Added to those massive mounds already piling up on road shoulders like this one in friendship heights. That bad boy right there is about 8 feet tall. Traffic reporter Monica Centanni says that can only lead to trouble. Reporter if you look closely, you see the shoulder and then none. This is only 1 car going by. Imagine tomorrow morning what this could look like with a full on morning commute. We found similar problems on several area highways where the large snow piles had kind of formed lane closures and theres plenty of sidewalks not cleared. We want to make your commute easier. Check the traffic in your neighborhood by downloading the wusa9 app for free. The geolocator lets you see the traffic and accidents down to your street level. Go to the app store to download wusa9. Could she be telling the truth or is it just a bunch of gruesome talk . Thats the question confronting the cops in the town of suury, following the bizarre confession of 19yearold murder suspect miranda barbour. She and her husband are facing the Death Penalty for stabbing to death the man they met on craigslist, but then miranda told a local newspaper reporter last friday shed actually killed so many people that shed stopped counting at 22. Tonight police are investigating and we do hear from her husband. Reporter elyette, mirror rand asd she killed 20 people. Do you believe her . Miranda said she killed 20 people. Do you believe her . I plead the fifth. Reporters pressed him to respond to his wifes claim that she was not only guilty of the murder they have been charged with, but with at least 22 more killings . Reporter is she just being honest . Who is to say . Reporter do you think shes lying that she killed 22 people . I didnt say that. Reporter do you think shes telling the truth . Dont put word in my mouth. The mind boggling confession came on friday in a jailhouse interview way reporter who says he was floored when barbour confessed to a murder spree beginning at age 13. I said miranda, as you sit here do you have any remorse whatsoever and she said none. Barbour claims she was killing bad people, perhaps as many as 100 of them, but she stopped counting at 22. You can take Everything Else that she said in the interview and take l the numbers that she threw around and that out, but the more surprising thing to me would be the fact that she said if she got out, she would do it again. As of now, getting out would seem unlikely as theyre charged with the brutal stabbing death of 42yearold troy la ferrara who had answered the couples ad on craigslist offering companionship and delightful conversation. Police and even the fbi are treating miranda barbours confession seriously. She says she can pinpoint the location of bodies on a map, but as of now there are no reports linking her and her husband to any other murders. The man who hijacked an ethiopian plane this weekend is in custody tonight. He was the copilot of the plane which really makes you wonder what security is in place for airline employees . Mola lenghi spoke with an aviation expert and joins us live from the satellite center. What did you learn . There are tens of thousands of daily flights throughout the world and experiments say there is surprisingly very little that can be done to prevent a situation like this weekends hijacking. Going through Airport Security take off your shoes, empty your pockets, stand here, stop here. Stand over here. Getting on a plane can be exhausting. The men and women flying the plane . They have it a bit easier. Unless it involves a firearm theres really very little the screening process can do. It depends on the country. It depends on the regime. Here in the United States were coming up with protocols that will expedite pilots through security. Reporter in 2010 tsa announced an accelerated screening process for pilots saying at the time allowing these uniformed pilots whose identity has been verified to go through expedited screening at the check point just makes for Smart Security and an efficient use of our resources. Aviation expert john huey argues the best and the only way to prevent a situation where a pilot hijacks a plane is for airlines to know their pilots. Its basically a situational awareness. Its knowing who your employees are and looking for an anomalous behavior, looking for something out of the ordinary. Its almost like when youre in a metro car you look around and see whats out of place and if its really out of place, you call somebody. Thats really the only thing that can be done. Reporter not many options. Fortunately pilots dont hijack many planes huey adds. They typically go where theyre supposed to. Weve got over 50,000 flights every day around the world. So this is an exceedingly rare occurrence. Youre much more likely to get zapped by lightning walking down the street, much more. Reporter now the process for becoming a pilot is very rigorous including background checks. Pilots are their trusted partners who insure the safety of millions flying all over the world of single day. I know he says its very rare, but 1 time is too many in my book. Now to virginia and an emotional farewell to Police Officer kevin quick. Police from around the state joined the family of quick for a public memorial at university of virginia. He was a volunteer Police Reserve captain for the city of waynesboro. Six people have been arrested in connection with the case, but no one has been charged with murder and police have not released his cause of death. Tomorrow the u. S. Naval academy is expected to release the name of a midshipman whose body was found in a creek on cancer near a submerged suv. A campus near a submerged suv. A dive team found the body yesterday. The suv was pulled from the water and will be examined. Tonight there is yet another investigation into that fort lee, new jersey bridge scandal, this one orred by the head of the Port Authority in new york and new jersey. That agency is looking into whether its own Police Officers may have played a role in shutting down those traffic lanes that put fort lee in gridlock for days. Internet scammers using unsuspecting Funeral Homes to spread Malicious Software . And olympic events in sochi put on hold because of fog, those stories and more in your world in 90 seconds. A blanket of fog fell over venues at the winter olympics. A snowboard qualifying round was scrapped because racers couldnt see through the thick mist. The mens biathlon was also pushed back. Secretary of state john kerry says Climate Change is the worlds most fearsome weapon. Mass destruction. We certainly should not allow more time to be wasted. Hes ordering all u. S. Embassies to tackle Climate Change. There is not agreement exactly what is causing this. Getting congress to address the issue may be tougher. A disturbing exhaustive new u. N. Report on human rights abuses in north korea. Theres no other place on earth today that has the level of human rights abuse that north korea has. The u. N. Commission of inquiry interviewed hundreds of former prisoners. Too many times there are reports and no action. This is a time for action. Watch out for email condo lenses from legitimate Funeral Homes. The ftc says scammers are using the names of businesses on bogus messages. And hope to catch some situation with a friend or relative where theyre concerned about their health. Charlie sheen is getting married. People magazine reports the actor proposed to his adult film star girl friend brett rossi over the weekend, his fourth marriage. 111th American International toy fair, toys that enter act with your smartphone interact with your smart phone, retro toys making a comeback and then toys that require no batteries but run on imagination. In tonights health alert worried your teenage son could suffer from depression . Currently there is no biological test to spot the depression, but by analyzing saliva researchers found high levels of a stress hormone coupled with symptoms of mild depression were up to 14 times more likely to suffer from clinical depression later in life. This test was not as effective on girls. One in six people overall will suffer from clinical depression at some point in their lives. Triplets, man, now that sound like a handful. I think one is a handful. A mississippi mom was prepared for those three until she went into labor and got 1 heck of a surprise. Check it out. They had got the theyve out and they said more feet three out and they said more feet. Thats all i heard and i said no. I bet she did say no. Baby kailey was apparently hiding behind her sisters kenlee, kristin d during numerous ultra sounds. The girls are identical quadruplets which is quite rare. Mom and dad did not use any fertility drugs. They just wanted to give their 10yearold daughter a sibling and ended up with a small team. Got a basketball team. Five girls. Their poor pop. Asked if there will be any more babies, the couple said sure, lets have 10 more. No. Theyre not going to have any more. But they do like the letter k. They are under surveillance and its just spring training, drones recording the hits, runs and errors of our nationals and this is not for fun, folks. This is serious training stuff. Dave owens is there and will show us how the technology might give the nats an edge. Plus our russ ptacek just wont take no for an answer. Metro insists their announces lear on the metro, so russ called on a grammy Award Winning audio weve been asking you for your commuter pet peeves and a lot of you have been weighing in telling wusa9 about announcements on metro trains that are just tough to understand, you know, the ones that tell you which stop is next or where the train is headed. We documented the problem, metro still not acknowledging the audio problem saying most of their announcements are understandable. So we had to think maybe its just us. So Investigative Reporter russ ptacek asked a sound expert for a second opinion. Reporter we asked grammy winner pete novak to listen. [ playing recording ] what . Reporter hes no train expert, but he knows audio usually. Not a clue. Reporter he listens for a living as a sound engineer and instructor at rockvilles omega studios. Soup . Reporter novak won his grammy for the outcast album of the year speak speaker box, the love below, and it sounds nothing like this. So much static in that. Reporter did you understand anything . We have understood some. A wusa9 staff analysis of 115 announcements found 21 clear, but 79 unclear or very unclear. However, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority challenged our findings and said their own studies show that announcements were understandable 85 of the time. We asked novak for a 19 stop spot check on the red line. What percentage of messages are you finding understandable, 0 percent, 1 . Very little, about 5 maybe, maybe at most. Reporter thats a stark difference from their 85 . Yes. Reporter unless theyre talking understanding automation. Step back. Doors closing. Reporter you hear how clear that is. Yeah. The announcement levels are a good 20 decibels louder than whats coming out from the conductor. Reporter the automated announcements come from separate speakers. Novak believes the main system speakers are part of the problem. So the speaker is very directional and coming straight down. It might need to be mounted different. Reporter solutions . Novak suggests drivers enunciating. Volumes increasing and sending announcements through both speaker systems. I still dont know where were going next. Reporter ive emailed wmata, telephoned them, tweeted questions, so far no answers. Instead they sent out the same statement they sent out for our last speaker question saying the in consistencies will be addressed by the 7000 series cars that dont start coming online for a couple years and wont be fully in place until 2020 and beyond. Im Investigative Reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. Maybe we should talk to russ because hes not letting it go. Whether its metro announcements or probable on the roads, wed love to hear problems on the roads, wed love to hear your commuter pet peeves. Go to tellwusa9. Com and well try to get you some answers. This is a yellow alert day, wusa9 first alert weather. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, temperature 32, dew point midteens, a pretty dry air mass, winds out of the south at 11. Heres the radar, our first batch of snow from hagerstown down towards charlottesville moving pretty much west to east, will move through the metro area downtown and across 95 the next two hours. Theres another batch of precipitation behind that. We might get two quick bursts of snow. Ive lowered the snowfall totals. Win chester, hagerstown, a little snow flying now in culpeper, leesburg about 30 minutes away as it moves right down to 66 toward town. Headlines, a little snow overnight, a trace, 2 inches, and thats pretty far north to maryland p. Up near the amount border. Allow a few maryland p. A. Border. Allow a few extra minutes in the morning. A commute home fine, no worries, temperatures 46 to 50, no weather worries and we stay mild the rest of the week with temperatures at or above average right through friday. So a trace to an inch, generally less than an inch around the immediate metro area, up toward frederick and back toward westminster maybe an inch. Back up in toward hagerstown and cumberland maybe 2 to 3 inches, back toward romney and that is about it. So again were looking at kind of a nuisance snow, barely even a nuisance snow. So overnight cold with light snow, mix south and east, a trace to 2 inches, temperatures 25 to 32 for lows. Heres a computer model. We put this into motion. Only. 4 downtown, a little light up toward martinsburg, but only an inch or 2 toward cumberland and oakland. Thats probably the way it plays out going through the nighttime hours. Either way its over by 5 a. M. Temperatures low 30s to start, mid30s by 9 00. Were in the 40s by 11 00. Thats a pretty good deal. Were in the upper 40s by 1 00. Well probably cancel this yellow alert by 8 00 or 9 00 tomorrow morning. 53 wednesday, a few showers possible, 53 thursday with clouds coming in but mild. Next seven days friday good news. Were near 60. Bad news, it comes with showers, rain, maybe a thunderstorm on friday. Well watch that for severe weather. Still filed saturday, chilly sunday and mild saturday, chilly on sunday. Dont go celebrate now at hgr. H. Eggs president s day sale. Save up to 30 on our huge selection of appliances, electronics, furniture and more. Frigidaire fourpiece stainless Steel Kitchen packages 1999. Get great deals on our entire selection of tvs, like a 32inch led tv for 169. And get up to 24 months no interest on purchases 497 and up. Come in now for huge president s day savings storewide at h. H. Gregg. Or see it all at hhgregg. Com. Reporter welcome back to vieira, everybody, where the temperature today was wait for it, 80 degrees. Great stuff here, no doubt beginning to see the pieces of the puzzle really come together for this baseball club. The position players will report here tomorrow. Now Matt Williams says he wants his players to be intense right off the bat, something they did not do last year, and it haunted them all season long. I want to show you video as we go throughout the day, great video shot by our photographer dave satchell. These are scenes of spring training here, each day the convoy of van and golf carts taking the team over to the practice fields where they put in about two hours of work, not just bats and balls. Nats do a lot of nontraditional stretching and core work, too. Nice catch there, coach. One of the vets who showed up this afternoon early, adam laroche, fully bearded. Maybe he was trying to disguise himself. Who would blame him. He had a nightmare Campaign Last year. Some feel his days are numbered here, but his manager gave him a vote of confidence. I just think hes too good of player, you know. The question is you look at adam and you go well, generally he hasnt started off the season well. Last year it was kind of the opposite. He did pretty well early on and so sometimes there are years like that. Thats the baseball nuts and bolts of the day. Now on to nonbaseball stuff. I think youll like this story. Its pretty cool. We in washington d. C. Know about being monitored. Well, it turns out the Washington Nationals early Baseball Players here in vieira are being monitored, too and all they have to do is look up. It looks like something out of star wars. This is a quad copter. Its a dgi phantom. Reporter id call it a winged love craft, but wait. This is vieira, florida, right, palm trees, relaxation. What gives . And the players like, you know, totally like oh, this is so cool. Reporter and its ready for takeoff. Donald morelli is Mission Control of this spacecraft designed to fly high and record beautiful images like these off the coast of san diego. Did you see that thing . We heard it. It was all over. I thought we were getting attacked by little minimum i airplanes. Reporter nsa approved mini airplanes. Reporter nsa approved. Everybody is always looking for the new opportunity to get the different angle. I cant wait to see the footage. Reporter here it is, skip, the eye in the sky, pretty cool, but can it give players intel they can benefit from . Absolutely. Seven strasburg has a go Stephen Strasburg has a go pro and he could see little nuances he couldnt see from the mound. So technically it gives you an insight on things you couldnt see otherwise. Reporter not what opposing batters want to hear. Just dont ask super steve to fly the darn thing. Technology is crazy. I guess its pretty easy. You can go down to the hobby store and get one yourself. Reporter you going to be doing that . No. Lose it in a tree. Reporter wow, what a story. We didnt use any actual moving video of nats practice. Thats because the team holds the copyright to it, but still pretty cool indeed. I also talked to some National Reporters who said they had never seen anything like this. Tell you what. If it turns out this thing has some tactical value for players, it wont be long before we see those things hovering above a lot of different spring trainings. For now in vieira, im dave owens at the nats. Back to you. Lets get some winter olympic medal counts, the United States rising to the top of the pile with 18, russia tied up for first, netherlands are third with 17 i wish i was made of money. I wish you were too. Chances are, youre not made of money. So dont overpay for motorcycle insurance. Geico motorcycle. See how much you could save. Today is president s day for the next 30 minutes at least and groupon celebrated by honoring Alexander Hamilton who they called the greatest president. But history buffs will note theres a difficulty with that. Groupon did offer 10 bucks off a 40 purchase with that, but hamilton is on the 10 bill. He was never ever president. Oops. He was merely the first treasury secretary which is a bit off from the white house id say. Oops. 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