And im leslie. A tragic conclusion to the search of nicole. She was found about a mile from where her car was found last saturday. Allison barber is in Fairfax County where the Fire Department is in mourning and we had this story on the wusa9 app and we come from Madison County with details. Reporter tonight we can confirm that a suicide note was found so no reason to believe there is foul play. We have made a preliminary investigation and we believe it is nicole. It ended up at the white oak trail and 300 yards in the wilderness. It area. A team of six searchers spotted the remains as a lone helicopter soared overhead. The grim discovery prompted the Police Cruisers to hustle down the mountain and head to a parking lot in shen na doa. We dont have cell service and we dont mind it. Her final drive would have taken her down rural roads and stunning mountains. To her final resting place. Her remains will be taken to the office of the medical examiner in manassas for examination and autopsy and in Madison County virginia. Andrea mckaren. Investigators are trying to pull together a timeline to determine when nicole arrived at the park and when she died. Lets go to Fairfax County. Allison barber at fire station 32 where a candle still burns there. Reporter in the past hour we received a statement from the fire chief Richard Bower saying he and the entire department are saddened by this news. He said as they wait to hear more information their thoughts and prayers are with nicoles friends and family. As most of you know this fire station is where Nicole Middendorf worked. We saw one person come by here and play flowers at the front door. As news of a body in shen na doa park made its way to Fire Department the officials declined to speak. The only statement about the tragic outcome online. There was a post run by middendorf family and wusa9 received an email from nicoles sister. Our hearts are broken. We believe nicole has been found but not in the way anticipated. She said thank you to police and friends and to strangers. It has been a challenging time for everybody she wrote and we learned that there is an Amazing Community spanning the entire globe full of love and support. With this community that helped sustain us. We thank everyone for their time, dedication and support. And ask that you keep our family in your prayers. Nicole was supposed to be here at work tomorrow. She would have started her shift at 7 00 a. M. A spokesperson says the fire chief is planning to come by here tomorrow morning to be reporting live at station 32, im allison barber, wusa9. The world is less magical and purple for the loss of a legend. For many a visionary and artist that got us through the good times and the bad. A man that transcended race and label and defied label and spread a message of love. I embarked on a journey and i wish you the best on this journey. It aint over. Reporter and at this hour a parties all around the world and in this country and minneapolis and dc. This is outside the warner theater where prince played last year. He was honored on the marquis and flowers keep coming. What happened at his minneapolis home. Reports show that prince was treated for a drug overdose. And thats why the plane made an Emergency Landing on the way back home from a concert in georgia. Tmz has a picture of the singer living a walgreens drugstore and that and plus it took longer than it should have to get authorities out to his home. We have the transcript from princes compound on our news app but to break it down. Whoever exactly where they were, just telling the dispatcher we are at princes house. The caller says he has someone unconscious before saying the person is dead here. An autopsy is planned for tomorrow. Prince had an impact here. One person that knew prince and to appreciate his music spoke with wusa9 mola lenghi. We are live where a Prince Dance Party is taking place. It is a party out here. People celebrating princes life and his music all night long. Music that one legendary dj has been spinning. Hard without prince. It is hard to imagine a music land without prince. The funny thing it was hard to imagine a music landscape with prince. When the first album came out radio stationnot know what to do. Precipitation was unique because he could not be categorized because he did it all. When the first album came out, a radio legend at dc. I remember hearing little red corvette. I have been playing it ever since. Sending his music out on the air he was the whole package, he could write and produce and play like crazy. Translated to a long list of fans. It translated multi generational. Everybody loved him. He was one of those guys that everybody in the business loved. He remembers prince as a prince. He was a grounded, very meticulous guy and really good to everybody. Nobody ever said anything bad about prince. Down to earth guy and out of this world musician. These heroes, these people that we love, that we grew up, their music, we dont think they will die. Just the sadness, like a Family Member passes. This party is going to ke guys up here stop spinning princes records. They say they are not going to stop until the cops shut them down. By the looks of it we may be out here all night. Mola lenghi for wusa9. They are rocking out there on u street. Which we were there for sure. You know as the news spread, radio stations across the dc region started to play a tribute to prince through his song. One of the stayings was magic 10 2. 3 in Silver Springs. Donnie simpson took calls and shared stories. Simpson shared a story about the time he and Sugar Ray Leonard went to a david bowie concert go i bumped this woman and said excuse me and prince turned around. Awkward. Nobody wears heels like he did. He could rock it. Like all great ar his fans. Truly an inspiration. We are getting video of the last song. It was just prince a piano and purple rain. Here is the signature song. Just prince at a final concert in atlanta. He threw a party at his paisley park play ground and spoke about his health and he was telling party goers to wait before any prayer. Folks across the minneapolis area paying their respects. Holding parties and some of the bridges are lit purple in of the artist. He played new york Apollo Theater many times and tonight the marquis reads in honor of the beautiful one, prince, nothing compares to you, 1958 to 2016. Have a look at this closer to home. Prince georges county. There is the iconic giant capital wheel at the national harbor. It has been lit purple tonight. There are all kinds of personal tributes to prince all over social media. Coming in throughout the day and the evening and lets take a look at some of the creative ways fans are remembering this legend. Dan tweeted out lyrics to his hit single kiss using emoje. And angie says she has a ck saw him last year. And new yorks subway station got creative with its tribute to prince street. And another tribute inside the prince station. And lorene says after purple rain there is always a rainbow. This is at the paisley park compound. The accident here and no one was hurt but what happened. Tracking showers and a few thunderstorms. In the morning we are okay at 6 00. Mild temperatures, 58 to 64. Showers west of town. At 9 00 we are in the 60s and showers close by noon, 66 to 72. We will talk about our weather alert and the changes coming in the weekend. Eric clapton asked what it was like to be the dont know, ask prince. We will continue to pay tribute to the this price is so low. Trying to make me eat my greens . No, just trying to save you some green. Whaaat . thousands of blue tags. Thousands of low prices. My giant. Yeah. We love low prices. No bones about it. [ laughter ] thousands of blue tags. Thousands of low prices. My giant. Outside of miami. A bus ca of Virginia Baseball team crashed into some parked cars tonight. Just after driver lost consciousness. The Coaching Staff performed cpr on the driver until First Responders arrived. The driver was taken to the hospital in serious condition. No one else on the bus got hurt. All right. The Party Continues on u street where fans are out singing and dancing. Lets see what are they listening to. This is mola lenghi assignment but i think he will be out there. This is nol compares to you nothing compares to you. Music lives on. All right. Right now traffic is going across the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Someone spotted a suspicious package in the road and the bomb squad checked it out and it was a box of loose wires and as you might imagine that shutdown led to major traffic delays. The former postal worker that flew a toy helicopter is going to drill. He was sentenced to four months in prison. The judge says he didnt realize the safety risk he took by flying over a populated area and was only focused on getting publicity to his cause which is Campaign Finance reform. It is not my intent to break any okay . It is my intent to get money out of politics and every time im faced with a choice i am going to look at getting that done as part of my decision. He would risk getting arrested again if it gets big money out of politics. Tomorrow is not going to be gyro helicopter flighting area. No. Visual and pyrois two different things. If you are a pilot you know what im talking about. A three degree guarantee. We did okay. We went 74. Hoping for a bullseye. 76, okay. Not so bad. Difference of two degrees. We are going to go 74 tomorrow as well. Remember you can check up on us on our app as well as watch the 11 00 news and check the showers. 67 right now. Winds out of the south at 7. Yellow weather alert for showers in the afternoon and evening. Bus stop temperatures 66 to 68. Showers are possible but it will be okay. Worse Case Scenario a little bit of a delay. But here is the change. Showers will lip ger in to saturday afternoon. And maybe as late as 2 00. The soccer games will be played and soft ball games not so sure about. Not much lightning but heavy downpours. Forecast for the nats. 6 nats 6 00, 74. 61 in manassas and 62 in stafford. By 9 00 showers in the west and most of us will have a dry commute to work. Temperatures, low 60s and in morning. By afternoon, 1 00, lunch time, some showers, they are all shades of green. Nothing crazy heavy. And temperatures low to mid 60s. 74 in Silver Spring and buoy. By 5 30 showers in the west. Remember that and showers back to the southeast. These showers begin to roll through in the evening. Not everybody will see a shower and thats where we are kind of optimistic about the nats game. It will be warm in the 70s. Day planner like this, 61 across the board and 71 by 11 00 and by lunchtime showers and storms. Next 7 days, beautiful. Showers could liner as much as saturday and we wont touch that. Monday fantastic. 80s. And speaking of monday, manic monday written by prince. Nats in town through thursday and look at that, 81. He had so much stuff we wrap our brains around it. We got a new baseball season and now we have reason to be excited. Basketball. The wizards went after their guy and they made him an offer he couldnt refuse. More on the hiring of the new head coach coming up next. The redskins are due for a z1yosz but sierra club chooses jamie raskin for congress they all talk about climate change. Because only raskin wrote laws to reduce our Carbon Footprint and is leading the fight against fracking in maryland. Z1yotz now wusa9 game on sports with kristen berset, brought to you by xfinity. It was official that Randy Whitman was out as coach of the washington wizards, name of the possible replacement begin to swirl and the wizards honed in on one guy and they got him. Scott brooks will take over the helm in dc and ernie grun feld met with him and made an offer. His deal is five years worth 35 milliondollars and his hiring will bring kevin durant. Brooks coached him for 17 seasons. Josh redskins park. His first visit since carolina rescinded his franchise tag. It could be close to five years and 14 million. Nats wrapped it up in florida. Bryce harper homers in the first inning. Six home runs in the last 8 games and major league run batted in and that was in the nats offense. And marlins win today 51. The nats return home starting tomorrow Night Opening up a three game weekend series yoainst minnesota. U can see fridays night game on wusa9, first pitch is 7 05. Nascar comes to richmond and so does tony stewart, i know adam is excited. This is stewarts final season and he had to delay as he recovered from a back injury. Stewart has missed the first 8 races and doctort in time for the race. Prince was born in minneapolis and died at his home in minnesota. The twins started a tradition last year in honor of their hometown icon. The rookies had to learn the song little red corvette and having fun with it. Little red corvette little red corvette sadly thats the only thing the twins are winning at. I have had my head stuck in that song all day. The park in minnesota in honor of prince. Chevy tweeted out a little red corvette. Perfect and to im Chris Van Hollen, and i approve this message. Narrator an attack ad from the campaign for donna edwards. So untrue. So outrageous that president obama said, pull it down. The Obama White House called the ad on Chris Van Hollen and the nra misleading. The sun says van hollen and president obama have the exact same position. The post praised van hollen and condemned the edwards ads that mislead voters. Donna edwards. Will she say anything to win an election . Are you making weekend plans. Tomorrow is a weather alert day. We are tracking showers. One last look at the powerful messages in honor of prince from some of the people that knew him best. Stevie nix saying my friend is gone, this is what it sounds like when doves cry. He was my dove. Mike lee said i miss brew my brother. He was a funny cat. And another one, step away some prince, it is the only thing that saved my day. It may have saved yours. So many people talking about the impact of prince. The music was incredible. I didnt believe it at first. Showers tomorrow mainly in the afternoon. Surprisingly thats it for wusa9 news tonight. 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