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Resigned, including a track inspector, who failed to report a critical flaw on that track. Metro released a report today on the cause of the derailment. News4s Mark Segraves is at the smithsonian station with details on that. Mark . Reporter yeah this is one of the stations that was shut down during that deraiment. Luckily, nobody was injured, cause there were no passengers on that train, but it led to widespread delays that day and has now further eroded the publics confidence in the transit system. They told us that somebody had just overlooked it. It turns out to be more complicateded than that. Reporter august 6th derailment was caused by a broken fastener that holds the rail in place. A month before the derailment, a track inspector discovered the faulty fastener but mistakenly delete it had from the inspection report, so it was never fixed. I really dont know what to say, like i use it every day and i pay a lot for it, so, it is very hard to hear about. Reporter metro officials declined to be interviewed about the report but this a written statement, acknowledge the inspectors mistake was only part of the problem. That such a serious error went undetected congresswoman Eleanor Holmes norton says the inspect he were is not to blame. If you want to ascribe this to human error, then we are going to keep seeing this happen. Sure, it was human error. Whose responsible was it to find that error . It was the responsibility of his supervisor to say why did he delete this . Reporter now, metro insists the system is safe and that they are beefing up their inspections as well as the checks and balances on those inspections. If you want to see that entire report, you can go to the nbc washington app, search metro. Coming up at 6 00, you will hear why this latest incident may impact federal funding for the metro system. Back to you. Mark segraves, thank you. A Northern Virginia teenager should have been starting college this week. Instead, he will be moving into a prison cell for trying to help a trend join the terror group nope as isis. The judge happened down an 11year sentence today. Bureau chief, julie carey, joins us to tell us how the team tapped into twitter in his campaign to support is. This is ali amins yearbook photo from osborn high school, taken about the time he set up a twitter account to raise money and support for the terrorist group, isis. He eventually helped a classmate, 18yearold reza nick nah shad to travel to syria to fight with isis. When his parents discovered the writing they can contacted authorities. Amin took down his twitter page and cooperated with the investigation from the start. He told the judge today, i do not ask for or expect sympathy. I alone is responsible for my deed. Citing amins able, the judge gave him an 11year sentence, four years less than prosecutors sought. But much more time than his attorney and family hoped for. More than 20 relatives and friends were in the courtroom to show support. This is a period of lives that he wishes he could take back, he regret, he set out to not only atone to his god, to his family, to reza nick shad am feesly but everyone who cares about him. Reporter this is the first time federal authorities prosecuted a juvenile as an i a doesnt for helping terrorists. They say the fact that one team went to syria made the crime far more serious, in part, because that young man may never come back to his family. Im not aware of anyone whos come back. So you would guess his fate may be death . Very well could be. I just think its speculation. Reporter ahead on news four at 6 00, a look at a concern y raise wood i this seid by parenr others when they sigh their child getting with jihadist. The war on here win tops the agenda for officials in Loudoun County tonight, meeting at the Sheriffs Office in leesburg an hour from now. Plans to stop heroinrelated overdoses including the development of a hotline for users who need help and a task force to crackdown on drug rings in the area. Loudoun county says deadly heroin overdoses nationwide have nearly tripled since 2010. Prosecutors call this former music teacher a menace to society as the judge announced his sentence for child sex abuse today. Lawrence joins used to teach at new hatch shire estates elementary in silver spring. Today, he was citizensed to four years in prison. He previously pled guilty to abusing more than a dozen students, many of them first and second graders. Tomorrow park marks ten years since Hurricane Katrina hit landfall in the gulf coast. After the levee broke, many of us watched as the water rose around new orleans, including around a hospital. Writes lawrence is live the story of a man who helped save patients that day and who now calls d. C. Home. Zplis. Reporter yeah, this guy is a lawyer, you know, whencality trina was bearing down on new orleans, joe west got his two older kids safely to his moms house, but his wife at the time was a doctor, didnt want to leave her patients and so the rest of the family hunkered down at methodist hospital. Katrina turn Third Hospital into an island. Tore off portions of the roof, windows broken out, first floor completely flooded. You can see the vehicles, there was the National Guard truck and police cars. Underwater . Completely underwater. Reporter joe west takes us back ten years. I meaning the stench was unbelievable from the dead bodies, from human waste. Reporter joes a lawyer. His wife at the time, an ob gyn. And she was Breast Feeding their 3monthold son. He actually became sort of the up official mascot of the labor and delivery unit. The nurses took turns taking care of them. Reporter joe pitched in. The nurse who was in charge of the icu, she grabbed as many ablebodied people as she could. This guy worked in the cafeteria, he was a janitor. This was one of the nurses husbands. Thats me right there. Reporter no elevator, machines, so, joe the lawyer pumped the elevators. Once you get outside, you know, sometimes the person you were caring was already dead. Reporter joe watched the doctors and nurses save lives, including a pregnant woman who was pulled out of the water. They did a csection on her in what could best be described as stone age conditions. Did it change the way you look at life . It did in a very fundamental way. So many times, things happen and people think the end of the world. I have seen what the end of the world might look like, trust me, it gives you a perspective that you cant really get otherwise. Reporter surely does. Gentlemens been in d. C. The past four years. Says still cant believe it has been ten years, that little baby we saw, andrew, now a 10yearold kid. Doreen, wendy. So painful for people to remember. Right. Ten years later. Chris, former president george w. Bush is in new orleans today. We all remember that he was in office while this happened. What did he have to say about the Recovery Efforts . Yeah, he is still defending his response a lot of people here feel the government let them down, not only at the federal level but the local level as well. He sort of played it safe. Went to a charter school, which is not hard to do here in new orleans. They blew up the School System after the storm and turned over more than 90 of the schools to charters. So far, some of the supporters said it paid dividends. This used to be one of the worst districts in the entire country, now the Graduation Rates way up. Back to you. Thank you, chris. Chris has been doing some Great Stories there, also posting photos and his stories of the days after the levees broke on twitter and facebook. Make sure you are following Chris Lawrence and you have liked his Facebook Page so you can see them all. So forth it. Tonight, we are keeping tabs on a Tropical Storm thats erika and florida is under a state o emergency preparing. The governor made that declaration after the erika brought heavy wind and rain to the caribbean, killing 12 people. Erika is expected to hit florida as early as sunday afternoon, bring the possible of Tropical Stormforce winds. Milwaukee sure every member of your family is ready. Your parents, your children, your grandchildren, do you have a plan . Are there any special needs that you have . If your going to folksily need a shelter, know where your shelters r at this point there are no evacuations planned in florida. Storm team4 is trapping tracking Tropical Storm erika, also your weekend forecast. Lets start with the latest on erikas path. We dont think this is going to be a big storm for florida a lot of rainfall, i dont think have evacuations down there, this storm looking less and loaves a threat. Exactly. The track could still change by a little bit here and there, but for sure, more rain from puerto rico and even parts of cuba. Thats the thing. Hispaniola, the islands, puerto rico, cube bark the area now under the gun. This is a different area, too. Puerto rico has some, seeing flooding, portions of hispani a hispaniola, haiti and the dominicdo dominican republic. 13,000foot peaks there. What this will do is drapt storm of a lot of moisture, see a ton of rain here, there could be more injuries and deaths here in hispaniola as a result of flooding and maybe some mudslides. It will hope weaken the storm as it moves on through, the latest data is now in i will give that you track coming up in a minute. Here with its going to do for the islands, live is rain, flooding, mud slides, weakening will be likely. I will show what you that new track brings and where that storm will hit coming up in ten minutes. We will see you then. Thank you, doug. Things are quickly heating up on top of a d. C. Fire truck and cameras caught the blow by blow. How officials were able to cool things down. New Crime Fighting innish i was in the district, one tried and true, another yet to be tested. Details on news4. This is the wow factor that almost fell victim to the budget cutting act, the chrome book, which is being rolled out to Montgomery County public elementary and middle schools. I will tell you how this hightech teaching d. C. Police officers will be swarming the district this weekend, the all hands on deck initiative started a couple of hours ago. It is an effort to cut down on crime. Derrick ward is in northeast d. C. With more about what we can expect this weekend. Derrick . Reporter maybe youve seen it, here in the Fifth District or anywhere in the city, the course of the weekend, you will notice more Police Officers out walking the beat on bicycles and in cruisers. And its all aimed at having a peaceful weekend. Its call for all officers amid a wave of violence in the city that has seen 103 murder source far, the last, yet another broad daylight killing, it happened on meade street northeast on sunday afternoon. That needs to stop. Reporter the all hands on deck Program Times stop it not just murder bus robberies and assaults, pulls officers from vacation time, desk duty and other details and puts them on the street for saturation across all seven police districts. Able. Flood of police in the streets is something that is a visible deterrent but also gives us an opportunity to interact with people in the community. Reporter there is kernt interactions go the right way, since officers not necessarily familiar with all of the streets will be out on them in force. Not know what they doing, because the Police Act Like they dont know what they are doing here. Reporter police chief cathy lanier says she knows what its done, she talked about this latest all hands on deck on the politics hour on wamu radio today. On average, 32 all hands on deck we have done now on seven years, the average decline and in Violent Crime 10 . Reporter if that happens, they may see more support where its needed. The all hands on deck, it might be good, a good idea. Reporter the surge is scheduled to last 48 hours. Interestingly enough this is happening the same time the fraternal order of police, police union in d. C. , is surveying officers to see whether they have confidence in the chiefs ability to fight crime. She says she knows probably less popular at a time she has changed a lot of peoples schedules around but calling on these officers to do what they were sworn to do, on news4 at 6 00, a broader Crime Initiative that can take place now and into the next few months. We are live in northeast, derrick ward, news4. Back to you. Two guys were arrested for this fight on top of a d. C. Fire truck. You can see them swinging at each other in this video from our news part negotiations wtop, this happened yesterday near alabama avenue and seventh street in southeast d. C. We dont know what started this fight. Wtop reports the fight did do some damage but the truck is already back in service. Another summer bits the dust for Montgomery County students. Yall head back to school on monday august Popular Program that put hightech teaching tools in students hands was in danger this year but just got a reprie reprieve. Chris gordon with our report. Reporter it is a surprise the new chrome books arrived, they were cult from the Montgomery County school budget, but the board of education found money to buy them by using funds intended for another purpose. Instead of replacing desktops, we are leaving the older desktops and went toward chrome books. Reporter the new chrome books arrived at Elementary Schools like wilson wyms and 150 mild school class. Ross. Students now have chrome books, one on one ratio for each student, gives us lots of flexibility in the class room to enhance our instruction. Reporter these chrome books can be used for reading and writing, making videos and using graphics and esessionssion especially good for esol students. For students that speak another language, they are able to access the same kur rick couple lum. I dont have to modify anything, they are able to read the same textbooks. Gives students many more opportunities to tap into their learning styles and help teachers reach every student. It is being called a partial chrome book rollout. Montgomery county Public Schools want to providehrome books to many more students, but that will have to wait until another school year. Chris gordon, news4. As the new School Year Kicks into year, a large group of students take advantage of a new lawmaker veterans. The choice act signed into law last year will allow vets and their ben fishies to attend a Public University or college at an instate rate. Nearly all straits in compliance with the new law but the Va Department suggest it had has no indication that there will be any issues in the states where theres been no official change. About 5500 Public Schools or public colleges and universities that this applies to and we are in contact with all of them. We dont anticipate any issues or problem. Along with instate tuition, veterans can take advantage of the gi bill, which provides a house stipend and 500 for books and lab fees. The national zoo is considering new names for or a name for its panda cub. Today, zoo officials announced the surviving cub, born to mei xiang last weekend is a boy. They also revealed the longtime mate is tian tian, the father. They say the little guy is also in very good shape. Gaping weight, sway good thing so we know it is nursing successfully and its growing. The cubs smaller sibling that died this week was with also a boy. Zoo officials thank you that cub developed pneumonia from accidentally breathing in some food. The iteam exposed department of Homeland Security workers who abused the credit card the taxpayers fund. Find out what investigators discover when they dug in deeper into the case. Find out why the redskins s that forecast looking pretty good, we move on through the nighttime and even into the weekend. Take a look outside, we look, point our tower cam toward rosslyn down toward the alexandria area, this is actually annandale, the airport, the Airport Tower there, reagan national. 82, another spectacular afternoon. One difference this guy right here. Notice the winds, south about 6 miles a hour. That wind is going to help to warm things up. Storm team4 radar, nothing to show as far as the radar is concerned. Dry as we move through the rest of the night. Heading to the nationals game, take on the marlins a beautiful, beautiful night for a ballgame. We just need to win a couple, keep a couple of wins, hope the mets lose a few. Sat late and radar, not much over our area, look to the west, a storm system coming to the great lakes, out ahead of it, it is starting to bring in that warmer air, one reason we are going to be warming the next couple of day, high temperatures back into the low 90s. Talk about Tropical Storm erika, not a very welldefined system. Right now, making its way, bringing rain to parts of puerto rico and hispaniola here, dominican republic, haiti, moving over this region, expecting it to weaken significantly. Tough for a storm to move over an island like, this 13,000foot peaks in haiti and hispaniola and move over cuba. Latest advisory at 5 00, 50mileanhour winds, moving to the best at 2 miles a hour. Expected to make more of a northerly movement here, as it does, across hispaniola cry, the big mountains in cuba, 5,000 feet for those. As a tee press, they are expecting it to become a tropical depression and weaken. On that track, moves up, close to the florida keys and south and west of miami with winds of about 440 miles per hour, a minimal Tropical Storm, not going to bring a lot of wind not going to bring a big storm surge to parts of florida. The only thing im looking for for florida, the fact there is going to be very heavy rain, look at this, heres sunday, heres monday, heres where it is by wednesday. So four days along the florida peninsula, some location does pick up five, six, maybe ten inches of rain the next week or so and then tries move to the southeast, but it will not come our wake not worried about that, should stay down to our south f it does it is not going to be impactful at all. Could bring showers, maybe a storm next thursday. Thats about it. Thats actual would be. 90 degrees tomorrow for a high temperature, 91, fredericksburg, 85 back towards martinsburg a Beautiful Day tomorrow, it will be a little bit warmer. Get out toot pool, if you can do that. Next couple of day warmer, 92, sunday, more humid on sunday and monday, a 30 chance of storms on monday, hive 91. 49 on tuesday, but get even warmer. Veronica have the latest on sevenday forecast, show you how warm we are going to get, the 90s stick around. Thank you, doug. Friday night . A popular night to order some pizza. Maybe youre eating some right now. What does the way you eat your pizza say about your personality . Doreen, im glad you asked, a behavioral expert at Emory University actually looked into this. And he says it comes down to four types. If you fold your pizza, youre more likely to be driven and adventurous. If you eat your crust first, youre more likely to be a trend certificate. If you use a fork and knife, researchers say those people are generally supporters who work well others. And finally, those of us who just bite into the slice are considered careful people who often opt for the predictable choice. Also indicates you just might be hungry. Still ahead, many thieves try to hide their i. D. , this guy let it hang out. What fueled his rampage. A former navy s. E. A. L. Killed in our area while riding his bicycle on a popular road. How loved ones are honoring his memory. On news4, a man is facing charges for killing his girlfriends baby while she was at work. What the he was a life long d. C. Residents and Naval Academy grad who served country hist country. We are hearing from the family of a retired navy s. E. A. L. Hit and killed while riding his bike this morning. Meagan fitzgerald joins us in bethesda where this happened. Reporter Timothy Holdens family is absolutely devastated tonight. They say they received a call from police early this morning telling them that timothy was hit and killed while riding his bike in the eastbound rain of massachusetts avenue. We spoke with his little brother today who tells thanks his brother will be remembered as a brave hero and a friend to everyone he would meet. Those closest to Timothy Holden say most everyone knew he was a kind and loving man. He was a brother, best friend, great dad to five children. Reporter his youngest brother, peter, says tim was an athlete and an avid biker. He was a devout catholic who boreshiped every sunday and dedicated his life to serving others. Retired navy s. E. A. L. The commodore, the s. E. A. L. S. On the west coast. Reporter captain timothy hold. Was a graduate of the naval acadmakers gulf war veteran and a highly decorated soldier but peter says few people realized just how much he did for his country. A very humble man, considering his accomplishments. Reporter which is why what happened here on massachusetts avenue on friday morning is so devastating. Montgomery county police say hold. W holden was riding in the east bound rain at 6 15 when he was struck by a car. Investigators say he died on scene. Tim was just blocks away from his home where friends and family are now gathered to grieve. No one wanting to believe it man is gone. Thats probably the very tough part for me because i always felt he was inn vincible. Reporter stlarkts is an active and ongoing investigation, trying to determine exactly how tim was hit. At 6 00 we spoke with family who explained just why his friday bike rides were so important and where he was likely heading before he was killed. Back to you. Meagan fitzgerald in bethesda. Thank you. He was supposed to be babysitting. Now a Prince Georges County man is charged with murder in the death of his girlfriends 1yearold boy. Bureau chief Tracee Wilkins join us about what she is learning about the struggling case. Reporter we are still trying to figure out exactly what motivated this man to do. This according to Prince Georges County police and the states attorney, they do believe that this was a case of murder and is sometime under investigation. I got to [ inaudible ] happen so close to home. Reporter this man is shocked to hear his neighbor is accused of murdering a 1yearold child. Seemed like a good dude. You never know, people have a different life outside of Reporter Police say the 20yearold killed his girlfriends 1yearold son inside their riverdale apartment while she was at work. What we snow this baby didnt die as a result of an accident. We know that this baby was, in fact, murdered. Reporter he told police the child wandered out of his eyesight for 20 minutes and he found him up conscious but the childs autopsy report wry vealed blunt force trauma. His liver was lacerated. These injuries, according the medical examiner, only could have happened during the time span the baby was with the care giv give. Reporter the fourth name 18 moments the mother lost her child while it was in the care of a boyfriend in Prince Georges County. What we believe is happening in many, many cases, women are going to work without proper resource and trying to find safe places for their children and are not successful in doing so. Reporter coming up on news 4 at 6 00, the Prince Georges County Police Department and the States Attorneys Office all have suggestions and tips for mothers who find themselves in this situation. I will have that report. Reporting live in riverdale, im Tracee Wilkins, back to you all in the studio. The man charged in the brutal murder to of a young man to an metro train on the fourth of july will have to undergoing to go a full mental evaluation ordered today after a competency hearing for jasper spires. Spires due back in court in october. Prosecutors say spires stabbed a recent a u student to death on a train near the noma station. Again, on the 4 fourth of july. The devastation of Hurricane Katrina played out ten years ago and tonight, we are learning how looking at how d. C. Played a role in the rescues, a plan that did not go smooth late first. D. C. s government sent a convoy of First Responders and that included police, doctors, nurses, four buses to bring evacuees back to washington and to provide any support that they could, but that effort turned into an embarrassment. News4s Mark Segraves was the only reporter to travel with that d. C. Team and he reported on how the con advice of unable to coordinate with local authorities in new orleans or with fema. Medical personnel did provide help to some people they encountered but the overall effort failed. The d. C. Team left new orleans with only one evacuee. Eventually, the district took in hundreds of evac which is who were flown in from overburdened Relief Centers in arkansas. The d. C. Armory housed those evacuees for weeks. Going out this evening . Heres what you can expect. Today, our temperatures topped out again in the low 80s cries the area. Some neighbors stayed in the upper 70s, anacostia, there is like a lion village, alexandria. Here is what you can expect, 7 45 this evening, the is up goes down, our temperatures, look at that shot, temperatures drop together upper 70s to 75 by 9 00. Mostly clear, a warm evening for us. Meanwhile, last couple of day we have been in the 80s, now the heats gonna come back, we will talk about just which days will be the most sticky and feel the most uncomfortable and when quo get a little bit of rain here. Thats in just a few. The redskins held a walk through practice at joint base andrews before their third preseason game against the race. They also kicked off the weekend for military northern and their families in a very special way. Thank you, guys. How you doing . I got a hug. My friends are gonna hate that, too, okay . Marie, eat your heart out. Wow, man thats ubawesome. We go to work every day, working on football, come out here, see what real life is all about. And have an opportunity to thank these guys for what they do for us is an honor to us, absolute honor. Such a success last year it builds this year and i think more excitement this year and hope that the redskins make the playoffs this year, beat the cowboys and keep moving forward. For some of the redskins players, being here hit close to home. Im from a military family. I do a lot of stuff during the summer with some camps. Being from that family, i know, you fwheerk some of these kids are going through. They have any kiss from me, they know that ive been in their same position, they can ask me. I just like to tell them, take it easy on your parents, they are doing the lining tright thi. [ inaudible ] i know what they do on a daily basie, especially smile for something im doing, im thankful for what they do every day. A lot to live for in this world, lets face it, americas great. Jason pugh, news4 sports. Watch tomorrows redskins game against the ravens right here on nbc4. Carol maloney and jason pugh will have live coverage at 6 00. Kickoff at 7 30. A man in his birthday suit runs wild in a Convenience Store. And the cameras caught his every do you like the passaaadd . Its a good looking car. This is the model rear end event. The model year end sales event. Its year end its the rear end event. Year end, rear end, check it out. Talk about turbocharging my engine. Youre gorgeous. What kind of car do you like . New, or many miles on it . Get a 1000 volkswagen reward card on select 2015 passat models. Or lease a 2015 Passat Limited Edition for 189 a month after a 1000 bonus. A naked man apparently high on meth created a mess of things inside a Convenience Store in alabama. Surveillance cameras rolled as the guy ransacked start. Police say he used a fire extinguisher to bash his way in through its glass. Once inside, he started tossing things everywhere, including throwing electronics into a sinkful of water. Things were in disarray inside building a lot of damage done, also, pumps on the outside that had been turned on and gas was flowing everywhere. The guy eventually did surrender to police. He told them he was driving and felt hot and thirsty. And thats why he had gone inside store. Trouble brewing at dhs. Workers were buying starbucks on workers were buying starbucks on your taxp 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. Tea . Now 79. 99 a month. Go online or call now. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v new tonight from the news4 iteam, your tax dollars buying starbucks coffee. The iteam told you how employees with the u. S. Department of home lands security were swapping their taxpayerfunded credited cards for tense of thousands of dollars in starbucks drinks. Some of those cards have been stolen. The Us Department of home lands security protects the home lands, protects the country but they couldnt protect their own credit cards. It was last fall, the news4 iteam found some federal employees with the u. S. Department of home lands security made dozens of starbucks purchases with their governmentissued credit card. I have a short steamed soy milk. Reporter 30,000 worth of coffee in just one year, a bad use of taxpayer money, says form he were federal prosecutor and government auditor brian miller. You want wise and careful planning and you want things can done so that everyone benefits. Reporter turns out the coffee wasnt the only nipping brewing. So, too, was an internal investigation inside agency headquarters. Members of congress and Homeland Securitys Inspector General saw our story and investigated who was buying the coffee and why. Their findings, just released and they revealed a at least some of those purchases were inappropriate drinks bought for personal consumption. We shouldnt tolerate it. People running out and purchasing what they called personal purchases at starbucks with a federal purchase card, you know, thats unacceptable. Reporter the internal government investigation found those personal drink purchases were reimbursed but also showed at least some of the agencys credit card information was stolen, then used to buy starbucks coffee. Thats a trouble, especially at dhs. And that is troubling. Im not sure if it is rare, scott, but it is very troubling. Internal investigators 15i 5 of the purchases we reviewed and that they reviewed involved stolen cards and we asked the department of Homeland Security how often their cards or card information had been stolen and they declined to answer that information. This isnt the only place hit, so, too, the university of baltimore, hear, got hear, g hackers got of their cards and bought starbucks. We will see more water sold that soda according to industry track for beverage marketing. Bottled water sales in the u. S. Grew at a rate of 7 last year, puts it on track to outpace soda by 2017. This trend isnt bad news for coke and pepsi because they own dasani and aquafina respectively. Somebody vandalized a black lives matter sign outside a church less than 12 hours after it went up. You can see somebody spray painted the word white over the word black, in reno, nevada. The reverend says his congregation posted the sign to show solidarity with africanamericans who face race. He says the church will put up a new one during services this weekend. College card fees, its a costly controversy brewing between College Campuses and the department of education. The issue, the way students choose to access their if a. M. Aid refund money. Their Financial Aid refund money. Some are surprised to see charges on their accounts. At 6 00, why the u. S. Department of education is pushing for tougher standard and transparency and why some firms are not interested in new regulation. We hear from all sides as Many College Students are right now waiting for Financial Aid money to hit their accounts, tonight at 6 00. Montgomery countys annual backtoschool fair kicks off in rockville tomorrow morning. Students can get Health Screenings and immunization and parents can get questions anticipate e answered about what children will learned this year. That starts at 11 00 at the Carver Educational Services Center Tomorrow morning. Wow, we have had some remarkable air over our area over the last couple of days since tuesday. Our high temperatures have topped out in the low 80s, now get a little sticky and hot this weekend. You want to stay in the 80s, beach location is the way to go. Rehoboth, ocean city, even down toward virginia beach, i know some of you go that way, too, 82 to 84 degrees saturday and sunday, it is going to be a little sticky but i think perfect weather for the beach, just a few clouds around its area. Now, of course, it has been pleasant, a little sticky around here this weekend, uncomfortable next week, we see the temperatures go up into the low and mid90s for a couple of days with that higher humidity. You know, it even feels worse, called sweaty weather for next week. Any wet weather . There might be a faw little showers popping, the mountain, higher terrain, saturday and sunday. A better chance of rain i think will pop on monday, even then, a 30 chance, quo have a slight chance coming our way on thursday, that chance could actually, for thursday, be going up a little bit if we start to get some of the moisture, some of the leftovers from whatever erika does as it makes its way out of the southeast. A better chance may be coming our way the end of next week. 58 to 68 degrees, a nice start again to our day tomorrow. We will have a few clouds around the area, get into sunday morning, a few spot, patchy fog, 61, hagerstown, 66, manassas, 68 inside the bell way, 72, 73 from easton down toward cambridge. Some of the lower temperatures the high spots to the north and west. Check out future weather, i will show you where some of the showers and thunderstorms will start to pop, there you can see them, west of front royal and around harrisonburg, petersburg, too, then sunday, sunday morning, dealing with a partly sunny sky but more showers, maybe even a thunderstorm or two again sunday afternoon, far to the west, if you plan on doing any traveling locally, the roads are going to be dry, you will need your sunglasses, even on sunday. There is that isolated shower, you plan on heading west, if youre jumping on the plane and going somewhere, again, the spot to watch is florida. So just watch out for that. There might be some delays because of the rain and because of the wind. Workout forecast for tomorrow, saturday, hot and sticky, 82 by 11 a. M. , then 90 degrees at 2, 3 00. I know, after we have had zich lightful weather around here, boom, there goes the temperatures way up into the 80s, low 90s. Sticky for our weekend. Again, that[ nec mountain showe sunday, 90 to 92 degrees throughout our area, again, cooler spotteds will be right near the water for this upcoming weekend. Here we go with your sevenday forecast from a 30 chance of a shower on monday, a little chance, too, on thursday, but hot and sticky the next couple of days. That heat could break with more clouds coming in at the end of next week. Again, whatever erika decides to do, its movement, a lot more coming up on news4 at 6 00. Thanks, vj. A new look at a Massive Party that made headlines 30 years ago, a local miniwoodstock in potomac, maryland. News4 covered the aftermath. It turns out someone at the party had a camera. Mark segraves has a look at whats now called heavy metal picnic. We are having a good time here. Reporter it was 1985. It was called the full moon jam barry. Two days of concerts and fun on a farm just off river road in potomac, maryland. Thousands of people showed up. The end of an era. Reporter the group of teens who lived on the farm had all graduated from Wooten High School and had been having parties for some time but because of encroaching development, they knew this would be their last. We werent quite willing to sacrifice our freedom for someone elses idea of safety, so we got a bunch of bands together from all different general last. Reporter party outraged neighbors who called police but because the party was on private land, the police couldnt shut it down. Well, the partys over but it was on this past weekend, for about 34 hours straight. Reporter much of the party was captured on videotape, something very rare for 1985. A few years ago, a local filmmaker got his hands on that footage. So there was highquality professional footage of this wild party going on in potomac, maryland. Rock n roll Party Reporter the footage produced a documentary, heavy metal picnic. This nostalgic look back at a time period, you didnt have camera, nobody was documenting it. Reporter today, the old farm is now home to Million Dollar mansions with neighbors who have no idea what cues used to take plays this their own backyards 30 years ago. When was this . 1985. Reporter heavy metal picnic plays at the afi silver theater in silver springs. Mark segraves, news4. A gesture of goodwill today after that segway mishap involving champion sprinter u say bolt. The video of this went viral. The cameraman who accidently knocked the famous track star over right after his 200meter race victory gave bolt a bracelet as a token of his apology. Then the men shook hands inside world track and field venue in beijing. Bolt says he only had a few scrapes after that fall. That could have been awful. A loyal lil more bling after someone ran me over like that a bracelet is a civilized gesture. He already has a lot of bring. Thats true. Im Melissa Mollet with first four traffic, we have closures in d. C. , 295, crosses over nicholson street southeast, because of soiled testing, those closures starting today on friday and going to run until wednesday. They are kind of closing some lanes at a time. So whats happening friday through monday . We have the two right lanes closed on northbound 295, right over nicholson street southeast. Do expect some delays, have a bit more remotecontrolled drones are a danger to commercial planes but now causing problems on the football field. A lengthy encount they are week at the jersey shore caused referees to put a game on hold. Incomes Ted Greenberg has that story. All of a sudden, everybody starts saying, look. Reporter the interruption came from above. It came down closer and closer. Just teasing now. Reporter this remote controlled drone that repeatedly buzzed back and forth over the football field where Ocean City High School was hosting middle township for a scrimmage monday evening. There were times when it was very low, no more than ten feet above the players. Reporter forcing the refs to delay the game for about 20 minutes. As we were in a huddle, it started to come over top of us and everyone is like, get this thing off the field. Coaching for 20 years, definitely havent dealt with that one before. It raised concerns just about safety and also about legality. Reporter someone called 911, but the drone had flown off by the time police arrived. Unable to locate the operator of that drone. Circled over our heads, very low. Reporter ellie winter says she had a Close Encounter with a drone over the weekend on ocean citys fifth street beach. You really thought if something went wrong and it dropped, you would be injured and it was a little frightening. Reporter the faa strongly encourages recreational drone users not to the fly near people or stadiums or within five miles of an airport. Ocean cities is not nearly that far from the football field, but police say theres little they can do. These are only guidelines. We, as law enforcement, are waiting for the lawmakers to give us some Enforcement Powers to regulate the use of these drones. It just brings about a sense of, you know, just kind of uncomfortable as a result of not knowing what the situation really is. Reporter police tell me if something goes wrong, however, and somebody gets injured by a drone, then the operator will be held liable. In ocean city, new jersey, ted greenburg, news4. Now at 6 00, team coverage, the wake of a major metro derailment causes two resignation and an effort to combat the rising violence in d. C. We begin in virginia, the first case of its kind in the country and it involves a Gifted High School student from Prince William county. He is headed to federal prison for more than a decade for supporting isis. Bureau chief julie carey report there is are fears stiff sentence will prevent dproisd. Coming forward. Reporter this doesnt look like the face of a teen aimed terrorist but the time ali amin joined the fight with isis. Reporter this is the first time federal authorities