Talking to the media, but they did tonight. Wusa9 at 11 00 starts now. Firefighters are still at an active fire, the university of maryland had to shut down its campus nearby because the smoke was making it hard to breathe. But that threat is clearing out tonight, according to our john henry there live. Reporter yeah, certainly a calmer scene right now at this complex but theres going to be a lot to clean up. County says 40 million worth of damages in association to this fire. This ladder, firefighters are still putting water on the hotspot. Here at this building. Weve seen smoke come up within the last two or three minutes here as well. That said, people in this area are very appreciative of firefighters efforts, especially Senior Citizens we talked to who live right across the fire. This is the type of sight. Crazy. Reporter few people can prepare for. This is the biggest fire ive ever seen. Ep residents of the spellman House Apartments had to experience it up close and personal. Very scary. Reporter their Senior Living center is across the street from the Apartment Building that caught on fire earlier today judge a lot of smoke, odor. Reporter nancy told us they evacuated this morning around the same time the flames really got going. I was scared. Because they said that it could affect our building. Reporter 72yearold shirley lives on the seventh floor of the spellman house. She says she had the same concerns about the future of her home as well. I thought something might really happen. Reporter residents didnt get the chance to return to their building until 7 00 this evening when they walked back in to their home, crews were still busy trying to put out this fire. Its cause still undetermined either way, nancy just left firefighters to step up to the plate to keep the flames off her apartment. Who knows what could happen without their service judge im so happy. Im just so glad we didnt lose our building or anything. Reporter you can see once fwen again, firefighters are out here, theyve had a busy day to try to put this thing out. As for this building, it was scheduled it open some of its units in july. We talked to the university of maryland to see if theyd provide any help, planning who had been planning to live here, off campus, Housing Services will assist students if they need it. That said, if you are a student out of school due to maryland closing down, youre expected to come to class tomorrow. From college park, john henry, wusa9. And one more note on this story, this is 24yearold trayvon miller. Police arrested him near the scene because he flew his drone in to the path of a Police Helicopter helping firefighters. Now, that chopper pilot had to move quickly to avoid hitting the drone. Tonight, miller faces charges for his act and there could be more charges after police talk with the faa. Now to the smoke blowing across capitol hill. Organizing a smoke in, raising their fists and their joints in an act of defiance. Then they lit up, prepared to get arrested and Capitol Police didnt disappoint. They accosted four protesters in charges of possession. Were on top it of three Big Government stories, possible shutdown, new details on tax cuts, and Something Weird happening with the senate. Now, that weirdness is a field trip of sorts. All 100 senators, every single one of them will head to the white house on wednesday for a briefing on north korea. Usually the white house sends top aides to the senate for this type of thing and that has senate aides wondering if this is a photo op instead of a meeting. And trumps plan, we learned more about it tonight. The president will call for lowering the from 35 , i should say, to 15 . Good for businesses but bad news for the national debt. The white house has not laid out how to cover trillions of dollars lost except to say the tax cuts will pay for themselves by launching new economic growth. Speaking of money, the government could shut down this week unless Congress Sets aside cash to build the border wall. The house and senate have to pass a bill funding the government by friday or else. The president has suggested he might not sign that bill in to law unless it pays for his Biggest Campaign promise. So if the Government Shutdown happens, how would it change your life . We asked mike to find out. Reporter its a movie weve all seen before, deadlock in dc, leaving 9 rest of the rest of us to deal with it. Saw the movie in the 90s and it was a bad, b rated movie. Reporter so straight to the point, whos affected the most if the government shuts down . The answer . Federal workers, 800,000 of them without pay checks. I mean, any time someone messes with your pay check thats a nightmare for the person its happening to. Reporter virginia congressman buyer says he wants to guarantee that back pay if the government does in fact shut down. For so many federal employees, they eventually got paid, but in the short run, they had trouble buying groceries and making house payments and car payments reporter so for those of us who dont work for the government, here are some of the top impacts. Passport and visa applications will be delayed. Mortgage applications wont be processed. And that also goes for gun permits. National parks will be closed and the fda will stop inspections that keeps our food safe. The city itself will keep running. The metro will operate and trash will be picked up. Contrasts from the past when the city simply stopped. It was scary. It was really scary, i want to say it was silly but too scary to use that word properly. Reporter services essential to border patrol, air traffic control, Social Security benefits along with medicaid and medicare programs. Law enforcement, fbi theyll all be at work. Reporter but nearly 1 Million People wont. And maureen has a warning for here. I think a lot of people will be in trouble. Reporter in washington, mike valerio, wusa9. To shut down centers for funding for that border wall. Late tonight we got reports the president might be backing off that demand. He told conservative reporters hed be willing to hold off building the wall until september. Mondays are enough of a struggle, add in showers and youve got a tough start to the week. Dont put that umbrella away, theres a yellow weather alert tomorrow. Where were these storms in january, a great snowstorm but instead, just kind of a march like storm in april. Wet commute, thats high. Esal flooding low. We dont see too much in terms of street flooding. Cancelled after school activities, a high at risk impact there. What about the radar . Here we go, we widened it out. All the moisture in the carolinas, this moves heaviest rain essentially right through the district, the southern portion of prince georges, nice sleeping weather. All heading off to the east headed toward leesburg in 30 minutes. By tomorrow morning, this is going to be the opposite of today. Much wetter tomorrow morning than it was today. See the yellow, pretty heavy rain in much of southern maryland, by the time we get to 8 00, moderate to heavy rain, just about everywhere. Gaithersburg, the mid 60s across the board. Take you back through the evening commute and tell you when this pattern finally breaks. Right now a disturbing story youll only see on wusa9 tonight. Sheriffs deputies in louden county are cases of students abusing that antianxiety medication xanax during school hours. Deputies say the students are crushing up those pills and theyre adding them to water bottles. This drug is highly addictive and often stolen from family members who have a proper prescription for the drug. A local singer song writer is using social media to ask fanz to help fans to help find her missing mom. Michelle has posted us details online. She says 72yearold helen bird johnson disappeared two weeks oogs today. Ago today. She was driven away from her home, a car is a gray ford taurus with maryland tags. If you can help, contact prince georges police. The family of Aaron Hernandez will get to read the notes he left in his cell before he took his own life. The former nfl player and convicted murderer was buried in a private ceremony, he hanged himself last week. Posts on facebook can spread quicker than a fastmoving brush fire. The one im going to talk to you about tonight was shared more than 180,000 times since late last week. Its been seen from coast to coast and around the world. Here it is, it is a post about Aaron Hernandez. Hes the former new England Patriots player who killed himself in jail last week. The post says under massachusetts law, if you die during an appeal of a conviction, the original conviction is null and void. This would mean technically he never violated the new England Patriots contract and his daughter is guaranteed to the remainder 50 million that the patriots own him. Now, there are several parts to this. Im going to take you through it step by step. One of our verified researchers got on the phone with boston attorney haney to talk about it is a possibility that the family could be owed money. Absolutely. The terms of the contract will provide the clarity for that question. Okay. So a lot of hurdles the family would have to go through. After talking with haney, i can verify the first part of that Facebook Post is true. Yes, hernandez was convicted in 2015 with the murder of odin lloyd but because that conviction was under appeal and now hernandez is dead, theres a little used law in the books in massachusetts called abatement avenico. That means his lawyers can vacate his conviction, that means everything would be wiped out. Before he was arrested, he signed a four year Million Dollar extension. When he got arrested he was still owed part of his signing bonus and salary worth about 6 million. So the 50 million in the post, no word where that came from. The family could demand the patriots pay up it doesnt necessarily mean the patriots will pay all sums of money. That are identified as guaranteed under the contract. They could certainly refuse the request or the demand. Bottom line, there would be a lot of legal wrangling. And theres an argument ton made. So to be made. I can verify, the first part of this post is true. If you die during the appeal of a conviction, yeah, thats right. Its essentially null and void if that passes. But the second part of this, i cant really verify if thats true or false or not. The answer to whether Aaron Hernandezs family is owed money, that would be up to a judge. Now, i got this post from about five or six of you who emailed me. If you see something on your social media feeds or on terv tv, youre wondering if its true, send it to me. Find me on Facebook Adam long why tv, verify it on wusa9. Com. Apple is a tech powerhouse. And people there but thats changed tonight. So is it about the iphone 8 . Then, oo la la dc foodies welcome a world famous french bakery to town. And its going to be the hottest ticket in town, hamilton at the Kennedy Center. Some insider tips for getting your seats. Go ahead. [ music ] this is the silverado special edition. Man this is one gorgeous truck. Oh, did i say theres only one special edition . Because, actually theres five. Woman ooohh uh man 2 hooooly mackerel. Man 3 wow. Man 4 nice. Strength and style. Which ones your favourite . Make a strong decision. Find your tag and get 16 below msrp on select silverado 1500 pickups in stock. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. [ music ]. [ cheers and applause ] so, you want to be in the room where it happens when hamilton hits dc. We got you. Now, youve got time to plan here. Hamilton will take over the Kennedy Center opera house from mid june until Early September of next year. If you are a theater subscriber, tickets go on sale if february. 2018. They do plan to sell 40 10 40 ten dollar tickets. Ties to famous food cities but two on the way very soon already taking social media by storm. Heres stephanie gailhard. Reporter each of these macaroons will bring a taste of paris. Taking you to paris. Ive been waiting for them to open for a long time. Reporter the luxury french bakery chain dates back 150 years. Its macaroons is world famous. I saw you oohing and aahing. Yeah, its delicious, i cant wait. Laduree have flavors different from any other macaroon place ive tried like the black tea and lavender. But my favorite is the salted caramel which is good everywhere. Reporter cant wait to try that. Yeah, me too. Reporter the georgetown bakery will also boast its signature tea room. A century ago, romance blossomed in the tea room. It gave men and women a chance to meet in public for the first time in the history of paris. The atmosphere, it they probably treat you like they would in a paris cafe. So im hoping that will be what the experience is like. Reporter for now, tempting taste buds on social media, adding fuel to the growing dc food scene. Do you like to eat . Yes, i do. Yeah, very much so. Reporter what do you think of the dc food scene . Its good, yeah, taking off. I can eat food from all over the world here. Used to be you can only get basic food but you have a lot of options now. Reporter do you have a always [ laughter ] american appetites are quite big, yes. Reporter all right. Well, macaroons will satisfy your sweet together. Since its dc, theyre going to sell Cherry Blossom macaroons. Love it. Stephanie gailhard, wusa9. Ive had their macaroons in paris, you really dont want to eat them the next day, you have to go back daily for them. You know, you can have them the next day but they just taste so good the day that you get them. So, you know, you just find yourself going there, you know. Several times a week. [ laughter ] not one of these things happening, laduree could open as soon as wednesday, the second location in about a month. I promise if i bring in some, i wont bring in too many. Once you start it is a slippery slope. It is addictive, yes. Kind of a marchlike day, tomorrow. Then a good payoff. The three degree guarantee. We did okay today. We had to go pretty low with the clouds and northeast wind. I know its april, we only went for a high of 55. 57. So were in pretty good shape. Now were going for a high tomorrow of 62. Which is still way below the average of 68. Right now 54. Dew point 50, temps wont move much. Northeasterly wind at 14 miles an hour. That is not a good deal. Heres the radar and were looking at the activity now moving in from the south, also moving off to the northwest and right up 270. So good sleeping weather, nothing heavy just yet. Upper albemarle, clinton, 295, more heavy as we go through the niept. Heres night. Night. Gaithersburg 12 20 and leesburg, 2 45, hard to get up morning, but great sleeping weather. 48 to 56 wet, miserable. Yellow weather alert tomorrow more rain and showers. Mainly rain in the morning. Afternoon sun, a har bin ger of whats headed our way. By thursday, through the weekend, if youre like mid to late june, 85 to 90. In the 50s today, knocking on the door of 90 over the weekend. So yellow weather alert, impacts wet roads, high. No doubt about that. Street flooding low. Not too much in terms of street flooding. Slow commutes, thats high. I think both commutes will be wet. But i think the more miserable commute will be tomorrow morning. And then, activities cancel after school, yeah. Thats a high, high impact there. Softball, baseball, that sort of thing. Heres futurecast, in the morning, the leading edge of rain. Theres the pretty good band of moderate rain through fredericksburg, Charles County and st. Marys county. It all migrates northward. By 9 00, everybody has rain. Doesnt matter where youre coming in from. Low to mid 50s, rain. By 1 00 we still have rain and showers across much of the metro area, beginning to thin out, heavier rain now pushing up the bay annapolis and baltimore, then by 5 00 we still have showers. We also have areas without any showers. So a little better for the commute home. Not great, but a little better. Maybe 59 downtown by 5 00 maybe. We hit 60 or 61 tomorrow, i think well be at least 60 tomorrow. So kind of raw in the morning, temps in the 50s, 57, 58 at 1 00. Temps dont move much. Notice the steadier rain does begin to taper off, late in the morning, early afternoon. So yellow weather alert tomorrow, warmer with afternoon sun on wednesday, 75. And boom 85 on thursday. Now, it stays warm. 85 on friday, back in town, 88 on saturday, sunday, if you cant make the ballpark, nats on 9 and still 84 on monday. Yes with the 80s, threat of showers and storms. No doubt about it, the introducing now gadgets and toys, a new concept from cuperti cupertino. Usually not saying yes to interviews but one said yes to cbs this morning. A lot of the big online guys said theyre opening stores. Amazon is investing in stores, google, starbucks figured it out. They were being a Gathering Place for right, meet me at starbucks. And you know, i dont know if we did the great job if the next generation says meet me at apple. So, thats just part of it, sit down with nora odonnell, catch the rest tomorrow morning on cbs this morning. Since were talking about apple tonight, we went hunting for facts to back up all those rumors about the iphone 8 and we can tell you nothing. So everything youre seeing online, its probably still anybodys guess. President trump, he wants money for a wall from congress by friday. Dont know. What we all need right now is more john wall, down to atlanta where he and the wizards looking whoa youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Mom, im taking the subaru. Dont be late. Even when were not there to keep them safe, our Subaru Outback will be. vo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. Now, wusa9 game on sports. Brought to you by xfinity. Wall crosses up, takes a long shot and hits a three pointer from walls cuts it to five, under three minutes. Yeah, wiz were down by 10 with four minutes to play. How would they bounce back after the beating they took in atlanta over the weekend . Wizards looking to take a commanding lead in this series. Theyre up 21 over the hawks in the third tough shot here, counted and one. Nice play there. Move ahead to the fourth, wall puts on the after burners, count it. Hawks though would pull away in the final minute, the wiz just not able to crawl back. They won the game, the series tied two games a piece. Hawks win by 10, 111101. Hours ago, williams with the assist that led to marcuss the leafs. But just hours later this was williams back in virginia, yeah, speeding ticket, way to go. Early in the morning he twaeted jus tweeted justin, welcome back to dc, this is your speeding ticket. They probably gave him a ticket based on his twitter profile picture. We dont know where he got the ticket or how fast the officers said they were driving. Slow it down. 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