Cash. The why here appears to be money, but the who is still a mysteriful investigators just pulled out mystery. Investigators just pulled out a box with what looks like a piece of charred wood inside, possibly part of a bed frame. Detectives believe the killers tortured the 10yearold boy Phillip Savopoulos in an effort to get money from his father. Firefighters found phillip in his bed cut or beaten doused with gasoline in the burning home. Police believe the killers held their captives for about 10 hours from wednesday night into thursday. Message after message from inside the home to the housekeepers husband, to a second housekeeper to, a nearby school, they all sound suspicious in hindsight, but with the killers likely watching and listening those messages out were all too cryptic for the people who received them to realize the captives greatly needed help. In d. C. Bruce leshan, wusa9. The housekeepers husband went to the house the morning of the fire worried about her. He senned someone was home, but no one sensed someone was home, but no one would come to the door. Savvas savopoulos called him later to them his wife was oak, but the husband is convinced okay, but the husband is convinced those killers forced savopoulos to make that call. A Little League umpire charged with child Prince Georges County. 67yearold don essex is an ump for the fort hunt Little League and went online thinking i was klatting with a father and his he was chatting with a father and his 9yearold girl. It was an undercover cop. Essex sent over a dozen images of child pornography including girls ages 5 and 10 years old. Its just horrifying somebody in our community. Its a great community, great family, great kids and weve been working hard to give them a really great baseball experience. The farther hunt Little League does background and sex offender checks every year, but essex came back clean. The man accused of sexually assaulting a girl in Prince Georges County is no custody. Officers spotted 20yearold isaiah bowing appear this morning 2 blocks from bogan just 2 blocks from where police say the crime happened. He followed a 12yearold girl into an elevator in an apartment in forestville and when she got off, he forced her to the ground and sexually assaulted her. Search crews found the body of a missing waldorf man. Renee dimanches truck was spotted last night in laurel sticking out of the little patuxent river. Hed been missing since Tuesday Morning when another driver saw floodwaters push the truck off the road. The florida man who landed a gyrocopter on the capitol lawn will be back in court tomorrow. Today a federal indictment accused Douglas Hughes of operating as an airman without a certificate, violating a National Air Defense space and flying a vessel inappropriately labeled a postal care why. He flew through three nofly zones to carrier. He flew through three no fly zones to deliver letters to lawmakers and face 9 1 2 letters in prison. Well have a pretty nice Holiday Weekend, when it will get here and when it moves on. The good news is its a bump in the road with what will otherwise be a nice weekend. Were cloudy at 6 00. You get to work by 6 00 or 7 00, just clouds, but rain rolls in quickly. By 8 00 showers just kind of creeping up 90 five to oldtown and arlington and almost to the district. Certainly folks south and west will see showers and rain earlier, 55 in culpeper by 8 00 and only 58 in fredericksburg. Again this is a colerain by may standards. By cold rain by may standards. By 10 00 yellow and orange, moderate rainfall, mid50s, a miserable morning tomorrow. By 1 00 probably the leftiest rein pushing through especially south of town. Heaviest rain pushing through especially south of town. It get out of here by 6 00. Well come back. Weve edited the forecast over the Holiday Weekend. A Charles County maryland emergency says the School System humiliated her kids this week. Reporter lisa hogan, mom to 1st graders justin and haley who attend Diggs Elementary School in Charles County. They said you dont have enough money. I was like im hungry. Reporter they had full lunch trays and were told to give it back and in return were handed new trays with a plain cheese sandwich substituted for the main course. I think this sets them up for ridicule and bullying. Thats a lot of the lunch that kid throw in the trash anyway. People see children dont have money for their lunch, they can laugh at them. The last thing in the world we want to do is embarrass or stigmatize an Elementary School child. Reporter but the School Spokesperson explained when the money runs out and families fall behind by more than 12, Elementary School kids whose parents do not qualify for federally subsidized free lunches eat cheese sandwiches until parents pay up. No student is ever denied a lunch. Turns out other School Systems including Prince Georges County use is i similar cheese sandwich al a similar cheese sandwich alternative lunch when families who for some reason do not pay on time. Today the blue angels flew over annapolis dedicating their performance to midshipman Justin Zemser who was killed in last weeks amtrak accident. This includes the first female pilot in the teams 69 year history. From the scatoles the sea, fleet week kick skies to the sea, fleet week kicked off today. You can see the sailors, marines and coastguard members lined up on the ships. This year four Naval Academy yard patrol boats are participating. A young hands out a sentence and some words of wisdom. What Marion Barrys son had to hear after pleaded guilty today. Pleading guilty today. Reporter David Letterman wraps up his Television Career tonight. Im Suzanne Marquez outside ed sullivan theater with the big finale. Next a look inside the federal government Surveillance Program. Has collected records on nearly every americans phone calls. Emails; your most private moments without a warrant. Without cause and without your permission. Right at this moment. So we got your test results back and. And this moment. The courts have ruled the government. Call Surveillance Program illegal, but the nsa. Hasnt stopped. When they invade your privacy, theyve gone too far. Tell washington protect our privacy. A new look at what was inside osama bin ladens hideout when those navy seals killed him four years back. The alqaeda leader had shelves and shelves of american books including Bob Woodwards bestseller obamas wars plus materials on thought control and some how to terror books. The seals also handwritten letters and one of them bin laden wrote, the focus should be on killing and fighting the american people. There was even an Application Form for alqaeda recruits. The cia declassified those documents today. The son of the late marion barry will spend a year of supervised probation. Christopher barry pled guilty today for assault, Property Damage and making threats. He was trying to withdraw money when the pnc bank manager who had had some runins with him previously stepped in and things got heated. I dont have an anger problem. Everybody gets angry. It was a sensitive time in a tight situation, a lot going on personally, professionally, businesswise, politically. He was trying to stop my campaign. The judge told barry its time for you to become a mature adult and realize your potential. An Apartment Building going up in a thriving d. C. Neighborhood will have rent far below market rates. The Channing Phillips homes are the work of christ united congregations located alongside the Shaw Howard University metro stop. The one, two and three bedroom unit will be rented to families with income well below the area average. They will pay roughly half the average represent for the shaw area. Were committed to this neighborhood. Weve been here since 1970 and we think mixed income communities are Healthy Communities and so we want to make sure theres a place for low income folks in this community that is changing. Applications will be accepted in january of next year. The channing e. Phillips housing is named after the late clergyman and civil activist in d. C. This sure looks like a normal rocket launch, but there is something mysterious about this particular space plane. Well explain after the break. Very nice day, sunny, windy, dry and thats a problem with pollen. High for trees, but off the charts literally for grasses and high for mold spores. Thats on our website www. Wusa9. Com. Well come back, talk about the yellow alert for rain the countdown ends tonight for David Letterman as he sits behind the late show desk for the final time. This afternoon no shortage of celebrity sightings outside the ed sullivan theater. Alec baldwin was one of the most recent spotted walking in the doors. Suzanne marquez is there live with who else we can expect to see in tonights final episode. Reporter derek and lesli, it is so exciting out here. The final show let out and, of course, we wont have any spoilers, but lets just say its a whos who celebrities. There are up iting tributes. Day of touching tributes and dave says goodbye in a way that everyone who left said they were uplifted. There were tears in their eyes, but they felt like it was a celebration of David Lettermans late show. Jerry sign if he arrived at the ed sullivan theater for David Lettermans last show. Peyton manning and tina fey were among the many other stars who showed up to celebrate 33 years of tv memories from drew barrymores surprise Birthday Gift to his on air reconciliation with oprah winfrey. I have never had a moments feud with you. Reporter and Joaquin Phoenixs bizarre appearance. Im sorry you couldnt be here tonight. Reporter the late show host told jane pauley he is trying to take it all in. Even though ive done it for so long i dont ever want to be without a fairly accurate fairly vivid impression of this experience. Reporter details of the final show are kept under wraps, but long time band leader Paul Schaffer expects it to be heartfelt. Theres so much pressure on these last shows now. So many people have had them. This one is just i think going to be just quite sincere. Reporter letterman admits he is nervous about retiring. Any enormous uprooting change in my life has really petrified me, but once identify come through the other side the reward has been unimaginable. Reporter he is in for one more rewarding night. Derek and lesli, i will leave you with this. This is one top 10 list that you dont want to miss because it is like none other. Im Suzanne Marquez live in new york, back to you. Well all be watching to see that final episode tonight. Tonight at 11 00 David Letterman got his first really big start here in d. C. On a 1970s show. We take you behind the scenes to some of the local hotspots where letterman filmed his sketches here on wusa9 at 11 00. Right now in alexandria the city council is meeting to make a final decision where the potomac yards metrorail station out to go. The city recommend putting it next to the potomac yard retail center. The station would include metros yellow and blue lines and is expected to create thousands of new jobs while easing francisco on crowded route 1. Drivers who do not like vdots plans to build toll lanes on i66 spoke out today. Many in the dunn loring neighborhood could lose their homes because theyre expanding the road and they teamed up with transit advocates to argue vdot should not focus on building more highway lanes, but expanding metro or rapid bus service. I think its pretty short sighted. I think that metro is an investment in future development, future economic growth. You can look at tysons, the mosaic district, clarendon, any of the other major walkable communities that have sprung up around the metro. Virginia transportation secretary aubrey lane says he will only support a project that has some sort of transit option, but one vdot plan leaves no option for future bus or rail expansion outside the beltway. An oil spill along the california coast stretches about 9 miles long. Crews have been trying to clean up what has washed ashore after up to 105,000 gallons leaked from a broken pipeline into the bay pacific ocean. The oil slick near Santa Barbara is already coating birds and threatening other wildlife. The beaches could be off limits for swimmers and campers this Holiday Weekend. Back your bags, fill your tank or book that flight, about 900,000 folks from the d. C. Region will head out of town this Holiday Weekend and by far most will travel via car. Nationwide travel number are enormous. Reporter nationwide aaa is projecting well have over 37 million travelers this Holiday Weekend, the highest volume weve seen in 10 years. Loving that hat. Aaa says lower fuel prices are a big reason for the big number, although the travel club points out gas prices have been inching up a little the past month or so, the average price per gallon, 2. 71. A new rocket is circling high above our head in outer space, but we dont know whats on board. We do have a look at the air forces latest launch of an unmanned robotic space plane that. Mini shuttle took off from florida this morning carrying materials for nasa, but other than that everything is classified. Airport has not said how long the mission will last or where it will end. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. Tracking some stuff in the sky, too. We are. Kind of a nice treat. I think youll be able to see it if you get away from the lights, parking lots and that sort of thing. You should be able to see jupiter and the moon. You should see venus as well, jupiter on top, then venus and the moon, essentially a new moon, just a little sliver of a waxing crescent moon. 3degree guarantee. We went 78 today. At 11 00 i said the day before at national 10 00, i would have been kind of foolish not to raise the high. Remember its a midnight to midnight temperature. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, 71, humidity 38 , gorgeous evening, winds west, northwest at 14. They will settle down later tonight. Dry and chilly, clouds late tonight. Bus stop temperatures 50s. At 8 00 or 9 00 at the bus stop temperatures i would bring a jacket and umbrella. Yellow alert thursday for a cold rain, feel like march tomorrow. The good news, memorial day weekend looks great. It really does. Looks great. 10 00 tonight 57 gaithers65 d. C. , 50s and low 60s, so a pretty nice evening. Dry in the metro with temps in the 50s by 5 00, 6 00. By 9 00 here comes the rain, light at first and they pretty good moderate rains should roll through. The yellow is moderate and heavier in orange. Look at temps, 57 downtown, 53 leesburg. Thats why i say a coat is important tomorrow. Its a quick hitter, moves out, mid50s by 6 00 with residual leftover light showers. Then we begin to clear tomorrow night and cools off. Tonight no real worry. It stays dry. Increasing cloud, cool, 50s, wind north, northeast at 10. By morning rain develops quickly. Grab the jacket and umbrella, 50 to 60 and mainly 50s, highs 59 to 64. Rain ends by evening tomorrow. Thats 59 to 64, may be optimistic. 60 to start, rains, goes down to 58. Keeps raining at 1 00. Now were at 7 00. Beautiful, breezy on friday, 75. Beautiful on saturday. Gorgeous again on sunday near 80 and memorial day is great, isolated thunderstorm possible, essentially hot use and narrator puerto ricos Healthcare System is on life support, putting three and a half million Puerto Ricans at risk. Its an outrage. Puerto ricans are us citizens and pay the same medicare taxes, but receive only half the federal healthcare funding as the other 50 states. The headlines tell the story. Woman unfair treatment from washington. Man thousands without medications. Woman its a crisis that could imperil the whole economy. Narartor washington must act now to protect care for three and a half million u. S. Citizens. Before its too late. Thats it for us at 7 00. Were back at the off outdoor refresher course. Sunsets. Sfx ding hello you. And you too. Meet outside. Where the golden hour is approaching along with the buzzy sucksquad. Sfx buzz its been a while. But, you can do this. Step 1 open door. Sfx ding step 2 activate off clipon. Sfx ding mosquito protection you dont spray on. Sfx ring radial sound step 3 ahem face west. Sfx birds chirping get back out there. With off clipon. Keep bugs off. Sfx thwack sc johnson, a Family Company were in new york for lettermans final night ever on the late show. What were hearing about da ves sendoff as the finale frenzy begins. I want to thank dave. I love you, david. After last nights emotional tribute and craziness, hear what weve learned about tonights final show. Is dave retiring out west . Wont hear from him for a while. Our night with dancings big winner. Congratulations. I cooked that. Rumers family was all in for the party but who partied a little too hard . Plus were with the new bachelorette caught having sex. Do you regret sleeping with that particular bachelor . Also tonight, Janice Dickinson is here with a bombshell cosby lawsuit. Im not making it up. Then, j. Lo versus a size 22 model. How two vdiery fferent cover