officers found carolyn cross dead in her alexandria apartment yesterday. and today her suspended killer made his first appearance in court. news4's pat collins is live for us in alexandria with the latest on this story. pat? >> reporter: jim, a high-ranking, highly regarded d.c. official murdered here in alexandria. she was on her way to a management conference in atlanta. in fact, her daughter was to pick her up and drive her to the airport. but when her daughter got here, there was no answer at the door. the victim, carolyn cross, the deputy director of the district's department of corrections. she was 64 years old. found murdered inside her apartment yesterday morning by her daughter. charged in the case, 29-year-old dewitt saom appeared in court today with bandages on his wrist and forearms. they say he was wearing a suicide smock an article of clothing jailers use to keep inmates from harming themselves. the victim, carolyn cross, lived in this building. the suspect in the building next door. police say they found no evidence that the two had any prio

yes. >> poor old alexandria. alexandria subject to that cartoon where we have enough of your porter, enough of your perry, enough of your dark ale, enough of your pearsi sider, enough of captain perry. great pummel, that cartoon. going through these periods of shameider, enough of captain perry. great pummel, that cartoon. going through these periods of shamecider, enough of captain perry. great pummel, that cartoon. going through these periods of shame, was alexandria able to exert a voice or cowering in the district of columbia. >> exert a voice. unfortunately one of those voices, one of the two alexandria newspapers, no longers, no copies, extinct. the second one, there are a few copies from the fall of 1814. they don't have much to say. the reason i believe that's the case is because they wouldn't have been unhappy to get back to virginia. they had lost their votes, their representative in congress. for all his political wisdom, george washington, who believed that the location and collusion of alexandria wou

kudos to the city of alexandria. the rain did not keep the runners from taking part in the arlington police fire and 5k.riff 9/11 memorial autria godfrey and jummy element olabanjiand jummy helped emcee the event. questions outnumber answers in the mysterious crash of a small airplane near jamaica. search team say that the brees spotted friday may have sunk. the plane stopped responding to radio calls about an hour after its flight. the plane belonged to a u.s. real estate to the leper in new york and his wife. -- real estate developer in new york and his wife. marks nearly four weeks since the shooting death of michael brown and ferguson, missouri. people took to the streets of the district, demanding reforms nationwide, and an investigation of all police involved shootings. a memorial service will be held joany for comedienne rivers, who died thursday after suffering a heart attack during an outpatient procedure that is now being investigated. michelle franzen has more. >> we're learning more about the untimely dea

. >> one had the community of alexandria on edge for a long time. the other has captured the nation's attention. our team is working some new leads right now. let's begin with jason pugh in baltimore with the fallout about ray rice. jason. >> reporter: yeah, wendy. when nfl commissioner roger goodell firsthanded out a two-game suspension to ray rice for his domestic violence incident, people in the nfl and outside of the nfl were outraged by the lack of severity of that punishment. now up until that point, we didn't see the video of what took place inside that elevator on that night in atlantic city. we only saw the aftermath of it. now that this new video has been released by tmz sports, it's only added fuel to the fire, and people are demanding answers from the commissioner. i do want to warn our viewers before we show you this video, it's very graphic and you may find it to be extremely disturbing. let's show the video right now. it shows ray rice punching his then fiancee, now wife, and knocking her unconscious. in response to this video, the ra

in alexandria. the man charged with killing a d.c. department of corrections worker lived apparently in the same apartment complex. dalwit seung is behind bars suspected of murdering 64-year- old carolyn cross found dead in her apartment on kenmore avenue yesterday morning. today we spoke with a former co- worker of cross who also lives in the apartment building. she recognized seung when we showed her his mugshot. the woman said she did not know anybody who did not like and respect cross. >> i don't know anyone that did not like her. she commanded respect. she gave respect. >> what happened? what made you so angry that you had to do that if he is indeed the suspect much? in -- suspect? >> alexandria police have not released a motive or told us if the two knew each other. the woman we spoke with today tomorrow us the daughter of cross found her tied up and unresponsive. >>> tonight cheverly police say they did everything they could to prevent a mother from killing her two young children. sonya spoon

live in alexandria, jackie bensen, news4. >>> this has been a big debate. high schoolers in fairfax county are one step closer to hitting the snooze button. >> and a lot of them are loving it. today the school board narrowed down its options for new start times. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver was at the work station and is here to explain the proposed changes. >> reporter: school board members say they have waited a long time to change start times in our region's largest school district, some 15 years. and most are convinced the change is investable. but giving students more sleep is going to come at a loss. school is back in session for okayton high school senior, ryan edwards. >> i maybe, maybe will get six hours. >> reporter: and that means sleep is hard to come by. >> it is just impossible for me to get the amount of sleepy need. >> i get up at 5:20 and start waking him up at 5:40 so he has enough time to wake up. >> reporter: ryan's mom terri wishes her son could snooze a little longer. >> the start times are just way too early. >> repo

it is 71 in alexandria.their high temperature made it up to 73, and now 73 at george washington university, and temperatures will fall into the 60's across most of the region overnight, and the coolest air is off to the north and west of us, the higher elevations, and in it is 75 degrees cumberland, and southern maryland, where the showers have not stopped, now 67. up,eratures are warming especially south and west of us, and st. louis at 83. this is a push of warmer air that will eventually make its way to our region as we move through the next couple of days, and the daytime high temperatures, upper 80's to at near 90, and dew point levels in the 50's, and upper 60's to 70-degree range, and that is when it starts to feel comfortable. conditions, and at least the drier atmosphere overnight and into the day tomorrow. this will continue to track. showers stay in the forecast across southern maryland and the d.c. metro for the overnight, but it is limited, especially as west,ve out towards the including the pan

>> one big break for murder investigations in alexandria. a man charged in how the victims are coping. ray rice is out. the ravens head coach responds to the video that has disturbed the nation. >> it made things different. >> what is next for the team and the former running back? and d.c. traffic tickets under the microscope. the skating report on the process, and tonight d.c. police respond. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- ravens head coach john harbaugh responds to the stunning and graphic video showing his star running back assaulting his ex fiancÉ. the punch knocked her unconscious. originally, ray rice was suspended two games. >> after the video surfaced, rice was cut this afternoon. tim brant joins us with what the coach had to say. day forbeen a difficult everybody involved, the nfl and coach john harbaugh say that ray rice has been honest and forthcoming from the beginning about what happened to the atlantic city elevator, but when the video was released today and you could see the attack, every thi

. >>> a suspect accused of going on a one man killing spree in alexandria is due in court tomorrow. that's where charles severance is held tonight after he was transferred from loudoun county. >> reporter: i'm peggy fox in canned ya where charles severance -- alexandria where charm severance charged with three murders -- charles severance charged with three murders is finally being held in custody. charles severance is here at one of the most secure jails in our region, the alexandria adult detention center. last week severance was charged with three alexandria murders, ruthanne lodato, ron occur kirby -- kirby and nancy dunning. the families are grateful for the progress in the case. >> the reality is it's a long legal process and they know that, but for the family it just serve as a painful reminder. >> reporter: this morning with ankles shackled wearing a white and orange jump suit severance appeared in loudoun county county where he's been held for five months on a weapons violations charge. some people have said these charges were trumped up in loudoun so that alexandria could

shooting and of alexandria police officer in 2013. the prosecution alleges that the morning of the shooting, a cab driver was ordered by a police officer to pull over to the side of the street and alexandria. prosecutors allege he drove away. a lookout was put out and the officer responded. there is no question about what happened but there was no question he was insane when he did it. among those who testified, and alexandria police officer, the one who originally asked bashir to pull over. court this told the morning he saw him laying next to his police motorcycle with blood coming from his for head. he sat very still during these proceedings. we do have a reporter inside the courtroom. we will continue to follow the story and have much more at 4:00. reporting live, brianne carter, abc seven news. >> the jury selection in the jody areas sentencing trial begins today. the court now starts the process of choosing jurors who determine her punishment. she was convicted of killing her boyfriend in 2008. at least one dozen people were arr

an open path to alexandria as well to again, washington.eíiú we're right off of alexandria, virginia.aptain gordon positioned his royal navy squadron on august 29th, 1814, f fort washington is destroyed, and everybody in alexandria knew that there was no way the defend the city now, and they had been left completely defenseless by t the federal government. and alexander's militia had been taken by general winder, and positioned off of fort washington for a while, and now that washington had been burned, they were marched away, and so that the city's fathers had essentially no defenses. most of the weapons in town, and the cannons save for a couple had been taken away as well. and so the mayor and others had gone to madison the previous year, and said, you know, we don't have any defenses if the british make it past the kettle bottoms and fort washington, and then we are defenseless, and madison had pretty much said, well sh well, we can't defend every turn of patch. so that the city had been pretty much left on its own. the city didn't hesitate in want ing to quickly surrender to capt

. >>> he's been charged with three murders of three prominent alexandria residents.the city this week for the first court hearing since his indictment for those killings. hank silverberg reports tonight it is more unwanted attention for a city not accustomed to its real high profile slayings. >> reporter: charles severance will be moved to alexandria to appear in court for three murder charges accused in the 2003 murder of nancy dunning, wife of the former sheriff, 2013 murder of former transportational manager ron kirby and the murder of popular music teacher ruthanne lodato last february. severance ran for mayor and appeared at city meetings. >> those were very high profile visible residents of the city, but i think what was unique about those three incidents was that they appeared inside their private homes. >> i think when people look at how safe a community is when things happen out in public on the streets and that sends a very negative perception. >> reporter: the severance court proceedings come a little more than a week after a high ranking d.c. corrections

linda lew was being held at the alexandria jail. she was just released, pending a grand jury investigation. last week, lew's ex notified the fbi that she was trying to take their son to china without his permission. lew and her son were already in the air. investigators had to make the airline turn the plane around. agents arrested her at dulles airport. >>> tomorrow night, president obama will address the nation to make the case for escalating the fight against isis terrorists. today he called in congressional leaders, asking for their support and it looks like he'll get it. steve handelsman is on capitol hill with the latest. steve? >> reporter: right, doreen, thanks. good evening. the so-called islamic state is so threatening, it's actually uniting this congress and the american people against it. it's not hard for president obama to sell a stepped-up war on isis. to congressional leaders who came to the white house. >> we have a very serious problem and what we need is a strategy. >> reporter: a year ago, president obama failed

a suspect finally charged in three high profile murder cases in alexandria. today police confirmed that that suspect is charles severance, the man they've been investigating since his arrest on an unrelated gun charge six months ago. jackie bensen is in the neighborhood where one of the murders took place. >> this is a dramatic development. >> reporter: three unsolved murders. nancy dunning in 2003, rob kirby in november of 2013, and ruth an lodado in february of this year. an indictment now formally names 53-year-old charles severance as a suspect in the shocking crimes. in each case, the victim was shot after answering a knock at the front door. but police refused to detail the evidence against severance, an odd man who once ran for mayor of alexandria. >> the cases and the quality of the evidence, i really can't comment on. >> reporter: after the police press conference, members of nancy dunning's family spoke briefly to reporters. >> nothing can bring her back. we're hopeful that today's indictment is the beginning of a process that will offer our family

live in alexandria with more on the investigation. >> reporter: we saw an alexandria police officer cruising through the parking lot. as you might imagine, residents at this complex are very much on edge. carolyn cross was a deputy director with the d.c. department of corrections. the 64-year-old was found murdered inside her alexandria apartment over the weekend. an arrest has been made. the question is what, if any, connection is there between cross and her alleged killer. 29-year-old dewitt seen has been charged with murder. in addition to her work -- or three decades of work with the department of corrections, she was also a board member with a second chance, helping inmates transition back into society. it is unclear whether they knew each other. we will get an update from alex a alexandria police. >>> today a professor will face a judge on arson charges. david pitts is currently on leave. cell phone video caught one of the fires police say he lit near campus. an affidavit from d.c. police said pitts broke into stars below his apartment near au and set a chair on fire and lit another fi

alexandria surrendered to a british squadron. another single building was burned, mind you the city of alexandria was put under a flor terrible contribution, prize tobacco, that w, flour, other goods and so on.t e so -- and that was seen as a disgrace. a lot of the republicans criticized thor toys of alexandria for what they did in giving up in such a disgraceful way.gton however, the main point is that washington -- the americans did not surrender the city, which an mightd have happened in europe might have been what general ross expected. they came in under a white flag, drums sounding, for a parlay to negotiate with the americans. but the american government, itself, and the city government under mayor blake, mayor blake said he would not surrender the city. and insteadnear of there being negotiati negotiations, shots rang out near the capitol at what was then a house owned by albert gallatin who was one of the delegates for the americans in gent. and this is now the belman sewell house that is still there not far from the cap

. >>> triple murder suspect charles severance is now in alexandria scheduled for court tomorrow morning. peggy fox was in the loudoun county court this morning when a judge released him from custody there. >> we in the neighborhood feel the loss every day. >> reporter: triple murder suspect charles severance is now here at one of the most secure jails in our region in alexandria, the decontinuation center where suspected terrorists are sometime held. ruthanne lodato was killed last november, ron kirby in february and nancy dunning 11 years ago. they were all shot in their homes which are within 2-mile of each other. the family is grateful for the progress in the case. >> the reality is it's a long legal process and they know that, but for the family just serves as a painful reminder of the loss of ruthanne. i know that now we know it's a painful reminder for two other families in our community. >> reporter: this morning with ankles shackled wearing a white and orange jumpsuit severance appeared in court in loudoun county where he's been held five months on a weapons violations charge. t

plans to install one in at least ward while others will be down in alexandria, so plenty of bikes toso to speak. >>> britain's prince harry is turning the big 3-0. can you believe it? we know this guy as the party prince, but i had birthday bash was reportedly kind of small. prince harry celebrated the end of the games for wounded soldiers. he reportedly had a bigger party in mind but called it off because his sister-in-law kate had severe morning sickness. the party might have been small, but he got a big gift, a more than $16.5 million inheritance from his late mom, princess diana. >>> always watching always tracking wusa9 first alert weather. >> big party later. >> right. >> that did not look too shabby there. i got to tell you, though, i'm loving this weather. >> it's pretty invigorating. >> you walk outside. it just feels like football. >> fall has arrived. >> no ac, no heat yet. we're in a good pattern. that said there's a cold front that will roll through overnight, albeit weak. let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather really, 69 downtown, dew poi

he's 17 years old and lives in alexandria. the woman told investigators somebody raped her last sunday at a bar on south reynolds street. >>> there's a new push tonight to target isis. president obama set up a meeting with congressional leaders to come up with ways to fight the militants. lawmakers come back from a five week recess on monday and they will meet with the president tuesday at the white house. president obama just got back from the nato summit in wales where nine nations agreed to join force with the u.s. and dismantle and destroy isis in iraq and syria. >>> november 4th is right around the concern. d.c. residents are gearing up to elect their new mayor. ward 7 residents got to ask the candidate questions about education and economic development. the independent and the republican are running against her. >>> next, a mystery after a pilot makes a 1700 mile journey while incapacitated at the controls. >>> a historic storm leaves hundreds of thousands of people in the dark. why could it be days before things get bac

here on kenmore avenue in alexandria, sunday morning.ictim, carolyn cross was 64 years old. >> it's really scary, actually. it as just, it's crazy that would happen in the building we live in. >> reporter: it's unclear if the 29 year old knew the victim or why he may have killed her. >> very concerned. i actually have a 4 year old, and i've been living here for six years. so it was definitely very concerning. >> reporter: police were investigating inside the building all day and into the night. residents tell us there are security cameras. they're confident anybody who comes into the building would have shown up on surveillance video. >> i never thought something like that would happen specific in this building. >> reporter: cross was deputy director of operations with d.c. corrections and had been with the department for more than three decades. she was preparing to leave for training on monday. she was also a board member with voices for a second chance. it's a group that helps offenders bridge the gap between incarceration and the com

fairfax, falls church, alexandria, arlington and the district. montgomery, prince georges, anne arundel, howard, they could get an inch or two. most of the rain is in the carolinas, crossing south of norfolk and danville. moderate to heavy downpours. blustery east winds. here's the timing on arriving. 5:00, 6:00, the first showers come canning in. the first neighborhood the see it will be in charles, st. marys, anne arundel, calvert. and moderate overnight. and midnight don't and dawn on thursday. so for the morning commute, we could be dealing with after effects of ponding of water early tomorrow morning. most of the region will probably felt an inch or less. but an inch or more is possible. counties around the bay, eastern shore and atlantic beach. it's up near 50 degrees after we were in the mid-40s a couple of hours ago. the skies are partly cloughy. 59, reagan national. by noon time, near 70. low to mid-70s in the afternoon. we had the increasing chance of showers moving in and likely look overnight as we drop into the 60s. we dry out thursd

in alexandria, i'm julie carey, news4. >> doug joins us on cue. we've got some raindrops out there. that's all they are, a few showers. if you have plans, don't cancel but you may need the umbrella for about ten seconds. that's about it. outside right now -- that's exactly right. look at those, the clouds coming in across our region. and we've seen the clouds all day. we've still allowed temperatures, loufhowever, to go the mid to upper 70s in most locations. the airport, 78 degrees. 73 in men as as, 73 in leesburg and gaithersburg area. if you're thinking about getting out and on the bike tonight, areas of drizzle, maybe a shower. 77 at 6:00. sunset at 7:26. just know that, because 7:00 we're fine, but by 8:00, we're dark and the clouds still there. might want to be in by that 8:00 hour. i mentioned some shower activity. we'll zoom in and you can see a few showers on the radar picking up. and this is just little areas of drizzle, little showers making their way through parts of northwest, parts of the clinton area towards quantico and fredericksburg. showers moving from east to wes

alexandria begins to decline. as a transatlantic commercial center. fortunately it's going to become a railroad center, et cetera. those petitions to retrocede the town or actually all of the district on the virginia side of the river, those pegs started very early. they were never effective until george washington park tried to give up protecting the dream of his grandfather for 100 square miles. when he signed in 1846, bingo, the legislation flew through congress. in his first, i think, speech to congress, address to congress, president clinton called on congress to take back those 37 square miles and reincorporate them into the district. obviously it didn't happen. yes? >> not mention s word, slavery. of course, washington was probably the largest american slave trading city prior to 1850. how much did slavery influence whether the capital should be relocated? >> i did not see any evidence during september and october of 1814 that the issue of slavery in any way played a role. i did not see any evidence one way or the other in 1790 that it played a

eight more have already opened in alexandria. >>> 6:14.e's another look at our question of the morning. the average person does this about 14 times each day. is it a, lock and unlock their car. b, hum, or c stress about something. >> our facebook friend kristin cunningham wrote c which is stress about something but for some of uses, it's way more than 14. we'll have more of your responses and the correct answer in 30 minutes so % >>> you want to talk sports or weather or traffic? anything you want at 6:17. we decided we'd let howard handle it. >> i was just grabbing a picture of the beautiful sky out there. >> you were eating. >> just grabbing a grape. the light changes so quickly that you have to get it when you can. the morning sky. >> let's show you what's happening because it is an interesting morning. we had a couple of showers but for the most part, we're enjoying a fine morning except in areas in northern virginia and eastern and west virginia. the eastern shore, you're starting to clear out. these showers actually started first aro

an open path to alexandria as well to again, washington.eíiú we're right off of alexandria, virginia.on positioned his royal navy squadron on august 29th, 1814, f fort washington is destroyed, and everybody in alexandria knew that there was no way the defend the city now, and they had been left completely defenseless by t the federal government. and alexander's militia had been taken by general winder, and positioned off of fort washington for a while, and now that washington had been burned, they were marched away, and so that the city's fathers had essentially no defenses. most of the weapons in town, and the cannons save for a couple had been taken away as well. and so the mayor and others had gone to madison the previous year, and said, you know, we don't have any defenses if the british make it past the kettle bottoms and fort washington, and then we are defenseless, and madison had pretty much said, well sh well, we can't defend every turn of patch. so that the city had been pretty much left on its own. the city didn't hesitate in want ing to quickly surrender to captain gordon,

alexandria city schools locked their doors. police searched and found no one. but this will mean added security at maury tomorrow. >> the things we will do is put extra security in the schools coming up and other things that we can ensure we don't have a repeat of this. >> reporter: parents were told to stay off campus until it was secure. most arrived at dismissal and waited out front until police allowed them to reunite with their children. >> i did about 90 on the highway. don't tell the cops. to get to my baby. but i'm just thankful they called and made us alert there was a situation going on and i was able to get here to her. >> reporter: police say they were looking for a black teenager with a medium complexion with a mohawk style haircut. live in alexandria, kristen wright, news4. >>> president obama has said repeatedly that the strategy to defeat isis terrorists will not involve u.s. combat troops. last week, the president promised the u.s. would not be, in his words, dragged into another ground war in iraq. but today the nation's top general opened the

so they sailed upstream, and they laid siege to alexandria., just about everybody from alexandria had been called up and gone to bladensburg and other places. and they were old and infirm and they were either too young or too old. they were in a new position to defend the city. so a delegation from alexandria of notables went to see copan, and he spoke to them as if they were underlings. he demeaned them, and he told them that they would be attacked and ransacked if they took action against the forces, but he told them that they were going to raid the warehouses of agricultural produce. he demanded sunken american ships be raised by the americans. they said they could not do this. he overlooked that. but they did raid the warehouses. they did terrible damage, terrible damage. the americans brought some people from baltimore, notably commodore john rogers, to harass the british as they descended down the potomac away from alexandria. and they did a good job, but they literally ran out of ammunition, and they were castigated in the press for thi

this was the scene early this afn in alexandria. our camera was rolling when a moe of three unmarked al police cars pulled thh the gates at the den center. poli won't confirm that sevee inse one of thos cars. but we know he arrived at the ja just moments later. this, the latest booking photo tan as the 53-year-old was prd at the alexandria jail. week ago, severance was in on two counts of capi murder and one count of first agree murder in the deaths of three well residents. nancy dunning, the wife of the fo sheriff, more than a de al. tran planner ron kirby and ruth ann lodato in february cot ae tomorrow g at 9:00 a.m. he wl n be brought over to e courte for that. he'll appear instead via closed cit tv. it's expected the commonweah atto wil ask he continue to be held wit bond. the big question as the case moves beyond tomorrow's hear who will the judge be for this case? all three alexandria circu cour jud have recused them. mea the virginia supreme t wil, but i checked with them late toy and that decision still had not been made. we

. >> happening now in alexandria. an active investigation into a rape the victim was attacked on south reynolds street. police are looking for two men, one the suspect and the other a man who was in the area and who may have information on what happened. we are live in alexandria with more. what can you tell us? investigators need your help on this one. they have very little to go on. they have a new surveillance picture. we will show you that in a second that may help them. first, here is what we know so far. alexandria police tell us sunday night, a 43-year-old woman was attending a party at a bar in t south reynolds street. she tells police that a man she did not know raped her between 6:30 and 7:30. news of the attack is putting residents on edge. >> it is scary. you walk sometimes. many people have a dog. they are walking their dogs. it is dangerous. >> take a good look. investigators are trying to track down this man. police stress he is not a suspect, nor is he a person of interest. somebody who was seen on sur

. >>> an arrest hours ago in texas in the case of hannah graham, the uva student from alexandria who remains missing tonight. i'm jan jeffcoat. >> i'm derek mcginty. it has been 11 days now since anyone has seen graham and tonight police released this new missing poster of the uva student updated with a $100,000 reward for any tips as to where she might be and now the se arch for graham and her alleged abductor have taken investigators 1,200 miles away. >> jesse matthew fled virginia to the bolivar peninsula. officers plan to head that way soon. >> our mola lenghi has the latest on today's arrest and continued search for hannah graham. >> that is still the outstanding question here, where is hannah graham? police meeting one step closer to answering that with the arrest of jesse matthew charged with abduction with intent to defile in graham's disappearance arrested at 3:30 this afternoon by galveston county, texas sheriff's department who the fbi is calling a heroing for tracking matthew down to a galveston area beef. why matthew was in texas -- beach. why matthew was in texas is unc

. >>> i'm julie carey in alexandria, virginia. where a man accused of shooting a alexandria police officer says he's not guilty by reason of insanity. coming up, what his attorneys have to say about his mental state when he fired the gun. >>> a doctor exposed to ebola in sierra leone arrives in our area. what researchers are trying to learn from him as the virus spreads i >>> the cab driver accused of shooting an alexandria police officer in the head is asking a judge to find him not guilty by reason of insanity. julie carey has been in the courtroom with officer peter labois as that fateful day is replayed in testimony. julie? >> well, peter labois still bears the scars of that gunshot and the many surgeries required to save his life. the prosecutor told the judge today he has suffered irreparable brain injury but also made a remarkable recover and sat in the front row listening as prosecutors began to lay out his case that bashir intended to kill the officer. while bashir's attorney said he didn't know what he was doi not guilty

i'm here in alexandria where a water main break is expected to impact your report.ting live, back to you. >> zachary is there on breaking news from a water main break in alexandria. >>> and now to the story of the grieving woman who is mourning the loss of her brother who died in a hit-and-run crash in the district. police are now searching for the driver. 26-year-old bereket haile was killed early sunday morning. his family is devastated as his sister says haile was hanging out with friends at a club across the street from howard university. >> i'm still in denial. i just want my brother to come back to me. i want him to caulk in here. walk in here. >> police are checking businesses in the area for surry va say lans /* surveillance video to help solve this crime. >>> strong winds knocked down buildings, power lines and trees in baja, california. the hurricane made landfall near the luxury resort cabo s lucas and la paz. >>> it's time to look at our forecast with a chilly morning and the potential for rain. we are here with weather and traffic on the 1s. what's goin

tom roussey is live in alexandria. >> i spoke with the police in charlottesville. they say there is a team searching as we speak for hannah m, and they plan to search all night long if necessary. she graduated from west potomac i school in 2013. ands here are very worried are wondering what possibly could have happened to her. tonight, the police are searching again for hannah g raham near the uva grounds. by her hometown, there is worry. >> i cannot imagine. i was talking to her mom the other day, and is just very -- hard. >> it was an emotional day, say the students. >> everyone is talking about it. we are also worried. >> everybody is recognizing her from her picture. we are all freaking out about it. >> friends at uva last cell hannah friday night at this charlotte hall apartment complex. the police say she had been drinking heavily that night and disappeared after hanging out at a popular area near uva called the corner. at 1:20 in the morning, she sent a text to a friend saying, " i'm lost, come find me." that's the last anyone heard from her. >> it shocking.

alexandria, falls church, howard, anne arundel and up around baltimore. rain coming in but not until tonight. scattered moved north of richmond. still very dry here where we are. the rain is coming down hard in the carolinas. now southf virginia beach, outer banks, moderate to heavy rain. eastern north carolina tapers off. this is an area of low pressure that is tracking north. it will be continuing due north. so a lot of this rain, the pluck of the heavier rain likely just east of the metro area. increasing clouds by 5:00. some of the leading edge of the rain, showers moving into our southern suburbs. showers pick up between 8:00 and midnight. could get moderate downpours. between midnight and dawn is where we could get the heaviest rains. after that it begins to taper off during the day on thursday. how much rain will we get? up to an inch in the areas in blue. and in lavender, two inches of rain. the bulk around the bay and eastern shore. it's another chilly morning. this morning temperatures are in the mid-40s in northern loudoun, northern montgomery,

. >> reporter: in alexandria peggy fox, wusa9. >> the alexandria king street art festival runs along king street in old town, alexandria, saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and from sunday to 10 a.m. till 5 p.m. if you are not inspired by his story in some way, i don't know what to say. >> you might have seen him on battleship where he was very cool. >> that's right. he has figured out how to be a renaissance man. >>> coming your way a smartphone app you'll be glad your kids have but pray they'll never have to actually use, see how you can transform your kid's phone into a panic button if they're ever in trouble. >> but first see how a new movie that chronicles the fall of saigon nearly 40 years ago could serve as a reminder of what not to do in iraq and syria now. >>> as president obama plans to step up attacks on isis in iraq and syria, a kennedy hears echos of vietnam. robert kennedy's daughter lori is just out with a new film called last days in vietnam which opens in d.c. today. >> bruce leshan reports the chaos of america's hasty and almost unplanned exit from saigon offers some g

three judges in alexandria recused themss om the case. the virginia supreme court will appoint a special judge. prosecutor charged severance with the murders of nancy dunning, ron kirby and ruthann lodato. >>> tuesday marks one year since a gunman shot and killed 12 people at the navy yard. there will be a remembrance ceremony at 8:00 tuesday morning. police ot a kill the gunman, 34-year-old military contractor aar alexis during the attack. >>> this week the state of maryland is focusing on your child's lunch. the seventh annual maryland home grown school lunch week kicks off tomorrow. it's a statewide celebration of healthy food grown by local farmers. state officials want to teach kids where the food comes from, how it's produced and the benefits of a healthy diet. there will be activities at schools all we long. >>> public opinion and isis. this morning how americans feel about the u.s. leading a charge about the terror group. we'll talk about this next with "meet the prs" moderator chuck todd. >>> it's n your average summer camp. how

and they late-sieged alexandria. now, just about everybody from alexandria had been called up and gone to other places. and they were old and infirmed t >> just about everybody from alexandria had been called up and had gone to blatansburg and other places. they were old and infirmed and either too young or too old. they were in no position to defend the city. so a delegation of alexandria of notables went to see coburn and he spoke to them as if they were underlings. he demeaned them. he told them that they would be attacked and ransacked if they took action against the forces. but he told them that they were going to raid the warehouses of agricultural produce. he also demanded that sunken american ships be raised by the americans. he did raid the warehouses. and they did terrible damage. terrible damage. the americans brought some people from baltimore. they did a good job, but they ran out of ammunition. and they were castigated in the press for this folly. they took away this vast agricultural produce from ale k

they sailed upstream, and they laid siege to alexandria.alexandria had been called up and gone to other places. they were too young or too old and could not defend the city so an allegation went to see and he spoke to them as if they were underlings. he demeaned them. he told them that they would be attacked and ransacked if they took action against the forces, but he told them that they were going to raid the warehouses of agricultural produce. he demanded su eed sunken ameri ships be raised by the americans. they said they could not do this. they did raid the warehouses. they did terrible damage, terrible damage thezsqo americ brought people from baltimore, notably commodore john rogers, to harass the british as they descended away from alexandria, and they did a good job, but they literally ran out of r> were n, and they castigated in the press for this folly. that is, the people, the critics of the americans, and theyîb to away this vast agricultural produce from alexandria. one of two people did go -- americans -- they went on horse

yes. >> poor old alexandria.exandria subject to that cartoon where we have enough of your porter, enough of your perry, enough of your dark ale, enough of your pearsi sider, enough of captain perry. great pummel, that cartoon. going through these periods of shameider, enough of captain perry. great pummel, that cartoon. going through these periods of shamecider, enough of captain perry. great pummel, that cartoon. going through these periods of shame, was alexandria able to exert a voice or cowering in the district of columbia. >> exert a voice. unfortunately one of those voices, one of the two alexandria newspapers, no longers, no copies, extinct. the second one, there are a few copies from the fall of 1814. they don't have much to say. the reason i believe that's the case is because they wouldn't have been unhappy to get back to virginia. they had lost their votes, their representative in congress. for all his political wisdom, george washington, who believed that the location and collusion of alexandria would

. >> we have investigation on the fourth murder in alexandria. the suspect identified as sium who got into the apartment of a top official in the d.c. corrections department. peggy fox is in alexandria with the latest. >> she was our rock. she really was. >> for a woman whose life work was with prisoners as deputy director of d.c. department of corrections, 64-year-old, carolyn cross struck a commanding presence. it makes her brutal slaying so hard to understand. >> she was a former on the board of united way. so he went out of her way to help others. >> my heart is just broken. >> this friend, neighbor, and long-time coworker says she was told cross was found bound with a plastic bag tied over her head. >> what did she do to deserve? to die like that and be found like that by her daughter? >> 29-year-old, deewit who lives in the neighboring complex has been charged with cross' murder. neighbors say she was friendly. >> always say hi. >> he was friendly. >> very friendly. >> very friendly guy. >> to my son, to me. >> police say there's no indicat

at alexandria courthouse, bruce leshan, wusa9. >> in the opening statements bashear's lawyers cited a troubled childhood in pakistan. his mother set himself on fire and he was the one who had to douse the flames. she died days later anyway. >>> new developments tonight in the search for two montgomery county children missing for three weeks. today the father of sarah and jacob hoggle made a public plea to player air's governor to issue an -- maryland's governor to issue an amber alert for his children, but state police responded with an answer the family does not want to hear. >> if i wasn't in the middle of this, i may not know about it, but i do have a smartphone. if i were to ask you how many people you know with smartphones, probably everyone you associate with has a smartphone. when you issue an amber alert, every single one of those phones is going to get that. >> reporter: the reason troy turner with the family of his missing children sarah and jacob hoggle stood outside maryland state police barracks today called for the governor to step in and request state police issue amber

wyatt andrews, cbs news, alexandria, virginia. >> schieffer: and that is the news. we'll be back at 9:00, 8:00 central with the president's address to the nation. for scott pelley, i'm bob schieffer. we'll see you again very soon. don't believe tom corbett's tv ad. the facts speak for themselves. tom corbett cut a billion dollars from our schools. he took an ax to education. twenty-seven thousand educators were laid-off.

wyatt andrews, cbs news, alexandria, virginia. >> schieffer: and that's our western edition of the cbs evening news. we'll be right back at 6:00 with the president's address to the nation. for scott pelley, i'm bob schieffer. see you in a your real is a >>> your realtime captioner is linda macdonald. >>> good evening, i'm allen martin. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. president obama is about to address the nation. we are going to be bringing that to you live. the president will outline his plan to address the threat posed by the militant group isis and the united states strategy. the group has overrun parts of syria and iraq and is responsible for beheading two american journalists. the president met with members of his national security team in the situation room earlier

>>> this is in alexandria, king street near chesterfield and north beauregard. your best alternate is south four mile drive. this could last a bit longer. also, construction near cedar lane in bethesda, a wider look at things, we look pretty good. no major issues. the same thing for prince george's county moving right along. i'm back in ten minutes. >>> melissa, thank you. you are looking live now at the gates to the washington navy yard where just a little while from now there will be a ceremony to remember the 12 people killed here. coming up next, we'll take a look at some of the moments leading up to the rescue that happened here at the washington navy yard. navy yard. we'll hear from one of the navyin fairfax county we'll heawe had to cut the a lot of waste. we consolidated offices. started sharing printers. we can walk a few feet. replaced computers, but kept the monitors. they still work fine. we even discovered that the phone company overcharged us by three million dollars! i approve this message because congress doesn't need another right winger. they n