While. It would be 7 00 or 8 00 tonight. We are monitoring the Development Story and well have much more details and keeping tabs on the situation at 5 00. Until then, live in arlington, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Jonathan thank you. Abc7 and Jeff Goldberg first to break the story on twitter and online. For the latest updates as they happen go to wjla. Com and search olivera. Michelle metros Top Executive grilled on the hill today. Paul wiedefeld answering questions about the controversial shutdown. Jonathan he made the decision last month to take all the trains out of service for one full day. Emergency inspections finding frayed cables underground. Some of the tissues so bad that if they knew about it earlier the trains would have been halted a lot sooner. Brianne carter has wiedefelds explanation. He took the hot seat for sure. Brianne well, the hearing is still ongoing here on capitol hill. Just beyond these doors. That hearing again he said continuing this a meeting with the houe earlier today the general manager met with senators from the region managers as well. This comes after the shut down on march 16. That has been a large focus of the controversy today. The general manager said he never wanted to shut the system down but knew after the answers he was getting to many questions about what had been done there with the cables and the trap he had no other option. Saying they inspect all the tracks after the cable fire that happened last month at mcpherson square. Today there has been questions about the management and the monday. Hearing underway here on capitol hill now. One of the questions raised is the management of the money. In the last half hour, Board Chairman jack evans telling the government they need to contribute to the operating budget. Asking the fe 300 million to help metro move forward to get back on track as he says. Well, then, we heard from members of this committee. Saying they dont plan to bail out metro. They have the money available. They have incompetence. You are the new kid on the block and we are counting on you. But i want people fired and something done. You got the Communication System underway. You have to resolve the arcing. It causes smoke and people die. Brianne the congressman talking about the new kid on the block he is talking about Paul Wiedefeld. Both senators and the house representatives today touting the leadership and success moving this forward. We expect the general manager will lay out a new plan in how to deal with the maintenance weeks. He says they dont have enough time on weekends and in the middle of the day to get all the maintenance that needs to be done. This comes a year after what happened there, the deadly smoke incident at lenfant. We know that the ntsb had been investigating that. We have much more on tuesday surrounding that report at 5 00. Jonathan the metro train system has not rung a total of three days this year. Other than the Safety Inspection day they took them offline for a day. You might recall in the blizzard of 2016 in january, all service had to be shut off. Metro leaders saying at the time even running the underground would have have limited the crews to remove snow and ice around the clock which was the priority. Michelle almost 40,000 verizon workers hit the picket line to work for months without a contract. For them enough is enough. They are even marching in our area. Kellye lynn is in falls church. It has been like that all long. Do you know how long they will be out there . Kellye that is a good question. I posed that question to a local leader of the group and she tells me in the past the strikes have taken three to four weeks. The workers are planning to stay out here as long as it takes. They have been here since 6 00 a. M. This morning. Installers, repairmen. Customer service workers. Construction workers. At issue is healthcare. Fair wages. Keeping jobs from going overseas. As well as being forced to travel outside of the area. Verizon is trying to work with the Union Leadership. It has been trying to do so to come one a fair contract. These workers havent had a contact since august. Verizon says the Union Leaders have not been willing to negotiate in good faith. As for talk about offshoring jobs and cutting jo says that it is absolute nonsense. If you have verizon service, you might be wondering how you possibly could be affected by the strike that is happening right now. Verizon assures you that the service will not be affected. They have hired nonunion workers to take over while they are striking and the quality should continue to be good. The employers are working to work as long as necessary. Kellye lynn, abc7 news. Michelle this is the new york city. Thousand of nonunion workers have been trained to ever coit during the strike. The workers on strike service the traditional phone business. Jonathan 17yearold has been indicted on firstdegree murder charges in the death o an alexandria man. Petilla is charged in fuhrman. Another man and woman are charged in the face. They are all members of a gang. Michelle three days before the 11 Year Anniversary of Virginia Tech massacre, virginia Terry Mcauliffe makes an announcement to honor the victim and declared april 11 Virginia TechRemembrance Day in the commonwealth. He encourages those who want to get involved to donate blood in the 2016 day of remembrance brood drive this friday. 25 states are urging an Appeals Court to uphold ruling on war memorial in prince georges county. The state filed a friend of the court brief in the case which challenges the constitutionality of the socalled Bladensburg Cross that honors 49 men who died in world war i and stands in a bladensburg. Atheist group filed a lawsuit in 2014 to claim the memorial is unconstitutional. In the brief, they say it could set a precedent for the other memorials including ones at Arlington National cemetery. Jonathan now to the war on terror. Police took a frenchman in custody in spain that they believe supplied weapons for the january 2015 attacks that started at the Charlie Hebdo building. He was arrested at a spanish coastal town on arrest warrant. All the suspect left france weeks after the attacks where he is accused of having continued to do illegal activities. The f. B. I. Couldnt get an to break in a terrorist iphone so they used a hacker to get the job done. They paid professional hackers a onetime phone of the San Bernardino terrorists. They purchased a tool from the hackers that manipulated a previously unknown software flaw. Michelle in maryland the man accused of opening fire outside the Police Headquarters was in court with the two brothers. They are accused of recording the shooting that resulted in friendly fire that took officer jacai colsons life. Brad bell has a look at the glimpse in their plan. bama we are in front of the district three headquarters. The black bunting is still up. It will come down today. Today is the last day of the mourning period. We learned two big things in court today. One its alleged that the man who opened fire wanted video of his death taken on a cell phone by his he wanted the video of his death by police he thought sent to world star hip hop. We know the name of the Police Officer that accidentally took the life of jacai colson. The three ford brothers appeared in court in prison jump suits. Shackles and cuffs. The sister and aunt bursting into tears. Very emotional to see all three of them. I love them and i miss them. Brad at issue whether all can be held on the Second Degree murder charges for the march 13 attack on district iii. Michael ford allegedly opening fire while elijah and malik watch and record on video. A burst of violence which ended with the death of officer jacai colson from friendly fire. The judge agreeing with the states attorney that yes, there is probable cause. If you accompany a person and assist and participate in a crime you can be charged with the result of that brad almost overshadowing the ruling in court for the first time Police OfficerTaylor Krouse identified as the officer who fired the fatal shot at detective colson. The police chief Hank Stawinski confirming what they have known. In the shooting krauss thought colson was a bad guy. He per seed him as a threat. He tried to mitigate the threat. Stawinski saying he is unwaiverring in the belief that the fault lies entirely with the ford brothers. A double tragedy. We lost a Police Officer but we lost one in friendly fire incident precipitated by something completely senseless. Brad now when we come back at 5 00, we will have much more on this, more about officer Taylor Krauss a highly decorated Police Officer. A little more about how he is coping with this tragedy. That is coming up at 5 00. Abc7 news. Jonathan coming up on abc7 news at 4 00 missing a deadline. Michelle the future of the Memorial Bridge in doubt. Clap with us. Michelle well, the voice of dora the explorer character is now under investigation. What she is accused of doing. Jonathan the Severe Weather in texas. Softball size hail and Mother Nature across the heartland. Doug tonight another frost advisory. We tell you which areas should be concerned on abc7 news at 4 00. In annapolis, she battled republicans joseline penamelnyk for congress. Yes and the nra to pass the toughest gun safety legislation in the country. Ill take on the tough fights to expand Social Security and keep the doors open to planned parenthood. My mom is so tough shes willing to fight anyone whos going to pay him more than us for doing the same job. Im joseline penamelnyk, and i approve this message. Jonathan she is an icon of entertainment for children. Dora the explorer. Michelle the voice behind the character is involved in a lawsuit. Alison starling is here with the controversy surrounding this voiceover person. Alison that is right. Hi, good afternoon. This started basically as a high school feud. The 15yearold girl who is behind dora the explorer was suspended from school. Another girl was booted. This from a prominent new york school. Clap with us alison dora the explorer has long been synonymous with the adorable animated girl teaching children spanish on the hit nickelodeon show. The voice behind dora is reportedly named in a lawsuit filed in manhattan civil court. The a. P. Reports the case brought by nadia niaeli and sundaywald the voice of the recent edition of dora Fatima Ptacek encouraged their 14yearold daughter to join her in using a vaping pen to inhale care caramel flavored water. When it was found out the voice of dora was suspended but the daughter of the couple filing the lawsuit was expelled. The family of ptacek have n school told Good Morning America they have high standards and they follow a fair process when there are infractions. We know students make mistakes but we expect them to take accountability for them. The attorney for the couple that brought the suit says what their clients want most is for their daughter to return to school. I was discriminated against because im not a celebrity is a very difficult legal argument to make. Alison nickelodeon says fatima is a terrific young lady and hope it will be reed a private resolved a a private matter. Jonathan the Memorial Bridge needs money for repairs but the National Park service is about to miss an opportunity to request funding. They need a lot of money. Park service is responsial for the bridges upkeep. It says it might have to shut it down for good in a few years if it cannot cobble together the money to repair the crumbling bridge. The funding is thursday night. It could cause traffic nightmares. That is a good cue to get to Jamie Sullivan to see how the roads are working. Jamie not so much of a night mare but a bad dream. You have buncher to bumper traffic on beltway. That is the inner loop as well as the outer loop. But it is heavy traveling on inner loop due to an accident past this point. This is right at georgia avenue. Move to the waze map. I want to show you where the wazers are reporting this activity. Right near georgia avenue. They are saying it is an accident. We have multiple people reporting this. So lets talk the backup. If you are traveling on the inner loop passing by connecticut avenue, getting closer to georgia. That backup already starting near 270. Now the thing is it mixes in with the normal congestion. So, of course, we have the traffic. Some spots right now in the teens. Lets move to the maps and focus in on what we are seeing as far as the big picture goes. Not bad at all on the b really the top side. In virginia outbound 395 the volume is 16 miles per hour. Reminder that overnight tonight there will be a closure, the duke street ramp to access 395 northbound will be closed. Seminary road is what you want to use. Everything will be wrapped up in time for the morning commute. Michelle thank you. When the storms clear and the sun came out this morning the damage became clear. A trail of damage across part of san antonio. Hails the size of baseball coming down at times. Meteorologist josh knight shows us the damage. Josh hundreds if not somehows of windows were damaged in the storm. This car is one of Mother Natures victims at the Grocery Store where some customers inside got wet. Water pouring in to the supermarket northwest of san antonio last night. Jesse mendez shot the video inside the store. Pretty chaotic. Just a mess. People running around everywhere in th but employees not telling us more than that. Jesse says the hail destroyed some of the skylights and broken glass. Damage all over the parking lot. J his s. U. V. Barely drivable. He got home and realized the hail beat up his home. Two windows, garage door. J a few doors down, tim watson is patching up his own problems. Like many of the neighbors all of his second floor windows have to be replaced. The hail came in and tore the screens up. Its amazing. Josh dozen of homeowners caught by surprise now dealing with the aftermath. Trying to enjoy the storm like i normally would and well, here is what we got. Cars totaled. House banged up pretty bad. Good old Mother Nature in south texas. Josh josh knight, abc7 news. Jonathan that is a lot of damage. You dont usually see it like that. That is really blowing it through. Michelle baseball size. Tough to around. Doug it takes an amount of updraft, air rushing upward and a tremendous amount of energy and upward moving air. Fortunately we just never get that kind of pattern in the midlevel of the atmosphere here. Two days in a row they have had that. Fortunately its moved east and dissipated a bit right now. Here we are enjoying dale after day of sunshine. If you can deal with it. Now the complaints are okay, thanks for the sun but where is the warm weather. Jonathan really . Doug greedy people Jonathan Fine tuning. Doug looking live at the capitol wheel. Sunshine all over the place. The winds are light. Its cool. This time of the month of april should be 66. We are lagging behind. But this is just fine out there. The clear skies will continue tonight. Check out the area temperatures. Not a lot of warm spots at all. 59 will show up in fredericksburg. Charlottesville. 55 in baltimore. 57 in the nations capital. Another great night for baseball. The nationals are hot even in the cool weather. Skies will be clear. Temperature at first pitch is 55 degrees at the park. We will stay clear. So you are headed to the park tonight. A jacket. Chill in the air as well. There is patchy frost from sunrise. Frost advisory from upper montgomery, loudoun, northern fauquier and the rest to the blue ridge and the valleys. That is what we have tonight. I could happen again tomorrow night. Low 30s in the western zone. Mid30s closer to the city. Not much in the way of features. High clouds coming by. Under the control of a huge area of high pressure. A couple more cool days with winds from the east and friday. Lower 60s will take it. Get in the weekend and it looks fine. Close to 66 on saturday. Close to 70 on sunday. 77 on monday. Pleasant next week. Cool but clear for the National Cherry blossom festival parade saturday morning downtown of which abc7 is a proud sponsor. Jonathan we will be out there. It will be fun, too. Doug good time. Michelle nice stretch. Thank you. Jonathan let you know with the snow and the blizzard we had the d. C. Schools are going to announce the school year by one day to make up for all the snow days. You knew it was coming. This means the d. C. Last day of school will be june 17. Put it on the calendar. Doug not bad. Jonathan coming up for us i know that it is stacked against me by the establishment. Jonathan there complaints about the delegate count. Not just donald trump. Its something we are seeing from both sides. Well get a view of the race from two candidates who recently suspended their white house bids. Michelle but first, no complaints about this count. The crab count in the chesapeake. What is bein fthe nra and its Campaign Cash are what stands between us and gun reform. Every time i think about those kids. It gets me mad Chris Van Hollen met with nra lobbyists to craft a loophole that would let the nra skirt a new Campaign Finance law and block gun control. But democrat Donna Edwards said no to the nra loophole and stood up t