news4's wendy rieger is at the live desk with more. wendy?>ter he issa sulliv, the president of uva is you said fire for the way the university handles sexual assault allegations on the heels of that explosive account of a campus fraternity gang rape that was published in "rolling stone" magazine. the article said administrators were aware of the allegations but had done nothing about it. today sullivan told her audience, rape is a national problem. it happens in the military, in the workplace. in high schools. and she says the university is now at the center of a crisis and will not shrink from it but will lead. she told them, quote, we will repair this wrong in this dark hour. we will find light. and we will not stop until every student feels safe and secure and free to learn and live and grow. sullivan says she will seek community input, because it is a community problem, and everyone needs to work together to solve it. she was scheduled to appear here in washington at the national press club today. but instead she chose to stay in charlot

news4's wendy rieger at the live desk with what we have learned since we first got to the scene on news4 midday. wendy? >> reporter: detectives just tweeted they do not believe the crime in rockville was random. we don't know the victim's name yet. but we do know that she was found stabbed to death in an apartment. that building where this happened is on old georgetown road and chapman road near the white flint metro station. someone called 911 around 10:00 this morning and right now detectives are talking to the victim's roommate. violent crime is highly unusual for this area, and no one has been charged yet. but investigators say they do not believe that the public is in any danger. >> this is a quiet area of montgomery county. along rockville pike. there is a metro station close by. a lot of shopping and restaurants and not a lot of serious crime. >> investigators are playing this close to their vest, not releasing details now, but we will bring anything we get to you as soon as we find out. back to you. >>> events in ferguson, missouri, continue to spark demonstrations here in our ar

. >> and i'm wendy rieger sitting in for doreen gentzler. we've had three homicides in less than 24 hours. who two in southeast and the latest one in north d.c. >> jackie bensen in an area that's seen much violence. >> petworth has been hard hit by the violence of the last week and that's especially concerning to residents because they've been working for many years and very successfully with police to improve public safety here. the latest violence includes a homicide sunday night in southeast washington. and another murder just this afternoon in the 600 block of division avenue in northeast. the district has averaged a murder a day since last week. >> we've had a higher than normal number of homicides since christmas eve. >> in petworth violence began on december 23rd three shootings within hours of each other. in each case gunmen opened fire on a person drivg a car. one shooting left a 21-year-old man dead. the next day a woman was shot and killed near a bus stop at 14th and randolph streets northwest. police have identified a suspect, 35

wendy rieger has the latest. >> the state department says it's just received that request for help. u.s. officials are reviewing it. right now we know that flight was supposed to be a two-hour jog across the java sea. the pilot asked for permission to climb above some bad weather, but the air traffic controlleders had to say no because the airspace was too crowded at the time. airasia flight 8501 gone from the radar. today the head of indonesian search and rescue agency said the plane is probably in his words at the bottom of the sea. at least seven aircraft 15 ships, and 4 helicopters will resume their search at daybreak. this incident caps an exceedingly tragic year for air travel in southeast asia. malaysian airlines flight 370 disappears in march with 239 people on board, still hasn't been found. in july malaysian airlines flight 17 was shot down over ukraine, killing 300 people. now airasia, which is also based in malaysia. back to you. >>> new details in a deadly double shooting in the district. police ideyied the victims as a father and son. they found preston johnson sr. and