and she's not here right now. >> right now, no one seems to know where relisha rudd is. and for last year, if detectives had any clues about the nine-year-old's whereabouts -- >> help us find relisha. >> they haven't shared them with the little girl's mother shamica young. >> all i can do is keep praying, keep praying, get some answers that's it that's all. >> reporter: young has been praying on its for 12 long months. she and her long term boyfriend, antonio wheeler, were living at a shelter when her only daughter relisha went missing. she loved art projects and going to school. >> what i knew about her is her good smart brain. i've never seen a nine-year-old speak so many big words. >> reporter: but in early 2014 the girl who loved school started showing up. her multiple absences from class more than 30 days tipped off a social worker that something was wrong. but it was already too late. a police report showed it was three weeks since she saw relisha. it wasn't unusual for her mother to leave her with family members. shamica hasn't had an easy life. she feels abandoned

. >>> more than a year after relisha rudd disappeared her mom shameka young says she desperately wants custody of her three young sons back. >> i'm meteorologist topper shutt. 73 today was the high, but check out the difference in temperatures now. look to the north and west. it's 26 degrees colder now in pittsburgh than just 24 hours ago. we'll talk about just how cold and how low the temps are going to go. >> and a royal visit not just to america, but right here to our backyard and look at when prince charles and camilla have done in in one year 5.6 million hospital workers helped perform 26.6 million surgeries deliver 3.7 million babies and treat 133 million e.r. patients. now congress is considering cuts which could increase wait times reduce staff, and threaten your community's health. keep the heart of america's hospitals strong. for you and your family tell congress: don't cut hospital care. >>> more than a your since relisha rudd disappear -- a year since relisha rudd disappeared a court gave the young girl's mother news she didn't want to hear. >> reporter: i'm debra alfarone

area pastors laid hands of prayer on relisha rudd's mother. >> in my mind, we are not giving up. richard: hotel surveillance video shows relisha rudd with 51-year-old khalil tatum, the janitor at the d.c. homeless shelter. >> how did she get taken? how did she get with him to begin with? richard: the police later found khalil tatum's body and kenilworth park, but there was no note or trace of the girl. >> it has been so long and other kids have been missing. richard: this family friend says she is not giving up. >> i feel that she will be found this year. richard: faith, love, and hoped this day, and a mystery with so many questions. in southeast washington, richard reeve, abc 7 news. kimberly: opening statements are set to begin wednesday in the boston marathon bombing trial. dzhokhar tsarnaev is accused of planting the bomb that killed three people and injured hundreds of others. if convicted, he faces life in jail without parole or he could face the death penalty. thousands of people marched through moscow today to mourn the russian opposition leader, a leading critic of presi

. >>> one day after the one-year anniversary of relisha rudd's disappearance, police gave an update on the investigation. >> stephanie ramirez reports there wasn't much to update. >> i'm outside of the police headquarters where mayor muriel bowser as well as the police chief told us they do not have any new information to report. that's why this one-year mark is so important. heir asking anyone who may have information on relisha rudd who is now 9 years old. >> anybody who may have seen something that over this past year has not reported it or didn't think it was significant enough but from hearing from us today now does think it's significant, please pass that information on. sometimes it's just one small piece of the puzzle that helps us get to the solution that we're looking for. >> reporter: members of the dc police department along with volunteers spent much of the day this morning and evening passing out fliers at different metro stops and other important locations. police cannot emphasize enough any little piece of information could help find relisha rudd even a year later. step

today marks one day since relisha rudd was last seen alive. she was seen with a janitor at adc general shelter where she was staying with her family. he later killed himself and she has not been seen since. richard reeve takes us to a prayer service held in her honor today. >> it was a powerful emotional moment as a group of the sea pastors laid their hands in prayer on the mother of relisha rudd. her ninth birthday has come and gone. she disappeared one year ago. this surveillance video shows are at a northeast d.c. hotel with the man police believe kidnapped her. >> to me this is like a shot in the arm. >> after a frantic search, police down the man's body. the man known as a family friend and janitor at the d.c. homeless shelter had shot himself. there was no note and no trace of the little girl. >> i personally feel like she is gone because it has been so long and other kids have been missing. >> but many say there's always hope. . -- turning back to our weather it looks like temperatures won't be warm enough to melt all of this mess. >> u

. >>> we're just getting started on wusa9 news at 5:00, more turmoil for relisha rudd's family. debra alfarone brings us the next chapter in the story at 5:30. >> i'm meteorologist topper shutt. i hope the royals brought some heavy coats. right now it's still mild, 66 downtown, but now it's 55 in gaithersburg and 50 in hagerstown. we'll talk about how cold it will get tonight and we have two snowflakes on the seven- day. >> plus what happened after a pitbull viciously attacked two people including a young girl in d.c. >> reporter: frustrations and stunning admissions as >>> the new secret service director goes before a congressional panel to ask for money, but unanswered questions about a recent incidentous the white house overshadowed those -- incident outside the white house overshadowed the white house talks. craig boswell is on capitol hill with more. >> with all due respect, i'm just shocked by your testimony. >> reporter: lawmakers from both parties expressed surprise and frustration the new secret service director was not personally investigating an incident outside the w

we launched it following the disappearance of relisha rudd. yesterday marked one year since she was last seen. today people came together to tell us where the investigation stands. stephanie ramirez joins us live now with more. sadly no new needs. >> that's the hard part. the chief said today there is no new information to tell us. that's why this one-year mark is so important. it's an opportunity to reacquaint everyone with this case. chief, the mayor members of her cabinet as well as members of the fbi met at that news conference today asking anyone who may have some information that maybe didn't report it to do so. they promise to investigate it. they are following leads still and i also went back to dv general the shelter where relisha rudd was last seen. i spoke with a family friend who said it's still painful but still thinks everyone should still be searching. >> i don't know what i would do if mine was missing. i don't know. it's so frustrating for somebody that you know that their kid is missing. they need to look even harder. >> and

leon: as of today, a year has passed, and still no trace of relisha rudd. for her loved ones, hope is not gone. today, the police, volunteers, family, and the mayor also search for answers. richard reeve has the latest on the new efforts underway. richard: this is the leaflet that volunteers were passing around near new york avenue. think about your own child or a child that you know. imagine you're feeling about the child missing for just a couple minutes. now imagine that for more than a year. that is what this family is going to read why the search continues. they are true believers. >> you just don't know, but you can't give up. richard: volunteers and family members focused on finding 8-year-old relisha rudd, missing now for a year and a day. >> i kind of breakdown at times. richard: she was last seen on surveillance video at a northeast d.c. hotel. the police believe the man with relisha, kahlil tatum, killed her before killing himself. >> obviously our hope is she is still alive. >> it's sad. no words can describe it. the book that i see on my aunt's

relisha may be with tatum. march 24th, 2014, police release more pictures of rudd and tatum and on april 1st khalil tatum was found dead at kennelworth park and aquatic gardens. >> but of course there has still been no sign of relisha. and addition to her there are dozens of other young people missing from our area. and you can help. click on the bring them home link on our wusa9. calm -- our wusa9.com web page. >>> it was a half century ago that the north vietnamese shot down their first american plane. bruce leshan is live at the memorial in arlington. >> one of the questions that still haunts us 50 years after the start of the vietnam war is this. how could some of our warriors survive the war but not be able to survive the peace? >> a day doesn't go by that i don't think of him. >> reporter: even decades later memories of his brother still bring bob to tears. >> do you miss your brother? >> oh god, yes. miss him all the time. >> what are the things that you miss? >> never having the chance to grow old with him. he deserved better. >> reporter: air force captain al was shotr vietnam in october, 1965. he spent s

>>> it's now been one year since eight-year-old, re relisha rudd disappeared. tonight her parents talk to wusa9. i'm bruce johnson. we'll have more on the search for re lis sha in a moment. first tonight, get ready for another round of bad weather, freezing rain and sleet are on the way sunday. let's start with first alert meteorologist, erica grow. >> we do have sleet and freezing rain in the forecast, but we also have snow in the forecast. that's what we'll see first. it's just sleet and freezing rain are the major concerns with this particular system. so, snow will arrive mid- morning for most of us. mixing in with sleet pretty early on. a wintery mix will continue for the immediate metro area through the early afternoon hours and then we're going to start to change over to rain. most of us see that change over around 3:00 to 4:00 in the afternoon. it will just be plain rain by the time we get to dinner time. for many in the metro area, a light accumulation of that wintery weather. it's still going to be bad for roads. it's going to be a mess out there. this

general shelter where relisha rudd lived with her family when she disappeared. they've added 24/7 security fixed broken surveillance cameras and repaired the heating and air conditioning systems. >> we're doing absolutely everything we can to make it a space that is a dignified environment for families to be while they're experiencing homelessness and is a safe place for them to be. >> reporter: relisha's disappearance brought to light deploreable conditions at the shelter and revealed he was she was last seen with a janitor there, khalil tatum. he later killed his wife in prince george's county and took his own life at kennelworth park in northeast leaving behind the mist write, where is relisha? >> it's even more tragic today that we don't know the whereabouts of relisha rudd. >> reporter: while we don't know if she's still alive, police chief cathy lanier says there's still hope for a break in the case. >> sometimes it's one small piece of the puzzle that helps us get to the solution that we're looking for. and that solution that we're looking for now is find

. -- in the search for release your rod -- relisha rudd at several locations. she was last seen alive a year ago. the body of kahlil tatum, the man she was last seen with, was found about two weeks after she went missing. the timing of the last winter storm left some parts of d.c. without trash service for two weeks. trash truck stayed on the streets through the weekend. >> the situation was unbearable, so the mayor said we have to do something about it. that's why we are doing it. kimberly: because of public health concerns, trash and recycling are being processed together. they hope to have everything back to normal by tomorrow morning. the rough winter and the trash problem has the district pushing back the start of the street sweeping program. look for the street sweeper's to start making rounds the week of march 9. a rude start in arlington. theives made off with some tires. brianne carter went to the pentagon city neighborhood where this happened at least three times. brianne: not one or two but all four tires gone. >> that's alarming. brianne: wednesday

mayor muriel bowser will provide an update into the investigation of relisha rudd's disappearance. relisha went missing from the homeless shelter where she was living. family and friends held a prayer service in the southeast washington church yesterday to make sure relisha's case is not forgotten. >> as a father you are a protector and there will be times i feel as though i failed to protect my own daughter. >> police believe the shelter's janitor kahlil tatum kidnapped the little girl. he was found dead with a self- inflicted gunshot. >>> today is the last day for former virginia governor bob mcdonnell's attorney to file briefs in his conviction and sentence. he was sentenced to two years in prison, found guilty of corruption charges last summer. his wife, maureen, was sentenced ten days ago but did not receive prison time. the hearing on bob mcdonnell's appeal is scheduled for may 12. >>> we all turn right on red in maryland, but most of us don't come to a complete stop before making that turn. and that's illegal. but that could soon change. the maryland subcommittee on transpor

>> not enough has been done to make another child like relisha rudd from slipping through cracks. >> correspond lori jane gliha revealed, the system failed her but we will continue to follow up . next on our program the being mysterious disappearance of misty upham. being talk to us on twitter or ought our facebook page and come back when we'll have more of "america tonight." a show about innovations that can change lives. >> the science of fighting a humanity and we are doing it in a unique way. this is a show about science by scientists. . >> tonight "techknow" vets the virus hunters. >> we want to understand the evolution of these pathogens. >> this team deals with the planet. >> all the damage microscopic agent. lindsay moran is ex-c.i.a., she's about to join them. entering a biolab. >> sorry, we cannot confirm your identity concern? >> what is going to be like ebola, but we haven't seen it yet. dr charlotte mcshane is a mechanical engineer. tonight what she learnt about tornados. phil torres. i'm phil torres. 'm an entomologist. that's hour team, nout let's do some science. >>>

. >> a year since little relisha rudd vanished. what's been done to find her? >> we have exhausted a lot of resource he. we will continue to do so. >> what has been done to protect

leaving behind that mystery, where is relisha rudd. now, i asked the chief a question about whether this could ever become a death investigation if relisha is not found. >> in terms of at a point that we would, you know, change this from a missing person investigation to a death investigation, there would have to be some reason for us to do so. we have nothing at this point to tell us definitively that relisha is not still alive and missing. so that's the way we're proceeding with this case at this point. >> reporter: we have repeatedly covered the case over the last year and talked a lot about the deplorable conditions at the d.c. shelter there where many homeless families are living. there's deplorable conditions. today officials talked about the changes that have been made to make it a better and safer place. we're going to have that part of if story coming up on news 4 at 6:00. we're reporting live from northwest, darcy spencer, news4. >> darcy, thanks. now to a break. a big one. the case of a car break-in, many of them in arlington

this afternoon or this evening, she disappeared one year ago today as we are still hoping that relisha rudd is found alive. the latest on the search coming up. >>> how some others. now, americans everywhere are discovering that... spoon after spoon... dish after dish... time, after time, after time again... deliciously creamy galbani ricotta inspires meals, and moments, that are simply better. mmm, galbani (sfx: kiss). italy's favorite cheese brand. now, america's number one ricotta. >>> it was one year ago that she was seen as family and friends of the church prayer services in southeast washington to remember her. the 8-year-old was with a janitor where she lived with her family, who has not been seen since. later killed himself in northeast washington. his wife was discovered dead in the local motel believing that he killed her. her mother has hope that her daughter is somehow still alive with other relatives. >> i feel like, you know, she is gone. because it has been so long and, you know, other kids have been missing since this has happened. but hers is taking a whole year. and like i

>> the fbi is offering an award of up to $25,000 for information leading to the whereabouts of relisha rudd. >> want to get you caught up on the weather headlines. tom kierein here now with more on the weird start to the morning. foggy and cold. >> and icy. temperatures stay a little below freezing so the iciness we had yesterday is still in place on untreated surfaces and we'll stay this way through 8:00 this morning with the fog around as well. minimum visibilities are generally around a tenth to a quarter of a mile. and then we'll get above freezing by 9:00. ought to be in the mid-30s. upper 30s by noon. so we'll have a lot of melting. watch out walking along under a tree lined street, you'll be pelted with falling ice by later this morning. and then during the afternoon hovering in the low 40s midafternoon, near 40 by 5:00. and then tonight back down below freezing we go. down to the mid 20s by dawn on tuesday. let's check road conditions now. >> traveling right now 270 south out of rockville, here is a look at montrose road. we're seeing the fog as you mentioned and the roadways are we

. >>> this week marks one year since the disappearance of relisha rudd. a vigil is planned for today at 2:00 at the mount paron baptist church. she was last seen with khalil tatum, a former janitor at a shelter where she was living. we still don't know what happened to relisha. >>> d.c. says it's making more money than it first thought. the cfo says he's expecting an extra $37 million this year. that would lower the $250 million gap the mayor and city council have to cover in the budget. the mayor submits her budget plan next month. >>> a developing story out of madison, wisconsin, where police are looking for someone they say opened fire outside of this mall. you can look at this video and see police on alert there. they searched the area and found shell casings outside. police say the shooter was fighting with some people inside the food court before they went outside. after the shooting the person ran away and no one was hurt. >>> as of today, there's a brand new program designed to keep you safe on the roads in frederick county maryland. sheriffs are

. >>> family and friends of relisha rudd held a prayer service for the missing girl in a surfside beach washington church today. it was one year ago that the 8- year-old was last seen in the company of kalil tatum. he was a janitor. he later killed himself in a park in northeast washington. his wife was discovered dead in a local motel and authorities believe tatum actually killed her but they don't know what happened to relisha. relisha's mom has hope her daughter is still alive but other relatives aren't so sure. >> i am her aunt but i personally feel like she's gone because it has been so long and other kids have been missing since this has happened but hers has taken a whole year. and like i told them, you know, if she is still here, god chose her child for a reason. >> relisha's family celebrated her 9th birthday back on october 29th. & %c1 >>> coming up tonight on wusa9, it wasn't a special effect this time at disneyland. rather, some truly scary moments when a in one year 5.6 million hospital workers helped perform 26.6 million surgeries deliver 3.7 million babies and treat 133 m

this week marks one year since the disappeared of relisha rudd. a vigil is planned at 2:00 p.m. at the mount pairing baptist church in southeast d.c. rudd was last seen in february of 2013 with khalil tatum, a former janitor at the d.c. general shelter where rudd had been living. police believe tatum shot and killed his wife and then himself. we still don't know what happened to relisha. >>> the cfo for d.c. says he's expecting an extra $37 million this upcoming year lowering the $250 million gap the mayor and the city council have to cover in the budget. the mayor submits her budget for the city and council to cover in the budget, and that plan is supposed to be submitted next month. >>> a developing story right now out of madison, wisconsin. police are looking for someone they say opened fire outside of this mall. you can see right there police outside of the mall in this video on guard. they searched the area and found shell casings outside. police say the shooter was fighting with somebody in the food court and went outside. after the shooting the person ran away and no one

relisha rudd went missing one year ago this week. at the time of her disappearance, she was living in a d.c. homeless shelter with her mother and siblings. family and friends held a special service yesterday. relisha was last seen with a janitor who worked at the shelter. he was later found dead. the fbi offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information. >>> making a change in leadership. what we're learning about the man set to take over as d.c.'s next fire chief. >>> plus we're watching for dangerously slick conditions there on the sidewalks. there is a live look. you can see people are trying to scrape the ice away. the trouble spots we're finding. >>> right now we're helping you prepare for the icy commute ahead. we're tracking conditions for you on the roads after all of the freezing rain. but first your weather and traffic. >> here are the road temperatures. 95 beltway, a little bit above freezing. 270 interstate 70 and 95 north right near freezing. and near 30 degrees between frederick and hagerstown. >>> accident in manassas

>>> today mayor bowser will discuss whether the city could have prevented the disappearance of relisha rudd. she went missing one year ago this week. today's press conference is at 3:15 at police headquarters. at the time of her disappearance, relisha was living in a d.c. homeless shelter with her mother and siblings and was last seen with a janitor who was later found dead. yesterday her family and he said friends held a special service. worshippers gathered around her mother to pray and ask for answers. >> we want closure god. we want release. in the name of jesus, give us some answers. >> la rishrelisha would have turned 9 yesterday. >>> starting today, traffic will be cut to one lane only in each direction for a quarter mile stretch between fairfax county parkway and backlick road. this is part of a long term widening plan for that area of route one. this part of the project should last until may of >>> we are tracking secretary of state john kerry's arrival in geneva. he has already head with russia's foreign minister. no real details yet from that meeting, but he did just tweet out sa

last year relisha rudd was seen on surveillance video with a janitor janitor. >> she was never seen again. tisha thompson has an update. >> a news conference just started with mayor muriel bowser on the ongoing investigation into the girl's disappearance. since she went missing a year ago this week the district has been trying to figure out if certain policies could have prevented her disappearance. je expect an update from the mayor on possible changes today. a government investigation last year said she hadn't been seen at her elementary school an entire month before she disappear. a janitor at d.c. general who was the primary suspect also posed as her doctor and lied to city officials saying she was sick. darcy spencer is at the news conference and will have governments on news 4 at 5:00. at the live desk tisha thompson. >>> new search warrant documents obtained by news4 reveal a state department official thought he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl before he was arrested last week daniel rosen. the counterterrorism director is charged with online solicitation of a child. court

. >>> it was a year ago today relisha rudd was officially declared missing and has still not been found. >> we haven't forgotten her and not stopped hoping she will be final. nick giovanni is here with what wusa9 hopes to raise awareness for a cause near and dear to our station and viewers. >> reporter: the sad truth is relisha's case is far too common. the numbers show 2000 kids go missing in the u.s. each day which works out to be one every 90 seconds. throughout the day we'll be tweeting missing children from the greater washington area specifically. [ no audio ] >> reporter: our hope is you'll join us to help bring them home. follow us on twitter during those times. the best way for us to help find them is to show them to as many people as possible. >>> some surveillance tapes taken the night two secret service agents crashed through a white house barricade may have been erased. joseph clancy showed two videos from the scene. one showed agent bit of the action. lawmakers say clancy told them other videos taken the same day might have been erased. secret service policy calls for tape

. >>> any thoughts about the year anniversary of the disappearance of relisha rudd. the fbi held a press conference saying they're still holding out hope. saying things have improved at the shelter from which she disappeared. >> i don't know about the improvement part. i think the news conference is a good thing to have. you don't want the young lady to be forgotten. it's been a year. they were smart to bring this up. you never know what evidence might still be out there. >> bremante? >> i think this is an opportunity -- again, we talked about the mayor. she talked about having a different road to take in terms of homeless shelters i think this is a chance for her to readdress that to use this possible tragedy to sort of take the path i think that she wants to take to help is city. >> relisha would have been 9 years old last week dave. >> you have to think, tremendously sad. we seem to have a mayor really focused on this issue. the current shelter, the big shelter, things have improved there. the criticism is that's not the shelter for these kids they should be somew

rudd was living. police believe he shot and killed his wife and then killed himself. we still don't know what happened to relisha you're looking at live video from i-70. frederick county says you can face a big fine for being caught on your cell phone while driving, $80 the first time $10 the second time and $1360 the third time. >>> d.c. says it's making more money than it thought. the cfo for the city says he's expecting an extra $37 million this upcoming year. that money would lower the $250 million gap the mayor and the city council have to cover in the budget. the mayor submits her budget plan next month. >>> a developing story now. in madison, wisconsin, police are looking for someone they san jose say opened fire outside of a mall. take a look at this. you can see police at the mall in the video that we're loading up for you right here. they searched the area and found shell casings outside. police say the shooter was fighting with some people inside a food court before they all went outside. after the shooting the person ran away. no one was hurt. >>> coming up in the week ahead, the government will take