authorities here in prince william county. but we heard testimony from a woman that contradicts that saying she went to management several times. they said they would monitor the situation on their television monitors there in the facility. the women said nothing changed so she called from techtive services. coming -- protective services. at 5:00, we hear from the parents who testified and we specifically will hear from one how the twins reacted seeing miss jordan's picture on tv after she was arrested. reporting live in manassas, suzanne kennedy, abc7 news. jonathan: thanks. i want to update you at a horrific beating of an 11-year-old boy on a fun. friday we told you that the academy would let the two girls caught on camera attacking miles slade on the same bus. over the weekend the principal e-mailed the parents and said not only are they off the bus, they are transferring now to a new school.

michelle: investigators are trying to figure out what drives a spouse to kill another in leesburg. they were found in a house last night. stephen tschida is live on the scene with the latest. stephen: michelle, the family says the husband is a former minister. he is active in the church. the sheriff department got a call to the home where they found the body of a man and a woman. we understand that the investigators believe the husband andre hull is believed to have shot his wife naomi and then turned the gun on himself. they know the couple was religious but the neighbors also know they were troubled in their relationship. >> it is such a tragedy.

they were always social. so was she. we see their little daughter at the bus stop. stephen: they had two daughters. a 21-year-old away at college living with the grand parents and the other was a 5-year-old girl in the home at the start of the incident. we also understand it was a neighbor who notified sheriff deputies of the problem. i spoke to the older daughter who says she is here in virginia, in northern virginia to get her little sister. they will be returning tonight. she is in shock. she has trouble comprehending what has happened. reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. jonathan: several police officers testified about evidence they found while searching for university of virginia student hannah graham. the testimony came in pretrial hearing for jesse matthew in charlottesville. at issue is if they had enough evidence to get a search warrant in the first place. he is charged in the death of

graham and a virginia tech student harrington. appeal court delayed the trial of caesar goodson. jury selection was set to begin today. he is now the second officer charged in the death of gray davis. the -- charged in the death of freddie gray. but it won't begin until it's decideed whether william porter can testify in the trial. michelle: firefighters in fairfax trying to figure out what sparked an apartment fire that spent one person to the hospital. more than 60 firefighters were called before 10:30 this morning. this is on americana drive in anon-dale. three apartments were damaged. jonathan: it's chilly, windy. some of us could see the first glimpse of snow. michelle: but before you freak out. doug hill is in the storm

weather center. no need to round up the shovels. doug: i don't think so. we will have a gusty cold front coming through. temperatures will be above freezing. a curiosity but it will feel like january. 40 degrees at reagan national airport. the temperatures are below average for this time january. 39 at andrews. it's only 31 in hagerstown. getting through the rest of the map. look how cold it is north and west. it's 15 in chicago. reinforcing push of the cold air is coming here. just on the edge of the cold air mass is where we will find coming up the day tomorrow possibility of rain or snowshowers in the afternoon. satellite and radar gives you a hint. moisture starting to converge. the area in purple here is under the winter weather advisories for the measurable

snowshower activity. we have cold air moving in tomorrow and wednesday. the next seven days as part of the forecast in a couple of minutes. jonathan: thank you. what made it so chilly yesterday is what happened to the redskins. call at it case of missed opportunities. even when they looked good they couldn't get it together to beat the green bay packers in the first round of the playoffs. so they are packing up their lockers and looking forward to next season. michelle: but there are questions what the team will look like then. coach jay gruden wrapped up the last press conference of the season. jonathan: erin hawksworth joining us. are they going to get kirk cousins back? erin: they haven't got a deal done but jay gruden said they are happy they won the division today. but now they need to work harder. the goal is to advance in the

playoffs and eventually get the trophy. the move was bitter-sweet today. we gathered around rgiii to get a comment. he didn't want to talk. what he did do is leave a letter. there it is. based on a poem by mother teresa. part of it reads people are often unreasonable, irrational and self-centered. forgive them anyway. not sure if he left it on purpose. it seems like they may have. here is what jay gruden said today on rgiii and how he handled the season. coach gruden: robert handled it very well. he wasn't happy. he is a great competitor and accomplished great things in 2012. he really did. he handled it like a pro. in the long run hopefully it will make him a better quarterback. he grew a lot being a third string quarterback. the skill set, he learned from the shanahans and the new stuff he worked from us will

make him a better quarterback wherever he goes and however it works out for him. erin: where do you want to see rgiii next season? that's the poll on the twitter page. rgiii's days seem to be done in washington. would you like to see him back? vote yes or no. we want to hear from you. most people right now are voting no. but tweet me and let me know where you would like to see him. we'll update you in the 6:00 hour. jonathan: a lot of folks thought redskins would only have two victories. they have a lot to build off. especially you hope they do build off this. michelle: something to be proud of. erin: absolutely! michelle: thank you. jonathan: they should have won. thank you very much. all right. so what do you think of the rgiii note he left on the locker? let us know on the wjla facebook page. we'll share comments later in the newscast. michelle: last week, the redskins owner hired a new

stadium designer but the d.c. mayor bowser has a beller idea. -- has a better idea. mayor wants to bring the redskins back to the district. developers are considering building a new stadium or having the team to return to the r.f.k. once d.c. united leaves. mayor bowser: my charge as mayor is making sure we have a plan at that time. we have several scenarios, one will include an nfl stadium and the others won't. michelle: d.c. united is expected to be playing in a new stadium by 2018. the d.c. council voted in the past that the redskins should change its mascot and if the city should ban the team if they decide not to change the name. a lot up in the air. something we love to talk about here, the story that keeps giving. if you win the powerball jackpot, something a lot of people are playing through

scenarios you might put the skins where you want. move them to your backyard. jonathan: move yourself, your family and three generations of your family anywhere you want. the massive jackpot grew again. this time it's up to $1.4 billion. alison starling is keeping an eye on the frenzy. for full disclosure, you are part of the frenzy. alison: most of us row. michelle, welcome to the station. to the powerball, it is unprecedented. pick five numbers between one and 69 and six between one and 26 and you win. it sounds easy but it's obviously not. the question is what the winning numbers will be in the next round wednesday night. if you do win, what do you do? >> not all money is created equally. the money you earn is treated

very differently than the money you win. >> i want to create a lasting wealth, you have to change the mind set. alison: we have heard cautionary tales about the previous winners losing it all. 70% of winners have gone broke in a few years. but with this, you'd have to spend $700,000 every day to go through it in five years. is that unbelievable? jonathan: ridiculous money. who does the math on that? michelle: you do. you have been doing it. you are taking the charge on that at the station. jonathan: i almost think it's better -- i know a lot of people have done it at work. it's almost better to win as a pool opposed to winning it by yourself. too much money to win by yourself. michelle: so much joy to have people to share it with.

the president is hoping to hit the jackpot in his last "state of the union" address. jonathan: we will have a preview rapid the story behind the scare -- preview and the story behind this scene that played later. michelle: later. >> ♪ ground central michelle: we are looking back at the life and the career of david bowie. jonathan: but first on the eve of the first anniversary of the deadly smoke incident on metro. the new general manager addressing the issue while some families are vowing to take action.

jonathan: you know you are having a bad day when -- look at this. firefighters had to rescue window washers on the side of the houston building. this is the tallest building in the city. they were left dappingalling 71 floor -- dangling 71 floors above the street. they had to break a window and pull them inside. the motor on the scaffolding malfunction and caused it to be unbalanced. michelle: covering metro today, more than 80 people who had to breathe in smoke on a disabled metro train plan to sue the transit agency.

as brianne carter reports, the general manager is addressing the changes. >> paul wiedefeld letter to the customers outline the changes to improve the safety since smoke filled the tunnel outside the l'enfant station. a number of problems highlighted are being addressed. repairs have been done to the ventilation system. the firefighter liaison has been assigned to the rail operations control center or rock to coordinate emergency response. >> any engagement with the public is important. >> they got a chance to read the letter this morning and said one of the key things that stuck out had to do with this. to be able to make a cell phone call on the train in the tunnel. >> metro is working to improve

the first responders radio communication and the cell service for riders but they need to upgrade cables to 100 miles of track won't happen overnight. >> it will take years and years and years. they will have to take minutes breaks to run the cables and so forth. a lot of people would like to see that through. brianne: wiedefeld started the job with a mission to rededicate metro to safety and part of that the agency is now working to hire a new safety officer. in southwest washington, brianne carter, abc7 news. jonathan: the new h.o.v. ramp on seminary road is open. it provides direct connection for the h.o.v. drivers two and from the marc center and seminary road in alexandria. it's open to vehicles with three or more people as well as buses. they will reverse direction on the time of day.

while we are talking about traffic, go to jamie sullivan. looks slow. jamie: we have a sun glare. a solar slowdown outbound on 66. this is near river road. this is something to keep in mind getting ready to leave work. heading home. you will have this delay. let's go ahead and move to the maps. i want to focus in on the metro issues this an. single tracking on the blue and the yellow line to pentagon city because of a disabled track. the equipment they say near the national airport. they were stopping all inbound traffic. now it's back to normal. watch for a problem that we

are hearing about on 13th street at southbound. all lanes are blocked. that is a look at traffic. jonathan: a lot of folks tune in at 4:00 to get the news i want to welcome michelle marsh. the newest member. michelle: thank you. jonathan: good to have you here. michelle: great to be here. doug: she spent time with us on thursday afternoon and she came back. jonathan: the fact you can do that. doug will give you bonus points for that. michelle: you make it easy to come back. happy to be here. i moved here from raleigh, north carolina. hometown is new york city. looking forward to embracing the area and excited to be part of the abc7 family. jonathan: swear to the capitals, redskins, like the wizards. michelle: i love sports. basketball, football, those are my favorite sports. look forward to attending the games here and taking it all in. jonathan: now we have all four

on all cylinders. nationals, caps, redskins and wizards. doug: welcome aboard. michelle: thank you. doug: i'll disappear and tell you about the weather. the story is it's cold today. it is beautiful. it's a typical january day. bright sunshine around the area. we look at the weather bug camera in fairfax. as we get through the evening, temperatures will get colder. the winds are ten to 12 miles per hour. down to 35 miles per hour. not much of wind chill. the temperatures after sunset will plummet. 40 in reagan national. 36 in winmeade drive. 31 in hagerstown now. through the overnight hours we have clear skies and high clouds later tonight. 20 to 28 is the range of temperatures by tomorrow morning. a lot of clouds coming in. vigorous upper level low pressure center to swing out over the dakotas. this is on the leading edge of

another strong blast of arctic air. we have the snowshowers firing up across minnesota. moving through the twin cities before long. north of chicago. more snowshowers we are dealing with. t we are far enough removed by the time the front is here tomorrow an, we think we will see a mix of the rain showers and snowshowers. don't expect accumulation. the typing this time tomorrow. -- the timing is this time tomorrow. for most of us, a reminder it's wintertime. we will clear out rapidly for the day on wednesday. through the afternoon, it's breezy. back to freezing wednesday. 43 on thursday. another front comes through late friday.

jonathan: a rain on every parade. mason said we're not firing on all cylinders. the wizards lost seven straights, the redskins out of the playoffs, and caps on a losing streak. great. coming up today at 4:00 -- >> she was the life of the party. if she was there, you were going to have a good time. jonathan: this woman is accused of being more. we look at charge against her. michelle: if you see news, we tant to see it. if you see it, send it to pics@wjla.com. we will share you photos and the videos on air and online.

ir jonathan: back with a look at the tributes and the memorials popping up to david bowie. the singer/actor died sunday. in london the tower lit with his name. in new york people are leaving flowers outside of his apartment. he was a music fixture for four decades. he kept reinventing himself. michelle: he is connected with a lot of people. alison starling has a look at the life and legacy. alison: he just turned 69 friday. new album came out that day. those outside his inner circle did not know he had been

battling cancer for 18 months. the man who sang "rebel, rebel" was all that. he was a towering, transformative figure in contemporary music for decades. ♪ ♪ the radio favorite as the young americans, and the first hit "changes." in his live performances. in the 1970's, he had a cool intelligence, breath-taking charisma and multiple personas. >> ♪ changes alison: born david jones. he was the thin white duke. he freed rock 'n' roll from the stereotype of gender and identity, unlocking the mind of many who found in his music personal liberation and possibility. his sound and unique style massively influential on the generation of musicians from

mick jagger and duran duran to madonna and beyond. ♪ put on your red shoes and dance the blues ♪ alison by the early 1980's he was top 40 material. thanks to tracks like "china girl." always suave and seemed one step ahead. joining with the band queen on the now classic "under pressure." his unearthly image made him an ideal leading man for movies as "the hunger" and "the man who fell to earth." yet, he could be playful, too, joining jagger for the cover of "dancing in the streets" to raise money for charity. he died of cancer late sunday night at the age of 69. survived by his wife the model imam, son and a daughter. so many for whom he was an artistic true north, true hero of rock 'n' roll.

♪ ♪ alison: his last album "black star" was getting rave reviews. he is set to be honored at an all-star concert at carnegie hall and now it will be a memorial with performances. jonathan: thank you. so sad. you think about this is a guy who literally transformed himself every decade. there is only a few bands that say they have done it. u2, aerosmith. he was phenomenal. michelle: what a gift for him to leave another album for all of his fans and new fans we are just hearing about him. new generation. open it up for him as well. jonathan: condolences and memories today. michelle: mick jagger remember his friend as memorable and

shameless. and we invite you to share your memories. jonathan: we are easy to find on the facebook page. we'll share your thoughts later. michelle: coming up at 4:00 -- new images on the day about the drug lord but now questions about the hollywood star that seemed to know where he was mcauliffe along. scott: what can you expect to hear from barack

scott: we are hearing this is not the typical speech because it is going to be not just a laundry list or wish list of the proposals want to go through. instead it will be broader. longer vision. the idea they want to implement for decades to come. they have a big challenge ahead of them. they take a look at the political scientists crunch

the number. if you look at the dozen of proposals that the president pushed in the 2013 "state of the union" speech, only 5% have been enacted. in 2014 it was 14%. we asked press secretary josh ernest, how do you get the numbers up? >> it is a challenge if you deal with a congress controlled by another party. there are immigration reform. gun safety measures. there are disappointments. no denying that. we can't allow election debate like this one here distract us. scott: where has the president succeeded and where the challenges that lie ahead of him?

they have their work cut out for them. jonathan: the white house trying to make the "state of the union" a social event. snapchat account will show behind the scenes images. they plan to sit down the three youtube celebrities to talk about the plans. stay with abc7 and wjla.com for complete coverage of the "state of the union." michelle: new developments in a ten-day old standoff at an oregon wildlife refuge. they are asking them to send supplies. it is unclear if they will allow the delivery of the supplies. it reopened today.

the second week of january may be the first to feel like winter. >> we knew at some point it might feel like winter. this could include snow if you are in the right area. doug hill has the forecast. snow? doug: snowshowers and the rain showers tomorrow. the farther north and west from washington the better chance of snowshowers. there is no impact except for here. a live look at the belle haven country club. the temperatures are comfortably cold. it's 36 in leesburg and baltimore. 34 in winchester. the overnight we may get high clouds. mostly clear. it's 23 tomorrow morning.

here is the deal tomorrow. we have cold air coming in. this arizona from michigan to west virginia under the winter weather advisory. it will block the cold air. so when you get to our side, there may be snowshowers. we don't expect accumulation but gusty winds and colder air developing by 2 time that wednesday rolls around. the forecast for tomorrow around 5:00, snowshowers and rain showers. mix coming through. a windy and a cold day on wednesday. we will warm up ten to 12 degrees on thursday with the sunshine. clouds return friday with

showers late in the day. early saturday morning. after that, we will start to cool off and things will calm down weather wise. another stretch of quiet and chilly weather around the capital. jonathan: developing now north korea is claiming they are holding an american citizen pressure. cnn is reporting that he was accused of spying on north korea. they told the network he stole military secrets but it's unclear if he made the comments of his own free will. michelle: dramatic video released today of the raid that led to the arrest of mexican drug lord joaquin "el chapo" guzman. well the famed fugetive was recap chured friday short -- recaptured friday shortly after this raid at the hide-out. his secret meeting with academy award winning actor

sean penn led to his recapture. penn interviewed the drug lord for "rolling stone" magazine three months ago. many are questioning if penn broke any laws. >> anyone who is an artist interested in understanding human nature and behavior would want to talk to any person like that. >> convicted like something of harboring or concealing a fugitive, you would need evidence that he helped him, aided him, gave him money, sheltered him. not just to say he met with him. michelle: guzman is in solitaire confinement in the same prison he escaped from six months ago. extraditions proceedings are underway the bring him to the united states. jonathan: coming up at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- changing the rules. why being grandfathered in the unlimited data plans may cost you more this year. michelle: but first, imagine owning the playboy mansion. it could happen. how you could buy it.

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may. year yeah early. the company that owns the circus planned to retire the elfamuts by 2018 after they were fined for the treatment of the elephants. they will be moved to a conservation center in florida. jonathan: hugh hefner is not retiring but he is ready to give up the iconic playboy mansion. 25-room house on five acres in l.a. prime real estate. it includes a game room, home theater and the famous grotto, the swimming pool where a bazillion parties have been. it was built in 1927. he bought it, i think it was 1.1 million in 1971. he wants to sell it for $200 million. there's a catch! you have to let the hef continue to live there. i'm not continuing. the playboy ceo has the mansion has been his residence and workplace for 40 years. even if it's sold he doesn't want to let it go. you will spend $200 million for a new home and you get the

old guy with it. >> interesting combination there. >> all the parties at that place? michelle: it is beautiful, though. on the flip side, the people who own the house that was used as a serial killer's lair in "silence of the lamb" are having trouble selling that place. jonathan: shocker. they listed the house in pennsylvania $300,000 last summer and now they are dropping it to $250. it's the second most clicked on at realer.com last year. no one wants to live there. i can understand why. michelle: hmm-mm. still ahead at "abc7 news at 4:00" -- to catch a thief. find out how the f.b.i. caught up with the woman behind a string of jewel thefts. kellye: i'm kellye lynn at the high school. i will tell you how a teacher is helpi

michelle: closer to home a teacher has a unike vision to help kids with their homework. she wants them to eat it.

kellye lynn explains in the spotlight on education. >> you can heard of george washington, right? kellye: history and cooking lesson at the same time. >> men the founders were drafting the declaration of independence, the ice cream shop opened in new york city. there is a they-in. kellye: ann was looking for tie-in when she wrote the first book in the eat your homework series. >> my kids needed motivation to do math. i wanted to spark their interest. kellye: cooking was the answer. she authored three cookbooks eat your math homework, eat your science homework and now "eat your u.s. history homework." she says there is a universal link between the food and history and emphasizes that with the cookies. today her english were speakers of other languages students are making

independence ice cream. >> i make the ice cream. >> he is not like my first, not like my country. it's like for me. learning is hard. kellye: after mixing and shaking the history project is ready for consumption. in rockville, kellye lynn, abc7 news. jonathan: "7 on your side" with health matters. while fewer teens are smoking than ever before nearly six in ten middle to high schoolers are exposed to second hand smoke. a quarter of the students who don't smoke are exposed to the second hand smoke. michelle: this picture seems innocent enough but the caption sparking debate. says doctor's visit, time for

vaccine. people opposed to childhood vaccinations aren't happy and say the facebook founder is delving into the debate offering support. nearly 70,000 people commented on the post so far. jonathan: the problem is if you don't vaccinate your children then they go to schools and a lot of schools won't let them in without the vaccination. michelle: everyone has an opinion. jonathan: there is a lot of talk about the end of the redskins season and particularly the note left on rgiii's locker. michelle: we asked you to weigh in on the wjla facebook page about what it could mean. most of you just took issue with the fact we were reporting on it in the first place. john posts --

jonathan: nancy posted -- jonathan: join the conversation by going to our facebook page. the season is over. don't kick a guy why he is down. they had a good season. no reason to hang his head. f.b.i. was able to track down a thief who robbed at least six jewelry stores across five states. they used cell towers and the social media to catch kemp. the f.b.i. looked for phone numbers or near the jewelry stores in georgia, florida, south carolina, while they were being robbed. they used the number to identify kemp and matched it

to the get-away car. to one she posted on social media. her friends couldn't believe she could be doing this. >> how is someone doing this, robbing jewelry stores. with your face exposed as well. jonathan: there's that. the biggest robbery was panama city where she walked out to with $45,000 worth of jewels and police arrested another man who may have acted as her look out. michelle: coming up at "abc7 news at 5:00" -- bottoming out on the d.c. roads. what happened just hours after abc7 began pushing for answers about speed bumps that gave drivers a sinking feeling. jonathan: what happened when a man who admitted to using a camera to spy on his neighbors came face to face with our cameras? that's news you will look forward to at 5:00. michelle: this isn't a sculpture of a car.

this is an absolutely car. covered by layers of ice. this is in buffalo. the city was hit by a lake effect storm that dumped snow. in this case, lake water that froze on the car parked close by the shoreline. another storm is expected to hit today. this car is covered. jonathan: buffalo, they are used to this. doug: it some a week or two you haven't had the snow yet. here, maybe a snowshower tomorrow. get you started. we look ahead every day at this time to the weekend outlook. even though it is only monday. it looks mild on saturday. the clouds will roll in. early shower. sunday we have the highs of 42. monday, martin luther king jr. day, it will be colder. 37 but dry through the stretch with a slight chance of a shower here and there. big numbers, the big picture

in the next seven days. we have up and downs. but dramatic is wednesday. cold front, windy and 32 on wednesday with the sunshine. 43 to warm up on thursday. friday is more showers. it will get colder next week. batch of cold air is wednesday. what do you think, jamie sullivan? jamie: we are seeing a lot of the sun glare now on 66. a lot of peak leaving the city. you still have it in a few areas. not much longer, though. it's getting darker. i want to begin with metro. blue and yellow. single tracking. that is because of a piece of track equipment that is near national airport. so, again, we are still singing tracking. we had unusual stretches between crystal city and pentagon city where they were it no stopping heading inbound. now everything is back to normal. it should be wrapping up here shortly. an accident we had on 13

street northwest southbound. all lanes were blocked at k-street. now all lanes are open. that is in both directions. on the freeway, traffic in teens. if you're heading northbound or south to maryland, 8 miles per hour near the bridge. take a live look. show you what to expect. you will see the sluggish traffic. sun glare out there. jonathan: thank you. making a change. find out why a cell

jonathan: if anyone in your family has an unlimited plan on the cell phone, the numbers may be numbered. michelle: john matarese tells us about a rate hike affecting thousands of people so you

don't waste your money. john: the new year is bringing in unhappy sir prize to verizon customers. after at&t raised the rates, verizon taking it further. here is what you need to know and what you can do. jesse opened the bill the other day and was stunned. >> it says there was an increase of a total of $40. john: he and his wife have been on the verizon unlimited data plan for eight years grandfathered in when they dropped the unlimited data for customers a few years ago but they explained as of december, the unlimited plans are going up $20 per device. with two phones -- >> over the course of a year that $20 equals out to $500. john: verizon blames the rate hike on explosion in the video downloading and the data use after an f.c.c. ruling say that it is legal. at&t hiking its unlimited plan $5 a month.

verizon is making an offer of good will to the customers affected by the data rate hike but it's nothing like what they had before. >> give you other options that you can giv data plans. so basically, they want us to drop unlimited data plan. john: cnet says if you use 3 gigs of data or less, standard plan will cost you less. the verizon like other companies want the unlimited data plans to go away. they launched it ten years ago no one imagined we'd be watching movies on smart phones or tablets. if you don't use your phones to watch movies you may not need unlimited data. saying goodbye to it may be a better bet so you don't waste your money. i'm john matarese, abc7 news. leon: tonight, damage john. parents line up to testify against a child care worker facing 39 counts of abuse. the emotional scars she

inflicted on their kids. a man with no mood to chat after a day in court. how he defended his spying on a half-dressed neighbor. leon: angry drivers with damaged car. "7 on your side" stepping in. now "abc7 news at 5:00". on your side. leon: at 5:00, we have stories of nightmares amidst the allegations of abuse. recounted one after another in a manassas courtroom as a trial begins for a day care worker facing charges of child abuse. suzanne kennedy is live with new developments in court. suzanne? suzanne: i just got out of the courtroom. a courtroom where parents were wiping away tears and consoling each other as sarah jordan's former coworkers told of the alleged abuse of the toddlers in her care. we heard story after story about how sarah jordan sprayed the children full force in the face with a water hose and

routinely told them to fight each other and even tripped them and laughed at the children when they fell. sarah jordan worked in the monkey room with the other women, she was responsible for the care of several toddlers. i was during the fall of -- it was during the fall of 2013 she allegedly abused several children in her care. lisa andrew's daughter is one of the alleged victims. today she said her daughter would often times wake up with nightmares after being in jordan's care. dropoff at the facility became difficult after the alleged abuse. andrews saying before we would drop her off and it was not a problem. but there came a point we would drop her off and she was screaming. mothers and fathers told the court today after the children moved from the newborn to toddler room and under jordan's care they showed sign of separation anxiety, aggressive behavior, fear of water and they were