School. It happened less than half a mile down the pathway as the teen headed to school. Police say it all happened around 7 45 this morning near silverbrook and monacan road. I was shocked. Really shocked. It never happened. According to police, a 16yearold girl walking to school along a path when a man grabbed her around the waist. It seems like a random event. This is scary for the young girl involved. Police say the girl scream and the suspect ran away. She reported it to the School Resource officer immediately. Normally i drop off the kids in the morning and i pick them up in the afternoon time. Sometimes they walk home, now, from now on, im so afraid. I have to go pick them up from the school. Neighbors say its common for kids to walk to school. Its not that far behind. Police plan to patrol in higher numbers for the rest of school hours. We dont get calls like this every day. I dont think its a problem in this area. Still parents are boarried and say that they are going to remain cautious. I want if kids to be safe. Not only my kids but the neighborhood. Police only have a vague description of the suspect describing him as a hispanic man with a mustache wearing dark clothes. Police will have patrols coming through the area before and after school hours for the rest of the week. For now we are live in lorton, amy aubert, abc7 news. Alison thank you. It has been a year and a half now since that plane crashed into this house right here in gaithersburg. When the smoke cleared a woman and two of her small children were found dead inside. Today the National Transportation safety board took a closer look at what caused this crash. Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live in gaithersburg with new informa brad . Brad this is where the house stood. In the last month or so, the man who lost his wife and children here built this house. He is not going to live here. It is for sale. I dont want to trivialize the story. But this little model helps explain what the ntsb found. That is the plane should have been coming in like this for a landing. But the nose was up. The plane going too slowsly. It flipped over. And was so low it couldnt recover. Almost from the start, ntsb investigators knew the plane was going too slow on approach to monaca air park. Now Montgomery Air park. Now they know it was the fault of the deceased pilot, dr. Michael rosenberg who they say ignored the buildup of ice on wings. The individual was not adequately aware of the dangers of the small amount of icing and failed to turn on the Ice Protection system that ca slowly than it needed to be to fly. Sending the plane crashing in the gemmel family home killing marie and her young sons devin and cole. Her husband ken is in the audience today as the ntsb finalizes the crash report and recommend the small jets be equipped with an ice Warning System. Its a good first step. Good to know that the accident was reventable and hopefully down the road it wont happen again. Gemmel now raising his daughter alone thankfuller the generous donations to a go fund me drive for him and his daughter with survivor with one of the passengers in the plane he is suing the pilot estate and the builder of the jet. The pain never goes away. Hopefully what the board just did will help prevent a crash like this from occurring again. Now, back to this model to explain what the ntsb w essentially when ice gets on the wings of an airplane it changes the flight characteristics. The pilot in the cockpit cant see that. So what the ntsb is asking that manufacturers of small jets like this put in a Warning System so the pilot gets an alert, can flip the switch. To deice the aircraft and avoid any future crashes like this. In gaithersburg, brad bell, abc7 news. Alison police are trying to figure out what caused a deadly a. T. V. Crash in frederick that happened yesterday afternoon on michels mill road in buckies town. 21yearold chris monday crossed a double yellow line on his a. T. V. And then drove into an oncoming car. Monday was thrown and died at the scene. Witnesses tell abc7 they believe an officer was chasing that a. T. V. But so far police are disputing that. The a. T. V. Is a fun vehicle. A vehicle, yes, a fun vehicle. But it has its place. Its no it does not belong on public roads. And that would be true at any time. Its extremely true with the increase traffic we have. Making a danger more dangerous. Alison police say that beer conditions were visible on and near beer cans were visible on and near the a. T. V. The drive of the vehicle and her son are expected to make a full recovery. Leon well, today is the second weekday we should say for safetrack on metro. We are starting to see an impact on the road. More and more people turn to the car instead of the rail. Stephen tschida live in southwest d. C. Where he is watching the roads for us in town. I know we could tell here it was heavier. How does it look where you are . Well, first, this just in from metro. Ridership west of ballston nearing this mornings rush down more than 27 . Check out the southwest freeway here. It is traffic than usual tonight. Day two of safetrack and another slow going through part of downtown d. C. Lousy just getting into the city. It was slow. All this is ridiculous. Some who drive in say the commute took extra long today. Normally it takes 13 minutes. I took what . 30. Vdot confirms congestion to d. C. Jumped substantially. While it maintains its too early tody fintively say safetrack is to definitively say safetrack is the cause, causing others to drive. A lot of people call safetrack the culprit. That is totally what is going on. Parking garages are also jampacked. Too much more cars. Another aspect of the safetrack which has some angered tonight. D. C. Extended rush hour restrictions. Which are we supposed to go by . Im not sure. I have a parking ticket. I thought we were supposed to go b put up the emergency signs, didnt take down the old signs, though. Conflicting and for some a confusing message. This is 100 parking ticket. Yeah. Or more. Vdot says it is too soon to tell whether the jump in Traffic Congestion is related to safetrack. Vdot says it will monitor closely as the safetrack progresses. Reporting live, stephen tschida, abc7 news. Leon well get used to this. All right, folks. Text metro to 4387 if you want text alerts on your phone. Get constant update on the safetrack and suggestions on the alternate route and the schedule at wjla. Com. One note for you. Metro, wmata told us that chillers at the federal station should be back up tomorrow. But units are still at the metro Center Arrest week. New developments in the race for the white house today. Right now voters are casting primary ballots in six states. As Hillary Clinton looks to make history, donald trump is releasing a statement saying his controversy comments about the judge overseeing the Trump University lawsuits have been misconstrued. Elizabeth hur explains. Reporter Hillary Clinton reaching the magic number to secure the democratic nomination but remaining focused with six states still voting. According to the news we are on the brink of a historic, historic unprecedented moment. But we still have work to do, dont we . Reporter overnight the support from super delegates pushed clinton over the top to make her the first female nominee of a Major Political party eight years to the day when she withdrew from the race endorsing then senator obama. ut clintons current challenger Bernie Sanders is refusing to bow out just yet. We will go in the convention with enormous momentum. Sanders defiant and confident he can convince super delegates to change their mind despite meeting more than half of the 500 super delegates to flip the vote. Donald trump still defending his views is now trying to minimize the importance of mexicanamerican judge ethnicity in the Trump University case. Well, the question was asked to me. I dont care if the judge is mexican or not. I am going to do great with the mexican people because i provide jobs. The backlash from his own comments that the comments were racist is still building. Claiming a person cant do their job because of their race is the definition of a racist comment. That said speaker ryan added he does not regret endorsing thrump as we learn that president obama is not yet prepared to endorse anyone. Alison okay. One more thing politically. Look at this. Do you have any idea who this is . Leon i do but i didnt believe it at first. Alison meryl streep. Meryl streep dressed as donald trump. She showed up last night with a sprain tan, fake belly, oversized red tie. Hair going on. She and actress performed duet of brushup your shakespeare from kiss me kate. I dont know if she did it wearing the trump leon she did. I watched the video. Alison streep says she supports Hillary Clinton. Put that out there. Leon you think . How long before she shows up on s. N. L. Like that . Alison it wont take long. Leon sometimes the images are indelible. Ask tina fey. Coming up at abc7 n breaking in the boss home and holding his wife and that man hostage takes the stand in his defense. Alison later the war of words unfolding online bout the Sexual Assault after a Stanford University frat party. Leon ten people arrested for running heroin in the district. Find out the simple way they were moving their product. Alison but first, manatees in the front yard . Surveying the impact after leon we are on storm watch all over the globe as heavy rains in australia. It has led to damage along the australian east coast. Three people died as a result of the floodwaters. Thousands were evacuated. More this afternoon a hundred rescued by helicopter. Alison in this country, Tropical Storm colin made landfall in florida. They are urging the residents to get rid of any standing water quickly before it breeds mosquitoes that could care zika. Packing heavy rain and high drenched the sunshine state. We have a train over tampa. Not a physical choo choo train but a train of rain. One storm on top of the other just like trains on a traintrack. In jacksonville, colin brought down trees and it poured on the gulf coast. I pushed a tree on to the house in the middle of the night. Another branch came in through the bedroom there, where they were sleeping. Some part of the ceiling fell down, insulation. Reporter in st. Petes beach, people waded through waistdeep floodwaters. I havent seen it like this for ten years. It isnt high. This isnt even hurricane. Florida governor rick scott declared a state of emergency. 6,000 National Guard troops ready to deploy to the hardest hit area. Colin tracked quickly across the state and up the coast bringing more rain and the risk of damaging wind to north carolina. Back in jacksonville they are cleaning up the behind. To colin is the third named stormwatch7 third named Tropical Storm. Leon wild weather captured on camera last night. We will show you this because you will see for yourself. The green bay packer tweeted out of lightning over lambeau field. However the Detroit Lions twitter account tweeted back because they think the shape looks fack to people in detroit. Does the lightning bolt look like the lions logo. Alison yeah. Doug crazy. Are they playing this season . Leon yes. They are in the same division. Alison that is crazy. Leon that is an omen. Doug you could interpret that as lightning strikes when lions visit lambeau field. Yesterday at this time the circulation gulf of mexico. The rain looked east. Tropical storm colin. This is post Tropical Storm. There is no organization with it at all. What you see is there is enormous rain and the thunderstorm activity racing northeast at 40 miles per hour. Just like yesterday and this morning we are gnarly down there it is sunny in florida now. We have to face the damage and the standing water. There it goes projected by the National Hurricane center for the next several days to move rapidly to northeast. The speeds now are impressive. The whole system moving at 40 miles per hour. Top winds still at 60 miles per hour. But it will get absorbed to a larger area of low pressure over the north atlantic. Only a threat to mariners, ships and boats in the shipping lanes. As far as what is happening locally. Give you a look in spotsylvania. Heavy clouds and rain. This is all part of the system that started severe thunderstorm warnings 25 minutes ago. We are monitoring things well. The Weather Service canceled the western extent. Stafford county a william county. A little piece now earlier in fauquier county. This system, too, is moving quickly east and southeast, those warnings have been dropped. So the center of action is along Colonial Beach north of there along big bend of the potomac. Stretching to calvert county. That is moving out. Isolated storms diminish approaching sunset. To give you an idea what we are dealing with, as the line is Chesapeake Bay southwestward to fredericksburg. It will be hit as we speak. Colonial peak, mild town and leonardtown a starting to see the effect of the line of storm for the next 45 minutes. Later tonight, things clear out. West of the mountains its calming down. We will see the clearing, cooler, the breezy weather tonight. The future cast shows 8 30 there may be a lone shower but that is that. Clear skies overnight. Strong cold front tonight if you like cool when it moves through late morning to midday there could be showers. Look at the wind barbs. Gusty winds to bring in cooler and the drier air. It will be delightful here. Maybe the winds 20 to 25 miles per hour. Temperatures in the 70s. The same deal thursday. Biking forecast for the morning tomorrow is beautiful. Clear to partly cloudy. Breezy conditions all day. 60 degrees in the morning. 76 in the afternoon. Chance of showers along leading edge of the cold front. After that, we will bounce back to the midtoupper 70s thursday. Close to 8 o in some spot on friday. Plenty of sun. Low humidity. Breezy day on thursday. Over the weekend we look at a partly sunfy and a warming trend. Mid80s. We will see chance of storms saturday afternoon and sunday. Another string of nice days. The nice thing with the low humidity if youre in the spring shade its like spring. Thank you. Leon thank you, sir. Alison well, still to come recall of flour. Starting leon look at that. And the changes in place at the cincinnati zoo as the gorilla exhibit reopens for the First Time Since the little boy climbed inside there. A violent attack in which two people almost lost their lives but the man accused of perpetrating the attack says he does not remember a single thing. Im Jeff Goldberg. We will tell you what is going on when abc7 news at 5 00 continues after mediterranean collection. R itll make anyones day brighter. My girlfriend and i just broke up. Ohh. I need something to make me feel better. Ohhh, i just broke up with my boyfriend and i need something to celebrate with. Bree . I thought it was mutual. Yeahhh. The mediterranean collection. Try with chicken or steak. Topped with crumbled feta and creamy tzatziki sauce. I feel better. Me too subway. Fresh is what we do. Alison new developments in trial against dan shulman as he took the the trial against Andrew Schmuhl. He took the stand to defend himself. Jeff goldberg was in the courtroom. What did he say . Jeff this was a big moment in the trial. The bottom line is Andrew Schmuhl says he does not remember a single detail of this attack. He doesnt remember the planning in the days leading up to it and does not remember the police chase that followed the incident. All loy long his attorneys argued the client was too intoxicated to remember what is going on that night and that is what Andrew Schmuhl said on the witness stand. When questioned by his Defense AttorneysAndrew Schmuhl described the awful state of his life in the period leading up to the violent attack on november 9 at the mclean home Duncan Leo Fisher and sue duncan. Schmuhl said he was bedridden and taking up to 13 opiate prescription drugs a day. I was fuzzy and confused. It was weirdness on top of weirdness. When questioned by the prosecutor, schmuhl testified hi did not remember a single detail of the incident at the home where schmuhl is accused of holding fisher and duncan hostage, tasing, beating and stabbing fisher, shooting at duncan. Less than two weeks before fisher fired andrews wife alicia from her lawyer job at a firm in washington. Schmuhl does not remember being arrested by the Fairfax County police after the incident. At the time he was found wearing a diaper. I dont remember wearing a diaper, he testified. In the state i was in, i honestly could have been wearing a dress and i wouldnt realize it. Anew today that his wife alicia helped a minister the medication. Defense attorneys argue that alicia was the planner of the attack and Andrew Schmuhl was a foot soldier. Coming up at 6 00, we will show you more powerful evidence introduced today in court as well as how a fake german name may have played a role in all of this. Until then live in fairfax, Jeff Goldberg, abc7 news. Alison coming up at 5 00 i dont know what happened that night. But he does. Alison bobby brown speaks out about the death of his exwife and his daughter and the man that could hold the key to one of the investigations. Leon later, why today is so important for the judge at the center of the stanford rape case. And 88 pounds of heroin seized. The stretch of roadway where police say the drugs were so announcer youre watching abc7 news at 5 00. On your side. Leon ten people arrested and more than 80 pounds of heroin taken off the street. And d. C. Police sad the supply method was something but covert. Kevin lewis live i tonight to tell us how they were distributing these. What did you learn about this . Kevin d. C. Police chief cath