Side the home but he said that h is standard operating procedure. Proc he would not tell us exactly t what they might have foundhav fu inside the home but he said he there were no signs of foul of o play. Pl once again, the body was taken t under Police Escort to baltimore for an autopsy. Autop autopsy results should be known in the near future. The live in district heights, mattat ackland fox5 local news. Ns. Tonight still facing theht threat of a shutdown by thehe u. S. Transportation secretary sy metro has a new safety sheriffhe in town and hes making big promises about getting the troubled Transit Agency backgena on track. On t after four days on the job Patrick Lavin says he knows what to do because hes done d it before having helped rebuild new york citys subwaysy after 9 11. 11 fox5s Tom Fitzgerald a livee at metro headquarters tonight tg with more. Ore fitz. Fi reporter were learningr w the impact of all thishi activity the last 48 hours. Ou that big threat from thehreat fr secretary of transportation isni leading now to some big changes in metros safe track program. Consider this. They had only planned to shuthut down the section from easternte market to minnesota avenue in august. After that sta directiveirti yesterday it appears that that is not only going to be moved b up but it will be moved up a lot faster to next month, 16ont6 days that line could be shut down after the fta ordered o emergency urgent repairs onntai that section and two others. Now, onto this metro meetingee today. The general manager of metro, paul wiedefeld, today saidday s that he made a mistake by noty being closer in contact with the federal transit administration. Ad the reason they had to come out yesterday and rework thehedt smart track rebuilding program o and they want areas focused on three places the red, blueed b and orange and silver line. L all that work has to be done be first before the rest of theof e smart track program was shut down with shutdowns andtd stepping into all of this o t mess, well, that would be metros new chief safety safet officer Patrick Lavin. L he said that pretty eye opening direct things about metros problem and pointed andi out that metros issues aresss not nearly as bad as a lot oft people think they are. He says he saw even worse in woe new york city back in the 80s. He says metro has the talentalen to do this job but just isnt getting the time to do the job b because the trains are already running. Runnin bottom line, he says he has confidence he can help fix he ca whats broken at metro. Metro when i started the job inn 1983, we were in such a stateta of disrepair that we were wer derailing a main line train tran every 28 days. S. So, you could imagine what ithat would take to turn a system syse like that around which we did, wmata is very good at telling t you what happened. Pened. We need to work on the why and it doesnt give you any value al to place to have a blame is dent fight resources youresoo need, commit to getting thosethe resources, implement effective i programs and thats how you turn the tide. Reporter it is no understatement to point thatpoi the tide Patrick Lavin is l swimming against right now is strong. Metro revenues are down 6 percent. Ridership is down 5 percentn 5er and consider this. Out of 445 critical action act plans that were ordered to beret done by metro, we were tolderol today only eight have beenn completed. Mp now, these changes the fta the wants could make some big changes on which sections of metro gets shut down and d slowed down first. Sled down all of this will be finalized fd were told on monday. Onda ear were live at metro headquarters tonight tom Tom Fitzgerald fox5 local news. New. Montgomery county publicer schoolsy adopting a new gradin system thats raising some eyebrows. Ro it averages student grades g from both semesters and then ant rounds up. Fox5s alexandria limon axand is live in bethesda with ah closer look at whether thisthert system actually gives students t easy as. Alex it has a lot of peoplee talking. Reporter it does. Ep when you look at this new gradoring system it raiseoos som questions like is it actuallyctl helping students or will itill hurt them in the long run . Is it going to adequately prepare them for college and honestly, are we just coddling kids toog s much nowadays. Ad first Montgomery CountyPublic Schools got rid of final o f exams. Now theyre introducing a newinr grading system for high schools. Hool starting next school year, this chart demonstrates howontes two different quarterly gradeslg will add up to a total t semester grade. And theres some interestingntes math involved. So, four is an a, three is, s a b and so if you get an a in your first marking period, a b a i period, that averages to a seven, divided by two, threewoth and a half, round it up and then you have an a. Have an a reporter in real life in i college life doesnt round uptu for you. Y do you think that this is justss giving students an easy a. The current model we wereere using claw a downward trendnwd r system where it would averagera down was not really working for our students and oursnd community. Reporter of course, thee, Te School District defends the changes. An lesley hinkston is the motherot of a High School Student attude chevy chase high and a a professor of sociology atocioloy georgetown university. Niversit she served on the facultyed board of admissions in the i t past. I would think that teachershr would be able to take advantage of the fact that,t, okay, we no longer have thisr hs final exam, you know,am, hopefully, you know, theyllhe make those quarter assessmentssn a little bit more rigorous butro yeah i think its ant a opportunity for more authentic assessment and i think that iff teachers take advantage ofange to better prepare students fornt college. Reporter and what aboutnd wt the risk of grade inflation orfr the possibility of an unfair advantage during the admissions process . Ro and i think that admissions can be a little savvier thanha people give them credit for. Di r reporter now i alsoow i als asked that mom and professor pfs if she thinks we just coddlet cd kids too much nowadays and shend says honestly yes, in sportsnpo everybody gets a trophy, nobody loses. Oses some schools, like montgomerymot county schools, dont give fs anymore. But she says in the case of this new grading system,yste specifically she doesnt think t its doing that. Ng reporting live in bethesda, bete alexandria limon, fox5 local news. News. Such an interestingntes conversation. Co yeah. All right, lets take a lives t look outside now. Ow 65 degrees out there and sue palkas got the latest on theest weather for us right now. Ow. Hey, sue, we had like to seeo some sunshine at som you know what, sarah i sah brought out my lucky charm. Uckyc you did . You i dont need them but iut i think that if i bring themring maybe something will changel c and actually you probably will l need your sunglasses before weee get through this weekend andkend so thats some good news. D new one thing we have not done not today, though, im happy to to tell you is that we have note nt added on to our streak of days d with measurable rain. M so far we have not had anyad measurable rain at the airporthr even though it kind of looks like it want to from time to time. Before i left home today i sawho some Sunshine North and west of d. C. So hopefully thats ahaa good sign. We do know that we have a warm m front that will be on the move o and on radar, there are stillti a few showers, not close toot ce the district right now but a but lot of clouds right here andnd at least enough thinning ofthnig the clouds that weve beent wev able to get our temperature upra a little bit higher than itrha was yesterday. Terday what weve been watching are a a few showers that are movingtre m closer to the interstate 81e corridor and also down to our o south. If you watch these in motionnot again, youll notice that theyhy tend to be weakening as theyy continue to move east intoas int these have been losing along a little bit of their sizzle. Iz you saw yellow earlier. Arli. Now its just mostly green. Gre im not sure if thats going goi to hold up but maybe you get a m sprinkle out of it. Rinkle o temperaturewise were happyewi to see that its getting a bitgt more comfortable closer too average at 66 degrees now at the top of the hour and frederick because youve had sunshine or at least some sunshine, 72 degrees up there. E most of the rest of us in thes n mid and upper 60s and wes and w continue to see all the warmth e all around us but the east e Winds Continuing to lock us insi just a little bit longer asr as weve got a warm front thatronta will be on the move but it i hasnt moved yet. Et 80 in raleigh. Eigh. So, tonight, well be watchingig again another cloudy night, n maybe some patchy drizzle. Dzz we definitely expect fog at little bit later tonight buter b that warm front that you saw y down to our south, thatsth, at going try to power through theou area tomorrow and it will getro our temperatures up. Ra it will also gituve us a chancec for a thunderstorm. Overnight and through thisghhi evening, i dont think youre i going to have to worry too wry much about the umbrellas. Mbll there could be a little bit of temperature of 67 at 6a 7 oclock. So, we thin well still go up gu another degree or two. Two by 9 oclock the fog starting sn to show up again, 65 degrees. 5 e fog may still be around and rather thick at 11 oclock with a temperature of 64. So, we wrap it up with your y headline. Some storms, then sun on friday. So, im really hoping i canini use my lucky charm again charm tomorrow but we do know thatnowa any storm might be capable of producing some significantigfi rain which weve had plenty of this first half of may. Ofay weve got drier sunnier days sud though on the way. Though ill have that sevenday have tn forecast for you a little bit ab later. Late laura, sarah, back to you. You know sue, i wore my iore annie dress as i recall 14 orec4 15 days ago. A. Wow. The sun will come out sun tomorrow dress and i thinkowss that was the start of the bad luck. Uhoh. So iwill not wear that for t awhile. Hile [laughter] all right, thanks, sue. Coming up a firefighter iser found guilty in response to a choking child. We have new information tonight in the case of a d. C. Firefighter charged withed w neglect of duty. Ronica. W about that meeting between Speaker Paul Ryan and donaldndon trump and you probably thinky t it was his most important imp meeting of the day. Meet not so. Well tell you who he says wassw just a little more importante than the donald. On and transgender restroom resr controversy even a pizza placeep is weighing in. N. The sign one shop in virginiaira posted outside their restaurant. Great time for a shiny floor wax, no . Not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. Timings important. Comcast business knows that. Thats why you can schedule an installation at a time that works for you. Even late at night, or on the weekend, if thats what you need. Because you have enough to worry about. I did not see that coming. Dont deal with disruptions. Get Better Internet installed on your schedule. Comcast business. Built for business. Hous we are following breaking news tonight in the district. Ht police are on the scene of a deadly shooting in southeast. I it happened just inag short time ago along the 3700 block of eli place. Of pla fox5s Marina Marraco is live at the scene she joins us s with the latest. Whats happening . Happe reporter right now thiste is a homicide investigation. Gatn chief lanier is on the scenehe as well. As we are expecting a media mia briefing but you can see how c s far away from the crime scenerom theyre keeping us right now, n roughly two blocks away. Y. Around here theres the can kimball elementary school, there is the national hughesnals Baseball Academy as well. Camy a all in the surroundings butng right now we have no idea what exactly transpired that led tott this homicide. Homicid this would be the 42nd2nd homicide in the district for in this year. Thr. Thats four above the count abot from last year and youll and yu remember that started in the month of may last year. Last yea we are still waiting foraiti f details hoping for chief f c lanier to come down here whoe has now been on the scene now for over an hour. Foover as soon as we get a briefingn a well bring brthat back to you guys. When it comes to money, the donald speaks. S a small protest on capitol o hill today where a closed door meeting between republicanca president ial frontrunnerro donald trump and house speakerpe paul ryan took place. Ce ronica cleary is here witha y details from their meeting andnd whats next for the two. Hey, ronica. Ron hey, ladies. Well, you may recall last week Speaker Paul Ryan said that hea was just not ready to supportop donald trump as the gop t president ial nominee. Ominee. Donald trump soon respondedoo with a statement saying thatayit hes not ready to support speaker ryans agenda. A. The two met today in an effort e to unify the party behind theehe presumptive nominee. Pres after the meeting ended i hosted by the speaker where he e took questions about the meeting. Its no secret that donaldnad trump and i have had our i he ha differences. Differ we talked about those differences today. Thats common knowledge. The question is what is itis whi that we need to do to unifyo the Republican Party and allbliy strains of conservative wingsrvs in the party. We had a very good and encouraging productive produ conversation on just thousandtin do that. I was very encouraged with what i heard from donald trump t today. To i do believe that we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified to bridge bri the gaps and differences. Nces now, while the speakere speak repeatedly called the meeting encouraging he also explained the process to unify the party is were 31 cant be completed cm in just a 45 minute meeting. Ti. He also wolf not confirm not con whether or not hell endorse e donald trump. Also commenting on the meetingig donald trump via twitter. Rump va he tweeted great day in d. C. D with speaker ryan and a republican leadership. Eade things working out trump 2016. Now, many agree that unifying is essential for theenl republicans to be successfulucce in november. Novem paul ryan tweeted about a a meeting he felt was a little a e more important than the one he n had this morning with donaldis i trump. He tweeted my most importantnt meeting of the day hes shaking hands with fifth graders from sander Bartholomew Catholic school inm bethesda. Da. Back to you ladies. Very cute. I love that. Ve tt. A Virginia Beach pizza shop s is making a statement aboutme a the controversial topic of transgender bathrooms. Their statement for all totae see was posted on a signn outside their restaurant andt the sign read we have a mens mn room, we have a ladies room. Ro if this confuses you we cane help. Lp. A viewer of wtkr in virginiavirg beach alerted the station totaot the sign and news staff sought s comment from the owner but the b owner refused to comment onnt camera. Ra however, he did say that hed sat doesnt take positions on his signs talking. The sign has since been takenee down and replaced with this sign, now seemingly touching tou on the gender pay gap issue. Ssue it reads, doing our part to shrink the gender gap. We under pay guys, too. Oh, funny. Oh, thats funny. F the point is to get people g talking. Right. Well, they did. We and bring attention to hillsi pizza place. Pizz exactly. Now were talking about it. Tat. All right, coming up transition regret. R new claims tonight that Caitlyn Jenner is debating canag becoming a plan onc man once aga well talk about that one again on the other side. And photoshop fail. Megan treanor rereleases a newsa video after her first one was digitally altered. Fox5 cant stop thep feeling. See justin timberlakesberl reaction to our fox5 music video made just for him. Well be right back. Dance, sarah. Vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me well, left lane low. This story is raising al, lot ol eyebrows. A report out today says s Caitlyn Jenner is apparentlypptl not so happy being a woman and may detransition in the nextitie couple of years and go back to being bruce jenner. Ne thats according to biographer p ian hal perrin. Al perri hes written a book about the Kardashian Family and claims hes having a hard timeg a ha tm adjusting to being a woman. While shes happy she has been e able to open up thepen up t conversation about transgender o issues she is having second thoughts. Called the report nonsenset noen saying its just simply not true. Megan trainer rereleased an n unaltered version of her videoev me too. The grammy winner yanked and hold on a second. Ec the grammy winner yanked the yae original video hours after it dropped after discovering herver waist had been adjusted digitally in the video. V she posted a video on on snapchat telling her fans thataa shes sick of it, over it andnd done with being photo shoppedho to look thinner than sheook thns actually is. I good treanor. I agree. Gr treanor has been outspoken osp about body acceptance and shee n took the fact that her body herb has been altered veryery seriously. She isnt the only celebrity taking a stance against these photoshop this route eighty fiveight seems to b outrage seems to a thing. Zendaya slammed a magazine maz after the magazine made her a victim of photoshop. She posted the before andefore after pictures in a side by side comparison with the the caption, i stand for honest and pure self love so i tookelf it upon myself to release thehe real picture on the right sideis and i love it. The magazine received her message loud and clear andar and removed the pictures. Pture and here is a jawdropping photoshop fail. Hop rumor willis claims thatllis cls vanity fair photographers photoshoped her jaw line tod make it look very different. Ifft rumor took extreme offense tomet the altered photo and commented saying, whether orsa not they realize it, this is ayi form of bullying whichg ic iological