letters in a fun way. for ap monthly fee you can get an incredible tutor in subject parents don't understand. and an a that tracks your child's epidemic and tracks down what they're likely going through in that particular grade. around now, the pressure on parents to plan and support is never greater. the help at your fingertips is pretty great. >> things like this keep you organized. when you think about how to juggle it, it comes down to being organized. and in some w. angie goff, news 4. >> if you would like more information on those apps and websites, just go to nbcwashington.com and search school apps. time for a final check on our forecas

fore i've getting a lot of e-mails on playoffs here. we're happy about that. all we need is for the nationals to go all the way to a world series first game of the playoffs is this friday. we have an afternoon forecast for the whole day. a nice day for sure. warm. temperatures in the 70s. rain chances on friday are stacked up from 6:00 p.m. onward. whether noon or 3:00, by 6:00 or 7:00 the game should be complete and hopefully a nationals win. 70s through the week. cooler wea arrives for the weekend. humans are not the only ones pumped for the playoffs. furry friends are, too. this is the kitten cam at the washington animal rescue league. they welcomed five

kitten straussberg and whiskers worth. >> and the kittens are cute. thank you for being with us. we invite you to tune in tonight. and we'll both be back tomorrow morning. . have a great morning.

>> eve: jj and jack are the same guy. trust me, i knew jack. >> daniel: so did i. >> eve: oh, yeah, that's right. you did because jennifer dumped you to go running back to jack yet again. that is a move that she has had down from years and years of practice. never mind any self-respect or learning curve or anything. jennifer just-- >> daniel: okay, don't bring your hate that you have for jennifer here. all right, it's stale, and i'm bored with it. as for jj, he is nothing like his father. >> eve: you're wrong, doctor. jj is more like jack than you're willing to admit. >> kayla: i was raped. i'm a survivor too. you cannot let this beat you. i know you don't feel like you have the strength, but you