Passengers alex murk of potomac and calvin lee of rockville. A 17yearold front seat passenger survived. 18yearold sam ellis of North Potomac was behind the wheel, but he has not been charged. Routinely these investigations where there is a death invo days. Reporter this is a community that has lawyered up and shut down according to multiple sources. Police are convinced teenagers and parents with information about the party preceding the crash have not yet come forward to investigators. They need more people from the community who may have seen something but even if they didnt see something might know something. Reporter social media including snapchat, instagram and twitter may provide critical clues. Using Snapchat Sam Ellis shared video from inside the party and alex murk shared video from inside ellis car just minutes before all four lives would be changed forever. In North Potomac andrea mccarren, wusa9. Sam ellis lawyer says his client is devastated by the loss of his friends and doctors wont know for months about the impact of his brain injury. If youve got some information to share with police, you can do it and remain anonymous. The phone number is listed on our website and our wusa9 app. A man who beat his girl friends child to death will spend the next 50 years behind bars. A judge sentenced Clifton Bernard this afternoon for Second Degree murder and child abuse. Bernard was watching 2yearold jamir shipe while the childs mother was at work and at some point he got angry with the toddler and rammed his head through the drywall of the wall in the apartment and the little one died one day later. The relatives are relieved bernard will be behind bars. I wish it could have been the full 70 years with nothing suspended. Bernard did apologize to the family in court. The toddlers mother wasnt there because she says she just couldnt face the man who killed her son. New tonight at 7 00 police need your help to find a mother whose child tested positive for drugs. This is olivia hernandez. The Stafford CountySheriffs Office says she took her 4year old son to the hospital after he had seizures at a family members home. During a routine test doctors said they found opiate and thc in his blood. Opiates and thc in his blood. Hernandez and the childs father are charged with felony child neglect. He turned himself in, but police are still looking for hernandez. A daycare worker in foggy bottom is facing child abuse charges. Patricia rolden worked at Kiddie Academy in northwest for two months when two parents complained about bruises on their babies. One witness said they saw rolden pinch a child when it wouldnt stop crying. Rolden is charged with Second Degree cruelty to children. A young au grad stabbed 30 to 40 times on the red line just after noon as he was headed to a 4th of july party, tonight there are still questions about whether his alleged killer is competent to stand trial. Reporter im bruce leshan at d. C. Superior court. 18yearold jasper spires acted strangely almost from the start of his preliminary hearing here. He pranced in with a big grin, smiled throughout, laughed several times, interrupted the judge once. It was all so bizarre that the judge ordered a Mental Health evaluation. Are you concerned about your clients mental competency . No comment on that. Reporter the judge found there was substantial probability that murdered sutherland while other red line riders cowered at the end of the train. He also found that given spires criminal history, the brutality of the crime and other alleged robberies on the train he had to hold him pending trial to assure the communitys safety. A cousin spoke for st. Ar lans parents. Sutherlands parents. And they want something good to come from this. Whether thats getting people off the street that are harming others or going at the root cause. Reporter police think that spires might have been high on synthetic pot. In d. C. Bruce leshan, wusa9. Now none of the witnesses on that train were able to pick spires out of a photo array, but investigators say they do have his dna on camoflauge pants that fell out at the scene. They are still testing the knife handle recovered in a trash can. Were learning new information on a machine who opened fire in a louisiana a man who opened fire in a louisiana Movie Theater last night. Authorities say john houser killed two women and then himself in the showing of the movie trainwreck. Housers family said he was so violent his family hid his guns and they hospitalized him against his will and had a court order to keep him away. Investigators say interviews with his family and friends will help them figure out what the motive was. We believe in talking to the family, talking to the friends, trying to look at his writings on the internet and putting some parts and piece together. Maybe we can try to figure out what caused him to do it. Now police say houser spotted interferes as he was trying to escape the theater and officers as he was trying to escape the theater and that is when he went back inside and shot himself. Officers also found disguises in motel room where he had been staying. Investigators from Harpers Ferry are checking into statements from witnesses who say a group of partying kids were heard just before yesterdays fire broke out. It gutted four buildings in the Historic Town and video of the flames consuming a wooden staircase between two buildings is part of the investigation. There are reports that a witness might have heard a group of rowdy young people partying in that narrow passage. To find that out, that would just, you know, intensify the magnitude of the whole tragedy that, somebody and who would do that, you know . State fire investigators collected items from those gutted buildings, but they would not tell us what they found. A dog that could find accelerants has been brought in and samples have been taken to be analyzed. Well, our break from the heat and humidity sadly is almost done. We did know this was coming, though. First alert chief meteorologist topper shutt warned us and hes telling us now when the heat will return. We had a pretty good run. We can say this certainly and even tomorrow will be okay in term of humidity. Its sunday we go downhill. Lets start with saturday morning, first cup of coffee, very nice or tea, im a satisfactory guy, sick 6 at 7 00 tea guy, 66 at 7 00, and by 7 p. M. Tomorrow another nice night. You can plan anything you want to do outside tomorrow night. 85 in leesburg and manassas, not as cool and comfortable but still pleasant, if you will. By sunday morning at 7 00 notice 60s are few and far between, mainly low 70s leesburg, gaithersburg, bowie, mitchellville, mid70s downtown. By lunchtime, 2 00 or storks some showers developing north and west of so, some showers developing north and west of town. Mission accomplished, they hacked into a jeep to prove a opponent and now the automaker is making some point and now the automaker is making some moves, the list of recalled cars after oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v crews are out there trying to fix a broken water main that shot a geyser of water into the air right in the middle of a busy street in brooklyn. That water main burst underneath pennsylvania avenue near flatlands avenue and the High Pressure break sent water soaring at least 40 feet straight up. The road had to be shut down in both of directions triggering some mighty bad delays for the friday rush. A big car recall to tell you about tonight. This 1 was sparked by hackers. Earlier this week we showed you how two men were able to hack into a jeep on a highway while they sat on a couch. It was part of an experiment, but those hackers were able to change the radio, the air, even cut the brakes and that certainly got the attention of fiat chrysler. Today it recalled nearly 1. 5 million cars and trucks including several dodge and jeep models. All of them have an 8inch touch screen. The company said drivers dont need to do anything. Its going to update the software to prevent hackers from doing that again. A commute alert, youll want to avoid on the beltway tonight in prince georges county, the state Highway Administration will close up to three lanes on the inner and outer lanes of i495 over the ritchie marlboro road while crews work on that bridge deck. The lanes will close one at a Time Starting at 9 saturday morning and two lanes will stay closed until 5 a. M. Monday. Lets talk about pollen. We got a break on the humidity, kind of a break on the pollen, trees and grass no big deal, but now weeds and mold in the moderate range. Remember, this is on our website at www. Wusa9. Com. Well talk full weekend forecast coming up. And next recommendations for Fairfax County police, a re the shooting death of john geer in Fairfax County two years ago is producing more criticism of the police force and the way they deal with so called use of force cases president a Committee Found the department completely mis. A Committee Found the department completely mishandled how it handled the media and the public and need to make changes right now. They say keeping the name of the officer who fired the shot secret eroded public trust. The records should be released within a week and to use social media more to communicate with journalists. Hillary clinton now facing new question over the personal email account she used while she was secretary of state. The Clinton Campaign said clinton never sent any classified emails from her private system, but the state departments Inspector General released a memo that said the team pouring over the clinton e mails reports discovering hundreds of potentially classified emails within that check. At least one Inspector General has referred the case to the Justice Department to determine whether an investigation is needed. Heres clinton addressing the matter today at a Campaign Stop in new york. I have released 55,000 pages of emails. I have said repeatedly that i will answer questions before the house committee. Comment ons private emails are already at the clintons private emails are already at the center of an investigation thats looking into the deadly attack on the embassy in benghazi, libya. There are some rules to follow raising cash for the campaign, but paul s. Ryan believes the federal Election Commission is not doing enough to enforce those rules. The fec is a joke. The fec is not doing its job. Even the clair of the fec has said chair of the fec has said on the front page of the New York Times the group is dysfunctional. Hear the rest of that interview on capital download sunday morning at 8 30 right after our morning news. President obamas trip to kenya is turning into a bit of a family reunion. After stepping off air force 1 earlier today he had dinner with about three dozen family members in nairobi. Thats granny down there in the gold colored headscarf and thats his half sister in the white jacket right there. The president s father was from kenya. Some of this is not quite matching up, so lets just move on. This was the first time a sitting president has visited kenya. Mr. Obama also plans to travel to ethiopia. The worlds first malaria vaccine is a step closer to saving lives. European regulators have given the green light to the drug. Its supposed to help prevent the mosquito borne disease. The shot would be given to children ages 6 weeks to 17 months, but its not completely foolproof. The vaccine only protects about 1 3 of the children who would get it. It is now up to the World Health Organization to determine whether to recommend the vaccine. Researchers say malaria kills up to half a million children in africa every year. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. Dont like humidity, too bad. Its coming back. We had a nice run. Even tomorrow will be okay. It wont be quite as spectacular as today. It will be manageable. Well notice a change by sunday and certainly next week. Lets talk about the 3degree guarantee. Were feeling pretty good about this and no, were not really sweating today. We went 90 for a high. Well let you know how we did tonight at 11 00. I think were eight of the last nine, as i recall. Lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, back up to 87, thats good, 86 last hour. Winds light and look at the humidity levels 36 , thats almost unheard of for us this time of year, dew point in the 50s. Perfect friday evening will lead to a perfect friday night, so no worries about showers or anything and not too cool, not too warm this evening. Its about perfect. Saturday is going to be hot but not humid yet. Heat and humidity kind of roll back in and combine forces on sunday with a stray thunderstorm possible on sunday, more so in the mountains and the potomac highlands. Isolated storms on monday and tuesday, in fact, a little better chance on monday and tuesday. So heres the futurecast tonight at 10 00. We had 50s this morning. It was 58 this morning at dulles. It will not be quite as tool tonight but very comfortable. Cool tonight but very comfortable. 73 in frederick and bowie tonight. By morning say 7 00 were back in the 60s in the suburbs, mid 70s downtown, clear skies and then by 2 00 or by 10 a. M. Rather were low 80s downtown and maybe 80 in leesburg, only in the 70s in hagerstown, martinsburg and winchester by 10 a. M. By 2 00 well be back in the 80s to near 90 downtown. By 6 p. M. Im just not buying these showers, im just not. 88 across the board really in leesburg and manassas and downtown, 87 in bowie, only 84 in annapolis, a sweet day to be on the bay. By 8 p. M. Were still 85 p. M. , still some low 80s. Temperatures arent falling quite as fast. Tonight 62 to 72 with light winds. Sunshine tomorrow morning heats up pretty quickly, 88 by lunchtime and by afternoon were in the low 90s, but still humidity in check. So on the day planner 74 at 6 00, 75 by 9 00. Next three days hot and more humid on sunday, 94, your isolated storm, not 8th worthy and then low 90s not yellow alert worthy and then low 90s on monday, too. Tuesday isolated storm and then some big heat rolls in here. 97 on wednesday and thursday and an isolated storm next friday. What do you get when you cross a plastic cup, a gummy worm and a 3rd grader . The next great computer coding genius, of course. Of course. Mike hydek explains how all this comes together at riverside elementary in this weeks stem is cool in school report. Lets read through this once again. Reporter these 3rd graders have a job to do. Today will be saving sam. Reporter which requires some very grownup tools. Im reading. Reporter wait a minute. Youre going into 3rd grade and youre writing code right now. Yes. Reporter is it hard . No. Reporter sam is the gummy worm. His fictional boat the cup has capsized, his lifesaver gummy circle out of reach. Elizabeth stewart is up to it. Youre trying to get sam onto his life jacket and flip over his boat and put him in his boat. So do it step by step because then youre going to get overwhelm, right . Reporter dr. Sophie husain is teaching them to solve the problem in human language first. Move this down, then the paperclip right. Reporter then they learn. They have to transfer their thoughts into a code of language. I like that. Reporter after its written out long hand its off to the computer to try it out. Go down four. Go left five. And then you should reach the thing that youre trying to get to. Reporter and just like grownup scientists it takes trial and error to reach a goal. Nothing is working. Do your programs work the very first time . Not all the time. Reporter but eventually you learn to talk the talk in computer language, of course. If the computer didnt understand it, then it wont do anything. Reporter and thats just the beginning. Theyre programming robots next. S. T. E. M. Is cool in school, mike hydek, wusa9. Young coders and problem solvers, too. If youve got a great s. T. E. M. Story that mike hod hear about, send him a message should hear about, send him a message on facebook. Hulk mania is heating up, but francis may not approve of some iran keeps their nuclear facilities. Military sites can go uninspected. Restrictions end after 10 years. Then iran could build a Nuclear Weapon in two months. Iran has violated 20 inantertional agreements isand l theeading state sponsor of terrorism. Pope francis, hes been preaching about the excesses of capitalism. You can find a whole lot of that in philadelphia which is gearing up for a visit from the pontiff, all kinds of things like pope francis bobbleheads. Thats got some people shaking their heads. You can see shot glasses with old popey on it, tshirts, coffee mugs. That, my friends, is capitalism. Thats the american way. If you come here, you got to be ready for it. Pope and rocky right next to each other. Thats our broadcast. Have a great night come amy, how are you . Amy schumer and her train wreck tacosr on the move as more details emerge in the theater shooting tragedy. Im in lafayette louisiana. Here we have Surveillance Video captured. We were one of the first people out. Inside what it means for theater goers this weekend. Metal detectors at certain Movie Theaters. And then Blake Shelton out pushing a baby stroller . Only we have first words on camera about the divorce. Blake, you have any second thoughts or regrets . Plus, did hulk hogan just become the next paula deen . An nword tirade. Also, our kim richards exclusive. Sitting down with dr. Phil. Do you regret walking out of the interview . Why did she miss nicki hiltons wedding and how many people does it take to keep her sober . Chiropractors, acupuncture, trainer, my life coach