that's what i've tried to do in business, as your governor... and in the senate. because it's the only way we're gonna solve big problems... like cutting our national debt, fixing the va, or... bringing good jobs to virginia. it's been a great honor to represent you. and if you rehire me, i'll work everyday... to make virginia even stronger. surrounding the death of a young mother. her family talks to news 4 about her final hours on halloween a threat to the president. new charges against a maryland man over an e-mail he sent to the white house. and a kidnapping caught on

video. we'll have the clues that could help find a woman who is still missing. >> please bring her back home. that's all we want. news 4 at 11 starts now. a young mother of thr headed out to a party on halloween,e home. her death now crowded in mystery. >> that woman's name is t toya smith. she's only 25 years old. her body was found on saturday after a small fire at an abandoned house in d.c. tonight her family told our jackie bensen they suspect foul play. jackie? >> reporter: well, jim, tonight, homicide detectives went to smith's home. she was found dead yesterday under strange circumstances. how did this young mother of three end up dead in an abandoned house in the 2800 block of langston place e has been cordoned off

since early sunday morning when someone called 911 to report a fire. inside they found her dead and called police. police say the cause of death has not yet been determined by the medical examiner, but homicide detectives came to her mother's house. family members believe the 25-year-old, known for her enthusiastic personality, met with foul play. >> the detectives who just left here, they're pretty good. and i expressed to them, you guys need to find this person immediately. he said they're going to do everything in their power. >> reporter: os who asked not tn on tv said he understood she had been headed to a party in the neighborhood on saturday night. >> last time i talked to her, she was at a party, invited me to the party. but i told her, i wasn't really interested in coming to a party in this neighborhood.

>> smith's family believes that there are people in the neighborhood who know something about what happened. they are urging them to contact police. if nothing else, for the sake of smith's three little boys that she leaves behind. live at police headquart bensen. and a gunman is at large after a shooting. >> we know a student was shot and a active search is under way after the t took off. the shooting happened about 4:00, about a half a mile away from delaware state university in dover. the campus was put on lockdown for about three hours this evening as police combed that area looking for the gunman and any clues in this case. not clear yet what led up to this attack, but we know the victim was conscious and alert when taken to the hospital. university officials are saying that even though the gunman is still out there, there is no

threat to any other students on the campus at this time. and this is not the first shooting at delaware state. in 2007, student was shot and killed, and a freshman was charged in that case. backyou. right now e a investigating a shooting about a block away from the shaw metro. we know the man who was shot is conscious and breathing, and officers are searching the area for a suspect. they've blocked off parts of ei investigate. a man from annapolis is facing federal charges after allegedly threatening to kill president obam and his family. he did that in an e-mail. investigators say christopher o'brian sent the e-mail to the white house on octob 16th. it included graphic threats against the president and first lady. o'br ad to sending the e-mail, but he says he never intended to carry out those

threats. decision 2014 is call coming down to tomorrow. that means a push to get out the vote tonight. repus rallied tonight in loudon, making a last-minute appeal to voters. ed gillespie and barbara comstock spoke to the crowd in sterling. and alexandria democrats had their own rally. mark warner is running to keep the seat he's held since 2009. john foust is trying for the tenth district congressional seat. the maryland governor's race could turn out to be one of the closest of the night. anthony brown had campaign help today from first lady michelle obama. republic larry hogan has closed much of a double-digit lead that brown held at the start of the campaign. they're only elected one republican governor in the past 40 years. this is an unusual election in the district with the race for

mayor up for grabs in november. the winner of the democratic primary usually runs away with the election. but this year, muriel bowser is working to hold off a late chal david cat an. for the first time, voters in virginia must show an approved i.d. before they can cast a ballot. you can u your driver's license, passport, other government, identification, college students can use university i.d.s. if you show up empty handed, you'lld to fill out a provisional ballot and show a .alid i.d. by friday in order you can get an i.d. at any election le us know if you see any problems at the polls. call or e-mail. we'll have live team coverage of all the big races tomorrow.

news 411 will n for a full hour tomorrow night. you can also get results as they come in on the nbc washington app. "the tonight s will start at midnight tomor 11:35. new tonight, the survivors of a deadly crash on the belt way on saturday morning are finding strength in their high school family. a student named dominik pettey died in the crash. he and his friends were hit after running out of gas and pulling over on the shoulder of the belt way. shomari stone is at gonzaga now with more. shomari? >> good evening. we've learned one of the survivors of the crash has been released, but another is still in intensive care. many members of the community at gonzaga college high school are grieving. >> one of the teens in the car when 17-year-old dominik pettey was tragedically killed is speaking out on facebook about the crash. he said, quote, at some moments

i feel fine. and at so moments it hits me, drills me, rather. the tragedy has rocked the school in northwest d.c. dom was killed in a car crash halloween night when a jeep veered off the road and crashed into the car he was in. four others, who were also in the car were taken to the hospital. tonight, one of them was released. the teen expressed more of his feelings on facebook. quote, it's not something i will ever get over in my entire life. knowing that a good friend away, two seats away from me. dom was a great guy. >> earlier today some classmates remembered dom. >> everyone loved him. especially everyone in my class, senior year. i'm sure he haa b future. >> reporter: the young man also showed appreciation for the gonzaga community. quote, the love of your family is beautiful. but the love that your gonzaga brothers can give you is something else, something that your family is unable to offer. if i wanted to cry today, they

cried with me. now, you can read the entire facebook post on our website at nbc washington.com. dominic's funeral mass will be at our lady of mercy parish in potomac. i i'm. police are hoping you recognize this man. he's wanted for stealing bank information from scores of people in the area. investigators say the man has already stolen more than $100,000 by installing skimmers and small cameras on atms. he may also be the same man that hit several atms belonging to the sandy spring bank over the summer. nearly a month after this happened a montgomery county school is informing parents about a sexual assault on a letter was sent home to pare baker middle school students explaining the october 6 incident.

the principal said police arrested a contractor working on the building after he was accused of inappropriately touching a student. nobody else was involved. the principal said the incident was not made public in order to protect ths privacy. in prince george's county, hundreds of students will not be allowed back in school starting wednesday if they do not have their vaccines up to date. school officials say as of last friday, 99% of students had their shots. but 155 kindergarten and 259 seventh grade students will be forced to stay home, or at least out of school, if they do not have their shots by novemb5th. an acte manhu is under way for a detainee who escaped from a psychiatric ward. he's charged with assaulting a police officer. he managed to escape this morning, and it's not clear how he got away, but police say he could be dangerous, and if you recognize him, you should call

police. >> three elderly and disabled patients are alive and reas well tonight after flamed ripped through their group home. everyone inside the house was asleep, but two of the caretakers managed to wake them up and carry the patients to safety. investigators say the fire started near the front door and spread to the attic. it caud abo half a million dollars in damage. next at 11, grabbed off the street. video of a young woman's abdu one witness describes what he saw and why he wasn't able to stop it. a new team has been assigned to investigate a rocket explosion in virginia. we'll report what they're doing now on wallops island. >> and i'm tracking the battle of the seasons. the warm air moves in, but then the cold does too, and it comes the cold does too, and it comes wi

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sthmpt a horrifying struggle captured on this surveillance video. a woman is fighting back as a man drags her. tonight she's still missing after being kidnapped off a philadelphia street. police released that video tonight hoping for any clues to find the woman. she managed to smash the car's rear windows trying to get away. they talked to her family and a key witness. >> reporter: late this afternoon, crime scene investigators returning to sweep up the last bit of evidenc the shattered glass from the window of e abductor's car. earlier we showed the family the suy had bn waiting to see all day, the

struggle between the 22-year-old and her attacker. >> police, just whoever, just please bring her back home. that's all we want. just release her. we don't care. ju h go somewhere. >> she was screaming for help. if i figured if it was someone she knew, she wou have said the name. >> a witness says he found items on the street he turned over to police. >> it was a big blade on the floor, her cell phone, glasses and all that. >> reporter: the family is hoping for the best and praying if area i safe return. >> just bring my daughter back. the city will offer a reward for information leading to her kidnapper. an accident investigation team will try to piece together a timeline of what happened before a rocket exploded just after lifting off on wallops island in virginia last week. the board will include members

of the federal aviation administration, nasa, and orbital sciences, the company that owned the antares rocket that exploded. that rocket was carrying an unmanned spacecraft that was supposedr supplies to e international space station. crews spent much of the weekend finding the debris. the first office workers to occupy 1 world trade center are moving in. conde nast started moving in. 2,000 more will join them in the coming weeks. the tower is america's largest ska scraper at 104 stories. far just over half of the office space is leased. lava in hawaii is flowing into a pond and boiling the water. the temperature is about 2100

degrees. it w creeping toward the town of pahoa, but it's stalled 500 feet from the main road. 50 households are on alert to evacuate. >> quite a situation they have going there on the big island. >> really is. at least it's halted for the town itst has to move to the rit and it might miss that town. >> that would be great. more cold temperatures on the way? >> yeah. but tomorrow's going to be probably one of the best days we've seen in a while, and maybe the best that we see for the next week. show yous happening out there. a nice shot out towards the airport. , is on the cool side. you step out there, you feel it right away. are falling off quickly. already down to 39 in manassas. 54 for fredericksburg. everybody asking why is manassas so much cooler? they'r the usuburbs

d they cool faster. gaithersburg cools pretty efficiently as well. .torm team 4 radar on the dry not only tonight but through tomorrow and into the day on wednesday. the reason why, an air of high pressure moving in. clear skies associated with that. our next storm is way bac s the west. it's going to take its time getting here over the next 48 hours or so. so your election day weather, looking great. 46 at 7:00 a.m. that's inside the belt way. it will be on the chilly side around 7, 8:00. by noon, up to the mid 60s. by 7:00, temperatures around 63. we'll take you through future weather. tomorrow, 7:00 a.m., no problem, plenty of shine. very warm. then wednesday, the day of change, i think. we're still on the warm side. temperatures about five degrees above average on wednesday, maybe warmer than that. breezy conditions, winds out of

the southwest at about 10 to 20 miles per hour. that ahead of our next storm system, which brings in the rain. it will bring in the potential for a lot of rain, maybe half an inch to an inch on thursday. after that system moves through, that's when the cold weather starts to come back. high temperatures tomorrow into the 60s. to the west, 68 winchester. 73 in d.c. again, a beautiful afternoon. your impact forecast for tuesday, on the low side. a very low impact, as far as the weather is concerned. a cool morning, afternoon shine to take that jacket off around 10, 11:00. great day to get out to vote. 69 degrees on your wednesday with more cloud cover. here's the rain on thursday. notice the temperatures slowly falling and then we crash pretty good by about ten degrees, high of only 54. then we see another storm system on sunday. that system will bring through even colder air with a high around only 50 next monday.

it will be very similar to what we saw yesterday. a very cold day. a very windy day as well. winds gusting up to 30 miles per hour. so that's what we will see about a week from today. so enjoy tomorrow. we sure will. sounds like we better. thank you, doug. sports coming up. rg3 back and healthy. coach says jury's still out. kyle's up next. world series mvp madison bumgarner is here. bumgarner is here. and anne we all know washington's broken. but to fix it, it takes people who are independent.. and willing to work across the aisle. that's what i've tried to do in business, as your governor... and in the senate.

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after filling out their hogan iquestionaire, aight. hogan was awarded an a- from the nra. but now he refuses to release his responses. the nra opposes comprehensive background checks. they want to weaken maryland's gun safety laws. even support letting suspects on the fbi terror watch list buy guns. on gun safety and terror, the nra is wrong. hogan gets an a- from the nra. on protecting maryland, we just can't trust him.

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sports. >> this week coming up is like the week before the super bowl. [ laughter ] bec you don't have a game. >> no less important. yeah. >> go ahead. >> the less frustrated fans call this a time for reflection. >> oh, okay, there you go. >> jay gruden likes to use the phrase total confidence in his conferences. he's used it a number of times. we did not hear those words today when talking about the quarterback situation. in fact, it was just the opposite. robert griffin definitely had flashes against the vikings. his return after injury went well for the most part, but griffin is in the third year of a four-year deal, the time to start figuring out if he's the long-term solution to the team's quarterback woes. that time is now. but the coach who had has a carousel at the position already this year, admitted today he'st. >> you start out with robert, gi him all the reps in training camp, hurts his ankle,

misses five or six weeks. now it's back to robert. so the jury is still out on that position, but we feel good about robert's progress so far. we just got to continue to d seo week. and hopefully we'll see that here by the end of the season. >> of course he says jury's still oum like, did he just say jury's still out on the quarterback situa a all this? >> we know who the starting quarterback is going to be. >> he s but is he the long-term answer? >> probably not. >> one yr contract next year. >> why didn't they blitz yesterday? u know why they didn't come in and get bridged t subject. >> defense definitely had problems in the second half. the washington capitals are trending the wrong way as well. instead of being top the division, they're falling down towards the bottom. but a closed-door meeting and an angry new coach might get them turned around in a hurry.

caps are on the brink of a five-game losing streak as they take on the flames tomorrow night. four str losses and 18 goals allowed, leaving barry trotz fuming. trotz, only the second month of his first season with the cap s here and frustrated for a while. said his team needs to change their behavior. >> to me, it's unacceptable. e fix it. if they're not going to fix it individually, i'll make sure i fix it. sometimes i get the feeling we want to play as hard as we just need to, and that's not how i operate. with them, it's an old story. already it's too old for me. >> the capitals, those are strong, choice words. he said it quietly, but i think there was angry behind it. wis also in action against the knicks. one local football star sitting the next one out, stefon diggs. today he was suspended for one game after the wide receiver

violated the league's sportsmanship policy during a pregame skirmish. diggs will miss the primetime match-up against michigan state. they also reprimanded the coaches for failing to shake hands and determined that randy failed to control his team, leading to a $10,000 fine for the university. >> should have been two weeks and $20,000. >> and the no-handshake thing is so tacky. >> they ran through the warm-ups, and thought it was disrespectful. disrespectful. >> they weren't on live

after filling out their hogan iquestionaire, aight. hogan was awarded an a- from the nra. but now he refuses to release his responses. the nra opposes comprehensive background checks. they want to weaken maryland's gun safety laws. even support letting suspects on the fbi terror watch list buy guns. on gun safety and terror, the nra is wrong. hogan gets an a- from the nra. on protecting maryland, we just can't trust him. hi, are we still on for tomorrow? tomorrow. quick look at the weather. nice day, beautiful tomorrow. tomorrow is full of promise. we can come back tomorrrow.

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