cameras were the only ones on the scene when fbi agents rerned to the house of a subject wanted for the disappearance of a uva student. >> the search for hannah graham continues. live in charlottesville the police chief made a new appeal today. julie. >> reporter: with that new felony warrant charging jesse matthew with abduction, the focus has turned to a manhunt for him but the police chief wants everyone in charlottesville and beyond to remember they need keep looking for hannah graham with just as much vigilance. fbi agents returned to abduction suspect jesse matthew's apartment complex today going door-to-door to see if any had seen suspicious activity in the days since he disappeared. >> they identified theirselves as fbi agents and wanted to ask questions and see if i had anything to share. >> reporter: this is the new arrest warrant obtained late yesterday by police charging matthew of ay a felon he stands charged with abducting the student in the early hours of september 13th. the police chief confirms results from evidence by crime investigators helped them seek the new charge. >> what i can tell you is that probable cause developed sufficient enough our commonwealth attorney felt comfortable we seek an arrest warrant. >> reporter: chief longo also renewed and expand add plea for the public's help today asking any with land in charlottesville and adjacent counties to do a property check as soon as possible and report back to police. >> if you're in close proximity to this region and own a piece of land however large that parcel but particularly large parcels of land, please take the time to search your property. we need to find hannah graham. we need to find hannah graham. i can't overstate that and need the community's help to accomplish that. >> reporter: meantime, this new video showing him at a football game hours before he was seen with hannah at the downtown mall. he's been dismissed as volunteer coach at a private school here. matthew's new attorney won't say where his client is now. >> i am mr. matthew's attorney. i was hired on saturday. that's the only thing i will confirm at this point. >> reporter: coming up on news4 at 6, we will talk to those who knew jesse matthew, their reaction to this very serious allegation he abducted hannah graham. i'm julie carey, news4. >> thank you. while investigators try to figure out if jesse matthew could be connected to any other cases they have ruled out alexis murphy. after several people asked questions about surveillance video they thought showed her getting out of a car similar to matthew's, the fbi reexamined the footage. prosecutors say it does not show it. and randy taylor was convicted of her disappearance early this year. to a big drug bust in a place known as "the yard." a tip led them to an open air drug market along a busy road in upper marlboro. police seized drugs and guns and arrested two people. pat is live at headquarters with more on this. pat. >> reporter: last june, police got an unanimous tip about unusual activity. then came the investigation and the raid. now comes the story about the place they call the yard. there's a house. a number of cars in various states of disrepair. a boxing bag. a recliner. a trailer. some tables with umbrellas. it's what you might call off the beaten path. it sits on several acres off a gravel road off marlboro park. police call it "the yard." police describe this sort of as a farmer's market for drug dealers and users. they say the drug dealers and users from all over would meet here and buy and sell. drugs like cocaine and percocet. >> they were coming in one spot where they could swap, purchase, use and then leave. >> like a farmer's market for drug dealers. >> and drug users. >> reporter: this is a picture of a raid earlier this month. police say they seized 440 street sized doses of crack cocaine. 140 street doses of percocet and eight guns. there were 30 people on the property when they conducted the raid. they made two arrests. not arrested, the matthew brothers. 60-year-old twins. they say this property's been in their family for years. they say they don't sell drugs, that they work on cars, that they let people party here and hang out here. >> we don't sell no drugs. people think we sell drugs, people come in here and sit around. i mean, people come in here and sit around and party. don't nobody sell drugs. >> you don't have control over what people have in their pocket. >> reporter: there may have been people had drugs on them. >> we ain't got nothing to do with that. >> reporter: police say the ongoing.ti more arrested expected. live in prince george's county. pat collins, news4. new developments in the case of charles severance, charged in three murders in alexandra, shows for the first time how investigators linked him to the murders which took place over a decade. the key is a red ford escort seen on surveillance video speeding way from the area near ruth ann's home the day she was killed back in february. severance was driving a 1999 red ford escort when he showed up at the russian embassy seeking asylum a month later. he's now in jail in alexandra. it does not show how he might be linked to the murders of ron kirby and ann dunning, although it does say all three were shot in similar murders. more troubles related to isis. france's government confirms they beheaded a french national in algeria. this news comes as direct led air strikes against isis were in iraq and syria and five strikes carried out today alone and there have been other attacks including the al qaeda off shoot known as khorasan planning to bomb airliners. critics say the white house is in danger of getting into an endless war in syria. president obama responded to those who question ed america's foreign policy and he also called on more countries to help stop isis militants in what he called their network of death. >> today i ask the world to join in this effort. those who have joined isil should leave the battlefield while they can. we welcome the scrutiny of the world because what you see in america is a country that has steadily worked to address our problems. >> president obama also chaired a u.n. security council meeting today on how to prevent young muslims from leaving their home countries to join extremist groups. if you get pulled over for speeding or another in distraction in the district, you could find yourself on video. beginning october 1st, d.c. will fit a hand full of police officers with body cameras. police chief kathy lanier said it will provide an unbiased account of what goes down on the streets. and why city leaders decided to join other jurisdictionses already using this new technology. >> reporter: there are 4,000 d.c. police officers. now, some are going to get a pin-on partner. starting next week, 100 officers for six months will test five different body cameras the chief says will document activity and aid investigations and cut down on complaints against the officers themselves. >> four or five different people's opinion on what happened on a scene. now, we'll have a video. this gives us that independent unbiased witness that will, you know, help us sorting through what is normal in a police investigation of a variety of opinions from a variety of different people. >> reporter: with national issues like police activity in ferguson, missouri and everyday policing body cameras are gaining more acceptance. they're used in laurel, maryland as well as other places. >> a lot of the technology we roll out is to make officers safer and more efficient and effective. this is just another way for us a to do all of that. >> we're now filming tom sh sherwood. >> reporter: commissioner gray joked around trying on the glasses but said they had been considering them for 18 months long before the calls to wear them. >> the bottom line is we believe the body worn cameras will enhance police work in our city. >> reporter: outside the carl mo tri superior court, people seem to agree. >> personally, i think the body cameras are a good idea. >> they should. so many objections about police officers doing wrong things so i think it's good. >> what do police officers themselves think about the cameras? we'll have that coming up at 6:00. jim and pat. >> thanks, tom. it put a high school in southern maryland on lockdown for four hours. now, police are trying to find the person who made a phony call about guns in the building. they released this part of the 911 call hoping someone will recognize the caller's voice. >> i'm john. i go to great mills high school and my friends got guns in school and they're going to do something and i don't want my friends getting killed. >> police did an extensive search of the school following that call. they did not find anything inside. he celebrated his sweet 16th in the hospital. a local high school football player is hurt at school during an accident that could have been prevented. after millions of people sign up to get the new iphone, apple is already on damage control. we'll tell you the one thing that shut down cell service today and what they plan to do about it. a hidden treasure, a priceless art discovery. it's how the discovery was made it's how the discovery was made th in cases of rape and incest, just it's how the discovery was made th like the right-wing republicans in congress. they want to overturn roe v. wade. so does she. "i think roe v. wade should be overturned." barbara comstock even voted with right-wing republicans to require women seeking an abortion to undergo transvaginal ultrasounds. that's all i need to know. i'm john foust and i approve this messge. now to a store only reported here. >> it seems like your average repair job. >> they never imagined they'd literally be uncovering history. more on an amazing art discover discovthe old anglers on the potomac is over 160 years old. it was a home and now a restaurant. now, it's also quite a history lesson, a lesson the owners found behind the walls. >> the leak started here and it was pouring out. we noticed there w color. >> color. an old paint iing hiding behind layer after layer of plaster. >> we got behin the painting and there it was intact. >> the painting behind old plaster walls and how many and how long had they been there? >> we stayed here until 3:00 in the morning until we unearthed this man. >> reporter: carefully peeling away the paint plansder took hours. >> we took our time. >> reporter: it was worth it with the whimsical paintings of the sea. >> they're beautiful. >> reporter: mark's parents bought the inn in the 1950s and now remembers seeing the paintings as a child. with so many questions the family has called in david 0 lin, an art conservator. >> there's probably a lot more going on northeaunderneath this and green. he scraped a sample to see how old these paintings are. >> we try to look beyond the styles and start focusing on the materials and manner of application. >> reporter: he thinks past water damaged means some of the walls have been retouched over the years. >> in this area where they initially uncovered it, how complete and well articulated the figures are. as you get back here, it gets a little more murky. >> reporter: under the best guest when they were painted? >> i would throw out a broad questions of mid to late 20s to mid to late 50s. >> reporter: he says the artist was likely not a professional but still quite talented. >> these murals didn't take years and years to paint, they were done fairly quickly. we can tell that by the brush stroke, the thinness, application of the paint. >> reporter: the stories these paintings could tell, the changes they've seen. >> it will be interesting once we start to uncover the repaint. >> i think they make the room look unbelievable. >> it was one excite iing week. >> once the owners know what's original and what might not be original they can decide how they want to conserve the paintings. news4. >> incredible. >> beautiful. >> so how much baseball do you think will get played tonight? >> good question. nationals have the 7:00 game. i think they will start it okay but may not get through it because the rain is beginning to move in. just means jim handly and i have an extra day to get the playoff beard going. looking good, by the way jim handly. >> you are. >> right now, this is what we've got going in our region. winds starting to pick up in the northeast at 17 miles an hour and we are seeing gusts over 20 and some gusts over 25 close to 30 and through the night and day tomorrow. 73 degrees, the current number with winds over the northeast and lots of cloud cover and flood watch in effect early tomorrow morning in fairfax and arlington, d.c., prince george and howard county area. the rest of the region still going to see areas of heavy rain. some could pick up 1 to 2 and maybe a little bit more. 1 to 2 inches. no rain west of ir-95 yet and charlottesville and leonardtown region. this rain continues to move an inch, literally inching its way up to the north taking its time doing so. that's why i think they may be okay to start the game at 7:00 but the rain will be coming down. if you're going, take the umbrella or poncho. this is a nor'easter, high pressure to the south. it should start to kick up here. if you live along the bayou could see 30 to 40th miles an hour overnight and early tomorrow morning and this will stick with us. nationals forecast taking on the mets again. it begins around 8:00, 9:00, on the steady side. temperatures around 65. it will be hard to get the entire game in. as long as we're up after 4 1/2 innings, we're okay. there's the rain getting fairly steady. watch what happens overnight. heaviest rain between 1:00 and 4:00 in the morning. coming down in good locations, a very steady rain and tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. we expect more rain to occur during the morning hours and afternoon. tomorrow will not be a nice day. high temperatures only in the 60s for high. 67 in gaithersburg, 67 in washington. that's with a strong northeasterly wind at 20, 25 miles an hour. sending the kids out the front door, what will they need? jackets and umbrellas and you might need rain boots. nice and warm on saturday, 83 on sunday. next chance of rain comes in the middle of next week. >> thank you, doug. a problem with an update to apple's new operating system, ios 8 has forced the tech giant to pull it. consumer erika gonzalez is at the live desk for what it means for users. >> it seems like everything was going really well until today. complaints are running rampant on social media and the update left users without cell service. it was intended to fix earlier glitches in the new software design for iphones and ipads. besides a problem with blocking calls, users complained the update interferes with apple's touch id system which lets people unlock their phones with their fingerprint. apple reported we have received reports of an issue with the ios 8.01 update and we are actively investigating these reports and will provide information as quickly as we can. in the meantime we have pulled back the ios 8 update and told people can update phones to last week's version of the update. a police investigation right outside a casino and why it turned into a death investigation. >> why the case is heating up again. >> if you're a parent, you want to know about this, called cloud 9. we'll tell you about the new creative ways kids are getting creative ways kids are getting high and chances creain fairfax countye getting high and we had to cut a lot of waste. we consolidated offices. started sharing printers. we can walk a few feet. replaced computers, but kept the monitors. they still work fine. we even discovered that the phone company overcharged us by three million dollars! i approve this message because congress doesn't need another right winger. they need someone who can balance a budget. oh, and we definitely didn't need so many government studies. police went back to clarksburg this afternoon for the search of two missing toddlers in montgomery county. it's been two weeks but no signs of sarah and jacob hoggle. they were with their mother earlier this month. catherine hoggle is in custody but she isn't giving clues where she may have taken the children. >> first bath salts and now k2. >> now teenagers are turning to something called cloud 9 to get high. police want you too know about it. the liquid drops are made with air freshener and have the same results as ecstasy. they can easily buy a vial of this stuff at the gas station. >> either they're putting the drops on their tongue or mixing it with chewing gum or candy and even putting in soft drinks. >> six high school students in detroit have been hospitalized from taking cloud 9. lawmakers there are trying to make it a felony to have or sell this synthetic drug. a group of women saying their voices are not being heard. >> now at 5, some african-american women are not happy how the nfl is handling the nfl abuse scandal and how they plan to get the nfl to take notice and make changes. some high school football players are badly burned, not in this game but the practice field when their equipment is sprayed with the wrong disinfectant. this is chris gordon and we will hear from one of the most seriously injured players ahead. dark clouds looming over national harbor. an update on storms rolling into right now at 5:30, football players burned. it was an attempt to keep kids safe and now a local high school has to explain why it sent students to the hospital. >> it was heartbreaking to see my child in the hospital on his 16th birthday. changes coming to metro and it's starting at the top. we'll tell you about the dramatic shift that could impact every rider. he's off the hook. one of the stars of nascar is off the hook after running over and killing a fellow driver. how he got off and the shocking revelation about the victim. believe it or not, rain is rolling in right now. >> a look at the timeline. tell us about it, doug. >> if you look at southern maryland, that rain has already moved into your area, the same with fredericksburg and stafford county and now to prince george's county. we will show you that two hour loop and it started in the last hour to move a little bit faster. i fully expected to be inside the d.c. metro area by 5:30, 6:00 and seeing a lot as to rain. this is the sky cast. 9:00, no prop. you see the rain falling across the city and you will need an umbrella by 9:00 to make your way across the city. high school football players inmont comrie county are dealing with serious burns and some even hospitalized. >> they didn't get the injury playing the game. their equipment was sprayed with a dangerous chemical. the report from silver spring. >> reporter: the springbrook high school team is practicing without some of its players. last week, the coach thought the player had a staff infection and spray sprayed it and 10 to 15 players complained of burning. for junior matthew robinson, his burns were so bad he was hospitalized for four days. >> it was heartbreaking to see my child in the hospital on his 16th birthday, crying out in pain as his wounds were being cleaned. >> reporter: springbrook principal, sam rivera tell us the disinfectant was to be used on hard surfaces, not equipment. >> we were well-intentioned and our job was to make sure kids stay safe. we didn't do that. we made mistake in how we moved an approved substance was used inappropriately. >> reporter: matthew still uses bandaged with an iv with antibiotics to protect against infection. he's still awaiting approval by the doctor to return to school. >> i have a burn right here and here and a small one on my back and the biggest one is right here. >> reporter: the one on your back is the one that may scar? >> yes. >> reporter: matthew tells me the pains from his burns is not what hurts him the most. we'll have that part of his story ahead on news4 at 6:00. at springbrook high school, montgomery county, maryland. police are trying to figure out what led to a deadly crash near baltimore's horseshoe casino. just before 5:00 this morning, someone hit a man walking around the area of the casino. it's unclear if he was in the crosswalk at the time. the driver did stay at the scene. at this point, police haven't left the scene. he's the leader of one of the largest metro transit agencies. we talked to richard sarle srs about his surprise decision. adam. >> reporter: this one caught a lot of people off guard. here's why this is important. the gm makes a lot of decisions about the day-to-day operations of metro. now the transit agency looking for its next leader. >> i intend to retire in mid-january. i just want to thank you so much for the opportunity to have serv served. it has been truly a pleasure and honor to do that. >> with that, metro's leader for about the last four years says he's stepping away. mid-january the target date away from the mid ground of moving washington around and the spotlight on metro and sarles soon 70 years old said time is precious to him. >> what triggered it? >> i took a couple weeks of vacation in august by the beach. i think you were here when i first started and you asked me what i would do in the interim and why i wouldn't be permanent, i said i wanted to be on the beach. i put that off a few years and now i'm doing it. >> reporter: he took over the metro as interim and then became permanent at a rocky time of the red line crash that tilled nine people. metro was blasted daily for an l.a. lax safety culture something he says has changed and has the red line up. >> by and large people think well of this system and come from other parts of the world and country and say this is a good system. that's what makes this job so rewarding. >> reporter: sarles says he's not burned out but looking forward to getting away with his good health. who takes his place? that discussion is already starting. more from a council member next hour at 6:00. reporting live at metro headquarters. adam tuss, news4. >> if things continue to go well, metro's new street car service could begin carrying its first passengers in november. it's the first time a launch date has been set. the next big test begins monday when trolleys go through a simulated service and operate during what would be normal business hours but without passengers. he's a nascar star and won't be charged with the death of a fellow driver. learn the new case with the twist in the tragedy at the track. >> we get advice from nats of dos and don't of growing a playoff beard. >> make it clean cut, around the edges he our wednesday's child this week is a wonderful young man who's hoping to be adopted soon and hoping for a family who likes pets. >> he is. he's been living in a group foster home where he hasn't had a chance to raise his own cat or dog but a bigger pet would be nice, too. barbara takes us to meet james. >> reporter: there it is. lift me up. excited? >> yeah. >> reporter: i'm excited, too. georgia. >> georgia at the therapeutic horseback riding center in falls church welcomed james, who happens to love horses. >> would you like to meet our horses? yes. >> this is niles. >> niles, hi, buddy. >> reporter: the first horse james saw was niles and it was love at first sight. >> would you like to brush niles? >> yeah. >> reporte james has been in foster care, since he was 3 and he's 1 14. >> he is making friends with niles. >> reporter: he said this looks like a great home for horses. >> the horses can get freedom and not locked up all day. >> reporter: that's important? >> yeah. they need their exercise. >> reporter: he says he likes playing just about every sport. >> soccer, basketball, hockey, biking. >> reporter: those who know james say he needs a family to help him realize his potential and be motivated to succeed in all he does. >> are you ready? >> yeah. >> reporter: he was certainly motivated to learn how to ride miles. >> how does it feel? >> it feels great. >> reporter: james wants the love of a family. >> it takes a motivated family, not just a staff of people paid to care for him. >> reporter: she says james needs a home and he says he hopes that home has pets. >> i think i'll take niles as my own pet if i come. >> reporter: james says, if not niles, a cat or dog will do. wednesday's child. >> he looks good up there. >> he does. >> if you have room in your home for james or another child waiting, please call or you can search wednesday's child at nbcwashington.com. a hidden danger underground. a look at aging gas lines and why this is a major concern in the d.c. area. >> a group of african-american women with a serious beef with the nfl in the aftermath of the domestic violence an investigation focusing on the aging network of natural gas pipes in this country is raising concern today. >> some of the oldest pipes are in the washington area laid more than 100 years ago. abc's tom costello is joining us. >> my pleasure. the problem is nationwide. several times a week the nation's national gas lines begin to leak sometimes with tragic results. 135 people have died in gas line explosions. it took but an instant for a neighborhood in san bruno, california to go up in flames. eight people killed, 30 homes destroyed 30 years ago when a le leaking underground natural gas line exploded. for sue, the loss was unimaginable. her teenage son and husband and mother-in-law all died when the house was leveled. >> we had a bright future ahead of us. in a second, it was taken away from us. it was horrible. >> reporter: a disaster repeated across the country. in march, eight dead. in brentwood, long island, a toddler dead and 17 injured. and then another, five dead. an nbc news investigation found every other day in america, a gas leak damages property, injuries or kills someone. half the time, construction crews cut the line. one big problem, 88,000 lines of cast iron steel underground much of it 100 years or older. >> the older gas pipes particular cast iron are more prone to leak gas. >> reporter: they are snaking between boston, new york, philadelphia and new york. in washington d.c. buried beneath my feet, 418,000 miles of cast iron piping. digging up and replacing them isn't cheap. to to $3 million per mile. >> if you live in an older east coast city that has hundreds of miles of cast iron pipe, that is a failure waiting to happen. >> reporter: while they're pushing public utilities to replace it with pvc piping, that could take up to 50 years. they need to be monitored and maintained. >> there is an effort that the highest risk pipe needs to be taken care of when it needs to be taken care of. >> reporter: with each passing day the leaking only grows. >> they have replaced 27,000 miles of pipe over the past 10 years. that still leaves 88,000 miles of cast iron and steel piping and a third of the transmission lines laid before 1960. >> that's an eye opener. >> nationwide, d.c. has an awful lot of it. this was one of the first in the country to have gas, opening the lights of the city back in the 1800s. i'm curious, do people know -- >> don't pull the tape. it hurts, okay? all right. we'll see you on the other side. great piece. >> thank you, tom. donations are pouring in to help a paralyzed dad. we introduced you to last night on news4 at 5. thieves stole john mcilroy's $8,000. he was planning to use the money to buy a special equip ped car. a fund was raised to replace that money. he was paralyzed in a four wheeler accident back in may. he sold his car and dirt bike to buy the vehicle to allow him to get back to work and take care of his son. thieves took that money from a safe in his house. the nationals playoffs isn't until next friday but a bunch of us here are already growing our playoff beards as jason pugh reports from national park, there are dos and don't when it comes to growing one of these things. >> reporter: hi, guys, nationals are having a great season. one thing stands out about this group, not their talent or chemistry, their facial hair. i have a few colleagues growing out their playoff beard. ahead to ask, what makes a great playoff beard? >> i think the key, you make sure you clean, make it clean cut around the edges here, make sure that it pops so once you start getting a little 5:00 shadow, trim that up and make sure the beard actually pops. >> the only advice i have is let it take its own shape. you are who you are. you can't make your beard anything else. you have to be yourself. >> reporter: do you have any advice for guys trying to grow their facial hair beard for this nats playoff here? nothing? >> uh-huh. >> thanks, scott. >> doug, jim, whatever you do, do not shave those beards, no matter how bad that beard itches or scraggily it looks, keep it going, let it roll. >> setting that bar pretty high. are you taking care of your neck, by the way? >> i did that today, but listening to rohart telling me don't shave any part of your beard, this might be all over the place by the time it's done. >> caveman. >> i am ready. >> it's going to be a fun ride. it really is going to be a fun ride. if we go all the way through we could be having these through late october. definitely ready for that. as far as weather is concerned, tonight's game could be a problem as weather is making its way in tonight. not only take the umbrella, take the ponchos, too. looks like our radar is gone. there's the rain making its way across our region in southern maryland fredericksburg, wa waldorf, moving to the d.c. metro area. not here yet but the next hour or so. looking at the wider picture, a lot of rain to the south around roanoke, where the area of low pressure is formed and high pressure to the north, we have a strong northeasterly flow coming in at 10 to 15 miles an hour why we've seen rather windy conditions today or breezy conditions. showers around 7:00. rain really starts with ernest with steady rain around 9:00 and will last to 11:00, not just talking rain, wind with that, too. in and around the d.c. metro area by 9:00. frederick, still dry. by 11:00, it's everywhere. what will we be seeing at rush hour? look at 2:00 in the morning, when the haven't rain is coming down moving out by the morning commute. still dealing with rain around rush hour. give yourself extra time tomorrow morning expecting rain during the day thursday. high temperatures with that northeasterly flow, only 69 degrees. 78 degrees on friday. friday looks great but the weekend looks even better. high temperatures in the low 80s saturday and sunday. plenty of sunshine. next chance of rain doesn't move until the middle of next week, tuesday and wednesday. i'll be here monitoring this next storm as it moves on in. >> reporter: if you drive in the district, you may have questions about speed cameras. tonight at 6:00, what the police chief has to developing story about the enter row virus just into our newsroom. >> pam, let's bring you that update we just learned a rare respiratory virus has now hit maryland. the state department confirmed one case of evd 368 today. the child is in the hospital but they aren't revealing what part of the state that patient is from. last week the commonwealth of virginia confirmed seven cases and strikes mainly in children. children first appear to have a cold but then it can leave a patient gasping for breath. across the country the virus has been confirmed across 16 states. >> thank you. envelope commissioner roger goodell admitted he got it wrong handling the ray rice incident. >> a group of women said he can make it right by letting their voices be heard. the black women's conference held a meeting saying they were upset no black women were named to help rid of the violence especially since 70% of the men are african-american. >> it's not only limited to african-americans and there are special challenges we seek within the african-american community that requires special competence to deal with that. >> they plan to draw up a petition to get black women on the advisory group and holding a twitter town hall next tuesday to get everyone involved in the conversation. no criminal charges will be filed against nascar star tony stewart in the death of dirt track drivers, kevin ward. >> that's the decision by a grand jury looking into the crash. the latest on this developing story. >> reporter: a months and a half after his race car ran into kevin ward, tony stewart has been cleared of any criminal charges in the death. >> the grand jury has declined to charge tony stewart of criminal crimes. it took place at a dirt track n on -- and there was an accident and he blamed stewart and he got out of his race car and that's when stewart's car killed him. >> the fact he was running down two-thirds of the track in a hot track while they were still racing played a big big factor in the decision. >> reporter: following the accident, tony stewart withdrew from racing saying quote there aren't words to describe the sadness. friends say he took ward's death hard. but stewart returned to the track earlier this month, maintaining ward's death was something he'll have to live with for the rest of his life. >> i know that the pain in the morning that kevin ward's family and friends are experiencing is something i can't possibly imagine. >> reporter: now with the criminal uncertainty over the lives of those impacted by the accident continue to heal. curt gregory, nbc news. >> toxicology tests following that deadly crash did show marijuana in kevin ward's system. >> the prosecutor says tonight the levels were high enough to impair judgment. >> now at 6:00, president obama calls it a network of death and efforts to dismantle isis and other terror groups and their plans to target the u.s. the manhunt is intensifying, reporting the abduction for a student at the university of virginia. and interactions with teenagers and where he might be hiding now. the new evidence that links charles severance to three high profile deaths spanning more than a decade. we begin with weather right now, a flood watch with rain about to move into the area. dark clouds are already rolling in. >> there could be problems with the morning commute. doug is in storm center 4 to let us know how much rain we could get and how fast? >> the rain is moving in the metro area towards southern maryland and fredericksburg and northern neck. waldorf seeing that rain and starting to make its way around the d.c. metro area inside the beltway. this is something we will continue to watch as it's moving in around the south and east fairly quickly now, right around i-95 not towards leesburg or hearndon or republockville justt