it's been a week since 2-year-old j a3-year-old sarah hoggle have been seen. their motherasinol custody si friday. she's not giving a lot of information abt whereabou o the children, only to say they are safe. search teams have been fanning out since early in this whole incident. fir ty just humans searching, now they've brought in dogs. there are abt 18 fans out across the area to search some of the wooded areas and the back roads, places where these kids may be located. joining me noweuna pruitt with the montgomery county police tell uhomaks yoll have searching officially today? >> we'll have a team of 24 search professionals, officers. and that will include eight canines as you managed earlier. >> we've come across people this morning who want to get vo want to do what they can while you have these official and very specialized efforts. >> we want to thank the public first for all their efforts so far. but the best way that you can help now iso t areas that you frequent, even look in your own back yards, in your sheds, in your parks, anywhere that you tend

these are the children police are looking for. 2-year-old jacob hoggle and 3- year-old sarah hoggle. is a new poster issued by the national center for missing and exploited children. catherine hoggle appeared in court monday by camera. she's already facing several charges, child neglect, obstruction and hindering and parental abdication and more charges could be filed. police say they questioned hoggle for 15 hours and she told them the kids are safe and with a friend named erin. >> i don't know if there's an erin at all. the part that i believe is troabl true, she probably -- probably true, she probably did drop them off to someone. she's not going to tell the truth i don't believe. >> reporter: police say catherine hoggle changed her story during questioning at one point telling them she dropped the kids off at a playground in germantown. again, police are looking for 2- year-old jacob hoggle and 3- year-old sarah hoggle. we do have pictures of them on our week site. you can go to wusa9.com so you can take another good look at them. if you have any information about where these chi

become the home base for family and friends who are searching for 2 year-old jacob and 3 year- old sarah hoggle. jacob and sarah went missing more than a week ago along with their mother catherine. catherine hoggle was taken into custody over the weekend and is facing charges related to the children's disappearance. people reported seeing catherine hoggle in the germantown area while she was missing and police picked her up there. >> she kept coming back to this area of germantown. the only reason why i think she would do that is because my kids must be around this area. >> i don't know who i'm looking at. i don't know what she's done with the kids or where she's put the kids or if someone else has the kids and possibly i'm looking at someone who's done this horrible, horrible thing to my niece and nephew. >> reporter: the family is planning a massive search for if jacob and sarah aren't find by the end of the week. police are building a homicide case against the children's mother catherine hoggle. we do have pictures of jacob and sarah hoggle on our website wusa9.com. if you have any informati

jacob and sarah hoggle and their mother catherine. the children's grandfather spoke out within the last hour. stephanie ramirez joins us live from police headquarters in gaithersburg with more on this story. stephanie? >> reporter: andrea, this is the first time we're actually hearing from the grandfather randy hoggle. he made an emotional plea hoping catherine will see that let's go right to that. >> i don't usually cry so i apologize. if i could, i really am saying this for my daughter. this is a plea to my daughter to come home. we know she's probably not been on medication for two weeks. we know, catherine, this is not you. we know this is not who you are about and what you do. you were the first of four kids who gave me a chance to be soccer coach. probably i was never good at it but certainly did my best. you and troy have given me a chance to -- [indiscernible] next week we're working toward the right goal. we want sarah and jacob to have those same kind of opportunities. the first kiss, the first homecoming, the last prom, and

police are looking for catherine hoggle, her daughter sarah hoggle, and two-year-old son jacob hoggle. >> live in gaithersburg, police provided an update. what are police saying now? >> good afternoon. the press conference wraps up minutes ago and it could not emphasize enough that they have grave concern for the well-being of these children, but we just got new information earlier this morning on this developing story. havee say they surveillance video showing 27-year-old catherine hoggle leaving a chick-fil-a at the armantown transit center, and recent video shows her at a harris teeter not far from here at about 4:40 in the morning yesterday, without her children, which is concerning. she has been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia, and her two children, jacob and sarah, ages two and three, when missing one by one over a two-day period . when confronted, she ran off and she has not been seen since. there has been no trace of little sarah hoggle and jacob hoggle. no tips, lead, or little evidence to indicate whether they are dead or alive, leaving detectives to consider all

first an update on this investigat 2-year-old jacob hoggle, last seen sunday afternoon. 3-year-old sarah hoggle, last seen monday mornin their mother, catherine hoggle, last seen tuesday morning. now police have searched and searched and searched, but so far, nothing. they're worried. >> we are gravely concerned for catherine, for jacob and for sarah. and we need to get them back. >> reporter: at the center of the investigation, 27-year-old catherine hoggle seen here at a germantown chick-fil-a on surveillance video. it was taken shortly before she disappeared. police say she is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. they believe she is responsible for the disappearance of her children. she has been charged with child neglect. today the dad's plea. we hear from randy hoggle, catherine's father, and the missing children's grandfather. >> we no, catherine, this is not you and what you're about and what you do. you were the first of four kids to give me a chance to be soccer coach, probably was never good at it, but certainly did my best. we want sarah and jacob to have those same kind of opportuniti

montgomery county police searched eight areas in year- old jacob and 3-year-old sarah. hogglechildren. volunteers conducted their own search today for the toddlers. cameron thompson spoke with nervous family members. >> i pray they're together. i pray they're together and sarah to watch out for jacob. we just want them back and that's all we're trying to do right now. >> reporter: 12 hours after a vigil was held for 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hoggle volunteers returned to the same parking lot to help their father troy turner to canvas the neighborhood. >> tell us what neighborhood you got assigned to so we know who is on what team. >> reporter: many of them strangers with no family connection until today brought together by this story. >> oh, very sad. it's terrible. it's a tragedy. >> reporter: so they knocked on doors, handed out flyers, explained to those who don't know. >> the mom and the children went missing a week ago. >> reporter: and asked them to do one thing. >> you recognize these, call 911. >> yes. >> reporter: while family and friends are focusing thei

turning the missing persons investigation into a homicide case. 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hogglemore than a week ago. police arrested their mother catherine and questioned her more than 15 hours. she did not reveal the exact location of her children and now they are building a murder case against her. the montgomery county police searched 13,000 acres of land yesterday not finding a trace of the children. the children's father is confident his kids are still alive. >>> in the day ahead, a man charged with three murders will appear via video in an alexandria courtroom. charles severance is charmed in the murders of three people. three defensive attorneys will be at the hearing this morning. yesterday an unrelated gun charge was dropped to clear the way for his transfer from loudoun county to alexandria. >>> now 6:51 and checking weather and traffic on the 1s. tom kierein is here with more on the rain and weather. is it going to rain more, tom? >> we have a few sprinkles moving in from the west. storm team 4 radar is showing showers heading out across the beaches now. and another b

. >>> friends, family and volunteers spent a second weekend searching for jacob and sarah hoggle. they searched woods and trails. police say their mother still isn't helping investigators find them. katherine hoggle disappeared with the kids two weeks ago. now the community is gathering the children's father. >> i don't care who you are, drop them off. a library, hospital, police department, somewhere where they will be safe. if you want to be known you can collect the reward check. as long as they are receive and happy, it's fine. >>> tonight hundreds of people in our area are hoping to change minds after taking part in an out of the darkness walk on the into the mall. changing mind is a new campaign to raise awareness and the stigma of suicide. the american foundation for suicide prevention is responsering walks across the country. >> it's important that we reach out to everyone that we know, who we think is in a situation where they might not be doing well. we need to reach out to them and get them some help. >> set for next saturday. we have suicide prevention resources and ph

. >>> friends, families and volunteers spent a second weekend searching for jacob and sarah hoggle, they teamed with the maryland missing person's network hoping to find the children alive. jacob's 2, sarah 3 and police say their mother still isn't helping investigators find them. katherine hoggle disappeared with the kids two weeks ago and was taken into custody days later. news 4's derrick ward has the latest on the search. >> reporter: theirs are perhaps the most weln l-knowchildren's faces in the area but nearly two weeks after sarah and jacob hoggle disappeared with their mother, they are still missing. even with catherine hoggle in custody, reportedly not helping in the effort to find them. >> but we want to go in the woods. >> okay. >> reporter: a small army of the concerned gathered at seneca valley high school to fan out and look for the children. it takes some organizing. >> forest trail. >> i mean, organization to us was we'll meet at chick-fil-a at 5:00 in the morning. >> reporter: most of us don't know or want to be versed in this area because that means someone is missing.

yesterday, police say hoggle then left with sarah to a supposed daycare telling children's father she had both children and later that afternoon, hoggle disappeared and the father's children was very -- they are very disturbed. the whole family very disturbed looking for the children because they say the mother is confirmed to have skitsofrania. >> i want my kids back. i am letting the police figure things out. >> the families expressed there are some mental health concerns regarding their mother. so i am deeply concerned here over their welfare. >> now police say in gaithersburg, sunday, when hoggle took jacob, she borrowed her father's 2007 nissan rogue. police are asking that if you saw this vehicle in any suspicious area or any people involved, especially the two kids, to contact police immediately. at montgomery county police headquarters, stephanie ramirez, wusa9. >> thank you. we here at wusa9 are committed to finding the dozens of children from our area who are missing and bringing them home. we have pictures of them on our website, wusa9.com. so, we invite you to log on, take

we want you to take a good look at these pictures this morning. 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hoggle, of course, still missing this morning. you are asked to call police immediatelyyo have seen them or know where they are. adam, the couple has a third child that a lot of people aren't aware of who is 5 years old. when i talked to their father on friday, he mentioned they're doing their best to protect him from all of this, but he still senses that something is wrong. >> at 4 or 5 years old, you ca start to ecet to know something isn right, especially ybrh and sister are missing. >> on top of everything going on, they're having to deal with another chi and trying to explain. >> best wishes to that family right now. >>> right now d.c. police are looking for driver who hit and killed man crossing the street. we just learned police are looking for a four-door chrysler that should have damage to its windshield. poli say the man was crossing georgia aven a gerard street in northwest around 3:00 this morning. that intersection is not far from howard university. call d.c. police if you have

. >> the search picks up tomorrow for jacob and sarah hoggle who have been missing two weeks. montgomery county police carried out a grid search on i 270. they disappeared along with her mother, catherine hoggle, earlier this month. she is now under arrest. volunteers who want to help me to be in germantown and 8:30 in the morning. charged is custody, with a deadly stabbing near in anne arundel county school. charged withwas first-degree murder, charged in crofton. the name of the victim, an adult male, has not been released. tense moments at the white house as a man jumped the fence and nearly made it all the way to the north portico. this happened minutes after president obama, sasha, and malia left for camp david. everybody was safe. that are a joy to night school or temperatures -- better enjoy two nights cooler temperatures because there is a warm-up for the weekend. steve rudin has a look at the forecast. the upper it into 70's today at reagan national. now we are cooling down overnight, partly cloudy skies outside of the belfort furniture weather center. whole lot going

. >>> it's been an agonizing week for jacob and sarah hoggle. r mothe is a diagnosed schizoph police have her in custody now. she hasn't told them what happ to th kids. >> it's been a week since the children have last season. their mother has been given conflict stories about their whereabo searchers are continuing to do what they can for the childr to help bring them home, civilians, friends and strangers s for information from the public. >> i know this i helping. >> county police have been using search dogs near the woods of darnesto >> the information is going national too. the notion could be out of the immedie area. >> we want to explore every possiby and, i mean, we're g an though throu the tears. whatever means they are using, one thing is clear they have got a lot of ground to cover but determinati to see all through. >> until the kids are safe and sound, that's all it is right now. >>> no vaccination, no school, tonight, the last minute rush to get thousands of maryland schools i am nies >>> this is why more than 2 hundred fam can't go

private planes are part of the search for jacob and sarah hoggle. take a look. crews were up in germantown while volunteers spread out to look for the kids on the ground and in the air. no one has seen anything. they disappeared with their mother catherine. she is not telling investigators anything about the children. >>> police believe the man accused of ambushing two troopers was planning his attack for months or even years. they gave an update on the search for eric frein last night. they found an ak-47 and ammunition in a heavily wooded part of pennsylvania. he is accused of opening fire on two state troopers earlier this month, killing one of them and wounding the other. he's been on the run now more then a week. investigators believe frein is focused on law enforcement and do not believe he intends to hurt civilians or other people. >>> 100 citizens in ferguson, missouri will be watching police closely with body cameras. an advocacy group called we cop watch. they are being handed out in response to the michael brown shooting last month. >> people go out w

jacob and sarah hoggle are 2 and 3 years old and they were last seen with their mother catherine who is now in custody. montgomery county police believe she may have harmed her own children. their father is planning another search, this one on saturday and is asking volunteers to meet at seneca valley high school at 8:00 a.m. if you'd like to help. >>> we also have posted photos of missing children on our wusa9 facebook page. since our bring them home campaign started earlier this year, the digital flyers and photo albums of missing children have received more than 100,000 shares on facebook and twitter. >>> in one ugly reality for children who go missing is the possible chance that they could end up with a sex trafficker. in washington, d.c., it's considered a key area for human trafficking. tonight in a special film called "eight days" is stopping in d.c. proceeds will benefit safe house of hope which is a nonprofit that helps victims. the tickets are $10. the film starts at 7:00 p.m. at the united states navy memorial foundation on pennsylvania avenue in northwest. >>> congress is

> a whole community together comes today to find two clarksville children, the latest for sarah and jacob hoggle. >> showers and storms rolling through when they'll roll out and look ahead to next sports cast. be hello, i'm bruce johnson, we gin at the white house, ground patrols around the white house have been beefed up and the director of the secret service ordered a review of last night's security breach. a man caught on camera running across the white house lawn and through a front door of the white house before he was tackled byce. he had jumped the white house fence. there was a second separate incident today, more on the fall outs. >> reporter: bruce, i want to stress that at no time was president obama or the first family in any danger during either of these two incidents. and we begin with a most serious one, it happened yesterday. >> you're going to have to go out 17th street, please. >> reporter: the unprecedented breach happened around 7:20 friday night, that's when omar gonzalez jumped a security fence, through locked doors in to the mansion. the president and his daughters had lef

>> now to montgomery county and those missing hoggle children, 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hoggle missing now nearly two weeks, their dad troy turner organizing a major search party over the weekend asking for volunteers to meet him at seneca high in germantown tomorrow at 8 a.m. the mother suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and refuses to tell the cops what's happened to the children. >>> another reminder. right now on our wusa9 facebook page we've got pictures of dozens of children all missing from our area. log on, take a look. you might be able to help bring them home. we thank our viewers and facebook friends because since our bring them home campaign started earlier in the year, the flyers and albums of missing children have received more than 100,000 shares on facebook and twitter. keep on doing it. keep raising awareness and help bring them home. >>> sentencing day for a former chevy chase woman who hit and killed a woman near dupont circle in 2010, 34-year-old jorida davidson was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and today the judge gave her 6 1/2 years in prison. pros

jacob and sarah hoggle ages 2 and 3 haven't been seen since last weekend and their mother, catherine, disappeared monday afternoon. they all live in clarksburg with the mother's husband. >> today i talked with a search manager. he state over the last three days, they've done a lot of searching. today they're going to do an assessment and review of may have to research, and then what they may search starting tomorrow and the next day. >> this week there have been a couple of reported sightings of catherine hoggle who is facing child neglect charges. police say she intentionally lied about the child's whereabouts and is purposely evading investigators who want to question her. >>> oscar pistorius is now out on bail but he's awaiting sentencing in the death of his girlfriend reeva seen catch. after being not -- steenkamp. after being found not guilty of the most serious charges yesterday, he is found guilty of culpable homicide, equivalent to a manslaughter charge here. he thought steenkamp was an intruder when he shot through the bathroom door. sentencing hearings start next month. >>>

police released two pictures of cars that jacob and sarah hoggle may have been riding in when they went missing. they're asking for video of the car in hopes of finding a better time line. the mother went missing around the same time, but turned up four days later. she, however, is not cooperating with police. >>> and tonight, parents in virginia say they can no longer trust a local daycare after learning that a teacher was fired for biting a toddler. police arrested theresa brown on charges of assault and battery. she worked at the goddard school in wood bridge where investigators say she bit a 13-month-old boy so hard that it left a mark on his shoulder. news 4 spoke to brown today. she wouldn't go on camera, but told us that she didn't bite anyone, and thinks that another child did it. >> turning now to the forecast, there's officially a fall chill in the air tonight, and it sounds like we may have some rain to come with it before too long. >> fall officially arrived in the last hour. and the first morning of fall, it's going to be a cold one. the numbers out there, already down to 5

school in germantown to help search for two missing toddlers. 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hoggleave been missing nearly two weeks now. their father troy turner is organizing the 8 a.m. search. the children's mom catherine hoggle suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and is now in police custody but refuses to tell detectives what happened to her children. >>> have you ever wished you had a way to track your child's every move? there's an app for that. we'll show you how it works coming up. >> just starting to get a little chilly on the weather terrace, grab that light jacket, but it will feel like summer this weekend. i'll tell you more about those rising temperatures coming up in the first alert seven-day forecast. >> and two, four, six, eight, who do we appreciate it? the bishop mcnamara high school cheerleaders join us tonight, more from them and your comprehensiv >>> i don't know this from personal experience, but i am told that parenting is one tough job. however, there's some technology now making it a bit easier to keep tabs on your young people. >> you hear enough from me.

woman and her two young children. 27-year-old catherine hoggle vanished days ago with 3-year- old sarah hoggle her 2-year- old brother jacob. today a tip led police to search along a path near riffleford road, nothing turned up. police have meanwhile confirmed two sightings of catherine hoggle in germantown, one sunday near a harris-teeter on darnestown road and early yesterday morning near the germantown common shopping area. relatives are hoping mother and children will be found alive and well. >> just wonderful little adorable kids and we know that catherine loves them very much, too and would never want to see anything happen to them or to her. we just keep on praying. >> police ask anyone with any information about catherine hoggle or her children, please call 911. you can help us spread the word of that missing mom and kids by going to any of our social media pages or www.wusa9.com. we have a photo gallery there of hoggle and her children, so take a second to share that with your friends so we can help bring them home. >>> you might wonder why you aren't hearing about an amber alert. in

three weeks since anybody has seen two missing children from montgomery county, but jacob and sarah hoggle's father has not given up hope or stopped trying to find them. today he and volunteers handed out flyers showing the family's two vehicles asking anyone who may have seen the vehicles to come forward. they're asking germantown area businesses to check their surveillance videos from september 7th and 8th for possible footage of the vehicles or the children. their mother, catherine hoggle, is in custody in a mental health facility in maryland but so far has not disclosed the children's whereabouts. >>> we take a rare look inside the mind of a pedophile, former d.c. private schoolteacher eric toth led authorities on a worldwide manhunt until he was captured last year in central america. after months of letters, phone calls and a face to face conversation behind bars, reporter andrea mccarren and photojournalist joe martin take us to petersburg, virginia tonight. they were not permitted to bring a camera, but they did record a phone call with the high profile inmate. >> reporter: eric toth

continued .n today for the two missing 2-year jacob hoggle, last seen sunday, september 7th. 3-year sarah hoggle, last seen monday, septemberth. police believe their mother, cathe hoggle, is responsible for their disappearanc invests n treating this as a homicide investigatio >> rep do yok now it'sy that catherine hogg killed her t >> that's what -- that's what we're preparing for. like i said, we have to hope a the -- we just have to keep hope. yeah, that's what we're prepg for. >> repor 27-year-old e hoggle, frid night in germantown, t a mile away from the chick-a where she disad a w at police headquarters over the weeken police say they questi catherine hoggle for t 1 they say it happened in a so-cald s room with a couch with her attorneys standing by. now at one point, troy turner, the father of the missing childr, was allowed to go into the room. turner say that catherine hogg suffe from paranoid says she's been committed for treatm twice since last christ police say turning asked hoggle 25 times, where are the kids? where are the kids? >> when you walked into the room and saw her, did she

missing persons case that has haunted our area, the disappearance of 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hoggle. their father is asking for volunteers to meet at the seneca high school in germantown tomorrow morning at 8:00 in the morning, so they can head out yet again. the children's mother suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and she is apparently refusing to tell police what happened to jacob and sarah. >>> six months after little relisha rudd disappeared from a d.c. homeless shelter. officials have referred charges against her mother to the u.s. attorney's office for potential prosecution. bruce leshan reports the city council member is now raising serious questions about a d.c. investigation that concluded the city did everything it legally could to protect the 8- year-old girl. >> reporter: there was the statement that there have been charges sent to the u.s. attorney. can you tell us anything about that? >> you'll have to talk to the d.c. attorney about that. >> reporter: top d.c. officials still declined to talk publicly about many of the details of the disappearance about 8-year-old re

. >> reporter: 2-year-old jacob hoggle last seen sunday afternoon. 3-year-old sarah hoggle last seen monday morning. their mother, catherine hoggle, last seen tuesday morning. here she is pictured at a germantown chick-fil-a on a surveillance video shortly before she disappeared. police say she's a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic. they believe she's responsible for the disappearance of her children. she has been charged with child neglect. the dad's plea. today we hear from randy hoggle, catherine's father, and the grandfather of the missing children. >> we know catherine, this is not you and this is not who you're about and what you do. you were the first of four kids to give me a chance to be soccer coach. probably was never good at it, but -- certainly did my best. we want sarah and jacob to have those same kind of opportunities. the first kiss, the first homecoming, the last prom and a full life. if you just come and get help, we'll all help you. >> reporter: randy hoggle says his daughter has been off her meds for about two weeks. coming up at 6:00, catherine hoggle's germantown

darnestown, poli continue to look for the mi. 2-ye jacob hoggle last se sunday, september 7th. 3-ye sarah hoggle, last se monday, september. 8th. poli bel their mother, cae hoggle, is responsib for the disappeara dete now treating this as a homicide investigat do y now it's like that catherine hoggle killed her two children? >> that's what -- that's what we'r preparing for. like i we have to keep . we just have to keep hope. but yeah, that's what we're prepg for. 27-year-old cae hoggle, arrested last fr night in germantown, t a mile away from the cha where she disa a w at police headquarts over the week police say they ques her for some time. they say it happened in a sod sof room with a couc with her attorneys st by. but they say catherine hoggle has not told them the s of her children. poli say their number one pr here is still finding the missing children. live in montgomercounty, pat coll news4. >> thank you, pat. as the search for the children cont new criminal charges ha just been filed against cae hoggle. our team coverage continu from outse the montgomer di court in rockville. krisn wrig

private planes are part of the search for jacob and sarah hoggle. there is still no sign of them. jacob is 2, sarah is 3. take a look. crews were up in germantown while volunteers spread out to look for the kids on t and in the air. no one has seen anything. they disappeared with their mother catherine. she is now in police custody. she is not telling investigators anything about the children. >>> right now a man from laurel is in jail accused of killing his family. this happened on washington avenue not far from the hour county line. the two started a physical fight there. at some people nidal started having chest pains. they charged his son deepak with murder. he was 68 years old. the prince george's county police department is investigating the arrest of one of its officers. they charged michael o'connell with assault. he was off duty at the time. we are working to find out exactly what happened. right now he is suspended. >>> 100 citizens in ferguson, missouri will be watching police closely with body cameras. an advocacy group called we cop watch. they are being handed out in

sarah is 3. they disappeared with their mother catherine hoggle two weeks ago. she's in police custody but will not tell anyone where the kids are. >>> at 6:07, an overnight launch is sending special cargo to space. >>> tracking a big dip in the temperatures. we'll tell you when >>> engines excited. we have lift off. >> that's the sound of a dragon. spacex launched its dragon capsule carrying cargo to the international space station shortly before 2:00 a.m. this time lit have a 3d printer, the first time ever carrying a 3d printer. nasa says some day the printer could be used to table failed parts of the station. they also have mutant fruit flies on board, on purpose. >> mutant fruit flies. >> as well as a mouse x ray machine. >> tall necessities. looking at the calendar, the last full day of summer sdm. >> this is it, everybody. our summer without a summer until we got to the month of september. more 90-degree days in september than we did in august. a little bit of a warm finish to the summer season. yes indeed, autumn is just around the corner and just in tim

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 alerts for turner's children, but state police said they stood behind its reasoning of why amber alerts did not go out telling us in the montgomery case the criteria for an amber alert were not met because there was no confirmed abduct. the children were with their mother when they went missing and there was no immediate threat known to poli

they're out there, i'm going to find them. >> reporter: jacob and sarah hoggle missing now for more thanbelieve their mother's day, kathryn hoggle, is responsible for their disappearance. catherine hoggle has been charged with child neglect and parental abduction. she's being held at this montgomery county jail where she's undergoing a mental competency evaluation. she has 1 twas on the run and be the last several days. she suffers from schizophrenia and off her meds for weeks. can they force catherine hog toll take her meds. experts say that's not likely without a judge's order and no such order has been issued yet. when catherine hoggle ran away, she spent a lot of time in germantown. troy turner says she did that because he thinks she wanted to be close to the children. >> she kept coming back to this area. it's hard for me to believe they're not somewhere close by. >> reporter: catherine hoggle being held in jail on two separate $1 million money bonds. live in montgomery county, pat collins, news4. >> thanks, pat. >>> police say a man who violently attacked a woman at a prince willia

. >>> friends, families, even complete strangers are doing everything they can to bring sarah and jacob hoggle home. now troy turner, the father of the two children, is pleading with maryland governor martin o'malley to issue an amber alert. >> it's been more than three weeks since anyone has seen the children. stephanie ramirez tells us about the search efforts now. >> reporter: i'm stephanie ramirez in rockville outside state police barracks where today troy turner, the father of missing sarah and jacob hoggle, made a plea for maryland's governor martin o'malley to require state police to issue amber alerts for his missing kids. >> there's not people here who can work through that gray area, i'm going to request governor o'malley do it for me. we need someone to intercede and get this done so that we can get closer to finding my children and bringing them home. >> reporter: turner told news cameras today while there may have been gray areas where some of the amber alert criteria may not have been met, he believes his children were in immediate danger and that an alert could have stopped some

jacob and sarah hoggle may have been riding inside these two vehicles around the time they went missing. they're asking businesses to check surveillance video for the cars in hopes of forming a better time line. the children's mother catherine hoggle is not cooperating with police. >>> and right now, more signs of change at the white house. coming up, the security changes you can now see. and the message this beer maker >>> hey, i'm sorry. i decided i shouldn't drive home last night. i stayed at dave's. >> budweiser's new anti-drunk driving psa is going viral with 4 million hits on youtube. titled friends are waiting is a bit of a tear jerker. it shows a dog missing his owner when he goes out for a night of drinking. first it appears the man isn't going to come back, and the dog waits and waits and looks really, really sad. the psa has a happy ending with the man coming home the next day because he did not drink and drive. >>> prince george's county lawmakers are working to stop trafficking by changing rules for hotels. they followed agents with the county's intelligence unit as they cr

neglect charges after she disappeared with her son, two euros jacob hoggle, and three-year-old sarah hoggleuitland. reports partners at wtop that the victims were standing in front of a store on suitland road when another man by and opened fire. the injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. here is dave zahren with a look at your forecast. >> good morning. cloudy outside. temperatures on the cool side. 60 in ashburn. 61 in laurel. a soggy saturday on cap. a few sprinkles right now in arlington and downtown washington. keep your umbrella today. not a washout. in the carolinas they have some flood warnings. this will be moving through quickly and we will salvage the weekend, but today, scattered showers, cloudy, temperatures in the 70's. watch for the winds to shift and one of the coldest nights we have had in a long time, altar-40's -- upper-40's to low- >> "jack hanna's wild countdown" is sponsored by nationwide insurance. >> hi, everyone, i'm jack hanna, coming to you from my base camp here at the columbus zoo, and welcome to "wild countdown." did you know that sometimes the sweete

reporter: it's been three weeks now and they are still missing. 2-year-old jacob hoggle. 3-year-old sarah hoggleve been scores of searches and tens of thousands of flyers distributed. but no sign of the two toddlers. police believe their mother, catherine hoggle, is responsible for their disappearance. but she is not talking. you see, after her kids wept went missing, catherine hoggle ran away and hung out in the streets of germantown for days before she was arrested by police. investigators say catherine hoggle suffers from paranoid schizophren family says she has bn off her meds. troy turner says an amber alert would help create awareness about his missing children. >> it shocks me. we go to frederick, around our general area, and people haven't heard about this. we have gone into neighborhoods where literally two people know my kids are missing. >> reporter: the maryland state police say they have helped but didn't issue an amber alert because there was no confirmed abduction. there was no immediate known threat that the mother would harm her children. that all the mother's vehicles had been

she vanished sunday along with 3-year-old sarah hoggle and her 2-year-old brother jacob. >> police havefirmed two siengtings of catherine -- sightings of catherine hoggle in hyattstown. harris teeter. relatives are hoping the mother and children will be found alive and well. >> just wonderful little adorable kids. we know catherine loves them very much too and would never want to see anything happen to them or to her. we just keep on praying. >> police ask anyone with information about catherine hoggle or her children please call 911. you can help us spread the word of the missing mom and kids by going to any of our social media pages or wusa9.com. we have a photo gallery of hoggle and her children. take a second to share that with your friends so we can help all of them get home. >>> a d.c. police officer and an area driver are recovering this morning after a violent confrontation in northeast. police say it all started when officers tried to arrest the driver at 31st street and south dakota avenue. >> they say the driver backed up and hit the officer. the officer then opened fire. the

. >> 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hoggles disappeared two weeks ago. head on over to seneca valley high school in germantown. >>> montgomery county police called in a hazmat team to look into a mysterious smell in germantown and rolled out a robot to test for hazardous chemicals. the chemical smell, they believe, is related to a possible meth lab. six people were checked out. >>> right now, we're looking at 9:00 on the dot. hope you're off to a great saturday morning. get a check on our forecast. >> chuck bell is outside on the storm team 4 weather deck. good morning, chuck. >> gorgeous morning to be outside this morning, if you're getting up, heading on out the door for your early morning activities, nothing to worry about weatherwise at all. current temperatures are generally in the 60s. here is a check of it. 70 now here in downtown washington. 64 in gaithersburg and winchester. as we get to the 9:00 hour most people in the 60s. maryland on the road at syracuse. dome forecast. nonetheless, great weather for the tarapins. great weather in upstate new

it's been three weeks now, and they're still missing. 2-year-old jacob hoggle, 3-year-old sarah hoggle. there have been scores of searches and tens of thousands of flyers script distributed but no sign of the two toddlers. police believe their mother, catherine hoggle, is responsible for their disappearance. but she's not talking. you see, after her kids went missing, catherine hoggle ran away and hung out on the streets of germantown for days before arrested by police. police say catherine hoggle suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. her family says she went off her meds. lindsey hoggle is catherine's mother. the missing children's grand mother. >> she has been under treatment, has been doing what we thought was well. absolutely adores and loves these children. and so obviously there's some thinking here -- a thinking pattern that doesn't make sense. >> reporter: at a state police barracks today, troy turner, the father of the missing children, asked the governor to make the state police issue an amber alert in this case. >> i drove down 270, and for days now, i've seen a black screen

they are looking for jacob and sarah hoggle. the investigators want businesses to check their surveillance video for these cars. the children's mother katherine is not cooperating with police. >>> a youth pastor is charged with sending explicit pictures of himself to a teenager. police say 22-year-old vincent bowes used a messages app to send the pictures to a 15-year-old girl. he made no physical contact but he was arrested in north carolina last week and is waiting to be extradited back to virginia. >>> 17 after the hour, today organizations from three maryland counties are banding together to try to stop cell phone tower construction at public schools. they will hold a news conference tonight at the steps of the county board of education. the organizationers say parents are being kept in the dark about pending cell phone tower projects. in prince george's alone, there are 73 towers proposed for school grounds with 9 in development stages. >>> if you live in montgomery county, 30% of you are members of a condo or homeowner's a

. >> there are some serious concerns about finding two-year- old, jacob and three-year-old sarah hoggle to get them home. stephanie ramirez joins us live from montgomery county police department headquarters in gaithersburg to tell us why police are so concerned about these children and their mother. >> well, lesli, derek, first what you need to know is two- year-old jacob was last seen in

police say catherine hoggle isn't providing any information about wherehe kids might be. jacob and sarah'sr spoke to catherine hoggle after she was arrested and charged wh child neglect. >> it was ve brief. she wasn't ready to say much to me and no one is going to try to force her. >> those kids were the most precious and are, you know, to us. >> the famis aing money to help with search party costs, flyers and t-shirts. they set up a gofundme account that has nearly $1,000 in donations so far. >>> this morng we're learning how important those surveillance videos released by police played into finding catherine hoggle. police say she tried to change her appearance by cutting her hair, but it didn't work. news 4's derrick ward spoke to the man who spotted catherine hoggle and lpolice. >> it was a little after 11:15 in the evening. nicholas stewa knew there was something unusual about the woman wandering about the parking lot of this germantown complex as he went to take out the trash. he couldn't put his finger on it at first. >> i see her walking towards me. i didn't think of anything. mayb

they checked out a tip today but didn't find any sign of sarah and jacob hoggle. a woman walking at black hill regional park found a pile of dirt and rocks. while the it tip didn't help solve the case, police say they remain focused on finding sarah and jacob hoggle. >> we're going to go out and search again if we can't find jacob and sarah in the worst-case scenario, in the areas we're looking for. we're going to go out again as the leaves -- as the leaves come down and the terrain changes to take another look. >> the hoggle children's mother, catherine, was taken into custody after their disappearance. she has been diagnosed as having paranoid schizophrenia, and hasn't told police where the children may be. >>> one virginia high school had a much bigger security presence today, all because of worries students planned a fight day. a fauquier high school student created a twitter account that claimed there is a fight club at school. that got a lot of parents worried. and about 400 students staying home from school today. school officials say there was no fight club

. >>> 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah hoggle disappeared two weeks ago. search teams will meet at 8:30 at seneca valley high school in germantown. there is a $20,000 reward for information that leads to their safe returns. >>> we'll check your forecast next. stay with us. know that chasing performance can mean lower returns and fewer choices in retirement. know that proper allocation could help increase returns so you can enjoy that second home sooner. know the right financial planning can help you save for college and retirement. know where you stand with pnc total insight. a new investing and banking experience with personalized guidance and online tools. visit a branch, call or go online today. >>> nice cool start to the day. it is the last weekend of summer. we need a warm-up. let's check in with chuck bell. >> it's a warm-up you will get for later on today, temperatures running above average today and especially tomorrow. out the door weather on your saturday morning, upper 50s to low and mid 60s. pleasant start out there. no chance for rain today. t

hoggle. everyone involved is concerned in the where abouts of two missing children. three-year-old sarah and two- year-old jacob hoggle. details of this case are complicated, but both sarah and jacob were in their mother's care when they went missing. that's 27-year-old, catherine hoggle, who is also missing and who police say also has paranoid skitsofrania. >> there are mental health concerns regarding their mother, so i'm deeply concerned here over their welfare. >> police say hoggle told the family she dropped off jacob to a play mate's house on sunday and told the children's father she was taking both kids todaycare yesterday morning. only thing is, police tell us they don't believe jacob ever returned home sunday and they also tell us the kids aren't enrolled in any daycare. family police are pleading for the public's help. >> if someone sees them, contact the police. >> i don't have any comment right now. i'm letting police figure things out. >> the last person you heard from is troy turner. the children's father. he works nights and wasn't around when any of this was happening. he

chick-fil-a restaurant while being pressed by family about the whereabouts of 2-year-old jacob hoggle and 3-year-old sarah who vanished monday after hoggle allegedly lied and manipulated family and police about trips to a daycare and a friend's house. police clearly concerned the children's lives are at risk, mom on the run, searches of nearby parks fruitless. no explanation for why except that hoggle struggles with schizophrenia and had recently gone off medication. while hoggle's family appealed publicly for her to come home, friends today launched facebook and fundraising campaigns to keep the case in the open. germantown and gaithersburg are covered with homemade flyers while police hope this just released last known video of hoggle is an indication that she could be hiding somewhere nearby slipping in and out of another hiding place unseen. family and friends planning a vigil tomorrow night at the chick-fil-a restaurant. also today a ride-on bus driver came forward and said he thinks he saw hoggle riding on his bus monday night. unfortunately police can't confirm that because the video system on the

. >> in montgomery county, police are not giving up on finding sarah and jacob hoggle. the children and their mother disappeared at the beginning of september. the mother was arrested september 12. today, police conducted a search off i 270. there is no word if anything was found. if you have seen the children or have any information about them, contact police. >> a 7 on your side consumer alert regarding home depot. the company is scrambling to recover from a massive data breach. the store says 56 million cards were compromise between april and september. a spokesman said the malware has been removed from their networks. home depot says it has a new system in place to make data safer. the store is offering free identity protection to anyone who shot during the time. >> let's talk about the weather. it has been one of the best weeks of the year. we may get another day out of this before things start to change. meteorologist steve rudin has a first look at the forecast. >> a quiet night in the belfort furniture weather center. we did have a few showers earlier this eveni

they are going to be revealing some surveillance video from businesses in the effort to find sarah and jacob hoggle. police met with family members today. their father believe an amber alert should be issued. two massive searches failed to find any trace of the children. >>> the accused white house fence jumper is going to stay in jail until he gets another hearing. omar gonzalez was in court today and while he was armed with a knife when he was stopped inside the executive mansion, they also found a small arsenal in his car. here is debra alfarone. >> everyone out. >> while this was happening friday, we now know 800 rounds of newly bought ammo sat waiting in alleged white house jumper, omar gonzalez's car. ammo he did not have when the secret service stopped the iraq war veteran less than a month ago. >> have to go out the 17th street exit, please. >> gonzalez was stopped with a hatchet in his waistband. cops found no ammunition and released him. what's more, a month before that and 300 miles away, police arrested gonzalez on a felony charge july 19 in virginia for eluding police and carrying a sa

the police do have some new information in the continuing search for missing sarah and jacob hoggle. only this time, they need the help of major and small business owners. >> i'm stephanie ramirez in gaithersburg where i just spoke to lieutenant, sean gagen. police will soon be posting information with specific days and time frames and they are asking small and large business owners to check their surveillance videos during those specific time frames. potentially i did where she could have taken her kids. this is the latest in the push to find sarah and jacob who have been missing for more than two weeks. the children's father and grandmother met with police for about three hours today. beforehand, their father said they were going to ask again to issue an amber alert, but i spoke with police lieutenant who said they couldn't do so because they already had katherine hoggle's vehicles in custody. they did follow through with alerting police departments across the country. now they are alerting montgomery county's business community. >> we really need our business community to take a l

. >>> the father of sarah and jacob hoggle is expected to ask governor martin o'malley to help bring his children home. the children have been missing since september 7 when their mother allegedly disappeared with them. she is now in a psychiatric state hospital but isn't saying much about the kids. their father troy turner has urged maryland state police to issue an amber alert. police say this case does not meet those qualifications. today he's going to make hi plea to the governor. -- make his plea to the governor. >>> opening statements are under way in the trial of a man accused of trying to kill an alexandria police driver. the cab driver is charged with attempted murder. he shot officer peter leboy in the head when leboy tried to pull him over. the trial was delayed till now because lawyers argued over bashir's mental capacity. leboy survived the shooting but has not been able to return to work so far. >>> a big break in a year and a half old murder mystery. in march 2013, 37-year-old nick company burgess was found dead inside her anne arundel county home. today police announc

hoggle andold sarah her brother have been missing for about three weeks. their mother was arrested days after the children disappeared. she has not told police where the children are located. tellingfighter was hurt a restaurant fire in gaithersburg this morning. a photo taken by firefighters shows flames shooting through the roof of the restaurant on orth redrick avenue. investigators say an electrical malfunction caused the fire. we will turn our focus now to what is in store for folks as they had back to school. >> the clouds have been on the increase and the clouds will actually kickstart the work week tomorrow. let's get started outside the belfort furniture weather center. you can see some clouds and color with the setting sun. some said in just about 20 minutes. today, a little warmer than average. the clouds streaming in from the southwest, you will notice face wrinkle over the virginia area but for the most part of adjust thing cloudy through the overnight hours. 6:56. starting off the work week saudi but big-time changes by the end of the work we