horace holmes but she found fame. seeing her dancing with the president and now playing happens with the harlem globe trotters. she has moves. we show you co we need women in congress. if we want to be heard, it was the women who forced republicans to include coverage in the affordable care act. in congress, i'll fight for pay equity, family leave and tougher gun safety laws. and, as an environmentalist, i'll work combat climate change. i know as a journalist and as a senior executive in business that when women are at the table, we get things done. i'm kathleen mathews and i approve this message. maureen: updating breaking news tonight. metrorail will not be running tomorrow. the entire system will be shut down for 29 hours. crews can do emergency inspections after a cable fire near the mcpherson square station monday morning. the federal government is open as well as d.c. schools. metrobuses and metro access will be running. when we get more information we'll bring it to you. leon: right now voters in five states ar

leon: horace holmes reports. horace: it was a day that radically change janet's life. row for ar two dogs walk in northwest d.c. the dogs went to chase a deer. one came back, the other did not. her search began. >> i'm positive he's alive. horace: more than two years later, a lot of money spent -- >> it's probably over 50. horace: thousand. a lot of sacrifice. >> there are and continue my search. has built a huge volunteer organization and thousands of people on the lookout for havoc. she has used social media, dog trackers, remote cameras. 15,000 posters. >> they are the most valuable thing that you can have. horace: and she is even considering a drone search. through it all, her unwavering determination and faith that havoc is still out there alive. life to has open her helping other people who have lost their dogs. horace: this person has taken a out from her book, taking advertising and hiring volunteers. >> i will keep looking, keep searching, doing everything i can. are justome say they animals, why spend so much time and money and effort? >> who would say goodby

as horace holmes tells us the battle is over an antique car. the police stepped in. >> we find a rolling chassis for the car and get it put back together. horace: a promise that tom lloyd, the owner of the custom shop in fairfax made to us and jane taylor the owner of the 1966 pontiac g.t.o. she inherited from her husband. >> it was my husband's baby and something for his memory. horace: a promise lloyd made that is still unfulfilled. she says she paid him $50,000 five years ago and has been waiting for the car ever since and she called "7 on your side" last summer. we found lloyd at the new shop clearwater, florida. earlr police. lloyd was arrested on fugitive charges and is facing extradition to fairfax to be tried on a felony false pretense charge. according to police, taking money from clients and promising work he didn't perform. police wouldn't say how much of his clients filed complaints against him but said the investigation is open and more charges could be filed. michelle: let us know how 7 can be on your side. call us. or e-mail us a

horace: but first, i'm on your side troubleshooter horace holmes. we did a story called the mattress test, and a new development. what one state is proposing that co michelle: "7 on your side" is getting action tonight after troubleshooter horace holmes's piece "the mattress test" aired on abc7. jonathan: in maryland you don't need to tag a mattress as used and that can create confusion and a mess for buyers as you can imagine. he is back with an update on what is being done to help clear this up. that is kind of gross. selling a mattress that is new and it's not new. horace: that is what we found. we were even surprised to find out maryland is one of only 20 states in the country with no bedding law. as a result, critics say there are no safeguards for consumers. in essence you don't know for sure what you are getting when you buy a bed in the state of maryland. even we were surprised at what we found after taking a close look at a mattress we bought after a store in silver spring. "7 on your side" hired a company that specializes in texting textil

horace holmes is picking up the team coverage from the abc7 newsroom with the look at the reaction on social media. horace: look at the safety alert they put out. this was enacted this morning shortly after the brussels attack. what it does is allow you to check in on your friends and loved ones in a recent attack like this or an accident or natural disaster occurred. people in the region can mark themselves as safe, not safe, not in the area. and then the facebook friends will get an alert on the news feed. 950 million people received notification in 2015 that a loved one was safe in crisis. so let's come back to talk about twitter. twitter has been active today. we have chosen a few tweets to take a look at. the ones most popular are this one outside the subway station. it was the first opportunity for people to get a look at what was going on. the first images from the attack. this is coming from inside the train tunnel. shortly after the blast occurred. then this one from just outside as one of the victims is being taken away. the number one trending hashtag is #stopislam. but it

horace holmes is in the newsroom with part of the coverage. the app, when it first came out, people thought were you ever going to use that? it has become useful in these times. >> facebook alert, safety alert. we'll talk about that in a minute. social media became a very big tool for letting people get the first images of what has been happening in brussels all day long. it is night time there now. the images coming in. of people arm in arm in downtown brussels. the memorials have been springing up on the ground in downtown brussels outside of the metro station that was bombed. you can see people leaving their mark, expressing themselves and again gathering in the square. on twitter today, the number one trending item is #stopislam. not just here in the united states but around the world. it's meeting a lot of backlash. former nba and georgetown basketball player mutoumbo was in the area at the time of the attack and he told everyone he is and facebook enacted safety alert. last year 950 million people around the world use that facebook safet

so in addition to the capitol, the white hous horace holmes is there. he white house placed on the lockdown this afternoon how is it now? horace: the big vent here at the white house is the easter egg roll. thousands have been in and out of the south lawn of the white house. a big group filing in right now. if final shift. they stayed for two-hour shifts. i talked to a gentleman. there were thousands of people on the white house lawn when the white house was shout down at the shooting at the capitol. i talked to a gentleman there. it was festive before it happened. music. there was a d.j. then everything stopped. no announcements made about what was going on. it was quiet for an hour. to an hour and a half. they turned the music back on and the lockdown was lifted. it has been a very a unique day when the people get to come to the white house grounds. but everything is fine at this point. back to you. leon: a strange day for the visitors down there. thank you. 35,000 people expected to show up there at the white house for the egg roll. so we will take a

horace holmes takes us now on a first-person commute. >> it's horace: i think everybody stayed home. >> real nice day. a good day to stay home and play hookie, right? >> what do you think of metro? >> i stopped using it. i stopped using it after riding it for 20 years. it's basically unbearable in the rush hour. >> thank you. horace: thank you. have a great day. >> got to wait for the bus. several buses. a bus. catch the 32. going to d.w. now. i get on the green line. transfer to the orange line to take me straight to the hospital. not today. horace: so instead of 15 minutes. >> on my commute, yeah. i was okay. horace: do metro? >> i usually do. horace: what do you think of it being shut down? >> i mean it's very inconvenient but we were able to get in. jonathan: some people couldn't. in vienna some businesses had half the people show up because they couldn't get the bus, they couldn't get the train, no way to get to work. jamie: we are seeing that in a lot of places. a lot of people were lucky enough to stay home. this is d.c. this paints a great picture of how slow the traffic is d