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Sam we have been here for the last eight hours and this train has been stuck after an Early Morning fire in the last three minutes. It moved from the tracks above benning road behind me. It is a great site for all of those people in this area. This train has caused delays for the orange, blue, and silver lines all morning since the metro opened at 5 00 this morning. Some people telling us they got to work more than an hour late today. Metro saying it has been causing delays of to 30 to 35 minutes. It all started when a small fire happened under the train. Clearing weekend track work. They brought in a test train to go over the area and they say a small fire started. They were able to put it out with a fire extinction. Asy left that train in place they worked on it throughout the night into the Early Morning and trains sat waiting to go by. This was not the only problem. A partial power outage at Farragut North station causing signals and single tracking on the red line. We caught up with metro travelers and just like many other days in recent weeks they are frustrated. I was at landover 30 minutes. Expected to be here at a certain time and we are not. We have reached out to metro. So far they cannot tell us why this happened or whats involved to get it fixed but we can tell you you should expect residual delays. We are seeing singh culture act as the crews remain here on the scene. In northeast washington, im same sweeney. Im sam sweeney. Jummy i was stuck in delays because earlier today i sat down with metro hoss general manager paul wiedefeld. He explained what he plans to do to make your commute better. Number of smoke and fire related incidents on metro since april 23 including this one just days ago. An explosion from a third rail insulator at the Federal Center southwest station. The federal Transit Administration called metros response slow and days ago the government tasked metro with implement a new safety mandates by may 16. One of those includes training workers to put safety over convenience. It is safety versus convenience. We have to focus on safety first. A lot of the issues we will be dealing with is due to decades of work not being done and we have to catch up area jummy metros new chief Safety Officer starts his new job. Paul wiedefeld plans to meet with all 650 metro managers. He told me it is the first time in metros history that has happened. On the agenda for tomorrow, outlining the held accountable. Some of the events we findings,ad, the ntsb i want to drill home how important it is. Safety is, to what we do everyday. Jummy we talked to rider stuck in more metro mess. They are frustrated but confident in wiedefeld possibility to get wiedefelds ability to get things done. The work you are seeing done is paid for a lot of it by the fares. It is a catch22. Jummy we will continue to stay on top of metro and safety issues as well. Brianne carter has continuing coverage tonight at 5 00 and we will have updates all day long at wjla. Com. Jamie sullivan joins us with a check of our traffic watch. Jamie on any of our area streets you are going to experience wet road. This is right in downtown bethesda near wisconsin eastwest highway. It is going to be a wet commute. Luckily we got have too much traffic. We will move to our map. A few areas we see some volume on the interlude in closer towards green bell from college park. No problems in d. C. We are mostly in the green and as we move toward virginia on the capital beltway you see a good idea that we are up to speed. There is going to be that road spray so you will need the wipers on. Disabled train has us single tracking on the orange line from chevrolet to stadium armo armory. Several line operating from wheelie reston to ballston. Use the orange and blue line to transport any orange line to continue your trip. Jummy thank you. We are tracking more unsettled weather to start off the work week. Scattered showers already moving through the region three at lets get to doug hill with a look at where they are now. At this hour with temperatures comfortable enough. 57 degrees southwesterly wind at 12. Humidity at 77 . We have had this pattern over and over where we have one rainy week after another. It looks that we will have another one. The difference this time, temperatures will be warmer because the warm front moving through the area will tend to have more of a southerly component to the wind rather than last week where the winds were out of the east northeast. Mid 50s across the area as we get through the afternoon we warm up somewhat. A warm front lies over the area with rain. A couple of areas of moderate showers south and east of waldorf. Those are lifting northward. Get used to a pattern that is going to be dictated by a front that will stay in the neighborhood. Its a good thing we should stay on the warm side of the front. Rather than the northern extreme. Rain is in the forecast and as far as the timing of it, just about anytime through the day sc out about 66. The next seven days to see if theres any dryness. We will see what we can do for you. Ummy a developing story now the man accused in the deadly shooting spree heading to court in montgomery county. Police say Eulalio Tordil killed three people and sat down for lunch for Police Caught him in a dramatic sting. Case as ateps in this community continues to mourn. Willter Eulalio Tordil have his initial arraignment inside iraq courtroom in about one hour. We have been talking to folks courtroom inde a about one hour. This is where Claudine A Mulino was gunned down. You can see the memorial has been growing for her. A the street you have the sunoco across from connecticut avenue where the taxicab driver 14 years ago was shot and killed by the d. C. Snipers just up the road behind you have the Shopping Center with the boston market. That is where the d. C. Snipers spent some time and that is where tordil ate lunch friday afternoon just before being captured. Our cameras were rolling when that dramatic takedown occurred. The federal Police Officer now facing a long list of charges including two counts of firstdegree murder here in montgomery county. We spoke to a woman who knew the last victim in the shooting spree. I know her. I take her to my church. We go to many prayers with the church. She was beautiful friend with me. Almost like a sister. The Victims Rights Foundation will be holding the candlelight vigil tonight. This is the same group that raised some 500,000 with the families of the 14 d. C. Sniper attack victims 14 years ago. Inside. Jummy a Homicide Investigation near the campus of Prince Georges County community college. Police say an adult male was shot in the 500 block of harry truman drive around 10 00 last night. He died at the scene. No word on his identity but anyone with information is asked to contact police. Seems to be changing his tune a bit as the president ial race continues. Sunday the presumed gop candidate changed his stance on his tax plan saying tax rate cuts for the wealthy would be more modest than he projected. He said he does not care if the gop is divided because it could be what they need. I take it would be better if we are unified. There would be something good about it but i dont think it actually has to be unified in the traditional sense. Jummy trump sits down this week with paul ryan who says he is not ready to endorse the likely cand democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton will be in our neck of the woods today. Former secretary of state will be in stoneridge, virginia meeting with women and families to discuss worklife balances as well as family issues. It looks like north carolinas bathroom law will be headed to court one way or another. A couple of hours ago governor filed a suit against the doj gave macquarrie a deadline. The deadline was today. The law requires people to use bathrooms based on their biological sex regardless of their current gender. Coming up, weve got new clues about the Mistry Powerball winner. What the store who sold that ticket is revealing about who they believe won the jackpot. An important recall involving pacifiers. The potential problem that should have parents returning them. Severe weather sweeping the verifying the midwest. Keeping an umbrella around here. Doug hill is back when we will see the wet weather and a warm up as well. Morning noon or night theres always a moment to discover visit annapolis and create your moment youre watching abc seven news at noon on your side. Jummy we are learning more about the countrys mysterious new multimillionaire. This weekends winning Powerball Ticket was sold in trenton, new jersey. Store owners are celebrating today. They think they know who the winner is. Reporter its official. A new multimillionaire in new jersey. Whoever you forward. Let us keep it safe for you. Reporter the lucky powerball player but the only ticket matching. The ticket was 400 29 million taxes. Million before the secondbiggest jackpot worn by a single ticket. The sixth largest in powerball history and the store owners who sold the recordsetting ticket get 30,000. When we did hear the news we were so excited. Even now, pretty unbelievable. Angela shen and her husband owned the 7eleven interest, new jersey. Quickly and more Powerball Tickets were snatched up by those hoping to keep the stores lucky streak alive. We do have a lot of repeat customers everyday. Customers like these every day. The who the person is. Either way we are so excited for the winner. Reporter lottery winners in new jersey have to be revealed and the person has a year to claim the prize. The store owners in the meantime say with their 30,000 they are going on vacation. Jummy how lucky. Today in annapolis, maryland officials will unveil redesigned id cards and drivers licenses featuring security features to protect against counterfeiting. Maryland last updated its licenses back in 2003. The Old Technology is vulnerable to fraud official say. The new licenses are said to be the most secure in the nation. A consumer alert about 180,000 as a fires now being recalled over a choking hazard. Copy munchkins says the company munchkins says a latch can detach. They were sold at babies r us, target, and online at sites like so far no injuries have been reported. It is a simple slip of paper that most travelers dont think much about after the use it. Tonight at 11 00, troubleshooter forest homes will show us how an identity thief can extract Important Information off of your Airline Boarding pass and Security Experts say it is a amazingly easy to do. There is the information displayed. Its very easy. Jummy watch our story boarding pass for trouble. Coming up tonight at 11 00. Firefighters are gaining ground on that Massive Wildfire burning at 43, canada. Officials say at fort mcmurray, canada. Officials say light rain should help them get the upper hand. More than 1600 homes and buildings have been torched and the power grid is damaged. No timeline for allowing residents to return. Closer to home cleanup is underway after severe storms brought at least seven tornadoes to the midwest. Tornado continues on the ground right now. Jummy massive funnel clouds were spotted from oklahoma to illinois through last night. At least five people were injured in colorado. Several buildings reduced to rubble or did in oklahoma, rain led to flash flooding. In illinois, six he sits mileperhour wind snapped power 66 mileperhour wind snapped power lines and tour the roof off a school. Doug today could be another outbreak of tornadoes across north texas and parts of kansas so we will keep an eye on that. Jummy it has been that way for 10 days now. Doug the only difference this time over last week was rainy and chilly. This will be much milder. We will take that. A live look in fairfax. Rain. The rain moved in the area about 10 30 this morning and will be with us at times. The warm front draped across the metro area but the position of the warm front, how for to the north it goes, will make a big difference. Ultimately we will see temperatures either climb to the upper 60s and lower 70s because of southwesterly wind or get more of a northeasterly component and drop temperatures down. Cannot do a whole lot about the clouds and rain in our forecast. 56, the official temperature at reagan national. We will see occasional showers. First pitch against the tigers will be spotty showers. Fingers crossed. You may want to take a slicker just in case. I dont think it will be widespread heavy rain tonight. It is fairly widespread. Areas of moderate rain south of waldorf lifting very slowly to the north. The rain elements are moving this way. We will keep an eye on it but plan see the motion premuch moving to the east southeast along the warm front for the remainder of the afternoon. Further west you can see the western extent of this front. The front that separated it. Over portions of kansas and oklahoma and west of dallas skies are sunny. With a front, the sun with heat things up. Risk assessed by Protection Center has parts of kansas and oklahoma and arkansas involved in the biggest chance of severe thunderstorms and possible tornadoes this afternoon. Teacher castros areas of rain that should lift to the north as the warm front moves north of the area this afternoon. Scattered showers by this evening around the area and the process will keep repeating over the next few days. Occasional showers. The probability of rain kind of goes up and down. In the next five days or so at rain each day. How ability wise the biggest chance at 60 and again by friday with a frontal system 70 in between lower chances but you rise intoperatures the 70s so it will feel like that even if it does not have the classic blue sky look for the month of may. Jummy hopefully after sunday it is sunny and 70s. Doug we will work on that. Jummy thank you. Coming up, helping the homeless in an unexpected way. Important items that women need yet they are something that shelters are not able to provide. Jummy the surprising items some women jummy a local organization is making sure all mothers are appreciated including those without homes. Suzanne kennedy shows us how they are providing unique but necessary donations. Suzanne volunteers are here in this garage organizing in putting together products critical to women. Bringing resources to aid women shelters has been around for more than a year and they are making in a pet on the women rase donated dozens of b and underwear and given away boxes of feminine products area they have donated to dozens of shelters throughout the region. The groups Organizer Says she saw the need after learning that women shelters are given clothing but not basic and necessary items. Items women need and yet they are something shelters are not able to provide. Especially with tampons and pads. Cbs or target and we do not realize when these women have a choice they need to put clothes on their body. Sort of a secondary need for them. Will be given away these items later today at the Catherine Hanley shelter in fairfax county. Expect to help more than 100 women. Jummy great story. A cloudy and rainy start to the workweek. Doug is tracking scattered showers moving through the region. How it impacts your jummy today, avid star watchers will be able to look into a telescope aimed at the sky and sea mercury pass between the earth and the sun. This event is known as a planetary transit. Mercury will look like a tiny black dot as it glides in front of a blazing sun. You can still catch about two hours. You will need a telescope or binoculars with solar filters to see it. Doug kind of a better transit that we are seeing around here. Jummy better than metro. Doug rain throughout the day will turn mild. That will not get us a lot because you will see in the forecast 60 chance of rain today. Tomorrow, wednesday, thursday, friday evening to saturday morning. Jummy we look forward to a turning warmer. Have a great day. [captioning performed b morning noon or night theres always a moment to discover visit annapolis and create your moment welcome, everybody. Im so glad youve joined us because today weve got a very special guest miss america, kira kazantsev, whos here to help us raise lots and lots of money for a Wonderful Charity Childrens Miracle Network hospitals, so stay right where you are because its time to play who wants to be a millionaire. [cheers and applause] [dramatic music] welcome to who wants to be a millionaire. Im chris harrison, and today were raising money for Childrens Miracle Network hospitals, a fantastic organization that saves lives by supporting more than 170 childrens hospitals across the country. [applause] and we are doing it with the help of a very, very special guest kind of near and dear to my heart

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