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WRC News4 At 5 September 30, 2014

Investigators say he took off after shooting a classmate and was on the run for several hours. Police immediately cleared out the school after this mornings attack, and you can see here on the video students walking out with their hands on their heads. The victim is now recovering in the hospital, and is okay. But its not clear yet if the students knew the shooter or if the suspect even attended that school. This was the Second School shooting in the southeast. Today a 15yearold boy in North Carolina shot a classmate in the leg, then walked into the Principals Office and waited for police to come and get him. Back to you. Pat, thank you. Tonight a local teacher is in jail, accused of having a sexual relationship with one of her male students. And the teachers husband works at the same school. Colonial forge high school, thats in stafford, virginia. And thats where we go now to news4s Kristin Wright with the late details on this. Kristin . Reporte well, jim, we learned today deputies came here to the school afterlasses let out yesterday. They escorted teacher erica mesa to the Sheriffs Office where she was arrested. On the left, a School Picture of Northern Virginia geometry teacher, erica mesa. On the right, her mug shot. The Colonial Forge High School Teacher is in jail tonight, accused of sending naked pictures of herself to a student. Parents picking up their children are stunned. I just think its a really sad thing she did. We want to keep our kids safe, and its just unbelievable that it happened to be her. Reporter the Stafford County Sheriffs Office says mesa, 27, was involved in a sexual relationship with the 16yearold this fall and twice last school year. He turned 17 sometime during the alleged sex crimes. The school got an anonymous tip. What do you think about the possibility she might have actually sent nude photos to a student . I dont even know what to say about that. Reporter mesa was put on administrative leave. She teaches geometry and coaches volleyball. She has been at Colonial Forge since 2009. Me school. Lso tea a the Sheriffs Office says their investigation isnt over and there may be more charges against mesa to come. It is just unbelievable situation. And i just hurt for the families involved. Repor we tried to reach out to mesas family, but a person inside of her home did not wish to speak to us. Tonight at 6 00, well explain how social media played a role in mesas arrest. In Stafford County, Kristin Wright, news4. We now have the latest for you in the search for Hannah Graham. Charlottesville police chief Timothy Longo says they have received at least 3,000 tips, but at this point, no signs of the missing uva student. And investigators have not had a chance to speak again with Jesse Matthew, who is charged in her disappearance, and he will have a bond hearing later this week. For now, police are focused on the search. Sometimes the facts will drive my decision. Sometimes that decision is going to have to be made by the heart. Right now, well continue that search. An online pool to raise money for matthews defense has been taken down. The woman who created the page says she got threatening posts. Before it went offline, matthew apparently got about 1800 in donations. At this point, Jesse Matthews lawyer says police have not told him about any evidence that they have that connects his client to grahams disappearance or to the murder of Morgan Harrington. But that link made by Virginia State police could be a major break for a case in our area. News4s pat collins is live in fairfax with more. Pat . Reporter wendy, this is a case that likely will be solved in the crime lab. Investigators say Jesse Matthew, linked by forensic evidence to the disappearance of Hannah Graham september 13th. Investigators say Jesse Matthew linked by dna evidence to the murder of Morgan Harrington back in 2009. Investigators say Jesse Matthew linked by dna evidence to the beating and Sexual Assault at fairfax city nine years ago. Focus now on the fairfax city case. It was a saturday night, september 24th, 2005. They say a 26yearold woman was walking home from the grocery store. She was walking down germantown road. But when she got to rock garden drive, they say a man grabbed her, picked her up and literally carried her down the street. Near the Swimming Pool at the end of the street, they say that man sexually assaulted the woman. Someone walking by frightened him and he took off. The woman then ran for help. At the time witnesses said she appeared to be badly beaten and bloo this is a composite sketch of the suspect released at the time of the assault here in fairfax. Now look at it next to the mug shot of Jesse Matthew. So there was an attack in 2005. Then four years later, an attack in 2009. Then five years later, another attack. How do you explain the gap in time . Hear now from profiler, clint van zandt. If we have a serial offender, perhaps a serial rapist in these cases, number one, theres no real accountabliineg accounting for the length of time between the crimes. Number two, we may have unreported crimes. Reporter Jesse Matthew lived in charlottesville. Jesse matthew went to school in charlottesville. Jesse matthew worked in charlottesville. What would cause him to come to fairfax city in 2005 . Im still working on that one. Live in fairfax, pat collins, news4. Pat, thank you. There are new cases of vandalism apparently targeting the Hindu Community in Northern Virginia. There have been three reported cases in the last week, all in the ashburn and graham bellton areas of loudoun county. Each of the cases involve graffiti on community signs. Now investigators tell us they believe they could be connected to several other cases of vandalism found earlier this month. Despite several days of searching, there are still no signs of a young man who has autism who disappeared in maryland. His name is de johnnie stone. No one has seen him since last thursday when he left a work Service Program that he attends during the week in frederick. The Staff Members of the facility activated his tracking bracelet, but they think he may be too far out of range. Police say stone has a history of wandering. Most recently he wound up on a highway in laurel. Long lines, packed platforms and crowded trains had metro riders seeing red today. It was a long morning commute for thousands of people thanks to a cracked rail at Dupont Circle. Delays were felt as far away as rockville. Our transportn reporter, adam tuss, live at Dupont Circle to explain just what happened and what metro has to say about it all. Adam . Reporter actually, jim, metro is apologizing tonight to all of the red line riders, and what a day it has been trying to get back and forth. And we have learned tonight that a temporary patch is in place along that section of track where the cracked rail happened. Tonight a permanent fix will have to happen. The pictures from social media tell the story. Packed platforms and stations up and down the red line. Some riders with a look the disgust. A slow roll to work that delayed many over an hour. So, yeah, people were very frustrated. Some people werent even getting on the trains at the platform. They left the doors open so people just started leaving and either to walk or take the bus. Reporter she is just one of those stuck in the mess. She tweeted out this picture when she got to Union Station. She takes the red line every day from Union Station to white flint, normally a 45minute trip. Today, two hours. We caught up with her outside her work in white flint. I wouldnt expect that sort of, you know, infrastructure problems from d. C. Metro. I mean, it should be up and working. Reporte met low says its actually doing well in the fight against cracked rails, and this situation was detected by its own internal signal system. Were working at it. Our last crack was more than a month ago. Which is better. If you recall, two or three years ago, we were having these, you know, two or three in some days. Repor this is what it looked like when a third rail cracked last month on the blue line. Met low does say it believes this mornings incident happened on a stretch of track thats the Original Section of track put down 40 years ago. And back here now live outside the Dupont Circle station. Again, so far, so good on the red line tonight. And coming up at 6 00, were going to take you along for a ride. What metro is doing to try to detect these cracks before they become a huge problem. Reporting live at Dupont Circle, adam tuss, news4. Some of Prince Georges Countys Police Officers were honored today for their dedication to duty. The officers receiving the award of merit. Among their accomplishments, performing livesaving cpr on a toddler. Arresting a suspended kidnapper. A k9 was also honored for helping track down a woman missing in the middle of winter. Michael phelps responds this afternoon. We have the first words from the olympic champion since his dui arrest in maryland. Did a movie about legalizing murder for a day spark violence at six flags . Were going to tell you how social media may have played a role. And secret service gets a public lashing today. More fallout from the White House Security breach. Were live with reaction from the white house, ahead. And most of us seeing a nice day today but some strong storms developing towards the west. Morgan county, Washington County moving east. Im tracking these storms. Also tracking a lot more changes over the next couple days. Ive got that forecast in mi breaking news now. The cdc is about to announce the first confirmed case of ebola in the u. S. Doreen gentzler has details from the live desk. Doreen . Reporte hi, jim. The first case of ebola diagnosed here in the u. S. , the centers for Disease Control, is hang to hold a News Conference at 5 30. We are waiting for that to reveal more details. Mere is what our nbc affiliate in dallas has learned so far. Its believed the affected patient is in dallas, because the health and Human Services director in that city was one of the first to learn about this diagnosis. Doctors it at a dallas hospital also began testing a patient for possible ebola yesterday. That person has been in strict isolation. Four americans have contracted the deadly disease while working for missionary groups in west africa. But this is the first confirmed case to be diagnosed here in the united states. Well bring you up to speed on whats revealed at that News Conference at 5 30 from the theres for Disease Control in atlanta. At the live desk, im doreen gentzler. This is your emergency broadcast system, announcing the commencement. At t siren, all Emergency Services will be suspended for 12 hours. Your government thanks you for your participation. Help me that is a clip from the movie which is called the purge. The premise, you can commit a crime without any consequences. Tonight Prince Georges County police are looking into the possibility that that movie may have set of some chaos. That chaos outside of Six Flags America this weekend. This comes as we are learning the condition of one of those injured teenagers has gotten worse. Bureau chief Tracee Wilkins is live in Upper Marlboro with the details of this. Tracee . Reporter yes, the family of that 15yearold feel like this was absolutely not a game. He has undergone some serious surgery here today, starting early this morning, and is still being observed right now in the hospital for that surgery that he had to have happen. The Prince Georges County police are investigating this to try and figure out how this all started, and why this chaos left one boy seriously injured. That the pressure that we thought was going to be okay with his brain had begun to swell. Repor this 15yearold boy has now undergone serious surgery that could change his life. They have removed a portion of his skull to allow for the brain to expand. And hes going to be in icu for at least two weeks. Reporter this after he was beat unconscious by a group of strangers outside the gates of six flags in Upper Marlboro saturday. They proceeded to beat him as he fell back and cracked his skull, and was unconscious. They continued to beat him. Reporter according to witnesses, a number of fights spread throughout the large crowd as teens left six flags, opening fright fest night. There were three reported injuries. A 13yearold girl and 15yearold boy were transported from inside the park. And this teen was found on Central Avenue outside the parks gates. One can only imagine a mother only being able to stand in a room with her son and watch him on a ventilator and in the state hes in. Its a very scary situation for her. Reporter Prince George co police are investigating what led to the night of chaos that was well documented on video and social media. It its senseless. Brutality. Reporter it was not only documented after it happened, but were told documented before it happened on social media, specifically twitter, where students and kids started to tweet out, this is what were calling the fright fest first night. This is nothing that six flags was responsible for here to have any knowledge. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, more on all of that, how it impacted this evening and what Prince Georges County police are doing now. Reporting live in Upper Marlboro, im Tracee Wilkins, news4. I hope this doesnt come back to bite me, but im a little tired of the warm weather. Im ready for something autumnal. Im ready for some crispness in the air. Were rolling the tape for january. Are you ready for upper0s . No. Why dont we gradually well, no you cant have it both ways. Upper 50s. Thats what weve got coming this weekend. I think a lot of people in the suburbs really . 30s for the first time. Some areas may even see some frost by sunday morning. Well get to that in just a second. First off, you want to see Something Else kind of autumnal, wendy . Lets do it. Sure. This is it towards frederick. Its the corn maze at summer farm. This is the star spangled corn maze up there in frederick. This is one of the aliens do this . No, this wasnt aliens. This was actually done weeks ago. They knew this was coming. But the flag might have been aliens. Im not sure. Show you whats going on across our area. If you can get out there towards frederick, thats one of the many farms ready to go for this seasons fest. Lets take a look. 77 degrees, winds right now out of the south. Weve got a dew point at 59. Plenty of sunshine right now. And temperatures have responded to the sun. 77 here, 81 in frederick. 75 in fredericksburg. 72 towards the leesburg area after some fog earlier today. Right now, though, watching some storms. Not much around our region and most of us should stay on the dry side. Morgan county, West Virginia, Washington County, right along 70 here. And down to the south. Coming in towards hardy county, frederick county, virginia, heads up this line a pretty strong line of storms moving off towards the east. Not moving too fast but hagerstown, martinsburg and winchester. This is what the future weather shows as we move through the night tonight. 8 00, those storms moving along 70 in through frederick county, frederick and then watch what happens during the evening. We start to see some storms develop along i minnesota 95 and they could drift towards our area as we make our way through the overnight hours. So we will see some shower activity later this evening, but im not expecting a whole lot of it. The storminess should stay to the north of the d. C. Metro area, but heres tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. We saw a lot of fog this morning. I think well see a lot of fog tomorrow morning. So heads up for that as you make your drive there. By noon, though, the fog out of here. We see an isolated shower chance during the day tomorrow, but all in all, a similar day to what we have seen across our region today. There is the fog that gave way to the sunshine. And theres the storminess thats making its way in. This is actually a frontal boundary, a cold front, a strong cold front, actually, that will just bypass this to the north. But the next front will not bypass us. That one comes in during the day on friday. So 77 tomorrow. 75 on thursday. 77 on frid

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