Absolutely surprised. Su im just wondering im m thinking were not the united ud nations, were just bens chili bowl. Chil reporter for now bensorow welcomes people to put their th own messages on the wall. All theres just one rule. Negative images or negativenv words theyre going to be goinge immediately whited out. Ot. The whole country seems toeet be changing. Ch lets see most importantlypor what the Community Wants upnityp there. Reporter thats why theyre lett ringepor customerst vote. They have a long list of names s that ranges from rosa parks tors Eleanor Holmes norton toon o prince even names like rachelra ray and jimmy fallon made thedee cut or you can write in yourn own wr candidate. Ca what if people vote that theyat want to see done trump. Tr will you paint him on this. Ou p were like let the people decide. I dont think theyre goingai lo decide that. Out here hre now, you can see unity, peace,peace, love, some of the words thatf td the wall. Wall. Now, bens chili bowl as ili boi mentioned is letting peopleeope voteline on who they want too th be seen seen on this wall. This. Theres a long list of names, maybe 15 or 20 suggested namesss that they have up online. Onl you can go to our web site ifsif you want to vote. Ot. Now, if you ask me, since theyny are asking, i say any time that tyreses name is on thee ie list for pretty much anything pt thats whoy mu im voting for. What about you guys, jim,t you , sarah, any thoughts. Thoug good to know who yourho yo favorites are there, alex. S ar i was thinking she wasas going to pull a can of sprayf sy paint and tag it live on theg ie air but thats okay alex. Ax t you. You. Some major developments duringdg todays metro board meeting. Ng. Nearly two dozen employeesen e have been fired all accused ofso falsifying track records in a derailment last year. New information about what may have caused an innfcoridenti that happened the other day on n the yellow line. Line. Bob barnard with more. Reporter at the start ofter a metro boar meeting, general manager paulpa wiedefeld delivered thelivered transit agencys final reportrer oft its system wide track inspection investigation. Ve at the end of the day theythe investigation uncovered tracktrk inspection practices thatpractia resulted in disciplinaryscpl action for half after track inspection department. Tio reporter wiedefeld sayseld five of 12 track inspectionns supervisors and 16 of 52 track inspectors have been fired. Fire. Other employees suspended or demoted for allegedlyal falsifying records. Ifr a result of an investigationesto following that many silverin line Train Derailment near the t East Falls Church metro mro station. This is the right approach. H. The one the public supports. If someone false if i say a saya record they deserve to beeyeser fired. Were still in the processprc of investigating it. I. Its an ongoing investigation. S i dont want to get too in i depth into those firingsirin because were still going have h to defd reporter metro officials ofi also revealing it was operatorsr error that caused the doors to open on a yellow line trainrain away from the platform attform t Reagan National airport tuesday. The statement he made to us is s that he was positionedos stationary outside of theio station t he got upna rytop reme a garment, his jacket and atet t that point his statement isatens that his elbow triggered thegere door. Were looking into the device. D. We didnt find any defect with the device. Reporter were told that same operator was at ther was a controls of the yellow linelow e train involved in the deadlyeay smoke incident at Lenfant Plaza two years ago. Go metro Board Members also hearing from an official withffw the federal transitran administration about a new Safety Management systemty manat designed to help change the he Safety Culture within metro. Safety is everyonesverones business and everyone owns safety. This messaging truly has to come from the highest levels h of the organization. Reporter all this asof t metros months wide safe track program headseas towards a march completion. A man in the district bob barnard fox5 local news. New and joining us for a littles moreli insight is wamuly martin dicaro. With his elbow he told to metro it was his elbowelow accidentally opening the doors d on the aerial track nearack nea Reagan National airport. Rport. Hes been placed onn placed on administrative leave pendingratl the investeaigation. Vegation. No one was injured but it could have potentially been dangerous had the train been packed and peoplade were pressed up against the door when theyn h opened suddenly before thely train reached the platform. Well, weve learned from aa source with knowledge of the incident that the trainnowlnt t operate was at the hat thcontro the yellow line train two traino years ago that got filled with h smoke right here at lenfantenfn plaza station. Ati that was the day that carl tha glover of alexandria die 80 other passengers were sickened. On that day two years ago thishs train operator whose name what you mean not released acting heroically. He was praised to are his calm s as he moved from rail car toar rail car trying to reassure passengers who were coughingo on the toxic smoke and he wasnde also trying to deal with bad instructions from the rail the l Operations Control Center who tried in vein to get him toto reverse that train to the graine platform two years ago. Ao yeah. Reporter yes, go head. Es go ahead, martin. Ma reporter so, we do know kow the gentlemans name becausebece his name was released in the ntsb investigative documentsents published two years ago duringrs the investigation. E instig his name was james curly andcura again he received praise fromivs both metro and passengers thattt dale. In this case two days agoaysago tuesday he allegedly made ade mistake by opening the doors dos with his elbow as he climbed out of the seat to take offthe e his jacket short of the platform. Ou said,es tlike y youre like what arek the odds h here but, you know, safty been a huge issue of coursee ofu moving forward here. You know, so how do they deal t, i know hes on o administrative leave. Ministratie how do they deal wit leah ah a situation like this andation lit especially since they were talking about this new safetyafy Management System . Is thatstems something to address Something Like this seems to be just a mistaken its impossible toble o eliminate human error entire en technological. Te what Safety Management systemsgs do and theyre the standard star across the transit industry isdy they create a atmosphere and aa culture where its second secd nature youre followingowing protocols, youre beingols, trained regularly andned relarld employees are being put in a ina position where theyre doing whi the right thing. Tng. If we look at bobs reportepot just moments ago about the h track inspectors who were wre fired after the east falls fll church derailment last year, y to correct this issue metro isth going to revise its training manual, retrain the entire etire track inspection departmenton d and make sure that everyoneevere who comes on board in thisd in s department which has lost a doing everything correctly andyr by the book and thatd a supervisors are also on board. B its a top to bottom issue, i correct. You want supervisors who are also not condoning behaviorbehvr that shouldnt be takinge taking place. It does take awhile to turn a massive ship like this in thi the direction it needs to go tog so it appears as thoughthoug theyre at least attempting to t move in the right direction. Dire thanks for talking with us with today. Appreciate it. Ter rightr all right, all right. , if we dont get no justice,j we dont get no peace. Pece. If we dont get no justice, we,e dont get no peace. Eac massive crowds thissive crow afternoon in philadelphia to pretty president donald trumpena ahead of his remarks to gop lawmakers. They held a rally at thomas om pain plaza near city hall. Ity ha they marched to the lowes hotel are republicans wereare rc holding their annual treat. Once President Trump took therue stage he laid out how he and and fellow republicans are mapping p out strategy. Strateg President Trump back at thent white house and thats wheree a that fox5thats Tom Fitzgeraldid is with a look at what thewh the comments covered a wide rangeder of topics. Reporter yes,of sarah andahd jim, there was a lot to unpackou in philadelphia today. Tody. And the president got right atht it meeting with republicansepu hoping to map out a strategy for 2017 right off the top, top, the president took aim at cities like d. C. And on the on e jurisdictions around theoundthe country who have now declared themselves as sanctuary cities. At long last, cracking downkn on sanctuary cities. Cities. [applause] its time restore theore civil rights of americans to protect their jobs their hopes and their dreams for a much better future. Reporter the president also went on tetor double downn his call that he hm call forl fr al major voter fraud in this country,. Co. The president says from hisro viewpoint anywhere from three to 5 Million People voted illegally in 2016 and he saysays critics who claim there is absolutely no evidence toe t support that claim just got it wrong. Wrong. [applause] we also need to keep the ballot box safe from illegal voting. And believe me, you take au taka look at whats registering,s re, folks. They like to say, oh, trump, rum trump, trump. Take a look at whatst hats registering. We are going to protect the the integrity of the ballot boxlot o and we are going to defend theee votes of the american citizens. Reporter now, while ahil a lot of these comments today in n philadelphia by president esint trump were aimed at democrats,dm we also got a look at how he he views republicans right now. W. The president harking back to fridays inaugural speechgural s telling not only republicansepus but democrats as wants results and that thethat e republicans in general no longer have a Democratic White House to blame for nonactiononon in washington. [applause] [appla now we have to deliver. Deli. Enough all talk, no action. A we have to deliver. Ve to d this is our chance to achievea great and lasting change fornger our beloved nation. Reporter well, the the president went on to say thatsat republican platform issues like controlling violent crimeoi and having mexico build a wall on the southern u. S. Border bodr are Top Priorities that havingri come after the mexicanorithe men president canceleda visit here today after President Trumpsid suggested that thing in ad thata tweet this morning. The president arreeived backt re here sarah and jim at the a white house at 3 30 after taking his very first ride asirs president on air fo were live at the white housewhe tonight Tom Fitzgerald fox5 local news. Straight ahead atne 5 00 a conspiracy to steal departmentto vehicles. S paul wagner is on top of that story l wagn tonight. Nig. Ly. Yeah, sarah and jim its a is Northern Virginia man. Rthernirg he admitted in federal court cot today that he stole state Department Vehicles, two of twof them armored in a conspiracy onp with a state department dpartmet employee. Ill have that story straight ahead. Straig and a big bust. Big bust. Man is pulled over forver for speeding but ends up getting arrested after police find allta this. What he was planning to doan withn the 1200 cartons of cigarettes. You cant get your fingers y into that opening and climbing m it. And building that border b Wall Companies alreadyuild puttg in bids to help brings to hel President Trumps promise totrur life. Fe. Hey, sue. Se hi jim, sarah. Sar january has decided to cometo ce back rolling into town on veryn strong winds. Ng winds. Weve had that winds that havehh gusted between 45 and 50 milesad an hour this afternoon. Currently 35 miles an hour 46 at baltimore. Bal wind advisory is. In that effect. Ill let you know how long well havely to deal witho dealh these strong winds and what itnt means for that our temperatures tonight and theme weekend just ahead. Well be right baanckur. Esweek k. Five years in nipra ison after admitting taking in part in a conspiracy to steal z he fox5s paul wagner liveer from the state departmentte dart tonight with this story. S paul. Reporter yeah, jim and sarah, the prosecutors in thissi case say that the conspiracycony began back in 2011 and that and person b, that is, thehe head of the armorede a Maintenance Division here atncer the state department was inwa conspiracy with this man named a James Radcliff who ran a car aca Collision Center out in springfield and that the twold worked a together to steal thesl vehicles and then resell them tm in exchange for kickbacks. Sir, do you have anything to say. Reporter yotghats jamess radcliff leaving court today. Od. He declined to comment on his h guilty plea or the scheme thats government says with the help of the fbi andi ad the inspector general. Enral. According to a court documentoud filed in the case, radcliffe, r managed the car collisionc center in springfield whereing the state department wouldartmew bring its vehicles to be b repaired. Sometime beginning in 2011 the document says radcliff and saysd person b who is not identifiedfd by name conspired to sell sll tires and unarmored stateunarmoa Department Vehicles and split st the proceeds of the vehicle sales. Sale the document also says person b gave radcliff two suburbansubs that radcliff kept at hisf kepti business or home. Ho the suburbans used by the the state department retail atl more than 48,000 a piece. Iece. Government prosecutors say radcliff sold the vehicles toeho customers who were told thats w he had acquired them at auto auctions. In total, there were 12wer12 suburbans and one hummer. D oneu. These are the vehicles thecles e government says were stolen. Now, what we understand iser that there were a total of 15 o5 vehicles that were stolen overe a period of atn least two years, perhaps a little bitt longer and in this courth document that we were able to see it says that that two of te suburbans armored and thoseans r vehicles were given by thisy hi man identified only as person pn b to mr. Radcliff who keptpt those Armored Vehicles at his business and at his home. Red hi. Hes now facing up to five t fie years in prison butsonut prosecutors respect suggesting that he could be spending aspen much as 18 months to 24 months m in that prison. Thats just a little less thansn those five years. Years. Were live outside the stateate department, paul wagner, fox5 f5 local news. Nws. The Postal Service isrviceis offering up to 50,000 a 50,0 reward of that amount fornt for information leading to theo the arrest of two men who assaulted that postal worker. Orr investigators say the lettery te carrier was working in georgetown when that these twot suspects assaulted him. M. Take a look. O recognize him h the attack at happened in the middle of thelee afternoon. Afte investigators say the assaultasa happened after the suspectsusecs broke into and stole from twofr separate Postal Serviceservce vehicles. Meantime police say the ntime po burglar who stliruckce s mayultp times in Fairfax County is now o behind bars. Rs nicholas cormea charged with w seven counts of burglary and a five counts of grand larceny. L. Investigates think hes behindek a series of breaks in. A neighbors surveillance videoid helped lead police to him. All right. Gh. Could not believe what i wasat s experiencing when i walked outlt the door. Door. A monsoon,. M no, no. The winds. Ere inense. S were intense. To say the very least. L sue palka, when i steppedi outside i literally had like she needed bonnet. Boet. Dirt flying into my face. Flyc oh, yeah. H, y i was just trying to pumpryi gas and i could barely handlecoe it. It. The wind are hard to take. T. Feels like every 24 hours wehoue get these big gusts and today,t sarah and jim, these have beensn gusting up and over 50 mileser an hour in and some spots. Pots. We actually got warm beforerm bf the cold front arrived and a weve been dropping ever since e and the winds have beenthe wav picking up so a wind advisory is in that effect for all the areas you seeef highlighted here until 7 oclock. Weve been keeping a close eye, we think it will probably r expire at 7 oclock but thatth by no means means that thes thae wind stops at 7 oclock. Olock. It just means that the gusts ths to 50 are probably less likely y but it will stay breezy brey overnight just to give you a a little sample of some of theof e winds we saw today, Catholic University 48 Miles Per Hour gusts. Newington virginia in fairfax,fi 51 Miles Per Hour. Ur and hyattsville and princend georges county a 46 miles pern hour gt. T. Mi heres where those gusts are gue right now. Ght n one of the highest is still stll baltimore at 46. Quantico leonardtown 37. Frederick and gaithersburgitrsbg gusting to 32. Obviously thats having an havig effect on that wind chill. Chil. First lets check temperaturesht because believe it or not wet today but its been dropping ever since and now its 49 intn the district, 41 in winchesterwr and cumberland, 48 at culpeper and 50 in leonardtown. Eondtown. Thats a very dramaticram temperature change though incha the last 24 hours. Ours at 5 oclock yesterday it wastet 22 degrees warmer in cuerland. D. 14 degrees warmer in frederick. 8 degrees warmer in theame district. Theres a chill in the air asch those temperatures drop t itin feels like its 30s to low 40s. Heres your evening planner. Eve. We keep it pretty windy at windt 7 oclock with a temperaturek wi of 46. Th byof 9 oclock were stille l breezy but not quite as windyndy but well keep breezes around a all night long temperature attet 9 00 about 42 and by by 11 oclock 40 degrees and a anda preview of your fri