Missing teen cases in montgomery and fairfax counties m connected to gains. 17yearold ed memendez and sergio tramino have been missing since september at the time they were reported missing, there was no reason to believe they were in eminent danger, but now detectives said the two know each other, and they are affiliated with gangs. The rise in missing teens affiliated to gangs is bringing about a larger question, whats being done to prevent the teens for joining gangs . Stephanie ramirez spoke to a detective who said something interesting. Its almost like its an international battle. Reporter its 3,000 miles away, and Montgomery County police are keeping an eye on central america. You have a big crackdown from the goveme affiliates in the United States to yep rate revenue. Reporter thats what the rise in ms13 Gang Activity has been showing. A gaithersburg 13yearold with ms13yearold connections was found dead in virginia earlier this month. I can say its an increase overall. The most alarming thing to us and other Law Enforcement agencies in the region is the level of violence that has gone up. Reporter family members say thats why the 18yearold cousin of the 15yearold found dead unexpectedly left their Montgomery County home this weekend. Ms13 preys on the younger latinos and hispanic immigrants with links to elsalvador, and the countys approach to fighting this includes working with School Resource officers and counselors on outreach and intervention and rec centers are part of the solution. Sometimes we are being made aware of the recruitment that is happening after school. Reporter they are Gang Activity out of the country, but the new administration cracking down on the administration is complicating that because people are afraid of being deport. Stephanie ramirez, wusa 9. New information about a little boy missing from anne arundel county. And heres 4yearold matthew carrington. A possible sighting from birmingham. Its believed hes with people who should be considered armed and dangerous. We should learn more about the president s first budget bill when he addresses a point session of Congress Tomorrow evening. We got a glimpse of the measure today when he addressed the nations governors. Defense spending increase will be offset and paid for by finding greater savings and efficiencies across the federal government, and we are boing to do more with less. Go the majority of the the g. O. P. Rifts over health reform, and the president and Republican Leaders pledged to repeal and replace the Affordable Care act, and many of the governors dont want to seat costs passed on to states. In virginia the race to be the next governor of the commonwealth is heating up. The democratic Lieutenant Governor and his Top Republican challenger both campaigning in Northern Virginia tonight, and they also both spoke to our garrett haake. So, i will tell you all right here, its game on for us. [ applause ] reporter thats virginias Lieutenant Governor addressing a packed house party in his honor in alexandria. If you dont recognize him yet, theres a plan to change that. We will be traveling around virginia a lot of grass roots efforts. I will be out just like a good doctor would be, listening to people is hearing what is on their minds. Reporter he has the backing of the commonwealths Top Democrats including the governor. Reporter are there any areas you disagree or would do differently if youre in been so kind and gracious to me, hes been a tremendous leader in virginia. Im a member of his cabinet. Im one of his biggest fans. Reporter recent quinnipac poll shows him locked in a tie with tom perryellis who appealed to the partys liberal antitrump base. Reporter one ally made a point to try to puncture the reputation. This is a guy, okay, who talks like Bernie Sanders but votes like ted cruz and paul ryan. [ cheers ] reporter on the republican side, former senate candidate, ed galesky has benefited from the experience and name recognition from his previous statewide run. The same poll showing he has a Comfortable Lead over Prince William countys Corey Stewart who he largely shrugged off during our interview. I have support the commonwealth and all of our party, im proud to say. Reporter his resume is not perfect either. The New York Times said he voted for president bush in 2000 and 2004. Democrats i spoke to remain confident that opposition to President Trump will help them unify around whenever candidate wins the primary this spring. Im garrett haake, wusa 9. All right, so theres a photo being shared online, and i wonder if you have seen it. Its being circulated with messages claiming its proof that donald trump was working with russia during the election. Is the picture real . Tonight we will verify that for you. Is this really the first daughter cozying up to the russian president at a glamorous party. It turns out, not so much. Using googles reverse image function, we found the photo was included in vogue magazines gallery of photos from the best parties the man in the photo, actually film director baz lerman. We can verify that the photo with ivanka and Vladimir Putin is a fake. You can stand up and correct the record when you see it being circulated. If you have something that makes you wonder if its legit or not, let me know. I will try to verify it for you. You can also email us newstips wusa9. Com. We will be there for you tomorrow as donald trump addresses the joint session of congress. While youre watching, if you hear something that does not sound right, shout out to me, and we will get to work. This post is getting a lot of attention on our Facebook Page tonight, and it says, take a look. Today cool and quiet, and wednesday, 70s and thunderstorms, and by friday, 40s and flurries, and topper, i es its going to be a weather roller coaster this week. It sure is. Thats melissas graphic. She encapsulated everything in 2 or 3 days. 78 on wednesday. Some areas 80 on wednesday. Back to 57 on thursday, and kind of deceiving. Midnight temperature. Only the 40s on friday. 50s on saturday, and that sounds cold, but 50 is average. We are losing sight of average. We will close the book on the warmest february on record. Heres the impacts, thunderstorms high to extreme, and what about damaging winds, yeah, a high impact there, and stormy commute, yes, and in fact, i think 3 00 to 9 00 will be the critical hours on wednesday, and then we will get into the possibility of hail once again, and a low chance of that, and we will come back and talk more about the hourby hour on wednesday, and also talk about the prospect of flakes on friday. Thank you, topper. Is there a new wave of religious hate crime you may remember the two weeks after election day saw a spike in reported hate crimes. The Southern Poverty Center has tracked the incidents in the last 2 weeks, many have been in our area. A man is facing charges for allegedly biting another mans face after making antimuslim slurs. We are told that 35yearold Robin Mcgreer threatened another man with racial insults, and they started to fight. Thats when mcgreer bit the man in the face before running away. One man was killed in a possible hate crime at a kansas bar last wednesday. Witnesses said the suspect yelled get out of my country before shooting two indian men. One man died, and the other was injured. Today two local jewish day schools got bomb threats. In rockville received a bomb threat by way of automated voice call. The students were kept in class, and the school was not evacuated. The Gesher School was a received a bomb threat. The school was evacuated. Me and all my friends, we just sprinted to the black top, and we had no clue what was going on. Police searched both schools, and they found no danger. Now to philadelphia, volunteers are making plans to repair hundreds of headstones in a Jewish Cemetery vandalized over the weekend after another cemetery outside of st. Louis was badly damaged. Is there a grave site under this concrete or isnt there . Its a he said she said when it comes to this plot of land. We are trying to get to the bottom of the mystery on river road. Great deal of work to be done, but it happens every day on this hill. Goal took form in a place for all to see. Tonight i will share history about Howard University that many of his students may not know. And if you have been sitting around wondering when the giraffe is going to give birth and you cant do anything else except sit and 150 years ago a grand experiment began on one of the highest hills in washington, dc, the civil war had ended, and the country was left with no blueprinted on how a new society would take form, but some brave visionaries who fought in the war decided to champion a new cause and founded Howard University. Tonight we unpack the little known history of the campus and the country whose destinies are entertwined. It represents the hero schism we dont think about. This is one heroism that reporter this is one of the original buildings standing on the campus. The slaves were free, but free to make a life where . Dr. Winston said they saw it as a radical change for the nation. People who founded the university believed the free society had to be one characterized by equality. Those form of slaves would get the same education that those white men who founded howard had. 750,000 americans lost their lives, and the founders want to make that worth something. , otherwise, it would be a mockery of all that devastation and death to go back to the society that had existed before the several war. Reporter women were admit to the university and attended howards medical and law schools a first in the district of columbia, and howard was the k12 education. It showcased what access could look like in a more Perfect Union with blacks, whites, native americans and chinese learning together. And equality also meant equality in housing. You literally had blacks and whites living sidebyside on the campus. One of the remarkable things about the institution was that this was the place where people were treated as individuals. There were houses from howard place all the way down to w. Street. Reporter general howard set aside one part of the land for the university and the other for building lots to create the integrated community, and children of all cultures went to school together, and this was the original field. Equal rights and knowledge for all. Reporter the end of reconstruction changed everything, and the reverberations of the ambitious goal for the country were postponed but howard still relevant in our evolving american society. I think some of this vision and polarity is an opportunity for the university. Reporter this threetime graduate of howard said the university is providing a safe space for tough National Conversations that can lead to solutions, conversations around immigration, diversity, and the value of a howard experience to the world, but it Needs Resources to continue the fight. Because of our rich history of bringing so many different cultures and people together, we have a significant advantage in this global economy. I feel like we are just going to keep growing. I love that im part of it, gaining the education to be able to go help, go back and help, and honestly, its very rewarding to me. Reporter service and giving back is also part of the fabric of the university, much like the notice of equality for all, a goal that is a work in progress. Its an idea that has not come into the full fruition in 2017. Theresil done, and howard is at the center of it. Great work to be done, but it happens every day on this hill. And howard celebrates its charter day later this week, and i am the proud graduate, no secret there. If there is progress in this country, you can find howard at the epicenter. One of the founters wrote the bill that a founders wrote the bill that abolished slavery in dc. They created schools across the nation, negotiated work contracts for freed slaves, and adam, of course, howard Needs Resources to continue its Important Mission for equal access to knowledge for all, and the president is urging alums to continue to give back because many of the young people on campus cannot afford to be there, and he wants them to have the opportunity to fund their dreams and go out and make a difference. Interesting to learn all thinking, thinking in a lot of ways people were not thinking in the 1960s. Its head spinning for those starting to learn about the interesting trajectory and how the university began. Something else that is spinning in our heads this week what we have have reporter is it the roller coaster called our weather . It is. We end winter tomorrow, and no matter the temperature tomorrow, we will have the warmest february on record. Perhaps the driest. Top 5 or 10 of the driest. Otherwise known as the best. For us, worst for him. Night mare for me. 3degree guarantee working out well today. Went for 57, and it was 55. Going to 69 tomorrow, and i took it down from 70 to 69. I hope i didnt talk myself out of a bullseye. I do it all the time. Right now 50, its still 50, and dew points mid30s, and not nearly as cold tonight. South wind and clouds. The temperatures above everywhere tonight. The bus stop temperatures 38 to 54, and thats 6 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. , and thats a big range there. Warmer with showers tomorrow, and mainly to the west of town, and we cannot issue a weather alert for tuesday, and we did for wednesday with thunderstorms. Some could be heavy and severe. Critical time to 9 00 p. M. Very unstabled unstable atmosphere. You dont usually look at these perimeters in march, but thats what we are looking at right now. Frederick, one of the colder readings, mid40s downtown. Back in low 50s by 9 00 a. M. , and clouds will return by 12 30, notice theres no green blobs yet. Just high and midlevel clouds, and temperature in the 60s, and hagerstown and cumberland, and a better chance of showers tomorrow. Nothing heavy. Despite the clouds, 64 at 6 00 p. M. Tomorrow, and 24 hours from thousand, maybe a couple of showto a couple of showers in st. Marys county into the northern neck, and temperatures around 60 degrees tomorrow at this time, and then you saw the showers and storms moving through, and look at 6 00p. M. On wednesday, and futurecast, look at the red and orange. Looking ominous. Some could be heavy and severe. We will keep you post odden that. Temperatures in the 40s to start. 59 by 11 00, and 65 by 1 00. Strong storms on wednesday, 78. Thursday, colder, and 57 will be a midnight temperature. Dress for the 40s. Friday will be in the 40s with the snow flurries or snow showers. 50 on saturday, and back into the low 60s on sunday and monday. A plan in bethesda to develop a site near an African American burial site is moving forward, and some resident there is plan to fight it. Reporter members of the Macedonia Church want the nd around this citgo to be untouched because they believe African American graves may be under the property. In the 50s, Harvey Matthews remembers many blacks living in this community, but while most of the community is gone, matthews says what is left of it should stay. Its very important to me because its my ancestors. Reporter specifically the remains of blacks he claims are buried under this citgo and nearby parking lot. He opposes the plan to build a mixed use building in the area. The planning director is aware of his concern. The board recently ruled the developer must exclude the area from the sketch plan for its development, and the board also said equity 1 has two months to complete an investigation of the area with Ground Penetrating radar to see if theres any remains under the property, but the church does not trust the technology. They cannot detect if they have the presence of graves area should be left alone. The possibility existence of a cemetery has been discussed for a long time. In 2015 research was presented to the county, and they believe tombstones stood in the 1950s. Experts did not present pictures or information on whether remains were ever removed but with the help of tax records, they determined bodies may have been buried in the area around 1910. There is no aboveground evidence of a cemetery there is historical evidence that one used to exist. Reporter Harvey Matthews does not need to be convinced. I stand here to tell you, that cemetery was there. Reporter john henry, wusa 9. The developer, equity one said they understand residents concerns and their desire to get answers, and the county tells us there are many meetings that must take plac washington catholic athletic conference brown the line tonight. Its getting close to march madness, time to crown a champion. Lest move the ball around. Ashley with the fire ball pass to makayla vaughn. Going up at the half, and the itnd half was all st. Johns. The guard hitting her first 3 to go up 4946, and then back toback 3s putting it out of reach, and bam, johns wins the championship, and they will storm the court. 5852 the final. They are fired up, congrats to st. Johns. On the boys side, shirt verses skins. Miles dredford with the first of backtoback 3s, on the other end of the court. Paul vi, down at the half. 3323. Watch this play right here, and chris lukes the senior guard finishing with 23 poin the ensuing melee. No, they are fine. Of course they are. The zags win, and you can hear from both coaches on our news app right now. 10 years ago, im on my couch in knoxville, tennessee going no, no, no. Tony stewart and kurt busch wrec