i have a couple more cards -- denny collins, lisa marie, daniel pena. come forward please. thank you. >> i'm a case manager at compass. i want to thank you for having this hearing to bring the community together to talk about this issue. i wanted to speak about the families that we surveyed. i know for myself on my case load out of all the families i have on my case load i only have one family that wasn't currently residing in san francisco and that was a family fleeing from dv and that's a group of families i'm concerned about is families who do flee san francisco because of dv and go to other counties and establish there for a little while for their safety. a lot of times domestic violence shelters are full here and they have to access other shelters in other counties so it's important they have access to san francisco shelters. other families i'm concerned about are those with severe medical conditions, who are staying with families and may have children under 5 years of age. those families can't access emergency center because they can't carry their things or leave the

collins has the report. >> reporter: this man, arrested and charged in the post office rape case. 47-year-old dennis nathan carpenter picked up in the district. law enforcement sources say he was identified through dna, that he had a rape conviction in prince george's county back in the '90s, that on the day of the sex assault, he escaped from a d.c. halfway house where he was doing time for an attempted robbery. all this as the victim speaks out. today i talked to the clerk who was raped behind this post office in woodmore. we call her lily. for obvious reasons, we're concealing her identity. >> did you think he might kill you? >> yeah. he said he was. >> what did he say? >> he was going to cut me up and put me in a dumpster. >> reporter: it happened on may 2nd. she went out to get some lunch. she was walking back when she was approached by a man. he told her he had a truck. he asked if she wanted to see it. she said no. he asked her if she had a cigarette. she said no. he asked her if she had any kids. she said no. then as she started to walk into work, she says he grabbed her by the arm and forced her t

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dennis nathan carpenter, held in a d.c. jail tonight. he's expected to be brought to montgomery county to face those rape charges soon. pat collins, news4. >>> two men are being held without bond thought to be connected to as many as 14 robberies in our area. 33-year-old walter douglas and 43-year-old floyd davis are accused of robbing high-end stores in maryland and virginia, including a store in pentagon city in march and the cartier store in chevy chase in april. a preliminary hearing is set for douglas on monday. davis' case is before a grand jury. police have not recovered any of the stolen merchandise. >>> and that weather system down in florida just got a little more serious. >> yeah, it's our first named tropical storm of the season. its name is andrea. it's going to make its way right up the coast into our neck of the woods. storm team 4 radar showing where this storm is. it's well out into the open waters of the gulf of mexico. but they are expecting 6 to 8 inches of rain in florida. it's going to make its way up through portions of the panhandle of florida and eventually right up the coast. once again, that's going to