Maintenance, money spent or anything. Again, were standing by for all those details in the preliminary report from the ntsb. Could get that into the newsroom any minute. Well bring you the latest details as soon as we get them. Reporting live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you. The mind set of some metro passengers seems to be changing these days after mondays incident. This morning, abc 7 saw several people tweeting about smoke in the rosalynn station just down the street as a matter of fact from our studio here and we sent a crew out and they found an odd smell there in the station but things running just fine. But richard wolf tweeted this picture noting the orange line train emptied at rosalynn and smoke fills cars. And then steve cuff tweeted this. Orange line car at rosalynn starts getting something burning smell before metro even says anything. People get the hell off new reality. That could be the case. Abc 7 did call metro and we found out there was a problem with the brakes on a train there and that could have been what caused the smoke in the station. They say theres nothing serious. Alison . Earlier this week the metropolitan council of governments released its report on the state of our regions infrastructure. It found a 16 billion gap in funding for Public Transportation over the next decade. Overall, the region falls about 58 billion short in the next 10 years. Thats for everything from transportation to energy and water projects. The district is already undertaking a massive project. They had a storm water overflow. They blessed the anaconda River Project last month, you may remember that scene and today Vice President joe biden toured the area to see how the whole project is coming along. D. C. Bureau chief sam ford is there and joins us live from the site along independence avenue in southeast. Hey, sam hello leon. Well, i am in front of a drill head. It is the second of three drillheads that eventually are going to be put underground to drill massive storm tunnels under the city and as you can see, this thing is huge. The Vice President joined the mayor here today to congratulate d. C. On its efforts to clean up its rivers right now after a big rain. A long of untreated sewage flows into the potomac and anacostia rivers. Once these 13 miles of tunnels are completed, they will hold the overflow until it can be properly treated meaning much cleaner rivers. The Vice President said it makes economic sense because business is not going to come to places where the water is dirty. If were going to lead the world in the 21st century and we are leading the world in the 21st century, we have to have the most modern infrastructure in the world. And this drill head has a name actually. Her name is nanny for nanny Helen Burroughs who was an educator who lived in washington, northeast washington many years ago. Theres another drill head thats called lady byrd for lady byrd johnson. Shes already at work heading north, this drill head will be heading south they will meet somewhere around poplar point as they contract these mas tunnels. This particular project will be completed, were told in 2017. Well have more at 5 00. Back to you. All right. Looking im sorry im a guy, i cant help but thinking how much fun would it be to drive one of those . I was thinking sam looks awfully small there. And you know what else . Hes not wearing a coat. Did you notice that too snoo auto exactly. Big change from what we had earlier this week huh . Sunny outside, a little chilly but still sunny out there. A little bit. What about the weekend . Will it be an upgrade of any sort . Doug hill in the storm watch Weather Center. Hard upgrade what we have right now for this point in january. Temperatures in the upp spots. Weekend will start out nicely cool and sunny and maybe some rain on sunday and clearing out for dr. Martin luther king day on monday. The highlights but the essence is in the details here. Lets give you a quick look of the weather bug camera the campus of Montgomery College in rockville. 37 degrees and partly cloudy skies. We have a bit of a breeze. Colder temperatures moving into the area. Not quite 21 in frederick but 38 in hagerstown. 40 at washington dulles. Temperatures are warmer and colder north and west of town. Once we get through the night and the winds diminish, it will get mighty cold. Thermometer temperatures dropping to the mid 30s later this evening with a gusty wind and overnight, looks like well see diminishing winds 15 to 25 degrees for the overnight lows. Chilly day tomorrow. Lots of sunshine and then ill give you the details and timing of these showers for sunday and monday as well coming up shortly for you, alison . Ok doug. Thank you. Tomorrow marks one year since two children died at the hands of their mother and a friend who thought they were possessed by the devil. Today, that friend, Monique Sanford pleaded guilty to the crime. Kevin lewis was in court and spoke with the children father. Kevin . Alison, assist hard as it was to hear today, Martin Harris tells me attended court today to gain both clarity and closure. As many will remember police were called to a hor bizarre scene at that germantown home last january. Inside, four children all between the ages of 1 and 8 had been brutally stabbed and choked. The 1 and 2yearolds were found dead wrapped in sheets placed on a bed. Paramedics did, however, manage to save the 5 and 8yearold. It wasnt long before Police Arrested the childrens mothers, zaciah avery and her close church friend. The women told police they didnt intend to kill children but pluck demons from their bodies. Today, sanford admitted her guilt but in turn was not held criminally responsible by reason of insanity. Instead of sitting in a prison cell, a judge committed the 22yearold to a secure Mental Health facility in jessup maryland. So she is in her own prison. Shell have teal with her own life. If she comes to terms with it she comes to terms with it. If she doesnt, she might end up there. She believed that she had been nishlted into this group of demon assassins and she and this avery, it was their mission. So as it stands the childrens mother zakeya avery will be standing trial in june. Shes found to be sane and faces life in prison. Coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00 ill update you on the two surviving children and in doing so, show you photos and a video taken of them lweek. Its the Silver Lining in what can be described as a horrible and tragic crime. Live in rockville, im kevin lewis, abc 7 news. Need a Silver Lining in that one. Kevin, thank you. Well attorneys now have more time in the voyeurism case of the rabbi. Today, a d. C. Superior court judge granted the prosecution and defense request for a delay in the proceedings. So the next hearing is scheduled for february 19th. He is accused of secretly recording women as they prepared for a ritual bath at kesher israel in georgetown. The synagogue fired him last month. Coming up at 5 00 what protesters demanded outside of the courthouse today. And the Virginia Supreme Court denied a request to rehear george huguelys appeal of his 2012 murder conviction. The court made the same decision in november. Huguely, a former university of virginia lacrosse player was convicted of killing his exgirlfriend yardley love. Huguely is serving a 23Year Prison Sentence for seconddegree murder and grand larceny. The man accused of plotting to blow up the u. S. Capitol will be staying behind bars. A judge denied Christopher Lee cornell bond about two hours ago. Rebecca cooper is standing by in our live desk. Shes got more including word of who was shouting out in court today. Tell us about that. Thats right, it was Christopher Lee cornells father who shouted out to his son inside the courtroom dont trust anyone. As you said, the judge ordered that he be held without bail and today, were learning more about cornell and some of the paranoia that may have factored into his psychology. Take a look at this picture that was taken by our abc affiliate in cincinnati. This was taken at a 9 11 memorial event in 2013. Cornell showed up protesting and holding a sign that reads 9 11 was an inside job. In smaller print, he wrote the free masons did it. Now, were also learning as a teenager cornell twice faced police charges. In one incident he was charged with Domestic Violence against his mother. A year earlier, he and his brother were cited for beating up a classmate. His father had to say about why he believes his son is innocent. Auto too if i thought he was up to something, i would have been the first one to turn him in. I would have turned him in to save his life. Cornells record shows this was a young man who was bullied at school and frequently ran away from home. These incidents fit the profile of a type of young man vulnerable to a radical and extremist group. Theyll be considering that as they continue to hold them without bail in ohio. Rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. Rebecca, thank you. So that plot against the capitol is raising concerns about home grown terrorism. Police in several European Countries arrested more than two dozen suspects in a series of raids. They come after two suspects were killed in a shootout in belgium. Marcy gonzalez has the latest. The concern about home grown radicals growing here in the u. S. And abroad following the terror attacks in paris. A dozen people were taken into custody in france overnight. Investigators say some of the suspects have links to the terrorists in the market. Police in belgium have charged five people and arrested seven others closing in on what they believe to be a group of radicals who were plotting to kill officers. And today just as british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron met with president obama at the white house to discuss the intensifying problem. All our countries are working together seamlessly to prevent attacks and defeat these terrorist network. And just as president obama was meeting with the british Prime MinisterDavid Cameron at the white house today, yet another arrest. An 18yearold woman in the u. K. Was taken into custody on suspicion of terrorism. Marcy gonzalez, abc 7 news. The deadline has come and gone. And its about to come up again. Still ahead here find out if d. C. Streetcar line will open up next week as planned. Then a little later, why the woman who seemed to be center of the rough start to the Nations Health care overhaul is back in the news again. Plus solving a decades old mystery about what happened to a spacecraft heading to mars. But first, water shooting out of a broken essentially what ive learned from this report is the preliminary report, the initial fact finding by the ntsb on what happened here on monday at Lenfant Plaza that there were actually two trains that were impacted and passengers of both trains as well as passengers on the platform were with heavy smoke here. Investigators inspected the area of incident and also provide pictures in this preliminary report of the third rail. They say they observed severe electrical arcing damage to the third rail and electrical cables about 1100 feet ahead of the trains, one of the trains impacted and stranding passengers. Recorded data shows at 3 06 p. M. , monday afternoon an electrical breaker at one end of the section of third rail tripped and about 10 minutes later, the Operations Control Center began activating ventilation fans in an effort to exhaust all that smoke from the area. The electrical breaker at the other end of the third rail section remained closed and confined power until the remote told the command to open that breaker around 3 50. The ntsb said the investigation continues. Theyre reviewing maintenance records of the track, of signals and power inspections. Rail car vehicles documentation on previous events with smoke generation. Maintenance and repair records as well as looking at employee training records. Investigators have collected material samples from the incident site and theyre also examining the samples at the ntsb materials lab. In addition investigators are conducting interviews with personnel involved and have begun the collection and review of available surveillance video. So as we expected, we would get these preliminary facts but this investigation will continue for many, many months before we get a final report and possibly recommendations from metro or from the ntsb on how metro can prevent this type of incident from occurring again, the severe nature of the electrical arcing and were also standing by and we expect to get it tomorrow, the internal report from the d. C. Government on the response to this incident here at Lenfant Plaza. Reporting live in southwest washington, mike conneen, abc 7 news. Thank you, mike. Timeline information coming and beginning to fill itself in. Appreciate that. Keep us posted. Lets get you to something that might be a little bit more you uplifting for you and something you ma able to see around here. Gas prices under 2 a gallon. Theyre starting to creep into the area now. Abc 7 found these prices here at the stations in woodbridge today right around dale boulevard and right now, triple a puts the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded at 2. 51. Thats down 1. 06 in the last year. Nationwide the average is 2. 08 a gallon. You can find thees where you live at wjla. Com. Lets take a look at video that youll see only on 7. A busy roadway has been reopened but repair work is still under way after a water main break in alexandria. Thats right, it was a 12inch break between king street and park center drive. And it created a despiser of water. About 6 30 this morning. Jeanette reyes spoke to impacted residents. Residents here didnt know what to make of it at first. Looking out the window and i thought a fire or something. A major water main break on park center road tore through this cement and asphalt making way for a geyser that shot up 20 feet in the sky. Kind of icy walking because a lot of the areas where the water had been pooling, you know its below freezing right now. Thousands of gallons of water then became a treacherous river that streamed down king street later created a thin sheet of ice. It was actually kind of interesting to look at but im sure with traffic, its very much a pain to all the folks that are trying to get to and from now. Even after the geyser slowly retreated back into the gaping hole the damage was done. Dangerous conditions forced them to shut down king street near i395 for over two hours, that meant two bus service. My commute today is going to involve walking. Jim snyder took it better than most. How far is your walk . Five miles. Not a big deal, though. But he wasnt the only one having to hit the pavement this morning. Walk a little bit to get to work. Had to walk up to shirlington about a mile up the road. Not too bad. Make it work. A spokesperson with virginia American Water tells us this was a 12inch water main valve that just broke off. It will take between six and eight hours, a little past rush hour before this is all fixed up. Reporting live in alexandria jeanette reyes, abc 7 ws. Lanes of 355 are open this afternoon following a fivecar crash in rockville. News chopper 7 flew over the scene between frederick road and College Parkway around 11 30 this morning. As many as 11 people were injured and three were taken to the hospital. They have nonlife threatening injuries. A lot of things to help with on the roadways. Get a check of whats happening right now with bob emler. Out in the sun on 66 traveling westbound, very slow ride to centreville. Did have word of a minor crash in the beltway and thats on the dulles toll road after reston parkway had a crash along the right side and traffic on 95 southbound is running slowest over and in from about quantico headed towards stafford. Northbound, there was a vehicle fire a mile before exit 143 at garrisonville. That along the right side. Its not out and the lanes should be reopened. Thats what 270 looks like bopped down through Montgomery Village as per usual and 395 south of the pentagon very slow into landmark with the lanes open. Im bob emler with wtop. Thank you bob. Nice to see the sun bouncing off those cars. Yes. Pretty pleasant out there. Once you got out of the wind. Temperatures starting to drop a little bit now with the front coming through. It will be colder tonight for sure. Cold but sunny tomorrow and sunny, a little rain. Ill explain. Lets get to the maps and start with a look at damascus in northeastern Montgomery County nice and clear this morning and very heavy frost in places windshields across the area this morning. But the clouds started to roll in ahead of this front, winds came up and the temperatures warmed up nicely so well head the other way because the front is moving through and the winds will die down and the colder air, cold, dry air will pour in tonight. Take a look at some of these numbers, 36 degrees in frederick. 40 morningside. Tacoma park at 39. A bit of a chill in the air because of the wind. Its want dramatically colder but definitely a chill out there. Later this evening, the temperatures will drop and the winds will subside. That combination will drop us pretty low in the thermometer. Temperatures down to the mid 30s in western maryland. That cold air will come in and replace these 40s. By early tomorrow morning, well in the range of 15 to 25 degrees but the winds will be light in the morning. Skies will be crystal clear. Chilly start to saturday. Through the day tomorrow, well be in fine shape. Futurecast shows clear skies all day long tomorrow but on sunday it looks like an area of low pressure will sneak up the coast and rainfall depends on which model you look at the placement is different. We think the best chance of rain on sunday will be along east of i95 and should clear out late sunday night. Rest of the dr. Luther king Holiday Weekend looks nice. Theres the