Entirely. Reporter the court was already closed to the public due to pipes that burst last week. But today workers were called in to cover and or retrieve personal items when it happened again. Today they were preparing to test the Sprinkler System so we were there with tarp trying to cover computers and cover files, case files, evidence there thae trying to preservitude. Reporter county workers scattered, carrying boxes, picture, degrees and other personal items. Initial flooding disrupted the electrical system inside the courthouse making the problem worse. We have water on our carpets and in our offices. Its dark. Its cold. One of the employees that works there was like are you going to the courthouse i said yeah, i got to be there. She said no point, turn around and go home. Reporter dozens of county residents were confused about the courthouse being closed again and what this would mean for the business they had and the dates they are legally obligated to. She said work here. Water break or something, not letting anybody in. I wanted to make sure for myself. Reporte a lot of people doing the same thing because they have again, Business Inside of this courthouse. So whats happening and what do folks need to do to take care of that business . And what about all the people who have been locked up and were hoping to get out of jail by coming to court and then being able to leave . Well we have more on that coming up on news4 at 6 00 what the prince georges couy court syst is doing to try to handle all of this. Ths the second busiest court in the state of maryland. Live in Upper Marlboro tracee wilkins, news4. At least 100 customers in this alexandria neighborhood without water tonight due to this water main break. It ruptured this morning on janneys lane near west taylor run parkway. It caused the street to buckle the entire block still closed off right now. News4s Kristin Wright is following the impact all this is having on residents and a local school. Her live report coming up. The frigid temperatures weve had for the best week led to more than 160 water main breaks and leaks in montgomery and prince georges counties. The wssc the Water Utility for both county says its crews had to deal with 75 of these breaks just yesterday alone. Customers should know if you have an issue with an indoor meter or household pipe you need to call a plum. If the pipe or meter are outside, then you can call the wssc. Smoke in the station, emergency vehicles outside, delays for riders after four separate incidents this weekend. We wondered if the smoke problems for metro are getting worse. Transportation reporte looked at these issues and tweeted out some of the findings earlier today. Adam some reason for concern. Reporter thats right, jim. A lot of metro riders are paying more attention to smoke and fire incidents and now hard numbers to back up a spike in fires. We crunched the numbers and found there were 104 fire incidents on metro last year. Thats up from 86 fire incidents in 2013. Where theres smoke, theres usually fire. Theres ban lot of smoke and fire on metro tracks recently. Metro documents reveal the number of fire incidents is up comparing 2014 to 2013. Take a look here. In 2014 104 fires on metros tracks. In 2013 86 fires on the tracks. Metro blames a harsh winter for an increase in mechanical failures and delays even fire incidents. Just this past weekend, faulty brakes sent smoke pouring into the woodley park s an evacuation. All of that happening in heavy snowfall. Robby haddad says he was trying to get into the station that day. I was coming into it. People were coming out. And, you know, some guy was telling me that a little explosion went on and fire. So that made me think twice. Reporter and the Fire Department responded twice to reports of smoke in the tunnel near foggy bottom this past weekend. Other riders like dave moss say theyre now thinking twice about using metro all together. Fortunately i moved a little closer to work. I do most of my walking now. Had to get out to bethesda today so no avoiding the metro today. Reporter other telling statistic, metro rail ontime performa fell shot of its targeted goal in 2014. And back here now live when it comes to breakdowns with individual metro railcars there are some that are breaking down all the time. Well tell you which ones at 6 00. Live at woodley park adam tuss news4. A young man from maryland is in custody after police tried but failed to arrest him last month after he was accused of raping an underaged girl. His name is zachary crawford. Hes 18 years old. He raped a 13yearold girl in frederick last fall. They say he and the victim did know each other. Officers tried to arrest crawford last month, but he moved away. He turned himself in over the weekend. A lot of you are commenting on this next story. Sharing it on your Facebook Page. The owner of the rams head tavern in savage maryland is charged with secretly videotaping women in the restaurants bathroom. Kyle mulehauser was arrested last week. Police began this investigation in may when a woman who was using that restroom saw a hidden camera fall to the floor. Dna evidence from that camera allegedly matches mulehausers. Police are now checking for camera oth rams head tavern locations sxwroop were still waiting to hear tonight the motive for a burst of gunfire overnight that led to one mas death. That gunfire erupted along brentwood road in northeast just off rhode island avenue about the time the oscars were ending after midnight. The victim in this case is marcus mccohen, a man from Upper Marlboro maryland. People who live in the area tell us they heard at least six. Its sad. Its sad that we cant live together and people judge and really take your life. Thats not f police are looking for two men leaving the area. Tonight a Department Store clerk is charged with embezzlement. Ann is acued of stealing and reselling thousands of dollars worth of store merchandise from the Jcpenney Store in springfield where she worked. The investigation began when the store discovered the lost of 200,000 worth of merchandise. Court documents Reveal Police seized jewelry, clothing and a watch from stocktons springfield home. Environmental ilss in virginia say csx should be payi more than 300,000 for a derailment in lynchburg. Last years crash dumped nearly 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the james river. And now the department of Environmental Quality is proposing al 361,000 fine. 17 cars te railed from that train. Three ended up in the river. Crews tested the water for several days. They did not find any lasting environmen. The ntsb has released its first report ant that deadly n crash new york that killed a mother of three. According to the report the womans car was on the tracks before the crossing gates came down. One of the gates hit the back of her car. She got out to look then got back in her car and tried to drive off. The report says the metro north train was going the speed limit and the driver of that train followed the rules, used the ho the emergency brake. Five people on the train were also killed. Congress is expected to hit another roadblock in its effort now to avoid another shutdown of u. S. Homeland security in delaying paychecks for thousands of local workers. Funding for the agency is cut off come friday if no deal is reached. A months of long standoff has oldyearolded n the next vote is staged in the senate tonight. Tens of thousands of Homeland Security workers are expected to remain on the job but will instead work for ious until a deal is cut. And the news4 iteam has learned that thousand of d. C. Area employees of the department of homelan a at risk of temporarily working without paychecks or just being outright furloughed. And at least one major local government facility is expected to lock its gates all together. Scott mcfarlane reveals some of the local impact of this impasse on our nbc washington facebook late today, and he joins us now in the studio with more. Scott . Our review of government mem does and discussions with offices with oversight of the agency vereveal for the fist time some of thcalwl impact of the gridlock nowhere nor significant than frederick county. It will u. S. Fire administration is expected to be shuttered. The agency has dozens of employee hundreds of training firefighters there, and the gates are expected to be closed if theres no deal. Memos we reviewed from fema based in d. C. Show as many as 3,600 employees there could be furloughed. The agency reveals it would not be able to process declarations of emergency or disaster in the meantime. Congressional records we obtained show more than 1,000 o work for those ious and wait until the impasse ends to get their back pay. 600 tsa workers at bwi and 300 coast guard employees included. And estimates from virginia. About 10,000 federal employees would go to work without their. This is treating them like a commodity that sometimes you need and sometimes you dont. And its just a bad way, i think, for the federal government to really set an example for how employer should operate. All of the governors including me are hopeful that one way or another between now and the deadline on friday the house, the senate, and the pres reach some sort of an accord. Whether local furloughs constitute a crisis or emergency is also a political issue. There is near consensus many of these employee who is stay on the job are ultimately going to get paid full pay for their time worked. I just posted a story about the impact of these cults and more local workers likely to be affected on our nbc washington app. Sort of a company town when it comes to federal workers. Are the furloughs going to be a problem here than in other parts of the country . Very possible. The administrative employees are more at risk of being furloughed, more so those on the its fair to say d. C. Area federal workers likely to get the brunt of the impact. Thanks, scott. New tonight, thousands of dollars in guns disappearing from a local apartment complex. Only on news4, why investigators think this is an ins smart cars, smart why more states are investing in hightech highways. And an important issue gets some star treatm man at an alexandria parm complex is in jail charged with stealing from a tenant. This after a rash of burglaries at president ial greens complex on executive avenue in northern alexandria. Julie carey first learned of the investigation months ago and joins us live from the apartment complex with details youll hear only on 4. Julie . Reporter well its been months that residents here at president ial greens have complained to management that money and other items turn up missing when they have repair jobs done in their apartment. Thr e man and now hes as a Maintenance Man at president ial greens William Parker was trusted to enter apartments to do repair jobs. But now hes charged with burglary and grand larceny for taking cash on january 27th from a unit he was supposed to be working in. He did have access to numerous apartments in that apartment comp were certainly looking to see if hes connected to any more crimes in that area. Reporter news4 has been watching this investigation for months since we pulled these search warrant documents that show thousands of dollars and many weapons have been stolen from president ial green units. This woman, who didnt want her face shown, is one of the victims. In october, she made a maintenance request. She says William Parker asked her to leave with her kids while he worked. When she returned she says the 500 in rent money shed left on the tv was gone. She called managemen i needed proof. What more proof do you need . He was inside and the money was gone. Reporter this woman says she and her family were asleep in their apartment when a Maintenance Man came to do a repair. She he opened the door and grabbed her husbands wallet and the 500 bucks inside. From everywhere they say that people have been entering into the apartments missing stuff and everything. So we dont know whats going on. Reporter there was no answer today at one of the two units where dozens of guns and other weapons were taken. This is the inventory detailed in court records. The link between the missing money and guns investigators write that parker had done maintenance at all the units shortly before the burglaries. Hes only been charged with one crime so far, but both rez Death Penalty wes spoke with arearrest. Im glad that hes in jail right now. Reporter now, the management offices down on that far corner. I stopped in there today to ask some question particularly about why William Parker was Consumer Sentiment on here so long as a Maintenance Man when some of these complaints first surfaced way last spring. They referred me to a regional manager and my call to her has not yet been returned. Coming up on news 4 at 6 00 what police say about what you can do to avoid becoming a victim when you do need somebody to come into your apartment to do repairs. Live from alexandria julie carey, news4. Julie, thank you. It took 75 firefighters to put out an intense blaze at a home in Montgomery County this morning. Take a look. This fire broke out along route 108 in gaithersburg in the area near dorsey road. Were told the homeowners were not home at the time. The fire did more than 400,000 in damage. No word yet on a possible cause. Its a mystery. The drainage pipes that move water in and out of the ft. Mchenry tunnel in baltimore backed up this weekend and the transportation officials still cant figure out why and theyre calling it a rare event. They discovered this problem saturday night. It closed the northbound right tube of that i 95 tunnel for most of the day on sunday and they will likely close it again after tonights evening rush hour so they can finish their repairs. Fairfax county is hoping to come u se regulations for the growing number of donation dropboxes all over the county. Now, the bins are now commonly found in parking lots. Some complained theyre eyesores because donors set large items beside them when they wont fit inside. So the county is now looking to regulate where the boxes can be placed and limit the number of boxes on a single property. Public hearings are planned for the coming months. Social issues are part of the oscar buzz after last nights awards a one in particular got a significant shoutout. Suicide prevention. The winner of the best documentary short was hbos Crisis Hotline Veterans press 1. It highlighted the mission of that hotline to keep veterans from committ this immense, incredible honor really goes to the veterans and their families who are brave enough to ask for help. Later, writer graham moore, who won for adapting the screenplay for the imitation game talked act his own personal struggles as a young man who felt that he was when i was 16 years old, i tried to kill myself because i felt weird and i felt different and i felt like i did not belong. And now im standing here. And so i would like for this moment to be for that kid out there who feels like shes weird or shes different or she doesnt fit in anywhere. Yes, you do. I promise you do. You do. Stay weird. Stay different. And then when its your turn and you are standing on this stage, please pass the same message to the next pn who come ace long. Thank you so much. We have a message to pass along here as news4 where we are changing minds. We have a wealth of resources about Mental Health and suicide prevention. Go to nbcwashington. Com and search changing minds. Plus on our Facebook Page the nbc washington fac now, we are trying to continue this discussion. So go there and check it out. Im Pat Lawson Muse at the live desk. We have some breaking news happening in downtown washington. An accident with multiple reported at 400 mass avenue northwest. Heres a look at the sce live now. This is happening where fourth h, and mass avenue intersect. D. C. Police are on the scene. Fire and ems have just left the scene. We understand major crash investigators responded a short time ago. There were multiple injuries. We dont know exactly how many or how serious the injuries are. Again, this accident happening at 400 mass avenue at the intersection of fourth h, and mass avenue. News4s chris gordon is on the way. Thats it from the live desk. Thank you, pat. All right, doug. A oneday break. Back in the tundra tonight. It is amazing, the weather weve seen. Snow on saturday some areas picking up close to a foot of snow in the d. C. Metro area only about 3 inch then everybody got to about 50 degrees yesterday. It was a glorious day to get out and play in the snow. Today, well Mother Nature says none of that. Were going back cold again. Right now 30 degrees is the current number windchill sitting at 18 even though we had some sunshine. Temperatures fell in many areas most of the day. Look where we are now, down to 23 already in gaithersburg 25 in win chester, 31 in fredericksburg and 28 towards annapolis. The average high today is 49 degrees. Of course we were nowhere near that. And look at these windchills. 17 in gaithersburg 12 in winchester 15 in manassas 16 down towards patuxent river. The only storm out there is a storm to the south. This one is wreaking havoc towards arias like dallas memphis, little rock all the way down towards the atlanta area. There are winter storm watch, winter storm warnings Winter Weather advisories towards louisiana here and this storm will eventually move across and could provide upwards of 5 to 8 inches for portions of the carolinas. Thats amazing and thats the cold air thats made its way down here. For us it should stay to our south. But were expecting cold air through tos we make our way through the night tonight. 11 00, 7 degrees in washington, 5 in winchester 3 in manassas. Early tomorrow morning, 1 below in hagerstown 15 in d. C. 9 in leesburg. These are the windchills. Again, we ear talking about incredibly cold numbers tomorrow even during the afternoon, temperatures or windchills only in the teens. Impact forecast tomorrow well call it on the low side because all seen the cold. We know how to dress for this now. Arias of ice early. A lot of black ice across the area. I think that will continue too. Tomorrow morning