Reporter 24 hours ago the siblings of kayla mattai showed us her art and begged her to come home. She takes care of us, and i really want her to come home. Reporter tonight her family says she is there, safe and away from a man she reportedly met on the internet. Hes 21, not much is known about him. He is now charged with using a communication device to solicit certain offenses involving children. Its a felony charge. The pair was found in harrisonburg, virginia. They arrested him and took her to the hospital. She is diabetic. She is not physically injured. When it comes to the suspect, the Prince William Police Department is still investigating to see if they should add more charges. The fbi and Virginia State police joined in the search. The fbi is still involved with it. A source with there should be federal charges. They will likely figure it out in the next few days. Back to you. Three separate shootings, and four people injured in southeast dc, and they all happened on wheeler road 2 hours and 2 blocks aparts. Police say right now the shootings are not cop necked to each other. No arrests have been made. All four were awake and breathing when they were taken to the hospital. Gangs luring kids online. Tonight virginia authorities are dealing with two ms13 gang related murders that they believe are connected and connect to the three missing teen cases we reported on last week. Reporter Virginia Police are dealing with two gang related murders here. Revis, the 16yearold from gaithersburg who went missing found dead in springfield, virginia. The other is a 21yearold male. His bowed was fo dumfries, virginia. Its believed the two were dating each other and the murders were connected to a person. I spoke to her moments after venus returned home. I left because i was scared about what happened to my exboyfriend. Reporter that exboyfriend, authorities tell us is christian revis. His body was found near the shore of william county. He and demarus revis, also murdered were dating, and when i asked if she knew what happened to reyes not really. Reporter we are learning thats not exactly true. Sources tell peggy fox the 17 yearold played a gruesome role in reyes death, and she wasnt innocent either. The large complicated murder multiple states, and Fairfax County police have ten suspects in custody for reyes homicide on thursday. Prince reyes police announced more arrests because of sosas murder. The cases authorities said overlap, and many of the suspects are teenagers or very young adults. Theres something to be concerned about for a lot of parents. Yeah, i was actually just talking with the Montgomery County Police Captain about this today, this very thing because our virginia counter parts say it happen at younger ages, and the spokesperson i spoke to said social media plays a huge role in this, and it allows more vulnerable kids to connect with someone they are more familiar with. The unfortunate thing, the person may be a gang member. And doing it in secret from their parents or whoever is taking care of them. Its easy to do caught. We are are focusing on educating people about it. Everyone plays a role. Thats right. The search for a new dc chief police is over. The mayor has nominated peter nusham for the job. Hes been the interim chief for the last 5 months. He spoke about instilling a philosophy of Community Policing in every officer. What does that mean, chief . In every interaction we have with anyone at every time, every time we respond to a call, every single day, 24 hours a day, we want to leave that person with the impression they are dealing with the good guys. Newsham needs approval by the dc council to make it official. The union failed to get enough votes to move matt ul his post. 25 of Union Members asked for the recall vote. He said he was pleased it failed, and now its time to move forward. He will act as chairman for the remainder of the term through 2018. Mike pence headlining the speakers at the annual conservative action conference in maryland. I believe President Trump has given voice to the aspirations and frustrations of the american peek like no leader before. Pence slammed the affordablecare act and in a rare appearance, steve bannen took the stage. He said the Trump Administration will continually be under attack. If you i f you think they are giving you that back, youre sadly mistaken. The crowd expects the president and congress to li obamacare. We are following breaking news as it is unfolding right now in northeast. Two dc or Metro Police Officers rather have been shot, but the good news, they are both conscious and headed to medstar Washington Hospital center. It apparently was at moore street and halbrook northeast. We are just getting the information into the news room, and we are looking into reports a suspect was shot. We dont know the condition of that person, but theres a crew on the way to the scene, and we will keep you updated through the next half an hour. Lets turn to local politics, a lot of controversial policies seen in the last month of the Trump Administration has turned moderate republicans against their own party. Theres one politician in virginia who is counting on that to help him with the comeback, and Garrett Haake sat down with him. Im tom periello and i approve this message. Reporter tom road the barack obama wave into congress 9 years ago, knocking off a district. Then the Tea Party Wave swept him back out. Even the president couldnt save his seat. We stand at a defying moment. Reporter now he is hoping a backlash against President Trump could carry him to the governors mansion. Reporter is this election going to be a referendum on donald trump . Thats certainly going to be a big part of it i think theres a lot of irritation or disappointment in both political parties, and theres hunger for someone who has been more of an outsider. Reporter the entry shocked Democratic Leaders in the commonwealth all of whom had endorsed the lieutenant governor, his opponent. Reporter your critics on the democratic side said you jumped the line, the virginia democrats had a plan, and you were not necessarily part of it. What do you say to that . Thats a tone deaf argument. Voters seem to think its their job to choose the nominee, and i think there was irritation that some of the leaders in the party chose who the best player would be before they knew what po to look like. Reporter a recent poll shows the two men tied with little name recognition for either of them. Perriello is hoping to introduce himself as the person virginia didnt vote for. He has 4 months. I am excited with a positive vision for virginia, and i believe we will give democrats the best chance by far to win in november. Reporter Garrett Haake, wusa 9. I want to make it clear today that my administration will focus on ending the absolutely horrific practice of the Human Trafficking, and i am prepared to bring the full force and weight of our government to the federal and at the federal level and the other highest levels that we can do in order to solve this horrific problem, getting worse, and its happening in the united states. President trump meeting senior advisers and representatives of organizations to try to fight Human Trafficking. His daughter ivanka was at the table as he promised to fight what he calls the epidemic of Human Trafficking. He says its a problem that is only getting worse and not talked about enough. We wanted to know if it was true. We set out to verify that tonight. We look at numbers from polaris, a resource senter that gets its numbers for the reports and phone calls into the organization it produces videos like this one that are designed to educate and fight what the group calls a form of modern slavery. Polaris provided the most recent report from 2016 which found 7,500 cases of Human Trafficking reported in 2016, and thats up from 5,526 in the previous year, and so unfortunately we can verify the problem of Human Trafficking does appear to be getting worse. We are here to verify any can see, and you dont know if they are true. Hit us up on facebook or twitter or email me newstips wusa9. Com. Now an update on the botched testing for the zika virus at a dc lap. There was a problem with the tests on pregnant women from july 14th to december 14th of last year. The results are in from some of the retesting, and one test flipped from negative to positive for zika, and eight other negatives flipped to positives for some kind of mosquitoborne virus, and they require more testing. You may have seen this picture on social media today this animal was captured in Capitol Heights this morning. Is it a wolf . It turns out its not. Its dog. It is a massive beast. Prince georges county animal control officers say its some sort of husky mix, and it will be held at the county shelter for a few days while the county waits to see if an owner claims him. He could then be made available for adoption. Brand new does not always mean better. Why plans for a more modern Apartment Building could force these families apart. Its not a gold mine, but it makes quite the profit. Find out where all the pennys in the wishing well go and how quickly they add up. And wake up weather you can probably leave your coat at home. 50s to start. Mild and warm, 65 by 9 00, and ridiculous by noon. We want to get you up to speed on the breaking news we brought you minutes ago. Two dc Police Officers have been shot. Good news, both are conscious and headed to medstar washington center. They are conscious and stable apparently, and this happened at moore street and holbrook in northeast, and we are looking into reports that a suspect was shot, and its not condition. We do have a crew on the way to the scene. We will stay over this over the next half an hour and of course on our wusa 9 app and website. So in the shenandoah valley, the Natural Beauty of laray caverns has drawn people to its caves since 1878. Scott rensburger takes us on the open road to larae, virginia. Reporter if you look over the railing, youre going to be seeing your first glimpse of totem poll valley. Reporter its older than the dinosaurs. Estimated to be around 450 million years old. Reporter its one of the most popular caverns in the united states. Currently we are around 100 feet below the surface of the earth. Reporter and tourists come by the millions. We will be reporter and its home to one of the most lucrative wishing wells on earth. Money is thrown in like a toll booth, and once a year, its cleaned out. Making a wish is the easy part. Getting all of these coins to the bank is a different story. Yeah [ laughter ] a lot of dirty work. It is. Reporter its hard work. Yes, sir and the money is shoveled out into buckets. Theres probably 20 or 25 pounds a bucket. Put into bags. Wheelbarrows take it to the entrance. Reporter John Schaffer has worked here for 40 years. We should get between 40,000 and 50,000. Thats usually a good average. Reporter halfway through the day everyone here is spent. Thats arrive. The laray High School Football team come to the rescue. [music] here they come the battle boys, give them the gun reporter the money is taken to an undisclosed location and cleaned. Its dried, and then its sorted. Through the years more than 1 million has been mined from the wishing well. Every cent goes to charity. March of dimes, the american cancer society, muscular dystrophy. The juvenile diabetes, and the list goes on and on. Reporter in laray, virginia, wishes ly true. Scott rensburger. It takes a month to sort through it they get foreign currency, and a secret outside committee not associationed with the cavern will determine which Charities Receive the funds. A lot of people involved in the process of getting it all together. Make a wish. 3degree guarantee correction. I thought i was wrong, but i was right. We are not going to take the money back from the charity . Well, we never give it to them until the end of the month. It didnt go and come back. I talked myself out of the bullseye. 75 and then i thought 74. The high was 75. I talked myself out of the bullseye. 76 for tomorrow. A live look outside. This is kind of weird. Its 60 right now, and dew points in the low 50s, and everyone will hold in the 50s tonight. Thats a warm day, let alone a nighttime temperature. Bus stop temperatures, thats 6 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. , and 70s again tomorrow, and we will keep a stray shower and around that. Warm on saturday, and yellow weather alert for showers and storms in the afternoon, and then breezy and chilly. Feeling like march. We set record highs today at dulles and martinsburg. Record highs tomorrow, 79, 79, 78, and 79. All set in 1985, and i think, i think they are going to be safe. We will be flirting with a couple of those. For the most part that are safe. To saturday this is saturday afternoon, and theres the showers and storms, rolling through, and notice the flecks of red . Some could produce strong gusts. Get off the water by 2 00. Dayplanner, 50s to start, and then 72 by 1 00. The next 7days, sunday, theres the reality check. Low 50s on monday, and low 60s late, and then cooler, and 54 on thursday. Topper, thank you. We will go out to the scene of the breaking news in northeast right now. Morrison and holbrook where two Police Officers have been shot. What do you know . Reporter sources tell me both of the officers who were shot were here working with the fifth district, and they tell me they were taken to the hospital and both were conscious. Now police have confirmed that two officers were in fact shot, and they said a suspect was also transported from the scene with critical injuries, and a source with the Police Department tells me the suspect may have possibly died, and those two officers we do know are at medstar hospital, and now we are actually waiting to to hear from the chief any minute now. They say he will come to a gas station around the corner here and give us some sort of update. In the meantime, let me step out of the way to take a look at some of the scene going on behind us. You can see it doesnt look quite as chaotic as you would have expected for 3 people to have been shot, 2 officers, and one civilian. What we understand, all three of them were taken and transported from the scene, and again, a source tells me that both the Police Officers shot here were taken conscious at that time, and dc police are confirming a suspect who was also shot was transported to the hospital with critical injuries. Reporting live, im ellison barber, wusa 9. Ellison, thank you. Im hearing Police Officers are in stable condition, and that may be good news. We are waiting to hear what happens with the suspect. We will keep you updated on our website and online as well. We will make a hard right turn to frank and talk about what is going on this weekend. We have nascar, and we will learn something new in sports. One local school who knew that you could turn your old blue jeans into someone that could prevent disease and provide Employment Opportunities . Thats what is happening at high school in the dmv. Yes, students were up in adam for a Shoe Cutting Party at Good Council High school. Boys and girls across the teams joining forces in their Service Project to help sole home. They help prevent disease by helping kids turn old blue jeans into new shoes. Its the right thing to do. A lot of us want to sleep in, but we can definitely give one day to trace a couple of outlines and trace jeans for kids. Think of the kids running is around and how happy we will make them and they will have a chance to play and have a life because of the shoes. Some lowincome northeast dc residents fear they will soon be pushed out of apartment the by yet another new development. They got together downtown to protest. John henry with more on their concerns. Reporter Devon Johnson has lived in Brooklyn Manor for 35 years calling it a community of love. The family is beautiful. Reporter many tenants have extended Family Living under one roof, too. Johnsons younger grandchildren living with her. We have five people. Reporter some people who live at Brooklyn Manor such arrangements could soon come to an end we aint gonna move reporter a group plans to redevelop it into a mixed you development with 1700 residential units and some current residents believe the new complex will not have the affordable 4bedroom and 5 bedroom options that make it a great place to live for low income residents with extended families. Johnson thinks hundreds of people will ultimately be pushed out. They will do whatever they can. Reporter midcity tried to ease the feared tonight. We will build new housing that includes all existing residents. All residents in Good Standing can stay in the project in brand new housing. Reporter they even claimed lowincome residents can pay the same out of pocket rent they do today, but the block they currently have design willed have apartments only in design willed have apartment apartments only with 3bedroom apartments. Reporter johnson doesnt trust them. Johnson and her neighbors add they will not oppose the redevelopment in midcity works with them to provide the exact type of apartments the low income residents want, and mid city say they have approval fo z29kuz zstz y29kuy ysty we are about a block away from the corner of holbrook and morris where sources say two dc Police Officers were shot, and they were both taken to the hospital, and they were conscious, and now police also tell us a suspect was injured here, and he was taken to the hospital with critical injuries, and you can see right now the focus seems to be on a car that is just past the van there, and one door is still open. We are expecting to get an update any minute now chief. We understand Peter Newsham is on the scene. We are expecting an update any minute from the chief. Reporting live, im ellison barber, wusa 9. As the News Conference is expected to unfold in a matter of minutes. 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