Reporter good evening. Right now im here at 10th street northwest and constitution avenue. You look here, these Police Officers are directing traffic blocking off the area to make sure no one drives down constitution avenue en route to the washington monument. Come with me over here before i show you some video. You can see this fire truck here. The area right down there, which is 13th, that is blocked off. So a lot of folks are packing their patience trying to avoid the irs building. Lets roll some video right now. Here is what happened. A transformer fire sparked in the basement. Now, a d. C. Fire and em s representative told us that he doesnt know if anyone was injured. Well, i have an update right now from the irs spokesperson, and he tolells me no one was injure. This is the Internal RevenueService Headquarters building here and all of the employees inside were evacuated. Many of them decided to go home. Others i presume are standing around here because they have work to do, trying to see if they will be able to go back inside. Back out here live, this fire comes just two weeks before tacks atack taxes are due. One man asked if his tax returns are burning. No, because the tax returns are not process eed at headquarters. He was a business disappointed. Download our nbc washington app and well bring you the latest details. Live here in northwest d. C. , im shomari stone, news4. Shomari, thank you. Could more major shutdowns be in metros future . The head of metros board says tonight it may be whats needed to get the Transit Agency back on track. Tonight jack evans is talking oneonone with our transportation reporter adam tuss about what evans calls a desperate situation. Adam is live now at the metro center with more for us. Adam . Reporter thats right, jim. And, you know, one of the things that we learned in talking with metro insiders today is that a monthlong shutdown of any particular rail line, that probably wont happen. T needed, and he says hes just the guy delivering the message of metro, and its not a good message right now. I think paul and i are taking a different tone in upping the urgency, that this is no longer something you can choose to ignore. Reporter metros board schar says metro is broken and its time to fix it. Most maintenance is squeezed into tight windows on nights, weekends, and midday hours. Thats left too little time to get too much done. Its clear metros Maintenance Plan right now is not working. Thats what im told. I mean, the thing caught fire 13 months ago and then again two weeks ago. Reporter evans claims his financial turnaround track record in the district combined with general manager Paul Wiedefelds success at bwi Marshall Airport has them in the right position to make a meaningful difference at metro, but he says in no Uncertain Terms its going to take extra in d. C. , maryland, and virginia and the federal government will have to contribute more to get it done. Im not interested in congress or anyone saying were waiting for you to get your house in order. We got our house in order. We have the best people now in charge. Now we need you to step up. Reporter he says its time for hard, tough decisions. Now, evans, of course, says that local jurisdictions and the federal government need to contribute more to help metro get back on its feet, but what about riders . Will there be a fare hike . Tell you about that, wendy, coming up next hour at 6 00. Thanks, adam. We are learning new details about what may have been the districts first murder of 2016. The medical examiner is now saying that a mans death inside a home in northwest d. C. In january was actually a homicide. It says that Sheldon Gordie died from Blunt Force Trauma and compression to the neck. Officers found him dead inside a home on nicholson street on january 5th. An arlington teenager accused of killing his father made his First Court Appearance today. Investigators found inconsistencies in the teens story. They found his father dennis adams with multiple stab wounds on third street in south arlington. Adams later died. The teen originally told Police Someone else had stand him. Well, this evening were learn being a case of Identity Theft that ran up bills into the thousands of dollars for a man in Montgomery County. Pat collins is live at Police Headquarters in gaithersburg with images of the suspect in thiscase. Pat . Reporter wendy, watch out for this one. Its a bigtime scheme with a capital s. Here is how the cops say it went down. Take a good look at these guys. Police say theyre on a chargeorama buying spree. The problem is the charge un name and credit theyre using doesnt even know its going on. Brookway drive, fort sumner, bethesda, this is how police tell the story. Somebody goes into a guys car here and starts taking stuff. Personal stuff. Sentimental stuff. Papers with personal information on it. Several days go by. Nothing. More time goes by. Nothing. Then all of a sudden in come the credit card charges. The unauthorized credit card charges. To the tune of 17,000. He starts receiving credit cards and credit account notices in the mail stating hes opened up these credit accounts these var stores. And he never had those credit cards. He didnt have those cards or open up these accounts. Reporter so what stores did these suspects use in wh . What products did they buy . Ill have more on that coming up at 6 00. Ill give you a hint though. Their getaway car with was a moving van. Back to you. Bridge inspections could lead to backups for some of d. C. s busiest roadways. Tomorrow and wednesday crews will check out connecticut avenue in parts of woodley park and on thursday crews will inspect parts of south capitol street near the ballpark just before the nationals home opener. During the inspections you can expect lane closures and potential delays. D. C. s new private ambulances, they are helping with the call volume, but the city is still transporting dozens of people every day with minor injuries. In the first week of what they call these thirdparty took about 90 patients each day. That has reduced basic transports by about half for the citys ambulances. Well, d. C. Fire and ems says that despite the private rides, they are still transporting more than 100 nonlife threatening injuries every day. Right now some Big Questions remain over a big problem at d. C. s 911 call center. Backup generators failed on saturday during that power outage caused by the strong winds. News4s Mark Segraves broke this story over the weekend sffor us and at 5 00 he talks to Homeland Security about whats being done to fix this issue. Problem is we have to find out why, what happened within the spike, and make sure if theres anything we can do to avoid too so we dont have to leave the facility and go to our backup facility, thats what were going to be looking for. Reporter engineers are still trying to figure out why these backup generators here at the districts 911 call center didnt kick inh went out late saturday night. The building is designed with several power system backups, including two dedicated feeder lines from pepco. And a battery system that can power the facility for up to two hours. If all that fails, three powerful generators that can keep the building running indefinitely are supposed to kick in. But saturday night after the batteries had been in use for more than an hour, it became clear the generators were not operating. About an hour into that, we realized out of an abundance of caution we need to go and prove to our backup facility. Reporter that meant moving about 50 dispatchers and call takers from the main facility in anacostia across town to this backup facility in northwest near howard university. Operationally we were able to continue on, didnt lose any calls, didnt miss any dispatches, didnt lose any visibility on the city. All the redundancies we have in place, they reporter while no 911 calls or dispatches were delayed, the nonemergency 311 line was out of service for about two hours. Things are back to normal at the main 911 call center today. Officials believe the problem was caused by a power surge. The goal now is to figure out a way to prevent this from happening again. Mark segraves, news4. And those strong winds creating issues for d. C. s 911 also led to an incredibly close call for a couple in bethesda. Beth sinclair says she and her husband were asleep when a huge tree crashed through their roof. The impact covered them with rubble and debris. Sinclair said she had to dig out her husband before help arrived. My husband was asleep on the far side of the bed and we were both awakened when stuff started falling, and im bumped up. I have bumped on my head but he was actually unconscious and stuck under stuff and i had to get him out. Sinclairs husband is expected to be okay. A vir mother of three is at the center of a homicide investigation. Her death came three days after a victory in court. Its a bill aimed at convicting sexual predators. So why are so many states attorneys afraid its never going to become law . Im tracee wilkins. Well have the latest coming up on news4. And problems for a pta. Someone took thousands of dollars meant for the kids in a Northern Virginia school. Wall street. The nra. Theyre powerful. They usually get their way. But not with democrat Donna Edwards. She wont take cash from wall street banks. And when washington insiders wrote a loophole to let the nra spend dark money to kill gun safety laws, Donna Edwards said no shes fighting to ban assault weapons ty of our communities first. Because to democrat Donna Edwards, the special interests arent special. We are. Women vote is responsible for the content of this advertising. Narrator all that political mail mlets simplify. Lming. Only one candidate has been endorsed by the Washington PostKathleen Matthews. As a journalist and progressive leader at marriott, she has a broad and deep facility with policy. Emilys list praises matthews as prochoice and the post says on gun control, clean energy, education and Health ResearchKathleen Matthews has greater potential, following the van hollen model, to move the ball forward. Kathleen im Kathleen Matthews and i approve this message. Youre watching news4 at 5 00. And right now on storm team4 radar were tracking the rain across the area. You can see the rain coming through d. C. , around the waldorf area, around fredericksburg, warrenton seeing the rain. It has stopped though to the west of frederick and winchester. Right now the heaviest rain in and around parts of Montgomery County in through Fairfax County, right around herndon, reston, over towards Tysons Corner area seeing heavier rain. Gaithersburg up towards clarksburg, back to leesburg all seeing rain coming through. What we will see behind this, much colder air. By tomorrow morning windchills in the teens to around 20. Absolutely amazing the cold air thats moving in. More on this in a minute. Theres a bill in maryland that would allow a defendants past criminal history to be used as evidence in future trials involving sex offenses. And its a bill that could impact the trial of a former Prince Georges County volunteer school aide. That aide is accused of sexually abusing children on school grounds. Tracee wilkins is in Upper Marlboro with how things could play out if this is passed. Tracee . Reporter there are plenty of people who are hoping that that will happen. There are other states that do this already. And the bottom line is that if you are a defendant who has a criminal background and a pattern to that background that appears to be a serial pattern, they dont believe you should get a fresh start with your jury. When Deonte Carraways case is presented to a Prince Georges County jury they may not know hes charged with multiple child porn charges. They may not know about the other juvenile sex offenses hes had and the other alleged victims within the school he worked in. When a jury is what is in front of them, sometimes there could be information that is helpful. Reporter its these kind of case that is has propelled the Baltimore City states corner, Marilyn Mosby to advocate for state house bill 218 and senate bill 235. These types of cases ultimately come down to credibility. Reporter bill supporters believe it would be most helpful for a jury to know if it isnt a defendants first offense or if there is a documented pattern. One of my prosecutors has currently seven cases where this law could affect the pending cases that he has. There is a sense of narcissism among the offenders that these victims are just there for the taking and society must be protected from that. Reporter this baltimore woman was the victim of serial rapist Nelson Clifford who was able to convince juries that sex was consensual in her trial and the trials of two other women. His prior convictions and charges were not admissible. And this victim testified in annapolis but the bill could jury didnt know that he had a conviction already for rape. He was facing other trials for that. His whole history is of sexual assault. Reporter the bill passed unanimously in the state senate but is stalled in the house. Its not just a Baltimore City issue. This is a state issue. Maryland is promoting rape culture by absolutely doing nothing. Reporter this time this bill has gone further than it ever has. But it has been introduced before. In fact, on and off since 2004. Coming up on news4 at 6 00, well explain what keeps happening every time it gets close to passing. Reporting live in Upper Marlboro, im tracee wilkins. Back to you all in the studio. Thank you, tracee. A former board member for a Loudoun County elementary pta is accused of embezzlement. The loudoun timesmirror reports a former member from creighton corner elementary is accused of misusing 13,000 from the pta. According to the paper, been filtered in and out of a Board Members account over a fivemonth span, and that individual still not been charged. In the race for the white house, its the eve of the wisconsin primary where some of the candidates hope a win could mean a big momentum boost. Both parties are holding primaries tomorrow with 96 delegates up for grabs for the democrats, 42 for republicans. The most recent polls show a tight race between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders with a slight edge for sanders. For the gop ted cruz is leading donald trump. But looking at the delegate count, both cruz and sanders need big wins to catch up to the frontrunners. Right now clinton leads sanders in the delegate race by a margin of about 700. And in the republican race, trump has a lead over cruz of 275 with john kasich a distant third. Kasich actually has fewer delegates than marco rubio who did when he suspended his cruz are pushing for kasich to follow suit and drop out. Trump says kasich is taking votes away from him and is essentially helping cruz. Kasich meantime says he has no plans to end his bid for the republican nomination. That all brings us to our nbc washington flash survey of the day. Do you think that john kasich should drop out . We posted the question on our Facebook Page today. Taking a look at the results, it looks like about half of you say no. Keep voting and well have more results in our next hour. So when you are shopping for Internet Service, do you know what to look for . Consumer reporter susan hogan is here with a new way to knoll what youre getting before you sign up. Were all familiar with nutrition labels on food products, right . Now we could soon see those similar labels from Internet Service providers. Broadband labels that you see right there will replace information on calories and fat with details on speed and commission unveiled the labels. Theyre created to make it easier for consumers to understand exactly what theyre paying for with mobile and fixed service. It is designed to meet the transparency requirements of the open Internet Order and to be used at point of sale as well as online. Now, the fcc says the labels are not mandatory but rather recommended to meet transparency rule requirements. The fcc receives more than 2,000 complaints each year about surprise fees associated with consumers Internet Service bills. Back to you. Thanks, susan. Were following a developing story. A scary scene. A car blows up in a maryland Transit Agency lot. We have new details about the incident that brought in bombsniffing dogs. Plus, virginias governor is now using his veto power to parents need to know about sexually explicit books. Here are some live pictures of i270 as people are making their way home in a driving rain. Doug has been telling us about the changes and the Winter Weather expected in the morning. Were going to see what that means for the rest of our week. The full forecast is nex they say character is what you do when no one is watching. David trone banned the box so people whove paid their debt to society could have a chance. And fought so hard for criminal justice reform, they named a center after him. And because education was his way out