the .9 mm pistol, he shoots at least 17 rounds for the museum. and you would go on to attack four other military sites, including the pentagon. no one hurt. but last june, he was caught at arlington national cemetery, about to move on the grave markers of the fallen military personnel, who served in iraq and afghanistan. he had a backpack full of the pneumonia nitrate, enough to make a bomb. they believe they caught him just in time before more violence would escalate, especially after what they found in his closet. >> the fbi seized a list for you that was titled timer. and on this list, he had nine components for them and for a detonator or a trigger for the explosive device. >> reporter: and basically they will be demonstrating that for you that the violent home grown extremism is present in our community. >> and the next time i turn on this video. >> reporter: at the federal

courthouse in alexandria, surae chinn, 9news now. >> he faces up to 25 years in prison. he's expected to be sentenced in april. and we're gathering more information for you tonight on the breaking news out of prince george's county. and the former corrections officers, on charges related to first-degree murder in the death of the prince george's county police officer when he was found dead. this afternoon, we learned that the former corrections officer, they are now charged with the view of his death. they found him unresponsive in his cell and failed to administer the care. and authorities are charging them with covering up his role in white's death. >> and we'll have more informs for you coming up tonight at 11:00.

and asking for life with no chance of parole. brittany norwood is sentenced in the lulu lemon murder charges tonight. lindsey mastis here with more on the emotional plea. >> reporter: and now the state says she's a pathological liar and has never shown any remorse for killing jana murray. but they have submitted these statements to the court pleading for a second chance for their daughter. but jana's parents have done the same, except they are asking the state to lock her up forever. >> reporter: jana murray's mom and dad has harsh words for brittany norwood. in a letter they are presenting in court tomorrow, revealing just how betrayed they felt. jana's family writes that they plan to send brittany flowers in the hospital for reading a story that she was a victim as well. they only decided against it because they were told that she did not want any contact. and they share with the court that they found out about brittany's arrest when they

were suppose to be laying their daughter to rest. chaos, shock, confusion, terror, anker, and hatred -- anger, and hatred overwhelmed them. murray's family wrote to the court as well. i want the murray family to know on behalf of the entire norwood family, we are deeply saddened and sorry for their loss writes earl norwood, brittany's father. norwood is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole. her mother and father are asking that one day that she have a chance to be released. her mother lakita writes i know who she is that she is a decent and caring person. all her life she has been a high achiever, passionate for the less fortunate and a loving and nurturing sister to her eight brothers and sisters. but the murray family wants to be spared from having to attend the parole hearings in reliving

their daughter's gruesome murder. her father writes, "my daughter's murderer should never be allowed to walk the streets as a free person." the state is telling the court they do not believe that norwood should ever be released that she could not be rehabilitated. prosecutors believe if released, she would pose a danger to society. emotional words from both families. >> thank you, lindsey. a federal critique for the developmentally disabled people lead to a landmark decision today. they will close four out of the five training centers in a settlement with the u.s. justice department. as they report, the report says the state has agreed to help them stay with these communities. >> reporter: he's a thriving and happy 8-year-old who has down syndrome and extreme medical issues. even though that it has been

financially training, his parents felt strongly that he needed to live in his community, rather than in the constitutions. >> had he's here. he's in the community. he's in the schools. he will go out to play in the pinewood derby. it's amazing and a joy. >> reporter: they are thrilled that they have decided to close four out of their last five training center, including the northern virginia training center. three years ago when he was 5, they boarded up a bus to richmond to fight for the very decision. >> it's a landmark. it's historic. it is an enormous step forward for virginians, particularly virginians with them. >> reporter: they have agreed to accelerate that effort to move them out of their own homes or group homes with the support of services. now, before the public schools were forced to allow children with disabilities into the classroom, virginia's training facilities, they talked about 6,000 people. now it's down to about 1,000. and as attitudes and the laws have all changed, other states, they have been closing the

institutions. she helped lead the fight to convince them that it is about civil rights. >> we were the last ones for when it came to immigration and people of color. it is no surprise that they were the last for the people that have disabilities. >> reporter: aging parents like jenny who live at the northern virginia training center worry that the community based services, they will meet their many needs. in fairfax, peggy fox, 9news now. >> and virginia's agreement will be enforceable by a court and compliance will be moderate for them by the independent reviewer. and just days ago weed told you that the governor of virginia was pushing for the earlier start to the school year. bumping it up before labor day. but today, the senate committee, they killed that idea. the lawmakers voted it down for them to speak against it and the vacation resorts and the beach town. they will put them at a disadvantage.

. kenny, what do you know? >> reporter: well, the county police and the spokeswoman said that there will be a body for them inside the well and at the house on the 11900 block. there's a body inside there. right now they don't know who it is, how that body got there. they are not calling this a homicide. saying it is very early on in the investigation. right now they are in the process of trying to get the body out there. the body to get that on out of there will be very difficult. they will be out here for the rest of the night. there will be an interesting nugget though. the alexandria police officer is here on scene, understanding their detectives are here. however, the prince george's county police and al andrea police are being very -- alexandria police are being very tight lipped on this. we'll let you know what happens on out here. back to you. >> all right, thank you, kenny.

and coming up at 7:00. four places named to the top ten list. but it's a list that the commonwealth, they will not likely be happy to be a part of. we'll tell you why one group says that the chesapeake and charlottesville are one of the most endangered spots. still ahead in this half hour, hundreds descend on the pepco area to give them a piece of their mind, top? >> well, i was keeping the umbrella handy for the next 12 hours. we'll take you live to doppler radar. everything is light, especially when you go up 270, off the connecticut avenue and towards leesburg, but we'll come pack and talk about the prospects of the thunderstorms and a look ahead to your weekend.

today is a day of remembrance at nasa. 45 years ago, they died in a

fire on board the apollo 1 spacecraft. now next wednesday marks nine years since the space shuttle columbia integrated. today, they laid a wreath at arlington national cemetery honoring all the astronauts who had lost their lives as a part of the space program. the astronaut took this iconic photo of earth back in 1972. but now check out nasa's new image of earth taken in high definition. they will be there about 512 miles above the earth's surface. still to come what might seem like a major problem will turn into a major headache for the me troy commuters this morning. but tonight, a preview of the cbs evening news. a car accident to cash in on the fake injury. our cbs news investigation will be revealing who is behind the fast moving scam that will be driving up the cost from your

insurance. and that is tonight on the cbs evening news. and in a time when jobs are scarce, working long hours are normal. paying double duty might be giving you the blues. and the career is britaining you down. plus it's raining now. what about the weekend? we'll have that next.

do you remember this? one year ago, tonight, many of us are spinning our wheels, trying to get home in a snowstorm. that commute took some as many as eight hours to be known here and left several local governments to change their policies when it came to early dismissals, treating the roads and working better with each other. now, they embraced two of our favorite things. problems with the commutes and problems with the weather. and often when you have those stories in the same categories, the word metro and pepco always seems to come up. today, we saw the frustrations with both of those services. >> we're here at the metro station. they are running much more smoothly now after the nightmare warning that is caused by a cracked rail. metro says that it will take a lot of work for them to improve the dependent ability. the metro workers used a shopping cart to haul up a big

chunk of the cracked rail to their trunk. a disturbing reminder that much of the medal that will be carrying millions of riders on the system is now more than 1/3 of a century old. oh my gosh. >> reporter: they left scores of riders behind in the morning. as metro struggled to carry everyone in and out of the city on the single practice. >> one word, horrific. >> reporter: they had to bring in a crane to replace the cracked 40-foot section of the rail. and metro, they are in the middle of the five-year, $5 million program to repair and replace the stations and the rails and escalators for a lot of riders right now. now, that could not happen soon enough. i'm bruce leshan, 9news now. i'm kristin fisher outside the headquarters where earlier today, nearly 200 customers and the protesters will be trying to get through their front

door. nearly 200 pepco customers are calling on the company's ceo to come on outside. >> i just want to talk to you, man. and you have some of them down here. >> reporter: they will go in and get him if it was not for the dozen of the police officers, blocking every entrance. >> we want him to take his $42 million rate increase off the table. we want him to address the fact that, you know, they have made over $800 million in profits and now they would like more money. that's a bit much. >> reporter: they declined to comment on camera, but they did release a statement, saying they need the rate hike to keep up with the investments and the reliability and the advancements in technology and improvements in our customer service. in washington, 9news now. today, the release of the month- long study here on the system.

involving more than 4,000 people that rated the city's system as fair or poor. 52% would like to see that before any talks of raising the fares. metro will hear from them before instituting that fair hike. but today, they improved all the proposed rate increases on the table. that would raise the fare to $1.70 on the offpeak hours and then $0.15 to $2.10 during the peak service. it also eliminates the peak of the peak surcharge. i hope that you are writing all these down. >> i got the first two. >> that's a lot of numbers. i decided to write two more down. but i figured i would share this with folks today. that's a 6 and a 0. >> oh yeah. >> did you mean that? >> i did. >> are you going to take it away? >> no. are you going to give it and keep it there? >> yes. after tomorrow. but you will be able to enjoy

it. i mean, 55 today, we were not trying hard. let's start with a live look outside. we're talking about temperatures still in the 60s downtown. the temperatures, they are kind of a wide range of temperatures. temperatures in the 50s and the 40s. i need to load this up so standby. we'll take a live look outside. now, everybody will see the temperatures go up overnight. and in fact, we'll see the temperatures rise dramatically by the time you get into the 4:00 to 5:00 hour in the morning. 52 right now. winds are northeast at 5. pressure is still falling. all right. we'll talk about showers, shall we? this is really unbelievable. these came to us from allen. i have seen some of them, but they are only about that half. this is what you would expect to see in late march. all right, we'll keep the

flowers coming. we need to make sure you don't see anied cold snaps. the snow will not hurt them at all. all right, we'll zoom in here are the showers and thunderstorms. those are massive storms again. pushing into western alabama. u wrote saw them in eastern texas yesterday and louisiana and hammering out atlanta right now. as the warm air will get in here later on tonight, some of the thunderstorms could get in here later on tonight. right now the warm front is just to the south. by in large, all the showers are to the north of us. certainly any showers to the north of us. if you're driving home tonight heading north of town, you'll find the wet roads. 50 in bethesda and arlington and still 45 in gaithersburg. still 49 in reston. but rib the temperature is going up. windy and warmer. showers, maybe a thunderstorm tonight. the evening commute tomorrow will be dry and a little cooler over the weekend. we're still ahead of schedule over the weekend. midnight tonight, showers are still light. there's your wet commute, all

right? had everybody will have some kind of wet roads and showers. the good news is they will be rolling out pretty fast to get into the lunch hours, exiting southern maryland, clearing skies. we're in pretty good shape after that. and for tonight, well, mostly cloudy, windy, mild, showers and a thunderstorm is possible. they will be rising overnight. the upper 40s on sunday. okay, we've got a cold day, everybody. hang on, it will be 40 on monday. but it's okay. we'll fall back out for the 50s on tuesday, wednesday, thursday. >> i'll tell you. maybe winter will appear in some points. >> wow! >> yes. and just wait a second. that is not a big winter fan. the wizards have won a game. >> yup. >> they would like to really kind of use this to, you know,

go in the right direction. >> i think a lot of fans are hoping for the same thing with an extra spark last night, you know. i think that will be the first game. they were able to hand them a victory in his debut. but they are not relaxing like she said. they want to get more wins. it's back to work. now, what a great moment for them in d.c. history with 20 years ago today. we'll take a look back coming up next.

when he took over as head coach, he told all the players they are starting with a clean slate and also informed them if they don't play hard, they will be riding the bench no matter who they are. and although it has only been one game and the fact that the wizards played the second worse team in the league, there seems to be a spark that we have not seen very much this season. obviously he knows there is still a lot of work to do and make sure that they will be picking up their third win. this was a lot of good. i mean, you know, i showed them, well, i showed them the positives. and all of that, which will be better. any time you need to do that. and that's why when you win, you feel good.

if you lose, you feel bad. >> it has been great for them and to feel like that at last night. we just got a team going. >> and the contract said that they went in last night. he will be a free restricted agent. he's averaging about a great career high number for them. >> and for the next matchup between pittsburgh, that will not be a team to fear and while it still may not be, he did get the first conference win last night upsetting them. no team is safe. >> you would be a fool if you look at that. every team is very good. and that will still be the player of the year to have them sitting on the bench with a lot of good players. so we take a look at their records as opposed to who they are. today they announced they closed them to a one-year deal. as a reliever, he posted a 344

chose era. and 20 long years ago this week, the redskins, they won super bowl 26. coming off the 10-6 record the year before and getting knocked out early for the playoffs. they came back the next season, beating them 37-24 to lift the trophy. and the last championship here that the fans have been able to enjoy. and now they have turned to the college draft to possibly turn things around as they should. mike shanahan and the crew are in mobile, alabama as the annual senior bowl. here is an inside as to what they are looking for. >> you always look for the players. i mean, you never quit looking. offensively that will be a little active for a couple free agents this year and a good draft. time to vote for this week's high school game of the week. pulling the basketball choices for you. and that had be two for girls. you can go to our website to vote. >> we've got quite a lineup of the games there. >> yeah, a lot of good games. all right that's it for us, the cbs evening news is next

and anita will see you here at 7:00. have a great night.