With the details. Reporter wendy and jim, right now a hazmat crew is inside this house. Were on the 5300 block of connecticut avenue. Let me move right out of the way. You see that fire truck right there, on the other side of that truck there is a hill and thats the house that theyre currently inside. Many people have been coming up to me saying whats going on with all these Law Enforcement cars and suvs. You have all these types the of folks out here. And heres whats going on. Sources tell us a homeowner opened a 40yearold safe in his house on connecticut avenue and inside he found containers with a white substance. And it was like a syrupy type liquid. A hazmat crew was called secret service, d. C. Police d. C. Firefighters other government officers responded and Police Closed conowa street at chevy chase. Well hear from a man who lives in this neighborhood. I dont know what to thing, man. Theyre telling me its a gas leak. I dont believe it. I wonder whats going on just like everybody else. Reporter tonight, as you can hear there are a lot of unanswered questions. A lot of folks trying to figure out exactly whats going on. We called the d. C. Fire department. Theyre very tight lipped. Heres the deal. News does not stop at 11 30 for us. Well continue to make those calls. As we get the information, well post it on our facebook and twitter page at nbcwashington and well tell you the latest news on news 4 today. Live here in northwest d. C. Shomari stone. Before you go have the people around that house in the other houses been evacuated, do we know . Reporter thats a good question. And no one has told us that. However, we did come across a woman who lives in whats referred to as the jocelyn building. She was very concerned. She came outside and was asking me questions. Im trying to get the information to give to her. Its real tough sometimes when youre dealing with the federal government and trying to get information about these things. It would be nice if we had a little more information to give especially for the people in this neighborhood but then again theyre in charge and were continuing to follow their investigation. Thanks shomari. Other news a man was pulled from a pond in Prince Georges County this afternoon has died. That pond is on chaddsford lake drive in brandywine. Dive teams were called in there just after 4 00 this afternoon. The rescuers believe the man was in that water for at least 50 minutes, thats ten minutes short of an hour. Before they pulled him out. Crews could be seen performing cpr on the man as they loaded him into an ambulance. Investigators are still trying to figure out how that man ended up in that water. Some of the passengers involved in that amtrak collision in North Carolina just arrived here in d. C. More than 50 people were hurt in that wreck. And cameras caught the chaos. Oh my god oh my god the tractortrailer that was on the tracks was struck. News 4s Jackie Bensen spoke to some of the people on board that train and joins us now live from Union Station. Jackie . Reporter wendy, one family told me this was a vacation they will never forget. The first group of passengers to arrive at Union Station included members of the farmer family headed north on a spring break trip. We heard the brakes come on then there was the impact. So reporter are you all okay . Were okay. There were a couple of people the worker that was behind the snack bar, she fell and hurt her knee. There was another lady that fell and busted her nose. Reporter the collision between the amtrak train and a truck left dozens injured. Luckily none of those injuries was lifethreatening. At impact we were just all thrown over the place. Reporter this man took pictures of what he saw. He was sitting in a cafe car two cars back from the engine that derailed. We were sitting right on the traction. We knew immediately what happened. Reporter and talk about a long day. The passengers who are continuing on northward, amtrak fed them dinner here tonight, sat them down made sure they got what they needed. But a very very long day. Live in northeast washington Jackie Bensen news 4. New at 11 00 and a little different. A rescue on the front steps of a home in arlington. The concrete stairs at a home on madison street collapsed sending two adults and a child plummeting into a hole below it. Crews pulled the three from that hole. And two of the adults were taken to the hospital where everyone is expected to recover. Not clear what caused that collapse. Reports of smoke at the Lenfant Plaza station caused a bit of a disturbance earlier today, but when crews checked it out, they found it was just brake dust. That issue did cause some single tracking between Pentagon City and lenfant for some time. Looking at the weather now. Doug nice out there today. But heres what the rain could do. Wash all that salt off the streets so you can drive your car without getting it filthy all over again. It would be nice. The car wash was packed today, but i did not go in because i knew the rain would come tomorrow and kind of do a little bit of that job during the day tomorrow. Thats right. Washing a lot of that salt away washing a lot of the snow away thats still out there. Look at the high temperature, 62 in d. C. 64 in Fredericksburg Charlottesville close to 7 o today. Up in the 50s towards frederick. Tomorrow weve got the rain. Take a look. All of this rain, this is a lot of rain making its way in across our region. Atlanta, down through the gulf down around new orleans, houston, a lot of that making its way our way. It will be a very wet day on our tuesday. Thats just the first of what could be a couple of rainy days in the sevenday forecast. Ive got that in a couple of minutes. The thawing temperatures have brought about their own dangers. A Loudoun County truck driver is fighting for his life after he was buried under a pile of mud and ice. He was trying to clear the ice off a load of dirt when it fell on him. This occurred in sterling. He was buried for an hour before crews could rescue him. That mud and ice combined weighed one ton. Tonight police are trying to figure out what caused a deadly crash earl yesier today. A pickup truck smashed into traffic in poolesville. Amy burdette riggs of adamstown, maryland was killed in that crash. Two others were injured including the teenager from rockville driving the pickup. Hes not been charged. A former Navy Lieutenant and top gun instructor is facing life in prison. A federal jury convicted Daniel Harris today on 31 counts of child pornography. Prosecutors say harris posed online as a teenaged boy and convinced girls to send risque pictures of themselves then he threatened to post the pictures online if the girls didnt send him more sexually explicit images. He was stationed at air station oceana and is scheduled to be sentenced in july. A plea deal for the son of the late mayor marion berry expired on friday. Marion Christopher Berry is accused of threatening a bank teller and destroying a surveillance camera at a pnc bank in chinatown last month. Theres the possibility of a new plea deal before the trial gipps in may. Berry is currently running for his late fathers ward 8 d. C. Council seat. Prince georges county executive baker released a statement mourning the death of officer rabain. Today we learned there will be a wake for the officer and a funeral on thursday. He was killed after crashing into a fence. Police say he was trying to stop the speeding vehicle. The cause of that crash is under investigation. Some d. C. Police officers are racking up enough in overtime in some cases to triple their salary. Records provided by the Department Show one Police Sergeant who earns a base salary of 89,000 a year. They earn an additional 179,000 in overtime. At least 25 other officers doubled their salary by working overtime shifts last year. The extra money to pay for the overtime comes from the money collected by speed and red light cameras. Montgomery countys Public School chief announced today hes slashing 150 teaching positions. Interim superintendent larry bowers says the Teaching Staff will be reduced by raising class sizes. Bowers fears that the council will not be able to fully fund the budget request. Hes making decisions now so the schools can begin planning for next year. A former fire official says she cheated. She was guilty of swiping her taxpayerfunded purchase card to buy 11,000 worth of gasoline for her personal car. Pinkneys story was first revealed by the iteams Scott Mcfarlane who tried to talk to pinkney today outside court. Anything to say about this hike. Take a hike man im sorry. Take a hike she was ordered to pay back 11,343 to the government. Though she could face prison time when sentenced in may, lawyers are talking about probation only in her case. Coming up tonight, the racist rant that sparked a national outcry. Now a College Fraternity is suspended. Youre a disgrace to this university. Youre not a real sooner. Outrage at the university of oklahoma and across the country. Tonight the sorority that is now under investigation. More trouble on metro. Well show you the passengers who are too drunk to ride. And the dangers of this warmer weather. Melting ice, how it did some serious damage to these cars. Some lanes closed overnight, inner loop of the beltway from youre only young once. Unless you have a subaru. announcer the subaru xv crosstrek. Symmetrical allwheel drive plus 34 mpg. Love. Its what makes a subaru a subaru. Eeeeohmumohweh hush my darling. Dont fear my darling. The lion sleeps tonight. [snoring. ] hush my darling. [snoring. ] dont fear my darling. The lion sleeps tonight. [snoring. ] take the roar out of snore. Yet another innovation only at a sleep number store. Developing tonight, weve learned that the Tridelta Sorority is now under investigation for its involvement with that racist video that has gone viral. Meantime by this time tomorrow members of the sigma alpha eps ilan fraternity at the university of oklahoma have to be out of that frat house because of this controversy. Tonight an africanamerican alumnus of that fraternity is talking about his experience on campus. Jonathan davis was an active member of the sae chapter and recalls his time there fondly. The video in question shows the students laughing and singing about lynching africanamericans. Davis said he couldnt believe it when he saw it. They had diverse socio socic backgrounds, difbers ethnic and racial background. We did embrace diversity and somewhere along the line everything went off the rails. The National Fraternity said it was closing that chapter. The schools president severed its ties with the National Fraternity and shuttered the frat house. The mayor of baltimore and elected officials from our area led a rally in annapolis today to promote the purple line and baltimores red line project. Governor larry hogan is considering scrapping those projects. He feels the state may not be able to afford them. Supporters say those rail lines are necessary for Economic Development and jobs. Together the two lines are estimated to cost about 5 billion. Theres new video from metro tonight. People get too drunk really to be out on the streets safely. This video shows a man stumbling on a platform at the mount vernon station. He appears to be trying to get himself into the train but instead he was so drunk, he fell between the two rail cars. Seconds later that train started moving. Another rider on the platform that night described what happened next. The train rolled away and it seemed like it was taking forever to like leave the station. And we all walk up and look over the edge and somebodys like oh m i god, hes alive. Metro says that if youre out with a group of friends and one of them cant walk properly they say it might be a better idea to call a cab or uber. A snowball fight ends with a fistfight. Police in arlington said two men were tossing snowballs outside a bar sunday morning, when a man asked the pair to stop so he and his girlfriend could pass through. The men cursed him and hit the woman with a snowball. They then attacked the boyfriend who then fought back and broke the nose of one man and body slammed the others. Police broke up the fight. Everyone declined to press charges. After the snow comes the thaw. Temperatures rose into the 40s. That caused huge chunks of ice to fall on to parked cars in a Downtown Parking lot. There was a whole bunch of it that fell. Boston had its snowiest february on record last month. It was 43 in boston today. Right now. Which is a heat wave for them. The warmest temperature theyve seen they didnt see that in february at all. So i think they broke a record for most consecutive days under 32. Amazing. We saw it here too. We were on the cold side. Weve seen a lot of snow over the past couple of weeks. But were finally turning that corner. Talked about it last week. It came to fruition today with a high of 62. Still a mild 48. Winds out of the east at 6 miles per hour. A few clouds but not a lot going on around the region. 34 frederick, 39 annapolis and baltimore. Much more mild tomorrow when you wake up. Youre going to notice the difference when you step out the front door but take the umbrella. Theres nothing on the radar right now to show. But as we move just down to the southwest, notice the rain starting to make its way through tennessee. Portions of North Carolina a lot of rain making its way our way. You can see the storm bringing the rain straight up from the gulf of mexico that will move into our area during the day tomorrow. Good news here. I think youll be fine to get out the door. Tomorrows rush will not be impacted at all. Through tonight into early tomorrow morning. Here we are at 7 00 a. M. No rain out there. Im not anticipating any problems on the roads. It looks like it may arrive just a little bit later tomorrow. Thats good news too. You may even be able to get out there for lunch before the rain starts. Take the umbrella. Rain all across the region especially to the south and west. It will continue to rain just about all afternoon with some heavy rain. Tomorrow evenings rush hour will be a problem. Well see not only moderate rain but heavy rain at times. Give yourself extra time making your way home from work tomorrow. 8 00 tomorrow night still seeing the heavy rain. High temperatures a little cooler than today. 47 martinsburg, and patuxent coming in at 52 degrees. What kind of an impact will tomorrow have . Moderate. Were talking about rain. Take the umbrella. Some street flooding. Im not anticipating much in the way of river flooding or creek flooding but the streets are still clogged by some of the snows weve had. I do thing we can see some problems. The potholes will be a big issue tomorrow. Afternoon rain begins with the wet roads coming in with yellow there. I think the evening rush will be the worst part of the day at least on those roadway. 54 on your tuesday, wednesday is a great day. Chance for showers, but thats y in the morning. Looking at a very nice afternoon. 44 degrees on friday. Thats when the next storm system moves in. It looks like it wants to kind of stick around a little bit, too. Another chance of rain for saturday and sunday. For this rain tomorrow a half inch to an inch another half inch to an inch coming in on saturday and sunday. Its rain and mild temperatures. It aint snow so were good. It isnt freezing. Sports coming up. Talking about doing good, oh, my my. Dont wait for awesome. Totinos pizza rolls. Gets you there in just 60 seconds. Go bold with flavors that kick. humming oh yeah. humming theyre magically delicious. Ha very funny, kyle. Building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. This is what we do. Thats the value of performance. Northrop grumman. This is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity your home for the mo sports. Ill ask carol if the bullets won today. You know who i meant. We all make mistakes. Earlier today i was saying that john wall shouldnt play tonight. He was saying he was hurting. Never mind. Maybe the worst is over. The wizards having lost 13 of the last 17 games including nine straight on the road maybe they can put all those depressing numbers in the rear view. Before you say, come on it was just one game wait till you see how they played tonight in charlotte. Wizards trying to avoid circling that drain in the eastern conference. Nicely done. Thank you. They come out hot from the start. First quarter, pass over to john wall who pulls up makes it look so easy knocking down the three. 15 points in the game for wall. Wiz up 9. But later in the quarter, this is the Team Preaching defense. They come up here. Off the steal, wall for the big slam with authority. Nine assists for wall. In the Third Quarter wizards running away with it. Bradley beale, the steal. Takes it for the flash. And wizards snap their ninegame road losing streak with a 9569 win over the hornets. Bradley beale limping afterwards but says hell be okay. Wizards there at home on wednesday to face memphis. Big week for big ten teams. The maryland men with the number two seed. They play friday in the tournament quarterfinals. You may see those congrat boards going up for the marylandfeat undefeated. Des wells, the terrapin senior guard landing first team all big ten voted by the coaches. Tremble gets the nod by the media. And their fearless leader mark turgeon winning coach of the year. And he tells us how he did it. I just think i had a great group of players, great group of kids that bought in. We kind of knew in june that we had a good team. Everybody bought in. There was no jealousies. Everybody respected each other on the court. And we have good talent. Thats really the biggest reason that weve turned all right, now to baseball. Nats prospect michael taylor. Well see him in center field while denard span recovers from surgery. Gio gonzalez was on the mound. His spring debut. He went down gio, two innings. He might want this one back. I cant take my eyes off those palm trees, though. 20 braves. Same score, top six. Matt grace pitching getting help from the d. I cant watch this enough. Anthony rendon and gets it. Makes it look so easy as well. Not enough on the nats offensive side. Heres what i like about the denard span injury. Obviously bad, four to six weeks before he can start practicing probably miss opening day. Tony gwynn jr. Might make the roster. He looks just like his dad. Does he really . Yeah. Does he play like his dad . Well find out. He had a tough year last year. Michael taylor does he have a drivers license. Hes such a babyface. He looks ride away by roy orbison begins to play i ride the highway. Im going my way. I leave a story untold. He just keeps sending more pictures. If youre a freerange chicken you roam free. Its what you do. If you want to save fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance you switch to geico. Its what you do. Two wheels a turnin. Okay, i need a better pizza. One made with only real cheese. A pizza my family will love. announcer freschetta naturally rising crust pizza. Freschetta. Made better to taste better. Let me see why spring is like on jupiter and mars in other words another local singer getting a shot at becoming the next voice. He earned a spot tonight on the last night of the blind auditions. Hes from the town of myersville in maryland outside of frederick. He had to have surgery on his vocal cords last year and hes hoping to make his comeback on the voice. There are now three singers from our area who are in the competition. They include jack gregory from d. C. And treva gibson. She also is from up in little frederick, maryland. I would download his music. What a voice. Beautiful. Yeah. Steve from studio 6b in Rockefeller Center in the heart of new york city, its the tonight show starring jimmy fallon. Tonight, join jimmy and his guests Chris Hemsworth sienna miller