We havent had an issue like this before. Jeff you can see surprising in this neighborhood. If you know the area its by glebe. Investigators are out here and they expect to be here all day today. The officers recovering from the injuries, not life threatening. Good news. The elderly woman who lived in the apartment suffered minor injuries and we are told she has been speaking with investigators throughout the day. We expect the police will have an update in the next hour. We will bring you the information when we get it at 5 00. Until then. Live in arlington. Jeff goldberg. Abc7 news. Scott well check then. Thank you. A substitute teacher is under investigation in Prince Georges County after this video surfaced showing him hitting students with a belt. The incident taking place in brandywine. Maryland bureau chief brad bell has what were learning about the case. Brad the cell phone video is hard to see but it appears as though the man is holding a belt and swinging it against the kids. The sources are telling us the Prince Georges Police are investigating this case. The sources are telling us that charges are possible and they could be filed soon. This is cell phone video taken in the classroom at dwen park middle school. There is something going on with the young kids. Were told this is a sixth grade english class. The substitute teacher come over. You can see him swinging his belt. The young people some seem to be screaming out of fear or whatever emotion. Others are laughing. The teacher swinging the belt and saying settle down. We talk to parents and they say what they see is just plain wrong. The kids were unruly. However the substitute teacher went well up and beyond what he was supposed to do. There are other things he could have done. Well, that teacher, a substitute has been removed from the school. The letter was sent home with the parents saying he would no longer be in the building. We are expecting there will be developments regarding the police. We will bring you that news when its available. We will be back here at 5 00 with more. Back to you. Alison okay. Brad we will see you then. Thank you. We want to get to the weather now because a change in the temperature is coming. Scott chief meteorologist doug hill tracking the changes from the weather center. Doug . Doug we see the changes. Its warm today but it will be a while before we get temperatures at this level. Yesterday, we had showers and thunderstorms popping up. Lets look now at the live camera in annapolis. No popup there. Just a few clouds. Warm and sunny. 86 degrees. Little shower has been developing over the Northern Virginia westmoreland county. It will drift eastward to maryland. That is the only thing weather wise at the moment. We see big numbers. 90 at blue ray. And 87 at Reagan National airport. The cold front across the mountains to the west. That will move in. The temperatures will drop in the 70s. It will be partly sunny and warm. Later this evening, relief from the heat as we drop from 63 to 53. Oil will be a clearing trend less humid conditions. Nice breeze. It will be cool for a while. Well let you know if it will warm up for memorial day weekend. Alison okay. See you then. Thank you. Prince georges county police say a woman found dead inside a burning apartment was killed before a fire was set. Neighbors called 911 sunday morning to report smoke in an apartment on audry lane. Firefighters put out that fire. They found the body of 21yearold cherry. The investigators later determined it was intentionally set and cherry died from trauma to her body before the fire. So far no suspects. Anyone with information on the case is asked to call police. Scott one of the kun doctors aboard the train that derailed in philadelphia last week is now suing amtrak. Fonseca filed the lawsuit monday in a new jersey state court. The lawyers say fonseca suffered head trauma and multiple broken bones in the derailment. The conductor complaint alleges negligence in the operation of the train. He suffered serious and lifethreatening injuries. The good news in this case amtrak publicly acknowledged responsibility with the accident. And we fully expect them to take full responsibility through the course of this litigation. Scott eight people were killed. More than 200 hurt when the train derailed. Theyre still trying to figure out what caused the accident. Alison 7 on your side with alert for drivers. Tacata, the air bag maker is expanding the recall of equipment in millions of vehicles. Horace holmes has the details on this. Horace the announcement was made this afternoon by the national highway transportation. Its the largest by the admission. They are declaring 34 million are defective. That is twice the number of air bags in the u. S. In a previous recall. The megamism in the bag can explode when hit with too much force. It can send particles to the department. This involves many part suppliers, not just tacata to double the amount of vehicles built in the United States every year. They are resportedly responsible for six deaths and hundreds of injuries worldwide. Reporting live in the news room, Horace Holmes abc7 news. Alison thank you for the update. A few hours ago the owner of the new England Patriots weighed in on the teams punishment for deflating footballs. Scott sports director tim brant joining us with what robert kraft said about this. Tim this is interesting because he was the guy talking in the last few days. He is close with the commissioner Roger Goodell. They met face to face saturday at birthday party. Kraft said champ at the owners meetings that he respects the commissioner and will not appeal the penalties. He did say it has been an emotionally charged couple of weeks. He said he doesnt agree but he will pay the 1 million fine and agree to lose the draft picks out of respect for the commissioner and the partnership he has with the 32 teams in the league. Kraft says he wants to stop the rhetoric. He will stand down. Mr. Kraft i dont want to continue the rhetoric that has gone on for the last four months. I am going to accept reluctancely what he has reluctantly what he has given to us and not continue the dialogue and rhetoric. We wont appeal. Tim robert kraft never mentioned the punishment to tom brady or his appeal. The speculation is kraft may have made a deal with Roger Goodell about a lighter punishment for tom brady. We dont know that. The nfl p. A. Put out a statement that afternoon after kraft met with the media saying they will go ahead with the appeal on behalf of tom brady. So its not over yet but it is interesting. After speaking like he did and then to come back and say i wont fight it, surprising. Alison it is. See you in a little bit. Scott a heads up for anyone planning to hit the road for the memorial day weekend. You might be surprised when traffic is expected to reach the worst point. Alison new information on the guy charged with firing at George Zimmerman. The disturbing details revealed in a police alison this just in from baltimore where state attorney Wolfgang Amadeus mozart is pushing back from state attorney Marilyn Mosby is firing back to remove her from a case. She says it bounces from one ridiculous accusation to another like a pinball on a machine far past tilt. Attorney for six officers in freddie grays death say mosby has conflict of interest. Among them her husband is a city councilman and she received Campaign Donations from a gray family attorney. Scott the formal sentencing hearing for bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He will hear from about 20 victims before formally sensing tsarnaev to death in june. Last week the jury decided Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should get the Death Penalty for the 2013 attack that killed three people and injured ever 0 others. Texas 260 others. Texas police say a deadly shootout beganning with a parking dispute and someone running over a gang members foot. Sundays violence left nine people dead. 170 people have been charged. They are expressing concern that it could lead to retaliation and more violence. Alison police in florida say the man charged with shooting zimmerman last week has a history of mental illness. He says mathew was fixated on George Zimmerman who was acquitted of the shooting of Trayvon Martin a few years ago. He says he shot at zimmermans window last week and zimmerman suffered minor injuries. Scott we have a consumer alert for those who donated to certain cancer charities. Alison today, 50 states plus the District Of Columbia made history together jointly going after what they call for sham cancer charities. Scott consumer investigator kimberly suiters is live from the 7 on your Side Help Center to explain the charges. Kimberly this is amazing. Consumers in maryland and virginia and d. C. And across the country fell for what they call sham cancer charities. Bilking consumers out of 187 million. At a press conference in washington today, the f. T. C. Said four groups falsely protrayed themselves as legitimate charities promising to provide hos pill support, medical supplies and pain medication to women and children battling cancer. Instead, they charge that the defendants spent most of the donated money on themselves and their friends. They spent consumer donation or cars, vacations, cruises, college tuition, gym memberships, jet ski outing. Sporting events and concert ticketing and dating site memberships among other things. Kimberly the round reyesers received 85 of every donation. Millions of dollars intended for Cancer Patients never reached the patient. We called all the organizations in the complaint. The number for Breast Cancer for society was not in service. The children of america went to answering machine and said it was closed. At the cancer fund of america affiliate of Cancer Support services told me no comment but thank you. This still has to go to court. In the meantime, the f. T. C. Banned the four groups from doing any charity work and dissolved two of them. The reason why we are here in the 7 on your Side Help Center is the entire team will be hear in this area for you this afternoon. Right now though we are answering your questions on twitter. We want you to go to abc7 news. Send us your tips, story ideas or your concerns and 7onyourside. You never know if your story or your personal experience could be something that could worn another consumer. We look into every tip we get. Investigate it further. If its warranted. Then we try to help you and also anyone else who needs to be warned. That is coming up tonight. Tweet us the ideas and the tips. At 5 00 we will open the phone bank. Every member of 7 on your side team will be here. Call 7032369220 at 5 00. We will answer the quals until 6 30. You know 7 is always on your side. We are gathering everyone together in the same plait at 5 00. Back to you in the studio. Alison we seal see you then. We are getting closer to the memorial day weekend. Plenty of traffic on the road. A new analysis found holiday traffic is expected to reach its worst point at thursday afternoon. The common perception is friday before the weekend is the worst time to travel. This is based on five years of information from drivers coming their g. P. S. Devices. By the way make sure you sign up for text alert about the traffic, weather and breaking news. Go to wjla. Com text and enter your cell phone number right there. Scott speaking of traffic. It will be a busy one. Check in with jamie sullivan. She has details. Jamie always busy at this time in the afternoon. Take a look. Here is a good idea of what you are getting into. Getting ready to leave right now. 7 lost road on the inner and the outer loop of the beltway. We are slow. We look at the congestion. The slowing for you right now heading outbound on 66 will take you 20 minutes to get to the beltway. Some of the slow traffic for you. What we just saw near 7 lost road you continue on the brakes on the inner loop of the beltway to get closer to 95 in maryland. I want to focus on what you will see that you are not used to. On the Memorial Bridge we have a lane blocked off. The merge lane. It is midspan. Then you merge to the lefthand side. As we look at the area now. We are not seeing anything downtown. Nothing going on to cause delays. Minor fender bender on the city streets. Thats a look at traffic. Back to you. Okay. Alison thank you very much. Doug is here now to talk about the weather. We had nasty storms last night when we finished the news. Doug i thought yesterday afternoon by the time you hit sunset they would settle down. Not so much. Today, not much out there at all. The cold front approaches. You will like what is coming up. Time lapse from the weather bug camera in arlington. At the country club. This morning, a light of left over lowlevel moisture and cloudiness. It brightened up and started to warm up as well. 86 in arlington. Delightful afternoon. Cold front is getting closer to the area. 84 in frederick and gaithersburg. Still warm in the valley. 86 in winchester. 85 in martinsburg. Once the front passes it will be cooler and the drier air. We have a drop in the numbers by tomorrow morning. The front, itself its not a lot of action with it. What action there is is in the outerbacks of the North Carolina coast. We are getting off with isolated showers here and there. The front will move through and the winds kick northwest. That is how you know it passed the area. We have a process of the temperatures dropping. Thursday we have area to push the shower northward through the area through the afternoon hours. We will clear out in the Holiday Weekend. Tomorrow is breezy and sunny. 75 degrees. Thursday we have a disturbance to the south. We only give it 30 of showers now. Weekend will continue. Sunshine and 75 on saturday. Monday, Big Questions is temperatures. Upper 80s to close out the Holiday Weekend. Alison not bad. Still to come on abc7 news at 4 00 i was just at the right place at the right time. Alison we hear from the man who is called a real life superhero for his actions in a fiery crash. We explain how the clothes he was wearing made the rescue memorable. Scott three contestants is left but only one will win season 20 of dancing with the stars. We take you live for a preview of the big event you will see on alison tonight a new champion will be crowned on the season 20 finale of dancing with the stars. Scott it is down to the final three. We have army veteran noah, singer lynch and actor rumor willis. Alison so brandi is live with a preview of the big night ahead. Hi. Hi. The final rehearsal are underway. This is really exciting. This is when the nerves kick in. We only have a few hours left. One more makeorbreak dance for the stars to perform tonight. After ten weeks of dancing it comes down to this. Celebrities whittle down to three on season 20 of dancing with the stars. Monday night, singer lunch got a perfect score. And actress rumor willis. The famous parents cheered in the crowd. Its an amazing feeling. I cant describe it. Then came freestyle performances. The uptempo twist on old hollywood resulted in the second perfect score. Perfection also for rumor as she lit up the dance floor. But it was noah as a double amputee that brought the audience to tears. You sere so beautiful scoring all ten from the judges. The journey of being on the show has been incredible. What a beautiful dance that was. Tonights score will be added to last nights results. But when you factor in all the fan votes from overnight, one of the stars will take home the coveted trophy. Reporting live in los angeles. Alison it should be a lot of fun. Thank you very much. Scott thank you. We are giving you now the chance to check out dancing with the stars live. When it comes to the warner theater in d. C. On june 15. One lucky abc7 fan will meet the stars an win four tickets. Just watch good morning washington for two days to look for the dancing clue. We will announce a winner thursday morning. You can get more information on the facebook page. Still ahead at 4 00 the warm weather of course means more trips to the pool and the beach. But we have a warning before you purchase a new swimsuit. What you need to look out for in the store. If virginia picks up the tab for widening i66 outside the beltway it could pay off bigtime for taxpayers. Im Stephen Tschida. I will tell lets say this is your tv. And these are the channels you pay for with cable. Maybe youre getting tons of science and animals when youre really into movies. Or every childrens show on the planet, when you dont have any kids. Well now with fios theres a new way to customize your tv just pick the types of channels you like best. Like sports. Or entertainment or news mix and match, or get them all. You build your tv package, andnd pay for what you want, and not for what you dont. Now fios brings you a totally new way to customize your tv. Starting at 74. 99 per month with no annual contract. Get custom tv, including internet and phone. Price guaranteed for two years. Or get 300 back and free dvr service for 1 year, with a 2 year agreement. Hurry, offer ends june 8th. Go to getfios. Com to start customizing today. Cable just gives you channels. Fios gives you choice. Call the Verizon Center for customers with disabilities at 800. 974. 6006 tty v alison in recent moths we have told you about plans to widen i66. Leaders are trying to figure out how to pay for it. Scott Stephen Tschida explains all the options. Stephen there is a proposal to widen i66 outside the beltway for 25 miles. It is expected to cost more than 2 billion. But today virginia transportation secretary said if the state covers the cost it could pay off down the road. Some 500 million in the next few decades because the state would recoup the cost from tolls and the express lanes. Something virginia drivers think makes sense. Its better. That took forever. Stephen virginia transportation secretary says the state should finalize how much to pay for widening i66 this summer. Alison now a Traffic Alert<