>> up in flames, no way out. new information abwho was inside this burning house that has a maryland community stunned today. any minute a heartbroken amer family could step in front of a microphone to address the death of their daughter in isis custody. >> it will be the first time we've heary of kayla mueller. >> we're monitoring the location of this news confe and will get to it as soon a comes out. now to the indictment of jesse maw in the murder of uva student hannah graham. >> you've probably seen one of the two breaking nutz alerts we've sent in this case in just the past 24 hours and there are new developments at this hour. david culvt explains what happen >> reporte it's here the grand jury met this week and decided to charge jesse matthew with hannah's murder and her abdun and two reckless

driving charges. the police chief made the announce earlier today. >> the albemarle county police departme has completed our investign into the disappearae and death of hannah g >> reporte the decision comes five months after hannah disappeare matthew soon e emergencied as a suspect after her disappearance. after trying to outrun police he was caught in galveston, texas. he was also linked to a sexual in late october, police confirmed they fou hannah's body on an abandoned property about ten miles from uva grounds wast until today that police named matthew as their murder sl us they consulted the graham fsed this matter with the grahams on many occasions and they are aware of the indictments. >> next week jesse matthew will

appear via videolink to be formally arraigned on those charges. 5:00 we look at that charge first-degr murder talk to a former prosecuto in albemarle county and ask why officials dn go for the death penal. david culvert, news4. we are learning more about a possible case of measles in northern virginia. health off investigg a suspected case fairfax county. we won't know test results until tomorrow. e patient is in self-isolation at home. health off are tracing the person's movements to identify potentia sites. coming up at 4, find out what experts are telling congress about stop of measles.> a prince gey police o respondin a call ended up being the one who immediat help. the officer's cruiser was involved i this crash on indiana head highway at palmer road in oxon hill. chopper 4 over the scene shortly after it occurred 1:30 this afternoon. tell us the cruiser's

lights and siren were on at the time. when the driver of the sedan tried to cross the highway, the vehicles clilded. two of the three people in the sedan we take on the hospital. the officer was not hurt. we're waiting for that news conference wit t family of isis hostage kayla mueller in arizona. confirmed earlier today that isis sent them photographic proof that kayla has been killed. news led to strong emotions up on capitol hill today from one of the senators who worked the hardest to win her freedom. news4's steve handelsman joins us live with details. >> reporter: john mccain of arizona very upset, a lot of senators bot parties upset for obvious reasons. it's just such an outrage in the opinion of virtually every american. kayla mueller's family or loved onn communicating wh isis to try to get her home. last summer the u.s. raided a

site where she'd apaerptly been held. strands of her hair were found there, but nothi worked to get her free. kayla mueller's family got the news over the weekend in an e-mail with a photo of her body. analysis confirmed kayla had died daughter," the family said. kayla muelr was only 24 when she went to syria to help the victims of that civil war. she was captured by isis. her family kept that secret from the public but president obama knew and got regular briefings. "no matter how long it takes, the united states will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for kayla's captivity and death." >> i want to express the deepest condolence to kayla's parents, marsha and carl mueller. >> reporte there's outrage where the president wants congress to formally authorize his war against isis that has now killed four americans.

>> i thinkns our resolve and i hope it strengths int resolve. >> after isis burned n pilot last week and that nation stepped up air strikes, isis on friday claimed she w killed by a jordanian bomb. the white hou denied that today but said if kayla did die that way it's her captors' fault. >> isil regardless of her cause of death, is responsible for it. this after all, is the organiza that holding her against her will. >> reporte held for 18 mos, a felt for her family, writing, "i have suffered knowing how mh suffering i have put you all through. i will never ask you to forgive me as i do not deserve forgiven" kayla mueller, aid worker the latest u.s. victim of isis. despite the outrage of kayla mueller's death, many lawmakers up here are still leery, still wary of a wide-open war authorizat they're demanding to hear exactly how president obama plans to beat isis and how long that might take. i'm steve handelsman news4,

capitol hill. > now to a tragic story we first reported on our facebook page about another deadly house fire in anne arundel county. we've since learned that a mother and son were killed along with a neighbor who tried to rescue them. investigats believe the fire started in a bedroom of this home on hilltop road we maryland around 3:00 this morning. sundima sinnah her husband, and their 19-year-old son got out of the house, but she went back in to rescue her 17-year-old son who was trapped. then a neighbor ran inside to try to save them. all three were overcome by smoke and died. record breaking snowfall in massachuse it's taking its toll today. 68 inches of snow fell on boston over just the past two weeks. people are trying to shovel the mounds and mounds of it but there's just no place to put it. and some roofs are collapsing under all the weight now. a massive storm over the past four days shut down schools, forced flights to be canceled, down mass transit too.

here at home it was a rough morning out there today. but now brace yourself the tempe is about to take a deep dive. >> it sure is. let's turn to storm team 4 meteorolt veronn in the weather center. how coal v.j.? >> the coldest air of the season progressively colder startingo head into the end of week. 40 deegts right now, winds gusting 22. that sounds like 40 degrees, not bad, when you factor in that wind with a gust over 20 miles pehour most neighborhoods, and it's bringing down the windchil town to into the freezing mark from burtonsville to wheaton, folks around franconia, very cold one involved this evening. it will only get progressively colder. r temperas dropped to around freezing by 11:00 so, if you're going to be out walking e dog, it will feel like it's in the mid-20s. time to layer up. indeed big time to layer up because starting on thursday again, some very cold air is going to start making its way

into our area and by the end of the weekend, wait till you see how low these windchill temperatur a going to drop. coldest air of the season we'll take you through it and get that forecast to you in a couple minutes. >> thanks veronica. a lot of folks we late for work this morning after a series of crashes in maryland. several cars including this taxi were involved in a wreck on i-95 near the howard county line. it shut the highway down for about two hours. luckily, no one was badly injured. a fire caused heavy damage to a popular bar in ocean city maryland. e lazy lizard caught fire around 10:00 this morning. take a look. the bar is on the first floor with apartments there on the upper level so no doubt some people may have lost their homes. the bar is known for brewing its own beer but no word yet on what caused the blaze because of all the smoke, three people were take on the hospital and the nearby route 50 bridge was shut down for a spell. diesel in a daycare. has mat crews swarm a local

center. plus bus riders didn't expect this -- the close call that had people jumping out of the way of a car that was about to slam into them. big decision, what's next now that thousands of local children will soon be adjusting

firefighters and hazmat crews swar busy street in . diesel fuel spilled into a daycare center and homes. crews cleaned up the mess. no one was hurt. fist at 4, a close call for three people waiting in a glass enclosed bus stop in annandale this morning. a woman lost control of her vehicle along little river turn and ran into it. then crashed into that tree there. two of the people at the bus stop were take on the hospital with minor injuries. the third refused transport. the driver was also take on the hospital with minor injuries. investigats have not yet said what caused her to lose her control or if she'll be

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we are getting our fist look at a pretty scary moment for a maryland state trooper. dashcam video shows his cruis g sideswiped last weekend near the new hampshire avenue on the beltway early saturday morning. police say the trooper just pulled over suspected drunk dr pat collins will talk with the trooper about that close call. some maryland students will get to sleep in a little later next year. >> the montgomery coun schood approved later start times today. middle and high school bell times will abo 20 minutes. elementary schools will start ten minutes later. the school board was considering several different options, and this one is supposed to cost virtually nothing. >> you kno it does have significant implications. other districts have changed, and other districts have long had later start times for high school students.

>> the new bell times will take effect this fall. now, coming up tonight on news4 at 5:00 reactions from both sides of the issue. good news for proponents of medical marijua in virginia. both the house and senate have passed bills allowing derivatives of the plant to be used to treat epilepsy. the oils used for treatment don't gave high. difference the two bills have to be worked out. governor terry mcaulif has expressed support for medical marijuana in the past. > we're tracking a developing story out of california right now where they're dealing with a lot of heavy rain. residents living in a community north of san francisco are stranded right now after two bridges washed out. take a look. these are the only two bridges in and out of their neighborho. only get out using a precario footpath now. some residents say this is the worst flooding they've seen in the 40-plus years they've lived there. >> came off the mountain so fast just in sheets. it was like a river running

downhill. we're stranded. i have no automobile on the other side here. and i need to be at work. i'm a nurse. i have animals that need to be taken care of. >> it will cost about $50,000 to rebuild those bridges. since the road is private, residents will to come up with the cash themselves. how many layers are we going to need to pile on over the next couple of days? >> yeah. do we have a couple days to shop for it all. >> yeah. we've got a day to shop for it, gu. we're talking about many layers you'll need to put on at the end tomorrow this time we get a bit of break, but then it's the coldest air of the season that is set to move into the area. you'll see what i'm talking about here in just a moment. tomorrow we get a break after a cold start. take a look at the early morning temperatur from 25 in bethesda 29 inside the beltway as well alexandria. that's below freezing for sure. same thing in manassas and warrenton as we drop to 26 degrees, you folks around leesburg 25 during the

overnight period. that comes with a mostly clear sky, andknow it's been breezy the wind will die down d by early tomorrow morning. tomorrow we get a break, not only temperatures get above 40 degrees, i think that will come with a light wind so, your drive time impact forecast for tomorrow dry roads compared to today. the delays we had out there for the afternoon, a light wind. and a bit of sunshine too and we'll take that. in fact tomorrow will feel like a heat wave compared to what's coming up. so chig better. your temperatures range tomorrow between 40 and 46 degrees with a mixture of sun and clouds. so here we are today. high tempera ad 40. that cold air comes in on thursd the air temperature, but look at the windchills. they drop down to around the teens, and that is going to feel mighty cold right as we get into early friday morning. s a look at thursday too. the other thing we'll have with

that cold coming in thursday are a few flurries coming through the area. not a strong system, a weak one. our best chance is right here around noontime up until about 4:00 or 5:00. flurries drifting through mainly the northern county to around frederic gaithersburg on toward baltimore. again, noon to 9:00 on thursday just a few flurries drifting through the area. now, take a look at your forecast. of 43 tomorro as i said we catch a break. the cold air comes in on thursday with those windchills flurries.t feel very much like winter. at the end of the week friday your high 28. looking for overnight temperat too, we drop down to the teens and that leaves us with a valentine's weekend when a lot of folks will want to cuddle up. we're talking about light snow late saturday no accumulation bue coldest air of the season as we get into saturday night, early sunday morning. i say that because windchills througho the day on sunday folks, will be right around

zero single digits throughout. coming up later in the newscast we'll talk about the latest wave. >> all righty. tourists ss visiting at the white ho got a couple surprises today. fi michell popped to welcome the first guests as they got their first look at the old family dining ram. that w added to the tour for the first time today. nbc's jenna bush hager was there as well. thankful she's familiar with that room since her father preceded president oba in the white house. the dining room has been redecorad wh new paint, new rug, new drapes and four works of american abstract art, a favori of the obamas. staying in shape, it might easier to do than you think. why you might not need to buy anythi extra get your share of exercise for the day. they e becoming more and more common but drones are raisin now there may be a way to make sure your home stays off the

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i'm wendy rieger at the live desk. our sister station in new york is reporting that a new york a deadly shooting that sparked protest in new york in november. nbc says officer peter lang has indicted bay grnl for the shooti death of a akai gurley. sources say he will be surren tomorrow. he's a rookie. he shot gurley while he was patrol dar stairwell in a public housing complex in brooklyn. police say lang was on the top floor of the stairwell and all the lights were out when gurley opened a door one flight below. lang fired and hit gurley in the chest. police say the shooting was accident lang has bee on desk duty since then. ba to you. some family members are disputg reports that bobbi brown will be taken off of life support tomorrow on the third anniv of the death of her mother whitney houston.

there are mounting prayers across the country today for the young woman and her family. just last night several hundred showed up at a caoutside atlanta. bobbi kr remains on a ventil at emory hospital in atlanta. r conditi has not changed since she was found unconscious in a bathtub two weekends ago. her mother also was found in a bathtub. you blink, you miss it gone in six seconds. it took 4,400 pounds of explos to bring down the old clarion casino and hotel in las vegas. the 1-story structure was built back in 1970 off the vegas strip. casino will be built on this site. today's predawn blast went off without a hitch. the elevator shaft withstood the blast and remained leaning to one side. crews plan to finish the job off later today. smar apps may be able to track your workout better those popular fitness

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i'm jim handly. >> i'm pat lawson muse. jesse maw h officially been charged if the murder of uva student hannah graham. the fairfax cy native went missing las september. her body was found a month later. hitting close to home the fairfax health department says today it's investigating a suspected c of measles now. and an emotional show of supp family remembers an americ woman killed while she was in isis custody. news4's wendy rieger has more at the live desk. wendy? >> yes. the family of kayla mueller just wrapped up a press conference in prescott arizona. kayla's parents did not work but one of her aunts did. obviousl it was very emotiona let's listen. >> she has done more in her 26 years than many people can ever say they have done in their lifetime.e wor wants to be more like kayla, and as bad as her legacy and the footprint that she leaves on the world, then that is a wonderful thing.

she wrote, "i have come see there good in every situatio we just have to look for it." and right now that's what we're all trying to do. >> the parents of kayla mueller annound ts morning that they got evidence that she was indeed hostage. we do not know where or how her death took place. back to you. right now, many communities in the northeast are taking drastic steps to get rid of record amounts of snow. and to make matters worse, there's snow on the way. >> nbc's sarah dollop talked to one resident who said what in others feeling -- f >> repor no break from the winter sie in the northeast. while the snow has stopped falling for now, the clean far from over. >> i'm so sick of it. i'm so sick of it. >> repor in boston record snowfall more than 68 inches in 17 days shut down rail service.

>> too much snow too much accumula. >> in the city alone, 10,000 dump trucks wf snow have been removed, enough to fill gillette stadium, where the new engld patriots play 90 times, and clues are running out of places to put it all. >> we've been moving aggres to access resources around t city so people can dig out from under this and prepare potentially for another storm. >>ep boston is melting it in special snow farm and in marblehe massachusetts, crews are dumping it into the ocean. g speci permis to do so. usuallit prohibid d to the possibily of motor oil, gasoline and chemical salt that could be mixed in with the snow. crews are making headway, cleari roads, but they remain icy and dangerous across the northeast. a major pileup in new jersey involvg 15 vehicles may have caused by freezing rains. one witness tweeting the roads were like a skating rink.

foe sg their attentn now to the weekend. two more potential winter storms. valentiny i new england likely best spent at home and off the streets. as congress tries to set the record straight on vaccines we are learning more about a suspectes i fair a accurate. health o say they should confirmation tomorrow. the news comes as a senate hearing looks into why dangerous vaccine preventable diseases are making a comeback. today's focus measles. the potentially deadly virus was virtually sta out in this country 15 years ago. now health experts are battling a fast-spreading outbreak. they blame an anti-vaccinati campai based on bad science. >> i can tell you vaccines are very safe and effective and while autism is a terrible conditio one thing we know is vaccin don cause autism. >> 121 measles cases have been

reports year with 85%f those cases linked to the outbreak at disneyland. that's accor the cdc. one case has been reported in the district but d.c. health authors hav said it's an isolat case that stems from overse travel. no cases have been confirmed in maryland. we mentioned in virginia one suspected case now under investig in fairfax county. right now we're getting a fisthand look at just how challeg it to respond to emergenc smoke-fi metro tunnels. news4 cameras were there as smoke poured in at metro's traini facility in landover maryland. in our next hour transportatio will give us an up-close look at the extremely d situation responders face on metro and why training is so critical. a growing number of drones invadi personal space is also raising privacy concerns for some folks. one group is offering to help.

noflyzong says you can h a no-fly zone over your property. just go to the website and reg stur your address. lit create a virtual fence around your property and drone compans that are parte p will honor the are requ service is free this month. a second round after charges tonight against the baltimore ravens security chief. da of gropina stadium worker in decemb and now faces seconde assault charges in the same case. sanders denies the allegations and has since been put on paid leave. sanders was o of the lead players in the domestic it looks like airlines are not keeping passengers cooped up in planes as much as they used to. in 2014 we saw the lowest number c delays on record accord the department of transpor. there we 30 domestic flights theys of more than three hours as compared to almost 900 delays just a few years ago. and last year only nine

internl flights experid lengthy delays at u.s. airports. transp officials say new tarmac rules designed to protect re home de is hiring 1,700 people locally, 80,000 people across the country in preparn for spring its busiest season. some of the positions are seasonal. the company's website is offeri interviews wi people wh hired last spring as well a tips for getting the job. home is encouraging retirees veteran, and college studeno apply. why you're going to want to run out and spend two bucks that co your life. are r valentday? it's just a few days away. somethins different this year. about how much money you're going to be spending. storm team 4 tracking a big change for us. v.j.? >> that's right. bree and cold this evening but nothing like t cold at the end of the week.

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>> storm team 4 is watching some chilly changes over the next few days. we'll get to veronica johnson and doug kammerer in just a moment. but first news4 i-team uncovers new concerns for metro riders who say they worry about whether they c make it out during an emge on the tracks. >> tisha thos in the news 4 i-team began asking what would happen if someone in a wheelchair needed to be evacuated. wouldhege out or would they be left behind? >> stand back. >> reporterll mack uses metro every day to commute to work. she asked us to come along with her to look at this. >> oh no way. >> reportert entrance to the safety walkwa at the end of the farragut north metro station. >> there's thoit absolutely no way my chair would fit on this. >> reporter: kelly said she realized ts evacuation path isn't wide enough for her standard sized chair and is cut off by stairs. she noticed it after last month's incident when one woman

died and many passengers self-evacuated being trapped in smoke-filled cars. >> it's very wisomeworme it doesn s li there's a real good plan for people in general, much less people with disabiliti like myself. >> this is an emergency evacuation cart. every metro rail station has these in the sagss. >> reporter:he the news4 i team asked metro what would happen if someone in a wheelchair ne to be evacuated fr a tunnel, he explained rcu crews can use these etec devices to roll up to the end of the train. >> it only weighs 160 pounds. you can hold a thousand pounds of capacity on it. >> reporter: metro says all local fire departments are supposed t evacuation training. news4 was trethe fairfax county fire dent learned how to use the etev last summer. d.c. fire tells the i-team all members arebe trained on the etec but it couldn't provide any training records for this specific item twn past two

years. instead it gave us training photos of t motorized emergency recon vehicle which can get to trapped passengers in less than four minutes. and the universal rescue cart which d.c. says was designed with metro in mind because it can fit between rails and over electrical boxes. but the i-team found all of this equipment could reque leaving the wheelchair behind. >> the doorways on the eng of the trajs really aren't wide enough for a full-sized wheelchair to get out out of it. >> i'm terrified. i would not kn what to do. >> reporter: dara baldwin with the national disability rights network says she's particularly concerned a c-spine or quadriplegicer bau they can't be easily be separated from that chair which provides life support. >> you would have to leave that person that should .moved. >> reporter: metro says fire department should have special stair chairs to transport those

riders. >> they courar them from the wheelchair to the chair to get them onto this cart and get them back safety. >> reporterb d. fire told the i-team in most incidents the process of removing most or all of the ambulatory people from the train will be done first due to that process being quicker than the removal of nonambulatorpeople. in regards to self-evacuation, those who e nonambulatory will need the assian of the fire department bec the width of the walkwa wi the tunnels is 22 inches and will not provide ample space for a wheelchair. >> i depend on my wheelchair. i'd have to depend on other people. >> repoerhehg north metro station, tisha thompson,ew4 i-team. >> metro says no one should ever self-evacuanl they're in imminent danger. this story n tip. if you have something the i-team should be looking into, call 202-885-4444r e-mail

tips@news4itm. turng n to the weather. veronica, anhese the end of winter yet? >> no, we're still counting down. right now we should be close around 40 days or under 40 days before spring. >> not soon enough. >> not soon enough for a lot of people. tonig wl d, sure but nothing like the cold that's going to movehe at the end of the week. and for part of our weekend some dangerously cold air, in fact, is what's part of our discussion he your impact forecast for tomorrow wi those dry roads early part of the day, mixture of sun and clouds our impact forecast low for tomorrow. it's going to be a better day coming our way. higher temperatures and less wind all working in our favor for anything you want to do for travel, more sunshine, so you might want to out the sunglasses, exercise. that light wind will help out and about, chilly conditions. it's i think a one-layer day tomorrow. just for the coat. we'll start out in the 20s at 29. we rise ten degrees by 1:00. the temperatur is 39 by tomorrow afternoon but feeling pretty goodhhe sunshine.

your average high temperature now around 46 degrees. so at least we're getting closer to that mark. then friday impact forecast, take a look at this. it's all about the windchills, 0 to 10 by thursday night friday morning, then dangerously cold hypothermia-pe weather frostbite ri when you're outside for little more than an hour. doug, you've been taking a look back at where we were last year with those days, a number that were pretty cold. >> yeah, evybs talking about how cd things were last january, and now we're talking act cold air moving in in february. take a look. let's show you what's been happening. that jes on the cold side for much ot great lakes and the new enan area. it's been cold on our side. what's coming on thursday is even colder air. we'll see some of the coldest air this season thursday night into the d friday. then it gets colder still. arctic air coming out. this air straight from siberia making its way in here. high temperatu on in the teens to lower 20s throughout the day.

you mentioned last year, days in the 20s, highs in the 20s last winter six. this year so far only one. but in the next seven days we expect to have three of those, each day with windchills at least in the single digits or lower teens. veronica, it will be some very very cold air moving in. >> for sure. we've got of course the weekend too. late nig sn on saturday coming in. very cold air follows saturday night after that high of 40. 21, that's the high temperature on sunday. we're breezy and cold with windchills aun zero on sunday. so as we take a look at your storm team four-day forecast there it is the cold at the end of the week. your weekend snow on saturday as i just showed you, then 21 the high on sunday. but look at this, even the early part of next week, highs in the upper 20s, low 30s, and still a chance of snow. we stay in that pattern now for a while. we've got more of this mighty cold air set to hit us coming up on news 4 at 5:00. >> one minute passengers were

enjoying the flight. the next they on the tarmac. >> an airplane running into a field and we don't know if airplanes explode or what. we didn't know what was going on. >> what went wrong. and the confusion once they landed. this is the rear-view mirror of the car after it happened. after it was sideswiped.

the pilot of an american airlines pla made a rapid, ear-popping descent after noticing an smell in the cabin. after t emergency landing, passengers ran from the plane. liz bryant talked to people on board. >> all right so, this is the airplane that we just -- we just

did an emergency landing off this airplane. american air we're now in tulsa. we should b rads >> reportem ay the waiti r at tulsa international t. >> all of us are getting off an airplane running into a field and told to come back toward the airplane. we don know if the airplane's going to explowh. we didn'knt in on. >> repor frazier relives thamele others alert family on their cell phones. >> we could tell it was descending clearly because, you know, your aping >> it's like oh whoa this is serious. jon clark on his way to a job interviewr rapids iowa first thing thursd morning. they veal to get a big dose of how i do it when i just wing it because i had planned on doing some preparation tonight.

so i'm just going to, you know have to get up and do any presen just kind of on the fly. so we'll see how it goes. >> we are rebooking everybody on tomorrow flight. >> repor duane says this was actually their third problem tonight.e a mechanical issue. the next plane made some kind of noise. so they all deplaned.s looked at it then they took off. duane says 45 minutes later the american pilot made an emergency landing. no they haven't told us a word. the only people who have told us anything is news people and people coming from other flights saying did you hear there was a fire or fumes in the cobckpit? >> t god they're alive. >> a spokesperson says american is still trying to detee the kautz of the fumes. news 4 a start

>> jesse matthew will not face the death penalty. new tonight at 5:00, we ask a former local prosecutor why not. >> news4's david culvert is live now in charlottesville where the new charges were announced today. david? >> reportji and wendy, that charge first-degree murder. no question it's serious. it carries with it a possible life sentence. but given the tragedy surrounding hannah's death and disappearance, looked into why prosecutors aren't seeking the death penalty. they walked out to a room cramped wi cameras and reporters. tho who investigated hannah graham's abduction and murder, the albemarle police, and those who will seek justice, the commonwealtattorney. >> i have discussed this mat we are the grahams on many occasions a they a aware of the indictments.

>> reporter: 's taken an emotional fi months to get to this point starting back on september 13th. this was the last time hannah was seen alive walkg a popular downtown mall. surveillance video and witnesses soon led police to jesse matthew. after a nationwide manhunt, police took matthew into custody but only for hannah's abduction. but the search for hannah continued. her parents tearfully pleading in front of cameras. crews found her remains on an abandoned property but it wasn't untilodh police made it official. matthew is now their murder suspect. >> yesterday afternoon albemarle county and charlottesville city detectiv met with fairfax county authorities serve a capias and four indictments on jesse mat. >> reporte matthew was in jail in fairfax county tonight for a 2005 sexual asslt. but between that rape and hannah's death, the maximum punishment life in