we know your unit developed to our area, northern virginia, a development in haymarket. what did you find in that development? brian: holmes looked great on the outside, but inside they were after neighbor told me about the issues. one person has 800 each marked with a piece of tape. your investigative team found a house with a hole in the foundation, and when they were there, a snake came out. it's not what you expect in a brand-new house. the home business association says that is the problem -- americans should not expect a perfect home. these are homes, also, by the way, that a forger thousand -- four hundred thousand dollars, $500,000. jummy: that was my next question -- did you find these in town homes as well? brian: town homes, condos -- all these new constructions. they use mostly subcontractors, especially the day, national homebuilders. -- especially the big, national homebuilders. they do not have their own teams. that is where the tissue comes. they build it, then they cannot fix it. we see problems across the country again and again, with homebuilders often

the latest happened just yesterday at haymarket elementary. its the second scare at that school this month. on november 9th - what appeared to be a mama bear and her cub forced students inside at both haymarket and nearby buckland mills elementary. coming up at six - a lif a baby falling off a changing table! hear from the hero big brother.. plus - damaged dreams. seven on your side uncovers how the building boom in new homes, has also left a trail of heartbreak. and smart shopping week continues. how seven on your side saved one viewer big money on her tree trouble, coming up at six. this was the scene as nationals pitcher max scherzer celebrated his cy young award. the announcement was made last night on mlb network. scherzer led the majors in strikeouts .. 284. scherzer won the award by a wide margin over a pair of cubs - jon lester and kyle hendricks. scherzer is the 6th player in history to win the award in both leagues. he won it with the detroit tigers in 2013. it's 5: and time for a check on weather. - warming temperatures - warming te

haymarket, temperatures not that low. rain has spread over the area. virginia, d.c., maryland, a few pockets of moderate rain right now. very few around dunkirk. flooding right along 66. study a string prior to 9 a.m. 52, it is looking fairly wet out there. 60's when the temperatures top out today. these are high temperatures. this is what saturday is looking like during the afternoon. anywhere from 46 degrees to 49 degrees. julie: the rain on the roads right now causing problems. make sure that you headlights on. it's still dark, that should be obvious to you. you have got to have your headlights on. it's the law. college park, a 38 minute commute towards 270. the problem, the crash on the outer loop between university of art and colesville road. look for delays out of calverton. he spent on the freeway, vdot says there's a crash near the still delays on 395 coming across the bridge. into brandywine, 301, pulled out of the roadway as they had inbound on for. --4. blue line, still single tracking because of conditions outside van dorn street. keeping a

a bear cub was seen near haymarket elementary school off of haymarket drive yesterday. after the sighting, students and cancelled for the afternoon. last week, two bears were spotted near buckland mills elementary school in gainesville. >> chopper 4 captured the moment crews rescued a construction worker from a trench in greenbelt. the entire process took about five hours. it happened at 1:00 yesterday afternoon, at 2:00. crews started to dig the man out. just before 6:00 p.m., crews slowly pulled the worker out on a stretcher, he had serious injuries but survive. >>> this morning, we're getting some of your questions answered after a dramatic motorcycle chase in northern virginia. chopper 4 captured the video as it unfolded last friday. we now know this started as a routine traffic stop and when the cyclist took off. fairfax county police chased him and weaved in and out of rush hour traffic in fairfax and loudoun counties. it left some people wondering >> our grounds units are supposed to reduce the speed and let the helicopter take command. they can keep the violator

several emus escaped from the field in haymarket. two markets wrapped them up safely. they wrangled them up and they are back home. now the officers have something fun to tell the buddies about them. maureen: the beaglals found them. so are we in for moisture? we need it doug: we had a few showers earlier but we are five and a half inches below the average rainfall for september. we had rain. it didn't do much but we will take that. the next moisture around here could come in form of the snow flurries on sunday. i am just saying. start out the day with the nine and through mid-morning the clouds will roll through and sprinkles here and there, too, with a weak frontal system and back to clearing skies toward the sunset. good shape here. through the evening hours, heading out, the weather will be quiet and the skies continue to clear. we drop in the 40's through overnight. by morning the range across the viewing area is between 37 and 45 degrees. at the bus stop in the morning plenty of sunshine. winds are light. that is good news. 41 at pickup time. 60 at recess. 64 at

and her cub were spotted near buckland mills and haymarket elementary schools in gainesville wednesday. all students were brought indoors as a precaution. outdoor activities were canceled. a community mural will be unveiled today at bradbury heights elementary school in capitol heights. the mural commemorates a teacher at the school.. and her daughter. neshante davis and two-year-old chloe were murdered earlier this year. the child's father, daron boswell-johnson has been charged in their deaths. local artist jay mural.. and young people in the community painted it. the unveiling ceremony is set for 10 this morning. it's an issue that's generated complaints for years in arlington. tow trucks - hooking up, and driving off with your car minutes after you park. now, some fear a new proposal will actually make it easier for towing companies to act in a predatory way. the plan would increase the distance a tow company storage lot can be located from the county line by a quarter mile. supporters of the goal is to increase competition without adding an unreasonable distance people have to tra

at haymarket elementary, the second scare this month. what appeared to be a mother bear and her cubs forced students inside at nearby buckland mills elementary. larry: today we are talking when they are a danger to your home. horace, you found a way for one of our viewers to solve their tree troubles. horace: do you know how expensive it is? larry: yeah, i have been there. horace: we help consumers find just the right bid at the right price. for the 21 years they have lived re -- >> it started as a little thing, and then it started going sideways. i am afraid it will take out our shed. horace: other limbs need to be trimmed off. when they heard about the 7 on your side project, offering homeowners saving money on projects like this, they signed up. but also help them identify low prices. horace: consumers checkbook went to work, calling tree care experts, setting up appointments, taking bids. they shopped nearly 10 different companies, and this is what they found. >> there is a very wide range. horace co the top bid was -- horace: by sho

take a look, several emus, yes, tried to escape a farm in haymarket. the department posted the photos on the facebook page. >> you're not going to win that race. >> nope. they are fast! the traffic would have been #emusing! i love it! they went on to say no emus or officers were harmed in the making of this. you have to love police officers going above and beyond. you don't know what is going to come in your day ahead. >> they do it all, i tell you. >>> what is an issue impacting your school or community? help fix it? that's what students and teachers were challenged at an event at the cordova education campus in d.c. yesterday to do. it's called think it up. >> we were there to encourage students to brainstorm, share ideas and work on a larger initiative to refocus the conversation on the great work happening in public school classrooms. it was and opportunity to get their ideas out there and to turn them into action, which is ideas. some of the kids thought out what they wanted to happen. they each got $1,000 toward the effort to get the projects off

so government has to get involved in this haymarket failure in what i needed regulations. as of list of them this is not something dumb market can fix. to city u.s. only regulatory system to affect their products of the world that companies will make one software to sell that everywhere. makes no sense for everybody. it is the first time they effect though world. in the second point the fbi calls to weaken the devices they have to prioritize security. so already which monitors medical condition, a thermostat, a car, but this is something that we need to do something new about. new agencies were created airplane nuclear power my guess is this would be one of them. this is all coming with the technologies faster than we think government involvement i would like to get ahead of it but now writing career at the point we need to start making of how these worked with twitter it was okay to let programmers have that special ariane and now we can do that bad now is the world of dangerous things. and maybe we cannot do that anymore and i do not like this. that it can do whatever it

on top within the released a statement half-hour, service has resume between jackson square and haymarket station. transit police tell it was shut down after a train hit and killed the young man at the rugles some. they are trying to figure out what he was doing on the track. if you are taking the orange line, give yourself extra time. it may be a while before it's back to normal. >> vanessa: an s.u.v. plunged into the water in mattapoisett. emergency crews called to nass points this morning and that s.u.v. was 50 feet in the water. fire officials tell and swam to shore. police are still working to determine the exact cause. >> mark: police in brockton or looking for the gunman who opened fire on a street hitting a young boy. we showed you the bullets left on the side of a home on saturday. a bullet grazed the 3-year-old's leg but did not seriously hurt him. brockton police are not sure if this was a targeted shooting or random drive-by. >> vanessa: a bright ton man after pleading not guilty in court today, he is being held on no bail. prosecutors say hairington killed a hand during an ar