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WUSA Wusa 9 News At 5pm September 24, 2014

Thats the only comment ill make at this time. Reporter where is he . Will you stop this. What didnt you understand about what i just said . What didnt you understand . Thats the only comment ill make at this time. Its pretty clear english. I dont mean to be getting annoyed, but ive been dealing with you guys for hours. Reporter Police Continued to roll on potential sightings and new information has come out about the suspect in Hannah Grahams disappearance. The day before she went missing Jesse Matthew is scene in this video working as a volunteer football coach with the private Covenant School in charlottesville. In a letter to parents the headmaster said matthew will no longer work with the Football Program while this matter is clarified and resolved. The Uva Medical Center has suspended matthew without pay from his job as an operating room technician. Jesse matthew is charged with abduction with intent to defile, a reference to sexual assault. The charge was filed yesterday after forensic test results of items seized from matthews apartment and car. The headmaster for the Covenant School sent out Additional Information to reporters saying that Jesse Matthew is no longer associated with the school in any capacity. We talked to a student and Football Player at that school. At 6 00 hear what he says about Jesse Matthew. Reporting live in charlottesville, peggy fox, wusa9. According to a new report by our partners at usa today, there are 90,000 missing people in this country at any time. You can read the article on our website www. Wusa9. Com. Right now on wusa9, our facebook page, weve got pictures of dozens of missing children from our area. Log on, take a look and share these digital flyers with your friends. Hopefully you can help bring them home. Prince georges county police say they shut down a notorious open air drug market in Upper Marlboro. The place is better known as the yard, a secluded property down a private lane off marlboro pike. We want to show you an aerial photo of all the activity going down earlier today. Scott broom reports from the infamous property. Reporter the yard is secluded down at the end of this rural driveway. Police say when they raided it, they found Something Like a flea market for drugs with buyers and sellers coming from all over the place. But the people who own the yard, 60yearold twins charles and karl matthews, who have not been charged say theyre making this stuff up. There were over two dozen users and several other people back there. Reporter the captain of the Prince Georges County police. The clients or users were coming from surrounding counties and Prince Georges County, washington d. C. And virginia and the dealers were coming from the county and from washington d. C. So that was the location where users and dealers come together and transact, make drug transactions, consume drugs. Reporter this wasnt some kind of nighttime raid with drug dealers hiding in dark corners. This happened in broad daylight on wednesday. Heres an aerial shot taken from a Police Helicopter confiscated 440 rocks of crack, illegal prescription drugs, eight guns, charged with drug possession the day of the raid were wayne burley of Upper Marlboro and Ernest Antonio ward of upper washington. The chief called the yard a problem for the community, but the matthews twins say theyve been here 50 years fixing cars, hauling junk and hanging out with friends. They come over here and party and sit down. Reporter they called the raid at the yard a scheme to push them out. Police say the shutdown of the . Awith an anonymous complaint to crime stoppers. Police say followup arrests are expected. Beginning next week your encounter with a d. C. Police officer may be captured on videotape. Dozens of officers will be wearing body cameras as part of the new Pilot Program unveiled today by chief cathy lanier and mayor gray. Our Bruce Johnson has the story including reaction on the street. Reporter d. C. Police chief cathy lanier has a 75 Approval Rating and she believes her Police Department may be among the best in the country. Still that department had nearly 400 civilian complaints against Police Officers last year. You can see theyre wearing different models, different styles of cameras. Were going to be testing five different camera styles. Reporter the department is counting on new body worn cameras to reduce the number of complaints which range from abusive language to Aggressive Police to forcing motorists to wait in their vehicles for long periods during routine stops. We cant prove or disprove the allegation and thats frustrating for everybody because theyre on official call for service and are lawfully at a premises. Theyre going to be recording. Thats all the whole point. I want to advise you me and my partner are both wearing cameras today. Reporter the number of complaints against officers have been reduced by 80 . That tells me our members have been doing things right almost a of the time and there was no way to verify. Now that the public knows theres a way to verify the interaction, those frivolous complaints have gone away. Reporter its only a six month Pilot Program and its expensive. Were talking about 1 million the chief says initially only 165 Police Officers will have those body cameras. I think its good for accountability and as long as it doesnt get manipulated, i think it should be fine. Reporter we found a lot of support for the body cameras on the streets. In light of everything weve had going on lately, it will make it even on both sides to make it known hes not going to mistreat you and also i cant act any type of way with the Police Officer and try to defuse the story later. I think it will be good for both sides. Reporter the chief didnt go so far as to say the cameras might save lives. She says if there are fewer complaints because of the cameras, that leaves more time for police to do police work. Bruce johnson, wusa9. There are roughly 4,000 officers in the d. C. Police department and chief lanier says those that come in contact with the public on a regular basis will be the ones who eventually get those video cameras. Islamic extremists have beheaded yet another person. Algerian terrorists allied with isis carried out the attack. The victim is a french hostage kidnapped in algeria. The frenchman was killed it was said because the french has helped the war on terror. The u. N. Meeting in new york, president obama did ask the International Community for support. Collectively we must take concrete steps to address the danger posed by religiously motivated fanatics and the trends that truly their recruitment. The if the also said that the only language that isis understands is the language of force. A former Prince Georges County Police Officer found guilty of beating a university of maryland student has that conviction off his record. This video captured by another student allegedly showed James Harrison and another officer beating john mckenna. This happened in 2010 after a celebration following a terrapin basketball victory over duke. Harrison was found guilty in 2012, but according to Court Records a judge struck down the conviction september 9th and ordered the case be closed. We are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. Trending now president obamas latte salute controversy. The innocent gesture or disrespectful salute, well talk about that and other trending topics at 5 30. At the break metro general manager stepping down, why and whats next for the agency . The man who metro hired to lead it out of the ashes of its darkest day announced his retirement today. The red line crash that killed nine people happened back in 2009. The next year Richard Sarles became the general manager of metro. Wusa9 transportation reporter martin decarro is here to tell us why hes retiring. He said he wants to spend more time with his family . I think hes had enough. He said hes not burnt out but its time to move on to the next stage of his life. He sent an email to employees and then sent a letter to the board of directors in person. Hell be 70 and his eighth grandkid arrived. He wants to spend more time with them. He says hes not burned out. I enjoy this job. Theres a lot of things that weve accomplished. The people that work here by and large nearly all of them really want to do a good job. Sometimes they need some help in doing that. It has been a true joy being on this job. A critical time for the transit agency, halfway through its six year rebuilding program to fix its signals and tracks, the silver line reopened and they are seeking money from congress to purchase enough new railcars to run all eight car trains during rush hour, but the lax Safety Culture was to be overhauled since the crash of 2009 and thats how sarles wants to be remembered. Who will take over for him . There will be a search starting immediately. Talk about safety we all remember when that red line crash happened, it was a taylor day here in d. C. At terrible day here in d. C. At that point they kind of stopped the automatic operation of the trains. Any idea when that goes back to automatic operation . Theyre going to start computer driven trains, not the herky jerky motion on red line in march. The only station with weather alert days, wusa9 first alert weather. Right now just some clouds. If you get home in the next hour or two north or west of d. C. , youre fine. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, still 73. Our dew points have come up, as has the humidity, 55. Winds increasing east, northeast at 17. Heres a look at radar. You can see the dark green there, the flood watch in effect until 6 a. M. Tomorrow morning, includes the rain already to la plata and dunkirk and just not quite to the outskirts of d. C. And central section of Prince Georges County. I think its quite frankly down here out of the flood watch, good rains in charles and calvert county, maybe just below flash flood guides. Yellow alert late tonight for heavy rain, flood watch for the immediate metro area till 6 a. M. Tomorrow. Heaviest rain 10 p. M. To about 6 a. M. Were thinking 1 to 2 inches generally across the metro area. It still looks dry for tailgating and definitely dry for the kickoff, a little breezy and cool, but as its well were getting this over with tomorrow. Midnight yellows and oranges, heavier activity just south of town beginning to spread northward, temps around 60. Overnight you see all the yellows and oranges plow through. Again the heaviest rain will be overnight. Kind of a good sleeping night really. 63 at 6 a. M. , 50s in the burbs. If youre going to work after 6 00 tomorrow, wet commute, probably slow but the heavy rain will essentially be frederick northward. That, too leaves us quickly. By 1 00 just leftover showers, temps in the 60s and then by 7 00 trying to tailgate, we dont see any showers in the metro area, some clouds possibly at fedex but dont see any showers. By 9 clock i think youll see some de 9 00 i think youll see some decreasing clouds and maybe some stars. How much rain is heading our way . We showed you this last night. I think this model is closest to the truth, 1 to 2 inches across the metro, 2 inches in leesburg and around 1 3 4inch downtown. Tonight cloudy, rain and showers, heavy at time, 54 to 62, winds northeast 10 to 20 and gusty. Theres a different model, 1 to 2 inches across the board. Tomorrow morning rain tapers to showers quickly, 54 to 68. Well problem cancel the yellow alert before noon, maybe even in midmorning. Heres your day planner, 60s across the board. It looks a little worse than it is. By 9 00 and 11 00 and 1 00 just showers with temps in the 60s. The next three days beautiful again friday, upper 70s, maybe clouds in the morning, still nice and fantastic on saturday, temperatures around 80. Now the next seven days looks like this. Were actually in pretty good shape, another beautiful weekend, temps around 80 sunday. Nats wrap up the season, ravens at home, next week still nice monday, tuesday, wednesday, maybe some showers rolling in with temperatures falling back into the mid70s, still not too bad. A lot of emails about this, when is the winter outlook . We give ours in noe, but the old farmers almanac november, but the old farmers almanac already has the winters outlook. Heres their outlook from last year and they were pretty darn close. They called for a cold and snowy winter in the east and cool and dry in parts of the midwest and snowy in the plains. Joining me now is sarah perreault, editor of old farmers almanac. This year youre doing a repeat performance, arent you . If you didnt like last winter, youre probably not going to like this winter. Head for california. Theyre moaning over there. Yeah. Let me show you the snowfall that occurred last year, okay . It was a snowy winter. It was the snowiest march we had on record. It was 32 inches downtown, the 18th snowiest, but last year at dulles we had 52. 8 inches making it the third snowiest wind and the lions share winter and the lions share fell in march. Lets go back a second, talk about the outlook this year, okay . Well show you whats going on. It looks pretty similar to last year. Guess what, cold and snowy. You have this weird little stripe here, this green wet in through like Garrett County back into pennsylvania. Its going to be hard to get rain and snow on both sides. Can you explain that . It depends if the weather goes west, its going to be one way. If it goes east, it goes another way. We try to cover our bases all the way around. The point is its going to be active. Right. I think we have 2010 blizzard videotape of february 6th. This is a great story, im sorry, 302 inches at dulles. Lesli is rolling her eyes back in her head. It was 32 inches at dulles. It was a fantastic storm. Well have to see if any of those come to pass. Basically youre saying a lot of nor easters and active weather pattern. Its not snow. Its wet. It will be cold. Florida is not great news either, wet and cold in florida as well, so california. Go west, young man or lady. They dont have a lot of rain, but its warm. Al Michael Jackson has been around since 1782 founded by Robert Thomas and cost four cents the first edition. Lets talk about some other things because in addition to the winter outlook and we use this all the time for sunrise and sunset and moon phases and stuff, this is cool stuff. For example. Why do i want grapes in my house . Because if you have red seedless games, you can clean your cuticles and if you have green seedless grapes, they get rid of wrinkles. You dont need these, topper. Maybe i do need that. No. Youre so kind. We appreciate you coming in. Farmers almanac, pick up a copy or go online, pretty cool stuff. How do you use the green grapes . Cut them in half and just rub them on. Love that tip. This was important stuff. We did not know the farmers almanac had all that stuff in there. Risky natural gas lines buried all over the d. C. Area and across the country, so why cant we tell you where they are located . Its a wusa9 usa today investigation coming up in a bit. Why tempers are flaring once again in ferguson, missouri. As we head into the break, a look at some of those gas prices driving you crazy. In northwest d. C. 7605 Georgia Avenue fill up for 3. 44 a gallon. Down the street at 5831 Georgia Avenue at its time to bring it out in the open. Its time to drop your pants for underwareness, a cause to support the over 65 Million People who may need depend underwear. Show them theyre not alone and show off a pair of depend. Because wearing a different kind of underwear, is no big deal. Join us. Support the cause and get a free sample of depend at underwareness. Com tempers flared last night in ferguson after a makeshift memorial for Michael Brown was burned. Cops say five people were arrested last night after rocks and bottles were thrown at officers and shots were fired at them. A grand jury will not charge nascars tony stewart in an accident that claimed the life of a fellow driver. Kevin ward jr. Was standing outside his car when stewart crashed into him at a race in upstate new york back in august. The jewish new year begins at sundown tonight. In jerusalem jews in israel made last minute preparations for rosh hashanah. Pomegranates is a traditional food eaten at new year. Rosh hashanah leads to yom kippur. When it comes to traffic citations, is anything being done to give drivers a break . Debra alfarone brings us the story in a bit. Trending now, will president obama get burned by controversy. And can paula deen the only station with weather alert days, wusa9 first alert weather. A alert goes into effect late tonight and early tomorrow morning and heres why. Theres the leading edge of the rain, looking at late to occasionally heavy rain from la plata back into leonardtown. If you scramble up 270 quickly, youll be okay before you get home, but a wet commute going south down 301 or 5 into Southern Maryland, nothing crazy heavy at this point. Good news. Lets get it over with tonight. Decreasing clouds tomorrow night, breezy, cool, tailgate temps around 70, temps in the 60s, dry for both tailgating and kickoff, winds north, northeast 10 to 15. By 10 00 tonight heavier rain on our doorstep. By midnight heavy rain moves through till about 6 a. M. , 1 to 2 inches. Well come back, talk about rainfall ac

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