tracy wilkins has our report. >> not in favor. >> reporter: when you talk about raising taxes to fund schools. >> either way i'm losing out. >> reporter: they have a hard time supporting it and so does at least one school board member. >> i don't support it. >> reporter: when he tried to organize a meeting to discuss wit the constituents -- >> i got an e-mail from the board chair saying i could not host a town hall. >> reporter: he was not in attendance at the meeting for the budget. >> the issue is managing resources we do have. and throwing money at the problem won't mix it. >> reporter: baker is asking the council topaz a 15.6% increase in property taxes for $104.9 million a year. all of that money will go to education. it will cost someone with a $200,000 home $300 more a year in taxes. >> this increase is an excellent idea. >> reporter: school board chair says while he didn't say burrows couldn't host a town hall he said he couldn't use school resources to do it since the board agreed to support the budget regardless of how it's fund i. >> any board member can speak about an issu

tracy wilkins, news 4. >> leave extra time if you plan to use the subway this weekend.k means reduced service on all six lines, orange silver and blue. they'll be running once every 18 minutes. yellow and green every 20 minutes. and the red line every 24 minutes. >> tomorrow night is the chance of a lifetime for an aspiring singer in our area. hot 99.awill host our special be a voice vip contest giving one person a chance to cut the line to audition for nbc's hit show the voice. out of all the entries, tomorrow you'll get a chance to see the final four and meet the contestant moving forward. via voice vip starts 7:00 tomorrow night right here on nbc 4. >> hey, the 140th preakness stakes runs tomorrow. so will american pharoah keep the triple crown dreams alive with a victory? that kentucky derby winner drew the number one post position which means he's going to start the race right up against the rail. and coverage of the preakness begins here on channel 4 at 4:30 tomorrow afternoon. >> the ntsb meets with the engineer at the helm of the amtrak train that derailed this

tracie wilkins joins us more in the next half hour with more details. >>> check out this wild scene pap woman at a rockville office is recovering after being pinned under her desk by a car. she' receptionist at a physical therapy office in park lawn drive here. the car crashed into the building after coming out of a garage next door. fly other people including the driver are injured. not clear why the car crashed. >>> the d.c. council is looking closer at making a police body cam video public. the debate was part of a round table today at the d.c. council. ward 5 council member kenyan mcduffy believes making it public would help with transparency. others worry about privacy. the hearing also looked at funding for an expansion of the camera program. >>> breaking developments in the attack on that controversial draw mohamed contest in garland, texas. just three hours before the event was to start, the fbi sent a bulletin to the police department with a photo of elvin thompson noting that he was interested in the event. fbi director james comby said the agency had no reason to believe he i

wilkins tells us homeowners on piscataway drive say that's not happening. >> so all of this was walkway here. >> reporter: someone stole part of the flagstone walkway from the front of tracy's house, keeping this is hard since she is not allowed to live here anymore. >> it's tough. it is tough. >> reporter: last year tracy and four of her neighbors here on piscataway drive were told their homes were uninhabitable after a slope failure. to date they have no water and sewer but still are paying the mortgages here. >> it's like there's two of me. i pay to live here and i pay to live some place where i can't live. >> reporter: county offered to pay for the homes with county and fema money but -- >> they're probably $8,000 short of paying that mortgage off, and that's just insane for me. >> reporter: just yesterday talks with the county to negotiate a larger payout fell through and according to tracy the county is now saying -- >> if you don't take the fema money, you get nothing and then we're going to fake your property anyway. >> reporter: due to ongoing litigation, the county says it cannot comment, but tracy says they're claiming to use police power. it will allow the count