Developing right now a mess in northeast washington. Some of the cars from that csx train that derailed are still lying under the rhode island avenue metro. The crash spilled chemicals all over the track. The metro station is back open, but mark trains are restricted. Crews have a lot of work to do today to get the rails back to normal again. News 4 is live in northeast washington now with how theyre making progress on the repairs. Derek joins us now live with the latest. Derrick. Reporter good morning. Well, they are doing a pretty good job and doing a fast job. You see that area over there where that yellow piece of equipment is . There was a tanker there just a few minutes ago, one of the last ones to be removed from the scene. But if you look in the foreground, this parking lot where we are, most of these cars that you see in fact all of those cars belong to the responders now. All of this heavy response was out of an abundance of caution because if the problem, if the threat had been as bad as t been ground zero. Theyre making progress clearing the tracks at the scene of yesterdays derailment near rhode island avenue. But in the immediate hours afterwards this entire Rhode Island Shopping Center was shut down. As for early bird employees at some of the businesses, those here around 7 00 a. M. Were told to either stay inside or leave. The Hazardous Materials threat was yet to be assessed. Today things are starting to return to normal. But theyre not there yet. For us logistically its just been about ensuring the environment is safe, obviously. Reporter clinical director of Wholistic Services they provide support and services to persons with disabilities in the Office Building at the far end of the shopping center. She says busy today as the contractors doing clean up. Making sure folks get in and out and can do the things they normally do. Reporter with a third of this parking lot being taken up by contractors, investigators, First Responders and csx employees, its still tight. So were going to have to deal with that all reporter similar story for other businesses here, but thomas is circumspect about it all. As bad as it was or is it could have been worse. Imagine having to evacuate dozens of people with disabilities amid what was then an unknown threat assumed to be extremely hazardous with a dangerous mix of chemicals yards away and a gas line rupture to boot . That would have been a nightmare. Thank god it happened on a sunday. If any other day of the week it would have been extremely problematic. Reporter back with you live, what theyre going to have to do now is once they get the cars out of the way, all of the soil contaminated by the chemicals spilled theyll have to dig it up, haul it away and dispose it and then they can put new soil down and start to lay tracks. We are told they will probably hold this Operation Center here for a better part of this week at least until thursday. Live in northeast, derrick ward, news 4. Thank you, derrick. This derailment is also affecting the metropolitan branch trail. The trail is closed from franklin to nice. You can take edgewood to fourth street. Fourth street has bike lanes the entire way edgewood back to the trail that isnt obstructed by the derailment. The news 4 iteam has reported on the dangerous material csx moves through d. C. Within hours of yesterdays derailment a concerned viewer sent us these pictures of at least three chlorine tanker cars moving. Large placards say the cars contain the deadly gas. Csx told news 4 that it stopped transporting through the city after this photo caught a tanker within sight of the capital last year. We asked about what our viewer captured, csx says it, quote, does move empty rail cars that previously contained high hazard materials through the district. And that is what the viewer captured. If you take mark you should expect Major Service disruptions on the brunswick line. The line is blocked because of the derailment. All three trains would originate in Silver Spring and make all stops. You can find out the trains and their operating times on the nbc washington app. Just search csx derailment. And monday morning started a little rough for folks who use the beltway to get to work. Deadly wrongway crash on the inner loop at eisenhower avenue in alexandria halted traffic for hours. It started just before 2 00 this morning when police say a wrongway driver crashed into another vehicle. A man driving a crv was killed. Three people were injured in the crash. They all are expected to be okay though. The crash was cleared just before 6 00 a. M. The exact cause remains under investigation. And now your storm team 4 forecast. All my coworkers coming in, everybodys grumpy and frowning at me. We havent had any sun around since last week. Its been six days since weve seen the sun. Well, theyre seeing some sun now in the Shenandoah Valley. Storm team 4 radar not showing any rain anywhere near us. Its way down here in the Tennessee Valley where there are some severe warnings out right now. That is tracking our way. Going to be getting closer to us looks like the leading edge of that coming in late this afternoon. Little sunshine though breaking out about 30, 40 miles north and west of the metro area. Look at winchester up to 70 degrees. Stanton, virginia, Shenandoah Valley up to 75. All sunny there, near 60 in the metro area. We ought to see the sun breaking out shortly mpkts tom, thank you. Were working to find out whether capital murder charges will be brought against the accused killer of Prince William county officer ashley gundon. Accused of killing her on the first day of the job, two other officers were injured when they responded to a domestic call. Hamilton is also charged with killing his wife crystal. If the grand jury returns indictments, a trial date will then be set. And were waiting to out find out if capital murder charges will be brought against the accused killer in Prince William county officer ashley gundon. Today a grand jury will meet to consider six charges against hamilton. Hes accused of killing her on the first day of the job. Two officer were injured when they responded to a domestic call. Hamilton is also charged with killing his wife crystal as weve just heard. Insidenova. Com reports on the grand jury indictments that will be handed down. New numbers are giving us a better idea of how indiana could vote in tomorrows primary. Donald trump leads by 15 points among likely republican voters. In our nbc news marist the wall street journal poll senator ted cruz is hoping to shrink that lead with four stops planned across the state today. Its a much closer race among the democrats. The poll puts Hillary Clinton only four Percentage Points ahead of senator Bernie Sanders. Sundays poll has a margin of error of about 2 points. A rally right now in detroit. Teachers are protesting a Public School district says it cannot pay them through the summer. Teachers organized a mass protest in response. 87 out of 100 schools are closed. The Michigan Legislature is working to pass a bill to fix the problem. New video in of the first u. S. Cruise ship to arrive in havana, cuba, in 50 years. Take a look at some of the people on board here decades after chilly relations between the u. S. And cuba the historic trip is finally made. This is seen as the official restart of commercial travel to the island. More than 700 people were on that boat. Keep in mind though the embargo is still in effect so there are so many restrictions now that they are finally on cuban soil. Im angie goff at the live desk, back to you. Thank you, angie. Concerning development for some american investors. Puerto rico is expected to default on its largest debt payment yet today. 422 million that could accounts filled with puerto rico bonds. And all the island a staggering 70 billion in debt. A bill to better oversee its repayment plan has stalled in congress. [ gunfire ] protests get violent in seattle. Crowds throwing bricks and flares at police. The new charges as an historic new york city ka thee dral is gutted by fire and now investigators want to know how it started. Flames erupted just after 7 00 on sunday night at the serbian orthodox cathedral. The Historic Building dates back to the 1850s. Just hours before the fire began on sunday worshippers were inside celebrating orthodox easter. No one was inside the building though when the fire began. Right now jurors are being picked in fredericksburg for a murder trial where lawyers plan to use an insanity defense. 31yearold steven breel is accused of killing his house mate 20yearold grace man back in april of 2015. Both were university of Mary Washington students. The trial is expected to last three days. Nine people potentially facing charges after violent protests in seattle. Crowds threw bricks, flares and molotov cocktails last night all after peaceful immigration and workers rights protests during the day yesterd they were anticapitalists. Police say they injured five officers, none seriously though. May day protests were organized around the world but didnt get violent anywhere else but here. Right now were tracking some major thunderstorms heading our way. And that includes strong winds, heavy rain and the potential for damage. Tom kierein is updating his frft so when was the last time you took some time to commune with nature, climb a mountain, take a hike through the woods or paddle a canoe through a lake or river . Well, a growing number of doctors are telling us nature is good for us. In fact, theyre saying its a great antidote to a variety of ailments including obesity, Heart Disease and depression. And this is led to Public Health officials telling americans go take a hike. The director of our National Park service Jonathan Jarvis joins me now to talk about this new plan to get us outside moving. Welcome. Thank you, great to be here. So where did this idea start . Its called park rx, right . A prescription for feeling better. Park prescriptions. Really it goes way back. Sort of i think the originator of the idea was sort of the father of Landscape Architecture that created central park in new york city and emerald necklace around boston. He said people need nature. But we sort of lost some connection in the last maybe 50, 75 years. So now this is a new partnership between doctors, the center for disease control, Public Health officials and the Parks Community to bring these together for the benefit of the people. Forefathers obviously thought we needed to have parks, they made plenty of them around as part of our national conservancy, right . They did. Really with teddy roosevelt, fdr, many of our great president s established the National Park system for the benefit of the people. But i think at the time they werent necessarily thinking about the health of the people. And certainly in our nation today we have a lot of health issues, obesity, depression, Heart Disease, cancer. And were looking for ways to make our Public Healthier. And our parks are part of that. And you recently had an rx day, right . A park prescription day . Tell us about it. We did. Across the nation about 40 locations, i was in seattle and here in the district there was a gathering with the Surgeon General up at meridian hill. Pilot areas. We have dr. Robert czar, pediatrician at unity health, is prescribing his patients, all of his doctors out of that center for over 380 different green spaces in the d. C. , maryland, virginia area. So are you planning activities people can go to . We see people there exercising across the country in public parks . Absolutely. But whats a little different about this than anything in the past is literally doctors are writing on a prescription pad to go to this park and do this exercise, walk this trail, take this ride your bike around this loop. Keep track and come back and report in. And the doctors are tracking the improvement of their health as a result of that. Wow. How did you get doctors involved . Well, there are a few pioneers, as with any type of sort of paradigm shift you find a few people that actually do it themselves, that theyre outdoors people. And they suddenly realize this is a great thing i can incorporate into my practice and begin to weve been talking to medical schools, weve been talking to universities that train the next doctor to say incorporate this into your practice. So quickly tell me how can we find where we can go around here in the Washington Area . So dr. Robert czars created a searchable database. You can find it if you just type in parkrx. Org or park prescriptions. Youll find the website. Its a searchable database about all the great spaces in the d. C. Area. 12 months a year. 12 months a year. Thank you so much for coming to tell us about this. Im ready to go to the park. How about you . Go for it. Absolutely. Hes the one. Ask your doctor if parks are good for you. Good idea. Well, the capitals and penguins battling for an advantage here. They will likely both be without top defensemen tonight, that is because of one big hit. If you missed it take a look boom. Caps defenseman knocked penguins defenseman down off of the ice. He hit his head. The League Suspended orpik three games. Still recovering and might not be available for this evenings game. If you are planning to watch or dvr the game it begins at 8 00 p. M. Caps are on the road in pittsburgh. They havent won a playoff series against the penguins in more than 20 years. Im hoping thats changing. Its got to change. They wont be back home until saturday. It would be nice to be able to win a couple on the road though and have that home advantage again. Go caps. Well be watching tonight. Youve got some interesting stuff coming up later in the program. Tom, i know you use the parks. Love the National Parks. Weve got of course shenandoah National Park nearby us. The canal there its a wonderful place to get a break from the hustle and bustle of the city. And if youre going to be away from your tv, check out storms that may be getting close to you. If you hear thunder, turn us on nbc 4 this afternoon or this evening as we are going to be right now all is calm. All is quiet. Theres union station. So pretty. Not even wind blowing. Yeah, the flag is just hanging limply there. Hardly any wind now, but we could get strong winds tonight. Nothing on storm team 4 radar here, but there are clusters of thunderstorms now coming into tennessee. Theyre going to be tracking our way later. Sunshine temperatures in the 70s Shenandoah Valley, still some low clouds hovering around 60 in the metro area and around the bay its in the mid and upper 50s. Going to get some exercise in, do it now between around 3 00 and 4 00, youll stay dry and temperatures will climb into the upper 70s, near 80 by 5 00 but storms move in after 5 00 p. M. Hour by hour tonight some of those storms off and on all the way until around midnight. Temperatures dropping back down to near 70 by midnight. New hour by hour timing of storms developing, some showers around 7 00 to 8 00 p. M. , after that it gets stormy between 8 00 and midnight some strong storms, Shenandoah Valley, Northern Virginia into the district and maryland after 10 00. Then at 11 00 it will b move off to our east. And then by later in the evening hours things will settle down, but still some showers may be lingering after midnight tonight and during the morning rush hour tomorrow might have a few sprinkles lingering around the Severe Weather risk is pretty low for tornadoes. Moderate risk though for high winds and hail. Theyll be moving pretty fast so probably no flooding. And then maybe a few sprinkles around on tuesday and cooler as well as wednesday and thursday. Each one of those days maybe some sprinkles, not heavy downpours but nice on the weekend to get out and visit one of our National Parks. It will be in the 70s on saturday and sunday. How do you like that . Definitely looking forward to that, tom. Thank you. Right now parts of southwest louisiana are under water because of heavy rainfall. In lake charles several roadways were shut down because of the flooding, but that didnt stop some people from driving or walking through the high waters. Forecasters say more than six inches of rain fell throughout the area. And more rain is expected there today. Today we should learn more about who could end up in the iconic superstar apparently left no will behind after his sudden death last month. A hearing is under way right now to determine how his multimillion dollar estate, worth up to 350 million we understand, how that should be divided. We may learn just how that will happen later today. Well, after what the ring master for ringling brothers and Barnum Bailey circus called a very emotional performance, the circus elephants are headed to florida and final retirement. The final show took place last night in rhode island. The show has faced growing criticism from Animal Rights groups about the elephant show. The elephants will live at ringlings 200acre center for Elephant Conservation in florida. This is a story that has had us talking all morning. Firefighters chasing a bear out of a second floor apartment in colorado. The person who lived in the apartment locked themselves in his bedroom after he discovered a small bear rummaging through of the night. The firefighters think the bear got in through an open door or window and posted this video they posted t