A is waantennais way up. U when i learned there wereer similaritys to 14 months ago. Tos give me information on x, y on x and sea and that information was not i just was not comfortable with it led me toeo where i had where i got to. O. Reporter well, where her got to was w an unpress dentedtd safety shut down of metro for 29 hours. Ou tonight he tells us all of thef 26 damaged electrical cablesl have been replaced. Ve b hes working now on a plan too replace all 600 cables in the future and moving forward heg rr says he wants more rigorousrous and more regular inspections. Pes that had not been the case upas to this point. S in wiedefeld says hes heard fromed a lot of passengers in the the past 24 hours. Hours yes, people were inconvenienced, yes, they are a concerned but overall he says s the feedback has been positivee because passengers realizes rea that safety needs to be ae a priority. Pr he also described his decisionec making in all this. Al t he says he doesnt like to when something needs to beds done like closing metro during r that blizzard, well, wiedefeld e says hes like to move ase quickly as possible even ifble f that means shutting down the entire metro on short notice. Ot you know, to be frank, i wish i hadnt had to makedo those decisions. Decisions i wish that a blizzard hadntd a come in. I third i hadnt had what had occurred 48 hours ago but whena they do come to me i am goingmoi deal with them in a very er you know, im going to make to m the decision and were going g to go and well do it based on s the safety of customers andtomea employees and thats how weret going the make theseake th decisions. The other message im getting gi from the vast majority of morit people is guess what he dids guh the right thing because i wantan to be safe and i want to comeom home at night so, you know, ino think they appreciate that andnd they understand that, youhat, y know, we have to start to really start to manage thisnage thing in a certain way. Ertain w reporter now, i also i asked the general manager howow he wants passengers to feel feel used this example. E he says, look, i want people pel to feel the way they feel like e they step on an elevator. They dont assume that its safe, they know intrinsicallyric that its safe. That he says people dont have thatat feeling about metro right now rn but he says its his job ands jb its the job of the staff andta the equipment people there to tt make sure that when people getn on metro, they arent worriedt i about their own personalsol safety. Saty. Live in northwest tonight, Tom Fitzgerald fox5 local news. S. Last sundays friendly fire shooting of prince georgesceeo county Police Officer jacaifi j colson has devastated that department. Pa a split second decision by one d officer who fired one shot. S but its not the first timeim the Prince Georges CountyPolice Department has lost one e of their own this way. Fox5s paul wagner joins usoi now with the story. Paul. Paul reporter laura, 27 years, 2a ago gary summers shot his best s fren riverdale. Ale. The two were teammates in thees special operations divisions din and were trying to open therype door of an apartment when the assault went dreadfully wrong. Lo mark murphy was killed which whi left gary somers with thoughts of suicide. Sci thats gary and mark runningun together in support of thepo of Special Olympics and in this t photo thats mark on the left tf after another successful raid. Lr the pictures now hanging inhain gary Somers Office where heffie can see his buddy every day. D we did everything together. E we did everything. And and we went through a tou lot of doors together. Oghe but on the fateful day inhe fefi august of 1988, the door they d were trying to go through suddenly swung open. Wungpen. And i know we had a suspectct there. Very similar to the other oth night, its a quick make a decision. My decision was to t, was to fire. Mark could could see more sem of the suspect than i could. Ou and made a determination to stand up and he came in on the suspect and i i actually shot and killed my best friend. Ri reporter at that momentt thm gary somers says he felt likee t he was on an island andsland knowing what was coming asked a himself if he really wanted to go through it. Ough it. I had to really think outinou there. I had a wife 13 kids thatt depended on me. Ed o me. That really played heavyly ineai my mind, you know, but honestutn to god i didnt want to go to g through it. Ro reporter ug somers was 35oma3 years old at the time and seriously thought of endingnd his life. If all i can remember at that moment, the day or so after soft was i want to talk to somebody d whos been in my shoes, whos ws actually experienced what ihat experienced. Reporter gary somerste says he talked with the capitol Police Officer whoicerho accidentally shot his sergeant during a training exercise. Exec and with the help of a hp psychologist, his family and the Police Department, he survived. Ived eventually i came to the he i came to the c accidents happen and youpen anyu can you can be the best at something and still with the right set of circumstances ann accident happens. Reporter so last mondayr s night gary summers did for thesf officer who shot jacai colson what another officer did for him 27 years ago. I was there mainly to letet him know, one, that hes nothe n the only one that this hasha ever happened to so he didnte feel like i did when it happened. Ppened. And two, i wanted to tell himim my story so that he knew that that he could trust me. Reporter the policeor chief revealed thiste week the t officer who opened fire on o officer colson viewed him as aea threat and shot him intentionally during a chaotic gun battle outside the t district three station. S take your time. Yo reporter today garyod g summers works as a firearms fira instructor for the montgomeryfo county police and mark murphy is never far fror anm his mind. I wish that we we could be segment on the front porch talking sitting on the front porch talking about allinu the fun times we had togetherogt absolutely. Ab he was an awesome police p officer and like i said, heand s was he was one of my heroes. Heroes reporter gary summersary says the officer he met withh monday night is strong willedonw and appeared to be okay but inkn the coming days he says that t officer needs to be reassured rr that what happened was aned w a accident. He should honor jacai colsonai o and then take care of himselfimf and heal if needed. Ee summers says he will be there te to help. To h we also just learned that thernd funeral arrangements have justes been released. En r you can go to our web siteite fox5 news d. C. And you can see those fox5 newsd ive just j been reminded and you can look o and see those funeral arrangements. Paul wagner, fox5 local news. A utah woman is suing ag a d. C. Federal judge over sex sex assault allegations. Egatio the woman says the abusese happened ith she was a teenager and she repressed the memory untilemorul just a few years ago when the wh chief judge for the u. S. U. S District Court for thect court r District Of Columbia triedried contacting her again. Fox5s Alexander Limon hasas the story. Story reporter judge richardic roberts denies the allegations g and in a Statement Released by b his attorneys he says the sexs was consentual and that they the and plan to fight the lawsuithet in court. However, judge roberts did stepdown yesterday just hours after the lawsuit was filed. As l he said hes retiring for health reasons. Kind of epitomizes what thewh law is supposed to be. Pose reporter judge richardgeic roberts the chief u. S. Cef u district judge for therict j district oudf columbia is a man known colleagues as thoughtfulht and meticulous, a man whoan follows the rules. Rul now hes slapped with aed w lawsuit demanding at least allegations. Confused. Vulnerable. Frightened. Frig. And then shes forced into i sex. Reporter the 51yearold 51r woman filing the suit terryng t mitchell agreed to beingei identified through herough h attorney. Atto. In 1981, mitchell was 16 and and the key witness in a murder mde trial against Joseph Paull Franklin who was accused of killing two black men. M roberts was the 27yearoldye federal prosecutor on theosor o case. Case according to the lawsuit, lawsut roberts intimidated, coerced and manipulated mitchell to having sexual intercourse withoh him for weeks before, duringe,ur and after the trial. He tells her you cant telll anybody because if you do,ecse i there will be a mistrial andnd Joseph Paul Franklin will walkak free. Free she knows hell kill again. Aga. Reporter franklin a convicted white supremacistup serial killer was executed in in 2013. Thats when mitchell says s again. She handed over emails andnd recorded phone calls to the to e Utah AttorneyGenerals Office. Shock. S its clearly not the man i know and everything thats in t this lawsuit, all of the allegations are just for me just an anthema. They dont fit with the reputation hes built in thebuie District Of Columbia. F co reporter if this relationship had happened today it would be a felony but it a happened 30 years ago in utah 16 years was old enoughdug to consent in that state. Iat s thats why the attorney t a Generals Office decided notecit to move forward with criminal ca charges. Ar however, were now hearingr, w that all of these allegations could lead to a congressionalsil investigation. Inve reporting live in downtown downt d. C. , alexandria limon, fox5 local news. L n its still unclear what caused a chlorine explosion athl the national zoo today. Orti noon animals or people were hurt thankfully. This happened on the americand a trail near the beaver andver and otter exhibit. Rxh a zoo worker was working in a mechanical area of the exhibithh when he smelled chlorine andor left the area. The he later heard a loud bang. Bang a zoo spokeswoman saysoman chlorine is kept in the area for water filtration. Iltrio the Fire Department responded to the zoo and sent a Hazardous Materials team in aste a precaution. Ria prec major changes can coming togt seaworld. The theme park companyany announced it will end its killer whale breeding program. Rr the company says it will alsoils be ending theater cal shows featuring the whales. G thal instead, programs will focusoc on orca enrichment exercisexercs and overall health. Hlt the move comes in the wake of mounting criticism from animall activists regulators andats lawmakers who say the whales ts conditionconditions in activityd humane. A recall of canned tunane t that could lead to lifethreat what you need to know ahead in our health watch. Plus size men have a bodysi positive word of theirze own. Ir. Well tell you about the new politically correct decision used for curvy men. Were on baby eagle watch. Wh one of those eggs alreadylr cracked. What did you call it, pipping. G pipping. Pip were talking to the to director of the nationall arboretum next about that. Exabo hey, sue. Y, hey, sarah and laura. Hnd l ive had a hard time getting gti work done today because ofse o that eagle camera. Wednesday it up in the bigday in monitor behind us and ive ande been watching it like a mama mam eagle myself. Ea maybe well have a Saint Patricks day eagle. K are you celebrating thisle evening . We have a couple ofe o showers around here and therere but pretty nice temperatures. Well have a first look atat your forecast for the rest of the evening and whats ahead including a little snow whentl o fox5 local news at 5 00 comes0 c right back. K. Okay, so it could happen at any moment. We are closely watching lodevelopments here at thelopmth National Arboretum inum northeast where an eaglet iseaet set to be born any time. Nyim yes, you are looking at ang live picture from the arboretums eagle cam. Last night around 7 oclock we7k started to see the first signsis of the eggs hatching. Hch cracks became visible in one in of the two eggs in the nest. N werent egg was laid on was lai february 10th, the other was 1 usually takes about five weekss for an egg to hatch. What do you see . Yeah. Y let me see you become that egg g again. Go in that egg and be very quiet. See if you can start breakingans through that hard shell. Rd shell then hes going to get through the membrane and then hesne a going to start breathing theng air. Can come on out, baby eaglets. Ag and we arent the only onesne watching closely. Watching that livwatching that s giving schools an amazing teaching opportunity. Or this is the kindergarten classtn at burning tree in bethesda. Bee they have been checking in on i the nest daily at the National Arboretum getting an up closeloe look at the nesting momma m eagle aka the first lady andnd mr. President as the mama sits atop her two eggs. T their class of the bald t eagles, the nest and the eggsste and theyre sharing whatng w theyre seeing and theyre learning what pipping meanspinga and how long you actually havech to wait for an egg to crack. Look. It looks like that crack is even bigger, right . Right ill make a bigger crack. Wow. Do you see the crack . Thats t the claw of the eagle andle theres the nest. The nest is about 5 feet wide. Well, its fascinating fornag them, its fascinating for allna of us and joining us is dr. Richard olson the directorhr of the National Arboretum. Et thank you for being with us. Ei t this is so exciting. Eit explain to us where were atto in the process and how soon undo you think we might see a baby eagle. Well, thank you again forhank joining us. Its been a great day at the National Arboretum. Well, we are hoping anywhere any between 12 to 24 hours is when w this eaglet will can come out. O it could take 48 hours. Hou i cant even get on site is too busy so i havent hv seen it. T. Yeah, you have to wait for it for people to jump off so off that you can get on. Did usually it takes 24 hours but the could it obviously its going to take longer in this case . Well, you know, in biology io we dont like to deal withealit absolutes, so yeah. Everything is averages andves based on experience and soienced this one is taking a littleittl time but 24 hours would be in a little bit so were on track. Track. Does that does it giveat you an indication of theioof health of the eaglet or doesagls that give us any insight intohti what we may see . Well, the the main thing is the eaglet has to do thiso t on their own. Mom and dad are not goingng help, and this is just sort ofot a law of nature i guess. Uess. Youve got to be strong enougheo to get out of that shell andel a so its painful to watch as parents and as humans but i think the chick is strong andk n theyre progressing on theproesi path that we hade tell us, you know, were w sitting here, weve beene bee watching it sort of like of l people have been watching the panda cam, such a big deal. D explain to us why that is, you h know, we dont usually sit and a watch, you know, the bald tal eagles on a web cam. C this is something thats fairly new and we havent seen these guys nesting in awhileng h at the arboretum, correct . Crect correct, yeah, this is the first nesting pair since 1947. 1 you know, a lot has changedng obviously since the eagle was put on the endangered speciesd c list in the 1970s. 97 weve been cleaning up ourbe rivers around the can country,et cleaning up our systems and so o to have the eagles come backe b has been great plus this is inpi an urban area so we can get can the power and we can get the g internet to the site so you situ can see this. How were you able to set that up without scaring the eagle away . Well, we we did all this t in the off season i guess. Ue. Once the last years eagletagt matured and flew the coop, so so to speak, we got in t got into the tree and we prepared it for the cameras, the Lightning Protection andioad brought all of thef t infrastructure that we need to n the site. E. Well, its i before they returned iney re october. Tobe right. Ht so, do we expect maybe to seeo this again next year . Do yout u think theyre going the makee gh this their home . Well, you know, the eagle e pairs pretty much bond forty mho life and so theres a reallys a good chance that theyre going i to continue to use this nesthis as long as this area providesare a healthy habitat and all the a food it needs for eaglets, for , theyre going to be around. Ro one last quick question. Q this iues just to clarify, this is the first lady sitting on sin the egg, so the female sits onin the eggs in the eagle world . Well, in eagle worldrl actually they split time t especially early on and the female tends to sit on the on nest at night cause shest bigger and sheni helps keep the eggs warm during the night. Hm. But at this time since a were so close tot pipping andg hatching the female takes ov and pretty much sits on thesitsn nest. I love that they split they i time. Theyre so progressive those t bald eagles. Bald e they sure are. Fascinating. Scin richard olson, the directorhd of the National Arboretumum thanks for talking with us. Ith we cant wait to see the little eaglet here soon. He s absolutely is. Its been our pleasure. Een e. All right. Llig hes been very busy. We have to thank him forim giving us so much time. Ng u exactly. Its really fun to watcho w and like you said it is i historic to get this view. His ve certainly and weve got perfect weather for the eagleeag sitting there, you know, asw, a well. Its been really nice outside. 60 degrees and sunny in some som parts of the area sue pal p today. Today. Did you get your eagle fixt there. I have been getting my Saint Patricks day eagle fix. s i got to tell you i had toad walk away from the camera. Am it was these are not eagle feathers. Is that your fascinator. Y thats my fascinator that comes out once a year,ou right. T getting a little bit wouldbiwo bely. I dont know if it will makef ia an appearance next year. Y happy Saint Patricks day toint all of you. I know a lot of people ppl celebrate on this day. Lebr ne today, right, sarah and laura. A. Everybodys celebratingelratg Saint Patricks day i have aic feeling. Where are they . Down at the bar. But that was first ofn all l fantastic interview and wetervid have been excited in thee weather stender