This is fox 5 local news at 10 00. Right now at 10 00, a marijuana growing opening the of historic proportions. The surprise that fox 5 received when we knocked at the fronted door. What was in the drink and what are the odds of your child being exposed to it . . Metro announced plans to close early every single night, including weekends for vital repair work. When and where youll be impacted. This is fox 5 local news at 10 00. We begin with the huge pot bust in Howard County maryland. Im tony perkins. Im sean yancy. That is the inside of the house and the jaw dropping look happening in the middle of the neighborhood. Folks who live in this area thought something was a little strang expected this. Fox 5 lindsey w atts has more. Reporter youll find Farm Equipment among Million Dollar homes. Really its not a whole lot going on. We live in a very special place. Reporter the green ri here was more abundant than anyone knew. This is what police found. Hundreds of marijuana plants. Officers say its the biggest indoor growth theyve seen in the county. Its sad to hear. I heard that it was a lot more than just pot. You know. It was a lot of dangerous drug. Reporter police gave us this photo of shotgun and cash they recovered. Investigators say they dont know how long the operation was going on. They were tipped off after the home went into foreclosure. At the new owner check theed out the property, smelled pot and called police. They arrested a daniel casey foul er, who posted pond. We expect that day person would come to the door, it was casey anne fouler who responded. Unbelievable. Reporter people who live in the area, cant get over the video provided by howard counter. In addition to marijuana police, they had a gun, cash, heroi heroin. Reporter goes to show where you live, you never know whats happening next door. Howard county, Lindsey Watts fox 5. A dozen middle School Students ended up in the hospital after they drank a mixture of alcohol and overthecounter medicine. Firefighters examined a number of the students this morning who claimed they were sick to their stomachs, took half of the students to the hospital. They had just general again, they had ingested an unknown quantity of this mixture and had nausea and upset stomach. This incident is not exclusive to Montgomery County. Police tell us teams all over the region are experimenting with these mixtures and worse. Fox 5 tisha lewis spoke with a treatment specialist. She tells ways parents need to look out for. This is scary. Sean, its scary and disturbing. The good news is theres help. Those who work closely with students who are engaging in this dangerous trend say they are seeing more and more cases compared to years past. Young people on probation at risk young people can use these combinations and still pass a drug test t they view the mind altering cocktails as legal and prefer it over marijuana or had harder to find prescription pills. Pour parenting could be to blame using deadly combinations to get high. Coming from a lot of rap music. Other things, popular culture, a lot of use of coming from the houston rap music. Music. Reporter eddy at consistents is a Program Director at outpatient center. Inside the southeast building, its a growing trouble to do population. The pill popping. Purple drink zipping, syrup addicted teens. Its a combination of some type of fruity drink mixed with jolly ranchers. Reporter he explains theyre infiltrating. And how parents can spot it. Bizarre behavior, few sweating, a motivational things going on. They have to be alert. Expectations of what they expect from the children. We try to help with them. But they look at it as we none of their business or too hard, got things to do. Rebecca is a case manager. She says despite the negative reenforcement, the real problem starts at home with the parents. Shockingly, owens says most of the parents dont show up and when they do, the attitude is how are you going to fix my child instead of what they can do to help solve the problem. These programs are free often including the one we visited at riverside outpatient treatment center. Tisha lewis. Fox 5. Local news. We turn now to Prince William where a 17yearold is jailed accused of killing a 14yearold boy. Police tell us the teens lived in the same townhouse. He lived on the upper floors of the town home with his family and the 17yearold in the basement of the police say the 14yearold attacked him with weapon last night. A neighbor who did not want to be identified said she would often see the 14yearold around the home. The little boy used to come in and help us with the grass and snow and all that stuff. And his father used to beic who a handyman. Hes worked in the house couple times. Very nice family. Very nice family. Police charged the 17yearold as a juvenile. His death is the eighth murder in the county so far this year. Fox 5 is in fairfax county. Friends and family are asking for publics help finding two teenagers. They were last seen wednesday. Her family says she needs medication that she did not take with her. Police believe the pair may have run away together and taken a cab to maryland. We love you so much. You have a beautiful your sister, brother, dad, me. And everybody in the family, we worry about you. We need you home. If you have seen the teens or know their ribs call fairfax county. Still ahead a major change. Metro rail is preparing to shut down each night at midnight including weekends. Crews make vital repairs. Well tell you next at 10 00. We got change in the weather forecast. Clearing skies coming. Sunshine today, well get a little more of that. Ill have the details coming up and can please join us again after the break. Of of. Few weeks away from changes with metro. Starting june 3rd, metro will close midnight instead of 3 00 a. M. As we head to the weekend, people are starting to plan, sar Sarah Simmons. Sarah. Theyre going to have the figure out and plan where theyre going to go on friday or saturday. Really think about it. It could really add up. In cost. Because the metro is going to be shut down. Starting at midnight. As you mentioned, a lot of people do stay out past especially in the city. Its part of the safe track plan weve heard metro talk about the general manager Paul Weidefeld unveiling theres going to be a lot of work. You see taxis and ubers all around. The thing is Everybody Knows many problems metro has had and how many issues we have had to deal with. We talked with dc councilman jack evans earlier and he spoke about the need for the cutback time. Its a tough one and i recognize that but we need track time. Theres no, metro is a flawed system. We were getting 19 hours a week of repair, that just doesnt work. Reporter we spoke with metro riders a little bit earlier. It was a little bit busier. We got interesting reactions how they were going to deal with it and whether or not it was going to be big in their lives. Im interested in seeing how that might affect the ubers and all that and seeing the prices with that. The weekends arent really what im worried about. Its the week, day drama thats going to transpire. A lot of people take metro to get home late at night. Were teenagers. We hang out, and when you dont have metro as a fallback thats bad. Shutting do you know at midnight, thats going to destroy dc night life personally. People have to expect the metro to break down instead of actually coming on time is i dont know. I think im going to have to rebiking. Reporter thats the answer ive been getting. Big winners are going to be the taxis and uber and lyft. But then of course, thats going to create that surge pricing people are going to have to deal with. The prices will go up on weekend and during week. Were going to have other closedowns as well, not just talking about the weekends and midnight but different parts of the track that will be closed at any given its going to be quite the headache for people to try to get around. Sort of one of those things everybody feels like were in it together. Thats the latest in dupont dc Sarah Simmons back to you. Fox 5 exclusive for the first time were hearing from the family of the American University graduate stabbed to death on a train at the metro station. Jasper spires is accused of killing 24yearold Kevin Southerland last jewel 4. He was offered a plea deal, 30 years in prison for first to degree murder. If theres any silver lining, i tell people that he went out probably happy as hes ever been doing what he wanted to do. Spires bond. More than 20,000 people you gathered at a candle vigil to honor officers killed in line of duty. 252 fallen officers. The event is part of police week. Members of community were invited to take part of a special web cast where they could thank officers by lighting a virtue candle. They offers condolences left behind. Though there are no words. We must say over and over again to our people, we will always be there for you. You will always be part of our family. We will never forget you or your husband, your wife, father, mother, son, daughter, brother or sister who died for us in the line of duty. The fallen officers names appear on the walls of National Law Enforcement officers memorial. After what seems like an eternity of rain and cloudy weather, the sun popped through this afternoon. Now, its going to be a cool night. The question is, will we see more sun or clouds this weekend . Lets check in with more . Gwen. We are going to see a little bit more sunshine, which is nice, were going to have to deal with clouds and even isolated thunderstorms t unfortunately. But in the meantime, today was fabulous, people didnt even recognize the sun its been so long since weve seen it. Right now were seeing skies with clearing conditions here. Also just a few clouds not a lot happening in the cloud department. Heres the wet weather that moved earlier. We had a frontal shim that brought rain showers. We were into the mid upper 70s for daytime high. It was comfortable. Little windy at one point but the winds started to subside. Tonight were talking light winds across the area. Heres a look temperatures right now. 69 at dc. Ten degrees cooler for gaithersburg at 59, 61 at frederick, 63 at dulles, cumberland at 64 to the west. To to the south, 63 for leonard sfoun. Well see the winds picking up from the west five to ten. Clear skies on the cooler side. Were going keep an eye. Sunshine to start the day. Were going to be dealing with a chance of isolated thunderstorms, some could be severe. Were watching that very closely. Well keep a close eye on radar. Temperaturewise, were going to actually warm up a little than cool down, jet stream to the north of us, well see temperatures ranging from the 60s to 70s overall for this weekend. Good news is not a weekend washout, but dont put that umbrella too far away. Expect with the sevenday forecast. Back to you. The Obama Administration issued new guidelines. School district must allow students to use rest rooms that match their gender identity but are the feds going too far . We break it down ahead of at 10 00. We want your take on this story. A new jersey lawmaker wants to crack down on distracted walking. She introduced legislation that would fine pedestrians 50 if they use their fine crossing the street. Same fine as jay walkers. Violators could also be sentenced to 15 days in jail. Is this a good idea or Something Police could enforce since everyone seems to do it. Give us your feedback. Well share your comments later in this show. Ow. First family hosted their final dinner, the gathering was unique as president obama was honoring not one but five countries. Leaders of sweden, iceland, fine land, denmark and nor way met with the improper for the second u. S. Nor dic. Will far rell, and david letterman. Apparently our invitations got lost. The state of our military. Fox news learned the u. S. Air force are in desperate need of repair, fox news discovered only half can fly. The planes have been around decades. The first jet i worked on 20 years ago had 1,000 flight hours on it. Now were looking at some of the airplanes pushing over 10,000. We need to play over and over again and you work as hard as you have to be worked to get these things in the air. These airmen are starting to get burnt out. The big news is fox news reports the air force is short 700 pilots and 4,000 aircraft mechanics and the military often has to look around. The tsa is experiencing turbulence. Last night they dealt with long lines some say it took an hour to get through security. More than 3,000 checked bags missed the flight. Theyre where of the problem and working with airports and airlines to deal with it. Recent events across the world confirm the continued need for vigilance when it comes to aviation security. Congress approved the tsa request to redirect 34 million in funding. Coming up has the Obama Administration gone too far. It mandated the Public Schools should allow transgender to use the rest room of their choice. When we return. Stand by me 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. This is fox 5 local news at 10 00. Were back with a look at tonight at that top headlines. We begin with a historically large pot bust that Howard County maryland. Police arrested this is video from inside that home. The two people arrested a face multiple drug and if i remember firearm charge. Six Montgomery County students were taking to the hospital after drinking a dangerous drinks at school. They drank a combination of alcohol, Cold Medicine and candy while in school stuvenlts are expected to be ok an investigation ongoing. Sarah . Reporter we are two weeks away from major changes on metro. On june 3rd, they will start shutting down at midnight instead of 3 00 so metro can have more hours for the Major Overhaul called the safe track plan. It will include shut downs as well aspirate lines throughout the system, people will have to be where. Uber, lyft and the Taxi Services will be the big winners and theyre going to be in high demand. Back to you. The Obama Administration issued new guidelines for Public Schools when it comes transgender students. If the schools dont play, they could face penalties. Reporter a letter from the department of education and the department of justice was sent out to Public SchoolDistrict Across the u. S. It states schools must allow students to use rest rooms and other facilities of their gender identity rather than their birth. Implies a threat that federal funding will be pulled in school dont abide by these guidelines. It is an extreme example of overrage and the question is, what problem is it trying to solve . Fairfax county was an exemplar on the rare case it did happen. We were handling each case with dignity and different reporter they ultimately changed their Nondiscrimination Policy to include the words gender identity after a series of heated School District meetings. It endangers children and violates the rights of students and parents. Your brain is telling you hey, im in the wrong body, to have that feeling and not be able to get out is a hell on earth. Reporter they knew the directive was coming and part of the reason they made the change. When a student identifies as transgender, they come in with their parents, they meet with school staff and they work out a bathroom plan. A student can no the come in day one and immediately use a rest room of their choosing. Look at other districts that have made this policy change, la is an. They have not had one issue in the bathroom. Reporter even though theyve long had practices to accommodate transgender students, Board Members says the feds have gone too far. Now what federal government is telling me is no one else in the building has rights. What about the rights of students who are also predicted for religious freedom, for example. Whether theyre evangelicals, catholic or. The controversial letter comes on the heels of dual lawsuits issuing each other over the issue of bathroom access for transgender people h. Now to Prince Georges County where investigators are trying to figure out what sparked this Apartment Fire in mar lo heights. The broke out around 12 30 this afternoon. When firefighters arrived, they found flames shooting from the second floor unit. The fire spread to the third floor and the roof. Were told one firefighter suffered burns to his hand while battling the flames. No one els a fire broke out at the same apartment complex in march. Forcing dozens of people from their units. Fairfax county police are investigating whether alcohol was a factor in a deadly hitandrun. It happened around 9 00 last night. Police say matthews was sitting on the curb, got up and stumbled into the street. Thats when police say he was hit and killed by a darkcolored sedan. If you know anything about this hitandrun, youre asked to give police a call. Operation baby shower. Were going to tell you why this room full of pregnant women, they received a very special treat today at the national harbor. Well tell you more about the celebration coming up. Dc sports fans suffered another early capitols playoff exit. I was among them. I needed to book a therapist. The healing sports. Share with a a you a a delightful event. The professional Golfers Association teamed up with operation shower. They put on a huge baby shower about 40 pregnant women who are either members of the military or who spouses in the military. Each woman received a special gift bag that truly touched them. Its needed and great stuff. So the event was a huge hit. The pga and operation shower sponsors similar events across the country. M