and thunderstorms we have been watching the past several hours. nothing severe, but they are heavy up to frederick and back down to warrenton. so, looking at rain fall rates up to an inch per hour. no reports on flooding or damaging winds just yet, but keep an eye on those for the next hour or so. temperature wise, 64 in manassas. pretty warm. one of the ingredients for severe weather. windy and mild. evening thunderstorms. some could be heavy. low temperatures in the 50s. we'll come back and tell you when that dryer air moves in and if we can keep it going through the weekend. >> a man who had been paid to marry a woman to help her stay in the country fights to get out of that marriage and ends up killing his wife's daughter. that is how police describe the horrifying circumstances that led to the death of 12-year-old jessica nguyen and this is the man investigators say stabbed the little girl inside her own basement back in may. delia now with the other evidence investigators say they have. >> they left the courthouse

silently, but the faces of jessica nguyen's family members expressed their grief. prosecutors say the 12-year-old girl was stabbed more than 40 times by her own stepfather, 42- year-old, david hang. >> this was a brutal killing. >> the state's attorney says the suspect was quote, angry with the family. he married the victim's mother to clear up her immigration issue, but the two were going through an ugly divorce. >> i believe he thought he could get out of it and he wanted out. in order to go on with his life with his new wife. >> investigators say there was no forced entry into the home. hang lived with the family for a year, but moved out in 2006. surprisingly, it was not the victim's family, but the suspect himself who was emotional in court today, openly sobbing, interrupting the prosecutor to deny his involvement eventually saying quote, i am good to the community. i work hard, i didn't do it. but police say the evidence proves he did. the suspect had a swollen land

following the may murder. his cell phone placed him in the area and footprints and a sheathe belonging to a missing sword were found at the crime scene. >> we were able to get dna off the sheathe. we were able to make an impression of the boot print. >> while investigators say hang was angry with the family, they still don't know why little jessica had to pay with her life. >> what troubles me is you have somebody cold and heartless that could kill an innocent child. >> the suspect was a montgomery county ride on bus driver for the past five years. he called out sick the afternoon of the murder. tonight, hang is behind bars held without bond. the state's attorney says it has been a very tough couple of days for police here in montgomery county. they solved the murder and found the body of 11-year-old william mcquain the same day. delia, 9news now. late this afternoon, the former montgomery county elementary school accused of

choking, scratching, and punching her own students took the stand in her own defense. susan burke used to be a first grade teacher in silver spring, but she was arrested in january. burke briefly testified. but it was dramatic afternoon testimony as the mother of a six-year-old alleged victim broke down in tears when the defense asked her, how come you didn't report a scratch on your daughter to the police or the school right away? the defense also called two educators to the stand saying they never saw burke inappropriately yell at a child. the jury may begin deliberations as soon as tomorrow. >> new at 7:00, 9news now learned the family of morgan harrington is suing a company that provided security at the venue where morgan disappeared. morgan was attending a concert in charlottesville at the john paul jones arena back in october of '09. and she disappeared after he left that arena and denied

reentry. her body was found in a hay field one year later. they are seeking $3.5 million from that security company. a spokeswoman had no comment, but that no reentry policy is common practice. and tonight, police say they have new evidence in the william mcquain case. it's a chilling new video tape that puts lopez, curtis lopez and the 11-year-old boy together just feet away where police found the boy's shattered body up in clarksburg. bruce leshan with the new details. >> police back on clarksburg road now looking for the precise spot where his stepfather allegedly murdered 11-year-old william mcquain. they found william's battered little body just off a dirt lane next to a farm field covered with a few branches. >> it may have occurred right there at that scene. >> police found william's body just 50 feet or so back in the woods right here. the surveillance tape shows him and his father here at the gas

pump. william actually gets out of the car, rides around on his little wheelie shoes. his dad goes inside. pays $20 for the gas, gets back in the car, drives off. the question, whether little william was killed just a few feet from here. >> really bad. hits home. not a good thing. >> the gas station manager thought william's picture looked familiar. not from the growing memorial outside. >> it works on your mind. >> but because he had been to the station miles from his home before. not with his step dad, but going fishing with his big brother mentor. >> he got a cute look and he looked and he was walking around the floor and i said to him, some kind of candy he was looking for. >> the manager, like so many of us, haunted by the lost dreams of william mcquain. >> bruce leshan, 9news now.

>> now police have yet to bring back lopez from north carolina. the police chief here says he is worried about keeping his officer safe. worried because of the magnitude of the crime lopez is accused of and because lopez has done time for stabbing a man and leaving him to die on the side of a pennsylvania interstate. okay, now it is time to talk about the monkey and wolf on the loose. seriously, folks, we could not make this stuff up. there's a multijurisdiction warning out around ohio. earlier, 56 animals escaped from a private farm. their cages unlocked. those animals included lions, tigers, grizzly bears, leopards, and monkeys. >> we are and will be talking about a game plan for the mising wolf and the monkey. the director of the columbus zoo as well as the wilds has recommended that the monkey be shot and killed. it is very possible that this

monkey is carrying herpes. >> they have had to put down 48 of them. ohio has some of the weakest restrictions on exotic pets in the country and some of the highest numbers of injuries and deaths from those pets. this is the story right out of the cold war. little children just six years old caught between capitalism and communism. their story is just ahead. we want to hear what you think. send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag. mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back.

in the mail bag tonight, continuing rage on the wusa9 facebook facebook page over the murder of william mcquain and his mom. most is directed at the suspect, curtis lopez, still awaiting extradition from north carolina back up here to maryland. this lack of human being should get worse treatment than he gave the little boy and his mother. i'm so sad this happened to innocent people. i don't think maryland is a death penalty state, but i don't think death would do this justice. well actually, maryland does have the death penalty. it's rarely enforced, but prosecutors will have to consider it for this case.

bonnie frederick, however, remains skeptical. everyone knows justice will not be served in montgomery county, maryland, there are only so many roads from north carolina to maryland and it's hunting season in the south. accidents can happen, just a thought. well, i guess. but mike grim says that's not really a very good thought, is it? wow, people really need to learn the system. they have to prove he actually did it and if they don't find any evidence, physical or dna, he will not be convicted. in this country, you are innocent until proven guilty. did he do it? i would say so, until they prove it, he is innocent. you know what, mike, you got that right. while we are all angry and sad what happened to william and his mom, thankfully, internet mob justice is not how we do things around here. and finally on an entirely different note, we got this from anna marie in annapolis who says thank you so much for airing dr. martin luther king, entire i have a dream speech monday night. i barely breathe for those

moments. what a mesmerizing speech and even more poignant was the benefit of hindsight. thank you, we are glad you liked it and we would love your e-mails and compliments, of course, at wusa9.com. the address, mailbag@wusa9.com. topper is back with your full forecast and we'll take another look at your headlines. what was he doing there? we'll explain after the break.

an area food pantry forced to temporarily shut down yesterday after they literally ran out of supplies for needy families. organizers at the community down in dumfries say they seen a nearly 50% increase in demand almost overnight and they simply can't keep up. peggy fox now with more on the efforts underway to help these folks out. >> they get empty -- >> the ax food pantry serves 4,000 needy people every month. but a 40% spike in demand empties their shelves and forced the pantry to close temporarily. >> this is the worse i have ever seen. we just couldn't put together a basic bag. >> hungry people looking for a bag of food were turned away. >> it was heartbreaking. it was a very difficult decision to make. having families come up to the

door. because we don't have groceries to give them. it's very hard. >> part of the increase in demand came from the 400 displaced people from the holly acres village mobile home parks, which were flooded in and out tropical storm lee. >> normally we are feeding around 1,000 families a month. now we have the tropical storm lee family coming in for assistance on top of that number. >> news of the temporary shutdown brought in new donations. >> i printed off the list and this morning i ran up to the wegman's and i took that list and i tried to pick as much as i could. >> everything on the shelves now has come in in the last 24 hours. >> it's very, very sad, especially with the economy right now. that's why we are here. >> the outpouring of support brought in all of these donations you see on the shelves and also $30,000 to the food pantry. that money and all the food that is coming in may help them reopen before november 1. in

dumfries, peggy fox, 9news now. >> all right, and if you want to help, go on over to wusa9.com. we'll show you how. new at 7:00, a military helicopter forced to make an emergency landing today right in the middle of northeast d.c. the chopper went down safely and we are told the pilot had communication problems. that's what forced them to bring the chopper down. another was brought in to help make repairs and before long, both aircraft were able to rise up and get out of there. if you happen to see more ambulances and helicopters moving around our region, the reason, a big disaster drill designed to put the medical system to the test. hundreds of mock patients were flooded into four hospitals simulating a terrorist attack. for the very first time, rescuers rolled out a whole new system for keeping track of disaster victims, including bar coded tags and hand held devices similar to what you see delivery drivers using. >> these hand held units will

be used on every transport, every ambulance in the region. >> we need to know what is coming, where to distribute the patients in order to save lives. >> that new patient tracking system will be in use throughout the system within a year. it has been paid for by a federal grand. here is a check on other headlines, in frederick county, commissioners are considering asking the maryland general assembly to allow nonprofits to allow slot machines. the governor plans to -- aimed at reducing rules from the process in an effort to spork job growth. house minority whip testified for the defense in the maryland state senator corruption trial. currie is accused of bribery. currie is caring and decent, but organization is not his strong suit. now, taking a lock look at the headlines. greeting president obama during his visit to hampton road.

the president and first lady paid a visit to a military base and they were promoting the president's job proposal. >> in richmond, protesters refusing to leave tents. that's despite warnings from the police. protesters are with the occupy richmond movement, they began their demonstration last saturday. no arrests so far in that one. and starting october 31, medically impaired virginiaens will have a longer lifeline when they can't pay their utility bills. any customer who provides a doctor certification of a serious medical problem can seek an additional 30 days before their service is cut off. the food and drug administration reached conclusions about that recent deadly listeria outbreak involving cantaloupe. the agency traced it back to contamination at a packing facility in colorado. it says the jensen farms recently bought used equipment that was corroded and hard to clean. and investigators found listeria samples on that

equipment as well as on some of the fruit. that outbreak killed 25 people in a dozen states. well a beloved personal trainer died this morning on his way to work. it happened when a branch dropped 25 feet from a tree and hit him on the head. ben mufti was walking along the sidewalk about 6:20 this morning. his landlord found him, tried to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital. mufti posted pictures of his adventures on his facebook page. >> he was an iron man. he finished an iron man triathlon this summer. he had a lot of tattoos, but he was a sweet guy. he was incredible. >> police say the department of public works inspected the tree after mufti's death. they believe the problem was too much wind. >> speaking of which, it's windy and rainy in a lot of places. >> it is, especially to the west and i'm more severe for

weather in maryland. we'll look at live doppler 9,000. we'll be in good shape over the next couple hours. let's start with live doppler. one area of showers and thunderstorms to the west of town. these are not severe. putting down good rain fall rates. anywhere from 3/4 to a full inch an hour. they are beginning to end once you get south of warrenton. they have been training northward for the past couple of hours. good rains towards hagerstown. if you're heading out 7, good rains in the leesburg area and also you head out 50 past chantilly. now here's a look at the satellite picture and radar combined. one storm pushing off the coast. up between storms. this storm is going to sit and spin for a while, but far enough north and west of us to pump in dryer air. this storm is pulling away. you see this warm front here to the south and east and a cold front to the west. what i'm really concerned about

is this warm front lifting any further north as we go through the next couple of hours. the big threat for severe weather is south and east. by that, the chance of tomorrows in southern maryland and over toward the del morva. we are always on at wusa9.com. the threat will end tonight. damaging wind, main threat for us. isolated tornadoes across the dell morva. windy tomorrow behind the system and turning a little bit cooler. not crazy cool. for tonight, mostly cloudy, windy and mild. evening thunderstorms, some heavy. low temperatures in the 50s. winds will start to crank out of the southwest at 15 to 25 and gusty. tomorrow morning, becoming partly cloudy, windy and mild. 50 to around 60. wind southwest at 15 to 25. the storm in the east goes up the coast. the storm out in the west is far enough out in the west to leave us alone. a slight chance of a shower. most of the showers hang in the mountains. high temperatures between 60 and 65. not that much cooler. next seven days, a little

cooler on friday. 60 degrees with sunshine. saturday a fantastic day. a great day to go to see the colors allot in skyline drive. howard's homecoming is here. we have walk now for autism speaks. the walk began at 10:00. get there at 9:00. look at sunday. sunshine, spectacular. low 60s. >> cool nights, warm days. it's that time of year. we'll be back.

that is tonight's rundown and for you early risers, get your day started with andrea, howard, and monica. a children's music and theater group from cuba are hoping their performances right here in d.c. can over shadow some political tensions. the young performers between the ages of 6 and 15 are touring the united states and today, they brought down the house at the duke ellington school for the arts. it was a show invitation that the dean of arts had to think about, because part of this act includes the story of the cuban five, those are five intention officers imprisoned in this country for spying. >> the cuban five is a controversial issue. it's very charged for americans and cubans, but i couldn't help identify with those activists in our history that share a

similar past. that element of the story made me enthusiastic about hearing more. >> that children's group will be traveling to new york city. they are also scheduled to perform a private presentation to the u.n. sometime next week. thanks for joining us, topper and i will be back tonight at 11:00 along with anita brikman. until then, have a great evening. we'll talk to you a little later. stay warm. bye bye. ♪ and the flowers and the trees ♪ ♪ all laugh when you walk by ♪ and the neighbors' kids run and hide ♪ deep inside you, there's a person who refuses to be kept deep inside you. ♪ but you're not ♪ you're the one be true to yourself.

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