North carolina. Makes you really want to cry. It could be any of us. Reporter detectives say he sliced her jugular vein and her carotid artery and stabbed her four more times in her lungs, spleen, spine. They say he then used her atm cards to steal thousands from her bank account. Detectives arrested him outside trojan labor a few miles away after he allegedly bragged to friends about killing her. He allegedly told them he planned to rob her, not kill her. One of those friends turned him in. Neighbors remember her as a kind woman who only stayed in the apartment briefly while working on a friends art project near the white house. She tried to pay me to help her, and i told her no. I said if she needs anything, reporter sources tell me that he came to the u. S. As a child. Federal Officials Say he is a u. S. Citizen. Some of her relatives are in the courtroom, Holding Hands trying to keep it together and keep up their strength. Theyre too shaken to talk to reporters. Bruce leshan, wusa9. Thank you so much. Police in tennessee had a warrant out for him for allegedly violating probation on a robbery sentence. That was his initial charge. He is no you charged with now charged with first degree murder and car theft. Montgomery schools taking a hard look at security. This following the rape of a 14 year old female freshman. We have confirmed there will be a security audit where the attack took place, inside of a bathroom. After complete, officials will look at what ch implemented district wide. New details about officer involved shooting in the Montgomery Village neighborhood that left one person dead. It began with an officer investigating a report of a stolen bike on stead wick road last night. The person who called the complaint is 28 year old richard tilly. Police say as officer matthew mcgallon was writing his report tilly attacked him. Last night we were going to move out. We were ready because we thought it was a crime like Somebody Just shot somebody outside of our condo. We were leaving. We dont care what it takes. We are leaving. Police say tilley was armed with a knife and rushed to the hospital. They were not able to save him. The officer is on administrative leave. A man in custody after another security incident at the white house. A secret service Spokes Person says a man was carrying a bag when he approached an agent at 15th and pennsylvania and east wing tours were suspended. Press was held in the Briefing Room temporarily. The man was detained and taken without incident. There was no bomb. Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says he is moving forward with the investigation into russian medaling into the 2016 election despite concerns hes lost credibility. Republican nunez admits he met with an unnamed source at the white house and saw evidence the Obama Administration intercepted communication involving trump Transition Team. He went to the president with the information the next day. Other members of the committee have not seen the classified evidence. Democrats are calling on nunez to step down from the probe. Too much called into question whether he has the objectivity necessary to oversee this investigation. Those on the Committee Want to know whether white house orchestrated a move to keep sally yates from fearing today. Saying it would not authorize her to testify. Sean spicer said the administration had no problem with her speaking to investigators. Fewer restrictions, more jobs. Today President Trump signed an order that rolls back president obamas efforts to stop Global Warming. This will mandate a review on restrictions of Greenhouse Gas emissions at coal fuel power plants. It lifts moratorium on leases on federal plans. President trump has said he believes Global Warming is a hoax. Negotiations to avert a government shut down. The white house has a spending plan with 18 billion worth of budget cuts to programs. National institute of health in bethesda would lose 1. 2 billion under the plan. Experts say the administrations proposals have little chance of being Mitch Mcconnell says obamacare will stay put. He said its pretty obvious they couldnt agree on replacement and democrats ought to be happy. He says he doesnt believe it will work out in the end but for now well move forward with the status pro. Police are investigating hateful messages as a bias related crime. Here is more on the story. Reporter its bad enough to lose your valuables and to have your home burglarized. The thing that disturbs this couple most are the hate messages left behind and destruction of their treasured islamic possessions. Kind of went into shock. Our minds were numb. Reporter reality sinks in every time they look their ran sacked apartment, every drawer pulled out, furniture turned over, clothes thrown on the floor, even in their little girls room. Shes only four. Look at the bathroom, all the things, my daughters stuff is on the floor. The most hurtful thing is in huge letter errors on the wall. Ex mr. Tim muslims. Nearby a koran ripped apart. Pieces all over the floor. Reporter paintings with islamic verses damaged. Thank god they didnt break this. Reporter it happened while they were visiting relatives in new york over the weekend. A Maintenance Worker discovered the mess. All the jewelry is gone, ps4, computer and screens. The burglars picked the dead bolt lock on the back door. The couple thinks the burglars heard their call to prayer alarm which goes off five times a day. It started and they realized that these are muslims. Reporter the couple moved from dubai to Fairfax County believing it would be a good place to raise their children. If this can happen in an area like this, it shows you bad people are everywhere. Fear and hate dont have boundaries. Reporter the couple does not believe the burglars were caught on cameras because they dont believe there are security cameras out here. They think thats something the burglars probably knew. Peggy fox, wusa9. Charges have been dropped against a teenager in a double murder at wheaton mall. The montgomery prosecutors say they have insufficient evidence to hold jackson. Jackson was arrested for the double stabbing at the mall last january. Victims are 24 year old gomez from Silver Spring and 22 year old cruz of wheaton. There is no word on any possible new suspects. The state Highway Administration announced plans today to maryland. In montgomery, a new flashing light is being installed at the intersection of beers mill road and Turkey Branch parkway. There were two fatalities there last year. A new traffic signal with a pedestrian count down is being installed on Central Avenue at the addison road metro rail station. Pedestrians and bicyclists make up to 1 5 of fitrafc fatalities in maryland every year. We are just Getting Started here on wusa9 news at 5 00. The country is talking about the viral pat down of a teen at an airport that some say go too far. When you need to know about the procedures coming up. President trump makes the decision about throwing out first pitch on nationals opening day. Well tell you whats new at the ballpark for the 2017 season. Why a College Student is being bombarded with hate messages after her post about taxes. This is what 100 tons of hay looks like fully engulfed in flames. The fire broke out in fresno just before midnight. No one was hurt. Investigators arent sure what started the fire. It is still burning tonight. Firefighters showed up and said hey will. They didnt. Sorry. You had to do that. This is after a report from politico that President Trump was apparently in talks with the team to start the season but it turns out the president has a scheduling conflict that day. Who is ready for baseball . We are six days away from the new season. Today we got the stadium. There are new spaces including a dug out club and a new swing big beer pen. Like the bull pen. But its the beer pen. I get it. Like that . There is a lot of food and drink available which our report erin cysts was delicious. I guess we have to take their word for it because they didnt bring any back. There are more gift shops and swag available. We are focused on refreshing and bringing new spaces to the park. We have an updated kid zone, super easy to find. We have an infant section, toddler, youth, boys, and girls. This season well have 90s night. Its nice to have a kids section. If you cant make it for opening day, the game is on wusa9. Monday the first pitch is just after 1 00. A Facebook Post from university is being shared across the country. Absolutely. She posted she just paid her taxes. Why is that causing such controversy . Shes a dreamer and has been an out spoken advocate for other dreamers. Her parents visited from argentina and over stayed visas but she was protected by president obamas deferred action for childhood arrivals program. She writes i decided to post it basically to bust the myth that immigrants dont contribute and pay taxes to the country. Bella made the post sunday morning and by sunday night strangers were messaging her calling her a criminal and liar and saying she needs to be reported. Ruth writes no one says immigrants dont pay taxes and when speaking about Illegal Immigrants just because some pay taxes doesnt mean theyre entitled to be good and abiding citizens. Anyone who works in u. S. Is expected to pay taxes or file with th them special. Logical fallacies. Hi. Lots of people think immigrants dont pay taxes. Thats one of the biggest arguments. Dont pay taxes, taking our jobs, just wanted you to know. You can join in the conversation on our Facebook Page. Wusa9 weather. People are probably driving right now and not happy about this. You shouldnt be watching us on tv if you are driving. Thats true. You can take the app and listen to it. Lets get to it. I think we will get in trouble here. Probably will. Lets start with a live look outside. There is the cathedral looking to the north northeast. Its 73 with dew points mid 50s. Its not that humid of an air mass. The front is through. That said there are a few left over showers but nothing particularly heavy right now. Mainly toward lees burg, manassas. We are looking at activity south of warren ton down 15. If you are going out 660 or maybe route 7 but certainly 60 and eventually down 95 late if you done get to fredericksburg in the next hour or two, you may have some showers to deal with. Well zoom in. This is a moderate rain. This is Bull Run Mountain estate, about to cross 15. It is south of 50 and pushing southeast. Its not going to go back up toward 50. Another one we are tracking, nothing terribly heavy about this but it is headed to stafford. Earlier today you folks p1did have some storms. There was small hail. Tw this doesnt have hail, just moderate rain heading to stafford. If you know someone heading south, theyll probably have some showers to go through. Showers to the south in southern maryland. These were heavy between 3 00 and 4 00. This is heading to Colonial Beach at about 5 38. Showers will end essentially before midnight. Bus stop temperatures even behind the front are not that cool, 48 to 60. That will be breezy so it is probably worthwhile taking a sweater tomorrow. Really a wonderful wednesday, breezy and mild. Cooler thursday, rain and chilly friday. That will probably be our next yellow weather alert day on friday. Temperatures are 67 tomorrow and then they take a were settling in at 65 sunday. That isnt bad. Our average is 60. Anything above that is kind of gravy so to speak. We have a couple left over showers tonight, maybe 62 downtown. Notice theyre just shades of green, so theyre just light. That essentially clears by morning with winds becoming northwesterly. At 9 00 we are in the 50s. By 1 00, low 60s. If you can get out of the breezes tomorrow it will be nice to have lunch outside. 52 by 9 00, 57 by 11 00. Cooler thursday and 59, clouds at night. There is a yellow weather alert for friday, chilly with rain and only in the upper 50s friday. Saturday, showers linger through at least morning hours. Well try and salvage back half of the day, 70. A little cooler sunday. I raised teatmperures for the home opener tuesday. Rain returns. Thanks. He is known as dr. Doolittle of animal prosthetics. After break, how this Northern Virginia specialist is getting injured animals back on their feet. Would you be more likely to buy something if the retailer told you how much it cost to make it . Well fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download sp. Eeds cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the get the best. Go to getfios. Com we are following breaking news in the district. What you are seeing is a building on first street and southeast about two blocks from nats park. In the bucket truck there are two workers stuck in there. Theyre about ten stories up. The bucket truck not working. It looks like a big lift. Theyre on the scene working on getting the workers down safe. We dont know anything about their condition, how they got stuck, what they were doing, how long the rescue effort will last. Once all the questions are answered, we will update you. In consumer alert, how much does it cost to make the clothes we wear . New Online Clothing companies are willing to tell you. Theyre betting strategy and transparency will attract customers. Reporter when 25 year old rose temple shops for shoes the retailer displayed more than a picture and price. When you click on the item, it shows you where it was made and how much everything cost. Reporter the transparent pricing gives customers a break down of expenses including labor, transportation, materials. The company says this dress cost them 55. The price for the customer is 120, a 65 mark up. They can see how much we paid for every aspected of the shirt. Reporter this was founded in 2012 hoping that being up front would draw in customers. In Many Industries you have no concept of the value. You can buy a 10 tshirt or 100 tshirt and you dont really know why. Pricing transparency is popping up honest buy gives a highly detailed summary of materials used in clothing and the costs. They do everything from start to finish. Reporter this professor says they use transparency to convince customers theyre getting a better deal even if its not always true. I dont want to use the word gimmick but their biggest Marketing Tool is the transparent pricing. They make it easy for the consumer to understand. Reporter rose says its combination of good quality and value that keeps her coming back. What we have here is a phenomenon known as frozen video. Thats why we do live tv people. A huge recall of chicken products. This is after a objects in Chicken Nuggets and chicken fingers. This affects about 1 Million Pounds of breaded chicken sold by ok food incorporated. They sell under several brand names including walmarts great value. There are no reports of anyone becoming sick. A pony badly injured shortly after she was born is walking again thanks to the special care shes receiving. Love these stories. This is angel marie. Her front legs were damaged after her mother stepped on her. A specialist fashioned prosthetic front legs using highly durable medical grade plastics. When i say angel marie, it was very close to being one of the cases that i couldnt think this would help because it was such a severe case. They sent us videos an her walking is a dream come true, like a miracle. The kids just love her to death. She loves kids. Its really a great thing. The prosthetics, if it wasnt for that, she would have never made it. The man started his career in making prosthetics for humans and then saw a need in animals. Ahead, President Trumps childhood home is sold. We will look at whats happening to homes of other president s. A message to the 15 Year Old Girl allegedly kidnapped by her former teacher. The viral pat down that has one mother a texas mother filed a complaint with tsa saying the agency treated her family like dogs. Jennifer williamson posted a video to facebook showing an agent patting down her 13 year old son. The video has since gone viral. Williamson says this video of the tsa officer patting down her 13 year old son has left the boy traumatized. It started when a laptop was found in aarons book bag. In the video the agent explains the procedure, explains what the procedure is and then pats erics back side front legs. The tsa officer uses the back of his hands for pat downs over sensitive areas. I believe he was patted excessively. They went over his sensitive area. She says she asked her son be screened another way because he has a sensory processing disorder which makes him sensitive to touch. The mother claims they were held at the check point for an hour causing them tomiss the flight. The tsa says they were there for 45 minutes which included the time to discuss screening procedures with the mother and to screen three carry on items. The tsa says the procedures are a part of new standards that went into effect earlier this month. Ileana diaz is live now with more on the new procedures. Ileana. Reporter thats right. There used to be five kinds of pat downs. Now there is just one. The probleis that are experiencing the new pat down say it does cost some stress not only for children but for adults as well. Tsa officials call it more comprehensive but smith uses different words to describe it. More intense this time. I dont know. Its a little invasive. Even after her flight, shes still uncomfortable just talking about it. Shes had pat downs before. I have. They were cursory. This was for lack of a better word, more intense, more hands on body contact. This can take up to two minutes. As you see in the video, tsa agents describe what theyre going to do. They inspect head, torso, arms, legs, feet. It means more extensive inspections. They checked the boys is and front side. Gwendolyn said she experienced this too but its what happens next that disturbed her. Tsa agents go over sensitive areas and use the back or front of their hands. Thats what feels more invasive. It was a little bit more lingering, little bit more body contact. I wasnt going to argue. I just felt this is unnecessary but i have to catch my flight. She tells us it only took 30 seconds or so but long enough to leave her uncomfortable and questioning the process. Why is this necessary . Were practically unclothed as it is when we come to the airport. This is another layer. Reporter she says its one more reason shell avoid flying when possible. We all want security, but at what cost . Reporter if you are flying, there are things you need to know if you get a pat down. Know that you can ask a companion to go and you you should be patted down by someone of the same gender that you are and even if you have tsa prechecks that means you can still be asked for a pat down even though you went through all the trouble to begin with. I can vouch for that. Happened to me two weeks ago. Thanks. Top lawmakers in washington showing their support for israel at the annual American Israel Public Affairs committee. Leaders spoke out about their approach to israel. U. S. Israel relationship was in a terrible state when the new administration took office. We all agree on the importance of reaffirming our relationship and charting a new way forward. While some continue to unfairly paint israel as international pariah, more and more countries are realizing it is in their fundamental self interest to extend the olive branch of friendship. The senator went onto say israel faces challenges that no other nation in the world has to face. A man hunt is underway for the gunman who opened fire on two Undercover Police officers in miami. Video shows the two wounded officers in the back of a pickup truck being rushed to a hospital emergency room. They were ambushed last night while conducting surveillance nano tore yu songly gang ridden area. Police are asking for help in identifying the gun men. The wounded officers are expected to pull through. Investigators received more than 1100 tips but so far there are no credible sightings of the former teacher in tennessee or the student he allegedly abducted. In the News Conference today, authorities ask the public to keep sharing information about Elizabeth Thomas disappearance. They want everyone to keep an eye out for the 15 year old and her former teacher tad cummins. Neither have been seen in two weeks. I want to say to we will not stop until we find you and bring you home. Your family, your friends, and your Community Want you safe and want you back home. We want the same thing. We will do everything we can to make that happen as soon as possible. Investigators say the pair can be in Rural Communities in mexico or central america. Immigration Officials Say they are seeing a spike in the number of residents applying to be u. S. Citizens. This is in the wake of President Trumps executive order of immigration and building the wall. Thousands were recently sworn in at a naturalization ceremony in new york. Even if you are a legal resident knowing you can be harassed leaving the country on vacation and coming back, its applied to become citizens in 2016, a 25 jump from the previous two years. Its a deal even President Trump could admire. A new York Real Estate investor sold trumps childhood home for 2. 14 million. Thats 54 more than he paid for it in december. The five bedroom house is in a wealthy enclave in the bureau of queens. The auction house that sold the home is not revealing who bought it. This got us thinking about other childhood homes of president s. President obama grew up in several homes in and around honolulu according to a website obamas neighbor. President George W Bushs childhood home is a museum in mid land, texas. When he was five the family moved there. President bush grew up in the home. President bill clintons childhood home is in hope, arkansas and its restored to the 1940s and 50s theme when he lived there with his mother virginia. President George Herbert washington bush, his home was bought in 1951 and it is currently owned by another family. Ronaldronald reagan thans former Home Trending now, facebook is starting to look a lot more like snap chat. You know this because you just took a picture. No regrets from the man who created a font that makes some people down right angry. Angry over a font. Okay. We hear from the father who his son over bad grades at basketball games. We are going to track this head toward sterling around 5 59. Well tell you when the you know what time it is . What time is it . Time to get to whats trending. We showed you this yesterday. At the cavaliers hornets game, this st. Louis father held up a sign that said thomas get your grades up and next time you will be here. Love dad. These signs werent made for lack of intelligence. They were made for lack of effort. He loves lebron. I am hoping at some point weill he is on the couch watching the game he will recognize, thats my daddy. What did that sign say . Dad says once thomas grades improve, theyll head to a game together with new signs. Facebook is starting to look a lot like snap chat. Starting today, facebook has a camera icon so users can more easily upload those fantastic videos and facebook is adding a stories feature that lets you post videos that disappear after 24 hours. Sounds familiar . If you are playing with your phone and you are trying to get it to work, close your facebook and open it again and the icon should be there. I will post that later. It may be the most hated font in the word. I didnt know fonts could illicit hatred. I didnt either. We are talking about comic sans. Despite the fonts reputation the designer says he has no regrets in an interview with the guardian, the guy who invented the font was sought for an interview. He says the problem is people use it inappropriately. Interesting. According to mashable, a group started in 1999, called bad comic sans. Lately the hatred seems to calmed down. I dont know. Mine is ramping up right now. Everybody has to achieve in order to achieve these huge feats. In my broadcast career i never thought i would say these words. Wise words from a man known fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download dsspee. E cablonly offers upload speeds that are a fraction of the download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com members of u. S. Womens Gymnastics Team came to washington to share details about a dark secret. For years they were sexually abused by a trusted doctor while other Organization Officials failed to protect them. Weijia jang has more. Reporter did you realize you were being abused at the time . I didnt. Reporter made larson is among former members of the u. S. Womens Gymnastics Team who spoke on capitol hill tuesday sharing harrowing stories of sexual abuse at the hands of someone they trusted, the team doctor lawrence nassar. Dr. Nassar abused me in texas, in california, and all over the world. Reporter last news chief medical correspondent reported on 60 minutes at least 60 gymnasts claim he abused him. The lawyer says today the number is more than 100. At no time was there ever another adult in the room. Reporter victims testified that usa gym officials and coaches are to blame for creating a culture of High Pressure and fear that made them scared to come forward. The culture was money and medals, wasnt about the girls. Reporter senators are working to pass legislation that would require groups to immediately report sex abuse allegations to police, strengthen oversight of gyms and coaches and ensure victims can safely and easily report abuse. No one ever asked what happened in there. It was easier to turn a blind eye. Reporter usa gymnastics did not attend but issued a statement saying we are recommit ourselves to promoting a safe environment for our athletes. Larson says for the first time she feels hopeful future gymnasts wont have to go through what she did. Since december dr. Nassar has been held without bail in michigan where he worked at the Sports Medicine clinic at Michigan State university. Always watching, always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather. Were taking you down under. This is a hurricane cyclone that hit northeastern australia. Hamilton island recorded a wind gust of 162 with sustained winds of almost 120. Their season is november 1 through april. Ours starts june 1. This was cyclone debbie, absolutely hammered the northeastern part in queens land. The good news is it will dissipate as it moves ashore. It was with wind gusts to 162 in hamilton island. A live look outside, its pretty nice. One front is south of us. Another one has to go through. Right now we are still warm. The winds have turned north northwest at 9. On radar, there are a couple showers and few rumbles of thunder but nothing particularly heavy. This is heavier activity toward 522 west of warren ton. That just popped up in the last 15 minutes. Remember this is live radar. We have a good shower toward lees burg and sterling, some activity down 95. We tracked this earlier. This is producing moderate rain in chapel acres, will move across i95 probably heading to lorton in about five minutes. Just some moderate rain. This one has more potent rain on the west side of 95 hill top at 6 17. I think it will hold together. Everything will taper off before midnight. Then we are going to see partial clearing. By the time we get to the bus stop, not bad. 48 to 60. Not cool or cold air rushes in. It will be breezy but the cool air is delayed a day. It comes in on a thursday. A wonderful wednesday, breezy and mild, cooler thursday but sunny. Rain and chilly friday. Our next yellow weather alert will be friday, no doubt about that. We are looking at a nice day tomorrow, 67. Then we drop to 59 thursday, 58 friday. That will be wet with showers and rain. Morning showers saturday. The afternoon looks promising with highs around 70 and 65 with sunshine sunday. Here is futurecast, at 10 00 there are a couple left over showers, maybe 62 downtown. By 6 00 am we are generally clear and clouds will li again only upper 40s to low 50s to start. Not bad. By 9 00 we are 52 downtown, 51 in la plata. If you can get out of the wind, it will be a great day to eat lunch outside with 61 at 1 00 downtown, 61 in manassas. In 24 hours well be in the mid 60s and clear. Day planner goes like this, low 50s to start downtown, upper 50s in the burbs, 61 with sunshine by 1 00. Thursday will be cooler but a nice day near 60. Thats pretty much dead on average. Yellow weather alert friday, chilly with rain in the upper 50s. Saturday, morning showers, okay afternoon, cooler sunday. Right now it looks okay. Upper 60s with sunshine but rain rolls in tuesday. Gamecock jesus, he may be south carolinas biggest basketball fan. Other fans got together to send the super supporter to the final four in phoenix this weekend. If you have ever been to any gamecocks game you have probably seen that his energy is electric. Spirit is contagious and the vibes he sends to the courttheyre catching up to him. There is no one more deserving than this guy to go. He has been a fan for 40 years. Reporter he didnt know Carlton Thompson personally. This guy is awesome. He is at every game, great support. We figured wed get back to him and get him there. Get him to phoenix for the final four with funds raised by others who connected with game jesus like he does. Its outstanding that our fans and community can do someg page raised almost 5400. With all the money who is he taking with him . I am going to take eddie with me. I dont go anywhere without eddie. Eddie the ticket man would always hook him up with cheaper tickets. He never forgot that. This is a dream come true. A dream experience he has been giving fans for years thats now catching up to him. This is what it is all about, the believing. Everybody has to believe in order to achieve these huge feats that we are doing right now. By the way, he is a nurse at the v. A. But still finds time to cheer his Favorite Team on. He leaves for phoenix on friday. Ncaa championship game is next monday at 9 00 on wusa9. That also happens to be opening day for the nats. Th 1 00. Why do anything after noon next monday . We are calling it make excuses monday. Find an excuse, get a note from your doctor, do something. Your dog ate your homework, whatever. Try to get out of your responsibilities for the day. Kickback with a six pack or whatever beverage you enjoy and watch the games with us. On our Facebook Page mike writes plan to head to a vacation day. Went the responsible route. Good work. With the exclamation points you know he is serious. New at 6 00, a homecoming more than 70 years in the making at Arlington National cemetery. Next, a all Madison Thompson wanted was a fair shot. She has down syndrome. She is determined to try out for her middle school cheer leading squad and made it. After madisons school took notice of what truly makes her special. Here is the story. Reporter have you ever achieved a goal that at some point seemed impossible. Congratulations are you so happy . Yes. Reporter that is what made thompson just did. Shes a 7th grader with down syndrome but defined by her love of cheer leading. After ten years to the private team she wanted her middle school. Her mother feared she wasnt getting the fair shot she deserved including extra help as part of a rule. I was more nervous than she was. Reporter her persistence paid off saturday. I made the team. Reporter maddies team came true. Courtney, landry, mckala, me, katie, trinity. Those are your new teammates. Yes. Reporter this also marks the start of a new policy for garland isd. Theyve created an auxiliary position for special needs students. Theyll receive physical accommodations needed for the rest of the team. The district says the program will just be at the middle school this year but will expand to all the middle schools next year. It made me extremely happy to know that we have he her. Reporter by achieving her goal. I feel excited. Reporter shes paving the way for others. That has a lot of families special needs or not cheering. Shes great. Madison even has her own instagram with nearly 40,000 followers. At 6 00, Republican Leaders rallying around congressman nunez after calls for him to step down. He says he is capable of conducting independent investigation into russian interference in the u. S. President ial election. Democrats are not convinced. I dont know why you keep asking the same questions. Reporter nunez blew off democratic calls to recuse himself from the investigation into russian interference into the election. Same thing as always around this place. I am not going chairmans ties to mr. Trumps campaign conflict with his ability to conduct a proper investigation. They point to him viewing secret documents on white house grounds and briefing the president afterwards. Given his role in the Transition Team and events of the past week, it has too much called into question whether he has objectivity necessary to oversee the investigation. The white house denied it pressured congressman nunez to prevent sally yates from testifying. I hope she testifies. I look forward to it. If they choose to move forward, great. We have no problem with her testifying. Reporter cbs news learned yates was prepared to contradict Previous White House statements about firing of michael flynn. General flynn was forced to resign after the press revealed he misled mike pence and the American People about conversations he had