administration reveals big trouble with metro. you first saw this when transportation reporter adam tuss broke the news in our nbc washington app. metro's train control center described as a chaotic distracted atmosphere. >> there is no sugarcoating this report. it is critical and damning of the metro system, basically saying that metro suspect doing what it needs to be doing when it comes to safety. here at l'enfant plaza, we had the deadly smoke and those things are addressed in this report, talking about the need to clean parts, maintenance things respect being main taped the way they should be in the metro system. this report also talks about metro's operations center basically what would be metro's tower control and saying that it is a distracting atmosphere in there that some employees are on cell phones. not a good picture. the fta painted it today. organizational shortcomings and operational concerns continue to

limit the effective inspects recognizing and resolving safety issues. >> coming up on news4 at 5:00 much more from what the federal transit administration is saying and what is metro's response to all of this? back to you. two brothers shall both teenagers, now charged in a brawl that ended with three people getting stabbed outside a fast food restaurant in virginia. now, that fight broke out on -- early sunday morning in fredericksburg outside the cook out restaurant on plank road a 15-year-old stabbed three men, killing two of them and today, his 17-year-old brother was also charged with assault. one of those victims was a naval officer. developing right now, we are learning an fbi agent was attacked by a stat.island man while trying to search the home in an isis-related investigation. the fbi says fareed mamounny tried to stab the agent with a kitchen knife. that agent's bulletproof vest protected him. he only suffered minor injuries. prosecutors say mamounny

admitted afterwards to pledging allegiance to isis and mapped to attack police officers if he could not join the group overseas. also this afternoon, d.c. police chief is expected to hold a news conference within the hour to discuss a shooting that left a 16-year-old boy in grave condition. police are looking for three people of interest seen on this bus. detectives want to talk to them about the shooting that occurred monday night near 28th and naylor road in southeast d.c. news4 will be there at the news conference when the chief is speaking and we will bring you updates as they unfold. a local landmark went up in flames in prince george's and now investigators trying to figure out why. the guy who man and tucker's restaurant in upper marlboro says the fire caused about $1 million in damage, probably too much to ever reopen. tucker's has been a mainstay on marlboro pike for decades. coming up our molette green finds out what that restaurant meant to the community. storm team4 is tracking some

showers moving through. we got a break from the heat but not from the rain and right in time for the rush hour. doug? >> i will tell you what a lot of people have been asking for this you want a little bit of a break from the heat. temperatures today 10 to 20 degrees cooler than they were yesterday. yesterday the hottest day of the year, 96. this rain and these clouds helping to keep things on the cooler side. notice steam team four radar the rain through the shenandoah valley, loudoun county, through the district, southern maryland. all is on the light side and it will continue to be. you can see it all moving from west to east across our region. once again, it ton see this through the rest of the evening. even back to the west. notice these showers and a few storms back toward cincinnati what's making its way our way. we will see the chance for showers through the overnight period. as i mentioned temperatures some 20 to even 25 degrees cooler today. i will show you how long those cooler numbers stick around as well. we have an update now on that former fbi agent who is accused of trying to crash the

cia gate at langley in april tunisia davis. she is now being held in a federal medical facility in texas. our i-team found out davis has undergone a mental health exam. the results should be back next week. according to court documents davis threatened to shoot a cia officer. at one point, police had to stand in front of her car to keep her from driving through the gate. davis returns to court later this morning. a uva lacrosse player is in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend but says something wasn't right about his hearing and now he is asking the supreme court to review his conviction. a jury found george huguely guilty of second-degree murder after yeardley love's death stunned the country in 2010. hughley went to high school in bethesda at landon high and his lawyer says one of his defense attorneys got sick during the trial and the judge should have delayed proceedings so both lawyers could be there. they are arguing that violated

his right to a fair trial. a man is fighting for his life following the second shooting this month in a normally quiet prince george's neighborhood. someone fired multiple shots at the victim outside the huntington community center in buoy yesterday afternoon this comes two weeks after someone shot and killed a teenager just one block from this location. community members will be telling us why they think they are seeing spike in violence in this area and that is coming up on news4 at 5:00. well, we are just minutes away from a big rally in down town d.c. and it is likely to snarl traffic around mcpherson square. hundreds of janitors are about to converge on the park to demand a new contract. the union wants more workers to get full-time hours and the jap tors will be marching through 14th and k street in the middle of rush hour. the fcc is going to fine at&t $100 million for making it almost impossible for millions of customers to use their apps. the federal communications commission says the carrier severely slowed down the speeds

for customers who signed up for unlimited mobile data plans. and while it stopped offering the up limited plan at&t denies those accusations. the company tells news4 it's been fully traps parent with customers and provided notice in multiple ways. at&t says the fcc has specifically identified this practice as legitimate and has known for years that all the major carriers do it. prosecutors say she helped spring those two convicted killers from that maximum security prison in upstate new york and today investigators are giving us a clearer reason of why. talk about in the jaws of a beast. a shark bite survivor walks us through some terrifying moments. that was the first i saw

it was an awful scene on the streets of tbilisi in georgia after an escaped tiger killed a map there it was a white tiger that escaped from a zoo during a severe flooding over the weekend. the tiger was in an abandoned factory when it attacked that man. officer also to kill this rare tiger but conflicting reports on whether another tiger was also lost adding to the fear and the confusion. the zoo's director says they miscounted the animals yesterday when they said that all the animals were accounted for.

a teenager nearly killed by a shark but now says he can't wait to get home and see his friends again. he is still in a north carolina hospital recovering. doctors had to amputate his left arm just below the shoulder. in an interview provided by the hospital, hunter talks about getting home to colorado. >> kind of two options i can try to live my life the way i was and make an effort to do that even though i don't have an arm or i can kind of just let this be completely debilitating and bring my life down and ruin it in a way. try to fight and live a normal life with the cards i've been dealt. >> the thing is about an hour before that shark bit hinter, a 12-year-old girl was attacked just down the beach. her family says she lost her left arm below the elbow but doctors say they will be able to save her leg. her attack came about 100 yards from the oak island fishing pier and now, town officials are

exploring ways to ban shark fishing so close to the shore. similar bans are already in place at piers in virginia beach and myrtle beach. prosecutors say she was out for blood. new information just released on the woman accused of helping two kill ears scape from prison. so what does this heat, your health and iced coffee have in common? we will sweat it out with dr. jackie, next. still sweating today, sticky out there and quite warm. you will need the brel la now showers moving through the area. look at this around the beltway, just that showers not seeing any thunderstorms. meanwhile, look at the thunderstorms down in texas. some big ones, heavy rain north of dallas now. this is all from bill and its remnants will make its way east and northeastward.

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prison who are still out there, this is a look what the the men might look like after 12 days on the run. new york state police released this progression picture of richard matt and david sweat. these convicted murderers tunnelled out of that prison that's near the canadian border on june 6th. a prison worker is now charged with helping them escape. prosecutors now confirm that joyce mitchell did talk to the prisoners about killing her husband and her husband says he is not standing by his wife, despite what her attorney is saying. he believes the men would have indeed killed him if his wife had not backed out as the get away driver. police have gotten 1400 tips about these guys and not one has been a solid lead. the balcony broke loose from the fourth floor and crashed to the ground. a lot of young people died and now some of their families are starting to arrive from ireland. the mayor of berkeley says the initial investigation suggests the balcony gave way because of water damage to its wood. there were 13 people on it when it ripped away from the side of

an apartment building. people were hanging out for someone's 21st birth day and the accident killed five irish steps and a woman from california. ahead in the next half hour, how the community is mourning those victims. i'm scott macfarlane at the live desk with the search for a man accused of sexually assaulting a little girl. look at your screens. we are about to show you man police are looking for in this case. it happened last friday on riverdale road in new carroll ton there is the image. the man walked up to a 6-year-old girl and touched her inappropriately. the child's parents were in the store but weren't with her at the time. if you recognize the map or saw anything that day, you are advised to call police. chris? >> thanks, scott. now to some severe, very wet weather. tropical depression bill is making a slow trek across texas right now and flash flood watches and warnings are in effect around dallas. the rivers are already very high and officials are concern they

had could overflow their banks at any time. reporter jeff smith looks at what's being done to keep the high waters under control. >> reporter: i'm in the city of irving. this is a suburb of dallas. and it has been raining non-stop since 4 this morning. the rain just keeps coming. you can see behind me the city has set up about 20 water pumps to pump out water from this rising creek in an effort to protect nearby homes from flooding. there's about 20 of these butchpumps. the water being pumped out of the nearby river to stem flooding in this part of the city. you will see to the left of those water pumps, there's a major highway. it's called loop 12. it goes around dallas. we have seen about a half dozen cars hydroplane off of that highway and into ditches. police tell me at this point, no one has been hurt but we have seen a lot of wreckers and a lot of damaged cars because cars are slipping off of the roadway and

into the ditch and this'sere's a lot of damage. the pumps have been here for hours trying to keep the creek from rising. we are keeping an eye on the situation, built rain here in dallas and towns around is expected to last into the evening and it is a big concern. jeff smith, news4. and now your storm team4 forecast. >> we are going to be watching bill later or the weekend making the way around the high pressure giving us all that heat, makes the way through saturday and sunday. right now, just dealing with some shower activity and very light shower activity. current temperatures though, way down. yesterday. 96. right now, at 79. near 20-degree temperature drop due to the fact we have seen those clouds and the shower activity. we do have light showers downtown now. look at the rest of the area most areas yesterday, 90 to 96 degrees. 69 right now in martinsburg. flip that around, where we were yesterday. only 70 in winchester. 76 culpepper 80 in hunting

town. the reason, we have had the clouds and now the showers moving through and the showers are pretty scattered area wide, southern maryland the baltimore area, back toward the west. we are not looking at anything heavy at all. most of this is very light and will continue to be right on now through bethesda toward college park, along 495 through downtown, down prince george's county, fairfax county area, frederick, leesburg, front royal and warren ton all moving off toward the east and continue to do so. see this steady stream of moisture making its way our way. that's why i do think we will see more rain. thinking about heading to the nationals game tonight as they take on the rays, 7:30, we may start off okay i do expect showers during the game and especially toward the end of the game and watch what happens tonight around midnight. that's when i think we have a chance for at least some areas of heavy rain. that's something we will be watching out for, too. but once again be after 10:00 tonight. shouldn't affect us too much. 89 tomorrow, get back into the heat and the humidity, 90 on

friday, 30% chance of showers and storms thursday and friday. then the remnants of bill, saturday and sunday move back in and that really enhance ours rain threat and our thunderstorm threat. talk much more about that and veronica, have the rest of the seven-day forecast in a minute. well, this has been a hot mess we have been in. if you are hot sticky and sweaty, you know you're in washington. that leads to some health challenges. dr. jackie, family allergy and asthma care in gaithersburg joins us, talking about prickly heat, heat rash i thought it was something from the '60s. >> it is back. >> how do we get it and get rid of it? >> it is that blistering rash you will get in your chest and elbow area, because you have clogged pores. what you will do to treat it is hydrocortisone. you can end up infected from this something called folliculitis, may end up needing to be on antibiotics. most importantly, avoid getting sweaty, clogged pores, skip the

spandex. arm little tough. also, some people are actually allergic to the sun, especially people that have acne. i would have thought if you had acne, would you want the sun on your skin. no. >> there are two types of reaction you can get from the sun one would be from medications, those medications that you take for amcne make you more sensitive, rhett noll vitamin a derivatives, realize not just going to be you are going to get this blistering rash on your face you can get it anywhere on your body. the second type of reaction is a pretty simple one, hives from the sun genetic. both, you have to avoid the sun. the only watch really high spf and get the sun-proof clothing. the first thing we want do is get a iced tea or iced coffee, you are sweating a lot may not want to do that. explain why. >> what you want to do when you sweat, get rid of the amount of sweat you have, you got to chill out, cool off, calm down. and if you're taking coffee you stimulate your nervous system.

so maybe make it a decaf. that would be one thing, for sure. make sure that you realize of course, that the sweating isn't just outside it can be outside of the pits, think of your feet, lots of powder on there and anti-percent brant. >> what if you are a particularly smelly sweaty person. how do you combat that? >> the smelly sweaty people that would be that you would -- >> you know who you are. we know who you are. >> what you want to do is hydro therapy get in the shower and wash off the bacteria. anti-bacterial soap is great idea, cult down on the number of bacteria you have. towel off thoroughly, in the nooks and crap nist industrial strength deodorants will help. make sure you put those deoderants on day and night much the reason you want to put it on at night you give it the extra push in order to be able to make the deodorant work in the day when the pores get clogged again and deodorant doesn't work as well. >> i love it. dr. jackie. i love it all this, we talked about, went too quickly, find it on our website

nbcwashington.com. >> stay fresh and cool. >> please. >> thanks wendy. calling it a super bowl terror plot and new details coming out about a plan to attack america's biggest game. and the secret is out. the pope is about to say something bi

a terror suspect indicted in arizona was hoping to attack this year's super bowl. his name is abdul karim and he is accused of orchestrateing the deadly shootout at that controversial cartoon contest in texas last month n court yesterday, prosecutors say kareem hoped to join isis and then attack the super bowl. he is accused of providing weapons and training for that attack in texas. pope francis is going to take on global warming in a new document set to be released tomorrow. today an italian magazine leaked a draft of the document which shows the pope is going to

back scientists who say global warming is mostly man made anticipated says without action we could witness the destruction of an entire ecosystem this century. the pope is still mapping to visit washington, d.c. in september, just one of the stops on his u.s. tour. you can find a list of public events and other details on our nbc washington app. just search pope. well, numbers don't lie. teenaged drivers are some of the most dangerous on the road. new at 4:00, a report on which cars are most likely to keep them safe. and why some high school students who took

right now at 4:30, a federal report blasting metro for safety and training failures. the federal transit administration says it found 90 safety issues during its recent investigation. officials say they saw some employees using their personal cell phones inside the system's

chrome center. transportation reporter adam tuss working the story for you now and he will have a live report at the top of the hour. recognize this man? prince william county police say he is connected to a sexual assault outside of c vchltvs. a 76-year-old woman says he inappropriately touched her this morning. it is as the best place to get wings and a fixture in prince george's for decades. now, a popular restaurant is reduced to a burned out shell. investigators are working to he or she what started the fire at tucker's. 100 firefighters had to battle those flames on marlboro pike in upper marlboro. as news4's molette green reports, it is known as a second home for so many. >> reporter: up in flames, tucker's restaurant and lounge, a popular spot on marlboro pike for decades. fire breaks out in the middle of

the night, stunning the regulars who spend a lot of time here. >> play pool in. work here when i was 16. so it's like a home i guess. >> reporter: that's because it's been a fixture for so long. well before the current owner took over. >> the business is over 100 years. >> is a staple in prince george's county. anybody from this area knows of tucker's restaurant. it will be something sorely missed by this community and it will be closed down for quite some time if they are able to recover from this. >> reporter: prince george's firefighters arrived after 4 a.m., well aware of this landmark's value to the local. at one point, up to 100 firefighters from across the region battled heavy smoke and flames. with conditions so intense, part of the roof gave way years of memories now up in smoke. chef and manager steven wit lives the last to leave when he closed up at midnight. >> gonna miss a lot of

customers. customers gonna miss our wings, our food our breakfast. so right now, it is a sad situation that this place here has burped down. this is probably total loss. probably $1 million worth of damage to this place. >> reporter: on any given night, this place is packed, like last night for the nba championship game. luckily, everybody left before the fire started. it took firefighters hours to put out the flames. for the 14 workers and the managers at this restaurant, they are now out of a job. we are in upper marlboro, mollette green, news4. we finally, finally got a little relief from all that humidity, but now, some rain showers have been popping up here and there. vj, are these going to continue? >> going to continue. going to see some light showers moving through here during the evening hours, probably noticing, yes, some humidity in the air, but down from yesterday and the temperatures down too. here is what is going on,

evening forecast, going to be stepping out, need the umbrella folks, nothing too heavy no thunderstorms, just showers coming through, 80 degrees by 7:00. 77 with showers by 9:00 it is late around 10 to 11 p.m. a couple of hours prior to sunrise tomorrow where we could see some pockets of moderate and heavy rain. there's the beltway, mainly dry except the northeastern side. we have had showers coming through from time to time and i do expect that some heavier stuff out to our west will start sliding through, again but not until late tonight. the humidity is down, still a little sticky today though. we didn't make it all the way down to the pleasant type of levels, but it's going to really be going right back up uncomfortable, too, turning oppressive too, in the days to come. just a couple of minutes when i return, i will show you your rain intensity forecast for tomorrow. we are expecting more through the next couple of days. guys? >> thanks vj. teenagers are three times more likely to be involved in a fatal car crash than older drivers, but "consumer reports"

found some used cars that are safe for new drivers. consumer reporter erika gonzalez has that story. >> reporter: timothy hollister's son, reed, got his license soon after he turned 16. he died in a car crash 11 months later, speeding and lack of experience were to blame. >> parents and teams s teens need to work together and approach the first year of driving with the utmost caution, because there is no room for error. >> reporter: one important thing a parent can do is make sure their steep driving the safest car possible. >> it is a mace stick to buy a very old car for a new teen driver. it lacks important safety features that might save their lives. >> reporter: most important leak tropic stability control that helps keeps drivers from spinning out or rolling over. side curtain air bags are also critical, not only provide a cushion but keep passengers inside during an accident. >> recommend a midsize or a large sedan. they are lower to the ground, less prone to rollover and easier to maneuver that a big

suv. >> reporter: "consumer reports" has combed through its test results to find good used car options that have the recommended safety features, are reliable and cost under $10,000. they include the hyundai sonata non-turbo four cylinder, model years 2006 to 2010. the chevy malibu four cylinder, 2009 to 2012. and the mazda 6 i, 2009 to 2013. erika gonzalez, news4. the women at the center of -- the woman at the center of that skin color controversy opens up about her lawsuit that she filed against howard university. and a new app is changing

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we have colt come showers around, most around the area. the heavier showers south of the city of fairfax around the burke area, over toward 495. the nats taking on the race after 16 runs last night. hopefully they can do it again tonight. take the umbrellas, the important chose, too as i mentioned, temperatures in the 70s there will be some showers. most of the showers should be light. not expecting too many delays headed down there, just know you might get a little bit of rain. the high school students who took that s.a.t. that was so full of errors on june 6th will get a free do-over in october. the company thatted a ministered the test, the college board, now waiving that $54 registration fee for those students affected. the june 6th test sparked controversy because two sections contained a printing error that caused confusion about the time

allotted for that test. going to be a lot easier to share pictures on facebook without having to tag all your friends. facebook has a new stand-alone photo-sharing app called moments. it automatically identifies your friends using facial recognition and that makes it faster to share photos with anyone in the picture. moments is available on apple and android phones. a former howard university student is no doubt the talk around town this week. straight ahead, we will speak to whur's troy johnson about rachel dolezal and what some folks say black

this is scott macfarlane, the live desk possible disruptions, a group of janitors marching through downtown d.c. and could cause some issues for your ride home. give you a live picture now, mcpherson square 15th and k streets northwest. the group of janitors commemorating the 25th

anniversary of a different rally held by janitors. that day was established 25 years ago after a group of 400 janitors were confronted by police in los angeles during a rally. the union sponsoring today's march is also renegotiating contracts for thousands of local janitors as we speak. we are going to keep an eye on this march this rally and let you know if it ends up impacting any traffic. back to you. all right. when the firestorm over rachel dolezal's racial identity triggered that social media frenzy, d.c.'s howard university was also thrust into the spotlight. the former naacp leader attended grad school at howard. and she filed a lawsuit against that school in 2002 claiming that the faculty discriminated against her for being white. dolezal addressed that issue during an interview with nbc. >> [ no audio ]

>> we had technical difficulties there dolezal's parents are firing back, saying her comments on nbc were inconsistent and don't make sense and disappointed she is still making false statements. whur broadcasts from howard's campus so this hits close to home. troy johnson is here with today's talk around town. what are folks saying about her? >> listeners that i spoke to say they feel like dolezal essentially is fraudulent when she really doesn't need to be. she can be as authentic as she wants to be but i think her narrative and her story is something that folks are saying, this just doesn't sound right. they kind of are feeling what the parent have been saying as well and she was already embraced by the community. apparently, doing some very great work and teaching as well. so it is kind of like you were there already, you can be embraced, there was no need to lie about your background. >> there's a new poll that says racial identity can be fluid. >> absolutely. and we have got some numbers that you can take a look at.

it finds that 30% of multiracial adults say they changed how they viewed their racial identity over the lifetime and 20% of multiracial adults said they dressed or behaved a certain way to influence how others see their race. listeners tell me, hey, life's a journey, we learn and grow over the years but this polling data really talks about multiracial adults they feel there's something different from what rachel dolezal is doing. >> and i'm hearing that some of your listeners say that black culture can be taken out of context? >> absolutely. they feel like if she is interviewed again they would really like to know what she means by i identify as black bas that kind of conversation, there's really no explanation to what she is saying there. listeners tell me they are concerned about hearing terms like that being used without the explanation and they are upset about how easy it is for black culture in america to be appropriated advertising fashion, hairstyles, et cetera. african-americans have had to

endure those stereotypes and negative imagery for years. so now, people are trying to be black without perspective. and no context and say that's something that they don't want to see. black is so much more than just a simple identifier. >> i think you just put it in pretty good context yourself. thanks, troy. remember, if you want to see rachel's full interview, find it on our nbc washington app. we have some rain coming into the area again. after a day of a little bit of a break and a nice breeze, veronica. >> at least we are not talking about severe weather, right? no high heat. just showers across the area. there will be occasional showers, the next couple of hours the heavy stuff comes very lates when hopefully you, most of us are all indoors. see it approaching areas of leesburg, showers around the beltway, too, this guy here the bottom of the area, 495, springfield, alexandria tracking area off to the west, fauquier county about ready to slide across 66 into prince william county approaching manassas.

by tomorrow morning, yes got that heavy rain overnight i think just a lingering shower between 6 and 8 a.m. 7 degrees your temperature between 8 and 10 a.m., 83 mostly cloudy one thing about tomorrow, see the humidity going way up again. impact forecast though, again, we are not expecting anything too heavy or storm mir, dealing with more moderate heat and humidity, we will be low. impact forecast again, showers, yes we will talk about the intensity of that rain at the moment. here is a look at the sky companies for tomorrow as well as the temperatures, hour by hour. there is a look, be some high clouds, even midlevel clouds moving into our area around the afternoon hours. so a few showers early, 82 to 86 between noon and 4 p.m. showers mainly, i think, east of i-95, the intensity of the rain just the small umbrella, need, folks all we are going to have is an occasional shower coming through, here is a look at not only your four-day forecast, focus on the weekend, 50 to 70% chance of seeing showers and that will come from bill.

i think we could see a half to an inch, an inch-plus up across northern maryland, but again hot again this weekend. a more detailed look what is coming up next at 5:00. working on several developing stories on our newsroom. two brothers charged in a triple stabbing outside a fast food restaurant in fredericksburg. two men were killed, another seriously injured. police say one of the suspects is 15 years old. his brother is 17. news4's pat collins is working that story. he will have a live report at 5:00. search for those two escaped prisoners in new york expanding even more across that state. search crews working around the clock to find richard matt and david sweat. investigators have not received any new intelligence in four days and they do not have any sign that the pair left the area of dannemora. officers have searched more than 16 square miles and followed more than 1200 leads. managers expect the number of people who travel through union station to double in the near future. by 2035 as many as 70 million

people a year will be going in and out of the century-old building. news4's tom sherwood is looking at how they will handle that much bigger crowd. >> reporter: union station right now gets 35 million visitors a year. it is expected to nearly double to 60 million or more in 20 years. the goal among city officials, federal officials, metro, amtrak and private business is to reshape the use of union station to accommodate those travelers for the next 100 years. that first requires rebuilding the 8th street bridge behind union station and shifting train tracks to accommodate the growth. but before any work begins, there's a dispute over the funding of the first part of the $7 billion cost. i'm tom sherwood i will have the story coming up. a memoriam growing today for the six young people killed in that balcony collapse in california. just ahead, the tributes for the irish victims and what the owner of the building is now saying about that accident.

plus, how hillary clinton helped a little boy play hooky. change is coming to boston common mall. we are going to walk you through what's going to stay and what's gonna go as the county here in arlington moves forward with a multimillion dollar project. and we have breaking news out of the district. police chief kathy lanier pleading for information on the three guys that they want to speak to about the shooting of a 16-year-old. she says that boy is in critical critical condition and we will get to news4's jackie bensen, who has the chief's passionate words, coming up.

well if you're gonna skip school to go to a campaign event you better get a note for the teacher right? that's what ali olson did when he went to hillary clinton's lunch party in new hampshire. the 9-year-old put the absence note in a pile for the presidential hopeful to sign and a few days later, this showed up in the mail.

>> it says, "dear my teacher, mrs. sigh mops i'm missing school today because i'm going to meet hillary" and i signed right there and that's hillary's signature. >> just in case the teacher didn't believe it, clinton even added the word, "really" with an asterisk and later tweeted out the note. now to that deadly balcony collapse in berkeley, california. the city's mayor says the early investigation suggests the balcony's support beams may not have been properly weather sealed during construction and that allowed some of the moisture to seep into the wood. whatever the cause this community is mourning the loss of six young people who had so much ahead of them. stephanie trong has more. >> so incredibly sad and ter nation this can happen. >> reporter: flowers in hand this woman dropped by the memorial where 13 feet away, people fell when a balcony buckled a 21st birthday tragic.

terrifying for the woman who lives on the fourth floor. property management left notices on all the apartments last night. >> it just said that they will investigate and that they are going to find out -- they are gonna hire people. >> my reaction was why is it that a building that is so new in this kind of a disaster? yeah, that's what i thought about the first thing. it shouldn't have happened. >> reporter: curtis and yvonne live in berkeley, they too, stopped by to lay flowers these from their own garden, in memories of the victims a memorial with dozens of flowers pictures and the irish flag. >> overseas and just terrible loss. >> reporter: berkeley police say after structural engineers removed the collapsed balcony they drilled exploratory holes yesterday under the four-story balcony and found the wood and material was compromised. city leaders ordered its removal. they add they have also gotten complaints from renters here concerning water issues. the library gardens apartment

building is owned by a subsidiary of large investment company, black rock, which released this statement -- many here are left feeling dissatisfied by the response in the wake of such a trang day and loss of life. >> i see these kids all the time and they are just so happy to have gone to this country and opportunity in two or three weeks. i feel like as a country, we failed them. >> shouldn't have happened. news4 at 5:00 starts now with jim and wendy. # according to a federal report, worker disvaststrastracted put people at risk. >> an inspection of the washington metropolitan airport transit authority.

>> these findings impact millions of riders across our region. here are the headlines metro safety program called inadequate. the federal traps silt agents administration is issuing safety directed to metro and metro must respond. transportation reporter adam tuss broke details he joined us live with the specifics, in l'enfant plaza. >> the issues released in this report are simply stunning. and after you read through it you can only come to one conclusion metro is not as safe as it should be. serious safety lapses are happening at metro over and over again. >> must do better to improve its safety performance for its passengers and its workers. >> reporter: today, the federal transit administration pulling no punches laying out a 116-page document and describes in detail safety flaws at metro. for instance, metro's central control center that tracks the

movement of trains is described as distracting disruptive environment, often times with employees shouting at each other. some employees there seen on their own cell phones a violation, and just in the last few year, trains directed from the control center into active work zones. past red signals and power restored to the high-voltage third rail while workers were on the tracks. >> metro needs to improve its culture. >> reporter: the report talks about smoke and fire conditions, saying metro doesn't have the means to determine the exact location of the source of smoke in a tunnel. page after page, there's evidence that metro needs to do better. here in the system today, concern. we are at a critical point right now with metro, don't you think? >> yes. yes. yes. no question about it. >> reporter: houlton beck rides metro every day. he relies on it. >> there's more and more accidents and safety issues going on now than since they built it.