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near a metro station has people worried about their safety tonight. good evening and thanks for being with us. i'm maureen umeh. one of the victims in those assaults is just 14 years old. the attacks happened near the west high school metro station in prince george's county and fox 5's john henrehan tells us some are now going to extreme measures to protect themselves. >> reporter: this waterway in the hyattsville area of prince george's county is known as the northwest branch of the anacostia river. right alongside the waterway lies a paved hiking, biking and walking path known as t...

station. on the scene with the latest. bob, what do you know? >> we're told this was not some random ambush. women were assaulted by a man who arranged to meet them here to show them an apartment. alexandria police called in a s.w.a.t. team to look for the man who attacked the woman around 6:00 tonight. their target, an office building that has been vacant for three years, according to people that live in the neighborhood, not far from the metro station. the women say they were dragged into the building and beaten by the man, then ran for their lives. >> it's just very odd to me how ...

mentioned the full moon was february 7th but still nearly full beautiful too is the setting. sunrise should be beautiful highs later today, upper 40s there is your sentinel sat rad storminess out of here off to the north and east and just a few clouds left over as you start your morning but again we should see the sun build in later today with plenty of quiet for our thursday with warmer temperatures right now, chilly, 33 at regan national, let me mention those breezes out of the north and west, 10 miles per hour it will be breezy at times today as that snow continues to exit north a...

massive police response to this normally quiet fort totten community. neighbors were on edge. >> i came out on the back porch and necessity told me to come back because they had rifles -- they told me to come back because they had rifles and pistols and everything. reporter: officers determined there were about a dozen people inside the home the suspect had holed up in. unsure of what they were up against, they brought in s.w.a.t. teams and hostage negotiators. over the next couple hours they were able to get them out one by one. >> they took out like three kids in baby carriers and ...

local hospital at this point. same m.o. as the two other crimes earlier this week. apparently the suspect is taking elderly men to several atms. he's forcing them to take out cash at those atms in. this case it appears the man is getting more violent. when we asked montgomery police if they think it's the same suspect, they believe this is the same man and this is the third time he has struck in the wheaton area. one other thing, will, we did ask if police had heightened security in that area after these latest two and they said they had, especially with all the shoppers around there...