The grief on a daily basis. She seeking help. She has a great support system around her. Brad Romechia Simms is required to continue with the Mental Health treatment. She will be checked up on from time to time but she did walk out of the courthouse free. She will be living with her mother. When she come back, we will tell you why the states attorney, the prosecutor is not entirely happy about todays chain of events. In la plata, brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan breaking this afternoon there is a report of a Sexual Assault on a school bus. The Washington Post reporting a young girl, student at a glass glow middle school was slapped and grabbed on a bus by a fellow student or students. This happened in november. Police are reviewing video from the bus. So far no charges have been filed. We have more coming up at abc7 news at 5 00 and 6 00. Michelle police are back searching for accused rapist. Stephen tschida is on the scene and says some residents say he looks familiar. Stephen that is true. Five minutes ago i spoke with captain martin of the Fairfax CountyPolice Department who described the assault which took place here as violent, brutal, leaving the victim traumatized and injured. They are here on the complex site handing out this flyer, talking with people and several people told us that they believe they recognize the suspect. Early saturday morning a man broke in the unit in this building. The occupant, a 51yearold woman. She awoke to the intruder coming at her. First, he threatened her. Then Sexual Assaulted her. That could be anybody. Stephen investigators released a suspect. This womans mother recognizes him. He has been in the laundry. He hasnt been there since that happened. Stephen captain martin that we spoke with said he has heard from other residents in the complex, the same story. When they were shown that composite, they said that is the guy that hangs out here and sleeps in the laundry rooms in the buildings. Look now, look out right now. It is for that individual. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Michelle thank you. In the race for the white house now, republicans are eyeing nevada for the g. O. P. Caucuses tomorrow. One candidate not there yet. Ohio governor john kasich. He spent the morning at George Mason University ahead of super tuesday is a week from tomorrow. He has Campaign Stops in charlottesville and richmond, hitting the College Campuses there as well. A trial now underway in richmond will determine if virginias 2013 voter i. D. Law today a woman broke down on the stand when describing her inability to cast a ballot in 2014. They are challenging the law constitutionality. The supporters say the law is necessary to combat voter fraud. We are monitoring a storm system heading our way that could bring us rain over three consecutive days this week. Doug hill has the timing of when it will start and when the worst will hit. Doug at the moment its spectacular. The clouds are increasing quickly. Two separate systems. One area of the low pressure approaches early tomorrow. Satellite and radar. A lot of rain to go around. Moving northeast. We find when we look south and west, a good slug of moisture. A sicked storm is going to form up. By the time we hit wednesday it will move north. We are talking all rain. It wont be ice or snow in the area at all. The future cast will show that is a concern with the wet grounds and the recent snow melt and the run off and the heavy rain. Tomorrow morning, fair amount of rain in the area. The rush hour could be wet here. It will continue through the afternoon. Its only slightly diminished tomorrow. Quiet tomorrow night. As we get to wednesday, we feel the effects of the western storm to be a larger system. We are on the eastern side. Warm here, near 62 degrees with a few wind gusts on wednesday. Rain comes in during the day. Especially by the late afternoon. We get just in time for the rush hour through wednesday afternoon and wednesday everything, heavy rain. Probably thunderstorms as well. What comes after that, well talk about in a few minutes. Jonathan stay with abc7 for the update on the system heading our way. Doug and the entire stormwatch7 team providing update on facebook, twitter and on the website wjla. Com. Other news around the nation, the man who police say went on a shooting spree in michigan was in court for the first time. Was taken into custody, six people were dead across kalamazoo. Diane cho is in the Satellite Center with what comes next. Diane we just learned that Prosecutor SaysJason Brian Dalton admitted to killing six people on saturday. He didnt show any emotion this afternoon after he appeared by video link as the judge read the charges in court today. He now faces a number of charges including six counts of murder. According to the local abc affiliate in grand rapids, michigan, 45yearold Jason Brian Dalton told the judge, i would prefer to remain silent during his arraignment this afternoon. Dalton went on a terrifying shooting spree on saturday killing six and injuring two others in kalamazoo. Authorities say there was no known connection to the victims. The parents of the 14yearold girl. What a tough situation. My thoughts and prayers are with them and the support of the state was with them. Back. Squeezed her mothers hand. Diane Authorities Say dalton, an uber driver first shot a woman several times in the townhomes late saturday afternoon. He was here to kill. Diane more than four hours later he shot and killed 17yearold tyler smith and his father at a car dealership. Less than 20 minutes later he opened fire outside a Cracker Barrel restaurant. These are the photos of the victims from facebook killed at that location identified by authorities as 74yearold dormy brown, 68yearold barbara thawthorn and 62 yearold marylow and maryjo nigh. Daltons bail was denied. Uber released a statement saying in part that the company is cooperating with authorities. The suspect did not have a criminal record. Those who know him describe him as a family man. Diane cho, abc7 news. Michelle stay with us. Tonight at 5 00 uber driver. Suzanne kennedys report coming up in an hour. As we wondered if there were any red flags in michigan. Jonathan the Maryland Air National guard are stepping up in the war on terror. The Baltimore Sun reporting the men and the women of the free state will deploy this fall. Unclear how many will be going or where they will be based. Deployment typically do last about a year. Sometimes a half a year. In a memo to apple employees, ceo tim cook thanked them for their support in the companys dispute with the government. At issue is the company to access an iphone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists. F. B. I. Urged apple to stop saying, the world is ending. They only need access to one particular phone. Apple has helped the f. B. I. In this investigation and every law required when it has to draw the line recreating code, changing the iphone. Jonathan director comey says the f. B. I. Requests applies only to shooter iphone. That is it. Rallies are planned outside 40 some apple Stores Across the country tomorrow. Protest is also expected outside the f. B. I. Headquarters. This is the subject of our facebook of the day. We had it before and got overwhelming response. We are doing it again in light of what is happening. Take part in the poll and weigh in. We have results later in the newscast at 4 45. Michelle coming up on abc7 news at 4 00 the Supreme Court returns to work. Jonathan how Justice Scalia was honored before todays arguments. Plus 106 years young and she got to meet the president. You might remember virginia mclaurin from an abc7 7 on your side. We caught up with her after the white house visit. A confusing sign leading to parking tickets when some think they are in the clear. We are trying to clear up what it really means. Jonathan on the Eastern Shore, what is killing an american treasure . More than a dozen bald eagles found dead. Mystery coming up. Cmon how about dancing at 106 . Jonathan my goodness. She is so adorable. We first met virginia mclaurin in a 7 on your side piece by the troubleshooter horace holmes. Isnt she adorable . Michelle she is a hoot. She met and danced with the first family at the white house. Horace holmes, this is a dream come true for her. Horace absolutely. There arent enough words. Jonathan we all want to dance with her horace virginia mclaurin is amazing. At 106, she gets around on her own and eremembers details when growing up as child in south carolina. She has seen a lot of history and she made history for herself with impromptu dance with the president and the first lady. 7 on your side last saw 106yearold virginia mclaurin a rid her northwest d. C. Apartment of a bed bug infestation. If you want to be free, talk to channel 7. Horace she was showing off her infectious smile and sense of humor and told us her dream was to meet president obama. Now she can check that off her list. Late last week, not only did mclaurin meet the president and the first lady, but she caught their attention and the attention of the entire country when she decided to cut a step with the leader of the free world and his wife. She told me how it happened. I got his wife, too. Horace you started dancing . I was so happy. Horace that was a happy dance . It was. Horace absolutely a happy dance. Coming up on abc7 news at 5 00 we will tell you how miss mclaurin got to the white house in the first place and tell you why she decided to dance when she met the president. That is at 5 00. Tc with miss mclaurin on the website wjla. Com. Michelle the video, i mean has so many people sharing and clicking. Jonathan crashed the internet what else is on her list . Horace i dont know. I asked her. She will figure it out. Michelle lived a full life. Horace and then some. Jonathan thank you. Michelle well, still ahead the Supreme Court returned to work today in the wake of justice antonin scalias death. Chief Justice John Roberts started the day with a tribute. He called scalia a man for all seasons and with an irrepressible spirit. The funeral was saturday. He was 79. Jonathan hope you had a nice relaxing weekend. Monday. Time to get back in traffic. That is always, boy, that takes all the patience you can have. Jamie sullivan . Jamie it does, jonathan. This is a look at 95 in virginia. You can tell how slow we are. This traffic is just past the occoquan. Because of the traffic we have heavier traffic than usual. If you want to pay to avoid this, its a good idea today. This is a tenmile stretch you have slowing continuing south to the single digits. No problems right now near the mixing bowl. Top side of the beltway is heavy to 270 to pass by old georgetown to get to bethesda. This is normal. No crashes to report here. That is a look at traffic. Back to you. Jonathan thank you. Federal officials investigating the death of 13 bald eagles in maryland. They we Laurel Grover road west of the idlewilde area. Baltimore sun reports a man looking for shed deer antlers noticed the eagles on the property. Ket looking and found kept looking and found more and they found nine more in addition to what he found. We saw a large bird at the edge of the field and we thought it was a turkey at first. I realized it was a bald eagle. Jonathan they have not said if they were killed intentionally. The Maryland Department of natural resource, police and the u. S. Fish and Wildlife Service investigating to figure out what may have killed the birds. Michelle while we search for answers on the Eastern Shore we are eagerly awaiting two new bald eagles. D. C. s newest family setting up shop at the national arboretum. We expect two eggs to hatch in the next three and a half weeks or so. View the eagle cam. We have a link on the website wjla. Com. Jonathan a tossup. The most popular things we have going are you and the eagle. People watch it for hours. Michelle we have eagles. Doug we have doug. You get mesmerized. Michelle time runs away. Jonathan the other bird land and bring in food. They eat together. Doug i expect to see a little tiny tv set to give an eagle forecast. They have great eyesight. Jonathan they know long before it happens. Doug probably. Look at the weather that is going to change drastically. Clouds will increase rapidly tonight. Then the stage is set for a couple of days of rain. The rain could be heavy at times. 50 degrees and sunshine. On the 22nd of february, i will take that. 52 in manassas. 50 at andrews. 44 in annapolis. Breeze off the severn river to keep it chilly. 52 at the airport. We have the sunshine. Kind of dry winds out of the northeast. Clouds are coming back from the south and west. Area in the midsouth is going to bring in rain. Probably by the sunrise. Rain may be a deal throughout the morning rush over large portion of the area. May ease off a little bit toward the afternoon and the everything rush. Then we get a break. The Second System is taking shape. That is farther south and west shaping up. Stronger. The key is it will pass well west. No worry about rain or snow mix. It is rain and a lot of it. This is the deal for tomorrow morning. Rain is moving through the area. It will break a bit in the afternoon. Calm down. Main storm event will take shape to bring us more rain here. I could be heavy at times through wednesday. Thunderstorms with the gusty winds. Once it moves through it will get windy on the day thursday. As far as the rainfall totals the latest model update suggest an inch yaf to two inches for the duration of the along the immediate coastline of maryland, delaware an new jersey. Temperature wise we are talking rain. 90 chance tomorrow. 100 on thursday. It will turn colder friday and saturday. We will warm up again as early as sunday or monday. Michelle nice. Thank you. If you cant wait for cinco cine mayo, no worries. This is National Margarita day. It makes a drink and you can have it traditional or frozen with or without salt on the rim. No wrong way to do it. So i have been told. Jonathan how did i not know it was today . Coming up for us at 4 30 major changes planned for d. C. Known as ivy city. How hundreds of apartments and shops could squeeze in a small 15acre triangle. We will tell you about it still ahead. Michelle we take you behind the scenes with the 7 on your how you are helping us find the best stories in a first look at an investigation we are calling 6 million speed trap. Jonathan a lot of people have their picture taken and its extensive. Speed trap. Its a recipe for what many trap. Michelle tonight at 11 00, 7 on your side watchdog investigator chris papst will investigate what many consider d. C. s biggest speed trap. Chris every day we receiver emails, calls and letters from viewers. Almost all of them ask for help from 7 on your side. One of the common complaints is about the speed cameras. Some of those stuck out for us because its about the same speed camera. We will take you to a common road that has a unique feature. One direction is 45. If you travel in the other direction on the other side of the road its 35. Take a guess, what side of the road do you think the speed camera is on . Is most secretive. When we pull Traffic Studies from the road we realized we have a story here. Tonight at 11 00, we will tell you how many millions of dollars the one camera has made the district. You can decide for yourself if its a speed trap. In newsroom, chris papst, abc7 news. Jonathan tonight at 11 00, the government watchdog investigator chris papst will show you the Traffic Studies. You will hear from the police and ddot and you the see fid its a camera designed about the safety or this one is designed about revenue. Michelle coming up at abc7 news at 4 00 squeezing hundreds of apartment and new shop to a small 15acre triangle in d. C. Where it will go and what it announcer youre watching abc7 news at 4 00. On your side. Michelle welcome back. Were with doug hill. We have serious weather to move in, in the next 24 hours. Doug give everybody an idea. Tomorrow is wet and nasty. That is tomorrow. Heavy storms and rain. Heavy thunderstorms wednesday. This is an unusual setup. Temperature wise we are in fine shape. Lower s across the board. 52 in manassas. Early tomorrow morning we will drop in the lower 30s. I dont think we have problems even with the rain developing. Most of the rain is in this area here, farther south early in the morning. Once we get through the rush hour it will warm up. At the moment rain across north and south carolina, to extend west isouthwest to georgia and mississippi. The result is the clouds increase tonight. Rain moves in tomorrow morning with period of rain throughout the day. When you get to this time tomorrow the rain is contracted and moving out. We have to deal in the rush. Then we go quiet through tomorrow night and into wednesday. We have more show through the rain on wednesday. We have more in a few minutes. Michelle thank you. For more than a year, sarah and jacob have been missing their mother kathryn charge with the disappearance and presumed death. Today is a fifth hearing to determine the mental state. As kevin lewis explains the father of the children is calling the alleged bluff. Troy is convinced that she armed his Young Children and pretending to be mentally unstable. She has described the sentence she faces and even slipped in a depression in the he says it is proof of the sanity but her attorney disagrees. I need to be clear about this. There is more to competency than being able to say who are your lawyers. What does the judge do . Are you in a hospital or a prison . Today in Court Prosecutors investigated a new doctor meet with her to contend she has formed Therapeutic Alliance with the team of psychiatrist. A lot had to do with the fact there were conclusions reached in the report that we read that was at odds with the information we got from the collateral sources. Who is footing the legal bill . She has told me that they are advising her to stay incompetent. As far as who is paying him, i dont know. He gets free publicity. They will reconvene for a an attempt to end 18month stalemate. Im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Jonathan a brief scare for passengers on southwest Airline Flight this morning after it was forced to make an Emergency Landing at b. W. I. It was headed to providence, road island, and it returned after they reported a bird strike after they took off. The fire trucks escorted the plane to the terminal gate. Now its being inspected. Two people facing charges after a hitandrun in a liquor score. It happened in north frederick avenue overnight. Thigh say the guy in the passenger seat took the wheel and drove away. They traced the car to the home. Nobody was hurt. The woman charged wit d. U. I. In d. C. If you find a parking space, you take it. Michelle but sometimes there is a catch. Signs are confusing and that has led to issues all over the city. Tom roussey is in northwest. You find people who swear they follow the rules . Tom they were right. I have a question. If you are driving through town on a sunday and you came upon the sign, do you assume they could or could not park there . Jonathan you can park there. Monday through friday. Im with jonathan. Tom that is what you assume. You are right. That is what a number of people assumed yesterday. But they all got tickets. Here are pictures. One of the folks who got the tickets took and sent to 7 on your side. Keith thornburg is his name. Received a ticket. Obeying the law. What we found out from ddot, they were obeying the law. The tickets were given out in error. Still, a lot of folks were confused that the sign indicated you could park there on a sunday. Thornburg was one of them and we interviewed him about it. This is what he had to say. This is a systemic problem in the parking rules and the regulations. If you see no parking with the specific time regulations you assume you can park there outside the regulations. We got in touch for ddot. The ticket writer wrote the tickets in error. They will put up the signs that say no parking anytime. They indicate you park on a sunday so they didnt do anything wrong. All the tickets will be forgiven. We are told. Michelle an investigation is underway in a fire that ripped through a federal buildings. Flames shooting through a roof. It took dozen of firefighters to get it under control. It took 40 firefighters in beltsville two hours to get it under control. We want to show you the scene behind us. On the ground of the beltsville Agricultural Research center. Part of the usda. Started at 6 30 this morning. The roof collapsed. Firefighters didnt have options here. They never went inside. They battled it from outside entirely. Prince georges county fire got assistance to help with this. We are told to build the 202 on campus is a boiler plant to supply the utilities to the other building. Units on the scene with the heavy fire through the roof. Advanced fire before we got on the scene. Fire investigators arrived on the scene. They are literally combing through the debris here to figure out what happened. I am told there doesnt appear to be anything suspicious. No foul play involved. The best news is no injuries reported. In beltsville, john gonzalez, abc7 news. Michelle this just in. We learned that the democrat senator Claire Mccaskill has breast cancer. She said it was detected through a routine mammogram and the prognosis is good. Jonathan ivy city has been part of d. C. Trying to climb out of poverty. Michelle major changes are coming to the neighborhood. Sam ford shows us what is happening. Sam an area that was the ugliest is moving up. A reason why is this man. Douglas, a longtime developer. You can get anywhere in 15 minutes from the location. He says he wants to turn this into a new city. This is transforming a Warehouse District to something becoming chic. He bought the warehouse for the old Hecht Department store and since converted it to with eat trium, speakeasy room, a 247 planet fitness. He is excited. The residents in the city you are talking about a major job. When ivy city is coming up, d. C. Is changing. Reporting from northeast washington, sam ford, abc7 news. Jonathan more than 70 cases of the zika virus in panama. The Health Minister accompanies crews spray over the weekend. Government will spend 10 million to combat mosquitoes carrying the virus. Michelle ahead at 4 00, the photo capturing the day your first child is born is a moment parents will cherish forever. Reason one says the same photo is crea for her. Jonathan a photo finish of the daytona 500. The other famous race where victory was measured by. 01 of a second. elephant sound theres a big difference between making noise, tapping sound and making sense. elephant sound al security, we need more than lip service. Our next president needs a real plan to keep Social Security strong. elephant noise hey candidates. Enough talk. Give us a plan. Jonathan talk about online bullying. There is a new warning for parents sharing photos of the little one. Michelle this comes after someone stole a picture of a connecticut woman of the baby and plastered it online with a totally bogus story. Carina bennetts son was a new years baby. Article with the picture was originally posted in january of 2015. But that same photo has since resurfaced with a different headline reading detroit woman gives birth to her 14th child from 14 different fathers on world news daily report. Com. Jonathan i started to get more and more notifications on the facebook. People are starting to make comments about the person. Calling you ugly and fat. Those are the comments that started to hurt me a lot. If it wasnt water marks or coppery righted. Anyone can grab the photo and do whatever they want with it. Jonathan wow michelle thats right. All photo on public sites are at risk and they recommend to this is sad. We have to water mark the photos. Jonathan how about this . We know a plane trip can be stressful for anyone. Michelle but for a Washington State cup the happiest moment of their life. Here is why. Christie and jim tied the knot on a flight from los angeles to seattle. Her mom has stage four cancer. The inflight ceremony was too good to pass up. Jonathan great. I was happy in seattle. She wanted to see the house here. Camera man along. Great pictures. Family and friends were waiting if for the newlyweds. Plus mom when they landed. Congratulations. Great. Michelle next at 4 00 a followup to 7 on iteam investigation. The new elevated cancer risk. When it comes to the flooring that had formaldehyde in it. What is your book about . Music. Im kellye lynn if Landover Hills where the students benefit from a generous library donation. In spotlight on education. Hope you got a chance to get outside and enjoy the weather. Its beautiful but it is changing. Kellye students at cooper Lane Elementary School in Landover Hills have more books to read and check out thanks to a general race generous donation. Books are nice and funny. Kellye a gift from a labor rare that library that closed in november. Instead of keeping books out of the their hands we wanted to make sure children had them now. 5,000 books. Cooper and the other Elementary School shared children book. While they had the teen collection. 15,000 books distributed to the area schools. Fiction, nonfiction. Hard back and paper back. Fifth grader hopes the books will give him a better understanding of what could be his future career. I want to be an engineer. Information he is much more likely to find on the shelves of the school library. In Landover Jonathan update you on an iteam investigation. C. D. C. Says cancer risk from some lam nant flooring from the Lumber Liquidators is three times higher than reported. It estimates that the risk of cancer at six to 30 cases per 100,000 people. The c. D. C. Previously estimated two to nine cases. The ceo resigned after it became public last year. Earlier we opened a facebook poll and asked if you agree with apple they should comply or comply with the f. B. I. Michelle the tech giant doesnt want to create a mass key to unlock all iphones. Six in ten of you say apple should stand down. Jonathan some of the comments jonathan so far nobody said apple should comply. The investigation will continue at abc7 facebook. Some people weigh in saying this is a mandoras box. We would like to know what you had to say. Michelle i wish we could vote for the weather. Id vote for today or saturday. Steve it was so nice. Now we need umbrellas, bigger umbrellas for wednesday. The winter coat on thursday. No michelle again . Steve but next weekend is better out there. Once the sun sets you wont see sunset. The mountains, 48 winchester. Hagerstown at 48. Coolest air to the west. Clouds will begin to roll in. The moisture is well south and west. 32 to 40 for the overnight low. We have high temperatures around 45. We will take you out to look at the next seven days. We will fall on thursday. Talk about the upcoming weekend. Cool side in the middle 40s. Sunday is lower s with the partly cloudy skies. Lets check on traffic. It looks bet now than it will 24 hours from now with the ra focus on the slowing we have now on 95. I know in virginia, 95 is always slow heading south. Even slower today because of an earlier crash. The pay to use express lanes are moving well. Today may be one of the days that you pay to use. Talk about how slow we are. Averaging 12 miles per hour. Getting from the mixing bowl to the occoquan will take you under 45 minutes. Earlier crash is now moved to the side. No longer blocking the two lanes. South side. Typical for us as you round toward bethesda. We are seeing delays. Jonathan these are the cars you wont see on the road. First and secondplace at d of a second. Watch. To the finish of the daytona 500 jonathan we wondered how many were that close. Michael phelps won the 100meter butterfly by a finger. 012 of a second separated the winner from the secondplace finisher. Michelle coming in second more painful. Still next on abc7 news at 4 00 tumbling Oil Prices Mean cheap gas. Why is everything look at the fees that went in place that are still here. Next. Welcome to the ice. Your Washington Capitals jonathan okay. How great is this . We introduced you to Brendan Frederick a couple of weeks ago. The Blind High School sports announcer that captured so many hearts. He got to live out the dream. We have if an a have the amazing sto oil price collapsed in recent months from 100 a barrel to 30. Have you noticed in the average tire is well over 100. But the tire prices havent fallen. Hmmm. The price of motor oil in the auto part store jumped to 6 and 7 a quart in the past few years. Crude oil is down but motor oil isnt. Hmm again. The annoying fuel charges from shipping service and the garbage man. Eunderstood them two years ago. Most dont anymore. Doesnt that stink . Service providers say they keep the charges in case gas prices spike again and are lower than they have been in years. Hmm. Bot to the line the fall, it takes longer for the benefit to trickle down. That stinks. Dont waste your money. Im john gonzalez, abc7 news. Leon tonight i dont want anyone to think the state or the community is happy with the outcome. Leon no punishment for a mother who pushed a child in a swing until he died. Why the states attorney could have prevented it. The uber shootings causing concern among riders. No way to get inside peoples heads. Generating a lot of questions about the companys background checks. An old acquaintance of ours finds newfound celebrity. Now abc7 news at 5 00. Alison she was found pushing a 3yearolds lifeless body in a swing. Nearly a year later a judge declared Romechia Simms not criminal res little boys death. Maryland bureau chief brad bell was in court and joins us live from la plata with the new developments in this story. Brad . We have been following this since last may. We learned the depth of Romechia Simms mental illness. This is the swing set where it happened. This is not the actual swing. That has been removed. You know what . When the parents heard what happened, many of them told us the same thing. This woman couldnt have been in the right mind. Today a judge agreed. Last may, Romechia Simms put her son jiaire lee in a swing and kept him there pushing him through two nights and a cold rainy day. At some point the child died. The lawyer revealing that simms heard voices that made her do it. The judge agreed she was mentally ill and not responsible for killing her son