. >> reporter: former marine kevin brown is now the town of quantico's mayor and owns a coffee and sandwich shop. he says even though you may not see increased security americans, they exist. >> i know for a fact the base is doing everything they can to keep the base particularly, but the town by proxy as safe as it can and we're pretty confident that it's safe. >> reporter: it's a town which caters to the needs of their next-door neighbors and the marines stationed here. >> i've been here 20 years and i think everybody is safe. i don't think anybody is -- trouble with isis, crazy people. >> reporter: few, if any residents, seem worried about the increased threat here. >> you feel very confident and very safe, feel like very americans, everything good. >> reporter: security level has only been raised from the lowest level alpha to the next level bravo, but individual bases can raise it higher if needed. reporting live in quantico, peggy fox, wusa9. >> the pentagon says the increase in security was ordered in response to a general increase in the overall threat referring to the recent attack

kevin brown played for the wildcats from 1981 to 1985. >> when you look at the ncaa and northwestern is a part of this. so there's no distinction well that's an ncaa issue. no you're part of the association. so it's your issue as well. it's not just them. it's us. >> we've been talking and saying the same thing for many, many years. they said the same thing in the mid-80s and before. just to say we'll take care of you, after a while that rings kind of hollow. >> players are being exploited. we all know that, and the question is, what is it going to take to correct that? but it is a fact. >> the players' ballots were not counted, and the election results not released. the school and the union are battling over whether players are employees under the law. that ruling will be made by the national labor relations board in washington, dc. >> this issue that started with kain colter in a classroom in northwestern has now grown much, much larger. house republicans have called hearing today in congress. >> we share the concerns of players that progress is too slow, but forming a union is not

. >> reporter: former marine kevin brown is now the town of quantico's mayor and owns a coffee and sandwichhop. he says even though you may not see increased security americans, they exist. >> i know for a fact the base is doing everything they can to keep the base particularly, but the town by proxy as safe as it can and we're pr

. >>> and new details about bobbi kristina brown entertainment tonight's kevin frazier sits down with whitney houston's mother sissy houston and will have have emotional interview about her >>> well, we have all been there you are at home, the phone rings, it is one of those telemarketing robo calls, it is as annoying asset gets right new but there is a consumer group pushing phone companies to block those calls. >> as three on your side consumer reporter jim donovan find there may be a hang up. >> reporter: she's on the do not call list but laura miller still gets six or seven calls a day from companies trying to sell her something. >> medical alert bracelets credit card adjustments and mortgage refinancing. >> reporter: well, now some are calling on phone companies to do more to stop those auto generated robo calls that go out to thousands of people at a time. >> we think that the phone companies can block the calls before they get to your phone. >> reporter: jim marvin of consumers union is leading a campaign to require carriers to offer customers free tools to block robo calls a.

kevin hayes, off the leg of form are sharks dominic brown. -- or dom.com -- dominic moore. tickets for tuesday's game one of the western conference final did go on sale today. ge >> coming up at 6:00. shoppers at an east bay mall shocked to find their cars riddled with bullet holes. join us for abc7 news at 6:00. >>> a woman near detroit is using her green thumb to draw attention to a pothole problem she is planning flowers in the potholes that dot the streets of neighborhood. the mayor says it's a cool idea but we're not sure if that will prompt the city to fill the potholes. sure nicer to look at. that does it for at 5:00. thank you for your time. remember you can watch abc7 abc7 and your favorite abc shows withey watch abc app. now available for xbox 360 and your tablet smart phone or computer. see you at 6:00. >>> welcome to "world news tonight." tragedy on the tracks. the investigation into amtrak 188 taking a mysterious turn, three trains all in the same area, all hit with an object? could that have triggered the deadly crash? >>> dangerous sky, tornado watch tonight.

kevin: hi allison. the big question was the double murder targeted or random? police not saying either way. we have seen detectives take out a number of brown bags presumably full of evidence. 15 minutes ago we saw detectives carry a large brown box out the front door and placed it in the bed of the gray pickup truck. >> very unsettling. most unsettling. kevin: day four in the mother's day double murder at the $700,000 rockville home remains unsolved. police say the killer or the killers crawled through an unlocked window and slain husband and wife dick and jodie vallardo. today they described the homicide scene as terribly bloody and added the cutting wounds appeared very personal. their adult daughter whose sedan is parked in the driveway found her mother lying dead inside. her father later discovered on the back porch where police have assembled a white tent. sources tell us they were found wearing their pajamas. tranquilly for neighbors, added gardener is all but gone. >> you cannot wrap your mind around it. you just cannot. it's just incredible. kevin: state, today attorney john mccarthy toured the murder scene for a third time as they

. >> with ohio democrat share rod brown suggesting that the attacks on elizabeth warren are sexists. bret? >> mike thank you. tonight, correspondent kevin corke looks at whether today's meeting signals progress or more dead deadends. >> i'm grateful to president putin for the significant amount of time that he made for this discussion. >> the meeting was short on deliverables. secretary state john kerry, the highest ranking u.s. official to meet with vladimir putin in two years. he came to sochi hoping to get the russian leader and sergey lavrov to agree to a number of issues. >> we came here purposefully to have a very full and open dialogue with russia's leaders, the kind of dialogue that is absolutely essential in making progress on the many challenges that we face today. >> reporter: kerry's trip comes at a time when relations between washington and moscow have plummeted, among numerous disagreements like the continued aggression including allegations that the kremlin a arming rebels. and moscow's violent annexation of crimea. moscow's support for the hobbled assad regime so weakened it could soon fall leaving the door open for grou

kevin, can you name any of them? >> no. i can't name any of them. there's too many to try to name. >> the president has spoken on all these high-profile cases cam bridge police, trayvon, michael brown, all cases he rushed to judgment. we know those names. why don't we know the names of the thousands versus the hundred a year black americans killed by cops? why do we only hear those names? kevin? >> i'll be happy to tell you. the civil rights issue of our day is liberals and democrats coraling black people in the cities taking away opportunity, not building any types of opportunity for them in the way of jobs in the way of anything that would be positive for the community. the connective tissue is all of these cities are overwhelmingly black, they're overwhelmingly wrought with crime. the problem is these -- by the way, it's all democrats and it's mostly black m didsdemocrats allowing this to happen. >> let me get a reaction from dwriegt on this. >> i think i heard inconsistent statements. i thought he said it was a civil rights problem in terms of the conditions that have been allowed to swell in the urban communities. this is not some problem created overnight. this in terms of jo

brown. she was going home, really. >> it was funny with the plan the in the background. not your typical fed backdrop. >> steve stay right there. this is kevinold head of foreign exchange rate at ubs. why do you think the dollar was reacting the way it was today. >> it was clear, she had plans for the weekend. nothing she said today surprised anyone. she's still on point. no one should be surprised by what she said. any story about high rates shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. the dollar was stronger beforehand. >> cpi. >> we had buys straight after that number. the dollar has been strong all day. any sense of stability or any small strength of inflation numbers or job numbers. >> steve, it's have weird virtuous cycle that's going on right now. the fed is dependent on the u.s. economy and the data to make their move that they're itching to make by the end of the year, yet, the dollar is strengthening on better economic data. we know that's on the fed's radar. >> somebody said to me i can't remember who it was, some economic official said i think we just showed that the u.s. economy is not ready for a stronger dollar. that was -- >> that was