now at 11:00, attacker in custody. only news 4 cameras were there when a woodbridge family got the news. >> he said that theyaught him. >> neighbors bring flowers to the woman who tried to protect an innocent little girl. this powerful storm is

getting stronger tonight. hurricane michael not hours away from landfall in the florida panhandle. >> what els can you do but pray? >> and school community united. their classmate murdered. still searching for his killer. news 4 at 11:00 begins with breaking news. and good evening. breaking tonight, police tell um th who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old and hit the woman o tried to save her is now behind bars. >> we just got his name and picture minutes ago. here he s is. adh walter, 26 years old. prince william county police tonight say he's charged with multiple felonies after grabbing that little girl on her way to school this morning. >> news 4's jackie bensen spoke to the other victim in this case, right as she g word of this arrest tonight. jackie? >> reporter: that's right, jim. we spoke to a woman who knoll tilsed that the little girl thisng down her street morning needed help.

a woman who risked her life to try and help that girl. >> the detective just called me, he has my hnumber, said that they caught him. >> reporter: news 4 was there moments after laticia, her face bearing the bruises of a life and death struggle, that the detective called them and they had good news. the man was located. >> the most comforting part now is we don't haven't to worry about him coming back here any time soon. >> reporter: earlier, police flooded the neighborhood aer a bizarre and truly horrifying crime. laticia was walking her dog near her home when shean saw a with a little girl about 10 years old. the child spoke chilling words to his mother. be careful, the man has a gun. she told us the man was very strong. he quickly grabbed her and then dragged her and the little girl into the backyard.

>> he displayed the gun. he told her, he took them to the backyard, satn down the grass and said, if you move or talk, i'll shoot you. she gave him the car s keys, said, take the car, just go, just leave me alone and that's when he waslike, well, now i have to kill you, and he went into the kitchen to grab a kni and then that's when she started wrestling with him and startedy lling. that's when i woke up and i grabbed the sledge hammer that i have under my bed and by the time i came out here, hey was alregone. >> reporter: mother and son were both agonized they could not stop the man bore he took the little girl to a nearby street and sexuall assaulted her. >> appreciate what you did. >> reporter: neighbors came to their he tohank laticia to thank her for trying, for risking her life. seth adam walter is charged with a long list of vile crimes against the little girl. he is alsoharged with possession of a firearm by a

convicted felon. we areo trying learn more about his record. live in woodbridge, jackie bensen, news 4. >> glad they got somebody. thank you very much, jackie. our other top story toght, we are tracking hurricane michael. the storm is tearing through the gulf of mexico, taking direct aim at the florida coast. >> yeah, michael is intensifying quickly now, making aeene for a part of florida that hasn't seen a storm like this in decades. leon harris is tracking the latest for us from the live desk. >> leon, it's almost too late now for peoplefo get out the storm's pathway. >> yeah, doreen and jim, we haven' seen anything likehe long, slow buildup as we saw with florence last time, but arou a this time, the only a few precious hours left before this storm m eslandfall. michael zeroing in right now on panama cy beach, florida. i've been watching this all night long. this is a beachfront hotel and the camera there set up to watch the waves as they creep in closer and closer to these palm

trees. now, michael will likely come ashore here early tomorrow afternoon. but tonight, store shelves in many a coastal towns picked bear. gas stations are closed. at least 120,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders. >> the time to repair is right now. the storm is dangerous and if you don't follow warnings fromf als, this storm could kill you. >> we're right in the cross hairs of this storm, and i urge people to evacuate. there will become a time when you can't evacuate. >> reporter: the impending storm surge is what's gotam p city beach officials worried the most. in the 23 years since hurricane opal hit, the town has boosted the beech elevation and even trucked in special sand to reduce the ct of a hurricane's storm surge. florida is the foc right now, but michael will endoctor trenc the southeast, and that's why georgia is also under a state of emergency toght.

jim, reen? >> thank you, leon. we get updates on this storm every three hours. the newest update came i at 11:00. >> doug, you said you wouldn't be surprised if michaelecomes a category 4 sometime before landfall. what do you think now? there now.ay be the national hurricane center just put out the latest advisory. a category 4 as winds of 130 miles per hour. it's now at 125. that's t latest advisory, and this thing, guys, has only .trengthen incredible strengthening over the past six to eight hours here. the wind has really come down, i mean, this is justf a monster a storm. if it does become a category 4, radar,to show you on the these are the out eer bands, an they are already into the tampa area, seeing some look at the eye of the hurricane. that's how close it is. we can now s this on radar. the latest advisory, which just came out, 125-mile-an-hourhu icane, moving to the northwest at 12 miles an hour. it is now expected to become a 4

the30 miles an hour and hurricane center says it could be even stronger than that. this part of the couny, this part of florida has never been hit by a category 4 hurricane. they're talking about the strongest hurricane, potentially, ever to hit this area and, again, it just gets worse every time we take a look it. ju continues to get stronger. and this, guys, is going to be a ry strong stohrough georgia all the way toward the carolinas. much more on all of this, i'll see you back fere in a minutes. >> going to deal with people that are sll dealing with flooding from florence. doug, thank you. t> tonight, a school community gathered pray for a classmate that was shot and killed almost a week >> police still have not made any arrests in the murder o elijah cole. news 4's shomari stone spoke with his classmates a teachers tonight. >> reporter: tonight, elijri's mother and thanks the crowd here. the community mourned as

frnds, family, students and teachers filled the bleachers at the high scho'sootball field. they hold candles, pray and have a moment of silence as they pay tribute to 17-year-old elijah, a senior who planned to attend college. a bright young man with a promising refu charles county sheriff deputies say he was shot and killed after an argument between two groups thist.ast saturday ni tonight, his friends and teacrs remember him. >> pretty upset but i know that god has him and that we're going to push through it. i know he's in a better place, even though i wish he was with us. >>e was a very nice guy. very loving guy. had a sense of humor wit him. well-liked by all the students aby all the teachers. >> reporter: tonight, sheriff's officials tell us they are .investigating this ca they urge anyone with information about the shooting to give them a call. in waldorwaldorf, i'm shomari s

news 4. check out this video of a takedown on the street in prince george's county today. this man led them on a wild chase from virginia to d.c. before getting ctured in district heights, maryland. he slipp f awaym police last month. you maybe recall, during a standoff at a hotel. he fell off the radar until this morning, when he was spotted in fairfax county. before the standoff and todaass ch he was wanted for grandan larceny d credit card fraud. lgbtq advocates packed a school board meeting tonight, reacting to reports that a transgender middle school student was separated from the other students ding an emergency drill because students were sheltering in boys and girls lockerooms. tonight, parents, clergy and teachers called on the school to do a better job of training school staff to address the needs of transgender students.

>> i'm tired of not being able openly support students if they have questions about themselves. i'm tired of students being afraid toe themselves. i'm tired of not being able to adess these issues in a productive manner with fellow staff members because nestly, most do want to give equity to all of our students. >> the sool superintendent apologized tonight, acknowledging that stafford county public schools should be a place of respect, faiess and dignity for all students and staff. parents at a loudon cnty elementary school are pushing for a full-time resource officer afr criticism over the dendling of a security scare. tonight, the pre of the pta went before the school board to formally make the request. earlier this year, a sheriff's deputy was posted at the school. parents only found out later that he was there because of a violent threat against a staff member by her ex-boyfriend. the man accus of the threat

was just acquitted, but parents say their kids were at risk, and they should have been notified. news at 11:00, another step forward in the effort to move families out of d.c.'s big and outdated homeless shelter. cityeaders cut the ribbon this evening on the new short-term pamily housing in ward seven. the horizon is the latest in a series of smaller shelters each ward aimed at replacing the d.c. general family shelter. mayor bowser hopesseo c d.c. general by the end of the year. next at 11:00, news 4 consumul reporter s san hogan working for you to help save you money. the app that could cult what you spend on prescriptions. surprise resignation. u.n. ambassador nikki haley is out. the white house squashing speculation tt ivanka trump is in. so, who is actually on the short list? not one, but two local singers shine on "the voice." singers shine on "the voice." ♪ and i

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u.s. is search pr tcriptions. bayou. >> susan hogan. some members of president trump' inner circle are quickly dispelling rumors that they will take nikki haley's place as u.n. ambassador. mr. trump's daughter ivanka says it's not her. her father told a pool of reporters he's looking at a group of five people who could take haley's place. this morning, she announced that she's resigning at t end of the year. it caught a lot of people offguard, but nikki haley say s afterving as south carolina's governor and thenn her current position, she's ready foa break. >> sometimes it's good to rotate in other people who can pt t same energy and power into it. >> president trump did float one name today, his former national security adviser, dina powell. he says she's under consideration. as for haley, she has not hinted what's next. well, did you play tonight? the sixth largest mega-millions

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metropolitan area with these category 3, 4 winds. but this is going to be a category 4 storm now at landfall. it will be the strongest hurrican to ever hit the panhandle of florida. eve. and you t look at what this satellite presentation has given us and you notice the eye of the hurricane really extremely wel defined no this thing has been strengthe d strengthening rapidly over the last 12 hours. it's gone from, really over the last 24, it's gone from a small category 1 hurricane to a very large category 3, very close to a category 4 right now. devastatinntially the farther west this goes, you're talking about panama city, you're talking about december tin, you're talking here,more populated areas but right now, it is expected to go just east of the panama city beach area. rit now, winds of 125 miles an hour, moving north at 12. again, category 4 is at 130. that's hhat thericane center has it at right here, going to a cat 4 by early ctomorrow,ing

onshore just east of panama city beach as a category 4 hurricane. so, again, a devastating hurricane. the storm surge is going to be somethin watch and the winds, as well. the winds will be something to watch into the carolinas and moving out to sea by friday. here's theurricane impacts. hurl cane warning in effect now including tallahassee, partsf southern georgia, as well to the panhandle, the entire paandle. tropical storm washirnings in a gus that, savannah. and this is why. storm surge, 9 to 13 feet, could be even higher also it strevethens. winds 100 miles an hour easily. in easily many areas. and trees down everywhere. when i mean everywhere, i mean the entire length of the storm path. let me show what you this is talking about. look at the wind gusts. 9:00 tomorrow morning, already 62 miles an hour. coming onshore around 1:00 in the afternoon, again, just east of panama city. 110 miles perr h in apalachicola. only about 2,200 pple live

there, hopefully they're all out of there. 83 miles an hour, panama city. look at tallahassee, around 60 to 70-mile-per-hour winds in and around the tallahassee area. trees down ther in to southern georgia, 60 to 0 70-mile-an-hour winds in middle and southern georgia. up to augusta, and this is the area that florence hit. this is florence, south carolina, but florence hit this ea and they could be hit again with 40 to 50-mile-per-hour winds. a lot of trees down and power outages in these areas. and people s arell picks up the peepss from florence, which hit just about a month ago. very dangerous storm. for us, something different is happening. we're seeing a change in the weather pattern. here comes fall.ar we've been and dry. bull here comes the much cooler air just in time for the weekend. we've got one or two more, da we'll count thursday, too. high temperature tomorrow, 82. partly sunny, warm and humid tomorrow. another nice day. fog early. but then we'll see some sunshine with rain late and that shower activity coming in with michael

on thursday, along with the front. sday. th 64 on friday with falling temperatures. by saturda i morning, we'll be the 40s in most locations. i've got 50 in the city, but most of youn the 40s. that's a 40-degree temperature drop from where we're going to be tomorrow afternoon into the weekend. out thethe boots, get sweaters, everybody. it is going to be on the cold side and staying cool all next week, as well. the coolnow, we get on side, but all eyes on michael and all prayers down there for those folks d there. >> indeed. thup, doug. coming up next on news 4t 11:00, the caps get set for a stanleyup rematch. plus, more monday night misery for the redskins. and one player won't have it anymore. anymore. >> sports next.

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> well, the bye week didn't do us any the favors a mondays never do. >> no, i guess it's about, what is your favorite day of the week? taco tuesday? that always sounds good. wacky wednesdays. rowback thursdays and, of course, there's freaky fridays. those all have positive connotations to them. manic mondays, not so much. after all, it's the end of thew end and start of that work grind, right? well, for the redskins, a perpetuaminder that this team has come up short on the biggest stage for a long time now. that monday night misery continued in the bigas easy l night. their loss in n orleans, the team is now 1-7 onfomonday night ball" under head coach jayen grud. oh, it gets worse. since the yr 2000, burgundy and go, 5-21 on monday nights.

their last win, octer of2014. so, it was a major case of the mondays to blame for this team? >> it doesn't matter, monday night, sunday night, 1:00, it's football. i don't give a damn when we play. we can play [ bleep ] tuesday ti afternoon, i'm going to be the same as i am today, sunday night, sundaytu morning, sarday. i don't give a damn who we playt 's football. lways al stage, it's national stage. >> it doesn't matter when play. when you do play in pro football, you got to show up ready to evplay. y team in the national football league is good. they have good players. they have good coac'ts. if you d show up on a given sunday or mondaor saturday, whenever you play, you're going to get your teeth knocked in. well, the caps have no issues showing up on the biggest stage, right? the reigning stanley cup champs have started the season with their typical explosive offense, ls theirthe nhl in g first two games. after a five-day hiatus, the caps will return to the ice on wednesday another

attention-grabbing game. a rematch from last year's final. this afternoon, caps got ready to face the vegas golden knights. been a bit of an odd start to the schedule. they played back-to-back nights to open the season, one atdome he second night on the road at pittsburgh. before getting almost this road at all. that's some strange schedulinsc but not necessarily a bad thing. >> if y look at it positively, you'll get a lot out of it and if you look at it oh,his kind of stink, i wish we were getting in a rhythm, then upstayou star feel whateve rust shouldn't be there. >> it's a bit unusual, as far as the total schedule. you don't get to many five-day breaks in between games. a little b more practice time and trying to take advantage of that. right now in the american league division series, red sox lead the yankees 4-2 in the bottom of the ninth, but new york has the bases loaded. so, that one very interesting right now, with their season on the line. a final wizards note ty

play their second to last preseason game tomorrow night in detroit. regular season b next thursday with the heat coming to capital one arena. ready f the start of the season. >> almost time. >> wizards up in the air. they can go eher way. let's hope 50 wins. let's hope 50 wins.

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