Investigators. They very quickly yellow taped off several blocks around this large home allowing no one in no one out, and began an extensive crime scene investigation. Now, again, what you said, that we hear that three people are deceased. Another person who is said to be in extremely, extremely condition, and right now the neighbors in the area say they dont know much other than there was a fire and that is why the crime scene investigators are here trying to determine what happened. We have someone from the Mayors Office coming over, and we understand that both the mayor and chief lanier will speak in a few minutes. Yacky, im curious, any information bt the age of the victims . Has that information come to you . Jim, we do not know the age of the victims, however, i did talk just a short time ago to a man who say thass that he believes that his brother was at this house earlier today, his brother works for the cleaning company, and he says that he has been trying to get his brother on the phone, and trying to contact him, but he says that his brother is in his 20s, so unclear if that man is one of the vicktims, and that is what everybody is trying to sort out right now. Jackie bensen thank you. And our Team Coverage continues with megan fitzgerald. Yes, we have been out here throughout the day since the house fire started just after 1 00 and lately and most recent ly ly, we have been seeing the fire trucks leaving the area, and if you are going to see behind me n is an area that is cordoned off, and police are still here, and the ambulance still on the scene as they have turned it into a criminal investigation. We want the show you the video shot earlier. This is the scene at 1 30 this afternoon. First neighbors said they smelled smoke and then saw the flames coming out of the roof. Neighbors watched in horror but it was a long time housekeeper who worked for the family for more than two decades who was in tears. She did not want to go on camera, but she says when she heard about the fire she came over right away. I cant talk that much, because i hope they are okay. Because, you know, this family means a lot to me. Vera is the housekeeper that stays overnight. Agot a call last night at 10 00 last night and i know she spent the night and i am 100 she was inside with them. And now the woman says she believes that there was a cleaning crew inside of the home at the time but she did not know for sure, and she is obviously broken up, but she has been with the family for more than 20 years, and even raised one of the children since they were a toddler she is a tells us, so obviously, difficult for her, and we were out here speaking with the other neighbors anxious to get the answers. They wanted to know what was going on and who was being taken out on the stretchers, and we dont have those answers yet. This is a developing investigation, but what we do know as we have been reporting that we have konconfirmed that the three people are dead and one person in critical condition, and again, we are awaiting a press conference, and hopefully we will be getting more information but as always, we encourage the folks to download the nbc4 washington app to get the latest information, back to you. And megan, what do we know about when the firefighters realized they had more than a fire on their hands . Well, that is a good question. So the fire started and the call came in at 1 15, and we started to see the Police Arrive at 2 00, and that is when they were aggressive and asked us to move out and set up the perimeter and then it was about maybe two hours after the fire that we saw the police chief arrive on scene so that is when we knew that we had a serious situation on our hands. All right. Megan fitzgerald we hear that there is a News Conference about to start with the police chief. And the mayor as well. They are both scheduled to speak at this point. The mayor is a approaching the podium now, and the police chief is right behind her. They of course have an interest in this and any time there is a situation like that, and neighborhood such as this, it is considered a high profile incident if you will and here now is mayor bouser. I am here the to provide you with the latest information that we have about a fire on Woodland Drive in northwest washington, d. C. In ward three. At approximately 1 30 p. M. We got a call about a fire on Woodland Drive. The d. C. Fire and emergency is management service, Emergency Medical Service responded to that fire. It was a onealarm fire. Upon our personnel entering the house on Woodland Drive to extinguish the fire they discovered four victims in the house. We know that there are three adult victims and one child victim. Our chief is here who will provide you with an update on the Fire Departments response to the scene. It will be followed by chief cathy lanier who will give the update on the Police Departments efforts at the scene. This incident is now being investigated by the joint Arson Task Force which is made up of our Fire Department and the Police Department and alcohol, tobacco and Fire Department. So i want to turn it over now to chief baker who will let you know about the Fire Departments response, and followed by chief lanier lanier, and then we will take questions. Craig. This afternoon the Fire Department and the ems was dispatched to the address on Woodland Drive with report of smoke coming from the house, and we arrive edd to find smoke coming from the second floor. They the initiated a firefighters effort in that area of the house, and at the same time they extended a search of the house for a possible victims, and located four on the second level of the home and it took 30 minutes to get the fire completely under control. Obviously, it is early, and i will tell you everything that i can tell you, but there is going to be a little time to to get some answer, because when the investigation begins, you have to make sure that the fire is out, and the house is safe for the investigation to go on. I cannot comment on the evidence, and we will comment on the evidence as we get them. We were notified by the Fire Department and when they responded for the fire at 1 30 this afternoon they did find four deceased persons inside of the home. Once we arrived at the scene, trying to look at all of the factors of involved here, we still have not gone through the extensive evidence collection process and not a lot of information at this point, but not a lot of signs of forced spry, but the origin of the fire is suspicious, and that is why the metropolitan Police Department and the joint Arson Task Force has taken over the investigation, and we are asking for information from the public, and so we know that there is a porche 2008 blue porche 911 that was last seen at this home this morning at 10 30 and it has not been seen since, and so we have now located that car but if anybody has seen that 2008 blue porche 911 with the d. C. Tags that is dk2418, please give us a call at 2022770999. And we have a team of officers going throughout the neighborhood knocking on doors. We understand that there is a lot of residents trying to find out what happened and want to know some reassurance and what is going on and the officers over the course of the next several hours in the neighborhoods who will be knocking on the doors and asking for information and letting the people know what is going on and try to make sure that Everybody Knows what is going on here, and i expect over the next several hours we will get more answers, and have more information and right now the only thing that we can tell you is that the fire is suspicious in nature and three adults and what appears to be a child that is deceased in the home. And so we will pass on more information as we get them. H we have not confirmed the identification. And do you know the child . We have not confirmed any identification yet. The and do you know i cannot tell you where the car is located, but it has been found in the last hour but we dont know where it has been since 10 30 this morning, and when it was located within the last hour. Someone with the car . No nobody with the car. And chief, our understanding that there was an ignition source throughout the house, and hit of gasoline throughout the house . I wont comment on the evidence specifically. And can you tell the us well, i wont comment on the evidence and the fact that we have the Arson Task Force here is obvious that we think it is suspicious in nature, but i wont comment on anything specific. And can you comment on what would indicate anything other than smoke inhalation in nature. It is extremely early to comment on anything like that, and right now we dont have anything like that and it will take a little while to get answers ss like that. Do you noeknow if they were all in the same room . And do you know if there was a call placed i am not aware of any. Right now, we are investigating and the Arson Task Force and the Major Investigation here but we dont have answers to any of the questions, so give us time to collect the information and more information and we will update you with what we get it, and we will try to keep you up to date adds possible. H that is the d. C. Police chief cathy lanier confirming that firefighters found four people dead inside that home on Woodland Drive right near the Washington National cathedral, and four vim timctims, three adults and one child. It is an arson investigation, and the chief lanier did not shed any light on how the people might have die edd. We know that they were, and that the police chief is asking for information about a vehicle, a 2008 blue porche that was seen near the house this morning. Dc tags dk2418 and she says that police are looking for any information, anybody might have about that vehicle. They made it clear, the chief did, because of the nature and the origin of the fire, they are considering it a very suspicious situation, and the Arson Task Force is in control right there, and not so much in control, but enforce trying to figure out how it started. We will get more information as it is available to us. We will im wendy rieger at the live desk and the ntsb has wrapped up a press conference giving us new details of the Train Derailment of the new evidence of video of the forward facing camera of the locomotive which includes the time and speed information and shows the train accelerating as it was heading into the 50mileanhour turn. Let ees lets take a look. 65 seconds before the video goes blank, and that is right before the crash, the train is going 75 Miles Per Hour. 43 seconds before impact it goes up to 80. 31 seconds, it is up to 90. And 16 seconds before impact it hits 100 miles an hour and that is twice the speed limit for that the turn. Just before entering the curve, it is when the engineer applied the engineerinduced braking to put it in emergency braking, and i will describe it as seconds, mere seconds into the turn, and we will see the train tilting approximately ten degrees to the right. And then the recording went blank. We dont know if the speed was increasing manually by the engineer and according to the lawyer, he has agreed to be interview and turned over the phone to prove it was off and he was not using it as the time and the ntsb says it will happen that they will be interviewing him in the next couple of days. Thank you, wendy. And now, looking at the victims among them laura finemor and not pictured is giuseppe pearness who is a wine salesman and also a father of two from maryland had been among the missing until today, bob gildersleeve. And now new reaction from his father. Shomari shomari . Well bob gildersleeves father was upset, and says that he has two sons and well liked in the community. He is grieving as we speak and his son died in the wreckage behind me. This afternoon his father spoke with the officials from the medical Examiners Office in downtown philadelphia. He is sad and angry, because the ntsb says that the amtrak 188 accident could have been prevented if a Safety System around the country could have been used in philadelphia. The ntsb believes that the train was speeding twice the speed limit, and large cranes moved pieces of the damaged cars and e debris from the scene. More than 40 people are being treated right now at hospitals, and police have interviewed the engineer and he provided his cell phone and blood sample and as my colleague wendy rieger said, they plan to interview him again. Thank you, shomari. And we are trying to get details of a guy taken into custody today after the secret service spotted him flying a drone in Lafayette Park. That the incident put the white house on lockdown for a short time. Pat collins is downtown now with all of this. Pat . Jim n the past jim, in the past there have been complaints that the secret service have been slow reacting to incidents around the white house. Not today. The cops took the over Lafayette Park before you could say, look n the sky. It was a drone, and police moved in quickly to get it down and make things safe and the people in the park impressed. I thought it was good that they jumped on it too quick. It is close to the white house conference so i imagine they are taking precautions. This is the troublemaker, a drone. They said it was two feet wide. Secret Service Agents saw the drone flying near the white house, and they say it is 100 feet in the air, and jane moser was here. She saw it too. I happened to look up, and i did a double take, and it was a drone. And i pointed up there, and i said, it is a drone and it was not long before that that the secret servicemen and that is when everybody they said clear. The agents found the pilot and told him to land the drone. They evacuated Lafayette Park. And a longtime demonstrator here describes what it is like when the cops cleared the place. It is to get out of the park and making sure yelled that they were going to clear it out. Reporter they cleared the place out . They cleared the place out. The bomb squad was called in to sweep the drone. They seized it once they made sure it was safe. Also seized a chevy car believed to be used by the drone pilot. The pilot himself was brought in for questioning by police. That was back in january that an Intelligence Agency employee was flying a drone outside of his apartment, and he lost control. And the drone ended up on the white house lawn. He wasnt charged but there was a lot of apologizing going on. Now, sources say that todays drone man described himself as a videoographer from california. He says that he was here to take pick pictures of an event. He said that he meant no harm to the president. The president was not home when all of this happened. Back to you. Well, pat collins, thank you. Nowhere to go and we will tell you why dozens of people had to dart across a busy highway in the middle of rush hour. We are following a story in d. C. Where four people were fo a fire on a bus and dozens of passengers waiting on the side of a busy highway today, and motorists in a long traffic backup along the beltway in springfield, virginia. It happened this morning and video from chopper 4 showed the bus passengers hopping a a barrier to triy to get to a new bus near braddock road and all of the lanes on the beltway have since opened and we still dont know what caused that bus to catch fire. Kind of a mess, but nice day to be outside. And beautiful today. And this is the kind of weather where it keeps us guessing in terms of the wardrobe and in terms off what to pull out of the office. And we know that it is the forecast and exactly right. And all right. Well, take a look around the area and just so we know that things will be busy for the events taking place, and the police are getting ready for the big upcoming weekend and not Better Weather to today. This weekend, we are going to be seeing a rise in the heat and humidity, and the horses are going to be needing a little bit more water, down on the monument today, it has been absolutely delightful. You can see the high clouds are building to the west, and that is a warm front make its way through the area throughout the day tomorrow a nd wnd with it, we will see more high clouds and a few showers, and sprinkles out ahead of the front, and tomorrow, nothing significant and with we wont have any showers or storms areawide in this upcoming weekend, and that is reagan international, and the moisture in the arir is low number and 38 degree, and it is going to quickly rise throughout the weekend and tomorrow we will see that the number heading up a little bit and 9 00 this the evening, the temperatures are in the low 60s or around 60 degrees by 10 to 11 00 p. M. As the high clouds will make their way into the area. The future weather, a look at 5 00 this evening as the clouds are off to the west around harrisonburg and petersburg and throughout friday and the showers will stay in the high mountains, and then around Hague Hagerstown and cumberland through the afternoon, and 53 and 56 and not as wide a range through the temperatures for the morning and quite comfortable to start the and nice and mild through the afternoon and getting sticky for the upcoming weekend and saturday and sunday and we move from uncomfortable and we will take you hour by hour and show you the Storm Chances in a few minutes. Thank you, veronica. And new developments in the Train Derailment in philadelphia. We are learning new details about the people who were killed in in the crash. We will go back to the scene in a couple of moments. They were daytime breakins of afflu