we're out of time. the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination, but while i will not be a candidate, i will not be silent. >> and with that, the vice president made some pointed comments widely considered to be aimed at democrat front-runner hillary clinton. >> we have team coverage of all of this. let's begin with steve handelsman. he's live at the white house with new reaction. >> doreen and jim. this was emotional here at the white house, a bit like joe biden saying good-bye. afterwards, hillary clinton called the vice president and praised him in a statement and she said he will keep fighting for all of us, but not as a presidential candidate as he finally revealed today. with his wife jill and president obama by his side, vice president joe biden said it is too late for him to run for president. >> unfortunately, i believe we're out of time. the time necessary to mount a winning campaign for the nomination. >> reporter: the bidens have

been mourning since may, now they're smiling at the memory of son beau biden says joe, not just weeping over his death from cancer. the vice president says he's not run, but he's still passionate about the middle class. >> we cannot sustain the current levels of inequality that exist in this country. >> reporter: hillary clinton gets stronger, gaining five points over bernie sanders with biden out. clinton at 58% in the new nbc news/wall street journal poll. >> she's the closest thing i've seen to a lock in an open campaign. >> donald trump tweeted personally, i would rather run against hillary because her record is so bad. at the debate, clinton had called trump's party her enemy. >> reporter: probably the republicans. >> reporter: that's not joe biden's style. >> they're our opposition. they're not our enemies. >> reporter: after 42 years in washington, a senator, twice a presidential candidate and then vice president, biden promises

to keep speaking out which, knowing joe, nobody doubts. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. our team coverage continues now with nbc news correspondent chris jansing and she's live at the white house. was anybody surprised by this decision from the vice president today and what about president obama's role in this decision? kris? >> this has been as much a guessing game as much of the country and if there is one person who knows more than most it is president obama because the two of them have grown increasingly close over the time of their presidency and vice presidency and we are now told that over the course of this long deliberation which began shortly after the death of bo biden that president obama has served as a sounding board, although in the end, the ultimate decision, of course,

was vice president biden's. it was obviously a difficult one. we know that over the weekend he was making phone calls and he was spending a lot of time with his family, but it was also a time when there was increasing pressure from a lot of democrats including high-profile democrats for him to make a decision and the poll numbers were certainly trending in hillary clinton's direction. so president obama has said that he believes joe biden is the best vice president that he has ever seen and that he believes that now that he's going to be staying here will make it much easier for him to advance the a gent that that he spoke about today in his rose garden remark, but more than ever his decision means that hillary clinton clearly has the nomination that is hers to lose. back to you. >> chris jansing at the white house. a lot of you have been weighing in on the vice president's decision and take a look at the results of the flash survey. as you can see, the majority of people who voted say biden made

the right move by deciding to not run for president. if you'd like to leave a comment head over to the nbc washington facebook page and tell us what you think. >> the vice president's decision comes just a day before a critical day for hillary clinton. she's set to testify before the benghazi committee and after getting a bump in the polls from the debate, many consider tomorrow's appearance to be the last major test of her campaign. here's a sign of just how busy wisconsin congressman paul ryan is right now. he didn't hear about joe biden's news believe two hours later when a reporter asked them about it. ryan met with the house freedom caucus. he said he won't take the speakership if they don't unite behind him. he also said he won't spend weekends traveling because he refuses to give up time with his family. >> police have a man in custody in connection to a murder of a woman in an upscale prince george's county neighborhood, but there are questions to who

he is and what his alleged motive could have been. chris gordon is live at police headquarters. >> police made the announcement live at 4:00 announcing they have a suspect in custody who will be charged with first-degree murder in connection with a homicide of amanda jones, but tonight they are not saying who he is. >> at this point, until he is charged, we won't reveal his identity and we developed a suspect early on into this investigation through witness interviews and collecting evidence at this point. we believe he is the only person who will be charged in this case. >> police are not confirming whether the suspect had a relationship with the victim or what his motive might have been. myisha golway discovered her mother's body here in the house in upper marlboro yesterday. 56-year-old amanda jones died of bodily trauma. her daughter says he and other

family membs immediately told detectives that they suspected the man who had been an acquaintance of amanda jones and had a violent nature that worried them. >> it's really hard to think that someone knew her, knew her as a person how beautiful of a person she was and how much she meant to her family would do this to her, but there's -- i know there's a person that she's involved with that kiem to mind instantly. >> the perrywood neighborhood here in upper marlboro is still gripped by fear. would it help if it turns out that it was not a stranger, but someone she knew? >> a little bit. you feel a little bit at ease, but still knowing it's so close to home it's still a fearful type of feeling that you have. amanda jones' niece says her aunt was a lovely, caring person who went above and beyond to everybody. >> she meant the world to my family and it's really going to

be hard to cope with the fact that she's no longer here. >> reporter: if the suspect in this case is convicted of first-degree murder he could face the possibility of life in prison. that's the latest live in prince george's county police headquarters. jim, back to you. >> thank you. the driver of a dump truck who hit and killed a woman would not face charges. prosecutors say there's no evidence the driver knew she hit someone when she left the scene, deborah bogart was killed. prosecutors tell us they were not able to determine if the victim was in the crosswalk when she was hit and the driver didn't appear to be breaking any laws. a man is accused of punching a metrotransity officer. police believe he's also behind a string of other very public assaults including this incident caught on video where a passenger was attacked on a metro escalator and meagan

fitzgerald is live with more on those cases than on what metro is doing to protect riders. >> and the latest attack happened just behind us here at 7:30 or 8:30 last night right on the corner of seventh and eighth and we had an opportunity to speak with the deputy police chief of the metrotransity police department and he tells us it was their security measures that are in place that contributed to the arrest of this suspect on two separate occasions. >> metrotransity deputy police chief kevin gatis says they used several different tactics. >> we got a good layered approach with both the uniform and casual clothes. >> two of those casual clothed officers were making an arrest at the metro station on tuesday evening when gatis says elija smith started making violent threats. >> an officer started to place him under arrest and mr. smith punched him four or five times. after a brief scuffle. the officers were able to

arrest smith, but it wasn't his first incident at a metro station. in april surveillance video shows him punching a 69-year-old man on the escalator at the eastern market station. gatis says police were able to catch and convict him because metro security cameras were rolling. >> we have a very robust camera system, so we do what we do with what we have. >> gatis says, they have an active team of investigators who are committed to keeping riders safe. >> they're a criminal investigation division and they have a long run of locking these guys up and finding them. >> elija smith is expected to appear in court tomorrow for sentencing on that earlier incident where he attacked the 69-year-old man in april. jim? >> all right, meagan, thanks so much. tomorrow a metro board has a full slate of meetings set to talk about safety, among those being called in, the union who represents front line workers who has oversight of the transit agency safety and metro will

also give an update on the new switch to federal oversight for its safety department and all of this follows a rocky year of safety lapses and accidents for the rail system. also tonight a call to refund riders when something goes wrong on metro. the recommendation comes from the metro riders' advisory co t council. that group was put in place to make recommendations about the budget. refunding customers for extreme or unforeseen delays would help reduce frustration. a deadly case of road rage gets national attention. a toddler caught in the middle and killed. what we're learning about the moments before the gun fire on a busy road. i'm julie carey at the fairfax county courthouse where we can now show you the one piece of evidence that may place accused killer charles severance near the home of one of his victims the day she died. when a neighbor's security camera shows just ahead. it doesn't look like much right now, but this plot of land is being transformed to make

room for new outlet stores and hundreds of new jobs. we'll tell you where. i'm tracking the temperatures across the region. very nice and highs in the 07s tomorrow and we're back into the 70s, but the cooler weather, and returns for the weekend and we'll talk about it coming up in

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investigators zero in on thiefs who have been wanted for months in prince george's county. they think the same masked men held up three stores in late august and early september. horror on the highway and police in new mexico now say they have a person in custody in connection to that road rage case that left a toddler dead. the 4-year-old girl was riding with her parents when a man opened fire on a busy interstate in albuquerque. nbc's jay gray has the latest. >> reporter: it happened along this stretch of interstate 40 in albuquerque. >> the truck was literally going across several lanes and just to avoid this vehicle to pass. >> reporter: road rage that investigators say ended with murder. >> one car pulled up against the other car and started firing rounds into that vehicle. >> reporter: one of those rounds killing 4-year-old lily garcia. >> i've seen tragic loss of children in car crashes and to me this is one of those crimes which is unexplainable.

>> reporter: late this afternoon investigators released a description of the suspect, the male in his mid-20s to early 30s, who is white with a light complexion and possibly hispanic and short dark hair and a goatee. he is driving a maroon, four-door sedan with tinted windows, a spoiler, and a university of new mexico lobos sticker. >> the tragic loss of little 4-year-old lily well before her time, but our commitment to the family and to our community is that we will catch this guy. >> reporter: sheriff's deputies also hope at some point to get important information from the little girl's mom and dad who were inside the truck, but not injured when the shots were fired. >> the parents have to go through a grieving process. we -- we owe them the highest degree of respect and a time for the family to be together. >> reporter: a family shattered by what police are calling a senseless attack.

jay gray, nbc news. mayor muriel bowser's controversial crime crackdown is meeting with more opposition in the district. activists held a protest outside the wilson building before a d.c. council hearing on the plan. the protesters say the program gives police too much power. >> i'm here to say that does not make me feel safer. that makes me feel terrified. >> i don't think that increasing police presence will really help anyone feel safer, and it won't help me feel safer. >> the most controversial aspect of the program would allow police to search violent offenders on probation without a warrant. that portion of the plan does not appear to have enough council support to pass. bad politics is one council member is calling muriel bowser's effort to raise $1 million to bankroll a private political group supporting her. tonight all-new at 6:00, mater tells tom sherwood she and the

political group are doing nothing wrong. >> reporter: mayor bowser is just back from a four-day trip to london facing criticism for the new independent political action committee freshpac and it intends to raise $1 million from city businesses and individuals to support bowser and oppose her opponent. >> the whole thing strikes me as so bad, bad politics and it seems immoral. it's like a shakedown, really. >> reporter: the washington post editorial page normally a big booster for bowser denounced freshpac this week. it called for freshpac to be disbanded. a cartoon today lampooned bowser's call. >> pac, as you know, tom, has been around in our city. there are many registered pacs in our city. >> reporter: this is the first pac formed specifically for a mayor. bowser says it's following laut and not targeting incumbent

council members. >> that's just my record so this notion that people are being, you know, targeted is just not true. >> reporter: seven members of the council are moving to close the loopholes that allows such pacs to raise unlimited money and it's unclear when it will come up for a vote. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. the department of education has launched an investigation into the university of mary washington in fredericksburg. it follows the murder of creighs mann there earlier this year. the group called feminists united claim mann and other members told the school they'd gotten sexual threats over social media, but nothing was done about it. >> what we are seeing now with this level of harassment and violence and abuse is it's driving people in their dorms. people do not want to go to classes. they do not want to go and participate in the full life of their school because with anonymous posts the reality is you don't know where the violence and threats are coming from. >> mann's roommate is charged with her murder.

it is not known whether he's one of the people who made those threats. the university of mary washington said it takes sexual misconduct seriously and welcomes guidance by the department of education. a local pizza shop targeted by thieves not once, but five times. how the community is helping to rally around the owner to keep the business and keep customers safe. tonight how some superheroes are carrying out his legacy after his tragic death. traffic has gotten so bad in our area, leaders say we don't need to improve that bridge.

>> now your storm team 4 forecast. >> that forecast looking great across our region as we head outside. another beautiful day today. temperatures in the 70s all across the area and let's take a look at hill valley otherwise known as reston, but this week it's hill valley and the 30th anniversary of "back to the future," that is the coolest thing, the town of reston calling itself hill valley. a lot of good things going on down there and a lot of great things going on around the city. beautiful conditions here and we've seen a lot more color over the last couple of days and we'll continue to see that as we move on through the weekend and winds out of the south at 6 miles per hour and the sun goes down right now at 6:22. do you know that we are now

losing about two and a half minutes a day, two and a half minutes a day and sunset tomorrow around 6:20, 6:21. 70 the current temperature in gaithersburg and now that the sun is setting and we are starting to cool rather quickly and we'll continue to do so and it will be another cool night tonight and not bad at all and a great day to get the car washed and dry for days and we saw a lot of people in line at the car wash earlier as i passed on by. storm team 4 radar, no rain as i mentioned and it's dry for days and not just for days, maybe for another week and we do have one chance of rain and that comes on sunday and i'll show you that storm system, and right now not much in the way of cloud cover at all and notice how the clouds are staying just to the north and it stalled to the north and it's not moving down to the south and a lot of rain and snow toward canada with this one, but back down to the southwest, i'm tracking this system that right now is bringing flooding rains down to the parts of new mexico. this area of low pressure will ride up this boundary and right

back over towards our area as we make our way into the weekend. sunday, it will bring us a chance for showers and that could coincide with the marine corps marathon. 49 in leesburg, and 54 in washington. so not cold, some areas did get down into the mid-30s last night and i don't think that will be the case tonight and most everybody staying at least in the low to mid-40s and at the bus stop tomorrow, cool, but not too chilly. 7:00 to 8:00, the sun will come up to 7:30 and very warm in the afternoon and highs tomorrow, everywhere in the 7 s and we're talking mid to upper 70s. 78 leesburg and 78 in kull pepper and our friends over toward la plata around 76 and southern maryland. the impact forecast tomorrow and it was the same as today, a cool start, but a great afternoon and once again, we'll see fantastic conditions tomorrow and then the front comes through and we see temperatures fall from 76

tomorrow down to 66 on friday and plenty of sunshine this weekend and much cooler and a chance for showers on sunday and we'll talk about the cooler weather and i'll show you the temperatures you'll wake up to and it will be chilly to start off our saturday. >> next at 6:00, new video of accused serial killer charles severance is played in court. what it shows and how prosecutors say it links him to a high-profile murder. a community rallies around a small business hit several times by thieves. >> when i come here i feel like i'm going to my mom's house. >> easing traffic by building a new bridge. >> i think it's about time. >> where will it go? >> big changes in d.c.'s largest homeless shelter and the impact on the teenagers living there. >> and a real-life superhero who died tragically this summer was honored today. >>

first at 6:30 tonight a big step forward in the triple murder case against charles severance. the prosecution rested today and the defense began its case by calling severance's parents. before resting today, the prosecution showed video of a red car here, and our northern virginia bureau chief julie carey explains why it is so significant to this case. >> this is the video pros koorts spotlighted several times before they closed their case.

it came from security cameras from the home of ruthanne lodato. prosecutors say it shows severance's 1999 redford escort leaving the neighborhood just after lodato was shot to death. her mom's caregiver wounded on october 6, 2014. detectives tracked 32 other '99 escorts and none had the same round sticker seen on this car. earlier in the trial they brought in the bumper of severance's care for comparison, complete with the round sticker. >> that video was among the evidence nthat judge randy bellows had, when he defended the motion to strike the charges. >> reporter: they called both of severance's parents to testify. admiral severance said he began to show issues as a teen. his often disjointed speech was a feature of his mental illness. prosecutors say it was a plan to

kill three alexandria residents. his son would get agitated from the child custody battle he lost came pup. the defendant's father grew testy when prosecutor brian porter pushed on his behavior. would you say he had a strong hatred for police officers? dislike, yes. did you ever hear him say the only good cop is a dead cop? yes. wouldn't you characterize that as hatred. >> a key piece of prosecution evidence, it's a target security video that shows a man resemblance severance trailing nancy dunning just before she was shot to death in her home. >> is that your son, asked the defense attorney? no. said severance, this picture shows what his son looked like in 2003. in fairfax county, julie carey, news 4. a man accused of stabbing his girlfriend's two children will stay locked up for now. a judge ordered sean crawford held without bond and that happened monday on audrey lane.

14-year-old keyshaun mason was killed and the boys were trying to protect their mother from crawford who had barricaded herself with them in a room with a knife. two women are recovering tonight after showing up at a fire station with gunshot wounds. the women pulled up in a car at the volunteer station on addison road in seat pleasant, maryland. an ambulance took them both to the hospital and police tell us the actual shooting happened on peppermill drive just off central avenue in capital heights and no word on who shot them. finding a sitdown restaurant in anacostia is a rare thing so when robbers started targeting one of the few options the community rallied around the owner. today mama's pizza kitsch hen new security cameras installed and thanks to donations to neighbors and community leaders and the place has been robbed

five times. fatima received a check to cover the money she's lost. >> i walk down the street and saw a lady crying because she just got robbed. i said we're going to do something. >> my community will not let this kind of incident, if somebody wants to do it, this is going to stop it. >> community members say they wanted to help since mama's pizza often hires neighbors and gives food to the homeless and local youth groups. construction is getting under way on a new outlet mall in maryland. the clarksburg premium outlets will be located off clarksburg road and a ground breaking ceremony was held today and there will be 90 stores and the project will bring 300 construction jobs to the area and 800 full-time and part-time employees once the center opens for business next fall. it's a popular place, but topgolf in alexandria may be on the move. the driving range has outgrown its location in kingstown. the company tells us the landlord has agreed to let

topgolf out of its lease if he can get the land rezoned. topgolf plans to find a new location in alexandria and they wouldn't move for at least two years. the current location just underwent a renovation and a ten-year anniversary party is planned for next month. 300,000 vehicles a day cross the american legion bridge between fairfax and montgomery counties. it is the busiest potomac river crossing and it's got a big problem. traffic is crawling by. transportation reporter adam tuss has a look at why some say the answer is not make the bridge bigger, but instead build a whole new bridge. >> too many cars. >> you find yourself taking deep breaths in the car? >> not enough room on the bridge and i try to avoid all of the bad problems and no easy answers. >> i leave myself literally almost an hour. >> reporter: it's a tight squeeze across the legion

bridge. >> this is a trail that goes directly underneath the legion bridge, and it's not until you climb down here that you start to take a look around and you realize there's not a lot of space to operate on the bridge if you want to the increase the capacity and make it bigger. >> so if we can't add capacity to the bridge, do we need another potomac river crossing? there have been discussions about a new bridge linking places like potomac to the dulles quarter. >> the chairman of the fairfax county board of supervisors. >> i'm not opposed and in order for us to do that, it would require a partnership between maryland and virginia. >> that is a huge expense, though, and faces geographical and political hurdles. the transportation leaders say something needs to happen, though. average afternoon rush-hour speeds now slow to 35 miles per hour on the outer loop and 22 miles per hour on the inner loop. >> at the legion bridge, adam

tuss, news 4. up next, new threats after a high school student hacked into the private email account of a top spy boss. >> plus a tribute to a real-life superhero who was killed in a car crash. how others are now keeping his legacy alive. and we're tracking the weather for you to see just how long this great weather will last. i think we've got cooler weather, though, coming in for the week erndz and a nice shot at the capital

honoring a real-life superhero. you may remember lenny robinson for dressing up as batman and visiting sick children in the hospital. he died tragically back in august, but today other superheroes came together to honor the community crusader and carry on his legacy, spider-man, captain america, wonder woman and others visited patients at children's regional hospital in northwest d.c. they delivered toys to brighten

the kids' day. it was organized by the hope for henry foundation and robinson partnered with them for nearly ten years. >> he spent time encouraging every single child and family he met. he cared, he loved. he did what every one of us should do with our life which is to leave the world a better place than he found it. >> he felt that he had to do this. >> he put on the batman costume. he got into the batmobile and he was no longer lenny. he was batman. >> hope for henry honored lenny robinson with the superhero award today. robins robinson's dad accepted it on his behalf. >> irresponsible, inexcusable, unconscionable, three words the vatican is using to describe a newspaper report alleging that pope francis has a brain tumor. pope francis held his weekly

general audience before thousands of people in st. peter's square earlier today. houhb)ñ earlier, a small italia newspaper had reported the pope saw a japanese specialist who diagnosed a small brain tumor who can be cured without surgery. today a vatican spokesman said the pope was in good health and dismissed the report adding in his words if you go on the trips with him you know he has a small problems with his leg, but his head is absolutely perfect. surveillance video shows the mad dash down the runway. one man's desperate attempt to get onboard minutes after missing his flight. missing his flight. the plan for d.c.'s h

i'm jeremy mcpike, candidate for state senate, and i sponsored this ad. republican hal parrish claims he improved transportation. but the truth is he was nowhere to be found. literally. parrish holds a seat on the northern virginia transportation authority, but 34 times he failed to show up for meetings. parrish skipped more meetings than any other member. and hal parrish refused to support the bi-partisan transportation bill. why would we want to get stuck with republican hal parrish in richmond?

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>> her pho15-year-old daughter can't do what other teenagers can do because of restrictions at the shelter. >> it's important for a kid of any age to have their own space. >> kids need to do their homework and get their needs met now. >> it raised $40,000 and recruited companies to volunteer their time and expertise to design and build a place inside d.c. general where teens can be teens. >> we help them apply to college. we help them complete science projects. we do reading and math tutoring. >> reporter: many are wondering with the addition of this new teen drop-in center and hypothermia season right around the corner, what's the future for the shelter that many hoped would have been closed by now? >> we're aiming to close it responsibly. we would like to have safe, dignified spaces for an emergency shelter located in communities across the city before we can close d.c.

general. >> reporter: while the long-term plan is to close d.c. general in two years, in the short term, the plan is to make it as nice as possible. >> i'm happy to know that they care enough about the kids' well-being while they're in this situation. >> play time hopes to attract other groups who will offer services to the teens who liv in d.c. general as they enjoy their new space. mark segraves, news 4. >> metro is making progress to power a substation outside the armory station. you can find a link for a new weak site for riders to track e repairs in the nbc washington app. crews are testing to see what is salvageable here. they hope to have two transformers up and running by the end of the year and that would allow metro to restore normal service on the blue, orange and silver lines at that station. wikileaks has followed through on its promise.

it has posted what appears to be material from john brennan's personal email account. wikileaks sent a tweet this morning announcing it received the contents of the cia chief's emails and was planning to release it shortly. this comes two days after investigators told nbc news they were looking into reports that the account was hacked. the hacker says he's a high school student and claims he posed as a verizon employee and tricked another employee into revealing brennan's important information. so is it really that simple to hack a government official's personal email? experts at epic, the electronic, privacy information center, say, the alleged hack signals what's a social engineering hack. different from large credit card and data breaches, experts say the person behind this hack is just a plain and simple smooth talker. >> the social engineering hacks are not really fundamentally different from the sort of scam

emails and phishing attacks that you see where someone is communicating with you via email or via message. this is happening a lot in america to the elderly and to vulnerable populations and people who can be convinced. >> one way epic says you can protect yourself is to use two-factor authentication and that means two methods to prove it's you and for example to type in a password and a pin code sent to your phone and email. >> another flight disrupted by an unruly traveler. >> a man who appeared to be drunk got loud and then threatened flight attendants by pointing a finger at him as if it was a handgun. this happened onboard an american airlines flight to dallas. >> he missed his flight and ended up in handcuffs. you take a look at this video. you can see a man sprinting off his plane on a runway in

colorado trying to stop it from taking off. police arrested that guy in denver last month and sentenced him to two years' probation. he did have a ticket with united airlines, but he was late. he was desperate to get on the flight apparently, so you could get -- so he could get to his high school reunion? >> wow! >> who wants to go to their high school reunion that bad? >> it was ten years? was it 20 years? >> he was running faster than that. >> did they think they were going to lower down the rope ladder? >> come on up, buddy! >> we haven't seen one of those before. >> hey, it's getting really beautiful outside and the leaves are starting to change. the sunshine and warm temperatures. >> this week especially saturday could be a great weekend with leaf viewing if you want to get out in the shenandoah valley and very nice conditions will peak out there and out toward the blue ridge and today would have been a great day to get out there, too. >> 73, d.c. and 74 camp springs

and 75, and even if you don't go that far and cape falls. sunset tonight was at 6:22. we are now losing two and a half minutes per day as far as the daylight is concerned. so sun going down earlier and earlier. 68 right now, but dropping to the 60s right around through 9:00, 10:00 and 59 degrees by 11:00 tonight. here are the current temperatures and we cool quickly when the sun goes down and we've gotten to 65 in college park and 70 in manassas and 79 back towards dallas and storm team 4 radar, and the next chance of rain, as i mention side early on sunday and we'll talk about that in a second, but tomorrow, mostly sunny, nice and warm, a beautiful thursday, 72 to 78s dids degrees and another front comes through early on sunday. of course, the marine corps marathon which nbc 4 is a sponsor of. jim handly, what time is the

marine corps marathon? >> 5:00 a.m. >> i drpt know you were at 5:00 a.m. and that's colder and rainier. it will be cool and expect showers, not rain, but take the umbrella handy, and 62 by 11:00 and by 1:00, i think the showers are out of here and this will be a changing forecast and if you have interest in that forecast and make sure you stay tuned and we'll keep you posted on that. high temperature tomorrow, up to 76 degrees and down to 66 on friday and 65 on saturday and sunday, there's the early chance of showers and notice it's only a 30% chance and next week we stay in the 60s and not bad, guy, enjoy tomorrow. >> developing right now here at the live desk, police in new mexico just held a news conference to announce the person of interest in the road rage death of a toddler has been taken into custody. the announcement comes a day after a 4-year-old girl was shot in what police are describing in

a road rage attack. she was killed as her father drove her and her brother home from school. police credit tips and amazing police work that led them to a home this afternoon. >> they followed him into this parking lot and marked units engaged in a traffic stop and the car pulled over without incident and the individual was taken into custody and detained. >> the vehicle that the suspect was in was not the same car police believe was used in the shooting. the investigation continues tonight. i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. coming up next in sports, desean jackson not get anything bett better, but there is good news on the injury front and we'll tell you how a couple of guys are returning this weekend. >> first here is lester holt with a look at what's ahead on nbc "nightly news". >> hi, doreen and jim, coming up on nbc "nightly news" now that

joe biden has decided he will not run for president, what does that mean for hillary clinton? >> what an email account is being posted including advice for the president regarding iran. the man pressed to take over one of the most powerful jobs in the country has some conditions that have opened a conversation about men and

this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity. your home for the most live sports. >> all right. who's in, who's out? it's all about desean and doug is not happy. >> not happy with desean. >> that's for a whole other show. >> i'm so angry and the six starters missed the jets games due to injury and it appears that only a few of those players are close to returning to action this weekend and jason pugh has the latest from redskins park. >> thanks, carol. the redskins are desperate for redskins victory. jay gruden says the chance of desean jackson says the chances of playing are not very high and they weren't on the practice field tonight in ashburn and williams suffered a concussion, missing last week's game against the jets and he suffered a concussion versus the eagles. they allow to practice and go to

meetings as long as there are no setbacks. >> it's all held up and i've got no more symptoms and we just want to get this game under our belt and have it go by. >> it's pretty evident and with the sense of urgency, you have a lot of guys hurt and a lot of starters going down, so i think everybody is kind of on edge because you never know the opportunity to come. >> meanwhile, kirk cousins had his worst outing of the season versus the jets and they issued the code red for the upcoming game against tampa bay and there's the pressure to win and the pressure to perform well and so how is cousins dealing with that pressure? >> when you play in the nfl, the quarterback in a place like washington, d.c., there will be that pressure, but it's so important to apply pressure and not feel it. i think when you allow yourself to feel that pressure it can create the wrong outcome. >> trent williams and jordan reed if they're cleared to play this sunday along with rookie

running back matt jones will take pressure off cousins' shoulders. i'm jason pugh, news 4 sports. >> thank you, jason. yes, desean is probably missing this weekend. we'll look at some anger management classes for you because i know you're in need of them if he misses another one. the ravens dealing with 1 and 5 and worst start in franchise history. the good news, steve smith senior is getting healthier. smith playing with four broken bones in his back. he says the key to good health starts at home. i have a great nutritionist that i'm sleeping with which is my wife. so she, you know, she does a good job of doing her research and all of that stuff and has me on a lot of things and vitamins and stuff they probably should be taking at my age. so, she's, like, you know, so i'm over here eating gummies like my kids are eating. and i'm, like, i need mine, you know? >> that's one trick to staying younger or you could just lie

about your age. that's my secret. 36 again. >> bigger numbers are always better and for alex ovechkin hitting number 900 last night was historic. ovechkin in calgary notching point number 900 of his career just 30 seconds into the second period in the game against the flames putting a rebound of his own and it's a goal! and it's becoming the first player in caps' history to reach 900 points and at 479 goals he's just 21 away from reaching number 500. the caps are off today, but ovi will try to add to his numbers when they take on the vancouver canucks tomorrow night. 7-1 and it's the blue jays right now over the royals and the royals are trying to eliminate them and any of the cubs trying to avoid elimination. >> desean jackson's off-season program. >> here we go, was it brought up at all? >> the first gaming, he pauled a

hammy off-season workout, my friend. it hasn't been brought up. >> get him some gummies. >> "nightly news" is coming up next! >> see you at 11:00.

major political news tonight. biden won't run. the vice president finally ends the drama and sends a message to hillary clinton. what it means for her path to the presidency. with the high stakes benghazi hearing now hours away. a shocking road rage attack. a 4-year-old girl shot dead while riding with her family. what happened on the stretch of highway. tonight, what witnesses saw as police hunt for a killer. the cia chief's e-mails stolen by a high school hacker and now exposed to the world, including what he told the president privately about iran. and balancing act. for the man being pressed to take one of the most powerful jobs in america. he said it has to include time for his kids. sparking a conversation about fathers and family. "nightly news" begins right now.