bruce leshan talked with some of the mourners. >> reporter: on a cold blustery day outside a funeral home in vienna scores of mourners gathered to remember the life of a young woman who succeeded in the rare world of new york fashion design. >> i think it is a horrible tragedy. i knew her since she was 12 years old and she had a very bright future in front of her and it is just a terrible end. >> reporter: police arrested her boyfriend of just five months and charged him with strangling her. staff at the important soho house hotel found her dead half clothed in an overflowing bat tub with bruises around her neck and bite mark on her ear. he is the son of joseph brooks who is accused of multiple unrelated sexual assaults. >> i want justice done but nothing will bring back my baby girl. >> reporter: friends and family are focused on a life that had been filled with joy. her mother remembers remarkable designs when silvie was just three years old. she went to madera school and mary mt. university and designed for mark jacobs and tommy hillfigger an brought out her own line of swimsuit.

i'm bruce leshan. the story coming up. >>> friends and family turn out to remember a fashion driver killed in a new york apartment. >>> food and drug administration revisiting weather mercury in dental fillings can actually be dangerous. >>> an update on the murder of the celebrity fashion designer. >> that's right. grief stricken friends and family today celebrated the life of the 33 year old who grew up right here in the mclean area. new at 5:30 p.m. bruce leshan talks to system of the mourners. >> reporter: on a cold blustery day outside a funeral home in vienna mourners gathered to remember a woman in the fashion design. >> she had a very bright future in front of her. it is just a terrible end. >> reporter: police arrested silvi's boyfriend of just five month and charged him with strangling her. staff at the important hotel found her dead half closed in an overflowing bathtub. nicholas foots is the son of academy award winning director and songwriter joseph brooks who is accused of multiple unrela

bruce leshan explains what that means. >> reporter: it doesn't mean the bridge is unsafe, but it doesn inspectors need to keep a closer eye on it. >> if you look up there, you can see signs of concrete deterioration, patchwork, some if you have falling off the bridge. >> reporter: the concrete chunks actually fell off the road in arlington a few years ago right on to route 50 below leaving spots in the bridge where you can see right through. vdot has the cash to fix the road but not washington road near the boulevard nor 30 other deficient roads and 250 bridges that are just one step better. >> estimates for repair are 350 million. >> reporter: if the commute takes you on maryland roads, there are 14 bridges that are structurally obsolete, including this one coming up right now at 495 and university boulevard. the state says it is in the process of fixing all of them. the biggest bad bridge in dc may be the frederick douglas south capitol by the new stadium. >> if one of those joints fail, we would have had a could cass to tree catastrophe. >> reporter: if either of the joints fail, s

bruce leshan is live with the very latest. bruce? >> reporter: yeah, metro just announced they will begin randomly screening passenger bags for explosives. the screenings and searches will take place up here before you get a chance to go down the escalator. critics call it security theater. saying that if a terrorist sees there is screening going on here, they can just walk a block up here, go in another entrance or station. >> this is the stable 4,000. >> reporter: the screening will start with an ionization scanner. detecting the nitrogen. >> we'll swab the content, the outer content of that particular content. we'll put that swab in this machine. >> reporter: this will be sent to an explosionive detection dog. and only if the dog alerts will police go through your bags. >> it is to throw the bad guys off in an event that they would want to bring some explosive devices in the metro system. >> reporter: metro transit police say they may start as soon as right now, at multiple stations. picking every fourth passenger to be checked ou

bruce leshan is live at dupont circle metro where a lot of riders are skeptical, too, right bruce? >> reporter: completely unscientific poll but we talked to a lot of passengerring getting on and off the escalator here and we found very few of them who thought that randomly checking bags was an effective way to fight terrorism. >> a customer has been randomly selected to have his item inspected. >> reporter: metro has a video on its website showing how the process works. a swab and ionization machine. only if the scanner and an explosive detection dog alert on your bag will officers go through your belongings. but the plan is already close to provoking a passenger revolt. >> i think it is ridiculous. it doesn't actually stop terrorists attacks or crime. i mean, i think that there are more effective ways. >> seems like it is too much. it seems like it is entirely an overreaction. >> if they start doing that, the bus riders, and taxi riders, and -- >> people on the street. >> people on the street. >> and one thing leads to another. >> reporter: two years ago metro announced a similar

bruce leshan is live at dupont circle where he says a whole lot of riders seem to agree with the aclu that this is just too much. >> reporter: yes, so many people rebelled against the idea of random searches two years ago, that metro backed down. but now the idea is back. metro says similar searches are working in boston, and in new york. and in new york, the court has upheld the reality in the face of an aclu lawsuit. clearly the terrorists would revel in a spectacular attack here in the capital of the united states. and that may legally justify special measures. but plenty of people think random searches are an invasion of privacy, and simply will not work. >> there has to be a line. -- if i had to go through a search, through something that happened to be in my purse that perhaps was giving the same signal. >> usually when i'm on the metro i'm in a rush. i hope it doesn't delay my trip too much. >> everybody has privacy. you want to respect privacy. >> the american civil liberties union believes we can be safe and free. but we can't be safe if we're not free. >> reporter: now polic