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