She is live at fort meade with what we know about the suspect this new. Reporter for quite some time they did not know when exactly where exactly this man was. Its been an exhausting 14 hour search and he came to an end about an hour ago. The suspect is now in custody. Look at these images. Chopper seven was overhead. He was spotted in a wooded area similar to what you are seeing, trying to hide. We were there as Police Closed in on him. Let me give you some background. At around 9 00 in the morning, this evening yesterday. Officers spotted a stolen vehicle at a Baltimore City and try to pull over the driver. The car sped off in crashed into an unmanned gate at the nsa. It was an intense and active search overnight with several agencies involved. County, state police, u. S. Park police searched above with helicopters. We saw helicopters until 9 00 in the morning searching for the suspect. Most of the activity was off of u. S. Route 32. We know residents were told for about 12 hours to stay inside their homes, lock their doors, and their windows as a precautionary measure. This search finally coming to an end. We expect to learn more about the suspect. What happened last night in what happened moving forward. Jeannette reyes, abc 7 news. Melanie what an ordeal for the community. Abc 7 news has you covered when news breaks. You can have alerts sent right here phone. Just into just go to wjla. Com text to sign up. One of the three americans who stopped a terrorist attack on a train in france has been stabbed. Officials say Spencer Stone was attacked overnight in sacramento, california. Stabbed several times in the torso but is in stable condition and expected to recover. He is a member of the u. S. Air force. No word yet on what led to the attack or if police have any suspects in custody. Police announced andrea are investigating the citys second homicide this year. A man was shot around 11 45 last night about a block from the Braddock Road Metro station. He was rushed to the hospital where he died. One witness says gunfire shook the vehicle he was in at the time. A pow, pow, pow when we were coming down the street. Alleyway andthe that is when bullets started flying above is an into the car. Melanie police have not released the name of the victim. People with information should call the Alexandria Police department. Opening arguments in the trial of a accused serial killer. Charles severance is accused of murdering three people in alexandria over the course of a decade. Jeff goldberg as the development from the Fairfax County courthouse. Reporter the prosecution just wrapped up a 45 minute impassioned opening argument to jurors, saying evidence will prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Charles Severance is guilty of the murders. The prosecution going to a whole host of factors that he says the jury will hear throughout this trial, including charles about hiswriting hatred of the system in the community elite. The prosecution also say that the ammunition and firearms used in these killings are all similar. They say that Charles Severance was completely obsessed with this ammunition and firearms for years. Witnesses will put Charles Severance close to or near the scene of the crimes that took place in those killings. The prosecution confident the evidence will come forward to prove troll severance is guilty of all 10 charges related to the murders. Going back inside the courtroom now for the opening argument of the defense. We will have updates on that later on. Jeff goldberg, abc 7 news. Melanie classes are canceled at Eastern Kentucky university for the rest of the week while authorities investigate a graffiti threat. On sunday, etu police found a message written on the wall of the mens bathroom that read kill all by 10815. The school has increased its Police President and the Football Game is being moved to another school. The university is offering a 10,000 reward for information at least reconviction. Fire and fumes. An alarming wakeup for guests at a northwest d. C. Hotel this morning. Firefighters were called to the marriott on woodley road just after 7 00 a. M. Mishandled the posse glue from construction work ignited in a basement causing the fire. Vaporsally dangerous then rose to the second floor. Guests were moved to another area of the hotel. Firefighters were able to get that fire quickly under control and nobody was hurt. Over in maryland firefighters spent the morning battling a huge hay fire in montgomery county. It started on a farm on dickerson road just after 8 00. You can see the dozens of bales of hay causing a large plume of smoke. No word on what started the fire. It is shaping up to be another beautiful day. Josh is here with a first look at the forecast. Josh its important to keep in mind your normal High Temperature for this time of year is right around 71 degrees. Most of us above that at the noon hour. A light breeze out of the east at just three miles per hour. It does not get much better than that. 73 down at the river. Fredericksburg just a few degrees cooler that everyone warming up nicely with a good amount of sunshine. You can see the relatively clear skies on our satellite but i want to zoom out and give you a sense of what is on the way for friday. You see the rain up towards green bay . An area of low pressure will work its way across the north but it will bring a cold front through for us and i kidding showers and thunderstorms. I will time those up for tomorrow and what you need to know for this afternoon to keep the sunglasses handy and enjoy the above average temperatures. We will talk more on the rain in the timing on a coming up in just a bit. Melanie thank you. The flooding dangers and South Carolina are expected to remain in effect for at least the next 2448 hours. People on the coaster bracing for flooding. The water amassed from days of record rainfall now moving in their direction and more damage is expected before the water moves out to sea. At least 19 people have died in this storm. The damage already estimated at more than 1 billion. Metroround here in the officials are meeting right now to address plummeting ridership. A new report finds that last year 40,000 fewer people road metro trains each state in the did in 2010. Sam sweeney is live outside of headquarters with more on what is causing this decline and what they plan to do about it. Reporter good afternoon to you. Leaders and Board Members just admitted that their inability to provide consistent and safe and Reliable Service has driven riders away. 40,000 less everything will date is about a 500 drop up in the peak action 2009. That is a major problem. 79 of the nonsubsidy revenue comes on the rail passengers. Board members and metro leaders admit they must do better when it comes to reliability in order to bring riders back to the system. They also want other incentives to increase riders by abolishing distancebased fares during peak hours. They would also talk about installing concessions in stations and increasing advertising within the system. The board says they will do whatever it takes not to raise fares but they missed must remain competitive. Theyre competing with lyft, u ber, and the x your program. Program. L ride share sam sweeney, abc 7 news. Melanie lets see how our midday traffic is moving. Jamie sullivan, how are you . Jamie i am doing well. A few things to watch out for. I want to begin with this accident on 66 eastbound. We did have emergency crews just behind this. With the delay you will see it. I know we see a lot of cars really getting by without a problem but it is approaching that area. Of will get a better idea some of that slowing inbound on 66. You will see the volume basically getting from 123 a little closer towards the capital beltway. We are mostly green the only issue is on the top side of the beltway where we are seeing some of that read and about 14 mile per hour on the outer loop getting close towards university boulevard. Silver spring, a gas main breaks. The highway is currently closed between ron roenicke and oadhington avenue rum rao and washington avenue. In d. C. , a suspicious odor. Police have closed off c street between third and sixth streets. Thats an area you want to avoid as you will see a lot of emergency crews on scene. Melanie thanks so much. Coming up on abc 7 news at noon, new developments in the Sexual Assault scandal involving the coffee. The lawsuit bill cosby. The lawsuit now going to forward against him. But the ceo of volkswagen said at this mornings congressional hearings on the emissions scandal. A local educator received the oscar for teachers. The mustsee surprise and details on the award. And enjoy the sun while it lasts. Josh is back next with our next chance of rain. All that coming up next on abc 7 news at noon. Youre watching abc 7 news at noon, on your side. Melanie bill cosby is said to be deposed this week for the First Time Since nothing allegations of sexual abuse. A judge refused to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed against the comedian. Causeaims in the 70s forced her to perform a sex act on him at the playboy mansion when she was just 15 years old. Her lawyer will question cosby on camera tomorrow. The court intensity details of the deposition under seal until a later hearing. House republicans are said to vote today to nominate a partys candidate for house speaker. John boehner is resigning get into the month. The candidates include Jason Chaffetz of utah, Daniel Webster from florida, and current Majority Leader Kevin Mccarthy of california. The closeddoor secret ballot election is set for this afternoon but it will not be final. The full household on october 29. s u. S. Ceo is once again apologizing for the emissions scandal during todays testimony before a congressional committee. Volkswagen admitted to cheating on pollution tests in nearly half a million diesel vehicles in the united states. They have not said how or when it will fix the recalled vehicles but promises to take full responsibility. Remedies for our customers and we work to ensure that this will never happen again. Melanie also today german prosecutors raided volkswagen headquarters and other offices. Its part of their investigation into the automakers emissions scandal. Bc 7 7 on your side lumbar liquidators agrees to pay 10 million to the department of justice. They will plead guilty to making false claims about where the timber used in its Hardwood Flooring originated. Lumbar liquidators also faces allegations that some of its foreign contained toxic chemicals, including cancercausing formaldehyde. More than 100 lawsuits havent filed against the company. Have been filed against the company. The principal idc college prep was honored. Suzanne kennedy was there for this much needed surprise. Reporter the principle does he instead she got a huge surprise. That educator is your principal, jessica cunningham. Reporter she was awarded what is known as the oscar of teaching. It is an under circuit 25,000 award given by the milken family foundation. More than 2600 educators have been given this. Cunningham joins their ranks. I feel shocked and grateful. I had no clue this was happening. I thought we were having a ribboncutting and i guess that might not be happening. Its very shocking and im very appreciative. Reporter 40 awards will be given up this year. Cunningham is the first recipient. Suzanne kennedy, abc 7 news. Melanie . Congratulations to her what a big honor. Josh you can see her face and i love that. Melanie 25,000 is nice. Josh im doing my best to bring sunshine. Wonderful weather throughout the afternoon. By the time we entered tomorrow is what we Start Talking about the chance for some rain. This is from annapolis. You can see a few clouds early this morning but again we can pretty much perfect blue skies. Annapolis in the low 70s. A very similar story. If you pop the clouds of their. Temperatures right around 73 degrees. Feeling good for us as we work only across the region. We have 75 in chevy chase. A little cooler as we head towards ashburn. And then for the south side of d. C. Write it for washington, 72. It really feels nice other. A few clouds on that last frame that are popping up with that is about it. We pile on a few more clouds this afternoon but nothing what for us today. Wet for us today. This is an area of low pressure. It stays further up to the north but it will drag a cold front behind it. You will start to see on the futurecast the rain coming together. By late tonight, around 11 00 but as we zoom in he see more and more that coming together. Here we are tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Dry but is the fast forward to right around 9 30 you will see showers from winchester through the shenandoah valley. And even a chance for some light showers around d. C. The main event will be later on. 6 30. He see that cold front with this line of showers working its way to the area. That will be the timeframe we have to watch out for. Friday night Football Games, we are looking for showers. Some of those showers could be on the stronger side. Gusty windss will be something we have to watch out for. We started with a few extra clouds but other than that it is dry weather and sunshine by the time you to lunchtime on saturday. 63 degrees for us tonight. Partly cloudy skies and a chance for some patchy clouds. The winds are still light. Partly sunny in the morning and a High Temperature of 80. Storms move in for us and and thunderstorms are Late Afternoon and then the evening hours. As we fastforward into saturday it will be a little bit cooler but temperatures still hanging in the midsixties, close to 74 on sunday. A lot closer to average for this time of year with those numbers right around avenue degrees. Dry for the weekend and want to get the clausen Early Saturday Morning it will be sunshine right to the weekend. A little warmer for next week as well. Melanie one rainy day, we can deal with that. Josh we will watch closely at the line gets closer to see that sparks any stronger storms. Stick with stormwatch tomorrow. Melanie we have this just now into the abc 7 newsroom. Fairfax county Health Department is investigating a case of the measles. It was a child that received one dose of the vaccine. They were treated at a Fairfax Hospital and is no longer contagious but did visit several places while still contagious. That includes Pediatric Associates of alexandria, springfield healthplex, and the cosco in alexandria. We will post more information on this at our website, wjla. Com. And we will have more information before abc 7 news at 4 00. Coming up at noon, a heart stopping rescue. How long this work of dangled here at humana, we value sticking with things. When something works, people stick with it. More people stick with humana medicare advantage. Because we stick with them. Humana medicare advantage. The plan people stick with. Therthat can be serious,ere. Even fatal to infants. Its whooping cough, and people can spread it without knowing it. Understand the danger your new grandchild faces. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about a whooping cough vaccination today. Melanie an amazing escape caught on camera. Police say the 17yearold girl that you see a lot of the passenger side of the car. She was walking to school in the driver of the toyota literature into the car. Once she was inside she said he was assaulted by a woman who tried to kidnap her. Team wask thinking able to jump out of the moving car in five down help. Police are trying to find the vehicle and his driver. It something you expect to see in action movies but this scary scene all played out yesterday along houstons ship channel bridge. A contractor was preparing the bridge when he slipped off the catwalk and he was left dangling. It took rescue teams about an hour to pull the contractor of through manhole in the bridge. The best news of all, he was not hurt but a few tense moments for sure there. A nice thursday shaping up today. Josh is back in just a minute to help check out the weekend weather. 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Xarelto® may increase your risk of bleeding if you take certain medicines. Xarelto® can cause serious, and in rare cases, fatal bleeding. Get help right away for unexpected bleeding, unusual bruising, or tingling. If you have had spinal anesthesia while on xarelto®, watch for back pain or any nerve or muscle related signs or symptoms. Do not take xarelto® if you have an artificial heart valve or abnormal bleeding. Tell your doctor before all planned medical or dental procedures. Before starting xarelto®, tell your doctor about any kidney, liver, or bleeding problems. You know xarelto® is the 1 prescribed blood thinner in its class. Josh they quick up shot of the someday once again. Thunderstorms late in the afternoon and into the evening on friday. Melanie be sure to watch abc 7 news at 4 00. Hey, everybody. In this next 30 minutes, you may be watching someone walk out of here with a very big check. Get ready. Its time for who wants to be a millionaire. 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