Has real questions about whats going on at metro and how not only how its managed, but frankly, whether the people who serve metro in all capacity have the competence to do so. We are not waiting for the ntsbs final report to work on making the system safer. Work is already underway on 14 early actions to improve safety, Emergency Response and the suspects state of good repair. The National Transportation safety board officials were also there, but they had no new information or details about the incident to offer as their investigation is still going on. They did say, however, they expect to have a final report sometime next year. Just hours before that hearing got started metro announced they are looking to hire a fire officer to work in that nerve center for the rail system. That person will be a fulltime liaison to fire and rescue crews coordinating communication between metro and the first responders. There is new information from Court Documents in the case of the lyon sisters. They are the young girls abducted from wheaton mall 40 years ago. Police have charged lloyd welch with kidnapping and killing them, but now a newly unsealed search warrant suggests his relatives are not cooperating with that investigation. Police say welchs cousin, connie akers, may have participated in the disposal of the girls bodies. Her husband says shes not talking to reporters. We have the search warrants that were unsealed today that tell us essentially what she was telling investigators about duffel bags with bloody clothe income them that lloyd brought up on Taylor Clothing in them that lloyd brought up on Taylors Mountain and said that she had been talking with him while he was in delaware. That was when she was a teenager. Investigators removed cds, cell phones, computers and letters from akers home. So far the bodies of sheila and katherine have not been found. The good news is the popup storms are all going away. And some cooler days are behind them. Tenacious topper is here with our update. I think upper 90s sunday and monday and low 90s today we can enjoy and earned a little break. Heres the radar over the past hour. Theres still a couple of showers out in the mountains. Notice theyre all shades of green, nothing crazy heavy around cumberland and its eventually going to get pretty close to paw paw, could see a shower in martinsburg but essentially i81 and points qwest. Temperaturewise its still toasty west. Temperaturewise its still toasty, 90s downtown. Well factor in the humidity, still very, very humid. So it feels like its 95, feels like 97 in leesburg. Its still a little too hot to exercise in the evening. That will change behind the front as drier air moves in. In fact, by 10 00 tonight very pleasant, blow 80s downtown, most everybody low 80s downtown, most everybody else in the low 70s. Tomorrow morning 66 in gaithersburg, 72 downtown. Well come back, look ahead to the weekend. Tell you how long the low humidity lasts and have the 3 degree guarantee. Is that thanks, top. A disturbing discovery in Fairfax County earlier today and tonight a community is wondering now a woman lost her life next to a busy parking garage. Peggy fox has that story. It just makes me very uncomfortable to have this across the street from me basically. Reporter Fairfax County police searched for clues from the air. The body of a woman was found next to a ninestory parking garage in herndon. The body was discovered at about 7 30 this morning lying behind the garage about a foot away from the building which is bordered by wood. The cop said just dont park above the fifth floor. Reporter investigators looked for evidence on the garage floors and collected items from the buildings roof. They carried out a bag of possible clues, but how the woman got there is still mystery. Disturbing. Its very disturbing. Reporter the disturbing discovery was unsettling to this community of workers and residents of several apartment buildings. I saw a bunch of kids walking through. A lady that was by herself and acting strangely approaching an empty building. Reporter police say the woman appeared to be in her 20s and had red hair. They say she suffered obvious head trauma, although the medical examiner will determine cause and manner of death. In herndon peggy fox, wusa9. In the district tonight a followup report to a frightening attack. One neighbor said to be high on pcp, stabbed four women and left one of them fighting for her life and the tonight we get the story in the victims own words from our Bruce Johnson. Reporter Lincoln Heights has always been a tough neighborhood. What happened here last night has left some of its long term residents injured and afraid. Its really bad. You want to sit out and enjoy the day and people off of this pcp just going on a rampage. Reporter last night before 10 00 a woman apparently on drugs went off in the street and then into somebodys apartment. I was just getting up for work. Reporter before it was all over four females had been stabbed including a 31yearold mother and her 14yearold daughter. I have four stitches and my daughter has six. Reporter names are not being used to protect the victims. They still have to live here. This 18yearold was stabbed in the face. Her mother says the assailant was no stranger. Its somebody you think you know . Yeah. That i see every day. I watch her son for her. Reporter and the drugs i take the baby from her because shes high off the pcp. Reporter if you dont live out here, you probably wont understand all of this. The 18yearold sitting back there with her mother, she graduated from maya Angelo Charter school. She works in the mayors summer job program. In the fall shell enroll as a freshman at Shaw University and she almost didnt make it because she ran into somebody on pcp. The most serious injury was to a 19yearold woman who is alive today because d. C. Police arrived with the training and the kit to fashion a tourniquet for her arm. Police chief cathy lanier tomorrow us by text today that she wants to put those tourniquet kits into the hands of every Police Officer out here on the streets. The woman suspected in those attacks, shes under arrest tonight. This is Bruce Johnson reporting from Downtown Washington for wusa9. Bruce mentioned those tourniquets bought by the chief. Police chief cathy lanier tells us those officers were given the kits and trained how to use them following the Navy Yard Shootings in 2013. Also in the district tonight Police Arrested and charged 30 men with soliciting prostitutes in the northwest in the last week. According to our News Partners at the washington post, it is part of a new push aimed at cracking down on crime. That started in january after residents, Business Owners and pastors all complained about still seeing prostitutes on 14th street near what was once d. C. s red light district. And a d. C. Woman is facing charges in baltimore. Police there say 29yearold lisa finely threw gasoline on her boyfriend, then set his house on fire. Finely is an educational aide at anacostia high school. Her boyfriend was not injured and the Sprinkler System in his house managed to put out the flames before that fire spread. A meth lab inside a federal government facility . As outrageous as this might sound that is exactly what Montgomery County police are looking into following an explosion over the weekend at the National Institute of standards and technology. Today workers in hazmat suits were entering the special projects building no. 236 on the sprawling gaithersburg campus. That is where the explosion left a supervisory Police Officer at nist with burns and some unusual evidence including items pointing to the production of meth. Now the folks who live near there are saying what the heck . So how does that happen . Im shocked. But then again nothing surprises me anymore. I do not believe that. I dont know what to say. Im floored. Thats all i can say. Thats terrible. I cant believe it. Oh, great. Breaking bad is just around here. The National Institute of standards and technology is part of the department of commerce. That nist Police Officer was treated and released from a local hospital, but he resigned the very next day. No arrests yet. The investigation goes on. A big flap over the flag today resulted in president obama ordering it flown at half staff at the white house in honor of the Service Members killed in chattanooga last week. Reporter im scott broom at the capitol where the president ial proclamation to lower the flag came only after a deluge of criticism nationwide and some political one upmansship by House Speaker john boehner here on capitol hill. Why in the wake of five service men killed in chattanooga was the flag still flying at the top of the pole at the white house and other federal buildings today . One man in florida so angry about it he went on a mission to lower flags there all on his own. They wont do it at the white house, but well do it at the gas stations. Reporter by this morning republican House Speaker john boehner announcing he was ordering flags at the capitol to half staff. It was very curious. I couldnt figure out why they were down one place and not down the other place. No. I dont know why theyre divided on it. The reason why i think it ought to happen and they ought to do it is it helps unite the country. I think they should do it. Reporter meanwhile president obama today spoke to veterans in pittsburgh remembering the chattanooga victims. Finally this afternoon after the speech the flag came down to half staff at the white house by president ial proclamation. We ask god to watch over the fallen, the families and their communities. On capitol hill scott broom, wusa9. President obama has ordered that flags stay at half staff until saturday. Well, virginias governor put veterans in the spotlight during a visit to fairfax today. He was on hand to present grants to the first two Companies Taking part in the v3 program. Thats designed to encourage virginia businesses to hire veterans. Qualifying companies can get a grant of 1,000 for every veteran they bring on. So far the program has found jobs for 10,000 vets. We have a couple commuter notes to get you up to speed on tonight. Train changes and a new sight on a familiar highway. Crews added these purple lane stripes to several entry points for the express lanes on interstates 495 and 95 and heres why. They want to make sure that drivers know for sure that they are about to enter those toll lanes. And from the roads to the rails mark riders on the brunswick line, your trains should be back to the normal lanes tomorrow. The morning commute, that was a bit crowded. Trains were running with fewer cars after one of the brunswick lines hit a dump truck yesterday on its way out of the city. Now to the skies, if your plans call for you to fly in or out of jfk in new york tomorrow, heads up, a Union Representing 1,000 of those airport workers plans to go on strike. You see, the workers are pressing their employer, a contractor called savation safeguard for Better Benefits and aviation safeguard for Better Benefits and a 15 an hour wage. Speaking of transportation, there is a big deal in the works tonight. Two senators found a way to break the congressional gridlock tying up federal money for roads and rails. Plus democrats in the house and senate ready to make the big move standing to benefit the lgbt community. Well bring you up to date on both those stories from capitol hill up next on your only local news at 7 00. Oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . Whats the only thing . Oh my gosh hes married. Hes a kleptomaniac. Hes a pyromaniac. Hes a total maniac. Hey hey go back to your wife you sociopath leave slow internet behind. The 100 Fiber Optics Network is here. Get out of the past. Get fios. Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v eeeo 1 welcome back to your only local news at 7 00 right here on wusa9. You are looking live at capitol hill where lawmakers spent today making progress on two big issues. The senate is moving forward with a deal on the transportation bill brokered over the weekend by two leading lawmakers. And democrats in the house and senate are poised to introduce a new gay rights bill. It is called the equality act. Its a broad legislation designed to protect lgbt people from discrimination in housing, schools and public accommodations. Essentially it would extend the same rights afforded to other groups under the Civil Rights Act in 1964 to lgbt individuals. We expect that bill to be introduced later in the week. Theres some deal making happening right now in the senate. Some lawmakers thought they finally had a deal to pass a transportation bill, but Top Democrats say not so fast. They want to read that 1,000 page first and here is why that matters. That bill could provide 43 billion over three years for road and air travel projects nationwide. The fight is where the money should come from to pay for it, but this is not new. Since 2009 lawmakers have passed 34 short term measures keeping transportation projects afloat but just barely. Well, the feds have called it quits on a decade long investigation against one of Major League Baseballs big former stars. And have you heard him . The donald is at it again this time handing out the private cell phone number of one of his rivals. Well tell you all about that in tonights National Headlines up next. Top . All right. The frontal boundary is still to our north and west. Its still hot and humid. It still feels like its 95 in d. C. , feels like its 97 in leesburg and 96 in frederick. Well come back, talk about when the lower humidity rolls in and how long its going to stay with us. Oh my gosh, its the guy from last night. What . can i jump on your wifi . Yeah, you can try it. Hey i had a really good time last night. Yeah, me too. The only thing is that. The only thing is what . 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Also from the l traitonight donald trump decided to reveal the private cell phone number of his gop rival Lindsey Graham during a speech and hes not apologizing for it. Grahams spokesman fired back saying the two people most excited about trumps run are president obama and hillary clinton. And the Justice Department formally dropped its decade prosecution of Major League Baseball home run leader barry bonds for obstruction of justice. He was convicted in 2011 after giving a meandering and some would say an evasive answer to a grand jury about injections, but a Court Reversed that conviction in april. Always watching always tracking, wusa9s first alert weather, d. C. s most accurate. Were tracking the numbers by threes. We are and i think were in pretty good shape today. It was kind of tough work. It was kind of cloudy this morning and some showers came in before noon, but were feeling pretty confident. We went for a high today of 92 and well let you know how we did tonight at 11 00 and ill tell you, what the good news is lets start with a live look outside, our live michael and son weather cam, its still 90, thats a good sign. Dew points are still crazy high. Theyre about 69. Theyve dropped a little bit, winds out of the west at 9, but this time tomorrow it will be in the 50s and it will be an entirely Different Air mass. Its going to be plenty warm in front of the front, but humidity is the key. Its turning cooler after midnight, low humidity the rest of the week wednesday, thursday and friday and warm days and cool nights. Thats what a dry air mass will lend itself to. It warms up quickly, but it cools off quickly, so its quite a little pleasant stretch for us. Heres futurecast, 10 00 tonight 80s downtown and mainly 70s in the suburbs under clear skies and then by morning 5 30, 6 00 its in the 60s everywhere except for downtown. Look at. This 69 andrews, 64 gaithersburg, 65 bowie and 67 in manassas. The lows today, this morning was 84. If it doesnt get if he low that by midnight, we get below that by midnight, we tie for the highest low. Notice the arrow here, the direction of the winds northwest, a goo