added to those massive mounds already piling up on road shoulders like this one in friendship heights. that bad boy right there is about 8 feet tall. traffic reporter monica centanni says that can only lead to trouble. >> reporter: if you look closely, you see the shoulder and then none. this is only 1 car going by. imagine tomorrow morning what this could look like with a full on morning commute. >> we found similar problems on several area highways where the large snow piles had kind of formed lane closures and there's plenty of sidewalks not cleared. >>we want to make your commute easier. check the traffic in your neighborhood by downloading the wusa9 app for free. the geolocator lets you see the traffic and accidents down to your street level. go to the app store to download wusa9. could she be telling the truth or is it just a bunch of gruesome talk? that's the question confronting the cops in the town of suury, following the bizarre confession of 19-year-old murder suspect miranda barbour. she and her husband are facing the death penalty for stabbing to death the man they met on craigslist, but then miranda told a local newspaper reporter last friday she'd actually killed so many people that she'd stopped counting at 22. tonight police are investigating and we do hear from her husband. >> reporter: elyette, mirror rand asd she killed 20 people. do you believe her? >> -- miranda said she killed 20 people. do you believe her? >> i plead the fifth. >> reporters pressed him to respond to his wife's claim that she was not only guilty of the murder they have been charged with, but with at least 22 more killings? >> reporter: is she just being honest? >> who is to say? >> reporter: do you think she's lying that she killed 22 people? >> i didn't say that. >> reporter: do you think she's telling the truth? don't put word in my mouth. >> the mind boggling confession came on friday in a jailhouse interview way reporter who says he was floored when barbour confessed to a murder spree beginning at age 13. >> i said miranda, as you sit here do you have any remorse whatsoever and she said none. >> barbour claims she was killing bad people, perhaps as many as 100 of them, but she stopped counting at 22. >> you can take everything else that she said in the interview and take l the numbers that she threw around and that out, but the more surprising thing to me would be the fact that she said if she got out, she would do it again. >> as of now, getting out would seem unlikely as they're charged with the brutal stabbing death of 42-year-old troy la ferrara who had answered the couple's ad on craigslist offering companionship and delightful conversation. police and even the fbi are treating miranda barbour's confession seriously. she says she can pinpoint the location of bodies on a map, but as of now there are no reports linking her and her husband to any other murders. the man who hijacked an ethiopian plane this weekend is in custody tonight. he was the co-pilot of the plane which really makes you wonder what security is in place for airline employees? mola lenghi spoke with an aviation expert and joins us live from the satellite center. what did you learn? >> there are tens of thousands of daily flights throughout the world and experiments say there is surprisingly very little that can be done to prevent a situation like this weekend's hijacking. going through airport security take off your shoes, empty your pockets, stand here, stop here. stand over here. getting on a plane can be exhausting. the men and women flying the plane? they have it a bit easier. >> unless it involves a firearm there's really very little the screening process can do. it depends on the country. it depends on the regime. here in the united states we're coming up with protocols that will expedite pilots through security. >> reporter: in 2010 tsa announced an accelerated screening process for pilots saying at the time "allowing these uniformed pilots whose identity has been verified to go through expedited screening at the check point just makes for smart security and an efficient use of our resources." aviation expert john huey argues the best and the only way to prevent a situation where a pilot hijacks a plane is for airlines to know their pilots. >> it's basically a situational awareness. it's knowing who your employees are and looking for an anomalous behavior, looking for something out of the ordinary. it's almost like when you're in a metro car you look around and see what's out of place and if it's really out of place, you call somebody. that's really the only thing that can be done. >> reporter: not many options. fortunately pilots don't hijack many planes huey adds. they typically go where they're supposed to. >> we've got over 50,000 flights every day around the world. so this is an exceedingly rare occurrence. you're much more likely to get zapped by lightning walking down the street, much more. >> reporter: now the process for becoming a pilot is very rigorous including background checks. pilots are their trusted partners who insure the safety of millions flying all over the world of single day. >> i know he says it's very rare, but 1 time is too many in my book. now to virginia and an emotional farewell to police officer kevin quick. police from around the state joined the family of quick for a public memorial at university of virginia. he was a volunteer police reserve captain for the city of waynesboro. six people have been arrested in connection with the case, but no one has been charged with murder and police have not released his cause of death. tomorrow the u.s. naval academy is expected to release the name of a midshipman whose body was found in a creek on cancer near a submerged suv. a -- campus near a submerged suv. a dive team found the body yesterday. the suv was pulled from the water and will be examined. tonight there is yet another investigation into that fort lee, new jersey bridge scandal, this one orred by the head of the port authority in new york and new jersey. that agency is looking into whether it's own police officers may have played a role in shutting down those traffic lanes that put fort lee in gridlock for days. internet scammers using unsuspecting funeral homes to spread malicious software? >> and olympic events in sochi put on hold because of fog, those stories and more in your world in 90 seconds. >> a blanket of fog fell over venues at the winter olympics. a snowboard qualifying round was scrapped because racers couldn't see through the thick mist. the men's biathlon was also pushed back. >> secretary of state john kerry says climate change is the world's most fearsome weapon. mass destruction. >> we certainly should not allow more time to be wasted. >> he's ordering all u.s. embassies to tackle climate change. >> there is not agreement exactly what is causing this. >> getting congress to address the issue may be tougher. >> a disturbing exhaustive new u.n. report on human rights abuses in north korea. >> there's no other place on earth today that has the level of human rights abuse that north korea has. >> the u.n. commission of inquiry interviewed hundreds of former prisoners. >> too many times there are reports and no action. this is a time for action. >> watch out for e-mail condo lenses from legitimate funeral homes. the ftc says scammers are using the names of businesses on bogus messages. >> and hope to catch some situation with a friend or relative where they're concerned about their health. >> charlie sheen is getting married. people magazine reports the actor proposed to his adult film star girl friend brett rossi over the weekend, his fourth marriage. >> 111th american international toy fair, toys that enter act with your smartphone -- interact with your smart phone, retro toys making a comeback and then toys that require no batteries but run on imagination. in tonight's health alert worried your teenage son could suffer from depression? currently there is no biological test to spot the depression, but by analyzing saliva researchers found high levels of a stress hormone coupled with symptoms of mild depression were up to 14 times more likely to suffer from clinical depression later in life. this test was not as effective on girls. one in six people overall will suffer from clinical depression at some point in their lives. triplets, man, now that sound like a handful. >> i think one is a handful. a mississippi mom was prepared for those three until she went into labor and got 1 heck of a surprise. check it out. >> they had got the they've out and they said more feet -- three out and they said more feet. that's all i heard and i said no. >> i bet she did say no. >> baby kailey was apparently hiding behind her sisters kenlee, kristin d during numerous ultra sounds. the girls are identical quadruplets which is quite rare. mom and dad did not use any fertility drugs. they just wanted to give their 10-year-old daughter a sibling and ended up with a small team. >> got a basketball team. >> five girls. their poor pop. asked if there will be any more babies, the couple said sure, let's have 10 more. no. they're not going to have any more. >> but they do like the letter k. they are under surveillance and it's just spring training, drones recording the hits, runs and errors of our nationals and this is not for fun, folks. this is serious training stuff. dave owens is there and will show us how the technology might give the nats an edge. >> plus our russ ptacek just won't take no for an answer. metro insists their announces lear on the metro, so russ called on a grammy award winning audio we've been asking you for your commuter pet peeves and a lot of you have been weighing in telling wusa9 about announcements on metro trains that are just tough to understand, you know, the ones that tell you which stop is next or where the train is headed. >> we documented the problem, metro still not acknowledging the audio problem saying most of their announcements are understandable. so we had to think maybe it's just us. so investigative reporter russ ptacek asked a sound expert for a second opinion. >> reporter: we asked grammy winner pete novak to listen. [ playing recording ] >> what? >> reporter: he's no train expert, but he knows audio usually. >> not a clue. >> reporter: he listens for a living as a sound engineer and instructor at rockville's omega studios. >> soup? >> reporter: novak won his grammy for the outcast album of the year speak -- speaker box, the love below, and it sounds nothing like this. >> so much static in that. >> reporter: did you understand anything? we have understood some. a wusa9 staff analysis of 115 announcements found 21% clear, but 79% unclear or very unclear. however, the washington metropolitan area transit authority challenged our findings and said their own studies show that announcements were understandable 85% of the time. we asked novak for a 19 stop spot check on the red line. what percentage of messages are you finding understandable, 0 percent, 1%? >> very little, about 5% maybe, maybe at most. >> reporter: that's a stark difference from their 85%. >> yes. >> reporter: unless they're talking understanding automation. >> step back. doors closing. >> reporter: you hear how clear that is. >> yeah. >> the announcement levels are a good 20 decibels louder than what's coming out from the conductor. >> reporter: the automated announcements come from separate speakers. novak believes the main system speakers are part of the problem. >> so the speaker is very directional and coming straight down. it might need to be mounted different. >> reporter: solutions? novak suggests drivers enunciating. volumes increasing and sending announcements through both speaker systems. >> i still don't know where we're going next. >> reporter: i've e-mailed wmata, telephoned them, tweeted questions, so far no answers. instead they sent out the same statement they sent out for our last speaker question saying the in consistencies will be addressed by the 7000 series cars that don't start coming online for a couple years and won't be fully in place until 2020 and beyond. i'm investigative reporter russ ptacek, wusa9. >> maybe we should talk to russ because he's not letting it go. whether it's metro announcements or probable on the roads, we'd love to hear -- problems on the roads, we'd love to hear your commuter pet peeves. go to tellwusa9.com and we'll try to get you some answers. this is a yellow alert day, wusa9 first alert weather. >> let's start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, temperature 32, dew point mid-teens, a pretty dry air mass, winds out of the south at 11. here's the radar, our first batch of snow from hagerstown down towards charlottesville moving pretty much west to east, will move through the metro area downtown and across 95 the next two hours. there's another batch of precipitation behind that. we might get two quick bursts of snow. i've lowered the snowfall totals. win chester, hagerstown, a little snow flying now in culpeper, leesburg about 30 minutes away as it moves right down to 66 toward town. headlines, a little snow overnight, a trace, 2 inches, and that's pretty far north to maryland/p. up near the amount border. allow a few -- maryland/p.a. border. allow a few extra minutes in the morning. a commute home fine, no worries, temperatures 46 to 50, no weather worries and we stay mild the rest of the week with temperatures at or above average right through friday. so a trace to an inch, generally less than an inch around the immediate metro area, up toward frederick and back toward westminster maybe an inch. back up in toward hagerstown and cumberland maybe 2 to 3 inches, back toward romney and that is about it. so again we're looking at kind of a nuisance snow, barely even a nuisance snow. so overnight cold with light snow, mix south and east, a trace to 2 inches, temperatures 25 to 32 for lows. here's a computer model. we put this into motion. only .4 downtown, a little light up toward martinsburg, but only an inch or 2 toward cumberland and oakland. that's probably the way it plays out going through the nighttime hours. either way it's over by 5 a.m. temperatures low 30s to start, mid-30s by 9:00. we're in the 40s by 11:00. that's a pretty good deal. we're in the upper 40s by 1:00. we'll probably cancel this yellow alert by 8:00 or 9:00 tomorrow morning. 53 wednesday, a few showers possible, 53 thursday with clouds coming in but mild. next seven days friday good news. we're near 60. bad news, it comes with showers, rain, maybe a thunderstorm on friday. we'll watch that for severe weather. still filed saturday, chilly sunday and -- mild saturday, chilly on sunday. don't go celebrate now at hgr.h. egg's presidents' day sale. save up to 30% on our huge selection of appliances, electronics, furniture and more. frigidaire four-piece stainless steel kitchen packages $1999. get great deals on our entire selection of tvs, like a 32-inch led tv for $169. and get up to 24 months no interest on purchases $497 and up. come in now for huge presidents' day savings storewide at h.h. 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nightmare campaign last year. some feel his days are numbered here, but his manager gave him a vote of confidence. >> i just think he's too good of player, you know. the question is you look at adam and you go well, generally he hasn't started off the season well. last year it was kind of the opposite. he did pretty well early on and so sometimes there are years like that. >> that's the baseball nuts and bolts of the day. now on to nonbaseball stuff. i think you'll like this story. it's pretty cool. we in washington d.c. know about being monitored. well, it turns out the washington nationals early baseball players here in vieira are being monitored, too and all they have to do is look up. it looks like something out of star wars. >> this is a quad copter. it's a dgi phantom. >> reporter: i'd call it a winged love craft, but wait. this is vieira, florida, right, palm trees, relaxation. what gives? >> and the players like, you know, totally like oh, this is so cool. >> reporter: and it's ready for takeoff. donald morelli is mission control of this spacecraft designed to fly high and record beautiful images like these off the coast of san diego. did you see that thing? >> we heard it. it was all over. i thought we were getting attacked by little minimum i airplanes. >> reporter: nsa approved -- mini airplanes. >> reporter: nsa approved. >> everybody is always looking for the new opportunity to get the different angle. i can't wait to see the footage. >> reporter: here it is, skip, the eye in the sky, pretty cool, but can it give players intel they can benefit from? >> absolutely. seven strasburg has a go -- stephen strasburg has a go pro and he could see little nuances he couldn't see from the mound. so technically it gives you an insight on things you couldn't see otherwise. >> reporter: not what opposing batters want to hear. just don't ask super steve to fly the darn thing. >> technology is crazy. i guess it's pretty easy. you can go down to the hobby store and get one yourself. >> reporter: you going to be doing that? >> no. lose it in a tree. >> reporter: wow, what a story. we didn't use any actual moving video of nats practice. that's because the team holds the copyright to it, but still pretty cool indeed. i also talked to some national reporters who said they had never seen anything like this. tell you what. if it turns out this thing has some tactical value for players, it won't be long before we see those things hovering above a lot of different spring trainings. for now in vieira, i'm dave owens at the nats. back to you. let's get some winter olympic medal counts, the united states rising to the top of the pile with 18, russia tied up for first, netherlands are third with 17 ♪ i wish i was made of money. i wish you were too. chances are, you're not made of money. so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. geico motorcycle. see how much you could save. today is presidents day for the next 30 minutes at least and groupon celebrated by 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