Is not the first one to die. Today we learned Baltimore Police have a history of being accused of roughing up handcuffed suspects. People on the street call it the cowboy ride. Reporter im scott broom in baltimore where Court Records show freddie gray is not the first person to come out of a police van critically injured. His name was jeffrey alston. He ended up with a critical worse by an allegedly intentional rough ride in a police van after a Boston Marathon arrest. A jury awarded him 39 after a baltimore arrest. A jury awarded him 39 million. Same type of scenarioful theyre thrown into the back of the scenario. Theyre thrown into the back of paddy wagon. Theyre unbelted. The inside of the wagons are not padded. They cant protect themselves and they get thrown to one side or the other usually striking her head fracturing their neck. Reporter this woman claims to be an intentional victim of a socalled rough ride in 2012. Scott broom, wusa9. So much attention on the freddie gray investigation is focused on this history. Baltimore has promised its investigation will be handed over to the states attorney next friday. The chilly temps are not over yet. Tenacious topper shutt here to explain, but just how cold are we talking . Its not a good idea to have some flowers outside right now. Your tender vegetation needs protected tonight. Bring it in if you have potted plants or cover them up. We have frost advisories all the way inside the beltway Montgomery County and fairfax and freeze warnings north toward Frederick West of route 15, loudoun county, back into martinsburg and Berkeley County in west virginia. Cover them up and water them if you cant bring them in. Uncover them tomorrow after 8 00. You can do almost as much damage leaving them covered throughout the day. 9 00 were in the 40s and west, around 50 south and east. By 11 00 were 44 in gaithersburg, 43 in frederick and 44 in manassas. By 1 30 were only 40 in gaithersburg, clouds west and south of us. By the time the high clouds get here the damage will be done in terms of the frost and freeze. Well come back and talk about our yellow alert and which weekend day you might be able to do some outdoor stuff. Metro police are searching for the man who spit on and punched someone on an escalator. Check out this video. The man in the khakis starts arguing with the plan on the left. The guy then spits on the man that lashes out. The suspect punches him three times. He falls down and went to the hospital with injuries. He told police the guy pushed him while they were walking off the train at Eastern Market metro station around 1 p. M. If you recognize the attacker in this video, metro police would love to hear from you. New tonight an Office Manager from mississippi senator thad cochran has been indicted on charges of possessing methamphetamine and importing illegal drugs. A courting to court documents. He allegedly told investigators he imported those drugs from china with plans to give them out for sex. His First Court Appearance today. He was released on personal recognizance and due back in court next month. Shes 23. She was 13 when it all allegedly began. A former Montgomery County teaching assistant is charged with felony child abuse tonight and police say he confessed. Reporter im bruce leshan at loiterman middle school in silver spring, Montgomery CountyPublic Schools which have been hit repeatedly by child sex abuse cases are hit again. A teaching assistant, robert wilson, 23, accused of kissing and fondling a 14yearold girl inside the school itself. Hey, dont touch that. Thats assault. You could be charged. Get that out of my face, man. Reporter one of wilsons furious relatives grabbed our camera after a bail review hearing in rockville. And i just want justice. I dont believe he done this. I really dont believe he done this. Reporter police say wilson would meet the girl starting when she was 13 in the school in a stairwell where there were no cameras, that he would kiss her lips and grab her buttocks and that he went to her apartment complex and fondled her there. Schools learn of these allegations and contacted police immediately. Reporter Montgomery County police say if there are any more victims out there, now is a good time to come forward. In silver spring, bruce leshan, wusa9. Wilson also was an assistant track coach at wheaton high school. If convicted, he could get as much as 25 years in prison just on the felony child sex abuse count alone. Family, friends and students came together to remember a university of maryland washington student from mclean killed one year ago today. 20yearold grace mann was an activist who worked on sexual assaults on campus. Family and friends came to say their final goodbyes. Its hard knowing that i will have to live my life and have my children and my husband and she wont be there, husband, and wife, whatever they might identify as. The best thing i can do for grace is to say what i believe in and fight for the equality of everyone because thats what she wants. Police believe 30yearold Steven Vander briel strangled grace in the home they shared with two other housemates. They say there was no romantic involvement between the two. He has a court date next month. All is safe again at the statue of liberty, but this afternoon they had a bomb threat. The National Park service says someone called 911 and said they were going to blow up the statue. Crews immediately evacuated hundreds of vehicles off the island via boat and the police and bomb sniffing dogs went through things but never found any explosives. Italian Police Stopped a plot to attack the vatican. Heres video showing officers hauling out more than a dozen suspected terrorists from a house in italy. The chief prosecutor said the would be suicide bomber arrived in rome in 2010. The target was vatican city, but he never went through with it. They believe he wanted to strike a crowded area. Police say two suspects arrested today were former bodyguards for osama bin laden. More than a dozen students in indiana are recovering after the stage they were on collapsed from underneath them. Take a look. [ music ] [ screaming ] oh, my gosh. The High School Students were singing during the final scene of a musical last night. They run onto the stage and seconds later the cover placed over the orchestra pit just gave way. Some of their injuries include broken bones, cuts and possible concussions. A Prince Georges County jury ruled a woman who stole a home might earn her next one, a jail cell. Jurors found Kiana Johnson guilty of stealing the upper marl low home of a woman who had died three years marlboro home of a woman who had died three years ago. Johnson filed a fake deed and sold the home for 238 grand. Shell be sentenced in june. The man who tried to assassinate president Ronald Reagan wants to take up a new hobby. Next how John Hinckley is hoping to spend his time outside jail. Reporter commuter traffic time might be snarled monday thanks to the Construction Projects on this old bridge. Im peggy fox, what you need to know coming up. Plus a new recipe for diet pepsi, the John Hinckley, jr. , the man who shot and wounded president reagan, wants to now play in a band. Thats something we learned today in the hearings that will determine whether or not hinckley gets to leave st. Elizabeths hospital for good. Today his psychiatrist said sure, let hinckley start up a band. After all, music has been part of his therapy, but the psychiatrist put the kibosh on letting hinckley play any public gigs. The hearings resume monday. A huge construction project starting monday morning could snarl traffic on a major thoroughfare next to the pentagon. Peggy fox reports its out with the old and in with the new for a 74yearold bridge. Cars are buzzing by pretty fast. Reporter the sidewalk is narrow and needs repair. Feet away traffic whizs by. Looks pretty dangerous, as a matter of fact. Reporter probably not a good place to stand and do an interview. Like were doing now, right. Reporter the Old Washington boulevard bridge over route 110 next to the pentagon is structural ly deficient built in 1941. Its seen better days. Its not unsafe to drive on, but it needs to be replaced sooner eporter ddot is doing just that. Survey teams were out today. The construction project begins monday morning just in time for the commute. The three lanes in each direction will be reduced to two. Were telling people just to expect about a 10 minute delay. Were going to do our best during the project to keep two lanes open both directions at all times. Reporter the new bridge will still be three lanes each way, but it will be 9 feet wider with a 14foot shared use path on the pentagon side and an 8foot walkway on the west side. The project costs 31. 5 million. Its expected to be completed in may of 2018. In Arlington County peggy fox, wusa9. Since its next to the pentagon the new bridges crowning touch will be signature medallions honoring each of the four branches of the u. S. Military. From our Prince Georges County bureau mixed signals whether a metro stop could be coming to National Harbor. Rushern baker told wnew yesterday, were going to have to bring the metro across the Woodrow Wilson bridge. Mgm which is building a casino at National Harbor said it supports bakers efforts, but a county spokesperson says there are no plans and no official talks with metro or National Harbor. A major milestone for the telescope that has brought us closer to the outer reaches of our universe, how nasa says hubble has changed our view of the cosmos. Windy today and that really blew around the pollen. The main culprit is tree pollen. It is high, ash, oak and pine, low for grasses and mold spores. Well come back, talk about maybe lowering the pollen count with some rain and sh wo a new sign today that governor Chris Christie is at least prepping to jump into the 2016 president ial pool. His wife left her lucrative wall street job. Mary pat christie recently resigned as the managing director of the firm and shes been the familys main breadwinner earning half a Million Dollars in 2013. Its all so the mother of four can spend more time with their family they say. The christies have two children in college. The u. S. Militarys use of drone now raising questions after a strike near pakistan and afghanistan accidentally killed american hostage warren weinstein. Alqaeda took the rockville man hostage in 2011, but this past january he was killed by his own country in a mistake in an antiterror drone strike. However, some stand by the u. S. Military drone strategy. In many ways i actually think drones are more precise and minimize the unforeseen consequences, but again its just the weapons platform. The real issue is whats the mission in which youre using the platform . The conversation continues sunday on capital download. Join me and our cohost susan pain sunday morning 8 30 page sunday morning 8 30 here on wusa9. Pepsi announced today its dropping aspartame and replacing it with splenda. It will hit store shelves in august. A new way to skip the line, the mexican food chain going to bring the burrito straight to your door only available in select cities. Lucky for us d. C. Is one of them. Three, two, one and liftoff of the Space Shuttle discovery with the hubble space telescope, our window on the universe. Wow, that launch was 25 years ago today and since then hubble has given us some spectacular views of outer space. Nasa credits the telescope with completely transforming how we see the universe from measuring the age of the cosmos to showing us the existence of those massive black holes. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. Topper will be tracking rain for the weekend. You said you were sweating today a bit with the 3degree guarantee. I went for a High Temperature today of 60. We know we hit 62. The question is did we go up to 64 or not. Lets go to the graphic. At 11 00 well let you know. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, down to 61, but look at the relative humidity, only 20 . We have a recipe for a really cold night and the frost advisory is up right inside the beltway, Montgomery County and fairfax, winds northwest at 15. They will settle down after midnight. So colder tonight. The high clouds could save us by dawn, but by the time they get in here i think the damage will have been done, so to speak, and the clouds do keep temperatures up a bit. Finish Outdoor Activities tomorrow by 5 00. If youre south and west of town, culpeper maybe 4 00, gaithersburg might have till 6 00. Yellow alert saturday afternoon through sunday, nothing heavy, but a raw april weekend. I tweeted this out. You might want to watch the cbs evening news tonight. I dont know what that meteorologist was talking about, the possibility of Severe Weather here over the weekend . Not even close. 10 00 tonight were in the 50s downtown, 40s in the suburbs. High clouds come in late and thicken up by 8 00, dry with temps in the 40s. We get into the afternoon hours. Here comes the rain. So its into culpeper by 3 00 or 3 30. 58 downtown, 56 in gaithersburg and by 8 00 its raining to beat the band up toward leesburg and martinsburg, yellow indicating heavier rain on our legend, but no instability in the atmosphere whatsoever. By sunday morning still some showers through 8 00 and another batch of showers has to roll through in the afternoon. Its going to be a close call in middleburg, hope to see you at the point to point. I think by the time the races start the showers will be over. Tonight cold, high clouds late, frost and freeze north and west, lows 30 to 42, winds calm down northwest at 10. 43 at 7 00, upper 40s at 9 00 and 53 at 11 00 and 57 at 1 00, but it will stay dry through probably 3 00, 4 00 inside the beltway. Light rain and showers sunday worthy of a yellow alert, 59, 60 monday with a few showers but a little sun. Upper 60s tuesday, 70 wednesday, some showers wednesday night, upper 60s thursday, a wee bit cooler friday, highs in the mid60s. The wizards try to take a three games to none lead over the raptors tonight. Our Diane Roberts is at the Verizon Center with a preview. Reporter here we are at the Verizon Center where the wizards will host the raptors tonight in game three, the first round of their eastern conference series. The wizards are up 20 in the series. They took two north of the border beating toronto handily. Theyd like to keep the winning trend going at home. Of course, they dont have a good playoff record at the phone booth winning only one of their four playoff games. They hope to change that tide tonight. Im Diane Roberts, wusa9 sports. That game tips off in a half hour. Well have the highlights tonight on wusa9 news at 11 00. A grammy award winner is in d. C. Right now. Whats bringing john lets say this is your tv and these are the channels you pay for with cable but these are the types of channels you actually want to watch what if you could pay for what you want, and not for what you dont so you could get kids channels sports. Or entertainment mix and match, or get them all. Now fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv starting at 74. 99 including internet and phone. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Grammy award winner john legend is in town. Today he toured the Districts Department of youth rehabilitation services. The visit was part of his free america tour to end mass incarceration. Legend had high praise for the efforts here in d. C. To help kids who get in trouble. Legend said we need to give these children the help they need rather than just shovel them into juvenile detention centers. That is all for our news at 7 00. We will be back at 11 00. We hope to see you then. Have a great evening, everybody bye bye. Bruce jenners interview tonight and were sitting down with his stepdaughter kim today. See how shes gearing up for his big exclusive. Will you be watching bruces interview tonight . I hope im going to be okay. Is the family rallying around bruce . I hate so badly when i see things that, you know, my mom doesnt support him. Plus i enjoy trying to be something else. For years i had to learn to control my emotions. Hes a bill bizarre. Was he silenced by kris . Then the suicide of an Everybody Loves raymond star. Also Patrick Dempseys greys anatomy death. Did he battle with the writer . Were talking family and social media. The downfall of rome, its taken over. Now, e. T, the judge has spoken, case closed. We told you, there was going to be a shocker on greys anatomy and we did not lie. Dr. Mcdreamy is dead. We have got the details on how it all went down, thats minutes away. And the big interview tonight, bruce jenner tonight telling all about his transition to diane sawyer. Were all going to be glued to our tv sets. We got the only interview with kim. I have to ask you, will you be watching bruces interview tonight. We will, as a family together, with bruce, we will be watching. Bruce will be there as well. Yes. Im actually really excited about the future, about what i could do, to be able to do some real good in the world. What do you think north can can learn from the conversation that bruce is about