former football coach. she brought a ball and some flowers. >> it's killing my sons. it's killing their parents. their brothers. it's killing all of us. >> reporter: on the scene today william's half brother. he said they never had a chance to meet. >> i'm out here today for my little brother. lord knows he didn't deserve this. >> reporter: on the scene today anna mae smith who runs a snack shop nearby. >> i haven't smoked in 17 years and when i heard that on the news i almost picked up one because it is really hurting. >> reporter: curti lopez is still being held in charlotte, north carolina. the estranged husband of jane mcquain, her body found in her germantown condo october 12th. she had been beaten and stabbed to death. lopez charged with first-degree murder in that case. he's now expected to be charged in the death of william mcquain. william, missing since september 30th. now they say murder suspect curtis lopez has not cooperated with police in any of this. doreen, back to you. >> pat collins reporting from clarksburg. thank you, pat. as noted surveillance video from a storage facility in germantown helped give police the lead they needed to find william mcquain. our coverage continues now. chris gordon is at the storage facility with more on that and reaction from william's classmates dealing with news of his death. >> reporter: this storage facility is not far from the 11-year-old's school just on wisteria drive, not far from his home in germantown where his mother was found murdered, not far from those woods just a short drive up 270 where it appears his body was found today. it was video from a surveillance camera here at extra space storage that led to the break in the case. there is no crime tape marking the unit with a camera recording 11-year-old william mcquain here in the company of his step father curtis lopez on october 1st. storage unit renters reacted to the news. >> i just texted a friend. i mean, it's really creepy. a really creepy situation because, you know, this type of stuff just doesn't happen in germantown. >> reporter: it was a sad day here at dr. martin luther king jr. middle school in germantown, maryland. some parents took their children home early. there are students who were friends of 11-year-old william mcquain, upset by the news announced by the principal. >> as principal of dr. martin luther king jr. middle school i am very proud of our staff as well as our students, how they supported each other, how we've had compassion for one another through this time, and how we will continue to do that throughout the coming days. >> they told us on the announcements that it happened. >> reporter: and the reaction in the school with his friends and schoolmates? >> everybody was just sad. i was crying. everybody else was crying. i mean, so horrible. >> friends with -- friends of their family and our community is just heart broken. it's a senseless tragedy. it doesn't make any sense. >> reporter: grief counselors and members of the county crisis team are at the school. today some students needed to talk to them. >> i left class to talk to a counselor. >> reporter: did that help? >> yeah. >> i was emotional, starting to cry and all that. >> today the community lost one of our very own and we are very saddened by it. but as parents, we come together to support our community, the students, the administration, and our staff here at mlk, to make sure they get the support and the needs are met. >> reporter: some parents at the school are saying that they hope to plan a memorial so that this community can grieve together. that's the latest from germantown. back to you now in the studio. >> thanks, chris. for those who watch william mcquain grow up the news today was particularly hard to take. >> i keep thinking about the last time he was here and when i hugged him and kissed him. god, if i only knew it was the last time i would have never let go. >> we have continuing coverage of today's discovery throughout news 4 and on nbc washington.com. coming up at 6:30 jane mcquain's best friend reacts to the news today and talks about having to tell her son that her friend is dead. police are searching for the gunman who shot and killed a bicyclist in northeast washington last night. it happened along lincoln road near the intersection of north capital and florida avenues about 8:00. the victim is 22-year-old eric kearny of northeast. he was rushed to the hospital but died a short time later. no suspects so far. this is the same area where a man was shot to death in january while coming home from the shakespeare theater. in that incident the shooter escaped on a bike. six metro bus passengers were hurt when a front end loader hit their bus today. it happened about 3:00 this afternoon near north capital street in northeast d.c. the route 80 bus was heading north on an access road when it was broad sided. all six passengers are expected to survive. one of them has some serious injuries, though. neither the bus driver nor the front end loader driver was hurt. an accident reconstruction team is on the scene to determine if any charges will be filed. politics now. president barack obama just a few minutes ago began speaking at a high school down in emporia, virginia. the president is half way through a three-day bus tour to promote his jobs plan. some republicans in congress, though, say the president is promoting himself in an effort to keep his own job. steve handelsman on capitol hill now with more on all of this. >> reporter: jim, thanks. he does appear to be running. president obama in virginia tonight is talking about his american jobs act that he figures might be his ticket to a second term. on day two of his bus tour through north carolina to virginia president obama told teachers his half trillion dollar stimulus bill would help them. >> to provide $30 billion to make sure we've got teachers back in the classroom. >> reporter: in james town he charged republicans aren't being truthful about how he would pay for his jobs bill. >> don't be bamboozled. we haven't been raising taxes. we've been cutting taxes. >> reporter: back in washington republicans charged team obama is obsessed with raising taxes. >> we've been mired in the jobs crisis for three long years now. and all the democrats ever want to do is to throw more taxpayer money at it. >> reporter: jobs and taxes are sure to be the major topic tonight as republican candidates debate in nevada. when he was the gop nominee in '08 john mccain loved his campaign bus. but he is slamming the president cruising now in a million dollar armored plated coach. >> all of it being charged to the taxpayers of america. that's wrong. >> reporter: calling the bus trip a campaign the republican party put up a web ad. >> this is a campaign. the president is campaigning. >> reporter: it looks like a campaign. this was reed's house restaurant in reedsville, north carolina. >> and this is reed himself. >> reporter: meet and greet and eat. 13 months before barack obama figures he needs to win in this state to get re-elected. then on to virginia. another state on the obama 2012 wish list. there are actually two of those million dollar armored buses, the secret service says it's holding one in reserve for the republican nominee. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. jim, back to you. >> thank you. a truck carrying the president's podium and other equipment was stolen yesterday from a parking lot near richmond, virginia. the truck is unmarked. it was in virginia for the president's bus tour stops. it had the podium with the presidential seal inside as well as audio equipment. somebody took the truck from the parking lot of the hilton garden inn. that truck was found a short time later at another hotel. no word on whether anything was missing but officials say the truck did not contain any sensitive or classified information. today engineers rappelled down the side of the washington national cathedral and the second day of inspections after the earthquake over the summer, it's the same team of architects and engineers who inspected the washington monument this month. the group, known as the difficult access team, rapelled down a 234-foot tower at the front of the cathedral today. they're checking for any possible damage caused up there by the 5.8 magnitude quake that hit in august. >> the cathedral has been deemed structurally sound so all the work that's being done is to ready the building to be reopened to the public on november 12th for the consecration of the new bishop of washington. so the work they're doing we consider to be out of precaution. >> reporter: the inspections are expected to last two weeks. cathedral officials say it could take about a decade to fix the cathedral entirely. repair costs are expected to run about $15 million. coming up, a guy who made a bad choice when he got drunk and then another one in terms of who he chose to be his designated driver. >> finally, free, an israeli soldier released after five years in custody. details coming up. a brazen act near fairfax county school has parents and students on guard. >> plus a new push to raise the gasoline tax. could it create more jobs in the long run? >> the weather, doug? >> the weather today beautiful. the weather tomorrow, not so much. take a look at the radar. you can see a lot of rain making its way up from the south. i'll let you know how the rain will impact your wednesday coming up in just a minute. first though let's head down to dan. >> doug, capitals streaking toward a record here at verizon center but the guys say improvements can be made. and redskins players say that quarterback isn't the only position on the roster that needs improvement. so what's the language here in aruba ? papiamento. papiamento. yeah. so how would i say, uh, one happy island ? un isla feliz. un isla feliz. yeah... what about work related stress ? pssssh... there must be a word for it. i don't know that one. a major cleanup is under way at camp victory in iraq where there are remaining 44,000 american troops with just over two months now to pack up and leave. the u.s. military headquarters is set to shut down by the end of 2011. more than 2 million pieces of equipment have already been removed from the country and more than 500 bases have been shut down and handed over to the iraqi forces. an israeli soldier held by hamas militants for more than five and a half years is finally back home. sergeant shalit was released to egyptian authorities this morning who then handed him over to the israeli military. it was all part of a deal that required israel to release more than a thousand palestinian prisoners in exchange for shalit's freedom. >> reporter: after 64 months as a hostage, he starts a new day, a new life as a free man today, after a very long and painful period of negotiations. he was finally handed over by his captors from the hamas militant faction this morning first to egypt and then flown to an israeli military base for an emotional reunion with his mother and father. he is said remarkably after so long as a captive to be in pretty good physical shape. at the same time, israel began the release of what will eventually number more than a thousand palestinian prisoners -- 477 today, some convicted of very serious terrorist offenses. >> hamas is calling the people we've released today heroes. nothing could be further from the truth. these are people who have been convicted for some of the most outrageous murders, bombing pizza restaurants, cafes, blowing up buses. >> reporter: if we needed any reminder that the wider conflict goes on at one of the check points where there was due to be a prisoner handover, instead, there were clashes between israeli soldiers and palestinian youths. that is one thing sadly that has not changed at all in the five years that shalit has been held captive. nbc news, ramada, in the west bank. a team from egypt, germany, and turkey mediated the negotiations for this deal. israel refuses to negotiate directly with hamas because it considers it a terrorist organization. secretary of state hillary rodham clinton made an unannounced visit to libya today. she went to tripoli where she pledged millions of dollars in u.s. aid. the pledge is a sign of increased support for libya's interim government. most of that money will go toward securing and destroying weapons that were once part of colonel gadhafi's arsenal. the money also will be used to treat rebels who are wounded in the uprising against gadhafi. secretary clinton is the highest ranking u.s. official to visit libya since that uprising began. time for a check on our weather forecast, doug. awfully nice out there today. >> it was beautiful. 74 degrees. plenty of sunshine. a few high clouds. get out the umbrellas though. you'll need them. that's why we're here. somebody said, doug, you don't even need to come in today the weather is so nice but tomorrow it may not be nice. that's why we're here to tell you what it's like over the next couple days. it does look like more rain is making its way into the forecast area right now. you can see a pretty nice shot the leaves changing and a lot of good color now all across the mid-atlantic region. if you're thinking about taking a drive this weekend, really nice weekend i think to look for those fall colors because we'll see some spectacular color especially out toward the blue ridge this weekend. for the record today, high temperature of 74 degrees. nice and mild. warm as a matter of fact with our average high temperature of 68. but get those umbrellas out yet again. we've been needing them a lot over the past couple months and it just looks like we'll continue on that tomorrow. 70 degrees the current temperature right now. winds out of the east at about 6 miles per hour. not much in the way of wind. i really think this evening is going to be spectacular. currently in the upper 60s. hagerstown, martinsburg. 68 in winchester. 70 in washington. look at gaithersburg. temperature right now around 66 degrees. a little on the cooler side in gaithersburg but rockville coming in at 74 degrees. dulles at 71. manassas at 70 degrees. out toward camp springs and prince george's county temperature right now there of 68 degrees. radar? all clear. right now. so you're thinking hey. what do we have to worry about? unfortunately it's all of the rain that is right now down to the south and out to the west. two storm systems trying to come together. here is one storm system. here is yet another storm system. this one has some tropical moisture and they are going to converge on our area but it's how they converge that really depicts what we're going to be seeing over the next couple days. we'll take you into the next few days on our future weather. here is the area of low pressure to the west but notice this one to the east. this is the one with most of the rain. i think around 9:00 tomorrow you could see wednesday at 9:00 this is when the showers will be around and really the most numerous i think we'll see the most coverage tomorrow morning. so tomorrow's rush hour could be a little bit problematic but watch where this area of low pressure goes. it goes just off to the east and by doing so could keep us a little bit drier during the afternoon. here we are at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. this area of low pressure stays well to our west. this one is off to the east so we could be in a little bit of a dry slot here. that would be very good news for us so not a washout during the day tomorrow. this as little bit weaker, this one a little bit stronger we could be talking about a little bit more in the way of rain but we're not talking about too much anyway. behind this, though, very windy during the day on thursday. winds gusting 20 to 30 miles per hour on thursday. then on friday both systems move out and we're looking rather cool but still nice with abundant sunshine i think on friday and right on into the weekend. the weekend right now looks good. at least on the dry side. potential forecast as far as rain is concerned, i think most of it will stay to the east with that area of low pressure so we're talking about half inch to an inch and a half including the washington area over toward baltime. a little bit more out toward the eastern shore and southern portions of maryland. back to the west about a quarter to a half inch of rain. so once again not a big rainfall but just enough to get those umbrellas out and get those windshield wipers going a little bit on your drive in to work tomorrow. this evening increasing clouds, still mild and still dry. 68 dropping down to 63 degrees. as we move into tomorrow morning, temperatures are going to be on the mild side, i think temperatures around average 51 to 59 degrees. a little bit cooler than it was this morning. showers mainly along and east of i-95. then as we move into the day tomorrow plenty of cloud cover, rather breezy if not windy. scattered showers and maybe even a few thunderstorms. high temperatures in the upper 60s, winds 10 to 20 miles an hour out of the east but those winds could gust upwards of 25, maybe 30 miles an hour tomorrow. maybe 40 miles an hour on thursday. and then you see the cooldown. saturday i told you i think we're dry with a high of 60 but it's going to be chilly. overnight lows in the low to mid 40s both saturday and sunday. i think some locations could be in the 30s. maybe even seeing our first frost. >> my goodness. >> well to the west. >> all right. still october you know. >> i know. >> thank you, doug. we are following breaking news out of montgomery county tonight. police have just announced an arrest in the murder of an 11-year-old child in gaithersburg. jessica nyguen was found stabbed to death inside her house on raven avenue back in may. a short time ago police announced they have arrested her step father. his name is david hung and he is 42 years old. he has been charged with first-degree murder. we'll have more on the story as information becomes available. coming up next on news 4 shock and sadness tonight. a close family friend talks about the enormous loss as police find the body of a missing 11-year-old boy. leaders in d.c. have passed emergency legislation. it's going to stop people from shouldn't grow faster than the ability of american citizens to pay for it. >> dozens of people gathered outside the maryland state house in annapolis this afternoon for a tea party rally. they were protesting new taxes and what they call reckless government spending during the current special session. the tea party group is also opposed to congressional redistricting plans. lawmakers are currently debating the proposals during today's event organizers also collected signatures to get the constitution party back on maryland ballots. >> steny hoyer is a member of the u.s. congress from maryland and also in fact the house minority whip. he is defending the character of maryland state senator who has been accused of bribery. hoyer testified during senator kerry's trial today in baltimore, called him a friend, and political ally of 30 years. he is a democrat and charged with using his political power to benefit the shoppers food warehouse supermarket chain. shoppers, the company that is, paid him more than $245,000 between 2003 and 2006. prosecutors say those payments were bribes. his lawyer says that he acted as a consultant. that he did nothing wrong. a special election is being held in prince george's county today. residents there are choosing a successor to former council woman leslie johnson. the polls will close at 8:00. democrat derrick leon davis and republican day gardner are running for the sixth district seat. johnson resigned from the council this summer after pleading guilty in a federal corruption case that also targeted her husband former county executive jack johnson. coming up a warnin