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We have some new information in the case of an abducted philadelphia woman who has since been returned to her family. Overnight the suspect in that case was extradited from jessup, maryland, to virginia. Nick giovanni is live in the newsroom with more on this development. Reporter were learning new details at this hour about how police managed to track down delven barnes. This morning the Baltimore Sun is reporting a key ring, candy wrappers and a bag of potato chips found in the driveway of a woman helped lead the way. That led to this video just into our newsroom overnight. Officers transferring barnes into the Charles City County jail from the Baltimore County detention center. He was arrested wednesday night in jessup, maryland, charged in sundays kidnapping of 22year old carlesher freedland gaither. He is also accused of kidnapping a teenager who turned up at a business last month naked, bleeding and burned. He allegedly hit her in the head with a shove. He was attempting to dig a hole but somehow he got distracted from her and she noticed an avenue of escape when he was distracted from her and she proceeded to flee in the woods. Barnes is now facing charges in virginia for attempted capital murder, assault, and malicious injury with asaid, explosives or fire. Coming up at 6 30, well explain how technology played a role in actually how virginia investigators managed to identify him. Prince georges county police are searching for a man who tried to abduct a teenage girl. This happened yesterday evening in the 1700 block of robert louis avenue in upper marlboro. The suspect is about 56, weighs around 130 pounds. He was wearing a gray beanie and gray and yellow jacket. If you have information in this case, please call Prince Georges County police. The family of two missing Montgomery County children have suffered a frustrating judicial setback. The judge will not allow Catherine Hoggle to leave a Psychiatric Hospital and assist police in finding the toddlers. Hoggle has been in custody since being accused of abducting her children sarah and jacob. Yesterday hoggle said both children are alive and that she can lead police to them. But the judge refused to allow that crieghting hoggles citing hoggles mental capacity. We were all hoping she would have been able to be taken to where she says the children are. If the children arent there, she returns to where she is either way and nothing would be gained or lost. Hoggle has been diagnosed with paranoia schizophrenia. The people responsible for a driveby shooting which put 13 people in the hospital are said to be sentenced today. They are all from the district and pleaded guilty to the 13 counts of assault with intent to kill. Under a plea agreement, allen is expected to get 25 years in prison. Bob and smith are expected to be sentenced to ten years in prison. Sentencing is set for 2 00 p. M. We have a warning about something which may drive you crazy. Tonight crews will begin opening the final section of the intercounty connector. A longtime coming n. Is where the icc meets interstate 95 in Prince Georges County. Nikki burdine joins us live from the route 1 side of the icc in beltsville with a preview. Good morning, nikki. Reporter good morning. This is good news for drivers here in beltsville who take route 1 to go to Montgomery County. Good news for you. Guess what . These traffic barrels and all these signs here on this ramp getting off of route 1 on to the icc, theyre going to be gone soon. Thats because crews will come out here starting tonight to start removing all those and opening this up. This is the final section of the icc. It should all be open by monday morning. This project has been going on since 2011 and it is the final phase of the icc. This phase will open the connector to its full length. It will go east an extra one and a half miles to route 1 near the Muir Kirk Marc stop. The partial interchange on i95 at konterra drive near 198 will also be open n. Will serve konterra drive which extends from Old Gunpowder road to the west, muirkirk road to the east. Tolerates on this road will not change so thats another good thing for drivers to hear but all these signs will soon change. So if youre heading this way in beltsville from Prince Georges County to Montgomery County, a heads up this morning. Tonight when youre heading home, you could see crews out here starting to remove the signs and opening this up. It will officially be open and ready for you by monday mornings rush hour. In beltsville, im nikki burdine. Now back to you. Thank you, nikki. As you said a long time coming. I wonder if more people will use it now. Theyre even advertising on the radio saying hey, weve got it road here. Use it. A federal Appellate Court issues a warning about samesex marriage laws in four states. Beware, apple users. A new Malware Program is targeting your device. Wusa9 is back right after this. Be a weekender and book weekeyour stay at hampton. It is 6 08 on this friday morning. Check out this picture if youre not looking at the screen. Take a peek now. Beautiful sky about half an hour before the sunrise on this friday. Its brisk out. Weve got 40s to low 50s. Ed winds are going to be a factor. Could be gusting to 30 miles an hour. Keeping temperatures only to 50, 55. Weekend looks cool and mainly dry. Well let you know when the shower threat is over the weekend coming up in about six minutes. Right now heres beverly with another look at timesaver traffic. Got a crash in Montgomery County thats going to impact shady grove road just to the west or south of 270 at key west avenue in which a pedestrian was struck. A lot of equipment on the scene. Theyre on shady grove west of 270. 270 thru lanes though, the light volume through gaithersburg, rockville. 66, that slow traffic out of manassas toward 29 centreville with the crash moved on to the showltder right before you get to shoulder right before you get to 29. That will be the focal point of delays out of manassas at this point. Heading into northeast coming off the parkway and 50 in dheferly to go south on cheverly to go south on kenilworth, lanes are open down towards the exits for the 11th street bridge. Thats a look at the drive. Back to you. Here are some stories you may have missed overnight. A u. S. Appeals court is saying no to gay marriage. The judge upheld samesex marriage bans in four states. Michigan, ohio, tennessee, and kentucky. This is the first court to uphold bans since last year. Boat sides expect the u. S. Supreme court to have the final say. The army says it has now updated some little known regulations which were causing an outcry. Under the rules approved in the late 1990s, it was perfectly okay for afternoon African American Service Member to be referred to as, quote, negro. The language appears in the Army Command Policy document. The regulation says terms like haitian and negro can be used in addition to black or African American. Yesterday during a News Conference, the White House Press secretary josh ernest said that regulation and the language had been changed. Were finally learning about the full extent of the latest home depot data breach. 53 million email addresses were stolen during the breach along with payment card numbers. Hackers accessed the system with a user name and pass words they stole from a vendor. Home depot is offering free credit monitoring to customers who were affected. Microsoft offering a friday freebie. Its a new office app for your mobile device. It allows users to create and edit Office Documents on their phones. Microsoft is betting that the giveaway to the iphone and ipad and android owners will help the company keep a strong base of pc users. A warning is out today about form of malware affecting thousands of apple mobile device users. It comes from a Cybersecurity Company called palo alto networks. The company says many of those affected are in china. Palo alto calls the malware wirelurker and says it monitors devices connected by usb cable to an infected computer. Then it installs malicious applications on to the device and steals information from it. Its not clear where that stolen information winds up. It is coming up on 6 12. Heres another look at the question of the morning. About 15 of people admit theyve lied to get this. Is it a, a first class upgrade, b, a job or c, a senior discount . Good friday morning kevin mccarthy. He wrote, i never have but probably b which is a job. I think the 15 , though, is a little low. Well have more of your responses and the correct survey answer in about 30 minutes. Well be right back. Thank you for watching wusa9. Hello and welcome back to wusa9. In case you cant already feel it, its getting really chilly around here this weekend. The view is gorgeous. Absolutely beautiful. If you havent, take a look at the screen. The old friend is back. The polar vortex is sneaking down our way. Howard will have more on that in just a minute. Later this evening, mississippi avenue in southeast d. C. Will be the scene of a celebrityfilled Ribbon Cutting ceremony. The party celebrates an unveiling of the 18 million renovation of the southeast tennis and Learning Center. Thats where Delia Goncalves joins us live when they roll out the red carpet. Shes made it inside. Reporter we have made it inside and ive got to say really breathtaking inside and very impressive. The outside looks great. Inside looks great as well. How can you not notice that there is images of venus and serena all over the place. This is a Ribbon Cutting with then mayor Anthony Williams of the original Ribbon Cutting of the tennis and Learning Center back in 2001 and then of course theres a bronze statue of the famous sisters as you walk into the aeven take. Take a look arena. Take a look here. This is the Williams Arena. Inside the stage is set for the huge gala tonight and here to talk about all the wonderful things that are happening here, the site manager. Lets go through what we have here. Lets talk about first the wall of fame as we take a look. Absolutely. This is the wall of fame. We wanted to portray a lat loot of the elite at a lot of the elite athletes in sports and have inspare inspirational quotes. All of these have something important and a certain work ethic and moral standard that they have in order to be great. Lets talk about venus and serena growing up in compton and what that means for the kids here in southeast just saying that theyve made it, we can do it, too. Absolutely. They always come back and they give back here to the center. And for them being from compton, it just gives a lot of these kids hope. Its the same sort of environment. But here we have the tools in order to get them whatever they need as far as their education and tennis. And here the mantra is tennis is the hook and education is the key. So we get them through tennis and making sure theyre well rounded individuals on the education side as well. Reporter i love that. Ten nice is the hook. Education is the key. On that note if tennis isnt your thing, there are a lot of educational facilities here. Theres a multipurpose room, a computer lab, a kitchen. I think i see some sewing and crafting rooms. Theyve got you covered. So a really great facility here for the kids here in southeast, but really everyone east of the river and the whole city and theyre going to celebrate with a grand opening this evening starting at 5 30. Back to you in the studio. Wow. Pretty nice. The williams sisters will be there. Thanks, delia. Its going to be a lovely evening for you but they might want to put on heavier wraps. The winds are going to kick up going through the morning gusting 30, maybe 35. That will not feel good if youre a runner and need to get some outdoor chores done. Might be a tough day to pick up leaves when blowing all over the place. Or play tennis. Weather wise lets show you whats happening. A lot of people inside the bubbles this time of year. Beautiful morning outside. We have a day planner talking about sunshine at least but temperatures struggling. Well only get to 55 or so midday. Northwest winds sustained at 20 at noon, gusting to 30. Theyll stay up through the Daylight Hours and slowly diminish this evening. Northwest at 9 by 8 00 and 45. High School Football if you have any plans this evening outside, it is going to be brisk for that. Right now down to 30 in davis. 36 in oakland. There have been snow showers in the Higher Elevations with 40s to around 50 or so as far as the winds currently theyre gusting 20 to 30 in the mountains. Were gusting 24 in winchester. No big gusts at the moment though weve been gusting over 20 at times this morning. In town, boy, its beautiful on our michael son weather camera. Mainly clear. 51 degrees with a west, northwest wind at 7. The barometer is rising as High Pressure building in behind a front that went through yesterday. There it is off shore. The northwesterly flow, the cold air, weve got the rain and snow showers now with that northwesterly winds when they hit the mountains and get the lift, thats where they squeeze out the moisture. Most of the moisture will be squeezed out in the mountains. Very little in the way of clouds east of the mountains through midday and the afternoon. Tonight the winds will relax some. That will allow temperatures by tomorrow morning to fall into the 30s, near 40 in town. Low 30s north and west. For the heart walk tomorrow at the national mall, it will be sunny, dry and chilly in the morning. Today windy, 55. Tomorrow 56. A little bit after breeze in the afternoon but not too much wind in the morning and a tad milder sunday. Redskins are off but the ravens will be home. Warm monday and tuesday before the coldest air of the season. Thats what they were talking about, the polar vortex, giving us a bit after cooldown wednesday and thursday. How is it looking, beverly farmer . Reporter troubles in gaithersburg, north rockville. An accident investigation. Weve got a stretch of the shady grove road to the west of 270 impacted by this crash. Sky 9 is looking at it for us live now. A pedestrian was struck here on shady grove road west of 270 and key west avenue. Police are directing you around that. Thru lanes on 270 arent impacted. Theyve got lanes open. Take you over to virginia where eastbound on 66 the sun is starting to rise but the pace slow as you make your way through manassas. Earlier accident before 29 centreville cleared out of the way. 95 knob nompt, your line 95 north, your lineup is getting to newington but lanes are open. Beltway to the wilson bridge, some building volume inner loop to oxon hill but lanes are open into alexandria. Light volume downtown Anacostia River routes. Thanks for joining wusa9. Good friday morning. We will be right back after this. Just about 6 24. Pretty skies. Were 15 minutes or so before the sunrise on this friday morning. A good deal of sunshine well see. Ill show you our futurecast. Could be rain and snow showers in the mountains for a few more hours. The winds are going to pick up today. Already a little gusty. Theyll be gusting toward 30 give or take a few hours. Lunch time 55. That will be about as warm as we get all day long. Beverly farmer, 6 24. We have some issues, dont we . Reporter we do. We have a crash in Montgomery County on shady grove road to the west side of 270 here at key west avenue. A lot of equipment on the scene. A lot of Police Direction. You can get through the intersection under Police Direction but it will take you extra time. That stretch of shady grove road at key west avenue dealing with the pedestrian accident sky 9 has been showing us. Otherwise around town, youre going to find the volume building for everybody pretty much on the interstates getting to the beltway. Outer loop here getting from New Hampshire avenue most of the way around to Georgia Avenue in Silver Spring. Mike, andrea, back to you. Thank you, beverly. Amber vincent, one of the vinson, one of the dallas nurses who contracted ebola is speaking out. She was declared free of the virus after treated at emory hospital in atlanta. She said battling ebola was excruciating and didnt think she would make it through. She does not know how she contracted the disease. I have no idea. I go through it almost daily in my mind, like what happened, what went wrong because i was covered completely every time. I followed the cdc protocol for for donning and offing. I never strayed. Its a mystery to me. She still gets breathless. You can hear her there, just walking short distances. She says she is gaining more strength each day. Scientists are trying out a new strategy in the fight against ebola. Theyre looking at ways robots can be an assistance. Ken goldberg says scientists are looking at whether or not robots can help doctors remotely diagnosis ebola patients. The great thing about putting a robot in there is you can then basically keep people out ofharms way. Goldberg says the current ebola crisis is a wakeup call and its time to accelerate technology. Heres something which may drive you crazy starting tonight and throughout the weekend. Crews will begin opening the final section of the intercounty connector. Thats where the icc meets interstate 95 in Prince Georges County. Nikki burdine joins us live from the route 1 side of the icc in beltsville. Good morning, nikki. Reporter good morning

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