Doesnt believe that khalil tatum could hurt the little girl. Shamika young said that she trusted relisha with tatum who was a janitor at the shelter where she and her kids lived and defended her decision not to call police for three weeks after her daughter went missing. News4 talk to chamiquea and her sister last night. He would never, ever go she would never, ever go with anybody else. She would be next to my side. Relisha, if you hear me, i love you, and im praying for you to return home. Relishas mother says the little girl was in the care of her sister and mother the day she disappeared. But both deny that. A public roundtable will be held today about safety at the shelter where relisha went missing. The d. C. Council committee on Human Services will host the event at 10 00 a. M. At the wilson building. A lot of people are wondering whether the shelter did a thorough background check on khalil tatum. The department of Human Services says the contracted operator of the shelter conducted a criminal background check on tatum. That check revealed no convictions that would prevent him from working as a janitor at the shelter. We will be on top of the search for relisha rudd on air and on line all day long. You can find more pictures of relisha and khalil tatum and a complete overview of the case on nbcwashington. Com. Almost a mild start to the morning. Thats something nice to wake up to. Storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein tracking rain in your forecast. Tom . Good morning. Yeah, it is mild. Temperature now 47 here in northwest. 40s around most of the region. Storm team 4 radar showing a few scattered sprinkles, pavement wet in Montgomery County, northern Fairfax County. Then in northern frederick and farther west across washington county, panhandle of West Virginia, getting some of that light rain thats heading north and east. Theres another batch of rain here in southwestern virginia, still about four hours away of getting into the metro area. That puts it in here between 8 30 and 9 00. Wider view showing broad area of rain that stretches into West Virginia. Scattered, light showers into kentucky and tennessee. Thats heading north and east. This was a line of strong storms thats in the ohio valley. Thats going to be weakening. Thats along a cool front thats going to be getting here later today. Temperatures now in the 40s. Well stay in the 40s through 8 00 this morning. Then by noontime, should be well interest the 50s much of the region. A look at your hourbyhour forecast for this friday next at 4 41. Maynard edwards, good morning. Starting in charles county, heres 301 at route 5. A couple customers, but moving at speed. No problems. 210 approaching the beltway, quiet stretch of road this morning. Not going to have any problems there. And the beltway at 50, moving along without incident this morning. Well continue to monitor your traffic all morning long. Aaron and ericka, back to you in the studio. Were following breaking news this morning. We go to news4s Richard Jordan at the live desk. Ericka, developing this morning, Oscar Pistorius was expected to take the stand in his own defense today, but the judge in the murder trial delayed those proceedings for another week. This would have been the first day of defense arguments. The reason for the delay is because an assessor, lawyer whos part of the judges team, is not feeling well. Pistorius is charged with the death of his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp. The double amputee runner schottenstein camp. He says he thought steenkamp. He says he thought she was an intruder. Prosecutors say he shot her after an argument. The trial will pick up april 7th. President obama is getting ready to leave italy for saudi arabia. He met with the italian president in rome. Today he will meet with saudi king abdullah. Some of the kings closest confidantes have been upset with how the u. S. Has handled the Nuclear Program and syrias civil war. The search area for Malaysian Airlines flight 370 is changing. Australian Officials Say theyve gotten credible leads that the plane may have gone down about 600 miles north of the current search area. That is based on radar data that appears to show that the plane was flying faster than originally thought. That means it would have run out of fuel quicker than previously thought. Ten planes, five ships are out today searching for more than 300 pieces of debris spotted by a thai satellite earlier this week. Today is the threeweek anniversary of flight 370s disappearance. Plies gathered in kuala lumpur where the plane took off it light candles and pray for the victims last night. 4 34. Happening today, a Prince Georges County man will learn how long he will spend in prison. Brian mayhew set to be sentenced after being convicted of firstdegree murder. Mayhew along with another man shot and killed Anthony Mckelvin and sean ellis in may of 2011. Mayhew is also facing charges that he ordered a hit on his uncle who had planned to testify against him. Today Montgomery CountyMontgomery County officials will turn Damascus High School into a training site for bioterrorism. Local and state agencies will conduct an emergency drill there. The purpose is to test how well Montgomery County officials might deal with a bioterrorism disaster. The cdc will be on site to help with that training. A busy morning. Back to the live desk. Grim news this morning. The death toll is up in the Washington State mudslides. 17 are now confirmed dead, and a 4monthold is among the new victims. Rescuers spotted nine bodies still buried in that thick mud. They have not been able to reach them, and that would bring the number of fatalities up to 26. Rescuers are still wading through the mud looking for the bodies. 90 people, 90 people still unaccounted for. Emergency worker have stopped conducting doortodoor searches and calling relatives to locate those who have not checked in yet. At the live desk, Richard Jordan. Also coming in to the live desk, new video from the coast guard. The rescue caught on camera involving a man who fell off a cruise ship. Plus, the daughter of a man who died outside a d. C. Firehouse has some questions for candidates running for mayor. What she told news4 after the death of her father. Warmer weather, but get ready for rain. Tom is tracking the start of a very wet weekend. His forecast coming up. Today if your teenager is looking for a summer job, the Montgomery County recreation is hiring. The department is looking for summer camp workers and yearround temporary staff. Every year the Rec Department hires around 300 people for summer positions. The job fare begins at 11 00 a. M. And lasts until 3 00 this afternoon. Its at the bower drive Community Rec center on bower drive in rockville. For the first time, were getting a look at a new way to honor the three sites of the september 11 attacks. This is the map for the pentagon memorial trail circuit map. The 1,000mile bike trail will connect the pentagon in arlington, the site of the World Trade Center in manhattan, and a field in sharchgville, virginia. Organizers will shanksville, virginia. Organizers will redevelop existing trails. The International Space station has three new crew members. A russian spacecraft docked last night. It was supposed to arrive two days earlier, but the craft couldnt fire one of the engines that helps it maneuver. No one was ever in danger. The space station now has a full sixmember crew. Gilchrest, you need a haircut . Today may be an appropriate day especially if youre willing to take it all off. Everything. Nobody want to see that. Georgetown school of medicine is hosting st. Baldricks day. Some georgetown students and faculty will shave their heads to show support for cancer patients. Theyre going to be raising money for cancer research, too. They raised more than 20,000 last year. Good luck with that. A great cause. Youll see a lot of people showing up, trying to help the cause. Im sure of it. My ears stick out way too much. Coming up on 4 41 on this friday morning. Heres a live look over the district. A much warmer start than where we were this time yesterday. Some rains on the way. Bait of a dreary weekend. But well take this over freezing temperatures, tom. I think were done with the freezing temperatures. A mild start in the 40s. Storm team 4 radar scanning the sky. Sprinkles in howard county, north and west, light rain. Northern frederick county, washington county, panhandle of West Virginia, into western maryland. Here is your hourbyhour friday forecast. A lot of clouds around this morning. Maybe a few sprinkles. Temperatures by 8 00, mid 40s to near 50. By noontime, mid to upper 50s. Ought to hit the low and mid 60s midafternoon. Chance of sprinkles and maybe a light shower all the way into the afternoon. Then tonight, just some clouds rolling through. Looks like a wet weekend. A look at that and a milder pattern for next week, next weather traffic on the 1s at 4 51. Maynard edwards, good morning. So how traffic now . Thanks. Good morning. Looks like weve got i95 northbound, left lane closed near powder mill road due to construction. This may have lifted. We checked cameras, and we cant see it. We do have reports of it. Be mindful of that as you head out. Heres a look at 395. Earlier construction has cleared southbound at king street, moving wows incident. Southeast without incident. Southeast southwest free continuing without problems, as well. Back to you in the studio. This morning, the trail of damage left behind after a fastmoving storm moved through the midwest. Plus, the request lawyers for chris brown are making in connection with his assault case here in d. C. 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This happened on february 21st along 63rd avenue, just off 410. There say 25,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. Baltimore ravens running back ray rice has been indicted on thirddegree Assault Charges. Those charges stem from a fight between rice and his fiancee in atlantic city. In this video obtained by tmz, rice can be seen lifting palmer by her arms out of an elevator and lying her on the floor. Rice and palmer have denied that any assault took place. Charges against palmer were dropped. Rice would face up to five years in prison if convicted. Family and friends of an elderly man who had a heart attack and died near a d. C. Fire station turned out for the latest Mayoral Debate demanding answers. [ chanting ] we want wells gray people who knew medrick cecil mills hope to ask the city to report on the Fire Department. They blame the Fire Department for allowing him to die. Tussle didnt come up at the historic synagogue. This was the last debate before the democratic primary on tuesday. Look for congress to address the nsas Data Collection program in the next months. The white house will reauthorize the program today for 90 days. During that time it wants congress to pass legislation that would end the spy agencys collection of americans phone records. This will be the final day at work for the head of the nsa. General Keith Alexander is retiring. Hes led the spy agency for eight years now. Defense secretary chuck hagel will speak at a Retirement Ceremony this afternoon. You may want to spend this weekend shopping for Health Insurance if you already are not covered. Monday is the deadline to enroll or face a penalty. Many people can take advantage of an extension. President obama says that more than six million americans have signed up for insurance through new insurance exchanges. Thats short of the administrations original goal of seven million. 4 47. The navy says a civilian who killed a sailor at naval station norfolk on monday was a convicted felon. Navy Officials Say 35yearold jeffrey savage shot and killed master at arms second class mark mayo while trying to board a ship monday night. Other security personnel returned fire and killed savage. North carolina records show savage was convicted of vary manslaughter in 2008 voluntary manslaughter in 2008. He used a security clearance to get on base. There are a lot of questions about how he made it past security. The navy says the clearance was valid, but civilians also need to have paperwork explaining what theyll be doing on the base. Officials are currently looking into whether proper procedures were followed. A fourth person has died from that deadly crash at the sxsw festival. 18yearold deondre tatum died yesterday from his injuries. Earlier this month an accused drunk driver plowed into a crowd of people waiting to head into a concert in austin, texas. The driver has been charged with capital murder. Chris brown trying to dodge Assault Charges in the district. The singers lawyer filed a motion this week saying prosecutors misused the grand jury process. Back in october, brown and his bodyguard were arrested for punching a man. The trial is set to begin next month. Right now, chris brown is serving time in an l. A. Jail for violating parole. There may have been help available for Virginia State senator cree deeds son the day he stabbed his father and killed himself. A Community Service board evaluator said he contacted ten facilities, but none had room to admit gus deeds. State investigators say he contacted seven facilities. Two of the three that werent contacted had open beds. Gus was released from an emergency Custody Order because the Community Services board couldnt find a place to keep him. He attacked his father hours later. This morning, we are getting our first look at the real devastation that was caused by a tornado in the midwest. Homes and barns were absolutely destroyed when the early spring tornado ripped through northern missouri yesterday. Powerful winds, downed tree limbs and power lines. Fortunately, though, no injuries were reported. Today students in maryland will find out whether their summer vacations will be shorter because of this long winter. State education officials will announce whether certain districts will receive snow day waivers. The waiver would shrink the school year from 180 days to 178 days. The good thing is that you heard tom kierein say a few minutes ago, were going to hold him to it he said were done with the frigid temperatures, right . It t does look like it. It does look like. Spring has been a battle between winter and summer, and winters been winning out. But summer will knock on the door. The transition period, milder weather moving in. Look at the temperatures now. What a change from yesterday. In fact, its about 3 degrees warmer than it 30 degrees warmer than it was this time yesterday. Its in the 40s to near 50 degrees. Subfreezing yesterday morning. What a change. Weve got a lot of cloudiness around. The storm team 4 door showing from clouds getting showers in West Virginia, western maryland, southwestern virginia. Weve had a few scattered sprinkles in our northern suburbs and western suburbs. Still getting those here in Prince William county, Fairfax County, a few scattered sprinkles in montgomery, northern prince georges, northern anne arundel. And up toward howard county. Another area getting light rain, the panhandle of West Virginia, west of i81. Into the mountains, light rain hancock through cumberland and down toward hagerstown there. Getting the scattered sprinkles heading off to the north and east now and staying away from the metro area. Heres timing on some other rain beginning to move in. As of 10 00, light rain, moving into the Shenandoah Valley, northern virginia, northern and western suburbs. Through the lunch hour and early afternoon, the metro area. Scattered sprinkles. Then by 3 00 or 4 00, most of its going to be over. Maybe a few clouds around. This evening, mostly cloudy, we might have a sprinkle coming through late evening. Saturday is the wettest day of the weekend. Well see the rain beginning to sweep in during the morning. Rain off and on during the afternoon all the way into saturday night. That looks like its going to linger into sunday. Heres your friday hourbyhour forecast. Temperatures steady, in the 40s, clouds around through 8 00. Then 50s by noon. And a likelihood of sprinkles noontime, maybe a sprinkle during the afternoon with highs reaching the low 1996. Then tomorrow, cooler weather low 60s. Then tomorrow, cooler weather moves in. Rain off and on, fog and drizzle saturd