they evacuated the station out of an abundance of caution. i'm told that some type of trash and debris maybe newspaper got underneath the third rail. that is what sparked the fire. it was described to me as very minor. why did metro shut the station down for the rest of the day? after the ntsb report and grilling from the public, they want to make sure they are taking every necessary precaution as possible. this is the metro police department. they have the escalateer going down to the station blocked off. we spoke to a number of commuters that are, to say the least, frustrated. take a listen. >> this is an annoyance. yeah. there was a problem here this morning. i thought i wasn't going to get here this morning. i got in this morning but i can't comb go home this way. one of those things. >> you can't be surprise. it's always a problem dealing with the metro. the problems are constantly rising as well. you just driver every day? but even that is inconvenience as well. >> how are you getting home tonight? >> i guess i will walk 12 blocks like the guy said. kevin: so at last track it's only operating between boston and wheelly resten east. blue and the orange, silver as well shut down between eastern market and l'enfant plaza. this station is shut down for the rest of the night. uber and lyft taking advantage of the shutdown. you have a lot of commuters looking for a way home. at last check the uber surcharge right now is 3.8 times the normal fare. good luck to everyone getting home. i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. maureen: thank you. let's go back to brad bell now in beltsville outside the high point high school there. where the shooting today. brad, what is the latest? brad: there is an active scene. caravan of the crime scene investigators escorted in by the alwaysers under the lights and sirens. you can see the school now. the fire in e.m.s. personnel starting to pull away. this is now fully a crime scene. what we can tell you is this. this was two hours after school let out. many students still here for team activities. people heard gunfire. what we can tell you now is that one person, an adult female is deceased. second person is injured. police are, in fact, still looking for a suspect. still looking for a suspect. we have been told preliminarily they believe that was a case of domestic violence. this had nothing to do with students. this was a targeted domestic violence here at the school. we believe it took place outside the school. we mentioned that there were many students here for the after-school activities. there are parents here. a while ago we talked to one of them. nervous. she heard from the daughter locked in a closet sheltering in place. >> this is an annoyance. yeah. there was a problem here this morning. i thought i wasn't going to get here this morning and i got in this morning but i can't go home this way. >> she said they were in the closet. they were locked inside. they couldn't get out. they are waiting for the county to let them know when it is safe. brad: well, that woman telling me that her daughter heard the gunshots, that they were loud. her daughter was getting ready to play a tennis match when they heard the gunshots. the coach quick hustled everybody into a closet, protected them. that is where we stand again, this situation domestic. it appears to be over. no students affected. other than by having to shelter in place. no students injured. police still looking for a suspect. we have multiple crews on place and we will follow the story and bring you the latest details as we get them. beltsville, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: all right. thank you, brad. keep us posted. tense moments out there for the parents waiting for the students and the children inside the building. dy. kind of tension for metro riders tonight trying to deal with the system after the problem with the federal center shut down tonight. the incident on metro comes one day before metro is set to announce what is expected to be some major disruption to service because they want to conduct maintenance and the repairs on the infrastructure. richard reeve is joining us live from the l'enfant plaza with more on what is talked about as the plan goes forward. what have you learned about the plan? richard: get to that in a moment. kevin lewis reported about the situation at federal center having a ripple effect at l'enfant plaza. they have shuttle buses right now but there is frustration to go all around. this is just one day before the track maintenance plan is introduced tomorrow morning. firefighters on alert and startled, frightened metro riders at federal center. >> a big, explosion of light. richard: ray duke was riding in from shady grove around 6:25 app. the train pulled in, the lights dimmed. suddenly -- >> a bright light. i'm thinking what is this? then the doors open. a woman runs out and says get off the train as fast as you can. >> an arcing insulator that forced the single tracking in repairs. >> whatever they need to do to make the metro the safest it can be for riders is what they need to do. and soon. >> this is one day before metro g.m. paul wiedefeld will announce his track maintenance plan. it will likely include single tracking. multiple station closures at one time. abbreviated train schedules in the weekend. it could go on for months. >> you need to go in there, close down part of the system. rebuild that part. >> metro workers now get only 33 hours a week for repairs. but two hours of setup and teardown each night reduces the number to 19 hours a week. >> wi are trying to fix 117-mile train system. it is not working. >> these are self-inflicted wounds that the metro hasn't caught up with. they need to do serious maintenance. >> a tough, tough day at that federal center station. that is the second incident in one day. a lot of folks saying the new maintenance plan can't come anytime soon. reporting live, richard reeve, fuse news. leon: all right. thank you, rich. abc7 will bring you tomorrow's announcement from metro live. so if you are near a tv watch it liv newschannel8. if you are not near a television we will be streaming it live on wjla.com. so you can watch the live stream on you smartphone or on your tablet. maureen? maureen: must-see video from southwestern virginia. this was the scene this morning at halifax county. that is not snow. it is hail. in some places the hail more than three inches deep with the town having to use plows to clear the roadways and the sidewalks. we don't want to to see anything like that. steve: grab your umbrella and make sure you have a raincoat and a sweater. i will be cool and wet around here. take a look at the satellite and radar. everything moving from east to west. normally you don't see that. area of low pressure to the south of us is going to pivot or way and that is going to keep the moisture moving that hour-by-hour this evening. we will see the showers arrive later tonight. temperatures will fall in the 50's. i will give you the hour-by-hour timing for the rain, heaviest of the rain tomorrow afternoon and evening. what to expect for the upcoming weekend. a lot going on around here including mother's day. more on that coming up in a few minute. maureen? maureen: thank you, steve. coming up at 6:00, outrage over a ten-year sentence in a deadly shooting. >> murder is murder. maureen: what the victim's widow said that may have lessened the sen fence arrest man caught on video killing an off-duty police officer. leon: next, the diner damage when someone rammed an s.u.v. into it and caught fire is planning to reopen. we will tell you about the special day they have in mind coming up next. maureen: the "7 on your side" help center taking your calls tonight on breast cancer. get to answers you need at 703-236-9220. right now. thank you. ordering chinese food is a very predictable experience. i order b14. i get b14. no surprises. buying business internet, on the other hand, can be a roller 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reopen by sunday. mother's day. coming up here next at 6:00, a deadly shooting caught on video. you see it here. a man walks up to off-duty police officer and shoots him. 18 times. but this man is only going to be serving ten years in prison. the reason for that short sentence and the courtroom plea for mercy from the victim's wife coming up. ♪ stand by me vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. assisting with bill pay and providing free, energy-saving upgrades. it's more than helping customers, it's helping neighbors. ♪ stand by me leon: back to breaking news and the mess on metro. they have shut down the station at fram center. train service is suspended for the rest of th the newspapers caused smoke incident on the track at central center in southwest washington. the metro station there is going to be closed for the rest of the everything. maureen: new at 6:00, disturbing video. a man walking up to a stepfather, melt police officer and shooting him to death firing the gun 18 times. today a judge sentenced antwan james to 10 years in prison. the light sentence comes in part because of a plea from the victim's wife. antwan james' mother. >> the security camera video is grainy and halting but it tells a terrible story. april 2013, upper marlboro. a white dog plays. somebody spreads fertilizer. and joseph newell a detective appears to change a lightbulb. he sets up a ladder. then his stepson antwan james appears also in a white shirt. he has a gun a freeze the image there. newell falls, james shoots his stepfather 18 times. >> it was an egregious crime, evil crime. >> newell's eswife today after seeing james sentenced to ten years for the crime. >> i feel like it needs to be more. >> the daughter trying to understand. >> i'm happy it's finally over. >> it was caught on camera, james charged with murder was found guilty only of involuntary manslaughter. in large part because of the support of his mother. newell's wife. today at sentencing mrs. newell told the judge, "demons are real. i watched satan take over my son's body." the other side of this once blended now divided family will never agree with that explanation. >> murder is murder. it's notten voluntary manslaughter -- it's not involuntary manslaughter. it's murder. >> again h years already served. the way maryland calculates time served it's possible he could be released in three years. upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. leon: tonight on abc7 news at 11:00, a "7 on your side" exclusive. we speak one-on-one with a young woman from chantilly whose parents died in a murder-suicide. nina parisi is now 20 years old and for the first time she is sharing her story of pain, love, courage. she is talking with our fighting back reporter jennifer donelan. two and a half years ago her father paul parisi, a respected a.t.f. agent shot and killed his wife. the mother of two was a popular teacher at franklin middle school. nina and her younger sister were home at the time when the gunfire erupted. now nina is speaking publicly for the first time to reveal how she forgave her father. >> i think that that is the only thing that brought me leon: finding forgiveness. a can't-miss interview. it's tonight at abc7 news at 171:00. maureen: "7 on your side" with health matters. today we are helping in fight against breast cancer which is deadly in the area. in the washington, d.c. area, women are more likely to die from the disease than in most of the country. right now doctors and survivors are taking your call in the help center. reach them by calling 703-236-9220. you can get all your questions answered. abc7 is a proud sponsor of this komen race for the cure in district. you can watch the coverage live all morning on our sister station newschannel8 at 7:00. leon: real quick. got word more metro station closures here. federal center shut down. we are hearing the capital south is also now shut down for the evening. no traffic between l'enfant and eastern market. now stations on the orange, blue, silver line shut down for the evening. maureen: a tough night. leon: it is going to be a bad night. steve: so the rain, hevier rain arrives later tonight and through the day tomorrow. for saturday morning most should be out of here by then for race for the cure. that is the good news. bad news is that it's cool out there this evening. dreary. ten days of clouds and rain across the method atlantic -- mid-atlantic. looking out at the harbor. cloudy skies. rain will fall at 10:00 or 11:00 tonight. highs today were upper 50's. we are still only in the upper 50's. 57 in leesburg. 55 in fredericksburg. 54 in luray. the area of low pressure south and west of us will move toward the north and the east. the circulation around this counter clockwise is going to bring the moisture in from the east to move west. you can se shower activity from montgomery county to loudoun county and fairfax. that is what we will see overnight and the day tomorrow. this is not going to amount to ailment other than light rain. there will be patchy fog tomorrow but nothing to bring us travel delays. you're fine if you have flights in the morning. heaviest rain south and west of district. but not so lucky with the noontime area. area in yellow and red and orange are the heaviest rain. we look for anything to become severe but by the time it moves out of here we look upward of an inch or inch and a half of rain for part of the area. daytime highs tomorrow are upper 50's to 60. you will need an umbrella or raincoat all day long fr hour. i'll take you out and look at the next seven days. race for the cure morning showers give way to a little clearing. highs around 70. middle 70's on mother's day. with morning showers giving way to more sunshine. breezy for the afternoon. barb cue for mom on -- barbecue for mom are fine. 80 tuesday and wednesday of next week. guess which airline added more nonstop 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trotz knows coming back there a 3-1 deficit is daunting, it's not impossible. >> you have to have the belief that you win one, you don't win the first period. keep going. if you win one and things can change. hopefully all we can do is just look at the game in front of us and go from there. robert: football, smart move by the redskins. team announced today they signed tight end reeves to a multiyear deal. fist pumps. adam schefter is reporting that it's worth $50 million in five years. the nats start a four-game in baseball tonight in chicago. nats-cubs. should be fun to watch. can't wait for that. leon: all right. get back to the breaking story we told you about moments ago. federal center metro shut down because of smoke now. it's shut down for the night. kevin lewis is standing by. what is the latest? kevin: capitol south in addition to federal center will be shut down for the rest of the evening. the metro police here are standing guard at thestop of the escalator leading down to the federal center southwest station here. there is no more smoke inside the station. the actual smoke incident was minor. he arrived there was a light odor of smoke. no smoke visible even. but the take-home is if you are still trying to get home, there is no service between l'enfant plaza and eastern market. you have to take one of the shuttle buses to station that is actively running trains or find another means transportation. uber and lyft charging high rates now because you have thousands of people looking for alternate modes of transportation. hopefully it's back to normal by tomorrow. this station has had issues this morning with the arcing insulator. this evening was due to the trash underneath the third rail. both produced smoke. live in southwest. i'm kevin lewis. abc7 news. leon: so officials there are convinced that the two events had nothing to do with each other and this is something that is minor, not a major deal, right? kevin: yeah. exactly. this was coincidental in nature. morning was arcing insulator. this was trash. the customers are frustrated nonetheless. leon: absolutely. thank you. maureen: we have a little bit of a cool weather ahead. before it gets really nice. steve: exactly. tonight is cool in the 50's. rain on the way. take a for the day tomorrow. umbrella, raincoat, light twitter. we are looking at the temperatures in the upper 50's. we could look at upward of inch to inch and a half of rain. by the time it moves out of here. the next seven days the race for the cure is saturday morning. the daytime highs will make it to 70 degrees. by sunday morning lingering showers if you wake up before 7:00. don't be discouraged. the clouds will give way in the afternoon and the everything hours. barbecue plans or the picnics for mother's day look fine. 75 degrees for high. same on monday. something we haven't seen in a long time. temperatures around 80 degrees on tuesday and wednesday. with the warmth and the humidity comes a chance for 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