She continues to insist she last seen her daughter in the company of her mother, relishas grandmother. Although the family admits that khalil tatum, a janitor at the d. C. General homeless shelter had won the family and relishas trust. This is a teddy bear someone gave me with my daughters picture in it and this is a buildabear that someone built for her. I dont know. I want my daughter back. This is an area that got a lot of attention for d. C. Police as they were searching for relisha rudd. Volunteers also searched this area. They never came up with any signs of relisha. They did find khalil tatums body. Police say he died of a self inflicted gun shot wound. I just want to keep hope alive and for the media, lets keep her in our prayers and ask for a safe return. I know somebody got relisha somewhere. I never gave up hope on relisha. Please release her, let her go. They no longer live at the d. C. Shelter. They have their own apartment, but their three young sons, relishas siblings remain in Court Ordered foster care. I ask that you watch over us. Protect all of the missing children out here. I ask that you guide every one home safely. Bruce johnson, wusa9. Since relisha disappeared, wusa9 has been working with local Law Enforcement to bring missing children home. Youre going to notice pictures of them on the right side of your screen. They are just like relisha, they are all from our area and they have loved ones who are deeply concerned about them. We have their pictures on our wusa9 Facebook Page as well. So take a moment, take a look at those photos. Share them with your friends. If you have any information on where these children could be, please call the number on your screen. Now, many of relishas friends are still there at the d. C. General family shelter and they finally have a playground to escape the world around them. Wusa9 is teaming up with the Homeless Childrens play time project to help keep that playground safe and supervised and open. And we need you. We need your help. So call 2028955560 to donate to help them play. We have volunteers from the play time project and from pepco this afternoon, they will be taking your calls and hopefully taking your generous donations. Jan. All right, lesli, thank you. Lets get those phones ringing. Some lingering showers in the meantime in the area making for a wet commute. First alert chief meteorologist is storm tracking in the weather center. Where are they now . East of 95 and essentially into Southern Maryland. We are in good shape now. A couple light showers into southern prince georges county. They moved through quickly and they were more intense out to the west between 11 00 and 1 00. Now they are just fizzling out all together. So, going home up 270, pretty quiet going out 66. Very quiet. If youre going down into Southern Maryland, 301, you have a couple showers, but certainly nothing heavy and they are few and far between and they will not last more than an hour or so. Heres our future cast. We see clearing already in frederic and leesburg with temperatures in the 50s. And then by 8 00, we are still in the 50az, clearing gets to i 95. By 9 00, its not crazy cold. That will come over the weekend. Dont worry. But 51 in gaithersburg, 57 downtown at 9 00. By 10 00, almost everybody is clear, except for extreme Southern Maryland and the northern neck. And thats going to clear out by 11 00 tonight. Temperatures fall to around 50. Okay, look at the temperatures right now. Remember this time yesterday . It was 83 to 76. Now its 53 in white oak. 56 in chevy chase. 54 in arlington. So, if you go out now, dont take the umbrella, but do take a jacket. We will talk about crazy weather over the weekend. Investigators are still trying to figure out what went wrong after an unmanned rocket exploded. It happened on wallop island, virginia. Thats where we find jimmie lee. And that explosion left behind quite a big mess. It did. Folks living at the inlet view campground just across from Wallops Island say they found possible evidence. They took me around today and they showed me some spots where they found what looked like pieces of torn up black tarp and they say they found these pieces all over. Its all over the campground. You can ride through. Its little pieces and in the barge. Possible traces of evidence of a massive explosion that rocked this little campground on the island. It felt like it was trying to knock you down. It was like an earthquake, you know, it shook everything. Sandy discovered these black tarplike pieces throughout the area. She called nasa to collect the evidence, but says a lot of it has gone missing. People have come in and picked it up and kept it for souvenirs. Others are still trying to come to grips with what happened. Stella rogers was sitting at home watching tv when the rocket blew up. She says she thought the world was ending. It was the scariest moment. And im almost 80. I didnt know what to do. It made this awful, loud, thundering noise and it felt like it lifted the house. They blew in and come out. It was horrible. Others thinking about what could have been a major tragedy. If it would have gotten out and come over, and come down, you know, could have been really bad. It could be gone. Now authorities are urging anyone who may have crossed something that looks suspicious to not touch it and report it immediately. Keep in mind there are a lot of Hazardous Materials on that rocket. Live in Wallops Island, jemie lee, wusa9. The company that made the rocket, orbital corporation. Today, defense secretary chuck hagel approved a 21day quarantine for all troops responding from missions in west africa. The recommendation comes from general martin dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. Military officials site concerns among military families and communities as the reasons for the supervised isolation. Meanwhile, maines governor says the state is looking for the Legal Authority to force nurse casey into quarantine. After returning from west africa, where she was treating ebola patients. Her early tests show she never showed any symptoms of the virus. She will sue if maine tries to force her into quarantine. Tonight, the white house confirms hackers tried to access its Unclassified Network computers. The white house says it identified concerning activity and took the necessary steps to shut it down. There is no evidence that hackers breeched classified files. And we are just Getting Started on wusa9 news at 5 00. Thousands of people turn out to say goodbye to iconic news man, ben bradley. Bruce leshan has the story from the National Cathedral coming up at 5 30. Im investigative reporter, russ ptacek. 7eleven shut down and thats a repeat violator. Coming up. And it may just be child play, but play time is important to every childs development and you can help keep smiles on the faces of some very special children. Just call us at 2028955560 to donate money to keep a new playground open at d. C. s largest family homeless shelter. Coming up, more on our partnerships to help them play and why that is so important. We need a safe place to play outdoors. Me and my friends. My friends. The mess in washington made worse with dan bongino. A tea Party Supporter endorsed by sarah palin. Bongino will take away social securitys guaranteed benefit and fight against equal pay for equal work legislation. The post calls bongino polarizing and highly partisan. No wonder the post endorses john delaney one of the mostimpressive new lawmakers. Family man, entrepreneur, and independent Problem Solver for jobs, to protect veterans and equal pay for women. Im john delaney and i approve this message. And now, the wusa9 restaurant alert, im investigative reporter, russ ptacek. Text food to 25543 do search yourself and youll find a Convenience Store weve shown you before. Closed last year siting mouse droppings and dead roaches. Now a september 18 report documents four violations, including mouse droppings and no hot water. 7eleven passed reinspection and is back in business. 7eleven said it is adding labor hours to have the store monitored three times a day that reset the water temperature and taken measures to deter further mice activity. Text food to 25543 to report violations and search hundreds of suspensions on the restaurant alert. Health alert right now about a growing number of viral meningitis cases at the university of maryland. Doctors have confirmed 19 cases of viral meningitis among University Students this semester. Thats up from saturday when doctors said there were fewer than ten cases. Viral meningitis is serious, lo rarely deadly. All this month, we told you how a safe place to play is a basic right for every child. And for over a year, the Homeless Childrens play time project has worked tirelessly to get a playground at the shelter for its youngest residents. That playground is finally a reality, but there is still an urgent need for money to keep the playground open and safe. And this is how some very special people will benefit from your muchneeded donation. The first thing they see is the jail. And over to their left, theres an abandoned building. Behind, theres another abandoned building. Theres a meth clinic. They see signs of desperation and death. Yeah, absolutely. Lar sen describes the desolate landscape in clear view of the children who have no place to go. Their temporary home at d. C. s largest family shelter is no sanctuary. Every child needs to let loose and relax at the end of a long day, even the best of circumstances. And our children are compounded by the stress of homelessness. So its even more important for our kids. So this playground now offers a respite from the harsh reality that engulfs the d. C. General campus. Its for the big kids, too. Its a good thing for them to burn off some of their energy when they come home from school. In order for that playground to stay open, it has to be supervised at all times and that takes money. Open up their minds, their parents will be happy. They dont see the kids in the street. Your donation can help them continue to do that. Children are looking around them for messages from the adults around them and their environment as to what their value and worth is. We want them to feel like they matter and they deserve a playground like this. And we know you feel the same way. So give us a call right now at 2028955560. Every little bit counts and we want to send a special thanks out to robin van mechelen for her generous donation as 1,000. She is donating in memory of her mom who died this year at the age of 97 and had a huge heart for kids. So let us hear these phones ring. 2028955560. We want to meet our goal of raising 150,000 to keep the playground staffed and open for the next two years and we know your help, we can do it. Jan and top. Thank you so much, lesli. I love hearing the phone rings. So its been a wet day, but the showers are starting to move out . Pretty much gone, except for extreme maryland. West of town to go home, should be a dry commute. Uneventful, as it were. Lets start with a live look outside. The High Temperature will end up being the midnight temperature. Its 59 right now. Its warmer just after midnight. Temperatures are not that far off of average. We were spoiled yesterday. Winds are calm. Relative humidity stands at 72 . Heres the radar over the past couple of hours. And nothing really big going on. A couple somehow sers still lingering. Charles county, st. Marys county, thats about it. The showers were back to the west, earlier today, about 1 00, they were more impressive. Nothing heavy, but they were more organized. Now they are falling apart. Youll have a couple sprinkles around frederic over the next hour or so and then you will begin to clear out. So, this is a cool map. The temperature change over the last 24 hours. Okay, 17 degrees cooler than we were this time yesterday. 18 degrees cooler in charlottesville. Cumberland is 20 degrees cooler than it was yesterday. And 20 degrees cooler up in philadelphia. This is just a hair venger of what will happen over the weekend. So, drying out early tonight and chilly. Bus stop temperatures, probably warrant a light jacket. 42 to 52. And thats 6 00 a. M. To 9 00 a. M. Now much cooler on thursday and friday, but not that far off of average. And then dry for the early trickortreaters. Im concerned if youre out late friday night, maybe past 10 00, showerand rain will be developing. If youre toward winchester, youll see showers by 8 00 or 9 00. Downtown, 10 00 or 11 00. 8 00 tonight on the future cast, were clearing to the north and west of 95. Some lingering clouds. Prince georges county. But the showers are gone. By 10 00, want to walk the dog, no worries. 56 downtown. Low 50s in the suburbs. And then by morning, generally clear to partly cloudy. Temperatures will fall back into the 40s, even downtown will be in the upper 40s. Low 40s gaithersburg, maybe 43 in manassas. 44, 45 in mcclane. A chilly start. Nothing crazy. By 8 00, were still in the 40s, lots of sunshine and by 1 00, want to walk to lunch . Light jacket. Temperatures in the 50s. By 4 00, were flirting with 60 downtown. While the suburbs to the west and north will probably hold in the upper 50s. And then by 6 00, temperatures still low to mid 50s, but generally clear. And by 8 00, we fall into the upper 40s in manassas, leesburg, and gaithersburg and hang on to the low 50s. By 10 30, want to walk the dog, plan on temperatures generally in the 40s. Okay, the day planner looks like this, 40s to start. In fact, 47 at 7 00, 49 at 9 00. 55 by 11 00 and 58 by 1 00. I mean, thats not a bad day. Its going to be mostly sunny, so winds are going to be in check. Halloween, cool, clouds return. And showers will develop friday night. Again, get the kids in by 9 00 or 10 00. And then by saturday, we issued a yellow alert, cold and wet, 53, and that may be generous. Mountain snow showers. Snow could get as close to us as cumberland. Turn the clocks back one hour on saturday, thats good news. And then mid 50s on sunday with sunshine and we see some moderating temperatures. Maybe 70 next tuesday and mid 60s next wednesday with a few showers. Thank you, topper. A big response today to a home in arlington where police were told someone had invaded a huge mansion along chambridge road where they found a stolen car in the driveway. But after that, the story gets sketchy. The home is owned by a multimillionaire and police say they have been called there before on numerous occasions. This time a female guest called them when two men she did not know entered the home. For a variety of reasons, being from drug activity to reported allegedly having a number of valuable art pieces stolen, so theres an extensive history of those responding to the residents. Very bizarre. At this point, police have not charged anyone with the incident. Pope francis offers up his surprising reviews on evolution. That story is just coming up. And after the break, a big time donation to keep the playground at d. C. General up and running and you can help, too. Just call 2028955560. And as we head into break, a look at some of those gas prices not driving us nearly as crazy these days. You can fill up for just 2. 98 a gallon at the b. P. Located at 4101 alabama avenue southeast. We all know washingtons broken. But to fix it, it takes people who are independent. And willing to work across the aisle. Thats what ive tried to do in business, as your governor. And in the senate. Because its the only way were gonna solve big problems. Like cutting our national debt, fixing the va, or. Bringing good jobs to virginia. Its been a great honor to represent you. And if you rehire me, ill work everyday. To make virginia even stronger. Play is important for all children. And thats why the Homeless Children play time project, the Greater Washington board of trade and pepco all teamed up to make a playground possible for the children living at the d. C. General shelter. Joining me now, pepco holding, she is the Vice President for Corporate Citizenship and social responsibility. Its a mouthful. But we know that you do good things in the community. And so i guess the question is, why did pepco decide that this mission to help Children Play was so important that you put this much money behind it . First of all, safety is a number one core value for pepco. Safe and reliable electric service. But also about the community and wanting to help keep safe everyone who lives within the community. So, when we went to visit Kevin Fitzgerald and myself went to d. C. General to visit Homeless Childrens play time project and what they were doing there. The conversation was around the need for safe play outside. And when we saw, we decided we needed to support. And thats what we did. And so we have been side by side with Homeless Childrens play time project for the past year and a half or so. Working to help get this playground built. Its one thing to make a commitment in word. Its quite another to make it indeed. And the you have come here today to make a significant donation to the Homeless Childrens play time project. We should bring in our chief defender of play. Who is the cofounder and executive director for the Homeless Childrens play time project. Youre always fine when people want to give you money. And so debbie, you want to make a presentation now. I do. One thing i want to say is this has been a collaboration wins effort from pepco to the board of trade and the many businesses who already stepped up and then d. C. Government. We cant forget them as well. But, for pepco, our contribution for 2014 is in the amount of 25,000 as you know. So 25,000 to help make sure there is safe, supervised play for the children. And coming in 2015, we are giving another 25,000 to ensure that the safe play continues. That is our commitment. Thats our commitment to the community. 50,000. Absolutely. Thank you so much. Be right there with you. Thank you so much. Pepco really has been with us every step of the way and such an amazing example of the business communities. Deb