ews 4's jackie bensen's in rockville, where the attack happened last night. jackie? >> reporter: doreen this information, as you said, just coming into us in the last hour or so. we don't have a lot of details. we learned that a 25-year-old man was taken into custody earlier this evening. we know that at this time, he's in custody, he's under arrest, but has not yet been charged and that could change overnight. 's not clear whether security images from thi 7-eleven played a role in an arrest that was n made less t 24 hours after the attack, but detectives d spend significant time there during the course oaf their investigation.ti fear and c in rockville tonight, as word spread that a woman had been dragged into the woods, beaten and raped near thc inteon of frederick road, route 355 and goudie drive. it happened just beforeig midn. the woman was walking from the shady grove metro station to a friend's house. after escaping her ,attacker she ran to a nearby office building for help a security officer called 911. a number of women at the metro station this evening were

. >> news 4's jackie bensen is live outside children's national health, where's being treated. jackie? >> reporter: well, during the litt -- doreen, the little boy's mother has only livedn this area for a few years, so, she's going through all of this without a lot ofil f around, but in that time, she has made at least one very good friend. >> please pray, and i'm ke, pray for what, what's wrong? he was in an accident. >> reporter: she got the fhone cam her best friend yesterday afternoon, there has been a terrible crash involving a motorcycle. 8-year-old edward julian pope, known as juju, was badly injured. the two moms met when the two boys went to school together. tucker knows juju's recovery will be many months long and impose ainancial train and her best friend. >> she's i the private industry. thank god, you know, i'm in government, so, i have thatng luxury of b able to take off and have leave, but i know that she doesn't. >> rorter: hearts are heavy with the knowledge that family hriendtopher mcclain, 44, was kill eed in the crash. it is believed that he tucked his body t

li the national mall, jackie bensen, news 4. >> so frightening. all right, jackie, thank you. >> a a man in wheelchair was killed today while riding up and escalator at the columbia heights metro station. toght, we've learned new details about what happened. news 4's mark seagraves has new reaction now from a man who witnessed the tragedy. >> reporter: investigator s wer on the scene after the call came out, that someon had fal down the escalator. when paramedics arrived, they found the man lying at t bottom of this escalator. >> i seen the guy laid out. i saw his leg was all bloody, really bad. i saw ten people crowded around him. >> reporter: according to a sposhg spokesperson for metro, the man was in a whlchair and attempted to use the elevator, but for some reason, gave up after just a short time and then tried to ride h wheelchair upat the esc instead. at some point, while going up the escalator his wheelchair, the m fell backwards and then his wheelchair fell on top of him. the wheelchair was, like, right near the bottom of the escator, prob

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 pick

news 4's jackie bensen is live for us along a wisconsinnue with the latest. jackie, what is the word? >> reporter: well, jim, they are working hard. take a look behind me. and making quite a bit of progress. the updates that about 350 customers,ng includi two hotels, we're ld, are still in the dark, but 6,000 customers, and a customer is a blding or a home, not a single person, were without power at the height of this, which began about 7:30 tonight. now, chopper 4 captured images ofhe congested streets of powntown bethesda without lights. ce directing traffic because the traffic lights were out. for a time, metro was sending trai throughhe bethesda station without stopping. thes escalator there one of the longest in the system and we are told that people weren that escalator and inside the station's elevator when t e lights wenout. a numberf restaurants and other businesses appeared to have closed early. nosa as i , we've been watching crews going up and down the street here, bringing the b lighk on block by block. we are not sure exactly what caused this, bu

live in college park, jackie bensen, newsht4. >> all rjackie, thank you. i> a new sign of solidarity tonight pittsburgh, after saturday's mass shooting at the tree of lifena sygogue. the nhl'tsburgh penguins unveiled a new patch on their jerseys to remember the victim it's the penguin mascot placed over the star of david. the patch reads "stronger tha hate." in addition to the patch, there was a ceremonial puck drop during the pregame ceremony involving two police officers who were wounded in the shooting. the team's jerseys will be signed and auctioned forar ies related to the shooting.liy,si pirst l >>> visited pittsburgh, paying their respects to the 11 people killed. >> but the esident's vis didn't sit well with some people in that community. nbc's dan shenaman reports. >> reporter: president trump and the first lady in pittsburgh, to honor the deadnd provide comfort to the grieving. joined by daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner, they brought flowers and ceremonial rocks to honorach victim. the presidential visit welcomed by the synagogue's i

in rockville, jackie bensen news 4. >>> we want to take you to the phoenix, arizona, area where president trump just wrapped up a rally with supporters. it's become a familiar sight in recent weeks. the president spending a lot of time on the campaign trail before the midterm elections. this week he's been rampi up his rhetoric on immigration, and 3,000 people, mostlyondurans are on a migrant caravan right now. their jouey north has infuriated president trump. he's threatened to send the u.sy milita into mexico and close the u.s./mexico border. nbc new political director chuck todd says the president's rhetoric and campaign blitz could help republicans in senate races but have the opposite effect in the house. >> he has embraced this idea that he speaks for the party, that midterms are a referendum the president and he's running towards the flame. >> mm-hmm. >> wve never had that before normally, barack obama when he knew he was unpopular at a midterm, he took a backseat, george w. bush, same thing. bill clinton same thing. he's running towards the flame. in some ways there's a couple of

in prince george's county, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> and turning to our oeather no a very summer-like day again today. it was nice out there. was.eah, it sounds like we're going to notice a big difference tomorrow. >> .ge, gu we hit 90 today. the heat index into the low 90s. and i townk tomo yeah, could see close to 20 degrees difference. look at these numbers across tha the northeast today, the mid-atlantic, 90 degrees, d.c. 92 in richmond. it's octobere these more like july or august numbers across the region. notice pittsburgh, a high of 77. some of that cooler air, 76 up toward york, is coming down here. that cooler air making its way down along a ont. still shower activity. showers into frederick county right thfsand. most the shower activity well to the west. tomorr, though, feeling 15 to 20 degrees cooler, not colder, cooler. clouds are moving in. t clouds are goi stick with us for awhile. and i'm watching saturday closely. if you have saturdayan we'll see you back here in just a minute. >> doug, thank you. >>> still no arrest tonight in the shooting that killed a teenager in w