Answers after 14yearold girl is reportedly raped by classmates in their Montgomery County school. We track down the superintendent. Can you assure parents their students are safe is absolutely. I have five children i understand. A home explosion in maryland left this family without a home too. For the first time, the family is asking fox 5 about how their dealing with the unimaginable tragedy thieves breaking into local gun shops wiping them clean. How police managed to track down the suspects. We begin any a fox 5 exclusive. A teenager is raped in her high school and for days, the School Superintendent has been side stepping parent concerns and our inquiries. Im tony perkins im shawn yancy. Fox 5 made several attempts to speak with Montgomery County public School Superintendent jack smith. It wasnt until tonight when we caught him leaving his office that we finally got a response. Marina marraco joins us live with the exclusive interview. This crime happened in Montgomery County. Shouldnt School Safety and issues surrounding undocumented students be a concern for all school systems. Reporter tone, we asked the superintendent that question and tons of others that our viewers posted to us that have yet to be answered. And yesterday, dr. Smith, a superintendent from Montgomery CountyPublic Schools broke his silence. He did so with a public open letter. He declined several interviews to be exact. We put in fox 5 put in three formal requests to interview the superintendent. All three of those requests were denied. So today, we drove here to the board of education and we waited for three hours for dr. Smith to leave his office and finally, we asked him those questions. I put out a letter last night. Terrible situation. At horrible situation. When we look at all the information from thursday and we hand it over to the police immediately t and at this point, its their investigation. Reporter but you had an 18yearold in your school enrolled as a freshman. You dont see that as a problem we have a lot of 18yearolds in our schools. Its. Reporter 18yearold with a senior 24 our students was in a mets program for english learners. Thats a program across the system. Its not a matter of what grade theyre in. But the for english learners. Reporter how does an 18yearold have any sort of contact way 14yearold woman, girl, female whos a minor. Hes an adult i cant talk about any of the facts around the case because theres an Ongoing Police investigation and the police and the courts will sort that out as i said my letter last night, information will continue to come out in the coming weeks. Its important for people as horrible as the situation is, not to jump to conclusions or say things. That they may have to rethink or take back. Reporter is there any sort of alternative or secondary learning situation for a person like the 18yearold instead of placing them at a high school with 14yearolds theres a variety of different programs and other programs for older students. As i said i cant really speak to the situation because theres an Ongoing Police investigation and a lot of Information Police department in the court process. And people have a clear picture. But its a horrible situation. My thoughts and prayers are with the girl and her family and were offering all the support we can as they go through this. Reporter were you aware of the ice detainers on these two men we dont have information typically about students and their immigration. Reporter can you assure parents at rockville high their students are safe we will do everything in our power, i have five children and four grandchildren. I understand. Reporter tomorrow at 7 00 p. M. There will be a pta meeting at rockville. I asked dr. Smith if he would be in attendance. His response was i dont know if ill be there or not. Maybe. Live tonight in Montgomery County. Marina marraco fox 5 local news. Marina i can understand the outrage and concern about an freshmen. Do we know if the same situation existed at other high schools. Reporter he says throughout the high schools here in Montgomery County there are many 18yearolds that are in high schools enrolled in Public School in Montgomery County. But remember this 18yearold was enrolled as a freshman, so he still has four years left at that school. Which would put him at roughly 22 years graduating as a senior. That would be something rare if you will here in the county and across our high school and large concern of parents especially girls 14 years old given what we saw happen last week at rockville high i know put out the letter did he have any explanation as to why he didnt want to speak out publicly . A lot of parents had concerns and fears about this. Reporter he just kept saying this is still an active investigation. Eight criminal investigation and he did not want to melt with the investigation. He did not to reserve his person place and how they handled things. We asked him if he would answer concerns and questions from parents themselves tomorrow at that pta meeting and he wiggled through that question and would not give a definitive answer at the end saying maybe he would be there. Hopefully well be there so we can see what happens. Thank you very much. New tonight at 10 00 police say a rockville man shot his dog and then himself. Before an explosion that leveled his home and shook houses miles away a neighbor actually shared this picture of steven beck and his pitbull max with us. Only on fox 5 were talking to mr. Becks neighbor whos home is condemned because of the blast. Lindsay watts is live with the latest. Reporter shawn and tony, investigators have not determined whether steven beck intentionally caused the explosion. That is what many neighbors around here believe at this point. So you can see people have been leaving flowers on the some have taped dog bones for a lot of compassion for the lives lost despite the circumstances. Today were able to get a closer look at the whats left of this home, just a pile of rubble here and were also learning more about the family who lived just behind this property. They feel lucky to be alive. I dont understand the situation. Reporter about 15 feet away, from this explosion, daniel ronivich 6yearold sons were sleeping. Glass all over, and. Reporter he says he didnt know if his sons were alive when he grabbed them from their beds and ran with them how are they . Theyre, big shock for them. Back to school today. With their friends hopefully they will be fine. Reporter t f home condemned. It has the worse damage of the ten that were impacted. Boarded up windows can be seen around the house where police say steven beck shot and killed himself prior to the blast. Neighbors say they cant believe he killed his pitbull too. That was his family. Max. Reporter his home was in foreclosure and set for auction. Neighbors say he had become a recluse. Never expected this it was devastating, sad. You really understood the depth of despair that he was in. Reporter some left flowers at the home. Others came just to see the destruction. He focused on his own house and whats next. Its damaged hopefully soon well be back in our home. Reporter the big question that remains now is, what exactly was it that caused such a powerful explosion . Investigators have said they found that beck was illegally tappin they still have not link that day to what happened here. Live in rockville Lindsay Watts fox 5 local news. Three men accused of robbing several gunshots in our area, detectives sayhey stole thousands of dollars worth of weapons. Fox 5 tisha lewis is live. Reporter they made their first appearance in federal court. They will be back in alexandria. Were here at one of the gunshots hit in chantilly. The manager says the crooks got away with 35 guns on the heels of the arrest and charges one of those guns was recovered. The team at 50 west armory guns in chantilly says theyre he is at a timic. The suspects stole more than i want 25,000 less than a minute thrilled they were caught and were amazed with Fairfax County responded to quickly to them breaking if the store, and we cant thank Fairfax County atf enough but were more happy with the fact they caught them in a week. 23yearold preston homes and matthews joins and 19yearold daniel quarrels were charged with conspiracy and theft of firearms. Theyre accused of swiping gun from three dealers in the last ten days. Scott wall checked to see if they were customers we dont recognize them. We went back to the database, we dont have a record of them. Reporter a tip apparently led to the groups arrest, federal investigators say the fast moving crooks are also responsible for the march 14th burglaries of tack ankle and sfg tack i that a prompted them to examine the security any time anybody has a facility broken into, whether it be your home or business, would you not be smart enough to look and see if theres anything we can do better. Reporter businesses back to normal at 50 west armory in chantilly. Were told that the firearms were entered into a database. That means if they pop up at any dealer or a pawn shop they will be flagged. The the defendants were arrested and charged over the weekend and if convicted could face up to to ten years in prison. Tisha louis fox 5 local news. Coming up nearly 1 million worth of heroin is off the streets of Northern Virginia. Where police say they made the massive weekend bust. Marines rider to adhere to the new social media policy. Were going to break down what it means for fox 5 news at 10 00. Mayor mayor Muriel Bowser it happened this afternoon in northwest dc. Mayor bowser stopped by to honor. We do a walk in the Community Every month with members of our administration. We check on business corridors, meet with Council Members to see what these corridors need the mayor tells us some needs include fixing sidewalks lights and in some cases removing trees. Just blocks away, Police Officers were responding to a theft it happened during the day. Broad daylight 5300 block of wisconsin avenue northwest. Were told the officers chased the suspect into Montgomery County. Police arrested the suspect, who is now facing it is the first night of spring, a little cool out there. I understand it might be a little bit warmer tomorrow. Gary mcgrady joins us with a look at that wakeup forecast were hoping tomorrow we can crack the 60 degree number for the first full day of spring for the season. 2017. Let me show you we didnt get there today. High temperature managed up to 54. A little shy of where we should be. 54 degrees for dulles and 52 for bwi marshal. Its a little on the cool side. But not too cold. Temperatures holding right at 50 in town. A few spots of north and west in the middle 40s and still around 50 degrees. After you guys in fredericksberg. A lot of clouds this evening, notice dies showers back out to the west of us. Listen this whole area, thats going away and it may come across parts of 81. Away to the south and west. Probably south of harrisburg, overnight. Tomorrow morning, theres a chance. Its not a could have a little shower move through the area from time to time. Hopefully most of the commute will stay good. Definitely its going to be a cloudy overnight. Wind out of the southeast only about five miles per hour. Again, spotty shower, i dont expect more than a little here or there. Temperature gets to about 46. Most of the area outside of the beltway tonight probably stays in the middle 40s. Couple spots could get a little colder than that. Tomorrow morning, mostly dry. Again, hopefully the pavement stays mostly dry after tomorrow morning. Its awful. Time to get to work and the to school when theres even just a little bit of rain out there. But rain its not snow. Remember sunday morning with the snow . Speaking about that, no more. Police police bust add drug nearly a dozen stemming from charges stemming from opening the purple rain. Police say gun, cash, cocaine and heroin. Attorney general mark her ring off the street is critical this is a problem that communities across the commonwealth and country are facing. In Northern Virginia is not immune from it. Weve seen a spike in fatalities from heroin, precipitation opioids and fen nil. Commonwealth in Northern Virginia has bit hit hard they have a street value of about million, five of the 11 arrested lived in alexandria. Its a story weve been reporting, dc residents awakened by home shaking metro tracked the issue. The Transit Agency claims it knows whats causing the problem. Well update you when we return. Committee held an investigation to continue the investigation with potential interference by the russians. More on todays hearing ive been authorized by the department of justice to confirm that the fbi is investigating the russian governments over to thes interfere and that includes any links with the Trump Campaign and the russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and russias efforts. The Committee Senior democrat drew connections based on circumstantial evidence and media reports between former Trump Campaign manager paul man for the roger stone, businessman carter page and moscow. Its also maybe more than possible that they are not coincidental, not disconnected and not unrelated the white house spokesman shot back i think its fine to look at the end of the day theyre going to come to the same conclusion that everybody else had. Reporter as the republican chairman emphasized. Russian hacking did not impact the tallies in swing states do you have any evidence that any votes were changed in the states that i mentioned . No. Pressed the fbi director to investigate if democrats crossed the line they have ties to russian intelligence services, agents. Would that be something of interest to you . The fbi director said the russians buildinged Hillary Clinton was would win and the hacking was designed to damage her presidency. If they wanted to hurt our democracy. He said theres no evidence to support the wiretapping with respect to the tweets about the wiretapping with the prior administration, i have no information that support that an allegation that president obama ordered wiretap, theres no basis for the claim the Obama Administration directed to spy on the Trump Campaign do you know if anyone else made such a request no, sir. Reporter communications were swept up during surveillance of foreign target the. Including mike flynn, the nsa said lend two dozen people have that authority. Republicans blame former obama officials for linking flynns name about. Sanctions do you know whether director clapper knew the name of the u. S. Citizen, would director brennan have access to an unmasked u. S. Citizens name . Would National Security advisor susan rice have access to an unmasked citizens name both directors testified that leaking an americans name is a serious federal offense but they only hinted at the to existence of a federal criminal news. Nude photo scandal involving the marine sharing nude photos of fema recents on a private Facebook Page along with calls. 20 women were targeted. As a result the marine corp developed a new social media policy. Giving more leeway to punish them tracking metro tonight, wamu transportation report and Martin Decarlo got his hands on metros inspection report. Focuses on dcs pet Worth Community after residents complained trains are shaking homes. We told you about the problem back in december. Residents say the shaking wakes them up, causes things to fall off walls. Track inspectors found damage fasteners inspectors say those heavier could be to blame. Metro hired noise and vibration analysts to conduct tests. Next time youre heading out end dont know what to wear, look no further than your amazon prime account. Yep, the website now offers fashion advice to some users, well show you how it work, Sarah Simmons and jim lokay tried it out next at tomorrow morning on fox 5, actress tia malry will talk about her new book and the journey she took. Are you using the right pillow, what you rest your head on could affect the way you sleep. Chiropractic physician will be here to talk about pillows designed specifically to suit your sleeping habit, fox 5 news morning kicks off at 4 25 careful joe, theyve got you outnumbered. The dinosaurs extinction. Dont listen to them. Not appropriate. Now im mashing these potatoes with my stick of butter. Why dont you sit over here. Something for everyone is awesome. Find your awesome with the Xfinity Stream app. More to stream to every screen. What . There are bumps along the road of life. And for each one theres triplea. Its just three kids, right . Head of Montgomery County schools is responding to a brutal attack Marina Marraco joins us with the latest. Reporter today, after numerous requests interview, Montgomery CountyPublic Schools superintendent dr. Smith, he denied several of our requests, we finally caught up with him as he left his office and asked him how a heinous Sexual Assault could happen on School Property during school hours. The police and they sort of that out. As i said in my letter. Information will continue to come out. Its important for people as horrible as at situation is not to jump to conclusions or say things they might eventually have to rethink or take back. Reporter theres a schedule p,a meeting tomorrow at r