nnel, the train shut down and there was a lot of smoke and people had to evacuate off the train through the tunnel. >> reporter: i'm joi tim wilson from d.c. fire and ems. i understand you have tom updated information for us that there were some injuries people who were taken away by ambulance. >> yes, jackie. at the moment we've transported up to six patients with various injuries one serious and others with minor injuries. >> reporter: and a lot of it was due to panic, people seemed to be having trouble breathing. >> correct. it's a tough situation, but our members were able to get to the scene and put the fire out, and, you know right now we're trying to determine exactly what the cause was. >> reporter: the fire being out is good information because that's one step towards getting the station open at rush hour. but, again, no feeling that the point for exactly what caused it? >> no feeling at the moment. it's still under investigation. >> reporter: all right. tim wilson for d.c. fire and ems. again, now, coming up on news4 at 6:00 we'll talk to some

people who were on that train for those 40 minutes they tell us was very stressful, trying to figure out exactly what was going on. live in southwest, jackie bensen news4. more live team coverage with derrick ward down at ninth and main avenue the wharf on the waterfront. an evacuation point there. derrick, what are you seeing now? >> reporter: well, thing have sort of calmed down here nowhere near as i guess frenetic a scene up at the station and some of the station where is tg is. but i want you to look at the scene just a few minutes earlier. this is some video we shot when we first got here. this is at least one of those six people who were hospitalized that you just heard the gentleman talking about in jackie's story. now, we did see two people come out from an evacuation tunnel which is at this location shortly before that person was evacuated. they seemed to be okay and didn't appear to be in any sort of stress or anything like that. but, again, one person who appeared to be a firefighter

smaflt wasas fa was taken away, a female firefighter. she did not seem to be in any sort of distress or outwardly injured but probably just overcome by smoke. we don't know again. there are a lot of questions to be answered here. but, again, this gives you a vast sense of how far we are and how vast the subway system is because we are several blocks now from this area where the entrance to l'enphant plaza is and to mt. vernon, where the backups are. again, we are probably over a tunnel and as you see here just as you see over here where the firefighters are, that raised platform that is where they were given access to the tunnel, where they brought some people out. those grates that you see in the street often, that is exactly what they are, over a tunnel some point in the infrastructure of the metro system. and again here out of the way almost in the middle of this construction site was a point of access and egress where people who needed to be brought out perhaps some reason or another

could not be brought out through the normal points of access and egress at the station. again, firefighters are standing by her derrick ward news4. shuttle buss are running and helping move some of those passengers stuck on board the trains or inside other stations. >> darcy spencer continues our live coverage live at mt. vernon square. how kai kaye ottawaic is it there? >> reporter: it is pretty much chaotic and there are a lot of frustrated people. we talked to a lot of people inside the station. many had no idea there was smoke in the tunnel and xa what exactly was happening so communication has definitely been an issue for some of the folks. what you're seeing right here these are people standing on the sidewalk outside of the metro station basically waiting for one of the shuttle buses to show up. we have not seen any at this

point. and wondering how they're going to get home tonight and not getting a lot of information, at least at this point. again, some of them not even realizing when they were told to get off the train here why that was happening. we'll talk to amber ferguson one of the very frustrated metro riders. >> hi. >> reporter: what is your situation? where are you coming from and trying to get to? >> i'm coming from work. my kids have to be picked up before 6:00. and i wasn't expecting any of this to happen and when i got off the train, nobody -- i was waiting for about five maybe seven minutes and nobody said anything so, i asked the transit lady and she gave me the directions to come um here for the shuttle buses. i don't see any shuttle buses. so i'm trying to figure out what my next step is so i school. >> has this ever happened before? >> not tho to this extent not to where i had to walk this far. because usually in situations like this the shuttle buses are already lined up right behind each other. you'll see them when you first come out the station, but you

don't see anything. >> reporter: did anyone tell you there was a fire further down the line? >> i saw it on facebook. when i asked the transit lady what was going on she didn't tell me what was going on. she just told me where to go. so when i got on facebook i saw a post about a fire at l'enphant plaza station. so i have to get past l'enphant plaza station, so they told me to catch a shut from here to navy yard and get back on the train but i haven't seen a shuttle yet. >> reporter: how are people dealing with this? is there a lot of confusion? >> there's a lot of confusion but surprisingly enough everybody's not rowdy nape ear pretty much calm. i was making some new friends. we caulked up here together. >> making the best of the situation. >> i am. it's not as bad. the weather's not as bad as last week so that's a plus. >> reporter: amber ferguson thanks for sharing your experience. >> you're welcome. >> reporter: that's what you're seeing from all these people lined up on the sidewalk bait waiting for the shuttle bus so they can get on to the next stop get past l'enphant plaza. live from mt. vernon station, darcy spencer, news4.

metro spokesman dan stessel joins us live. any idea what cawed this smoke? what's the best advice for metro riders to get home? >> the source has not been identified. the smoke plaza, probably a function of two thing, one, the tunnel fans were activated and they're designed to move smoke out of the station and that certainly has helped. but also third rail power has been deearn jiz sod the source of the smoke has anything to do with the electrified third rail that also would turn off the source of whatever's generating the smoke. that's under investigation, the primary focus over the last 90 minutes or so has been effecting an evacuation of the upper level of l'enphant plaza. the fire department completed that not too long ago, but the evacuations are completed at l'enphant plaza, the station remains closed. green and yellow service on the upper slesm suspended between

navy yard and pentagon city on the south aendened mt. vernon square on the knot end.north end. no service between those points with shuttle buses substituting. there are regular route metro bus services as well as circumstance lay or the that may be a good option for folks. if you normally use l'enphant plaza and you're trying to get on the orange silver or blue lines, a short walk over the federal center southwest might be your best option. i should mention that those three lines that pas throughs lu thethh lower level of l'enphant pla are going through without stopping so if you can walk one station away you can get on the train and get home without delay on those three lines. but if you're a green or yellow customer tonight, you want to allow additional travel time and the possibility if you're traveling through downtown of alternate shuttle bus service. >> all this coming at the worst possible time. about how many people will go through this particular station. this is a very busy station for d.c. >> yeah. l'enphant plaza is certainly one of our top five stations not

quite our busiest but it's up there and as a transfer station it is a critical location on the system and a terrible location for something like this to happen at the height of rush hour. easily we're talking numbers in the thousands. but the fact that the lower level lines, those orange silver blue lines are running just not stopping at l'enphant plaza does help mitigate the situation a little bit for riders traveling in either direction out of downtown tonight. >> all right. dan stessel, thanks so much. good luck. it's going to be a tough one. well, a lot of people are sending us pictures and posting pictures on social media from smoke in the stations to smoke on the trains. much more as the evening goes along. you can stay up to date if you're trying to get to metro on our nbc washington app. it's a messy night out there. it's raining. we had a rough morning. looks like a lot of you are having a rough evening. the bridge wrapped in fog.

>> doug kammerer is watching it all and tracking the radar right now. doug what are you seeing? >> you can see the ice on the river as well. one thing to note everybody coming out of l'enphant plaza, they ear waiting for those buses, they're about to get some heavier rain. it's raining lightly downtown but here comes heavier rain through porss of fairfax county into the dist in the next 15 20 minutes. here's that dark area through fairfax county coming right across falls church and right in towards downtown in the next 15 to 20 minutes. everybody else seeing light shower activity. that will continue as we move on through the evening. we're not quite done just yet. we have to go through this area down toward roanoke. that will come through in about the next four to five hours. this will be something that stays with us through the rest of the night. then look back to the western part of our system. notice the snow. we're not going to get any of, that but what this tells us is there's colder air back to the west. current temperatures 39 degrees in d.c. on the chilly side but only 32 in pittsburgh. that's the colder air that will move in. tomorrow is going to be one very cold day. we'll talk much more about the

cold air and how long it lasts coming up in just a minute. >> a popular high school teenager gunned down at a party. tonight the dunbar high school community is in mourning. andrew was killed when gunfire erupted outside a home on t street over the weekend. news4's pat collins is live in northeast d.c. with reaction from newman's family. pat? >> reporter: wendy, he wanted his sons to have some safe fun so he agreed to host a party for their friends at his house. one of the friends gunned down as he walked out the front door. >> this is the first party i've let my kids have. >> reporter: he asked us not to show his face or name. you'll understand why.

about 25 shots fired. evidence markers show the points of impact. the side of the house. the porch railing. the brick work. and the fence. when it was over 17-year-old andrew newman was dead. andrew was a student at dunbar high school. he had plans to go into the military after graduation. the host says the party was in honor of two teens, one who was having a birthday and another who was leaving to join the job corps. he said there were about 25 teenagers there, boys and girls ranging in age from 15 to 18. around 9:00 at night, the party host says there were about five or six teenagers out there on the porch. he says a group of guys came by and that one of them had a gun. they went up on the porch and the gunman put the barrel of that gun in the mouth of one of the teenagers and then stole his sneakers. those guys ran off. police were called to the scene. they took a report and left. then a couple of hours later, as

the last of the partygoers were leaving the house, that will barrage of gunfire and the murder of andrew newman. >> the next day i went to talk to the parents. i have no word to -- how could you explain to a parent that their child died at a house at a party? i didn't know what to say. i didn't know what to tell them snoorp crisis counselors brought to dunbar today to help students there deal with andrew's death. the basketball game tonight has been postponed. live in northeast, pat collins, news4. >> pat, thank you. it's a story you'll see only here on news4, a breach at opm. how it impacted federal workers and even retirees. plus progress interrupted. why there were arrests on capitol hill today. and we continue to follow our breaking news tonight, smoke filled the l'enphant plaza metro station today.

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it has been a mess down at the l'enphant plaza metro station. there was a fire it is out, but there was a lot of smoke. they have shut it down. they are transferring people around it if you try to take metro tonight. six people were injured, one seriously. the rest just had some smoke inhalation and a little bit of panic involved. but it is a mess getting in and around there tonight if you are taking metro on all those green,

yellow and orange lines. there are buss to transfer you around but you have to pack your patience or maybe find another way to get around there on your own. we'll keep you posted. a northern virginia youth hockey coach is in jail tonight after a child porn sting. several parents of teenage hockey players went to police after their kids were approached on social media. northern virginia bureau chief julie kerry has our report. >> timothy bodenheimer is being held without bond charged with ten counts of possession of child pornography. the 27-year-old was once a standout youth hockey player himself and as this photo from the lebanon college website shows, he played there for several years. most recently he's been the assistant coach for a washington little caps team of middle schoolers. news4 first learned of the allegations against bodenheimer in these search warrant documents. they reveal it was late december when a detective on the internet crimes against children task force was contacted by several parents. they discovered their boys who

all play youth hockey had been approached online by a suspicious individual. in instagram and snap chat he used the names hockeyluvr 24 and others. the state police detective went undercover posing as a male 12-year-old hockey player. before long the suspect made sexually suggestive comments. court documents say over the next several days the suspect sent 13 videos of child porn. investigators tracked the instagram to this fairfax station home where they say bodenheimer's parents live. police went there on january 7th. they seed laptops, ipads, hard drives and cell phones. timothy bodenheimer was arrested over the weekend. what a night to have a mess out there. now we have four people with umbrellas trying to figure out what time they're going to get home. >> all those firefighters out there. >> horrible night. never good for this to happen

but a rough day today. >> it's been raining lightly now, but now they have heavier, steady rain coming in now so any of the firefighters people sitting outside waiting for the shuts, the rain will continue and it will continue to come down pretty heavily over the next say 15 20 to about 30 minutes here. here we are right now. you can take a look outside and you notice that clouds are out there, the rain is coming down temperatures 39 degrees. that visibility now around 6 miles. it was down below a mile earlier. that visibility has come up and we will continue to see some fog. temperatures are cold 36 in leesburg 37 in baltimore, 40 in huntington. this isn't just rain but a cold rain and that cold rain will continue as we move on through the night. notice where the rain is back through i-81 leesburg annapolis, just about everybody sieg it, but right around the l'enphant plaza area right around downtown, that's where the steadiest rain has started

once again. it was over the west but it is right over towntown. they'll deal with that for the next 15, 20 minutes until we get into lighter green back towards the west. the darker the green, that means the heavier the rain. right now it's right through downtown and i-95 right on down through the beltway around the newington area. so heads up. it will be a very slow commute as we continue to move out. now, the wider view showing more rain back down toward the south so even when this rain and the showers continue to pull out, we will see more back towards the west. we're not done with this just yet. then you notice where the air is now coming from. it's coming over the great lakes, coming out of canada and it's very cold air we're in store with tomorrow. so feels-like temperature tonight down to about 26 in leesburg but watch what happens tomorrow morning. we're down into the teens, around 9 in frederick for that windchill tomorrow 12 in leesburg 18 in washington. during the afternoon it's supposed to get better but the temperatures will fall during the day and the windchills will do the same. only 18 for a windchill in the

afternoon in gaithersburg leesburg around 18 d.c. coming in at around 22 degrees. so we are talking a very cold tuesday afternoon. and it looks like we stick on that side too. high temperatures tomorrow only in the upper 20s to around 31 in d.c. that 31 though, will come early and then we'll see those temperatures fall during the afternoon, rather breezy conditions all day long. then on wednesday, we see an area of flurries coming in not much but mostly from i-95 to the east this time along portions of southern maryland high of only 32. 38 degrees on thursday and then the weekend, hey, the weekend actually looking pretty nice. 48 on saturday 50 degrees coming up on sunday. have to get through the next two to three days then nicer weather trying to move in. >> thank you, doug. >> it's the new year for some and that means it's time for a fresh start. >> we have the top tips all week long to help you get financially fit for the new year so, get your wallet saving workout at 5:45 tonight. and live team coverage

throughout the hour on this breaking news that involves evacuations at l'enphant plaza because of smoke in the station. we are just minutes away from an update

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changed the topic to torture, yelling that torture is a crime and demanding the closure of guantanamo bay. they were removed from the public galleries and order was restored in about two minutes. nbc news producer frank thorpe snapped this photo of the protesters being led away and posted itten insta fwram. there was a social media breach high up in the pentagon and exposed information on military employees in our area and beyond. jim miklaszewski has an update and what they've done about the apparent takeover of the twitter and youtube accounts. >> reporter: so far we know u.s. military officials and defense officials confirm centcom, down in tampa, florida, in charge of running the wars against isis and afghanistan, that their twitter and youtube accounts were hacked by a group called #cybercaliphate, an unknown group as far as anybody

knows. now, u.s. military and d.o.d. officials stress these are sort of public accounts they're accounts set up to provide general information to the general public about centcom operations activities bake sales, whatever. they do not contain any slasz fied information whatsoever. the official information here is as far as anyone knows there is no classified information compromised. in fact according to one official this is very embarrassing but apparently no security threat at least for the time being as far as we know. now, centcom has taken down that site. who knows if they're going to get it up anytime soon. but they do say they have the situation for the time being under control. >> more in a live report on the centcom social media breach in our next hour. also check your smartphone for updates on nbc washington

mobile app. at 5:00 tonight, a fire causes a huge rush-hour ripple effect. >> we're staying on top of that breaking news in downtown d.c. fire has shut down the busy l'enphant plaza metro station. we're going to go back to that scene in just a moment. a local family on edge to want. what police and firefighters discovered when they were called to this local house, and it wasn't what they expected. >> who would abandon a puppy in a parking lot? and then just take off? you can help this little dog and find the person who did it.

rail service halted after smoke insidhant plaza metro station. snitd's an absolute mess out there right now, and getting around is a challenge if you are relying on the green, yellow and blue lines. >> darcy spencer joins us now live from mt. vernon square where there's supposed to be shuttle bus service. darcy, have you seen a bus yet? >> reporter: i have not, but i'm told two of them came through the area. what is happening here is frustration and confusion. it's 5:30 in the afternoon. people are getting off work. they are getting out of school and they just want to get home. and right now many people don't know how that's going to happen. you can see right here underneath people are going inside to get out of the rain. it is a nasty monday evening and people don't know again, when these shuttle buses are going to show up when the trains might get going again so, they're

trying to figure out what is plan b, c, and d for this evening. let's roll some video we shot within the last hour that showed the inside of the metro station. you can see people using the escalators coming up out of the station. we talked to a lot of people who really didn't even know what was happening on the line, that there was a fire further down the line. they were just told basically to get off the train and come up with an alternate plan and that was supposed to be the shuttle buses. people are still waiting. let's talk to to some of the frustrated drivers. >> coming from school trying to get home and it's been a delay. every time a train comes, i've basically been here for about an hour. >> reporter: just wait farg train. >> just waiting far train to the branch avenue station. >> reporter: you had no idea there was fire at the l'enphant plaza metro station. >> no clue whatsoever. >> reporter: nobody's telling people what's happening? >> not as far as i know. i mean, if i had realized the situation i wouldn't have come down here.

>> reporter: you can see people out here standing on the corner trying to figure out when is a shuttle bus going to come and get them to their next destination so they can get home this evening. i heard a metro transit officer talking to people out here a short time ago and said there's no word when the next shuttle buses arrive. he's trying to tell people to get on the other metro regular buses to get downtown and figure out your way from there. jackie bensen is live at l'enphant plaza. jackie? >> reporter: thank you, darcy. well we know at this point the fire is out. we do not know what caused that fire and that is why there is still this tremendous response here on the scene with me. now, we talked to people who were on board the train in this tunnel. we have some pictures of them coming out of the station. we understand that this is a frightening experience for them.

it wasn't until we got here earlier that we learned that these folks had been on trains in that tunnel as it was filling up with smoke for upwards of 40 45 minutes. and with only very very little information although they said they were being provided with updates, there wasn't a lot of information. we talked with someone who was on that train and here's what they had to say. >> just outside the station, maybe 150 yards or so the train went dark and the train started filling up with smoke. then they came over the intercom many many times telling us, you know that the tunnel is filling with smoke, it's smokier outside the tunnel and said they were going to open the doors. so many many announcements later they finally evacuated us about an hour later. >> reporter: you can tell from the description there that this was a situation that caused a lot of stress for people. six people treated for injuries here some taken to the hospital as a result of panic attacks and

thing like that. coming up on news4 at 6:00 we'll tell you about an evacuation bus and a first aid bus set up down the street as well as a decontamination center the fire department has set up for their folk who is had to go into the tunnel. jackie bensen news4. >> frightening ordeal. jackie thanks for being out there in front for us, a lot of people sending us their pictures and posting pictures on social media too. take a look how dark it was down there. from smoke in stations to smoke in trains, much more as the evening goes on. you can always stay up to date if you're trying to get to metro on our nbc washington app. someone abandoned a puppy at a maryland parking lot, left it to die. we've posted this picture of the little puppy on our nbc washington facebook page. lots of you are sharing it hoping someone will have information that will help police find the person who did this. montgomery county animal services has named this little guy clark kent. he was found in burtonsville. his owner left him there on

january 3rd. police found him in a dirty crate. they say he was just moments from death, badly malnourished and experiencing seizures. an ashburn area family is recovering tonight after a scare. three adults in their home were rescued from carbon monoxide poisoning on friday. paramedics were called to this house on summers town place after one of the adults was injured in a fall. >> all our ems units are equipped with a co monitor on their ems aid bags to identify potential co exposures. as soon as they walked into the house, the alarm went off indicating there were high levels of co. so with that in mind, the crews quickly took the patients out of the house. >> now, symptoms can mimic the flu. for the warning science and safety advice from the loudoun county fire and rescue department visit nbcwashington.com and search co rescue. d.c. mayor muriel bulger

isn't the only one not happy with the city's response to last week's snowstorm. mary chase said it was extremely upsetting to her as well. commuters complained about metro bus service being canceled along the residential streets because those streets had not been treated or plowed. shea wrote an open letter to transit and public works officials asking for a meeting to discuss how these agencies can coordinate their snow efforts a little better. news4 talked to the office today and learned the meeting has been scheduled for wednesday. rain is one concern tonight but not the only concern. we have team coverage from our weather center with doug and j.j. guys? >> and also what's coming next. >> right. maybe some freezing rain but two more dais and it will get cold again. >> we are dealing with the rain. take a look at storm team 4 radar and you notice what's going on around our region basically just some shower activity off toward the west, the steadier r i-95 from baltimore

through the d.c. metro area around the beltway, of course talking about the rush hour. down through culpepper and fredericksburg. we'll zoom in through d.c. back towards manceassas. the darker areas are heavier rain. alexandria the airport too. the rain will continue to be an issue as we move through the night tonight. but something else is going to be an issue too, not just tonight but into the early part of tomorrow morning. could affect your rush hour. v.j. has more on that. >> and that is the fog. already we're seeing visibilities drop across the area so it will get dense out there if you're on area roads. fog and again the possibility of a little bit of icing taking place for early tomorrow morning. so fog and showers for your night out if you're going to be going anywhere. here's a look at some of the current visibilities and how they're dropping. pax river, a mile and a half there, that pocket of st. mary's calvert county 2 1/2, ft. belvoir visibilities right

now, winchester under just under 2 miles across the area. i think we can see it drop more before the wind picks up. and, oh, the wind is going to be picking up tomorrow morning. we'll be watching for ice early on in the day and dealing with low windchill temperatures in the teens tomorrow afternoon. doug? >> yeah the windchills will be what we're talking act for sure. we'll talk about that and a warm-up coming up. that's in the seven-day forecast. a big announcement for prince george's county, big business is moving in and it d revolutionize the car industry. five fires in just hours. why most fires this weekend were preventable. and we're hearing more and more evacuation stories from metro riders who were stuck in the chaos and the smoke.

a lawmaker from fairfax county wants to bring the good samaritan law to virginia. it protects those who witness drug overdoses. they would be able to call 911 and not worry about getting in trouble with the law. senator chad peterson introduced this legislation today. the issue was brought to his attention by a law class at virginia tech. some 800 virginians died from drug overdoses in 2012 and a similar good samaritan bill was signed into law in maryland last year. the white house is ready to take on lawmakers over what happens in your children's

schools. the new republican-led congress is about to rewrite the no child left behind act. aaron gilchrist shows us how the secretary of education is drawing a line in the sand. >> reporter: the big fight could be over keeping or scrapping annual statewide testing. today arne duncan supported the testing requirement of no child left behind while at the same time calling the law out of date and tired. he made the comment at d.c.'s seton elementary school this morning. he laid out his vision of a rewrite for no child left behind that expired in 2007 but is about to be reviewed by congress. he wants to keep annual statewide standardized tests aligned with what happens in the classroom but says the obama administration will ask for more funding to help states improve the quality of tests and limit what he calls unnecessary tests. praise for part of no child left behind while saying the law needs to go away. >> let's dispense with no child left behind and give states more flexibility. no child left behind creates

dozens of ways for schools to fail and very few ways to help them succeed or to reward success. we need to do exactly the opposite. >> president obama will ask congress for an extra $2.7 billion in education money in his budget proposal next month. duncan says the focus of those dollars needs to be on better resources and support for schools and teachers. back to you. >> our team coverage continues next. we are getting some new video into the newsroom this time from instagram showing metro rider who is had to deal with the delays from smoke at the l'enphant plaza metro station. the nbc washington app has the latest pictures. check them out during the break. first problems of several fires in prince george's county are causing. find out why firefighters were so busy this weekend.

folks, this has been going on since 3:20 this afternoon. take a look at this mess. >> it was smoke in the l'enphant plaza metro station and it is a mess getting around there tonight. let's get the latest from scott at the live tesing with a look at some of your pictures. >> video and pictures coming into the news4 newsroom. first an yup date on the metro transit service. l'enphant plaza station remains close but they've restored service to gallery place for green and yellow line passengers. here's some of the video from news4 viewers. i think you can see in these imanxious some of the smoke and passengers going down low perhaps to avoid inhaling too much of the smoke. some of the still imanxious, photos coming in inside the l'enphant plaza metro station, inside a railcar. this is the upper level most impacted by the smoke according to metro. if you know the l'enphant plaza metro station, you know there's rail service on an upper

platform and a lower platform and it's the upper platform from which most of the smoke was emanating according to metro. yellow line riders going from virginia to d.c. now being advised to go with the blue line. the station remains evacuated, shut down, and all indications ar it will remain shut for quite a while. that's the latest at the live desk. i'm scott mcfarland. well firefighters in prince george's county were scrambling this weekend racing from one fire to another. >> and today fire officials tell us they all could have been prevent prevente fires broke out in the span of about 14 hours over the weekend includeg one in neighboring ann aren dull county that prince george's county firefighters rushed to help with. zachary kiesch takes a look at the common thread among all of them. >> reporter: a wide weekend for firefighters in prince george's county. five fires over a 14-hour period. >> well cold weather hit, number one, and that added a lot

to our firefighters. >> repor stag in the afternoon friday this fire caused over $200,000 in damage. ten minutes later firefighters helped fight a fire in anne arundel county. by 7:30 p.m., the action was on clark street in boulevard heights. you think see the melted plastic siding. it's raining today, but you can still smell the smoke. more than $150,000 worth of damage here. the cause of each different but mark brady with prince george's county fire says each was preventable. >> what we're seeing are causes of fires that we preach about, preach about, preach about yet we continue to see them occur. >> reporter: this afternoon at the scene of yet another fire in district heights, a few sessions to keep yourself safe. no less than three feet of space should be around heaters. have furnaces checked every other year by a professional. and don't overload power strips. such was the case in district heights. >> power strip was overloaded and underneath of the

bed that caught on fire. >> reporter: coming up tonight at 6:00 the silver lining, the common thread in all these fires that has firefighters begging residents. in prince george's county zachary kiesch news4. the first fleet of 3d printed cars is going to go on sale this year and it will be here in the washington area. the company's called local motors. it's building a lab, assembly floor and show room at national harbor. it's known as a micro factory. the cars will be designed built, and sold there. the printing process takes about two days. visitors will be able to take part in the 3d printing. the fact is set to open this fall and is expected to bring 100 jobs to prince george's county. >> you can get around some snow in that. that's a high rider there. doug it's nasty out there but it could have been worse had we been about 15, 20 degrees colder. >> this n 5 degrees colder and we would have been talking about snow across the area and of course that ice back towards the west

wasn't a problem around d.c. this morning, but, yeah, a couple degrees colder going to make all the difference. we're continuing to deal with the rain around the region. most of the heavier rain is from around i-95 up toward the east into portions of southern maryland but we have shower activity back to the west i-81 back towards shenandoah county and valley. fredericksburg and some of the heaviest rain toward the northern neck coming into st. mary's and calvert county. we'll take a zoom here as we move in and show you where some of that is, right around the beach area towards diehl, huntingtown, mechanicsville and st. mary's county seeing that rain and here's that area coming through fairfax county coming in around l'enphant plaza. big problems around l'enphant plaza, of course talking about that with metro and some heavier rain moved through earlier. here it is right here. you nets we're starting to see more rain move back into the area. this will be lighter rain over the next 15 minutes or so. current temperature up to 41 degrees, the high so far today.

39 degrees around 7:00 with some showers and i expect those showers through about 9:00, 10:00 tonight, chilly at 11:00, temperatures begin to fall and it's going to be one cold day tomorrow. look at, this 26 to 32 degrees for a high temperature. breezy and cold and those temperatures will be falling through the day. windchills between 15 and 20 degrees. so a very cold tuesday afternoon. high pressure beginning to move to. that is going to make windchill a little cooler too. windchill between 10 to 15 at 8:00 between 15 and 20 the rest of the afternoon. once again we are talking about a very cold tuesday. wednesday looks cold too. wednesday could even see some flurries throughout with a high of 32 most of the snow flurry activity would be from d.c. south and eastward in through portions of southern maryland not going to cause any problems though. notice the temperatures. going in the right direction too the mid to upper 40s and close to 50 just in time for the weekend. the weekend is the best two days of the seven-day. excellent. a lot of people trying to get their body into shape this time of year.

how about your finances? how fit are they? >> every day this week on news4 at 5:00 erika gonzalez is working for you. she'll be helping you start the year off right so you can keep more money in your wallet. everybody likes that erika. >> that's right. do you have a handle on your finances or do your finances have a hold on you? tonight you'll meet a woman who, like so many others works so hard yet can't get ahead spop we're helping her and you with a money makeover. amy has a good job, but her husband lost his as an engineer and now works a part-time gig at night. he also watches their 15-month-old son, monty, during the day while pursuing a graduate degree online and they find themselves putting off one thing to pay for another. >> i'm diabetic. i'm supposed to wear an insulin pump. i don't take my medicine like i'm supposed to because we don't always have the money. you make the sacrifices so that your son has diapers and there's food in the kitchen. >> reporter: we began our

efforts to try and help people like amy by consulting with the financial industry regulatory authority. >> the new year is a great time to start with resolutions that put you on a path to financial security. >> reporter: we started with one of amy's biggest hurdles, her $80,000 student loan debt. jerry says amy has options, especially with federally guaranteed student loans. she should start by talking to her learns about a workable payment plan. she may also be granted some degree of loan forgiveness which can happen based on one's income and ability to pay. in other cases, loan consolidation might make sense, but if none of those work you're advised to first pay the loan that charges the highest interest rate. next jerry suggests turning to family or a small bank for a loan instead of krarlds. but if you already have them and have to pay them down -- >> order them by the amount of interest you pay and pay off the one that has the highest

interest charges first. >> reporter: also creating a habit of using cash will make you think twice about your purchases. >> there have been studies done that have shown that people who pay cash for something purchase less than if they have the option of putting it on a credit card. they'll pay more for a concert ticket if they can pay credit than if they have to pay with cold hard cash. >> reporter: put away a few dollars for emergencies like home and auto repairs. >> ideally you have three to six months of your expenses set aside in a rainy day fund, but if you don't have that much don't fret because you can start small to build a rainy day fund. if you set aside $20 a week by this time next year you'll have $1,000 in a fund and that can go a long way. >> i'm doing this because i'm hoping for some advice on how to get ourselves in a better position. >> reporter: quite possibly the greatest hurd until a subject so sensitive as finances is admitting you need help.

but amy has already done that. like amy, we know that there are so many of you that have help. if you go to our web sipt nbcwashington.com right now and search fresh start, you'll find the number for the national foundation for credit counseling. they've got a number of debt relief counselors that can help you get on track to financial freedom and they can do it for free. please head to our website and go to nbcwashington.com for that help. >> going to need it. thanks, erika. a pregnant maryland woman is killed and eded as her family members wait at her baby shower. this wasn't the only tragedy after this car accident.

a family of five killed in a horrific wreck on the way to a bay pay shower and one of the women killed was pregnant. >> they were heading to baltimore when their car collided with a tractor-trailer in queen ann's county. here's our story. >> reporter: a family lost in an instant. >> somebody lost a whole family, not just him or her, you lost kids and you lost family you lost unborns. >> reporter: 30-year-old zarish was so excited for her shower she posted the information op her facebook page, but she and her unborn child didn't make it. the baby girl died with her

mother when the suzuki they were riding in collided with a tractor-trailer on the eastern shore of maryland. believe that can happen to good people. it's heartbreaking. >> reporter: her sister 24-year-old regina was one of the victims. so was regina's 7-year-old daughter jordan. friend and neighbors saw the family packing up to leave for the baby shower in baltimore friday night. >> you see them go in and out the house, packing up the little girl running around chasing her, putting her in the car, the baby and it was just like -- rattles my mind. >> reporter: regina's boyfriend, travis was killed too and the couple's 3-month-old son jonathan. stratton's family gave us these pictures to share. they say he and regina had been together three or four years. he loved producing music and graphic design. travis' mother betty stratton said he was hardworking and a loving son. >> i never knew that was going to be my last time i seen them. >> reporter: the crash happened

1:15 saturday morning at the intersection of route 30 and rout 215. the vehicle and the tractor-trailer approached from opposite directions both on different roads. the tractor-trailer crashed into the vehicle on the passenger side and then rolled over the family's car. we're told other members of the ayers family were already in baltimore waiting for the grandparent to ap arrive. >> my heart goes out to them. >> news 4 at 6:00 begins with breaking news. tonight, metro buss are now triage centers in southwest washington after smoke filled the l'enphant plaza metro station. >> here's what we know right now -- some passengers were trapped on a smoking train for more than 40 minutes. firefighters are still searching for the cause. >> green and yellow line service now suspended between navy yard pentagon city and mt. vernon square and now the fbi is assisting in the rescue and the investigation. >> we have team coverage with

reporters blanketing the scene. jackie bensen is at the l'enphant plaza metro station. jackie? >> reporter: we now have an image of what it looked like on board that smoky train. that image was provided by a news4 viewer who was on the train and if you're looking at it, that has just got to be unbelievably scary, so dark inside there as the train is filling up with smoke. now a number of passengers we're told at least six, were treated mostly for shortness of breath and panic attack but one gentleman did report symptoms of a heart attack. decontamination area has been set up in case firefighters need it. just a short time ago news4 spoke to a passenger on the train, a man named bip carter as he sat on board a medical bus awaiting triage. >> everybody got as low