Maintenance, money spent or anything. Again, were standing by for all those details in the preliminary report from the ntsb. Could get that into the newsroom any minute. Well bring you the latest details as soon as we get them. Reporting live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you. The mind set of some metro passengers seems to be changing these days after mondays incident. This morning, abc 7 saw several people tweeting about smoke in the rosalynn station just down the street as a matter of fact from our studio here and we sent a crew out and they found an odd smell there in the station but things running just fine. But richard wolf tweeted this picture noting the orange line train emptied at rosalynn and smoke fills cars. And then steve cuff tweeted this. Orange line car at rosalynn starts getting something burning smell before metro even says anything. People get the hell off new reality. That could be the case. Abc 7 did call metro and we found out there was a problem with the brakes on a train there and that could have been what caused the smoke in the station. They say theres nothing serious. Alison . Earlier this week the metropolitan council of governments released its report on the state of our regions infrastructure. It found a 16 billion gap in funding for Public Transportation over the next decade. Overall, the region falls about 58 billion short in the next 10 years. Thats for everything from transportation to energy and water projects. The district is already undertaking a massive project. They had a storm water overflow. They blessed the anaconda River Project last month, you may remember that scene and today Vice President joe biden toured the area to see how the whole project is coming along. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford is there and joins us live from the site along independence avenue in southeast. Hey, sam hello leon. Well, i am in front of a drill head. It is the second of three drillheads that eventually are going to be put underground to drill massive storm tunnels under the city and as you can see, this thing is huge. The Vice President joined the mayor here today to congratulate d. C. On its efforts to clean up its rivers right now after a big rain. A long of untreated sewage flows into the potomac and anacostia rivers. Once these 13 miles of tunnels are completed, they will hold the overflow until it can be properly treated meaning much cleaner rivers. The Vice President said it makes economic sense because business is not going to come to places where the water is dirty. If were going to lead the world in the 21st century and we are leading the world in the 21st century, we have to have the most modern infrastructure in the world. And this drill head has a name actually. Her name is nanny for nanny Helen Burroughs who was an educator who lived in washington, northeast washington many years ago. Theres another drill head thats called lady byrd for lady byrd johnson. Shes already at work heading north, this drill head will be heading south they will meet somewhere around poplar point as they contract these mas tunnels. This particular project will be completed, were told in 2017. Well have more at 5 00. Back to you. All right. Looking im sorry im a guy, i cant help but thinking how much fun would it be to drive one of those . I was thinking sam looks awfully small there. And you know what else . Hes not wearing a coat. Did you notice that too snoo auto exactly. Big change from what we had earlier this week huh . Sunny outside, a little chilly but still sunny out there. A little bit. What about the weekend . Will it be an upgrade of any sort . Doug hill in the storm watch Weather Center. Hard upgrade what we have right now for this point in january. Temperatures in the upp spots. Weekend will start out nicely cool and sunny and maybe some rain on sunday and clearing out for dr. Martin luther king day on monday. The highlights but the essence is in the details here. Lets give you a quick look of the weather bug camera the campus of Montgomery College in rockville. 37 degrees and partly cloudy skies. We have a bit of a breeze. Colder temperatures moving into the area. Not quite 21 in frederick but 38 in hagerstown. 40 at washington dulles. Temperatures are warmer and colder north and west of town. Once we get through the night and the winds diminish, it will get mighty cold. Thermometer temperatures dropping to the mid 30s later this evening with a gusty wind and overnight, looks like well see diminishing winds 15 to 25 degrees for the overnight lows. Chilly day tomorrow. Lots of sunshine and then ill give you the details and timing of these showers for sunday and monday as well coming up shortly for you, alison . Ok doug. Thank you. Tomorrow marks one year since two children died at the hands of their mother and a friend who thought they were possessed by the devil. Today, that friend, Monique Sanford pleaded guilty to the crime. Kevin lewis was in court and spoke with the children father. Kevin . Alison, assist hard as it was to hear today, Martin Harris tells me attended court today to gain both clarity and closure. As many will remember police were called to a hor bizarre scene at that germantown home last january. Inside, four children all between the ages of 1 and 8 had been brutally stabbed and choked. The 1 and 2yearolds were found dead wrapped in sheets placed on a bed. Paramedics did, however, manage to save the 5 and 8yearold. It wasnt long before Police Arrested the childrens mothers, zaciah avery and her close church friend. The women told police they didnt intend to kill children but pluck demons from their bodies. Today, sanford admitted her guilt but in turn was not held criminally responsible by reason of insanity. Instead of sitting in a prison cell, a judge committed the 22yearold to a secure Mental Health facility in jessup maryland. So she is in her own prison. Shell have teal with her own life. If she comes to terms with it she comes to terms with it. If she doesnt, she might end up there. She believed that she had been nishlted into this group of demon assassins and she and this avery, it was their mission. So as it stands the childrens mother zakeya avery will be standing trial in june. Shes found to be sane and faces life in prison. Coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00 ill update you on the two surviving children and in doing so, show you photos and a video taken of them lweek. Its the Silver Lining in what can be described as a horrible and tragic crime. Live in rockville, im kevin lewis, abc 7 news. Need a Silver Lining in that one. Kevin, thank you. Well attorneys now have more time in the voyeurism case of the rabbi. Today, a d. C. Superior court judge granted the prosecution and defense request for a delay in the proceedings. So the next hearing is scheduled for february 19th. He is accused of secretly recording women as they prepared for a ritual bath at kesher israel in georgetown. The synagogue fired him last month. Coming up at 5 00 what protesters demanded outside of the courthouse today. And the Virginia Supreme Court denied a request to rehear george huguelys appeal of his 2012 murder conviction. The court made the same decision in november. Huguely, a former university of virginia lacrosse player was convicted of killing his exgirlfriend yardley love. Huguely is serving a 23Year Prison Sentence for seconddegree murder and grand larceny. The man accused of plotting to blow up the u. S. Capitol will be staying behind bars. A judge denied Christopher Lee cornell bond about two hours ago. Rebecca cooper is standing by in our live desk. Shes got more including word of who was shouting out in court today. Tell us about that. Thats right, it was Christopher Lee cornells father who shouted out to his son inside the courtroom dont trust anyone. As you said, the judge ordered that he be held without bail and today, were learning more about cornell and some of the paranoia that may have factored into his psychology. Take a look at this picture that was taken by our abc affiliate in cincinnati. This was taken at a 9 11 memorial event in 2013. Cornell showed up protesting and holding a sign that reads 9 11 was an inside job. In smaller print, he wrote the free masons did it. Now, were also learning as a teenager cornell twice faced police charges. In one incident he was charged with Domestic Violence against his mother. A year earlier, he and his brother were cited for beating up a classmate. His father had to say about why he believes his son is innocent. Auto too if i thought he was up to something, i would have been the first one to turn him in. I would have turned him in to save his life. Cornells record shows this was a young man who was bullied at school and frequently ran away from home. These incidents fit the profile of a type of young man vulnerable to a radical and extremist group. Theyll be considering that as they continue to hold them without bail in ohio. Rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. Rebecca, thank you. So that plot against the capitol is raising concerns about home grown terrorism. Police in several European Countries arrested more than two dozen suspects in a series of raids. They come after two suspects were killed in a shootout in belgium. Marcy gonzalez has the latest. The concern about home grown radicals growing here in the u. S. And abroad following the terror attacks in paris. A dozen people were taken into custody in france overnight. Investigators say some of the suspects have links to the terrorists in the market. Police in belgium have charged five people and arrested seven others closing in on what they believe to be a group of radicals who were plotting to kill officers. And today just as british Prime Minister David Cameron met with president obama at the white house to discuss the intensifying problem. All our countries are working together seamlessly to prevent attacks and defeat these terrorist network. And just as president obama was meeting with the british Prime Minister David Cameron at the white house today, yet another arrest. An 18yearold woman in the u. K. Was taken into custody on suspicion of terrorism. Marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. The deadline has come and gone. And its about to come up again. Still ahead here find out if d. C. Streetcar line will open up next week as planned. Then a little later, why the woman who seemed to be center of the rough start to the Nations Health care overhaul is back in the news again. Plus solving a decades old mystery about what happened to a spacecraft heading to mars. But first, water shooting out of a broken essentially what ive learned from this report is the preliminary report, the initial fact finding by the ntsb on what happened here on monday at Lenfant Plaza that there were actually two trains that were impacted and passengers of both trains as well as passengers on the platform were with heavy smoke here. Investigators inspected the area of incident and also provide pictures in this preliminary report of the third rail. They say they observed severe electrical arcing damage to the third rail and electrical cables about 1100 feet ahead of the trains, one of the trains impacted and stranding passengers. Recorded data shows at 3 06 p. M. , monday afternoon an electrical breaker at one end of the section of third rail tripped and about 10 minutes later, the Operations Control Center began activating ventilation fans in an effort to exhaust all that smoke from the area. The electrical breaker at the other end of the third rail section remained closed and confined power until the remote told the command to open that breaker around 3 50. The ntsb said the investigation continues. Theyre reviewing maintenance records of the track, of signals and power inspections. Rail car vehicles documentation on previous events with smoke generation. Maintenance and repair records as well as looking at employee training records. Investigators have collected material samples from the incident site and theyre also examining the samples at the ntsb materials lab. In addition investigators are conducting interviews with personnel involved and have begun the collection and review of available surveillance video. So as we expected, we would get these preliminary facts but this investigation will continue for many, many months before we get a final report and possibly recommendations from metro or from the ntsb on how metro can prevent this type of incident from occurring again, the severe nature of the electrical arcing and were also standing by and we expect to get it tomorrow, the internal report from the d. C. Government on the response to this incident here at Lenfant Plaza. Reporting live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you, mike. Timeline information coming and beginning to fill itself in. Appreciate that. Keep us posted. Lets get you to something that might be a little bit more you uplifting for you and something you ma able to see around here. Gas prices under 2 a gallon. Theyre starting to creep into the area now. Abc 7 found these prices here at the stations in woodbridge today right around dale boulevard and right now, triple a puts the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded at 2. 51. Thats down 1. 06 in the last year. Nationwide the average is 2. 08 a gallon. You can find thees where you live at wjla. Com. Lets take a look at video that youll see only on 7. A busy roadway has been reopened but repair work is still under way after a water main break in alexandria. Thats right, it was a 12inch break between king street and park center drive. And it created a despiser of water. About 6 30 this morning. Jeanette reyes spoke to impacted residents. Residents here didnt know what to make of it at first. Looking out the window and i thought a fire or something. A major water main break on park center road tore through this cement and asphalt making way for a geyser that shot up 20 feet in the sky. Kind of icy walking because a lot of the areas where the water had been pooling, you know its below freezing right now. Thousands of gallons of water then became a treacherous river that streamed down king street later created a thin sheet of ice. It was actually kind of interesting to look at but im sure with traffic, its very much a pain to all the folks that are trying to get to and from now. Even after the geyser slowly retreated back into the gaping hole the damage was done. Dangerous conditions forced them to shut down king street near i395 for over two hours, that meant two bus service. My commute today is going to involve walking. Jim snyder took it better than most. How far is your walk . Five miles. Not a big deal, though. But he wasnt the only one having to hit the pavement this morning. Walk a little bit to get to work. Had to walk up to shirlington about a mile up the road. Not too bad. Make it work. A spokesperson with virginia American Water tells us this was a 12inch water main valve that just broke off. It will take between six and eight hours, a little past rush hour before this is all fixed up. Reporting live in alexandria jeanette reyes, abc 7 ws. Lanes of 355 are open this afternoon following a fivecar crash in rockville. News chopper 7 flew over the scene between frederick road and College Parkway around 11 30 this morning. As many as 11 people were injured and three were taken to the hospital. They have nonlife threatening injuries. A lot of things to help with on the roadways. Get a check of whats happening right now with bob emler. Out in the sun on 66 traveling westbound, very slow ride to centreville. Did have word of a minor crash in the beltway and thats on the dulles toll road after reston parkway had a crash along the right side and traffic on 95 southbound is running slowest over and in from about quantico headed towards stafford. Northbound, there was a vehicle fire a mile before exit 143 at garrisonville. That along the right side. Its not out and the lanes should be reopened. Thats what 270 looks like bopped down through Montgomery Village as per usual and 395 south of the pentagon very slow into landmark with the lanes open. Im bob emler with wtop. Thank you bob. Nice to see the sun bouncing off those cars. Yes. Pretty pleasant out there. Once you got out of the wind. Temperatures starting to drop a little bit now with the front coming through. It will be colder tonight for sure. Cold but sunny tomorrow and sunny, a little rain. Ill explain. Lets get to the maps and start with a look at damascus in northeastern Montgomery County nice and clear this morning and very heavy frost in places windshields across the area this morning. But the clouds started to roll in ahead of this front, winds came up and the temperatures warmed up nicely so well head the other way because the front is moving through and the winds will die down and the colder air, cold, dry air will pour in tonight. Take a look at some of these numbers, 36 degrees in frederick. 40 morningside. Tacoma park at 39. A bit of a chill in the air because of the wind. Its want dramatically colder but definitely a chill out there. Later this evening, the temperatures will drop and the winds will subside. That combination will drop us pretty low in the thermometer. Temperatures down to the mid 30s in western maryland. That cold air will come in and replace these 40s. By early tomorrow morning, well in the range of 15 to 25 degrees but the winds will be light in the morning. Skies will be crystal clear. Chilly start to saturday. Through the day tomorrow, well be in fine shape. Futurecast shows clear skies all day long tomorrow but on sunday it looks like an area of low pressure will sneak up the coast and rainfall depends on which model you look at the placement is different. We think the best chance of rain on sunday will be along east of i95 and should clear out late sunday night. Rest of the dr. Luther king Holiday Weekend looks nice. Theres the Holiday Weekend forecast. 39 tomorrow. 48 sunday with a chance of showers mainly east. Partly cloudy and breezy on monday and the next seven days, next chance of precipitation on wednesday and right now it looks like showers as we expect daily temperatures to be in the 40s for most of next week. Not bad. You can see. Early in the game lets wait a minute. All right. Good deal. All right. It turns out that the beagle landed after all. The European Space agency lost contact with its beagle two probe 12 years ago. Now, the mystery of what happened has been solved. Nasas mars reconnaissance orbiter recently discovered the probe while surveying the surface of mars. The probes lander system worked but failed to deploy after touching down. Now what do you do . Exactly. Ok. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 a settlement that makes the former penn state coach joe paterno the winningest coach in College Football history again. Paterno has been stripped of 112 wins during that child molestation scandal involving the former assistant coach gerry sandusky. He is serving a 30 to 60 Year Prison Sentence right now. Todays settlement resolves a lawsuit about a 60 million fine against the school to address child abuse. Now our question of the day is asking you what you think of the penn state settlement. Join the conversation about it on our wjla Facebook Page and well be sharing some of the comments that we get here a little later ihour. The woman in charge of the nations medicare and medicaid systems is stepping down. Her name is marilyn taberner and she sent colleagues an email today saying she would be leaving her post at the end of february. She bore the brunt of the criticism during this shaky launch of the National Health Care Exchange system in 2013. After 50 years, a long, strange trip is coming to an end. The surviving members of the grateful dead announced today they will be reuniting for three final concerts. Those shows will be july 3 4th and 5th at Soldier Field in chicago. Bob weir phil lesh mickey hart will be joined by Bruce Hornsby and several other performers. Jerry garcia died back a month after they performed here in r. F. K. Wonder how long that will take to sell out. Probably already is exactly. One d. C. Lawmaker wants every child in the city to get some good books. And well explain how coming up. Plus the man hunt for two suspects after a deadly rampage in florida. And a spa suddenly shuts down and employees leave the jobs. Customers fear losing thousands of dollars worth of giftcards. 7 is on your side trying to get all that money back. And d. C. Streetcar delayed again. Im chris as a Small Business owner you wouldnt deliver just half of what you have to offer to your customers. So why are you settling for halffast internet . Only verizon fios comes with speedmatch. Upload speeds as fast as your download speeds. So large files are sent in a snap and video conferences with customers are seamless. Dont miss your last chance to get 300 when you switch to fios internet and phone for just 99. 99 a month with a 2year agreement. Thats 300 when you switch to internet and phone w with 99. 9 network reliability. And verizon is ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by j. D. Power. Call 1. 888. 410. 4404 now to get americas only 100 Fiber Optic Network plus phone for just 99. 99 a month and your last chance to get 300. To get a firm price quote of your total monthly charges just call 1. 888. 410. 4404 toda get 100 fiber optic internet that makes you Small Business ready. All right. Lets talk about the d. C. Streetcar. It was supposed to be up and running and carrying passengers starting next week, right . Thats right. After months of testing, abc 7 has learned today that it is being delayed again. 7 on your side iteam investigator chris pabst is live along h street with a look at what happened this time. Chris . Alison, these signs right here, these have been on h street for a while now telling people the streetcar will be coming soon and apparently these signs are not going to be going anywhere. We have no idea what the word soon means. Now, vdot said today it cant give an estimate for when these streetcars are going to start carrying passengers even though the d. C. Taxpayer has already sunk 123 million into this project, over the past 12 years. Now, in the final days the former mayor vincent grays administration, he said the streetcars will open the week of january 19th. And that happened to be on monday. Proper safety certifications cannot be found and the current mayor muriel bowsers office told 7 on your side she is committed to seeing this project through but no timeline has been given. I think having a pressure to open to achieve some sort of Public Relations milestone is really missing the point. The point should be to get it right. For a while now, these streetcars have been running although passengers arent on them. They are just practicing. Now, coming up at 6 00 were going to tell you what other hurdles are stopping these streetcars from fully opening outside of just the safety certification. Live in northeast d. C. Chris pabst, abc 7 news. Ok, chris, thank you very much. Well, a d. C. Councilman wants the city to spend 1 1 2 million over five years to make sure d. C. Children get books from birth. Charles allen says fewer half of the third graders in the district scored at proficient or advanced in their reading skills last year. So he wants to send one book a month to every child under the age of 5 unless they opt out. Dealing with the family where the adults may be with low or no literacy. Then what happens is youre creating one more barrier to getting out and i think you further help you up later on. The books could be paid for through city funds, donations and grants. You may want to grab a good book for at least part of the weekend coming up. Theres your Silver Lining huh . Exactly. Chief meteorologist doug hill in the storm watch 7 Weather Center with a look at why you may want to spend part of this long Holiday Weekend inside. A portion of it. Sunday seems to be not the best of the three Holiday Weekend weather days. Lets start you off with right now. Current conditions around the area. 46 at Reagan National and look live up the river from bell haven in alexandria. 46 degrees. Still a bit of a breeze out there northwesterly at 13. Bit of a chill. 38 in hagerstown. Colder temperatures mo behind the cold front. Gusty winds out there will diminish. Heres where i think well find temperaturewise by tomorrow morning, clear skies. 17 in gaithersburg. 20 near andrews. Chilly start and through the dr. King Holiday Weekend, well call for sunshine tomorrow. Upper 30s. Increasing cloudiness on sunday. Highs of 48 with a chance of showers but we think the best chance of rain sunday afternoon and evening will be along and east of i95 and the cloudy, breezy 43 so all things considered, through mid to late january, not a bad forecast at all. No storms. Maybe afternoon rain in some spots, leon . All right, doug. Thanks for the advises. Other advice for you folks 7 is on your side after a rockville spa shuts its doors surprising the employees there and the customers who want thousands of dollars of giftcards leading up to the holidays. 7 on your side consumer investigator kimberly suters live to tell us what happened there. Kimberly . According to these court documents, the day spa in rockville was not paying its rent for the last four months totalling more than 47,000. The spa has been in business nearly 15 years in the center. It got rave reviews from customers who love the place. They are not loving, however, filling stuff with generous giftcards they bought days before the spa shut its doors. A lot of them are, you know very upset because they had gone and purchased giftcards for loved ones or friends during the holiday season. And then all of a sudden found out that they are closed two days after christmas. So its kind of very criminal in my mind. My hope would be that any Business Owner would do the right thing. And honor and respect their customers. Perhaps, they were they found themselves in a really difficult situation. Undoubtedly a difficult situation here. 7 on your side reached out to the spa owner and she says shes absolutely heart broken and is looking for a way to make sure her customers are compensated. In the meantime 7 on your side has tips for how you can try to get your money back when gift cards go bad. Thats coming up at 5 00. Leon, back to you. Thanks kimberly. Lawyers for home depot are defending their client against allegations of negligence. The retailer is facing at least 44 lawsuits related to a massive data breach. Lawyers for all sides met with the federal judge in atlanta to discuss how the cases will move forward from here. The breach exposed millions of customers financial and personal information. Home depot failed to protect itself from hackers. No doubt animal control officers in l. A. Are looking forward to a quiet weekend and heres why. On monday officers found of all things an eight foot long alligator living in a custombuilt pond as a pet. They lived there in the home for the past 37 years. On wednesday, the same officers found another gator at a home a few miles away. That one smaller and appeared to be abandoned. The l. A. Zoo is caring for both of those animals. Alison . One of the preserves housing the animals in china. A deadly virus has already killed two other pandas there since early december. Veterinarians are now using antiviral therapy to try and treat the ill 5yearolds, the virus is often deadly to pandas killing about 80 of those infected. And back here at home the centers for Disease Control now says the flu is widespread in four states and the district of columbia. Weve told you that this years flu vaccine is not a great match for the illness thats going around. Well, it turnss only about 23 effective. Coming up at 5 00 a new warning for parents about getting their kids vaccinated for the flu. Coming up on abc 7 news at 4 00 dont really know what we expected when we started. The hunt for Elizabeth Gallagher paid off. Now were hearing from the strangers who took a trip around the world together about what it was like. And then a little later sifting through the fine print when it comes to coupon exclusion. First, the search is on for a modern day bonnie and were seeing new underwater images ofir asia flight 8501 today. The planes fuselage was located but search conditions are waiting before lifting that wreckage. The flight crashed en route from singapore to indonesia. 162 people were on board. Meanwhile, two people are dead. Four robbery suspects are in custody after an intense overnight man hunt in central florida. The chain of events started when four men armed with assault rifles robbed a pawnshop last night in auburndale. A police chase followed and that chase ended when the suspects s. U. V. Crashed into a residential neighborhood. One suspect was caught immediately. Three others fled. Police captured the second suspect inside a home and discovered two women dead. We know that these two victims were viciously murdered. Much too graphic to describe. The victims were identified as 72yearold patricia moran. Her 51yearold daughter deborah royal. The last two suspects were captured separately. No officers were hurt. The kentucky teenagers are the prime suspects in kentucky. And now all looking for 18yearold dalton hayes and his 13yearold girlfriend cheyenne phillips. And stolen several vehicles and cashed s our biggest fear is they stole a vehicle and the outcome of that is usually not good. Phillips parents said that their daughter is a notorious liar and likely she told hayes he was older when they started dating. They believe hayes is the one calling the shots. Both families are urging the couples to turn themselves in. Auto a link right in their backyard. Sort of exit interview with outgoing governor martin they are considering tuition rates at the states colleges and universities. That could result in a 2 tuition increase in the middle of this school year. Well let you know as soon as we know what happens. In the meantime martin says he plans to become a faculty member with Johns Hopkins university after his term as governor ends next week. Brad bell sat down with the outgoing governor today for an exit interview. Heres the scene that says it all about whats going on in annapolis right now. This is the Governors Mansion, its been Martin Omalleys home for the last eight years and take a look at this. The moving vans that are taking his belongings out of the Governors Mansion and out of the statehouse and up to his new home in baltimore. The governor announced today that he will become a fulltime professional speaker and a parttime professor focusing on government and business matters. He also took time today to tour a part of the statehouse thats under renovation historic part of the statehouse. He said he is not wishful but he did enjoy thinking about his time in office and what an honor it was and how grateful he is to have served in and then he sat down with reporters to talk about his legacy. He boasted of many accomplishments but he also admitted that a couple of things kept him up at night. The things that gnawed at me day and night were all of the real stories of people that were struggling to keep their homes and keep a roof over their kids heads. When they had no prospect of getting their jobs back for a long time. As for that other thing that people talk about with martin owemalley and his time after the Governors Mansion, possible run for the presidency, he had a few things to say about that. Hell share those comments at 6 00. They were digging in the michigan backyard when they discovered a large, very old bone. Then they found another and another and another and look at this. In the end, they uncovered 42 bones in all. It was just something else. Isnt that incredible . It wasnt a dinosaur. It was a mass mastadon. The elephant like creature lived 12,000 to 14,000 years ago. They have plans to hunt for more bones when its springtime. And not quite so cold in michigan. We obviously dont have a dog. My dog would have dug those bones up a long time ago. Long time ago. A canadian woman is back from a once in a lifetime trip around the world thanks to her name. A story weve been following on abc 7 news. You may recall Elizabeth Gallagher, remember that name . Well, shes the lucky woman who was chosen to take a threeweek trip with jordan. Jordan and his girlfriend who was named Elizabeth Gallagher broke up last fall and he was left hanging with the around the world tickets with elizabeth ga on them. He and the fillin Elizabeth Gallagher traveled to cities around the world like milan, hong kong and paris. One of my Favorite Places was prague. It was amazing. And hong kong was a happy accident. We just sort of ended up there. There was a couple staying at the same hotel as us in thailand. That was on their honeymoon that was following us on instagram and they said were at the same hotel. You want to go for a drink . Sure. He was glad he offered the ticket to the fillin Elizabeth Gallagher and said they would do it again. They had an incredible adventure. Get this, she has a boyfriend. No bachelor hookup on this one. Youre telling me her boyfriend let her go around the world with another guy. If you are the boyfriend thats a good deal. You can have the whole world and doesnt cost me a dime. I think like a woman. You think like a guy. Exactly. See you when you get back. Exactly. All right. Lets talk about what we have ahead of us. So its a little bit of a mixed bag, right . Yeah ok kind of weekend. Its chilly. Its january. Getting to the end of it here and the only really downside is a sunny afternoon, get a little rain in spots. Explore those possibilities and where the most likely rain will be. First off, find out whats happening around the area. This is one of the many h. D. Weather cameras on the Weather Bug Network at st. Marys and annapolis. Through today few fair weather clouds. Become a little bit more under the influence of this approaching cold front. Everybody had the same kind of sky cover today with clouds and sun. A little bit breezy but temperatures warm nicely into the 40s. In fact its 42 in annapolis right now. 42 in baltimore. 46 at Reagan National. 30s well north and west of the metro area. Thats because these northwesterly winds are bringing in progressively colder temperatures. The winds will diminish tonight. And as the winds diminish tonight, the temperatures will drop. It will be cold 15 to 25 degrees tomorrow morning with clear skies and a much lighter northerly wind. Our futurecast model shows sunshine through the day tomorrow but disappears on sunday. Sunday, early on there may be a little sunshine. This model pushes some light rain through the area in the morning, midday and afternoon and depending on which computer model you look at, some of the placement brings the rain through the metro area and others keep it to the east. We think along and east of i95 will be the best chance of rain during the day on sunday. Quickly get out of here sunday night and be back to partly cloudy skies for monday. Heres the next seven days for you through the dr. King Holiday Weekend, sunny and chilly. 39 tomorrow. Increasing cloudiness, 48 sunday with a 48 chance of rain area wide. But the best chances being along and east of i95 and then on monday, 43 partly cloudy. Same tuesday. Another system could bring us some rain on wednesday. So not perfect. Not terrible at all. Never promise weather perfection here. We try to get you through the weekend with it. Doesnt look bad. Thank you. Lets check to see if the roads are sloppy for folks trying to got out of here on this friday. Bob emler at the wtop traffic center. Looking messy there, bob. Leon, both directions getting slow to route 50 which itself is quite heavy. Heading out to points towards bowie. Show you why in a second. Sun still not setting and still quite bright heading west towards centreville. Inner loop delay out of tysons standard up from 123 headed to 270. There is road work on route 50 in maryland eastbound after 704 by about two miles and there it is here in the middle of a friday afternoon rush hour, does not appear to be emergency work just working on the concrete on the barrier there and there, its backed up well beyond the beltway trying to come from the district headed east and out towards bowie as the result of this road work on 50. On 66 just volume headed west and even east to some extent and im bob emler with wtop radio. Promises of big savings may be filling up in your mailbox. Find out how to sift through the small print so you dont end up your inbox this month, you probably find some things for big savings because stores are clearing all that winter merchandise. Oftentimes, they call it a discount or something on part or your whole purchase. In this consumer alert this evening, john materis explains why you end up disappointed. Dont waste your money. Pay attention. D. C. Area stores are slashing prices for their after holiday sale. Many offer coupons to save an extra 10 to 20 . Beware, many of those coupons include so many things. She loves shopping on line. Special offer from Dicks Sporting Goods popped up on her smartphone, she snapped up a garmin g. P. S. Watching with 25 off but made the purchase on line. And its the discount. No 25 discount. The watch rang up at full price. Its a common complaint when it comes to the Sporting Goods giant. Dicks frequently offers coupons for a percentage off your purchase but often excludes major name brands. When she visited the website to check the fine print, she was stunned at what she found. It opens up a list of 111 companies that products are excluded. And there, we found the garmin watch or Garmin Company along with nike columbia north face titlist, anything else you want to buy. Dicks says manufacturers, not the store, make the rules. And dicks is not alone. Macys is well known for coupons that exclude designer and top name brands. Jane says shes going to be a lot more skeptical in the future. I guess anymore its not going to be frustrating at all. Ill ignore them all. I dont believe them. If you find a coupon with dozens of exclusions, contact the store or search on line and find out when they may be having a friends and family sale. Manufacturers allows them to give discounts on the biggest name brands through whats considered a private sale. That way you dont waste your money. And we begin with that breaking news weve been following this evening in the search for answers for that tragedy on metro. The National Transportation safety board has just released its preliminary report into mondays incident where that smoke filled the tunnel near Lenfant Plaza station. As you no doubt know by now, one woman died from breathing in that smoke in the tunnel. More than 80 others were injured. Mike conneen is live at Lenfant Plaza station. Youve been talking to riders there as well. What have you learned . What can you tell us now . Leon the ntsbs preliminary report says investigators found severe electrical arcing to the third rail as well as electrical cables here at Lenfant Plaza in southwest washington. This happened monday and happened ahead of that train with all those passengers stranded on board. They released these pictures of the electrical arcing damage. Reports found that mondayslfunction continued for 44 minutes before the Metro Transit Agency shut off power to the affected rail. According to the ntsb report, mondays malfunction started at 3 06 p. M. When an electrical breaker tripped. It says metro started ventilating the tunnel 10 minutes later. But the ntsb says metro did not shut down power to the affected rail until 3 50 p. M. Echoing d. C. Leaders who said thats what delayed the emergency response. They are prepared to deal with emergencies. At the Ballston Metro station this morning and twin brook this afternoon, firefighters responded to reports of smoke. Metro says there was a common arcing insulator problem but with no emergency or evacuation the only impact today was single tracking. They seem to be on it. Still, after mondays incident at Lenfant Plaza that led to the death of 61yearold carol glover the medical examiner attributes to acute respiratory failure due to smoke exposure, many metro riders say theyre feeling anxious. I always look around and sit close to the doors. I dont have a choice. I dont have a car. I have to take the metro to get where im going. I worry. Despite their trepidation and frustration with metro, some riders say its important to keep perspective. I mean if you think about it as one incident for how many train rides, i dont know. Ntsb