Engine of the truck on Martin Luther king highway. The flames extended back to the trailer portion of the vehicle. Crews were able to bring those blames under control. There were no injuries. Now to the alleged rape on board a metro train. Tonight angry riders want to know why metro never told them about it and why it only came out in the media when the suspect appeared in court in Montgomery County more than a month later. Bruce has metros response to all of that energy. Bruce. Reporter yeah, leslie. Big change today. Metro s new ceo ordered Transit Police to let people know the same day about any Violent Crime on the system as long as that will not jeopardize the investigation. A lot of riders really disappointed that it took more than a month to find out about this attack and alleged rape on women who finally escaped here at glenmont at the end of the line. Thats crazy honestly. I think we should have known about it. Worried women riders more answers from metro. When i saw it i knew that i saw him before. I take the train late to come home. Scary. Very, very scare scary. Laura william social securiw williams is now convinced he was on the train alone with john hicks too, the woman accused of an assault and rape of a woman in the middle of the day on a red line train. We have to be proteched. Protected. We have to know whats going on around us. He allegedly attacked a woman on april 12th but this monday when the media found out when he appeared in court. Metro said the crime was on the crime b because the suspect was already in custody. But that was too little for my twitter followers. From renee kelly, yes, they should have warned riders. This is terrible. I bet the higher ups informed their family and friends. The answer to your question is hell, yes, they should have informed us. From salem, yes. I dont think its right. The public has a right to know. Reporter Montgomery County councilman tom hucker said the public has a right to know about Violent Crime on metro period. So what if they had a guy in custody he said. What about if they had the wrong guy or what about if he had accomplices . Live at the Glenmont Metro station bruce lashan, wusa 9. Thank you. Jack eva the attack. Were monitoring the red line this afternoon after a service melt down this morning. Weve adam riding the rails all day long. The issue today was failing high voltage electrical equipment. The result was a lot of riders work. Scott groom is live. What do you have . Reporter well, huge delays this morning. Thankfully at the hour right now metro on the red line back to normal. Double tracking after a morning of mayhem. It started at 7 00 a. M. It sucks. Crowds so deep delays so long. It was unbearable. One man took to jumps rope to pass the time. I was sitting on the metro for 20 minutes. I jumped rope. What did you do . Many riders sharing their frustration on susan mcginnis, on social media. Travel time delay on the trains was 35 to 40 minutes not counting the wait to get on. The problems, electrical and underground. Two failures in one morning. A cable failed near medical center. They were pulled out of the tunnels in time for the evening rush. Its a basic infrastructure of the city. Its not dependable. Its not safe. Its absurd they need to fix whats going on because a lot of people are depending on the train. It took an hour and a half to get from dupont to grovner. It has to do with the culture of the organization. I dont see a commitment to customer service. Something needs to change. Reporter all this is happening right now as the red line is going through some intensive r friday. They are single tracking midday. All of that came off the rails so to speak this morning with these other electrical problems. Metro just unveiled a plan to cram one year of intensive maintenance into check that, 3 years of intensive maintenance into a oneyear period. They are starting to warn people that that is going to result in lots of problems like this in the coming months. The safe track strategy launches the 4th of june. Scoot groom, wusa 9. Thank you. Coming up, what adam longo heard from passengers during his 19hour ride on metro. Mission metro just a few moments away. May feels more like march until later this week when we brace for july. The mercury pushed past 80 today and its n meteorologist topper shutt has a day he can smile and tell us more about the forecast. Spectacular. Low 80s today and even warmer into the end of the week. What a perfect, i mean perfect night for baseball. It will be still 72 at 10 00 and clear as a bell as we take on our dreaded mets. By lost yesterday. Even plans, 80 at 6 00, 75 at 8 00 and 72 at 10 00 p. M. With clear skies. Now, lets look ahead to memorial day. A little bit of a you know, activity if you will on the social media as to a storm possibility developing off the coast and working up the coast as we get into monday. Sunday still looks nice. The storm if it were to develop would be still offshore. On memorial day theres a chance that this could develop, produce a lot of rain. It would be a warm rain opposed to a cold may road. A possible coastal. Were going to monitor this for it could make monday a wash out. Ill say what i said yesterday, saturday and sunday much, much better days to plan the picnics and the cook outs. Two men are behind bars facing charges in a violent robbery at a springfield, virginia jewelry store. Tonight the owner of that store is sharing his frightening story. Eliana diaz is live with more. Reporter thats right, bruce. The store owner said it was just an ordinary day for him on saturday but it quickly became the worse day of his life. Today we do have some good news. We were able to talk to him and tell him that those two suspects who robbed him and held him at gunpoint are now behind bars and he said that does bring him some relief. One was standing almost right here. Mohammad reyes was standing inside his store, dubai jewelers, when the first man he said he just got married and wanted to buy something for his wife. He bought nothing and walked away. Another guy came with a bag and gun. That suspect was william franklin, iv. Reyes said the suspect tied him up and held him at gunpoint as he filled bag with jewelry. My merchandise, they took everything. Both suspects fled, carjacked someone, shot a bystander and crashed fleeing on foot. It wasnt until sethi tried to board a plane at the Newark Airport yesterday that he was caught. Franklin was arrested at his home. Everyone is outraged. As long as they are open and out you never know what their next step could be. Its possible after Fairfax CountyPolice Listed them in a national database. They are violent felons. They used to fire shot a person. Im glad they are off the street. Reporter it was obviously a terrifying day for many people. A lot of people happy to hear those two people are behind bars. Police tell us what while the two suspects are in custody it could be a week before theyre extradited back to virginia. Thank you for that. William franklin has an eks xtensive criminal history with prior charges. Sethi has a prior charge of possession of marijuana. An 18yearold has been arrested in connection with the death of another teen. The drugrelated death. David evers surrendered to Fairfax County police last week. Investigators said 17yearold Alexia Springer of centerville died in march after a lethal mix of morphine, oxycodone and evers is accused of selling it to her. Primary elections are underway in the state of washington. Because of party rules democrats ignore the results. Instead, the delegates are determined based on caucuses held earlier this month. Penald trump is the only rson on the cannibal lot. Republican on the republican ballot. In 2006 he cheered for the Housing Market collapse. I kind of hope that happens because then people like me would go in and buy. He could bankrupt america like he bankrupted his companies. Donald trump will headline his first fundraiser tonight in congestion with the Republican National committee. That 10,000 a head event is in albuquerque. Wusa 9 anchor adam longo has been riding the rails all day long as part of Mission Metro. He hopped on at 5 00 this morning, wont stop riding if he holds off until 11 00 tonight. Hes going to hold up. Adams hes live right now. Adam, youve had quite an unpredictable day on the red line with the delays. Last the mood of the metro line . What are you finding out there . Reporter sure. Bruce, dont think were not going to finish this mission. Were at gallery place chinatown right now. For riders this morning it was a morning of incredible frustration and long delays. I mean, for us doing our thing we started at shady grove at 5 00 in the morning, by the time we got into tinnily town we were hopping off to do live reports for the morning show. Once we got back on it took us 45 minutes to get from tinnily town past Dupont Circle to metro center. Thats supposed to take 15 minutes. As far as the riders attitude, no one was upset or frustrated. Take a look at some video. Things got better as we went through the day. This is the lunch hour right now. Were over at lafont. A musician over is playing the sax for the crowds. A music student at udc said hes been coming to the metro playing music for 5 years or a. Weve so. Weve been gathering reaction, n ing to the riders all day and we wanted to step in your shoes for this project. Heres what some of you had to say. I would say this is very organized. Easy to use, easy to access, easy to find. Is all about the money to them. Instead of considering the need you want us to pay more money and put our money into a system that does not cater to us. It was rather slow. Single tracking. It was pretty crowded and hot. Besides that it was great. Reporter so, listen, our goal tonight is to hit all 91 stations. We have to hit the blue, orange and silver line. Were going to be down at the navy yard for the natse tonight, getting peoples reactions, talking to them about how reliable is it to get to the game on time. Its been a long day. We only have 7 hours so go so were over the hump. From here were going to hang out. Coming up later in this hour as we go through the newscast tonight we talk to a number of people including folks that were stuck on the red line this morning. We just came from capitol hill. We asked about the job they think the ceo has done and what can be done about finding a consistent source for metro funding. Lets be honest, you have enough money thats going to fix all the problems. Were going to be getting into that throughout the evening. Bruce and leslie, back to you guys. Adam seems to have the same kind of energy that he had this morning. That marathon has prepared him for one heck of a day. Im interested to hear what mark warner has to say too. Hes the senator, the guy in that position that can push through some funding. The surrounding areae it will be interesting to see if it does. Weve heard other congressional members say they have no interest in giving metro more money, they have to figure it out with what they have. Stay with wusa 9 on the air and online for Mission Metro. Check out wusa9onmetro. Share your questions and your comments with us. Frustration with long security lines at the nations airports has claimed its First Casualty tonight. Kelly hogan, the head of security for transportation security administration, hes out. In addition to his 181,000 base salary hogan received more than 90,000 in bonuses but it doesnt just the long lines that did him no. Hogan over saw screeners who failed to detect fake explosives or banned weapons in 95 of the testing done by the inspector generals office. Hogan was hammered during congressional hearings. Since his promotion position in 2013 Security Operations at tsa have been bad. Cbs news learned that tsa is now launching an Incident Command Center to better respond to screening issues and delays. A scare today at bwi airport. The Traffic Control tower was evacuated this morning after a fire alarm sounded. All flights arriving and leaving bwi were delayed until the Fire Department gave all the clear signal. Investigators failed to find fire or smoke. An airport spokesperson said it was a minor incident. Now to the latest on the search for egyptair flight 804. Theres conflicting reports on what happened in the final moments before the airliner disappeared. Greek aviation officials initially said that plane swerved before plunging into the mediterranean sea. Egyptianff not swerve our lose altitude. President obama is on the second leg of his visit to vietnam. He traveled for a tour that included an ancient buddhist statute. While he welcomed the warming relation with the communist economy he said the record on human rights is still an issue. Theres still issues of significant concerns in terms of freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, accountability with respect to government. President obamas asia trip will include a meeting with another former enemy this week, japan. The commander in chief will make a historic visit on friday. Were learning more about life after the white house for the first family. Thats right. The National Journal is report ing tonight that president obama will rent a house in the neighborhood after he leaves office next year. Thats in northwest. The obamas are saying in washington so allow their youngest d sasha to finish her final two years of high school here. The exact location of that house is not being revealed. At least not yet. President obama will be the first president to stay in washington after his term is up since wilson back in 1921. Yeah, we keep giving him weather like this it might be easy to take in the sunny days. You might not want to leave washington in days likehis. This is what may should be. Its going to get more like june. I dont think anybody is going to complain. Not going to be crazy humid as we go through the rest of the week. A little bit hot but not crazy humid. Our 3 degree guarantee, i was worried about this. Reading 86, 87 on my car. I went 81 today for a high. The computers were on going 79 and 80. I thought that was going to be okay. Well add up the numbers at 11 00. Just gorgeous. 83 right now. Wind west, northwest at 10. Just a spectacular night for baseball or just taking a walk. A mild night. Were talking in the 60s downtown. Bus stop temperatures, 56 to 76. Thats a big range but between 6 00 a. M. And 9 00 a. M. Thats what the temperatures are going to be. Its going to warm up very, very quickly tomorrow. A wonderful wednesday, very warm, not humid. Just a few thunderstorms on thursday and friday. I would just keep your plans if you have out door plans on thursday, friday keep them. Not going to be a huge deal. Okay. Future cast, at 10 00 tonight, clear skies, 72 downtown, 62 buoy, 67 fairfax. In the morning 58 in frederick and maybe mid 50s in cumberland and romney. Then we get into the 9 00 hour and everybody is on the either side of 70. 71 fairfax, 71 in dale city and fredericksberg. I think the numbers are low. You know, future cast was low yesterday. It only went 79 for a high today. I say these numbers are low as well. By 6 00 tomorrow i 86, 87. Clear skies. I think you will be 88 in fredericksberg and maybe 77 in la platta. Tomorrow night mild. Temperatures mainly hold in the 60s tomorrow night. Thats going to be nice. So for tonight, clear skies and mild. Low 56 to 64. Western winds become northwestern winds at about 10. On the day planners, it looks like this, full sun and the numbers low. I agree with the mid 60 to start and then 78 by 11 00. 82 may be low at 1 00. May be more like 84 by 1 00. Now, the next three days, isolated storm on thursday but still nice, 87. A few storms on friday but still reasonable temperatures again in the upper 80s. The next 7 days. Saturday were going to keep dry. Its going to be close. Then a few storms on sunday. As we mentioned earlier, showers and storms on monday as that coastal storm develops it could be a wash o more storms on tuesday. Were still making it into the low 80s. Right now im favoring less rains in the low 80s, if it really raining the upper 70s for highs. Thank you, topper. 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The class action suit said their study shows some of the popular trackers heart rate monitors are higher inaccurate by as much as 20 beats per second. Its based on bias results because it used a consumer grade electro cardiogram. Retirement for some americans may not be so golden after all. According the a recent bankrate. Com survey income levels for retirees 65 and over falls well below the 70 needed to sustain their life sustain after they stop working. The stud said seniors who live in hawaii, arkansas and South Carolina do have retirement income. I guess were going to hawaii. Riders spoke, lyft listened. Employees with the Ride Hailing Company are testing a new feature where users can schedule a car up to 24 hours in advance. First lyft said no but passengers pushed for it. It will roll out in cities across the summer. Nfl owners just voted to award the atlanta. The latest example of a new stadium being rewarded with the biggest game. The 2020 super bowl has been awarded to miami. Los angeles will hold the big game the following year. Straight ahead we check in with adam as he spends the whole day riding metro. A new video shows a diaper wearing suspect now on trial for the torture of a fairfax couple. Exsesive force at a a School Resource officer is being investigated for excessive use of force after witne