wusa 9 had the only camera rolling as their truck rolled in. we can exclusively confirm tonight the family's insurance company hired them to investigate. anne arundel county fire investigators say they believe they're going to be here for another two days as they try to figure out what happened. in annapolis, debra alfarone, wusa 9. >> fire investigators said they do anticipate being on the scene of the deadly fire for another two more days. >>> a government worker has now come forward and admitted he is the night howl who crashed his toy drone right on the white house lawn. the secret service has gone high alert after an officer heard the drone and saw it flying low and finally crashing to the ground. all signs so far though, the guy was playing around and lost control of the so-called quadcopter. experts say even a toy like that has the potential to carry high explosives or even nuclear or biologic material. >> these drones, which after all we're using in warfare which gives everybody the idea of what they can use them for. >> so how do you s

it is free for your android or apple device. >>> now to a wusa 9 followup. the local family that launched a global debate about parenting styles met with child protective services this afternoon. danielle and sasha became the subjects of a child neglect investigation because they allowed their kids to walk around their silver spring neighborhood without an adult. andrea mccarren broke the story and is live in rockville with an update. i'm so curious how that meeting turned out. >> so are we. of course cps can't comment. and they describe the meeting as cordial. but they are frustrated there is still no resolution to their case. they were given this pamphlet entitled when can your child be left alone? and told all about cps policy. >> i think the people at cps they're following what they believe to be the best policy to protect children. we think it's actually overreach. >> reporter: danielle and sasha's stories gained worldwide attention and lit up social media. after they let their 10-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter walk home alone from a neighborhood

wusa 9 app. it also has live road conditions and it will tell you all about those school closures. >>> we've been handling a couple inches of snow in our neighborhood, but a little farther to the north they're talking full on blizzard for parts of the northeast. as a matter of fact, a blizzard warning is in effect for a 250-mile stretch. plus there's a state of emergency in parts of massachusetts, new york. take a look at times square in new york where the snow is already starting to fall and folks are starting to worry about exactly they are going to get. reports are one to two feet could fall in new york city. some spots could get even more than that. over the next couple of hours the new york city subway is going to cut back service, shut down the streets and everybody is going to be told stay indoors unless you absolutely have to go out. in the air the travel is coming to a halt as well. airlines have canceled more than 5,000 flights up and down the east coast. regan national and dulles had t

. >>> on the go, text radar to 25543 and download the wusa-9 weather app. >>> we've been warned about the snow. >> most of us in the immediate metro area and the beltway. as much as six inches to call close to the mason dixon line. that's what we are looking at right now. there are mixed messages from our model data. some of the forecast model data indicates that this form is going to become a monster, close enough to us to spread more snow in, even on tuesday morning, but i think that the more likely scenario is that we will be done with the snow during the monday evening commute. right now, though, it is too warm for snow. it is 40 degrees with a northwest wind at about 8 miles per hour. we are going to see temperatures getting milder during the day on sunday. it will be a fairly pleasant today, but the snow arrives on sunday night, and that will really start to accumulate as we move into monday morning. during the monday morning commute, that will be the worst of it here. the snow tapers off to showers as we head into monday afternoon and early evening. right now on satellite and r

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wusa-9's first alert weather. >>> i know it is january, but this is cold. >> it is cold.t is reminiscent of last january. now we have another area of disturbed weather heading our way, but as it moves toward us, temperatures are going to get milder, so we don't have as much of a threat of wintry weather as we did last tuesday, for instance, where we picked up a few inches of snow. let's look outside right now at the weather cam. currently it is 25 degrees and clear at reagan national, and the winds are calm, the dewpoint is three. that is one of the reasons the temperature fell kly. the low relative humidity and the calm winds allowing the little about it of heat we got during the day to quickly escape up into the atmosphere. as you head into sunday, an increase in cloud cover. it will not be as cold as it was on saturday. high temperatures will finally be above the freezing mark and then rain will make its way toward us. the timing of the rain is so critical with this system. our temperatures below freezing when the rain arrives. if they are, we'll have freezing rain, if

peggy fox, wusa 9. >> there are three bill sponsored by northern virginia lawmakers. the senate bill gets its first test tomorrow the son of the late marion barry is free tonight after pleading not guilty to change of simple assault, making threats and destruction of property. 34 year old christopher barry walk out of superior court this afternoon after turning himself into police this morning and these charges stem from an incident last week inside a pnc branch when barry got into an argument with a teller and allegedly tossed a trash can that damaged a security camera. barry is running for his fathers ward 8 council seat and he'sapologized for his action. >>> coming up did the house speaker side step the white house when he invited israel's prime minister to speak before a joint session of congress. >>> also ahead the first lady has healthy fun with a group of local children at the white house. >>> but up next, a canon ball found stuck inside a chimney comes crashing >>> new tonight an old canon ball discovered inside a georgetown home is by the military. the owner

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they are running at the bottom of your screen and they are on the wusa 9news mobile app. >> we want to's do weather first. >> okay. >> and find out exactly when the snow will end. we have a warmup in store as well. >> we can look forward to milder temperatures and lots of sunshine as we head towards the weekend. right now, the good news that we have for you is that this system has kind of underperformed for most of us. most of the moisture stayed further to the east and southeast, so all our snowfall totals we were predicting for you over the past 24 hours or so, we got in those predicted snowfall totals, on the low end of the range which obviously makes it easier for you to clean up and get out the door. you can see on doppler 9000 a 3- hour loop the system is pulling away, still snowing steadily and heavily in the delmarva peninsula and portions of southern maryland. we predicted this would be the area that would receive the highest snowfall totals, and that is definitely playing out here in st. mary's county, southern calvert and charles counties as well. you can see throughout temp

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24 hours a day with the wusa 9 mobile app. download it for free for your apple or android device. >>> some still mysterious new evidence has investigators zeroing in on a couple places on a southwest virginia mountain tonight. they're searching for the remains of two young girls who disappeared 40 years ago from a wheaton mall. bruce leshan is live with the latest effort to bring home the lyon sisters. >> not just searching but also threatening charges against anyone who is still withholding information on what happened to these little girls. >> reporter: in a cold rain on a lonely mountain, dozens of investigators sifting through soil in search of the girl's remains. bedford county deputies the fbi virginia state police, montgomery county, maryland police officers focused now after months of searching on a couple of specific locations on taylor's mountain in southwest virginia. 12-year-old sheila and caroline were abducted in 1975. >> we want see bad to bring this to a conclusion, locating these children and providing the par

this is a one-hour edition of wusa 9. take a look at this. metro, taking out a full page apology in the sunday washington post edition for how the transit agency handled the disaster at the la font station this week. an alexandria woman was killed, more than 80 passengers injured when smoke-filled trains and passengers were forced to wait for first responders to rescue them. more on metro's apology a bit later. >>> but first, a new report tonight that further explains the long delays in getting help to scores of passengers trapped on the smoke-filled train in the metro tunnel. dc's mayor is promising total transparency on the city's part. and stephanie ramirez has more. >> reporter: bruce, this is the 37-page report that gives a more detailed time line into what happened last monday. it also provides information of communication issues. communication issues that were reported days before the fatal tragedy. >> it's not surprising. >> reporter: while maybe not surprised, there are many concerns with this report, reported on past metro emergenci

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for more information on the trial, check out the wusa app. we will have more thursday on the noon newscast to take your phone calls from noon to 12:30 regarding women's health. >>> a new crowd funding website is motivating animal loves to donate lots of money to pet projects of all times. one cats online campaign got a cat a new life and new home. this short-haired rescue was badly burned and abandoned. the surgery she needed cost $4,000. so the group turned to loveanimals.org, a site that was started about a year ago. >> i saw the crowd funding as a fast growing phenomenon. i saw nobody was doing it for animal projects. >> nearly 140 people chipped in to pay for the kitty's care. >> so close but so far. coming up, see what happens when a pilot tries to fly from california to hawaii and runs out of gas over the pacific. >> and world leaders gather at thank you, cable for the slower internet upload speeds. for fewer video on demand titles. thank you cable, because if we never had you... ...we wouldn't know the incredible difference verizon fio

. >>> still to come on wusa 9, police in hawaii investigating an attack. >>> new details are . >>> police are trying to get to the bottom of an attack on golfer robert allenby. he said he was in a honolulu wine bar when he was abducted, beaten and robbed. he woke up in a park without his phone or wallet. >> two and a half hours later, i woke up on the street in the gutter, being thrown out of the trunk of a car, being robbed. >>> he says a homeless woman and a man passing by helped him to safety. he isn't sure if he was drugged prior to his abduction. >>> and a young couple's crime spree came to an end in panama city, florida. we have more from miami. >> reporter: the long arm of the law finally caught up with dalton heys and cheyenne phillips in florida. u.s. martial's received a tip they were in an area, they were found asleep inside a truck they'd stolen. >> panama city police, panama city beach police department and u.s. martial's surround the vehicle and gave them no way out. >> hayes was arrested and charged with being a fugitive from justice. phillips was placed in child services.

tonight, a police source tells wusa 9 there are no visible signs of trauma to the body. the body is at the dc medical examiner's office tonight, to determine if it's a man or woman and the cause of death. >>> the daughter of singer whitney houston is in an atlanta area hospital tonight, after being found unresponsive in her home today. 21-year-old bobbi kristina brown was found in the bathtub by her husband in their roswell home north of atlanta. police say cpr was started by the husband, nick gordon, and a friend, then continued by emergency responders. roswell police add that bobbi kristina brown was breathing when she was brought to an area hospital. that incident is under investigation. it was just over three years ago the grammy winning singer whitney houston was found submerged in a bathtub in a beverly hills hotel. she later died. bobbi kristina brown is also the daughter of singer bobby brown. >>> tonight, the national highway traffic administration has issued a recall of more than 2.1 million vehicles due to an electronic defect that may cause air bags to deploy

wusa 9 news starts at 4 a.m. with the latest traffic and weather conditions. you can monitor all of this on our mobile app. it is free from the apple itunes and google play stores. >>> full service has been restored on metro's yellow line more than 24 hours following the tragedy at the l'enfant plaza metro. the train where one woman died and dozens were overcome by smoke. the train is held out of service as part of the ongoing investigation. all metro hines had been adjusted due to the incident are now back to normal and metro expects to resume regular service on all lines tomorrow morning. >>> today we also learned more about the woman who died in that smoke filled metro car. 61-year-old carol glover lived in alexandria. >> she was a government contractor and she spent most of her life right mere in the dc area. we talked to those who knew her well. >> reporter: we learned a lot about carol glover but it's what happened in the tunnel and why folks were forced to stay on those metro cars for so long. those are questions that the ntsb and metro is investigating

that's probably the biggest plus for us. >> reporter: kristen burr set, wusa 9. >> thanks, kb.ame coming up with pittsburgh later on tonight. >>> 9 sports spoke with maryland athletics this afternoon and they confirm that stefon diggs is foregoing his senior season and will turn pro. he's been the best player on the team for three seasons, also been banged up a lot. >>> maryland basketball, they haven't started this hot since '96-97. the leron profit-keith booth years. remember that? when you consider all the off- season defections from the program, 2015 has become quite a resurgence, or should i call it a returgence? golden gophers. the steal and the flush, 12.7 rebounds, four assists. terps by three at half time. they won it with half time. i'm on the s.w.a.t. patrol, man! nice block. tremble with the lay-in at the other end. 11th ranked maryland, 14-1, beat minnesota 70-58. >>> another team in town playing good basketball, georgetown ranked 25th in the ap poll. smith does what he does, off the screen and then rides up and hits the three, his only three of the game to this po

as mola lenghi of our washington station wusa reports, subway riders say they were overcome very quickly. >> i was on the train, and it just stopped and almost instantaneously got full of smoke. >> reporter: as smoke filled the metro train and tunnel, passengers say the conductors urged them to remain calm. >> please stay calm. please stay calm. we've got one train about to get off the platform right now as we speak. >> people were getting out of hand. they were panicking. the next thing you know, you other on the train. >> from the smoke? >> right. >> a lot of people were on the floor because it was very strong. >> on the floor? >> yeah. >> it just got really bad. people were throwing up. i know one lady passed out. >> how were you able to eventually get off? >> the fire guys finally got there, and i guess they pried the door open. and one by one, they started letting us out. >> reporter: escorted by firefighters, one by one passengers walked the roughly 150 feet through the dark smoke-filled tunnel from the train to the platform and then finally outside where the scene continued. peopl

plus, get a $300 bonus with a two-year agreement. . >>> now wusa 9 game-on sports, brought to you byty. >>> the capitals, head into the all-star break, the goals didn't matter. they lost three straight, now how would the second half begin not quite as well as they would have hoped. they hung in there, with a deflection to make it a one- goal game. and gets it back to two, and this time brower with the deflection. a 1-goal game again head into the third. earlier into the third, atkinson gets one passed, that would prove to be the game- winner. caps drop theirs in the final for this won. the wizards continuing their trip visiting the lakers, and drives the lane for the dunk, the lakers without kobe, right now it's 51-37 lakers in the second quarter. >>> college action tonight, the -- they would prove to be way too much. xavier wins tonight, 66-53. >>> george washington visiting vcu, on the line it was close in the first half, paul with a nice pass to john for the easy lay-up. but it was all vcu in the second half. gw could not deal with the havoc. and they win 72-48. >>> all right supe

here at the metro stop, stephanie ramirez, wusa 9 news. >> lives were on the line and communication was down. the head of the firefighters union says today's report confirms metro failed to supply first responders with needed information when they headed into the smoke-filled metro tunnel. radio to help communicators communicate were of little use. >> firefighters told us the first dispatch said nothing about people trapped in the tunnel, smoke-filled train, that sort of thing. have you confirmed that? >> according to these reports it looks like it was confirmed, that that information was left off the initial dispatch. our radios were down. they couldn't communicate with the above-ground units because the repeater system in the tunnels weren't working. radio communications were dead. >> what does that mean? >> cause of delay. line of sight where they're sending runners back and forth. >> and cell phones. >> cell phones. i mean we need to come up with a better plan b. >> metro makes an polling for monday's -- an apology for monday's smoke that left one person dead. metro says we apologiz

whether we are not on the air, you can get the latest news, weather and traffic by downloading the wusa 9 app. >>> it appear the plan to generate money through the speed cameras fell short. >> the fund from the cameras would cushion the district's $83 million budget gap, the problem is officials transferred more responsibility for keeping the cameras in shape to city crews instead of the company who made the cameras. well, the city crews didn't keep one the maintenance. the council chair phil mendel son has the answer. >> i think the solution is to fix the cameras but also to get this government's budget off of its reliance on the ticket revenue. >> there you gorgeous talk about a ship coming in. next, a pilot runs out of gas while trying to cross the pacific, but a luxury liner comes to the rescue. >> and see what happens at . >>> the president flew to saudi arabia to meet the new president salman. they talked about the fall of isis and the falling government. they did not talk about the oil prices but the white house expects the saudi arabia will maintain its current energy policies.

we shared the anchor desk for more than 20 years at wusa, and here at channel seven the past 10 years. >> best tenures i've ever had come right here. also, a great chance to be reunited with you. that was a main factor. >> and doug. >> u.n. doug hill, and the bonus was being so friendly with leon harris and alison starling and of course tim brant. >> gordon also brought an award-winning news institution with him, "inside washington." >> it was all about chemistry. i did not care about ideology. i always liked the conversation around the dinner table. after the meal is served, you get into it and you have spirited discussions but when it's all over you while leave as friends. that was my game plan, and i think it worked pretty well. what will you do tonight governor? >> he also reported presidential races, veterans issues, and battleground virginia. though his time at abc 7 is coming to an end he says he is not finished yet. >> i'm not going anywhere. if you come up to me on the street and say hello, i will appreciate it. i'm going to keep working. i'm too young to quit. >> but you are

plus, you can monitor the weather, school closings and other headlines on our wusa 9 mobile app. >>> federal investigators are racing tonight to find out what caused the wires to ark on metro's third rail and how that cascaded into a decide that killed one woman and sent 83 more people to hospitals. >> yes. we have more now live with the latest on the investigation. bruce? >> reporter: yes, we just received the name of the one woman killed from the chief medical examiner. she is carol glover, 61 years old from alexandria, a local analyst with a communications company. we have received no updates today either from the ntsb or metro, even know virginia senator mark warner and many others are calling for some answers now. >> people were just getting out of hand and panicking. the next thing you know you could not see from one end to the other on the train. >> reporter: investigato rs already have some answers. >> i have never seen anything like that in my whole life. >> reporter: they suspect the smoke that filled the tunnel and platform killing one and sickening others started with a s

at reagan national, stephanie ramirez, wusa news. >>> modified train service between new york and boston as of tomorrow, a full schedule of trains will operate between washington and new york. >>> not so much snow, but ice led to a whole lot of traffic accidents across the dc area, a car in germantown took out a pole and overturned, two people went to the hospital and in to potomac the driver went to the hospital after he overturned in the road. >>> police officers hammering their own commanders after they ordered the release of an armed robbery suspect who led a chase from district heights to the capital and it was the same night as the president's state of the union address, bruce leshan explains. >> reporter: almost crashed in to the pop up barricade. >> reporter: while the president was inside a the drama outside, capitol ply detained a man who had led cops from prince georges and district heights on a 20 minute chase at speeds up to 60 miles an hour. just around the capitol the suspect ran several red lights, passed stop signs drove recklessly on the wrong side of this street and he

you can see that game saturday at 4:00 right here on wusa 9. and you can see a special post game game-on with special appearances. finally, a trending topic from last night's national college chicken game. it had nothing to had with the -- college championship game. it had nothing to had with this guy, who had a resemblance to bob newhart. he tweeted out, in regards to my new career as head ref with oregon, hey, i don't have a series anymore. i had to do something. >> he does look a lot like bob newhart. >> yes. and new hart was following it on twitter den and newhart was following it on twitter. that was funny. >> he is in good shape! >> right. >>> a trace two 2 inches of snow developing tonight. and after tomorrow's yellow alert we will be in good shape for the weekend. but it gets slippery quickly tomorrow morning. be careful. >> take it easy. we will be back with >> pelley: tonight, a day of mourning. funerals in france and in israel for victims of the paris terror attacks. we have new video of the gunmen and new information about who finan

. >> that was wusa's mola lenghie investigating. the tsa says a report will be ready in about a week. >>> meanwhile, a three-alarm fire started just after 2:00 a.m. near penn station. dozens of fire trucks are positioned outside the station. penn station is a hub for amtrak and two commuter lines. smoke can be seen pouring out onto the street from underground. it's believed the fire broke out at a construction site below a subway station. this morning indonesia search and rescue officials say they believe they've discovered the main wreckage the fuselage from airasia flight 8501. and the jet's cockpit voice recorder has been retrieved. yesterday the flight data recorder was recovered. flight 8501 crashed in the java sea december 28th, killing all 162 people on board. four of the victims killed in last week's terrorist attacks in france will be buried today. their bodies arrived in israel this morning. the men were killed at the kosher market. elaine cobb is in paris with the latest. elaine, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, l

this is sandra, a long-time friend of ours and a good friend at wusa. this is clooney from the prince george's county humane society. hello, clooney. a beautiful zach san you brought us -- zach son you broke -- dock sin you brought us. >> absolutely. he's a bundle of joy. he loves to run after a toy, bring it back you to and tease you with it to see if you'll chase him. >> he has a pretty face and a great demeanor with kids. >> absolutely. he's great with the fosters, other dogs. he loves to play with them, play chase. he rides well in the car. he's just a little 10-pound guy. >> they don't eat much when they're small. >> they don't eat much but he's full of energy. he loves to eat actually. >> how could somebody get in contact with you to get this beautiful animal as a member of their family. >> they can go on our week site hugh painsociety of prince george's county-- >> the humane society of prince george's county gl. any information, go to our week site wusa9.com. go to the petline section. cloonly, we're going to get you -- clooney, we're going to g

stephanie ramirez, wusa 9news. >>> five people including a pregnant woman and two children are dead tonight, following an early morning crash with a tractor-trailer. it happened in queenstown on maryland's eastern shore. state police say all five victims were traveling in a suzuki forenza when the collision happened at route 215. two adults and two children died at the scene. a pregnant woman was taken to the hospital where she and her unborn baby later died. the family is from green bush, virginia, about 35 miles south of the island. the 28-year-old tractor-trailer driver is from delaware. he is being treated tonight at the university of maryland trauma center. cause of the crash is still under investigation tonight. >>> a dc woman faces drunk driving charges tonight after a three-car crash involving a green belt, maryland police cruiser. 25-year-old dynasty colter was charged with driving while intoxicated. police say she rear ended an officer's cruiser during an early morning traffic stop on green belt road near hanover parkway. that pushed the cruiser into yet another vehicle. the polic

officially 3 inches right here at wusa. our first real snowfall of the winter season in washington. currently 27 at reagan national. feels like 22. still a south, southeasterly wind at 5. it will be going northwest. big picture, satellite and radar, there's the clipper coming through. lost a little ump. still snow showers? central west virginia. for us the massive amount of snow we had earlier in some cases over 5 inches has left the region. we'll continue to watch. maybe a stray flurry or snow shower for the afternoon. tonight partly to mostly cloudy, cold. dipping into the 20s. maybe a few upper teens. with the arctic air tomorrow, more snow showers on the up slope areas. a couple of snow showers will make it toward us later on in the day and afternoon and evening as temperatures tomorrow night will settle down in the single digits and teens, at least by thursday the winds will be a lot lighter. let me show you our forecast. today around freezing. leftover flurries. 25 tonight. upper 20s tomorrow. it will feel like single digits and teens with gusts over 30. mid-20s on thursday. b

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wusa 9 will be right back. >>> we'll get back to our weather coverage in just a minute.n with breaking news from early this morning at the white house. >> nick giovanni joins us live from lafayette park with more. nick? >> reporter: mike, andrea, no longer appears to be an active scene surrounding the white house. the lights are on inside, flashlights are off outside. but the white house has confirmed the reason we saw teams of secret service agents in the early hours this morning was because of a device recovered on the grounds of the white house. they haven't confirmed exactly what that device was, but the ap has been reporting over the last hour that device was a drone. white house spokesperson josh earnest has said it poses no threat, as president obama and first lady michelle obama are currently spending the day in new delhi, india. again that is the latest information we have from the white house. we have yet to hear from secret service. we have reached out to them. if they pass along any information we will certainly do the same. nick giovanni wusa9. >> this is ha

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. >> reporter: bruce leshan, wusa 9. >>> a paep starving and left to die in a parking lot is getting a new home. >> authorities call him clark kent. this 7 week old pit bull mix was so malnourished he was actually having seizures when they found him. those who left him will face animal abuse charges. >>> coming up, >>> french police now say as many as six people suspected to being connected to last week's terror attacks may still be at large. >> the government plans to deploy 6,000 extra security forces at locations considered to be especially vulnerable including jewish schools. the remaining staff of the satirical newspaper charlie hebdo plans to publish 1 million copies of its special edition. it will include caricatures of the prophet muhammad. >> the best way to fight against these people is to show absolutely no fear. >> the vatican today pope francis called on muslim leaders around the world to denounce extreme interpretations of islam used to justify violence. >>> tonight we're going from soggy to slick. coming up, how today's rain and tonight's drop in temps could impact tom