classroom, the special honor for dave chappelle at his alma mater. well, right now at 5:00 on this friday, a brazen attack on a popular walking and biking trail. this time the woman was grabbed about this hour yesterday. >> and this evening police tell us it may be linked to a handful of similar attacks on women in recent weeks. now, this most recent one along a trail in fair oaks, our chris gordon is along one of the paths where a man assaulted a woman. he joins us now live with the warning now from police. chris? >> reporter: well, as see a couple just jogged past me. this is one of the paths where an attack occurred. there have been six sexual assaults in the past two weeks, and fairfax county police say that the same man may be responsible for all of them. six attacks in

how some of the people who use the walking paths are reacting to news of the recent sexual assaults of women here. >> i'm very surprised because this is a fairly well populated trail. it's open. i can't see how anybody can hide around here, and people walking on this trail not notice anybody. >> reporter: the most recent attack happened yesterday evening just after 5:00 p.m., a man grabbed a woman in a bear hug and groped her. the attack stopped when a passing car spooked the man and he ran. police canine unit sent a helicopter search for the suspect but didn't find him. the victim wasn't injured. police are trying to determine if yesterday's attack is connected to five other sexual assaults that have occurred in the past two weeks. >> our detectives are currently working on establishing if there is a link to that and some other assaults that have happened on the trail. >> reporter:

warning women to walk or jog with a friend in a familiar route. they say don't jog or walk in a secluded area, especially after dark. don't wear headphones or ear buds. and it's very important that you occasionally switch up your route so that your pattern isn't predictable. that's the latest live in fairfax county. back to you. >> chris, i'm curious, is there a description, any similarities between these attacks if there is more than one with the same person? >> reporter: yes, they believe that it's a white male 18 to 30 years of age about 5'8" to 6 foot tall and yesterday in the attack that occurred, he was wearing jeans and a white t-shirt, jim. >> all right. good information to know. chris gordon live for us. thank you, chris. >> we have more on the breaking news we've been reporting in the last hour. tom price, secretary of health and human services department, leaving the trump administration amid that outcry over his private use of military

submitted his resignation this afternoon. president trump accepted it. but before this news broke, the president played a little coy with the media. this was president trump just a little more than an hour ago. >> he's a very fine man, but we're going to make a decision sometime tonight. he's a very, very fine man. >> well, price has come under intense scrutiny since politico first reported about his expensive travel on the taxpayers' dime. politico reporting that just since may, price has traveled on chartered and military flights tallying up a bill of more than a million dollars. price is a previous house budget chair known for railing against this kind of wasteful spending. the white house says don wright of virginia will now serve as acting secretary, and that goes into effect tonight. >> so, maybe you don't want to be called a fine, fine man by the president. it's kind of like deja vu at the white house. in the last few months, many of the big

have happened on friday. sean spicer fired friday, july 21st. reince priebus fired friday, july 28th. steve bannon on a friday, august 18th. and then today, news of price's resignation. the only exception was anthony scaramucci who was fired on a monday. well, the government orders facebook today to unmask some users who don't like president trump and the aclu says not on our watch. it's part of the investigation into violent anti-trump protests on inauguration day. now, the justice department served facebook with three warrants today. one targets the group of organizing the protests. the aclu says the government wants non-public lists of facebook users who engaged in any way with content on the disrupt j-20 facebook page. that includes 6,000 people who just liked the

two other warrants demand all information from the personal pages of two activists. the aclu says the request is, quote, an obvious invasion of privacy. >> well, this is not the way to make a quick buck. stealing an atm, especially one just outside of nats park. but a group of men tried. they failed to take the large boxy contraption this morning and now they have the fbi on their trail. if this busted atm looks familiar, it's because we've seen so many crimes like this across prince george's county. news 4's derrick ward is live at nats park to tell us about this. derrick? >> reporter: you know, the gates have just opened now. if you frequent the park you might notice something a little different. maybe something that's missing. that's where the atm was. it's almost as if it wasn't there, but police do definitely want to know who tried to take it. it wasn't quite daylight. it was just after 5:00 a.m., but the attempted

still pretty brazen. thes passed up on the whole idea of stealth and subtlety. they used a u-haul. >> and backed into the atms knocking them off the ground in an attempt to steal them. >> reporter: they gave up on the idea eventually. it seems that some of the stadium staff are early risers, too. and after all, it did happen on a game day. workers and an audible alarm sent them running. without the u-haul and without any haul from the atm. this happened in the up and coming part of town. even more on the way. >> it could have happened anywhere. lot of people hanging out, people lived here awhile, people new to the area, people enjoy what the stadium brings, everything else brings. hopefully it's a little bit of a trend. >> reporter: there is a u-haul around the corner from the stadium. detectives paid them a visit after the hours of the failed heist. police say the truck used in the crime hadn't been reported stolen at the time of the crime. there have been a number of this kind of robbery or attempted robberies i

the latest in prigetyhis past j. is there a connection? >> definitely something we're looking at. we don't have any definitive connections at this time. >> reporter: in the meantime police say video footage yet to be released gives pretty good accounts of what happened. they want to get it toout theren the public and hopefully someone's memory is sparked. now, police believe that those would-be thieves rode off in a light colored pickup truck. they ran away from here and did get into a truck somewhere else. police have video footage ask they want to release that to the public at some pointed to. again, hoping that someone will see something and that they can bring these folks to justice. now, again, the fbi is involved because this is just like a bank robbery. it's fdic insured money. that's why the feds are in here. we're live at nats park, derrick ward, news 4. >> it will be good to see that video. thanks, derrick. >> we are getting an updated look at the prince george's county woman missing for nearly two weeks. this is a more current picture of ashanti billie

it is her driver's license photo. erika gonzalez is in our newsroom with the latest on this development. erika? >> hey, jim, clothing was found yesterday by people searching for ashanti billie and they turned those pieces over to police. detectives have not said if the items are in fact connected to ashanti's disappearance. search crews were combing the areas where the 19-year-old's cell phone and her car were discovered. the cell phone turned up in a dumpster. the same day that she went missing, september 18th. her car, that was found several days later in a norfolk neighborhood. billie is from prince george's county, but moved to norfolk in august to attend culinary school. ashanti's parents have not returned to prince george's county. they plan to stay there as long as the search for their daughter continues. back to you guys in the studio. >> thank you, erika. well, the government is warning americans it's not a good time to travel to

and at the same time it is ordering more than half of the embassy personnel in havana to get out. this is a response to the embassy employees who were diagnosed with mild traumatic brain injury and permanent hearing loss. it appears to be some kind of a sonic attack that targeted diplomats in cuba. it started last fall, continued this summer. investigators with the fbi are in cuba trying to figure out what is causing it and why. but cuba's president raul castro has denied any involvement in his country. and now developing at 5:00, little more than an hour ago, president trump again defended his administration's response to that dire situation in storm battered puerto rico. >> but as nbc's tammy lightener shows us from san juan tonight, ten days after that hurricane, people on the island are still suffering from a severe lack of food and

>> reporter: here in the villa palmeras neighborhood small businesses are starting to open up. this small market only has a small basket of onions, cans of beans. not a lot on the shelves. they are completely empty. the ones who run this market tell me they can't get any supplies in. they don't know what they will do. once they sell out, they are going to have to shut their doors and that's the same tori we are hearing from business after business. take a look around the corner of the caro lina cafe, they tell me they are open now. once they are out of food they have to shut down. they have no other choice. i'm here with nester. you live in the nabld. you haven't seen aid come in. >> we haven't had help at all. we have a lot of damage. we have 90% of the houses loss their roof. we have water inside of our houses. we haven't seen any help from

we the mayor. if he can walk in the middle of the street where we live, we don't know her. we haven't seen her. we need her to bring herself and bring help because we have people that are suffering. we've got elderly people that need medicine. we've got people like myself, i need to have a machine so i can breathe. and we need help. we're asking, please help us. >> reporter: thank you, nestor. hopefully your cries for help will be heard. people here in this neighborhood trying to recover, but desperate for help. back to you. >> that's tammy lightener. remember it has been ten horrible days for those poor people there. so many stories of this worsening crisis and affecting people in our area. coming up in about 20 minutes, david culver, as you see here, is talking to a nurse who is waiting to hear

again, it's been tens. hear froa mother of two who just got back from puerto rico, spent the last couple of days since that storm in a home with 17 other people. didn't have enough water to even make her baby's formula. david has their stories. that's coming up in just a few minutes. but we have another story we want to you hear but, about the opioid crisis and how it took the life of a popular local musician. >> but his story, it didn't end there. ahead on news 4 at 5:00 when we come back tonight, his legacy the family and friends are vowing to continue this weekend in hopes that it will save lives. >> and now whole foods finds itself with its own data breach. we're going to tell you about the steps that grocery chain wants you to take if you've been shopping there with your credit card. >> comedian and actor dave chappelle visits his alma mater. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news 4, his special messag t

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credit cards useav been comprom. >> all right. i'm all ears. consumer reporter susan hogan joins us with the details. i was just there yesterday, susan. what's up? >> i know you guys. this is crazy. as wendy says it almost seems like a weekly ordeal now. whole foods someone accessed one of its payment systems and may have actually stolen credit card numbers. so, the breached only impacts the check out system used at whole foods tap rooms and their table service restaurants. the grocery chain's primary check out system was not affected. whole foods says as soon as it learned about the activity, it launched an investigation immediately. they hired a cyber security forensics firm and even contacted law enforcement. while most stores don't have these tap rooms in restaurants, whole foods is encouraging all of you who shop there to monitor your bank statements. wendy, back to you. >> well, that makes you feel better because that's very -- i don't even know if we t

foods. >> take the precaution and do it. >> especially in the current climate, why not, absolutely. >> good advice, susan, thanks so much. >> sure, you guys. >> comedian dave chappelle getting a hero's welcome back at his alma mater today. >> he hung out with the students at duke ellington school of the arts in northwest d.c. and he showed his appreciation for the school with a special gift that only he can give them. >> and there's the mayor behind him. but look how cool he looks in those shades. our tracee wilkins who usually covers prince george's county is outside the school. we had to twist her arm to cover this story in d.c. >> exactly. >> how much fun did you have, tracee? >> reporter: i know. i was like, really, do i have to? no, we have had such a great time with him today. i want to point out here the kids got out of school at duke ellington 30 minutes ago. this is the kind of energy the artists have. they are out here dancing and sipping and playing. seems like they don't want to go home. seems like this is what it's like every

dave chappelle said itas propel career. he gave these kids a gift they will never forget. >> and to be able to like see him, like just walk like it's a normal student it's crazy. >> reporter: students at the duke ellington school of the arts in d.c. got a thrill today, a visit from alum us in dave chappelle. >> to be, a, in the same place as him, and b, have some type of direct connection to him it's mind blowing. >> of course these drama students were preparing for his arrival. >> i don't know if it should be like -- or if it should be like, you know, the one tear, like the strong man. what's up, dave, how you doing? [cheering and applauding] >> reporter: dave accepted the key from the city from muriel bowser, then he gave the school something very special, his first emmy. he just won the award for his appearance on saturday night live. at the emmy awards he shouted out the d.c. public school system causing the #dc public schools to go viral. today, he told me why this ho

are so important to pinnacle of formal education. i didn't go to school beyond high school. and as i told the children, it wasn't guess. i was very well prepared when i got here. that which i did not know i was prepared enough to figure it out and i'm very grateful for the opportunity to get to go to a school that's like this. >> reporter: jim, you mentioned that normally i'm in prince george's county. there is a connection. when he was 14 years old and started doing stand up he was doing it in comedy connection in greenbelt and laurel. coming up at 6:00, he talks to budding comedians about what they need to know. >> what a great day for the students. >> amazing. >> tracy had to give us a prince george's county connection. you're going to have to deal with kristin wright. she was stalking him the other day. she only got like a five-second encounter with him. that was a lot longer. >> l

voice. where do you get reverb like that? so distinctive. >> reporter: absolutely. >> he has it going on. tracee, thanks so much. we'll see you at 6:00 tonight with more. all right, your weekend has arrived, but get ready, folks. some of us could be in for a shock. maybe a mini shock to the system. amelia is coming up in a flash with a look at what's heading our way. >> and when you have your car towed or booted, boy, that can ruin your weekend. there is now a new tool that you should have on your phone that can help

october is on the way, wendy. >> i almost had to get up in the middle of the night and get a blanket. >> really? we don't need that a.c. >> like a january blanket. >> this is also the time of year i get my bills e-mailed to me. whether you get them e-mailed or mailed, you open them up, yes, this is so nice. >> exactly. it makes a difference. >> you're using less energy than your neighbors, right? >> i am. so, bring on the blankets, bring on the lower bills, enjoy the weather. beautiful fall weekend in store. take a look at your first alert weather headlines. we're talking about crisp mornings and cool afternoons. don't you love that? but we're not done with the 80s just yet. when i show you the ten-day you'll notice at least one 80 degree on there.

no 90s though. at this point it would be unusual to hit 90. on average our last 90 degree day early in the mid september, right around september tenth. the last 90 degree day on record, october 11th. we are, though, going to stay on the dry side. temperatures from our weather underground network, really nice right now. 72 in twin brook, 72 in riverdale, 07 in potomac, 70 at the grizzlies -- degrees in cen. 57 degrees at 7:00 a.m. it will be breezy tomorrow around the midday and afternoon hours. so, 70 for a high is going to feel a little bit cooler. it is fall all over this weekend. it is going to smell like fall, look like fall out there, really, really nice. 4:00 p.m. again we hit our high of 7:00 in the evening. weather having a low impact on yuck weekend thankfully after yard work. looking nice aside from the lack of rain. this is a good time to put grass seed down

below 80 degrees. if they were above 80 you would have to water the lawn twice a day. since it's below 80 if you put the grass seed down you only need to water once a day. consider size, cool mornings out there. you might want thermals if you get chilly easily. fall festivals going on. takoma park street festival. looking fabulous for that event. anything outdoors saturday even if you're going to maybe like cox farms, know that you're going to be dealing with the breezy conditions and kind of cool out there. this is sunday morning. this is definitely blanket windows closed kind of weather because it might be too chilly to have them open. 44 in frederick, 45 in manassas, 53 degrees in washington. and with october beginning on sunday, i thought i'd show you this. this is the average first frost dates. you can see some areas like peters burg starting to get in that threshold for the average first frost. what this map also says a lot to digest on here, but october is the month for frost. that can be found on my facebook

here's your ten-day forecast. o and then jim and wendy, i mentioned that warm up. that's wednesday, thursday and friday when temperatures are in the upper 70s and low 80s and then falling back into the mid 70s. >> okay, a.c. for thursday. >> no, i'm going to tough it out. >> i would, too. >> i'm going to open windows. with me i'm going to cling to my blanket. hey, this weekend, lets of new laws are going into effect. >> they sure are. one means a lot to a local lawmaker but it didn't come without the fight of his life. >> i believe that the pain i go through, it better be worth it. >> how his personal struggles could give more families a chance at getting justice. >> reporter: as dozens of volunteers are spending their time around the clock trying to get these supplies down to puerto rico, we catch up with one local mom who managed to get out. her story

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see is something close to a genocide. so, mr. trump, i beg you. to take charge and save lives. if not, the world will see how we are treated, not as second class citizens, but as animals that can be disposed of. >> you are noticing the pallets behind the mayor. she says that that has come from the generosity of people. this afternoon a fire storm on social media and, of course, on the airwaves as elaine duke, the homeland security chief called the federal response to puerto rico a, quote, good news story. and then this afternoon the president said, quote, people can't believe

we've beenit results in puerto rico, just highlighting the dire situation that is happening there on the island. at the live desk, i'm erika gonzalez, back to you guys in the studio. >> powerful and damning words there. erika, thank you. overwhelmed by guilt, that's how many of you with loved ones in puerto rico tell us you're feeling now, especially after watching the heart breaking images coming out of the island. >> and what we just heard from the mayor there. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver, he caught up with a mother who managed to get out of puerto rico thanks to her company. but now she is dealing with that guilt. he's live in chantilly. david? >> reporter: wendy, we are at a place where many are hearing the messages that you just heard erika share from the mayor down there. they are trying to get these essentials as quickly as they can down to puerto rico. meantime, the mom that we caught up with, she just got back from puerto rico

s just being well, she's got back home. >> i feel comfortable here, but i feel guilty that i have water. i still go out to brush my teeth and i use a little bottle of water thinking that i don't have the water here. >> reporter: susan baez arrived thursday night. her employers flying her husband and two young kids out of puerto rico on a private jet, leaving behind extended family members who are growing desperate. >> my nephew went to a gas station at 2:00 a.m. people are showing up at 2:00 a.m. in the morning and getting out at 5:00 p.m. the next day. my nephew was empty-handed. the gas didn't show up that day. >> reporter: in the days following hurricane maria, susan's family all 17 were in one home, watching the supplies dwindle. >> we were collecting rainwater to help us through. >> reporter: you guys were collecting rainwater? >> rainwater. one night we showered in the rain.

>> listening to anys that i can get. >> reporter: from the mclean doctor's office where charlottesvilcharmain works, she is hoping, praying she can reach her parents who live in a less populated town. >> i still don't know what's going on with them. we don't know anything. >> reporter: she, like susan, carrying an immense guilt. >> because i don't know if they're eating. i feel guilty eating. i do. do they have water? i feel guilty eating. >> reporter: can you imagine that? feeling guilty eating. a lot of folks trying to channel that guilt into doing something like this, trying to help anyway they can. right now i can tell you just checked in with the organizers, they're trying to get some of these boxes packed out as soon as they can to help the police down there in puerto rico with basic supplies. socks,

name it. wendy? >> tha powerful stuff. i don't think people realize how big that island of puerto rico is. it's not just some little resort area that people visited. there is a lot of outside cities that it's impossible to get to. so, they need help, you know, systemically. they need holistically they need help, not just get ing into san juan. so, and that was pretty powerful hearing from the people who have seen it and lived it. thank you, david. more help is on the way to puerto rico. the u.s. navy ship comfort left norfolk, virginia this afternoon. that ship is a mobile hospital with 1,000 beds and more than 500 medical personnel. doreen gentzler has been on that ship before. this is video of her reporting along the persian gulf. this was in 2003. next week, doreen will travel to puerto rico to get a firsthand look at the devastation and the response. so, please tune in for her reports. you will find them here on news 4.

to massive crisis. several local ent to be held over the n days to help raise money and other aid. you can also donate online. we posted links to all of this on nbcwashington.com and our app. all you have to do is search puerto rico. >> back close to home tonight, this weekend several new laws take effect in maryland, including one that gives young victims of sex abuse more time to take action against their abusers. as news 4's darcy spencer reports tonight, the state delegate who pushed for the law was a victim himself. >> that's why i have scars on my face and my nose and my head where he's beat me with objects. >> reporter: maryland delegate c.t. wilson says he endured years of sexual abuse as a child. he was a foster kid and he says he was adopted by a

at night. >> reporter: as a delegate he championed a law to give victims an opportunity to go after their abusers. >> sai said i would be back as painful as it is as damaging as it is to my family and myself. >> reporter: wilson is a democrat but he credits republicans for forcing a vote in annapolis. >> it passed unanimously in both houses. people ask me all the time how excited i should be, and i was very disappointed because many of the people that opposed my bill didn't even have the courage to vote against it. >> reporter: that law goes into effect october 1st, giving victims of child sex abuse until they are 38 years old instead of 25 to sue. >> you can't look at yourself in the mirror every day. i'm a man, i was a soldier at the time, till i was 25. i can't look at myself in the face and absorb all

ense attorney. aside. d he says he wants victims to know they are not alone, but he also knows this isn't enough. there needs to be more effort placed on prevention. >> i do believe god put me here for a reason. i believe that. and i believe that the pain that i go through, it better be worth it. >> reporter: in upper marlboro, darcy spencer, news 4. >> a number of other laws are set to take effect this sunday in maryland, including one aimed at preventing manufacturers and distributors from price gouging when it comes to generic drugs. now, this law will authorize the state's medical assistance program to alert the attorney general when there is an increase in drug prices. amber's law is meant to protect victims of domestic violence. it's named for a young woman from our area who was killed by her ex-boyfriend who she had gotten a protection order against. now, this law will allow victims to request that their

monitoring that alerts police if they get too close. recreational marijuana remains illegal in marijuana -- maryland, rather, but a new law will allow someone convicted of possession to petition for expungement in four years now rather than ten. finally, the state has barred the creation of a system that would allow people to buy state lottery tickets with any device that connects to the internet. meaning no online sales. now, you can see about some of the other laws that take effect and the things taking effect this weekend in our nbc washington app. just search md laws. >> well, our area has been extremely dry over the last four weeks. in fact, we haven't had any measurable rain in washington in the last two. we need about 2 inches of rain to get us up to where we need to be for the month. this is leading to an elevated fire risk this weekend. plus, maybe

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i'm erika gonzalez here at the live desk with the developing story, some breaking news just coming into us. the fbi confirming to news 4 they have found human remains in charlotte, north carolina but have not been able to make a positive identification on who this person is. let me also tell you that the nbc station in portsmouth is re

th family -- this is the family of ashanti billie -- tells us they were notified friday that a body was found in charlotte, north carolina, and that the family was told to be prepared to head to charlotte if needed. this is coming from wavy, the nbc station in portsmouth, virginia. as we have been reporting all afternoon and over the past several days, ashanti billie who you see on your screen now has been missing since september 18. originally from prince george's county, but was working in norfolk at a sandwich shop there and has had no communication with family or friends. it appears that as this search was continuing, loved ones found some sort of clothing garments that they were able to hand over to police, but they weren't able to determine whether or not those belonged to her. so, now we are hearing this breaking news. again, what we can

found han story goes from here, we'll keep you abreast of that right here from the live desk. back to you guys in the studio. >> tragic development. >> it's been a nightmare for the family. the nightmare, this is not going to end that nightmare for them unfortunately. well, another family, this one from loudoun county, they are still mourning. they had a sudden death of a loved one just last september. >> yeah, witt black was a popular musician but became a victim of the opioid crisis. >> now as bureau chief julie carey reports, his family is trying to find a special way to honor his memory. >> reporter: in the corner of her living room christina black and her little boy making music on the piano she and her brother used as children. it led witt black to a career in music as the guitarist for the metal band yesterday's saints. but witt could also coe

♪ ♪ band mate matt rice. >> people would see him out and speak to him whether we were here or detroit or florida. there was something magical about him. >> reporter: but a year ago witt black's family, his band mates, his fans shattered with the news of his sudden death. even more shocked when they learned he died of a heroin overdose. the drug supplied by an acquaintance who since pleaded guilty to eainvoluntary manslaughter. >> there are really no words to describe how devastating his passing was. it was a shock, of course. i felt like, you know, my insides had just been scooped out and i was just left with, you know, this shell. >> reporter: what made it even harder to comprehend, witt black wasn't a drug user. >> this wasn't his way of life. he made a mistake and unfortunately it was fatal. >> reporter: black's family is now sharing the story of their family tragedy to raise

more to honor her brother's memory, an idea struck her. >> what if we figured out a way to give children guitars and potentially guitar lessons also. >> reporter: now the witt black family foundation will do just that. there is a fund-raiser at a leesburg restaurant. they are collecting gently used acoustic guitars that will be given to under privileged kids. the money raised will pay for lessons. >> witt was the most genuine, compassionate, kind person that i've ever met and whatever we do, i want to honor that. and i hope that it will. i hope this is something he'll be proud of, that he would have been proud of. >> reporter: in northern virginia, i'm julie carey, news 4. >> virginia had its highest death rate ever from opioids just last year. 1138. in the district and maryland,

that's 198 people died from opioid overdoses, that's in the district. maryland had at least 1,468 deaths. and again, that's just from part of the year. so, we know the opioid crisis is hitting home in many families. so, we invite you to watch a new series, a special report on this issue. it's next week, airing on msnbc, nbc, the today show, and you'll find it on social media. it's called "one nation overdosed: a generation at risk." and it begins this sunday, october 1st. >> well, are you ready, folks? the weekend is upon us. amelia, just how low are we going to go? boy that sky is beautiful there. >> gorgeous out there right now. the cool est part of the week is sunday morning when we wake up in the suburbs with 40s and low 50s in washington.

lack of rain and the impacts it te to get the grass seed down before most of us are worried about that first frost. if you are planning on doing that this weekend, know once it is down you need to water your lawn once a day and with no rain chances over the next ten days you're going to be watering at least ten days. and i talked about some unusual side effects. might see more acorns produced from the lack of rainfall. it's called bolting and i want to thank lynn johnson flores for that tidbit of information there. also the lack of rain unfortunately can lead to dull and dry fall color out there. hopefully as we start to get passed the next ten days more rain moves in and we can have beautiful fall foliage this year. in addition we're talking about the pollen report. mold spores coming in very high. but the temperatures right on point. 74 degrees in washington and so many amazing outdoor events going on this weekend. the weather certainly cooperating. but what do you need? a t-shirt, long

sweatshirt. with more on that outside to somara. >> i think i need an umbrella. i got hit by two acorns you were talking about. over the next ten days we're going to be dry. we heard amelia say that. i want to get straight to the graphics. we have a lot going on around town. tomorrow in particular the hispanic american heritage day kicks off. temperatures in the mid 60s. it will be in the courtyard beginning at 11:30 a.m. the program is bilingual, a great way to celebrate the latino culture. we also have another event taking place, the shirlington oktoberfest. we are expected to peak in the upper 60s, low 70s. it will be cold saturday night, sunday morning. temperatures, amelia, i'm thinking of making it a movie night. >> that sounds like a great idea. sunday morning a coffee morning. today national coffee day, i

fabulous. >> your little dog. precious. >> the poodle cup and the poodle there. 7:00 a.m., guys, look at what we're waking up to in fredericksburg, leesburg. 53 in washington, it will be noticeably breezy on our saturday, highs around 70, october starts on sunday, and the first full week of october pretty nice, mid 70s, kind of warm on thursday, low 80s. but, you know, just no rain in the forecast. >> we cannot complain at all. >> it's time to light up the fire pit. >> which is great. >> i think we should. and you should go to amelia's facebook page. we were just looking -- >> what is the name of your dog again? >> cora. >> an adorable little picture. >> thank you. >> trendy. thank you, mel. >> speaking of cute -- >> hey, did you know in this town your car can be towed even if you haven't done anything -- what's cute about that, wendy? >> it's not. it's a segue. at

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awareness month. lang don had a 96% attendance rate this entire year. their principal says the key to success is helping families overcome barriers that keep their kids out of class. >> we provide wraparound services for families to first identify what are the barriers that are impacting our families. and then helping them to combat those barriers. it can range from attendance to transportation support, or even before care services. >> lang don elementary also uses raffle and small prizes to encourage students to be on time each morning. >> what a turnout. they get all the fun assignments. have you had a sinking feeling when you went out to find your car and it's been towed or booted? it's happened to us. >> there is a program in the district that will send you a text or an e-mail before you are left wandering around

nomadically won erring what happened. >> amee cho has the story with how it works. >> reporter: it is the sight no driver wants to see. if your car is registered ahead of time, you'll see something like this on your phone. it will tell you your car has been taken and where. sometimes it could be as close as a few blocks away. >> yeah, i would freak out if my car were towed. but i think i'd be comforted to know that it's near wherever i left it. >> reporter: you won't get the notification until ten minutes after the towing has happened so not enough time to run outside and prevent it from happening. many drivers agree the new system could be a good thing. is this something you think you'd ever use? >> well, hopefully i won't need to use it, but i think it's a progressive thing, sure that's very helpful. >> absolutely. i think if someone has a car towed, receiving immediate notification is wonderful. >> reporter: the new system bringing some peace of mind in an otherwise stressful situation. and if you want to sign up for the system, i have tweeted out a

you can put in some personal information and information about your car. in tenleytown, amee cho, news 4. >> now at 6:00, a safety alert. women grabbed from behind when they least expected it. the story that's rattling joggers and bikers who use a popular local trail. >> a sonic mystery at the u.s. embassy in cuba. diplomats are reporting headaches, hearing loss, even mild traumatic brain injury. >> he's paying the government back, but it wasn't enough to save his job. health and human services secretary tom price is out tonight. >> announcer: news 4 at 6:00 begins with breaking news. >> and it is some disturbing breaking news that we begin with. new developments on the disappearance of ashanti billie. >> we just learned a body has been found in charlotte, north carolina. air c erika gonzalez is at our live

>> let's start with what we have from the fbi. we can confirm to you they have indeed found human remains in charlotte, north carolina. that coming from the fbi. what i want to share with you is what was reported by wavy, this is the station in portsmouth there, that a source close to the family tells them that that family was notified that a body was found in charlotte, north carolina and for them to be prepared to head to charlotte if needed. this is the family that they are talking about. this is ashanti billie's family as we have been reporting now for some ten days since she has been missing. ashanti billie originally from prince george's county, she was working in norfolk, virginia. she was attending culinary school there. the nina may hfamily had been i yesterday searching where the area her car and cell phone were found. they found pieces of clothing they turned over to police, but police could not