Were in the vehicles, even when you see the pictures, its pretty horrific. At this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fate a. The trains new route is part of a 18 l 30 million project designed to speed up service and bypass traffic. Amtrak says the new tracks were tested out just before that first run and right now officials, including the National Transportation safety board are investigating what us contacted the train to go off its tracks. Theyre actuallien route as we speak. Of course we will let you know what comes out of that investigation. Again, like we mentioned, six people on board that train were killed and Officials Say they expect that number to go up. Keep in mind this is a developing story tonight so keep it right here on fox5, fox5dc. Com for the very latest on this investigation. Kristin leone, fox5 local news. There are new details tonight in the murder of a 66 year old man earlier this year. Alack dealers had taken over his apartment. In january he was found dead after a fire tore through his unit on queens short northeast, the day after he filed a complaint with the police. Now nearly one months later there has been an arrest. Fox5s paul wagner Eyewitness News us live from d. C. Police headquarters with the latest on this story. Reporter hi, tony, and some of those troubling new details including a ninepage Court Affidavit we were able to see today among those detrails was the day before he was killed, mr. I l alley met with the police and told them that his apartment had been under siege for two months by drug dealers who had threatened him and beaten him. The man h was ar rested on friday, Garret Taylor, hes been a suspect since the very beginning. We actually with respect able to catch up with him last summer and ask him about mr. I alley. This was outside the courthouse heres what he had to say dont know nothing about that. I was i doanlt know nothing about that. According to this Court Affidavit, mr. I alley told police that taylor known as g had taken over his apartment with several other mails and forced them to allow them to stash illegal narcotics and firearms in his home. Mr. I alley told police the men moved into his apartment in november where they assaulted and threaten threatened him. The Court Affidavit ace the night before the fire and after his meeting with the police Garret Taylor attacked mr. I alley breaking several ribs and causing trauma to the back of his head, but when a friend called 911 he refused to go to the hospital but told police who had assaulted him. After mr. Ai i alleys body was found police questioned taylor and said his clothes smelled like smoke and a message that said you going down mr. I offered protection but declined to take that protection. I can really only speak to the homicide aspect of this, but for my knowledge of the casey can say that i understand that he was offered services and he just declined. We do in homicide cases and other cases we do offer relocation services. We did ask the captain if there were other suspects in this case. He said that at this point the case is still open and under investigation but nobody that er right now zeroing in on were live outside police headquarters, paul wagner, fox5 local news. Now to a fox5 update, a germantown man is in custody charged with breaking into a gun store in frederick, m. Police arrested dylan fox. Investigat ors say fox marked out the front window the store and tried to get inside but before officers arrived. Fox is facing a litany of charges that include burglary and destruction of property. New tonight tv personality is calling out pbs for making what he says is a rush decision to suspend him after allegations of sexual misconduct. In an interview on good morning america, smily said he never quoarsed anyone into a relationship but objection to the form had consensual relation of. A prominent federal Appeals Court judge is stepping down following allegations of sexual misconduct. The Washington Post reports at least 15 women accused judge contact begin ski of touching them inappropriate and kissing them without conduct. He made an apologize for making any of his clerks feel uncfo two decades on the niept circuit of appeals. A new bill would pull back the curtain of secrecy of harassment settlements in the private sector. There are questions whether congress is doing enough to clean up its own problems. Reporter theres been a race between republicans and deps in recent weeks to come out with legislation to stop Sexual Harassment. Today that took the form of a bill that will be aimed at private companies, but there are a the look of people canning tonight if our lawmakers up on the hill are doing enough to clean up their own house. We will gin with texas blake \fair\fareen hold. He has announced he will not seek re election. Why . Because another women has come forward alleging Sexual Harassment on the part of the republican lawmaker. Not to be out done on the democratic side there is this nevada democrat, congressman reub in queun. He announced he will election because a second woman has come forward with sexual allegations against him. Carolyn me loan i is interest queuing two bills. One that will make it illegal for companies to deduct settlements off their taxes. Another one to file yearly reports with the equal Opportunity Employment Commission on how many sex harassment cases they have. When employers dont have to disclose these internal settlements, when theres no Public Record about abuse it can cause great harm to rick times, other employees who may not know their working in a harassing environment or who the harassers are or even the public at large that kind of secrecy sounds familiar its very descriptive of a system that congress itself set up for its own Sexual Harassment the late 90s Congress Office of compliance has paid out millions of dollars in settlements on the taxpayers disiem. Were live at the capital tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. Coming up, the veeric in the trial of a d. C. Area Police Officer charged with attempting to support isis. And gary mcgrady live in montgomery county. Santa is spreading Holiday Cheer and so are you, gary. Thats exactly right. In a neighborhood just off of false road in rockville. You see right back through there . Theyre staging. Santa is on that firetruck. Hes going to be coming through waive to all the kids in this neighborhood. If youre the lucky neighbor you may hear this. You may not know this, now im good frens with santa. I just met him. Arent you jealous . Santa is a darn good forecaster because this is a great night to be making his round. Its so mild. We used to love it when the santa truck would come through our neighborhood in montgomery county. A great story. Well let you know what you can expect for tuesday. If you didnt get a chance to soak up some of this mild weather, let us know. You get a do over tomorrow. Fox5 local newses will be right back. It feels good to be back. Take a good look at your screen police in virginia trying to track down the person you see right there in those photos who allegedly broke into a thift store in manassas over the weekend. Were told the suspect threw a rock through the front door on the house of mercy and took money from the Cash Register before getting away. If you recognize that suspect youre asked to call police. The search is on tonight for a dog owner whom authorities abus ed his pet. This dog right here was found near chem colony drive in t reston last week. Animal control said the dogs hair was so its efface and body. Only one of the dogs eyes was visible. The other completely covered and infected. The dog asks to be about seven or eight years old. Theyre asking anyone who recognizes the dog or knows of his owners to contact the Fairfax County police. Guilty, a jury in alexandria today convicted 38 year old Nicholas Young in federal court after a weeklong trial in ra. Young was a Police Officer for the p metro Transit System when he was arrested last year after being targeted in a sting operation. Prosecutors said young bought gift cards he thought would be used by the islamic state. The person he gave the cards to was working for the fbi. To the district now where Metro Service is back to normal on the redline after a train struck a man at the Cleveland Park station. A metro spokesperson says a man deliberately jumped in front of the train. Him. There is no word on his condition. Metro was forced to single track. Service was restored about an later. Back to rm north korea al the lingering \effect\affects at the anyways nations busiest airport. Crews continue to battle wild fires in southern california. More setbacks for the firkts on the front lines. Well take you there next. T. We are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. From scandalous romance, to ridiculous plot twists. gasping son . Dad we also know you can avoid drama by getting an annual checkup. So were partnering with cigna to remind you to go see a real doctor. Go, know, and take control of your health. It could save your life. Doctor poses dad cigna. Together, all the way. Tonight Georgia Power is still investigating what may have caused a power blackout at the worlds busiest airport. The power loss may have been caused by a burned cable at an underground pennsylvania iment s ment the power outage led to the grounding of hundreds of flights leaving thousands strand ed in georgia and across the country. More than 100 flights were canceled today. If you have travel plans be sure to check in with your airline. Meanwhile powerful winds continue to hamper wild fires in southern california. Crews had to battle the elements as they tried to push back against the enormous thomas fire. Nearly 20,000 homes are threatened. While most he vacation orders still stand, some people were allow back home this weekend. Mean while Funeral Services were held for quor i ever son. Hes the firefighter who died last week while battling those flames. If we could only get them some rain over there. Its horrible to watch. I cant believe theyre still dealing it with after what feels like weeks and weeks. I dont think there is a serous pattern change coming in their descreks. We have had the pattern change. After three little minute i snows and were 606degrees today compl well take it. Take it while we can. Cue get another gorgeous day tomorrow in terms of temperatures and you know, it looks like quite an interesting week ill tell you. Toward the end of the week our models arent quite sure what scenario theyre going to land on. Here are the high temperatures today that 56degrees thats a full 1 dulles 57, bwi56 and could we be even warmer than these numbers tomorrow, it does look possible weve had some clouds come in tonight and what the clouds will do is it will keep us a little milder. Its 53 right here in the district. Thats slowly descending so we havent lost much ground since 5 00. You see up in the northern suburbs, martinsburg 47, winchester 48 and down to quul pepper 44. There will be some cool, if not chilly spots tonight but definitely not going to be bitter cold thats for sure. A little on the chilly side at boston, 34. Chicago coming in at 42. Detroit 32. Spring like temperatures are on tap for us again tomorrow. I wanted to show you in the morning well describe it as cool for the kids at the bus sphop. After school with a good amount of sunshine, probably a little sunnier than this afternoon ended up being because of the cloud deck that came in we should temperatures change raping from 58 to 636degrees. Sixty is what were thinking for reagan national. Fredericksburg you could touch 616 tomorrow. Culpeper 612 and then you get up toward cooler spots like frederick and hagerstown and you may be in the mid and upper 50s clouds coming without rain. It makes for a gorgeous sunset. Some thinning, not much through Central Virginia but that will keep things from getting too cold. Overnight we watch a frontal boundary getting a little bit closer. It will enough warm in this direction that tomorrow warms up being the warmest day with temperatures near 606. Well be watching to our south on wednesday for the possibility of a little moisture passing on by. Ill take you through the futurecast and you can see that were expecting a lot of sunshine and still look ing like its dry through the caroline as. Its very late into tomorrow night into wednesday morning youre going to see a little system passing down through the caroline as. Perhaps on the Northern Edge theres a little bit of a mixed precipitation but that is aboutt wednesday dry local limit tonight 44degrees, clouds around but not very cold. Maybe some 30s in the suburbs. For this time of year that is fran tas particular. Tomorrow were partly cloudy. Its a nice day a warm day. Were getting up to 60degrees with a real notice able strong winds out of the northwest at ten to 15 miles an hr. Frontal boundary is going to cross us tomorrow night into wednesday, thats not terrible. Friday a cooler day. Thursday late day showers and showers are in our forecast on saturday. Christmas eve on sun, the challenging time are Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Some of the models want to keep us around these temperatures, but one or two have us even warmer than that. We have a couple of showers possible christmas eave as well as Christmas Day around heemple thats your seven day forecast. Back to you. Thank you very much. Santa clause is coming to a town near you. Santa and his h firefighter elfs are in rock ville tonight and thats where we find our gary mcgrady. Oh, look. Theyre on the sleigh. Cool. Thats right. Its the rockville val volunteer Department Fire department, what is this like to do this. That i remember as a kid and i love doing it for our community i always remember my dad coming around in this truck to my neighborhood so its great that i can return that to the community now. Lets talk about the truck. You were able to buy this truck. I didnt realize it had so much family his twri to you. From 1978 to 19930 after that it went to troy New Hampshire and was in service there until about two years ago and now its back in rockville where it belongs. Santa, how is it going. Its wonderful. Are you seeing plenty of of kids. Absolutely. You guys whats this neighborhood. The horizon hill off west cigar situate road in rock vivment youre driving around and, look, the kid ohs are out now. Absolutely, they love it. They start the truck up front making a lat of lois and the idea there is to bring the kids out so that they can see santa. Is there a off the truck at all. Normally on the santa run we dont get off. Typically we just role through the neighborhood so everybody can see us. P were were still in service, if something comes out that delays the run a little bit. One more question, do you have any other runs set up on this week. Sure. You can check out our facebook, facebook. Com rockville vfd. Great with all the lights wave by to santa. How great is that . Hes getting lots of requests for legos and everything star wars, too. This is a really old truck coming up the back. Its kind of like a volunteer fire parade. I want to say to this to you. I got to say this to some kids. Kindergartensers. We learned all about the weather. I dont mind doing that so if there is any more classrooms that need me could come out and talk to thernlings i can do it. Waive bye to santa. What a great bunch of guys. Marina and tony back into you guys. Bye santa. Thank you, gary. Well be back in a moment but first a military service from our military service members. M. Z2m7fz z16fz y2m7fy y16fy we are the tv doctors of america, and we may not know much about medicine, but we know a lot about drama. We also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual checkup. So go, know, and take control of your health. It could save your life. Cigna. Together, all the way. Tonight we here at fox5 have some incredibly bitter sweat news to share with all of you. Its not bitter sweat. It is great news. After doing nights for four years at fox5 and being a part of this Incredible Team that has achieved such wonderful things beginning in mid january im going to be leaving the evening show, not leaving fox5, but leaving the evening shows to re join my best friend Donny Simpson as part of his afternoon drive show on magic 1302 begin ning january 15. This is a dream come true. The opportunity came up. Im very excited to do it. To see my son and my family at night. I will be remaining with fox5 a. Im going to be rejoin ing the morning show. Im all over the place on this station starting january 19 on fridays and saturdays. Im very excited about that. Well tell you more about that in the days ahead. Yes, we will. Er we not letting you leave the building. No, im still in the building. Well see you tonight at 8 00. Were going going to miss him on nights. It was a nightmare on m track. At least a half dozen people are dead after a train derailed. This is what were talking about tonight at 5 6 30 our deepest sympathies and most heart felt prayers for the victims of the Train Derailment in washington state. We are closely monitoring the situation and keerd coordinating with local authorities. It is all the reason why we must start immediately fixing the infrastructure of the united states. The president reacting to the deadly derailment in washington statement of six dead, Dozens Injured after the train yum ped the tracks south of seattle. The impact