ago. investigators want to know if this was tied to two other crimes. now a woman said she was a attacked inside her temple hims home early this morning. fox 5's roz plater is live with the story. reporter: tonight prince george's county police tell us they found the stolen car which they call a key piece of evidence in this case. they found it 7:00 tonight in temple hills. we're told it is being processed for evidence and for clues, but there is still no sign of the brazen gunman who left the temple hills neighborhood on edge. prince george's county police still working the crime scene hours after a violent home invasion robbery and sexual assault. this neighborhood is understand my terrified. this woman asked us not to show -- understandably terrified. this woman asked us not to show her face. >> it's happening here, there, here and you don't know when this person is going to strike again. it's very scary for me. it makes me feel sick. reporter: police say a woman came out of her home on berkeley street about 6:30 friday morning to warm up her car but started back in once she spotted someone suspicious. the man forced his way in at gunpoint, tied up other family members in the home and sexually assaulted the woman, then took off in her car. it is almost exactly the same m.o. as two other home invasions in montgomery county earlier this week. on tuesday a woman was robbed in the garage of her wheaton home, the gunman taking off in her car. then wednesday in bethesda another home invasion robbery. the home easements were tied up and a woman -- occupants were tied up and the woman sexually assaulted, her car stolen. this surveillance picture of the suspect was released in those crimes. now police from both jurisdictions are investigating whether it could be the same man. >> there are definitely similarities that we are looking into to see if this is related to those cases as well, the time of day, the fact that property was taken. reporter: back in the temple hills neighborhood folks are still reeling over just how brazen the suspect was. >> he had to be casing the area, you know, and the reason i say that because you just tonight walk up to a person this -- don't walk up to a person, this woman's car, broad daylight, people going to work, a bus stop across the street. reporter: this is a close-knit community. neighbors tell me they will ban together tomorrow morning as they go out to warm up cars. they are hoping this guy won't strike twice in the same place and they're also hoping police catch him. >> the suspect seems to be making get-aways in stolen cars. do police have theories as to how he's getting to these neighborhoods? reporter: one of the theories out there is these three locations have been maybe walking distance from a metro stop. >> let's hope they get him soon. also in prince george's county today a man's body was found behind a dumpster at an apartment complex on derwood lane in capitol heights. police don't know how the man died, but he had trauma to his body and was wrapped in plastic. they're now investigating the case as a homicide. they have not id-ed the victim but believe he was in his 30s. now a story only see on fox, the search for an armed puppy thief caught on camera taking the animal right out of a crowded pet store in rockville yesterday afternoon. fox 5's maureen umeh in the newsroom now with the details. >> the thief pretended he was going to buy the 2-month-old yorkie for his girl friend but walked off with the puppy. when an employee followed, she was threatened with a gun. reporter: caught in the act, a puppy thief in action. look as he casually walks into the just puppy store in rockville thursday afternoon. he heads to the back room where the puppies are kept and asked to see a 2-month-old yorkie that had only been in the store one day. after playing with the pet the man tells an employee he wants to buy the puppy for his girl friend, but instead of paying the $1,200 price tag he just takes off with the tiny pup. this employee who doesn't want to be identified saw it all go down. she says another employee went after the thief but was threatened with a gun. >> she said she ran around the building to the side and he got into the car and had told her i'm guessing to stop, that he had a gun or a weapon. reporter: the thief had a woman waiting for him in a tan or cream color ford with no license plate. employees think the couple must have staked out the store and its surroundings. >> the guy seemed pretty calm. he seemed to know where he was and pretty familiar with the area. reporter: robbery has shaken employees, but they say despite their safety concern they're equally worried about the stolen puppy's welfare. >> the pupp by is what we -- the puppy is considered special care. it's under 3 pounds. it's like a baby. it needs to be fed every three hours of. reporter: feedings that could make a difference in how well the puppy thrives. they hope someone recognizes thief and turns him in hoping to save the yorkie from possible danger. the pet store changed its policy on how puppies are handled. the puppy thief faces a charge of felony theft and first degree assault. anyone with information is asked to call rockville city police. did you get blown around out there today? these newspaper boxes sure did. strong winds combined with the cold temperatures, making for a bitterly cold one today. how long is this thing going to last? gary mcgrady in the weather center with the details. let me guess, about march? >> at least on and off. it is generally pretty windy around here in wintertime and into the spring, too. let me show you right now because some of these wind gusts are calming down it's still a little bit more breezy to the north and northwest than in the metro and down to the south and southwest. those are wind gust numbers on the hour, 20 hagerstown, winchester 17 miles per hour, but there's still enough wind out there just sustained wind that it makes it brutally cold in some places. look at gaithersburg, feels like 13, dulles 19. so stay inside if you can tonight. it's late already and most of you probably are where you're going to be, but if you step out late, the wind is still going to be enough, such that it wit cut right through you, so to speak. now overnight tonight these winds are calming down. here in the city i think we'll be able to get down to about 26 degrees. the current temperature right now is hovering right around freezing. winds will still be out of the west at 10 to 15 miles per hour. out in the suburbs i think probably 17, 18, 19 degrees, if by chance the wind drops down briefly below 5 miles per hour. that's when temperatures will really plummet. i think we'll have enough wind to keep the atmosphere mixed up and keep these temperatures from hitting rock bottom. chilly holiday weekend, though. we'll talk about it, full forecast as usual coming up in a bit. as the nation prepares to mark the martin luther king, jr. holiday, the department of the interior is getting ready to make a big change to the mlk memorial. fox 5's laura evans is in the newsroom following the story. >> even in the planning process the memorial faced a series of obstacles from fundraising to hurricane irene delaying the opening to the public, but the biggest controversy surrounded the drum major quote which is on the statue. tonight secretary of the ken salazar says this quote will be corrected. reporter: dozens of people ignoring the cold to tutor martin luther king jr. memorial this friday night. the commanding 30-foot gran the statue of dr. king is the center -- granite statue of dr. king is the centerpiece for the memorial. on it is a line taken from a 1968 sermon, but it's a line many including a poet say is taken out of context, misleading and in her words makes king look like an arrogant twit. his actual speech in atlanta at ebenezer baptist church was yes, if you want to say that i was a drum major, that i was a drum major for justice, say that i was a drum major for peace. i was a drum major for righteousness and all the other shallow things will not matter. those we found at the memorial say they agree with the decision to make the change. >> it's an important monument. it's a beautiful monument. they should be very proud of what they've accomplished, but the job isn't done and they had to take it a step further and correct what was not correct at this point. >> he's a great leader, so to do that i think you should quote a great leader as though he meant it to be remembered. reporter: how it will be changed still isn't clear tonight. salazar says he's given the national park service 30 days to consult with the king memorial foundation. family members and other interested parties to come up with an alternative. >> laura evans with the story, thank you. the national park service is under a deadline to issue a response to d.c. mayor's vincent gray's letter. he wants them to evict occupy protesters from mcpherson square because of a rat infestation in their tent city. once the occupy protests are move out crews can go in and get rid of the rat infestation and restore the park. in the meantime the mayor suggests protesters move to the other camp at freedom plaza. fox 5 monitoring metro and we're not the only ones. today d.c. mayor vincent gray, virginia governor bob mcdonnell and maryland governor martin o'malley met with metro's ceo and board chair to talk about safety. they're pleased with the improvements made so far but realize more needs to be done. mayor gray asked ceo richard sarles what changes have already happened. >> i asked him a question what two or 3 factors he could cite. he talked about a change in culture within metro, a change in the structure of how they address safety and adding more staff, more resources to the safety department and also the process by which they look at safety features within metro. >> last year the governors and mayors suggested the board should focus more on policy and leave running the transportation system up to the o. they say that change has been made -- the ceo. they say that change has been made and seems to be working out well. two metro stations on the blue and orange lines will be closed, federal center southwest and capital south stations. shuttle buses will take passengers between l'enfant plaza and eastern market and single tracking well continue on parts of the red line. the work started tonight at 10:00 and will continue through closing monday night, no track work scheduled on green or yellow lines this weekend. fox 5 monitoring metro. see something you want us to check out, send it to us, fox5metro at g mail.com. former presidential candidate john edwards is suffering from what a judge calls a serious heart condition. also disturbing new details about a maryland teenager who killed his teacher. tonight on the news edge food trucks feed the masses in d.c., but some owners say the city is making 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(laughter) guys, guys. take it easy, ok? pete's mom is videochatting me, d she wants her pen back! , alright, well. i just got one. so... easy, ok? yeah, you've got a little... yep, i can feel the wet patch. don't look at it. when it's on your mind, it's on ebay. joran van der sloot has been sentenced to 28 years in prison for killing a young peruvian woman. he pled guilty to killing stephany flores earlier this week. he told a judge in peru he beat and strangled flores in his lima hotel room. van der sloot remains the prime suspect in the disappearance of american teenager natalee holloway. he faces charges in the u.s. for extorting her family. a 15-year-old boy sentenced to 85 years in prison for killing his teacher at a maryland youth facility. brian wonsom was just 13 when prosecutors say he used a cinderblock to murder hanna wheeling. today he pled guilty to the murder and that's not paul wagn reporter: in the hours after hannah wheeling's bloody body was found outside this cottage in february 2010 police investigators discovered a bloody sweat shirt under a stairwell. the blood matched the victim's and the name on the inside of the sweat shirt read brian wonsom, a 13-year-old in an unsecured area of the state complex after being arrested for committing several burglaries in his laurel neighborhood. the evidence also showed a lan yard belonging to wheeling was used as a ligature and had with ansome's dna on it. there was also evidence -- and had wonsom's dna on it. there was also evidence the 65- year-old had been sexually assaulted. >> there's no answer for why a 13-year-old boy would be capable of killing and raping in the manner that he did, but we are now satisfied that we have removed the threat from our community. it is sad on so many levels. reporter: while investigating wonsom on an attack on wheeling, investigators learned wonsom was the prime suspect on the attempted murder of a woman living on this apartment complex on muirkirk road and laurel. prosecutors say he entered the apartment through an unlocked sliding glass door, stabbed the victim several times before she screamed and he ran off. investigators connected wonsom to the crime through fingerprints on a knife. prosecutors say doctors who examined the teen found him to be sane but wicked. >> yeah, completely without being mentally ill. that's just his -- he exhibited no remorse, childhood on set, personality disorder, that's not criminally insane. that's dangerous. dangerous. reporter: neither han nan wheeling's nor brian wonsom's family -- hannah wheeling's nor brian wonsom's family came to court today. more fallout from embezzlement case involving tom to. a long time howard university professor and -- involving harry thomas, jr. a long time friend pleaded guilty in court today for aiding the scheme and not blowing the whistle. dr. marshall banks admitted to being the middleman funding hundreds of thousands of dollars of city grant members intended for underprivileged children to the former d.c. councilman's direction. >> anybody who understands doctor banks understands anything about his commitment to children, to education will understand that that commitment is unwavering. >> professor banks faces up to three years in prison, a $250,000 fine when he's sentenced later this year. an audit of d.c. mayor vincent gray's transitional fans shows campaign contributions to a staffer. howard brooks was paid $34,500. brooks was accused of giving cash to sulaimon brown in exchange for negative comments about then mayor adrian fenty. payments also went to citadel partners. the company has one employee, ruben o. charles, the mayor's fundraiser and head of the transition committee. he for the $70,000. thomas goro was campaign treasurer and got 25,000. joining us now, wtop political analyst mark plotkin. what do you make of all that? >> well, the name howard brooks doesn't seem to disappear. howard brooks is the person, as you said, who sulaimon brown alleges was the person that gave him contributions from the gray campaign. the gray campaign, mayor gray, denies this and it seems to me that brooks is the mystery man. brooks is also we've been told granted immunity. the relationship with howard brooks obviously didn't end at the campaign when he was paid. it ended actually his last payment was in march of this year. so we haven't heard from howard brooks and howard brooks is really key and central to finding out who's telling the truth. >> well, 0 crimes are we talking about here -- what crimes are we talking about here and does this go to vincent gray or does he have enough underneath him to deflate the intention? >> well, we should talk about this awed pit. it was prompted by -- audit. it it was prompted by dorothy brazil who was asked about it weekly at every press conference. it's been a year since the inauguration and transition and i called her today and she said they does not feel that this audit is complete, truthful or accurate account of the money raised and expended. that's her opinion, but the point is that the individuals were key to investigating this situation concerning the payments that sulaimon brown alleges were paid to him are also people who were paid for the transition campaign. now this just might be a coincidence, but it's the same names reappearing. so it becomes a question of who is telling the truth? >> does any of this in any way validate sulaimon brown's claims? >> no, it really doesn't validate anything to do with sulaimon brown, but it just says that ruben charles, who was the major fundraiser, and most important, howard brooks, their association with the campaign and then the transition and the inaugural went all the way into march and they raised about a million dollars and i must say one thing and i don't mean to be just meddlesome, but the mayor has made a pig point about one city, one hire. this is not -- big point about one city, one hire. this is not a cheap shot, but they hired a hyattsville, maryland accounting firm. it seems to me the mayor would have made quite sure they hired a d.c. firm because he wants to promote d.c. employment opportunities. >> lot more i's to dot and t's to cross on this one. thanks for coming in. >> thank you. several federal agencies could be merged into one. we'll have the details on the president's plan to streamline coming up next. also ahead a cardiologist says former presidential candidate john edwards is so sick he can't come to his own trial. details on his illness are coming up next. it's the perfect time to find great deals on the 4g lte devices you love. like the droid bionic by motorola for $199.99. or the pantech breakout for $49.99. our lowest price ever. get the technology you love, on the network you deserve. now get twice the data for the same low price. hurry in, this offer ends january 15th. verizon. the white house pulling up another chair in the cabinet room. president obama announced he's elevating the head of the small business administration to a cabinet level position, part of a new effort to combine several federal agencies into one. under the proposal six major trade and commerce agencies with overlapping programs will be merged. >> with or without congress i'm going to keep at it, but it would be a lot easier if congress helped. this is an area that should receive bipartisan support because making or government more responsive and strategic and leaner, it shouldn't be a partisan issue. >> it's far from a sure thing that congress would grant the president that power. in an election year the president's move could be aimed at putting congress on the defense. former presidential candidate john edwards has a serious heart condition that will delay his trial on campaign finance violations. the federal judge has two letters from a cardiologist stating edwards has a life threatening condition that will require surgery next month. he was set to stand trial later this month. the judge has postponed the proceedings until march 20th 6th to give edwards time to -- 26th to give edwards time to recover. the symbol of our country's freedom dying in virginia, what experts think is behind a rash of bald eagle deaths. this was the scene 30 years ago today after a commercial airliner crashed into the 4 tonight street bridge. we're taking you back next -- the 14th street bridge. we're taking you back next. cpc 30 years ago today a commercial airliner crashed across the 14th st