Police are looking for a green mazda with a redskin sticker in the window in connection with this shooting. Its been a bad week for metro and its not over yet. The agency is trying to block 500 Union Workers from calling in sick tomorrow. It is a protest over metros new policy but leaders there insist that trains and buses will run on time. Well see. Things were a real cluster today. Smoke on the tracks shut down a stretch of the red line right in the morning of the rush. Metros leaders blamed electric problems which are decades old. Reporter i have been down on the track on its really dangerous. The third rail is 11,000 volts. A lot of power. It leaves the train through the two other rails. But, sometimes, that circuit can get broken. Things called insulators ground. Sometimes, those insulators can break down overtime and that current can leak into smaller parts of the track and the ground itself. Thats called a stray current leak. And when train it is are running over the ground every three minutes, like they are during the morning rush, that can build up a lot of electricity and a lot of heat. That can lead to track volt, an arc, which is really hot. That is long, hot spark that can be really, really bright. Its Strong Enough to melt part of the tracks and start a fire. He says this thursdays incident is the third on the same section of the red line. For him, thats stress that metro cant ignore. Nonroutine, you know, coming back to bite metro in the butt. From pete, do not try that at home. He almost burned down the studio. Hope the bosses are not watching. We heard from a lot of you, is metros infrastructure falling apart . Reporter without a doubt, metro has been having a rough ride recently so our special assignment unit spend the day digging into this federal data that compares metros safety records to the safety records of rail systems in other similar five cities. What this data suggests is that things might actually be getting a little bit better on board these trains despite what happened this morning. Things hit rock bottom for metro in 2015 when there were so many fires on board these trains that federal government had to come in and take over safety oversight. This federal data suggests that fires and collisions re on metro trains in 2016, even though derailments were actually up, according to the federal numbers. Metro had more derailments last year in chicago and san francisco, even though the numbers are much better comparatively for things like fires and collision. What does it all mean . Its a mixed bag. If you are grading metro for safety, they are probably not getting an a but they are not getting an f either. Eric flak, wusa 9. Eric tau talked about Driver Safety but there are longstanding problems with metro worker safety as well. The feds told metro to keep action in six areas to keep its tracks safe. For tonights session assignment unit report, we are talking about pets and drug abuse. Look at his face. This is joey. Our pets are all about unconditional love. They stand by us through thick and thin which even more disturbing. We all heard how bad the heroin and opioid problem is, but now addicts are going after ped medication and medical supply for their next high. Its hard to think that this was accidental. I just want to know, how did your dog really get hurt . Reporter youre looking at Police Questioning heather pareira about cuts to her golden retriever named alice, lacerations made with double edged razor blade. Shes going to get taken away. Reporter heather was arrested for slicing her dog on three occasions to score this. Tramadol why is tramadol so important to you . She went vet shopping, visiting Animal Hospital after Animal Hospital in kentucky to get tramadol and use it herself. I swear on my family life, i didnt do that. Reporter after repeatedly denying, she finally confessed. I have done them. Reporter with the same different razor. They were clean but i threw them away afterwards. Are you in need of this stuff that bad . When you are in addiction, youll do whatever it takes to get the next high. Peaceful, yeah. Definitely peaceful, yeah. Reporter matthew who lives in calvert county, maryland, understands heathers desperation. He has been clean from heroin for eight months. He never harmed a pet when he family cats syringes. The cat had diabetes and we had to use insulin syringes, green light popped in my head, there you g you dont have to go out and try to find them anymore or buy them from the store. And when i did that, it just became a regular habit. We dont know how widespread pet med and supplier abuse is. The issue is too new and there is no conclusive data but veterinarians are trying be proactive. I know that almost all of my veterinary colleagues are very aware of this problem. Reporter dr. Christie has seen a few vet shopping in her practice but spot them far away and their far fetched lies. You get the excuses of why they need frequent refills. They are running out of drugs before they are supposed to. There is always some type of prescription. Biggest thing i worry about is if they actually more nefarious and try to distribute the drug. We are not required by law to fill a prescription for a pet, just because somebody walks in. Reporter dr. Jason ballenbeck is the president elect of the virginia Veterinary Association and practices in leesburg. He and his colleagues are required to keep a tight lid on the prescriptions. But he worries that there is no way to track pet shopping, a way for veterinarians to know that patients are going vet to vet. This is why its so important on the state level to address this and make sure that veterinarians are rt she was convicted of animal torture and obtaining a controlled substance illegally. She was sentenced to four years. We want to get you help. Reporter heather got out of jail in december after serving two years. Police say that her dog is living with a new family. If you have ped medications in the house, you need to secure them just like human prescriptions. One of our producers had her dog tramadol on the kitchen counter and it disappeared after an open house. Go to wusa 9. Com or app. We have a list of places that can help you. As for matthew who you also saw in this story, his recovery is going really well. He has a fulltime job and also working with young people helping them to beat their addiction. Less than 25 hours we are on terrace here. We have snapped a pattern. We are talking about record heat. Lets show you this storm. A little bit of rain here in the northwest. This is going to move off to the north and east, moving north and west of waldorf to Upper Marlboro on the Storm Tracker at about 11 40 if it holds that long. Not that much. Tomorrow morning, this is early in the morning, about 2 00 a. M. Leftover shower south of town. Look at the temperatures, 25 downtown. Everyone is clear. Cannot rule out a couple of showers. Not the low clouds and fog probably that we had this morning, more sunshine quicker. 68, 10 00, in the low 70s. Well talk more about the possibility of record highs over the weekend and if that comes with the threat of thunderstorms. Less than 25 hours until a possible Government Shutdown and congress appears to have dodged the bullet. Republicans were thinking abou vote. Democrats said if you do that, well pull our support of the plan to keep the government open. Just a short time ago, gop leaders backed down. But, tonight, there is still no vote on funding agencies. The senate did move to confirm alexander acosta. He is now labor secretary. He will be the only latino in president trumps cabinet. His first assignment, looking into overtime and retirement plans put into place by president obama. And the man who was dragged off a united flight reached a settlement. The dollar number is secret. And his Attorney Says that since united took all the blame on it, he will not file suit against chicago. And now another development from united. Gate p agents can now offer up to 10,000 for a seat. And there is a post on social media saying that we are headed for the worth season on ticks. And look closely. Thats a person walking out of a d. C. Restaurant with plates, leaving no food, and no money. Well look at the dine and dash, up next. Yeah. And blocked traffic for a little while. Nobody was arrested. They are here to call on the administration to stay away from fossil fuel development ahead of stuards climate march. They can had out. A party of about ten people not only walked out on their check in an h street bar but they took the plate. You can see actually see a woman still eating as she walks out of the queen bey. The owner said they didnt think it was enough of a big deal to call police but he did think that she is guys should get credit. Here is Stephanie Ramirez with the story. You know lady justice, right . You know theyll get away with everything they need to do. The h street bar owner decided not call police but, instead, host a trial by peer. Gordon posted the sut responsible for the dine and ditch with his dishes. They call me off guard more than anything else. Somebody has the audacity to do such a thing. It happened. Reporter although this is a first for the restauranteur who has been here, for several years, the party walked down on 60 worth of food but his dishes were about 100 bucks more. You think of somebody coming to your house and taking your tv and furniture, you know. Not to get in you trouble but to make them realize, you should not be doing this kind of stuff. Stephanie ramirez, wusa 9. Grass is growing. Temperatures are warming and that means that these guys are back. Thats right. Ticks. The sixlegged blood suckers are here to ruin on social media that we want to set straight. Why is it going to be a bad summer for tick and lyme disease . Seven new reasons to fear ticks . And the east coast will be a lyme disease war zone this year. Congratulations again, internet. You have scared the hell out of us once again. But are you telling the truth . Here is the deal. This is being reported on by a number of reputable news organizations like the wall street journal and npr. Why more ticks . Well, oak trees have spit out a whole lot of acorn and thats what mice eat. So there is a whole bunch more mice. Ticks like to hitch a ride on mice so their numbers increase as well. But ticks are nasty. They can carry lyme disease. So experts have been saying that we can expect more than the average 300,000 cases of lyme disease to be reported to the c. D. C. Whamos, i can ve summer for ticks, yes, they are true. What do you do with that . Well, you can check out our website. You see something on social media . You think its bs but you want us to check, send it to me. Send me that big juicy email. If you want to go that route, verify. And it wasnt cold. So rare that you see the verified that comes up. Usually, its false. Its like, wow, thats a new one. We take it both ways. So you are focused only on a big event that occurred in la plata 15 years later. Hard to believe its been 15 years, actually. April 28th, 2002, we this tornado live. We covered this tornado interrupting 60 minutes. But its more the story of how vibrant la plata is and how it was rebuilt. Well talk to survivors in buildings that were destroyed and well share their story with you tomorrow. A lot of stuff on facebook great Photo Gallery there. Alice there is at 4 25 in the morning. And ill see you at 6 00 and 7 00 along with bruce johnson. I lowered it from 85 to 84. Would have been 85. Close to bulls eye. Im going to go 84 again tomorrow. Pretty much the same air mass. Thats pretty warm and pretty muggy for this time year, tomorrow. Average high is only 70. Here is the radar over the last couple of hours. A couple of st, toward baltimore and one towards annapolis and bowie. This is moderate rain over clinton. Headed off to the north and east. I think it might make it all the way to annapolis where all is said and done, laugher in midnight. Tomorrow morning from bus stop, nice. 60s and 70s. Dont think well have the widespread fog and low clouds we had this morning. Isolated storm in. Dont plan around that. Dry. Will feel like june tomorrow night. Hot saturday and sunday with mainly afternoon and evening thunderstorms. Lesson saturday, a few more numerous on sunday. Can you get a lot of stuff down over the weekend. 84, 90 on saturday, 89. Record high 91 at national on saturday, 92 on sunday. Back to 83 on monday. Clouds and showers and then the front clears out, only 72 on tuesday. Tuesday is going to be a sweet day. Tomorrow morning, a few clouds east of. Downtown. By 9 00, really pretty nice. Maybe folks in st. Mary county have to wait for sun. But not anybody else. Across 70s across the board and by 6 00 p. M. , in the low 80s. If you have a little date night tomorrow night, only going to be in the 70s by this time tomorrow and dry. You can eat outside. Great, great night. Up to 78 by 1 00. Now, saturday, okay, hot. 90. Isolated storm. 89 on sunday, a few more storms but the best chance for storms will be monday. Temperatures go back to 83 and low 70s on tuesday and wednesday. Nats still in town. Back to 70 on thursday, showers late in the day. Well monitor that for the ballgame. Thanks, top. A look at three things that happened tonight after you left work. Grisly new details in the murder of a delaware state trooper from bowie, maryland. It was gets. The killers first shot send Steven Ballard to the ground and the suspect fired point blank over and over. 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