Worker who is not being identified right now contracted ebola while volunteering in sierra leone in a treatment unit there. After an examination, n. I. H. Doctors say the patient is in serious condition. The patient was transported to the u. S. In isolation on a chartered plane overnight. This just in from Prince Georges County now. Home owners could soon see an increase in property taxes. The proposal to hike taxes was Just Announced at a budget meeting and tom roussey is live in Upper Marlboro with how much more people could be paying and where this money is going to go. Tom . Yeah we just attended a long press conference for the county executive here in the county building. A lot of documents they handed out, too, that were still going through right here. Bottom line is hes calling for the first time in 35 years for Prince Georges County to raise the property tax rate. This is video from the press conference that wrapped up about a halfhour or so ago. Bottom line is if you own a 200,000 home you would see an increase of about 300. If you owned a 500,000 home youd see an increase of about 750. So we are talking a significant property tax increase. You may be wondering why . He says theyve made a lot of cuts in recent years and theres really not much left at all to cut and for that reason, he said to help the School System mostly. Thats why they need to do this increase. Theyre tired of hearing from folks who moved to Prince Georges County but scared to put their children into the local schools and he also hears from a lot of folks who live here who want to put their kids in private school or some sort of program and he says all the schools should be high quality. He wants to increase School Spending in order to make them that way. He also mentioned that he wants to maintain what Public Safety has done. But again, the main reason is schools. Heres what he said about that. No longer should parents be forced to move for better schools. No longer should parents have to choose to send their children to private school. That cycle must stop. And that cycle will stop now. And baker is also proposing that jobs be cut of folks who work for the county. Five day furloughs for county employees and he wanted to furlough himself. Looking into the possible legality of that. Well try to get more answers on that one for you. Although hes proposing some cuts, he wants that significant property tax increase for a number of reasons but one of the big ones being schools, he says. He doesnt have the final say, however. Prince georges county council will ultimately have to vote on this within the next few months. Reporting live in Upper Marlboro, im tom roussey, abc 7 news. Were learning new information tonight about what happened when a Metro Transit Police officer shot and killed a man inside a metro tunnel. This happened last night near the potomac avenue metro stop after a man was reportedly on the tracks. Brianne carter live in southeast washington with new details tonight on what the man may have been carrying. Brianne . Well at this hour sources are telling abc 7 news that man whose identity has not been released was carrying at least one stick while walking there on the tracks 400 feet into a tunnel away from this. The potomac avenue metro station here. As you can see, very busy at this hour. Now, metro this isnt the first time theyve heard of people being on the tracks near this station. Sometimes they open up people are already in the system. Its a bad scene in a number of ways. Its unfortunate for the workers who, you know come in sometimes and their safety is compromised based on the fact that they dont know who this people are and what theyre really there for and, you know theyre afraid. Now, metro officials tonight are telling us that that officer who has not been identified is a female. They say she has been with the department for 10 plus years and is part of a routine process when Something Like this happens is on administrative leave. Reporting live, brianne carter, abc 7 news. And in a separate incident Metro Transit Police officer is recovering from a headon crash in southeast washington. It happened late last night at the intersection of pennsylvania avenue and branch avenue. The officer was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. His car hit and damaged a utility pole in the crash. And then while pepco was working to repair it this morning, crews hit a water main. D. C. Water is working to fix that. They hope to have the road opened back up any minute now. Wow. Lets turn to the weather now. And it will be a soggy night all around the metro area. Chief meteorologist doug hill is tracking when the rain will move in. Hes in the abc 7 Storm Watch Weather Center with the first check of the forecast. Doug . Hey there, kimberly and alison and the rain is definitely on the way. Its a question of when and i think the steadiest and heaviest rain will hold off until after the rush hour and after sunset, it will be later tonight. Lets get started with a live look at the rooftop camera high above the belfort furniture weather center. Cloudy skies, will lower and thicken as the storm center approaches. Look at all that rain its all headed this way. Darker the green the heavier the rain. Well deal with those late tonight, overnight and tomorrow morning as well. Temperatures comfortable enough upper 40s to mid 50s. But warmer air will move in with some of the heavier rain tomorrow. Well drop to 44 tonight with the rain likely heavy at times. Temperatures may rise a few degrees overnight and plenty of heavy rain in the morning. It will taper off later in the day. More on the timing and the impact of the rain coming this way. Share that with you coming up in a couple of minutes. Kimberly . Thank you doug. More rain in southern West Virginia has people concerned after a landslide forced dozens of residents out of their homes. The landslide started near Yeager Airport in charleston taking down an unoccupied home church, trees and power lines. The road has been shut down and nearby neighborhood evacuated. The airport is still operating normally. A Virginia Company says it will continue selling laminate flooring from china after a scathing report on 60 minutes raised questions about its safety. Lumber liquidators say its products comply with all regulations, but customers are expressing health concerns. 7 on your side iteam investigator joce sterman explains why. Customers like eve murphy buy laminate flooring because they love the way it looks. Many are wondering if something inside this floor is making them sick. Murphy is among the abc 7 viewers weve heard from who say they bought laminate flooring from Lumber Liquidators and then experienced health problems. In the weeks after she moved into her home which has laminate from wall to wall she dealt with breathing problems and chest pains. She wants to know whether the flooring she paid thousands for could be the cause. And shes not alone. Three class action lawsuits have been filed against lumber liquid liquidators claiming the company sold laminate from china that is tainted with hazardous levels of formaldehyde. My first thought is i want to know whats added here but i will do what i need to first find out if this product is causing my problems. Coming up on abc 7 news at 5 00, well tell you what Lumber Liquidators is offering customers with this kind of flooring and why some say its not enough. In germantown joce sterman, abc 7 news. And joce well be back at 5 00 with more details on this developing story and if you have something for our iteam to investigate, just call the 7 on your side tip line. Theres the number right there. The veteran who jumped the white house fence and made it to the president s house has pleaded guilty. Rebecca cooper is at the live desk with the very latest on Omar Gonzalezs case. Rebecca . Kimberly today, Omar Gonzalez admitted in court he illegally entered the white house carrying a deadly weapon. Todays hearing was the first phase in the case and we still dont know his intent. When he was taken down inside the white house he was carrying a knife with a 3 1 2 inch blade. And after his arrest investigators searched his car and found hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a machete and two hatchets. Now, the first family had just departed the white house when gonzalez managed to make it all the way inside the residence. It was that incident kimberly and alison as you recall in september that first prompted calls for a Major Overhaul at the secret service. Those calls have been renewed again this week after it was revealed that two secret Service Agents crashed into the white house wall while driving an Agency Vehicle after they had been out drinking with other secret service officers. We will continue to follow the Omar Gonzalez case and keep you updated as we learn more about this case and of course continue to follow the latest on calls for yet another shakeup at the secret service. From the live desk rebecca cooper, abc 7 news. Still ahead on abc 7 news at 4 00, caught on camera. A car slams into a pizza parlor with a woman on the hood. See what happens after the crash. Only on 7, series of thefts at popular bars. What the thieves are getting from the customers. But first outrage on a local campus after a controversial email goes public. Well tell you what it said coming up next. Turning now to some developing news from oklahoma the fraternity kicked out of the university of oklahoma is now planning legal action against the university and possibly o. U. President david boran. It comes after that video surfaced last weekend showing a racist chant by Sigma Alpha Epsilon members. The frat hired high profile attorney steven jones. Working together in a positive manner we can find a solution that is acceptable to everyone to make this a teachable moment and an educational moment for what is seriously a flawed incident. But jones says the group is outraged over boran shutting down that fraternity house, expelling two student members and branding all s. A. E. Members there as racist and bigots. And yet another fraternity scandal. This time much closer to home. The kappa sigma chapter at the university of maryland is under fire after a demeaning and racist email went public. John gonzalez has more on how the school is responding. Less than a week after the incident with an Oklahoma University fraternity singing a racist chant a racist sexist email from a member of a university of maryland fraternity has now surfaced. Shouldnt be happening at a Big University like this. And the way that it was handled, i think, was definitely inappropriate. In the email sent 14 months ago, an undergraduate member of the fraternity uses racial slurs to refer to black, indian and asian women and alludes to raping women during rush week. Terrible. To be honest i cant stand that we have greek life. In a statement, the University President wallace loh said the university became aware of the email on tuesday and calls it vulgar and says it expresses views that are reprehensible to the campus community. After even like the u. V. A. Thing, i think its tragic that its all going on. Loh added that an investigation led by the universitys office of civil rights and Sexual Misconduct is currently under way and part of the probe will include trying to see if that email was written and sent from inside the frat house today. People inside preferred not to comment. The fraternitys National Chapter took quick action sending us a statement saying upon learning of the email the student was immediately suspended pending investigation and subsequently september a letter of resignation from sigma kappa. A car slams into a colorado pizza parlor and a person walking walking outside ends up on the hood of the car. The young woman is dazed for a few seconds but gets up and runs out of the restaurant. Police say the driver accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and was ticketed for the accident. Unbelievable. Time for a check on the traffic situation. Bob emler is in the wtop Traffic Center with those details. Hi kimberly. Not so much drama on the roads today. Very slow road on inner loop to head up to 270. Now, we had quite a delay on the outer loop trying to get around from i95 and south on 95 to the outer loop because of a broken down car carrier and thats been moved out of the roadway we understand and 95 virginia is going to slow down quite a bit as well and southbound over the occoquan and just south of stafford, express lanes are worse once you get south of dumfries. Best to get out of those. Otherwise, youll be sitting there for a while. Look at some cameras and get an idea of what it looks like on 66 on nutley street. No incidents along the way though and headed west on the beltway from New Hampshire avenue, still some delays heading into Silver Spring from the truck now on the shoulder. Im bob emler with 103. 5 wtop radio. All right. Time to talk about the weather, almost a weekend. We got the rain headed our way. Weve been telling you all week its coming and it looks like its pretty much on target later tonight. Good news is i think the rush hour will not be affected by the rain. If you have outdoor plans tomorrow, most certainly will be. Lets jump into it and give you a look at conditions around the area right now. This is the sky as it appears looking northward from Bell Haven Country Club in alexandria. Temperature, 52 degrees. Couple of degrees below average. Wind not much of a factor nor shall they be over the next couple of days or so. This system coming in from the west will bring a lot of rain but not a lot of wind and the winds that we do have are coming out of the south. We warm tunit up. And late tonight and overnight, may see temperatures rise a couple of degrees cuz in this big wrapup of the storm system surface winds have a sotherly component so well warm up in the upper sikt tomorrow and well get rain. A lot of rain as we get to the late night, overnight and through midday tomorrow after a cold front comes through, it should taper off tomorrow afternoon and evening. Now, as far as the timing details, we can rely on our futurecast to give you an idea. This is at 6 00 tonight with the main area of rain still west of the metro area by a long shot. It quickly advances eastward. About 9 00, area of steady rain moving in parts of the area and overnight, the rain. Heavy downpours within and some heavy downpours tomorrow morning with the rain. As we get to the afternoon, fortunes improve a bit because the rain breaks up. Main body of rain moves off shore and there you see this represents the cold front moving through so by probably before sunset tomorrow, the rain will be over. And then skies will very quickly start to clear in the metro area. And that will set the stage for a much improved Weather Forecast for the day on sunday. As far as the rainfall in our area, we expect up to an inch and a half. 1. 6 on this computer prediction for washington. 1. 1 inches in frederick. 1. 3 and i think thats about right. Lots of rain moving forward. Lets check out the next seven days after we get through the rainy saturday. Sunshine breezy weather on sunday. Monday delightful near 60. St. Patricks day, same story. Bit cooler wednesday and next chance of rain doesnt come our way until thursday but in truth, next chance of rain comes tonight and tomorrow. That will affect a lot of people. I know because steve rudin is at the finish line of the rock n roll marathon at r. F. K. Stadium. Steve, runners have to know whats coming. Absolutely. You know, 15 hours from now, its going to look totally different around here. Well have wet pavement, a lot of rain around the area. Here we are at the finish line. We actually have three races tomorrow. We have the marathon the Half Marathon and the 5k all starts at 7 30. And runners are going to be in store for well not such desirable weather. Heres a look at our runners forecast if you have to run in this, youll have fun in the rain. I hope temperatures race time around 7 7 30 around 44 degrees as we move through the 10 00 hour temperatures will slowly rebound to around 50. By 1 00 in the afternoon, most people will be done at that point. Rain should start to let up. As doug mentioned, were looking anywhere between one inch and 1 1 2 inches of rain with the heaviest rain coming on later on tonight. As we move into the Early Morning hours, if you are a runner, youre definitely going to want to wear the rain gear. If you are going to cheer on some runners, definitely want to bring an umbrella and bundle up. Its going to be damp and wet here in washington come tomorrow morning. At least sunday looks a whole lot better. Reporting live from outside of r. F. K. Stadium, im steve rudin. Back to the newsdesk with alison and kimberly. Think about how many different songs have rain in them. Bands could be kept busy all morning. Thats right. We want to remind you a few things about this. Metro will be opening tomorrow for the marathon and there also is a list of road closures that you need to know about. So go to our website at wjla. Com. We have that list right there. And for more details about tomorrows rock n roll marathon, just check us out on the web. And the rock n roll hall of fame in cleveland is celebrating a marathon of visitors since its opening 20 years ago. In fact, the museum welcomed its 10 millionth visitor yesterday. The special guest 27yearold grad student from new york. He was greeted with balloons cake and a prize package worth 4,000. First and foremost, we had to do something tied into the 2015 induction. It sold out so were giving them tickets to that.