The only exception being public notification could hamper the ongoing investigation. Also new today we just obtained charging documents from Montgomery County showing the alleged red line rapist 39yearold john hicks was seen masturbating inside of a moving red line train car ten days before the rape. That occurred around 9 00 p. M. On saturday april 2 near the Medical Center station. At least one victim used their cell phone to record hicks touching himself. By april 6 of, Metro Transit Administration identified hicks as the suspect but the officers did not immediately arrest him. Keeping him on the street. April 12 hicks allegedly raped the woman inside the red line train car as it traveled between forest glen and the glenmont stations. Only then did they go to hicks northeast home and take him to jail. Since we broke the story metro rider blasted wmata not putting out an of release about either of hicks alleged crime. Today general manager Paul Wiedefeld answered tough questions from reporters. A terrible crime. The person was arrested. We are not hiding it. We put it out. I will take a look at it. Again, from my perspective it was no threat to the community because we got to the person. Kess at 5 00, ill te you why wmata says Transit Police did not arrest hicks after the masturbation incident. We will also share criticism from a local Congress World cup. Im kevin lewis congresswoman. Im kevin lewis, abc7 news. Michelle on the green line a man pistol whip and robbed going to work. He reached out to abc7 to make sure the story was told. Specifically he is concerned about crime happening on metro. Sam ford has the interview you will only see on abc7. Sam washington man said he got on the green line here at the branch avenue station at 9 00 last night. He was headed to work. He said he got on a train car that was empty and followed by several young men. No sooner than the train left the station they were on him. One had a pistol. Ran up on me and hit me with the pistol. Let me get the shoes. He took my shoes. Then his friend come up to you. If you have a friend in your face, you will try to move it. He said, if you do it again i will shoot you. The dude with the pistol hit me and didnt stop hitting me. Sam he was injure and he has staples in his deadlocks. They took a number of options from him from his backpack to the iphone and the shoes. We have more coming up on abc7 news at 6 00. Michelle all right. Thank you. 7 on your side fighting back against crime by letting you know where it is happening. Check out the spot crime map tab. At wjla. Com. You can enter your address to see what is going on in your neighborhood. Fairfax county leaders outlined their relief plan today to help residents get around in the metro safe track repairs. June 4, the orange, blue and the silver line will singletrack between falls church and ballton. There will be extra buses on the street. They are encouraging commuter lots. Communication, communication, communication. Providing people with information about transportation alternative that people may want to consider. Michelle v. R. E. Is also working to add more rides but it is limited by the railroad administration. Jonathan another big story we are following this afternoon comes from pennsylvania. That is where Comedian Bill Cosby will have to stand trial in the sex assault case. Career. Cosby is now 78 years old. He could be facing up to ten years in prison if convicted. The comedian maintained his sexual encounters were consensual. He is free on bail since the december 30 arrest. Now to an annual tradition that never gets old. These guys are amazing pilots. Flying 18 inches from wing tip to wing tip. The blue angels performing for graduation week at the Naval Academy. Some say today which is practice day is just as good if not better than the show that is coming tomorrow. They were buzzing annapolis on a perfect day today. Maryland bureau chief brad bell joining us live from annapolis. This is quite the assignment. Going out to watch the angels practice. I could think of worse things to do. Brad you know what . Its always been an interesting job. It keeps me coming back. Isnt it great to talk about something fun like this on a Beautiful Day . We are at the scenic overlook at the world war ii memorial outside of an entire area back here was covered with lawn chairs. Happy people. All looking into the sky to see the blue angels. Take a look at the video. We can show you this as well. Another great Vantage Point we have with news chopper 7. Not too far away. Had the cameras trained on the show. Absolute spectacle. I have to admit im a real blue angels geek. Ten years ago i was lucky enough to be offered a ride in blue angels 7. That is the one plane with two seats. It doesnt perform in the sixplane show. It knocked me unconscious twice because of the gforces. So i have tremendous respect for what the pilots do as they perform these maneuvers over whatever show they are. But this is really a special one because its not an airport. This is a beautiful backdrop here. They are in town as you said for commissioning week. Graduation week at the Naval Academy. They will do a flyover when they do the Graduation Ceremony on friday. For the new grads. The Naval Academy family. Today, rehearsal day is the local secret. They were flying at 11 00 until 3 00 with the quick break to refuel over at Andrews Air Force base. So, again, tomorrow, 2 00. They will be in the air again. If you want to come over and see them, this down here is a great Vantage Point. Take route 50 east. Come south on 2. Until the police tell you to stop. They will let you park along the side of the road. Beautiful Vantage Point. We are looking forward to another Beautiful Day tomorrow. In annapolis, brad bell, abc7 news. Jonathan before we let you go. I got to ride them as well. They didnt knock me out but they turned me as green as the grass behind you. When they come flying over water how low are they when they come across from your Vantage Point when you turn around there . Brad that is a little bit of an optical illusion from the ground. That is the route 2 bridge. Call the Naval Academy bridge it looks like. They make one or two passes where they really dip down to try to startle the crowd. They are a couple hundred feet up off the deck. Jonathan brad bell, have a Beautiful Day. Appreciate it. Thanks. Michelle finally coming to twitter to make it easier to tweet. They are stretching the 140 character limit. Well, to the limit. User names, image links those wont count. Its just the actual text of the tweet. That is one of a few changes on the way. Like including a way for other users to see ones private replies by letting your retweet, letting you retweet your own comments. We want to let you know how you feel about the changes . That is the subject of our, of course, twitter poll. So far by a 2 1 margin the twitter users are ready for the update. Keep voting and let us know why you like or dislike the change. Jonathan still ahead at 4 00, shakeup at t. S. A. Who is in and who is out . What is in the works to cut down on the huge wait line . Glory lifetime. Michelle its finally here. A look at ahead at tonights dancing with the stars finale. Doug sunshine. Temperatures in the 80s. Its beautiful heading toward the weekend for memorial day. What will the weather be like . We have it in the forecast. Still to come at abc7 news at 4 00. Jonathan hours away from the dancing with the stars finale on abc7. Alison this the closest race in history of the ballroom. Anyone can win. Michelle this is the subject of the instapoll tonight. Who do you think will win . Jonathan i have my favorite. Go to paul wjla. Com votenow. Alison lets go l. A. Lauren lister is live in los angeles tonight. Hey, what do you think . A lot of excitement there . A lot of excitement. Right here at dancing with the stars. Behind me in the studio rehearsals are underway. We are not allowed in. But the three celebrity finalists getting ready for last performances before a season 22 winner is after nine weeks of dancing while celebrities shimmied their way up, down, off the leaderboard, now down to the final three. America top model winner and deaf contestant. I love your fearlessness. U. F. C. Fighter paige van sant. And giner zee. In the twopart finale a redemption dance to remedy the past mishap and the freestyle number. Ginger bouncing back from more than the injury. From week three when you did the dance is amazing. Evoking fred astaire and generalger rogers ginger rogers. But impressing the judges with an edgy contemporary piece. In 22 seasons that is the best dance i have ever seen. Van sant dancing a salsa. Her partner had to sit out originally. Nailing ten in the second round. Next one more night of performing to determine who takes home the coveted trophy. They have to have 24 hours to rehearse the final dances of the competition. In the end its a combination of the judges and the fan vote that will determine the winner. Jonathan, michelle, alison . Alison two questions. What else can we expect tonight . Secondly, we want to know who you think will win . So tonight they do have an exciting show planned. There will be performances from big stars including it pitbull. He was rehearsing ea the season. They will have a reunion for the opening number where we will see all the contestants dancing together. Since abcs ginger zee in the competition so ill just say i have been super impressed with all three finalists and i think it will be a great show. Alison okay. Diplomatic. Jonathan you can get a job in d. C. With an answer like that. Thanks. Have you been watching . Michelle i like niles. Jonathan that is amazing. I have been watching and im kind of watching paige is amazing. She came from a background of being bullied and m. M. A. And a gymist and now she is gymnast and now she is dancing. Alison ginger just had a baby a few months ago. Michelle impressive. Jonathan all three of them. Alison as you know tonights final is huge. We want to know who you think will win in the subje instapoll. Go to wjla. Com vote. Let us know what you think. Michelle nial is leading. Prime time starts with jonathan time now for check of the traffic situation. Jamie, who do you like . Jamie im with michelle. Nial all the way. I felt that strongly about it after last nights performance. Really did a great job. Lets start with the slow traffic on inner loop of the capital beltway. There is urlly a volume. There is a crash at Silver Spring at colesville road which is down to 10 miles per hour. If you are traveling in d. C. , its typical slowing. I want to mention tomorrow. We check in with the wazers and they have done research for us. We are talking best and the worst dates totrap leading up to memorial day. The best day is sunday. Tomorrow, wednesday, that is the worst a. M. And 9 00 a. M. Then again from 4 00 p. M. Till 6 00 p. M. So again, tomorrow is going to be a rough ride for us. Especially if you are going to be traveling. Just trying to get to work. We have a lot of the holiday traffic. This is 270 heading northbound. Pretty typical as far as the volume outbound. No crashes here to report. That is a look at traffic. Back to you. Michelle thank you. Time now for eagle cam check. Freedom and liberty at the National Arboretum on the beautiful afternoon. Enjoying the sunshine. They could leave the nest any day now. We have seen them flapping their wings, getting air and venturing out on the free limbs there. Keep a close eye for when it happens. A nice day for flying. You everybodys best friend. Doug this has been a long slog of lousy weather. Well take it. We will update you on the possibility that we told you yesterday as we get through sunday and monday and the memorial day weekend the weather could downhill. That is a possibility. Start off with a pretty picture, live view from the boardwalk in second street. Ocean city, maryland. 77 degrees. Comfortable. A lot of sunshine. High clouds to the east. Beautiful weather. The beach is empty here late in the afternoon. That is all going to change in the next couple of days as we get ready to begin what is historically known as the unofficial start of the Summer Season on memorial day. As far as the numbers around the area. We start with a pollen count. High range of the free pollen today. High level of mold spores. Grasses in the low category. We are not present in the count today. This is a huge change from the recent weeks and the months. The first time this month we hit 80 month of may we waited until we hit 80. We got it. Put three on top of it. 83 at Reagan National. 81 in fredericksburg. 813 in 83 at culpeper. 79 in annapolis. Weather tonight. First pitch is 7 09. Its perfect ballpark weather. Temperature is 80 degrees when the first pitch goes. As far as the features were watching here. A big area of High Pressure spread out along the appalachians. I will in the next 48 hours drift to the east and southeast. The wind direction which is out of the southwest now goes offshore. That is all going to change. The winds. Watch the wind balance here. You will see how it changes. We will get a southerly component in the day late tomorrow and thursday. Tomorrow, nothing but sunshine. Dry weather. Warm temperatures. Thursday the heat and the humidity will combine on us to feel humid and feel like summertime. Late afternoon and the evening, scattered showers and thunderstorms, possibility around the area. Computer models are not all in agreement but enough evidence that something will develop in the bahamas for the next several days. This feature is north late sunday and monday that could affect the midatlantic beaches in your area with the rain and the cooler temperatures. Because of that we will see the possibility of weather going downhill. But enjoy it while it lasts. Sunshine, warm weather. Afternoon storms thursday and friday. Monday and tuesday you see cloudy and turning somewhat cooler. We will have more in a little bit. Is that see you then. Thanks. Drinking alcohol when pregnant the c. D. C. Is announcing no amount a safe. Michelle but it is still illegal to refuse to serve a pregnant woman alcohol if she orders a drink. 7 on your side consumer investigator kimberly suiters joins us live with her 7 on your side social experiment. This is fascinating. Kimberly i think it is, michelle, jonathan. This caught our attention after new York City Human Rights Commission reported cases where women with baby bumps were turned away from bars and concerts. That is so, 7 on your side sent this 24yearold actress, a graduate of American University into four local bars protepidding to be pregnant. We had pretending to be pregnant. Two producers there, and i was there to gauge response of the wait staff and drinking public. Thank you. Its unacceptable. That wouldnt cross my mind to be okay. Kimberly you can tell the responses ran the gamut. Now, coming up in a couple of minutes we will talk live with haley travers the actress that suited up for 7 on your side experiment and she will describe what it was like to feel the stairs, the judgment and the comments directed at her. Back to you. Jonathan all right. Michelle ordered up shots. Not one. Shots. Jonathan fist pump for ordering the shots. Michelle look forward to that. Still ahead at abc7 news at 42 30. Terror scare in los angeles. Why every passenger o this plane was searched by police. Jonathan was it a catch of the lifetime . A massive fish is hook. What happens next will blow your mind. The surprise at the end of the line in the video. Alison welcome back. Controversial subject a lot of drinking during pregnancy. Some say yes, some say no. We put local bars to the test. Suited up an actress in a pregnancy costume. Well, she found it wasnt a very happy hour, you could say. 7 on your side consumer investigator kimberly suiters and actress haley travers are both with us today. Nice to have you. Thank you. Kimberly here is the bump. Alison there it is. You are an actress, so you stepped into this role. Im so curious. What surprised youabout the peoples reaction. Obviously, i had never been pregnant before. Im 23. It was interesting to see how all ages, all genders stared at me no matter where i went. Even if i was going to bar to get a diet coke. They would havent known. The second i walk in and headed toward the bar it got awkward. Kimberly you notice the difference between you ordered a glass of wine and when you took shots . Definitely. I ordered not a big deal. Two glasses gets weird. The shots is where it got hairy. Alison did people approach you . Yes. I would approach someone to try to engage them in a conversation to see what the energy was like. One woman that kind of, she was like a grandmother almost like you cant have that. I kind of felt defensive as the character. Its none of your business. But then stepping out i was like im glad someone said something when im taking a shot and eight months pregnant. Alison interesting. Kimberly we are running a poll on this. abc7news. Were saying is any amount okay . Just a half glass okay . Trimester . What is your experience being i think you and i have similar experiences where a lot of our friends thought a half glass in the third trimester was okay. Alison that is what you hear. I was so sick the whole time i didnt want any. I cant talk about it. There are so many different complexities to what you are doing. You are discussing drinking and whether people then you discuss the social experiment part. When people are crossing a line to Say Something or if someone people a responsibility to Say Something. Like they are protecting you and the baby. There are so many things to touch on. Kimberly you are right. You hit on a woman who is pregnant has a legal right to order an alcoholic drink. But do people like to see it . No. We dont. So, as a society. Alison this society is different than others. Kimberly right. Alison across the world. Europe is ver different. Kimberly we continue the story at 5 00. Big story to see the whole social experience is tonight at 11 00 on abc7. Pregnant, drinking and pregnant is at 11 00. Alison thank you. We see you tonight. Look forward to the story. Michelle next for us