People living in the area hope this crime gets police to take more action. Weve soon see were been seeing an up tick in robberies, gunshots. When it happens 50 feet from your house and theres a bunch of kids outside playing all the time its not an ideal situation. This is the seventh homicide in alexandria this year. Police are trying to figure out who killed him and why. A day care provider is neglect tonight. This is nay young park of the Kiddie Academy in gainesville. On november 19th investigators say a 3yearold walked away from the facility and wandered into a near by business when people there couldnt find the childs parents they called police. Park is out on bond tonight. So this is one of four nooses found at a construction site in Calvert County. Now an investigation is underway to find out who is behind the message that theyre trying to send. Wusa 9s Delia Gonclaves is live with the latest. Reporter two nooses were found back in april, another two in november after the third noose launched an internal investigation. Both the company and the Sheriffs Department believe this is an inside job. I hope they fine out find out who is doing it. This massive construction site for the gas project already controversial with the community and now the disturbing discovery of four nooses hung up for all to see. Its an established pattern for us. The way this world is going today its not unexpected. I think its herbal terrible that after all this time the hatred is coming to surface. Carolyn bryant feels Race Relations have taken an ugly turn recently. Hide my feelings. If its not being said directly to you its being felt and thats scary because you dont know where its coming from. The Company Called it unacceptable. They are working with a former fbi agent to find out who is behind the nooses. The Sheriffs Office said right now its not a crime because theres no victim. No employees have come forward who have taken the noose as a threat. People might come forward because theyre afraid for their job. Its a realism in todays world. Its just not the way that the world should be. Reporter north americas building trade unions wants to get to the bottom of this offering now a 100,000 reward for any viable information. In maryland, Delia Gonclaves, wusa 9. A Company Spokesperson went onto say in a statement, quote, nothing less than the safest Work Environment for anyone acceptable end quote. Anyone with information urged to call is Calvert CountySheriffs Office. So we are learning more about the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of 16yearold breanna mcmillian. Charging documents show that 30yearold sead evans has a lengthy criminal records. He assaulted an officer and drove under the influence in 2004. He surrendered last week. Of him firing a weapon outside the housing complex where she was killed last friday. Tracking metro tonight and some newly released documents shed new light on last julys derailment at east falls church. These documents from the National Transportation safety board show that metro knew about potentially dangerous track conditions long before the derailment. Oversight. In a statement metro said its taken multiple steps to improve safety and inspections. Theres a big fight over big cuts. Tonight metro is closer than ever to slashing rail hours. The board Just Announced a plan but now theres a new threat to stop it. The transportation reporter pete monteen is live at metro headquarters to tell us all about that. Reporter leslie, months of debates here just got a whole loath tenser. Metro just a few extra hours to work over night but dc officials are against it. The plan to close metro early could get derailed. The gm said its a must for fixes. Dcs metro Board Members are now closed off to the idea. There are members of the boards from the district that do any think he needs the hours. The board is now considering on weekends, 11 30 on weeknights. It will be permanent for 2 years. Dc wants it to last one year. I will go back and talk to the mayor and council in light of the boards decision today to do 2 years instead of 1 year. How upset are you . Its democracy at work. They said few er hours will impact the businesses m and youre just doing something to do it its to deliver on our promise of safety that i hope for to prevail. We have to have time to maintain the system and prevent any of these incidents that happened in the past from happening again. Reporter now, this is far from over. If all of this passes a full metro board vote in about two weeks time and this pete monteen, wusa 9. Thank you, pete. Sunday hours would be im pacted too. Trains would start running an hour later at 7 00 a. M. Instead of 8 00 a. M. Right now. President elect donald trump making his first stop on his victory tour today. The first order of business was in indianapolis where he thanked the carrier plant for not shipping 1,000 jobs to mexico. Companies are without consequences. Trump promised the ceo of carrier that tax rates would dwarf the money but out sourcing to mexico. Ohio is next on the president elects thank you tour today. He will make stops in iowa and michigan next week. The Washington Post reporting that trump has selected retired marine general james madis to be his defense secretary. He retired as head after serving more than four decades in the marine core. The Holiday Season will soon be officially underway in washington when the White House Christmas tree will get lit up. The ceremony is Getting Started. Thats where Nikki Burdine is right now. Reporter the ceremony is officially underway. We have the air force band playing right behind us. In just a few minutes, they are running a little bit behind, that big beautiful White House Christmas tree will be lit up. Its here year round. It extra special because there will be 500 to 600 red and blue lights lit up. Its going to be gorgeous. Now to just give you some history on this tree this tradition was started in the white house in 1923. Coolage was the first president to do this. This particular tree was planted in 2012. Its 30 feet tall. We are going to have a lot of performers here. We have lumineers, mark anthony, chance the rapper and of course the first family here for their last christmas in the white house. This is a ticketed event. The thousands of people here had to enter the lottery to get a ticket. We talk today we talked to a few of them before the show. Im here to watch the Christmas Lights and watch most of my favorite rappers sing. Who is your favorite . Chance the rapper. Its an honor to be here. I of c christmas. Im excited to see the president of the United States and his wife. Reporter this washington tradition will get underway any minute now. Theyre running a little bit behind. As soon as it starts to get ready to light that tree we will bring it to you live. Live outside the white house, Nikki Burdine, wusa 9. It sure is pretty out there, nikki. See you in just a little bit. We are just Getting Started on wusa 9 news at 5 00. Howard. After a cup ouple wet stormy days we are getting a break. Be chilly as temperatures drop into the 40s. How long this break is going to last. Racist graffiti found on cars in a Montgomery County driveway. What neighbors are sighing about the trumpthemed vandalism. Police are looking for a man who set his girlfriend on fire in Fairfax County. Right after the break a High School Students fear about deportation and her teachers controversial response. Theres more f ght. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. That means incredibly fast 150 meg internet for the holidays. So in the 3. 7 seconds it takes gary watson to beat the local sled jump record, fly, gary, fly. D shoulder. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone for just 79. 99 per month online for the first year. This next story is pretty tough. In virginia a woman was intentionally set on fire. 64yearold Dolores Williams of alexandria lost her battle over night. Girlfriend, lewis edward ritter. Police were called to the couples home in wood lawn last month. Ritter who has a history of Domestic Violence charges is still on the run. A lot of issues arose out of this one, a car crashing into a home in Fairfax County today. The vehicle knocked out a lot of bricks on the house located on braddock road. The car ruptured a gas line leading to the home. One person was taken from the accident scene crews worked to stabilize the walls of the home to ensure there was no further damage. A story about a Centerville High School teacher asking a student if she was legal or illegal has gone viral. So people around the country are weighing in now. The teacher told her students to write their feeling about the election results. Our reporter peggy fox broke the story and talked to another student in the same class. Since we brought you the issue. Some say it was perfectly fine, others think it was more than inappropriate. Im very disappointed in the election the 10th grade english teacher wrote on this students paper. Are you legal or illegal . It depends on that factor for depor ration. I hope you get to stay exclamation point. The girls mother is livid. The fact that she asked if she was legal or illegal, you know, thats against the regulations. Thats against policy. You cant do that. I think it was taste. Meg in that same teachers class at centerville and had the same assignment. She told us she wanted us to write our feelings at the election. It was just being graded for completion. I am thankful for my life, the life that i have and my family that trump is trying to deport because we are hispanic girls concerns about deportation. On wusa 9s Facebook Page one man wrote if that was my kid i would be at the teachers house. Others think it was a bad choice of words and that she meant no harm. I dont think she meant any harm by it but i think it was in poor taste. Yeah, i dont think she meant to offend anyone or anything. A spokesman released a statement that said the teachers comments inappropriate. Fairfax county Public Schools policy does not permit asking students for proof of citizenship. In centerville, peggy fox, wusa 9. Now, the students mother said she had a meeting with the School Superintendent this afternoon to talk about the issue. Now, if the teacher faced any discipline Fairfax School officials are prevented from releasing that information because its a personnel matter. The death toll is up to 10 now after that wild fire that raged through gaithersburg, the fires torched more than 700 homes and businesses. The Dollywood Foundation said it will donate 1,000 a month to people who lost their homes. From fire to storms. People in the southeast are assessing the damage after some deadly storms rolled through. In just over a day more than a dozen confirmed tornado ravaged louisiana, mississippi, tennessee and alabama. At least five deaths are being blamed on these storms. Dozens of people thousands of homes and businesses are now gone. Theres so much that needs to be done that i dont know where to start. My business is gone. My big dale. Ill get it all together and restart. A tornado watch remains in effect across much of the southeast today. Its hard to have that kind of positive attitude but when you look at everything that you have being gone. The guy . Had . Has has there were also four tornados in atlanta yesterday. The only thing is they were able to get out of the drought in east tennessee. Not out of it but it helped a lot. They got the rain out of this. They needed it desperately and they still need some more rain but this is at least a start in the right direction. We had plenty of rain yesterday. A record 1. 3 and change at dulles. It doubled the amoun entire month of november. Right now a chill is in the air, 51. Its gusting to 26. Weve had plenty of gusts in the 25 to 30 mile an hour range. Its going to be breezy and dry. Right now we have low 50s in annapolis and easton, 52 across the bay. In the valley down in the mid 40s. 20s and 30s now in the high country. Snow guns are blazing in the ski areas. They are trying to get open so keep your fingers crossed if you like to in on the weather headlines, welcome to meteorological winter. December, january and february are the coldest months of the year. Thats the way we do it. We dont follow the astromers. I dont see any snow in the near future. Maybe the far, far future the way its going now. The next chance of rain on tuesday. Well watch this system out of texas. Right nown just some chilly air thats coming across the open waters of the lakes. Where its cold enough its snow but we saw this persistent western and northwestern wind and thats going to be the case. That High Pressure will slowly build in. Tomorrow morning some clouds in the mountains. We are going to be partly to mostly sunny for the day. Every now and then some of these clouds with energy can get down east of the ridges. For the most part they stay up there. That will be the case tomorrow into saturday. You know, saturday is going to be low 50s. By sunday we are watching High Pressure build in. So the winds at least saturday night and sunday will be less. Notice a lot of clouds out there. This rain that you see in mississippi and louisiana and even the showers towards st. Louis that moisture is what im watching for monday but more likely tuesday in here. Thats going to give us a chance for the rain on tuesday. With the rain this time of the year and the low sun angle that means the 40s around here. It gets kind of raw with that. Our forecast for tonight, a cold one. Down in the 30s. In the outer suburbs, 38 or so here in the district. Winds relaxing a little bit, west, northwest at 10. Tomorrow morning chills down in the 20s. Consider that for your kids out to door for school. Friday afternoon 48 to 54 but breezy and childly. Gusts 20 to 25, wind chills in the 40s. Thats pretty average for this time of the year. Saturday breezy and chilly, 49. The afternoon, 50. Whether youre going to see navy and their aac championship game with temple or the ravens in miami on sunday thats in baltimore, it will be fine weather for that. Tuesday looks wet. Maybe a later shower or two on tuesday. The next front drops us into the 40s on thursday. Thank you, howard. Today marks a mile stone in the civil rights struggle. It was december 1st, 1955 when rosa parks refused to give up her bus seat on a crowded bus to a white passenger. That move alabama at the time. It led to a long boycott nearly a year later. The Supreme Court ruled that segregation on buses in alabama would you say unconstitutional. The university of maryland is honoring parks act of civil disobedience today. One seat on every unit bus is saved for her. All right. Lets check out things at the white house for lighting ceremony. Lets listen in right now. So speaking of music, lets hear it for the United States air force airmen of note. [cheers] now, it is my great honor to welcome the first family of the United States. Please welcome president obama, mrs. Obama and sasha. . . [ music ] . . [cheers] . . [ music ] . [playing oh Christmas Tree] . . [ music ] . . Hi. . . [ music ] . . Hello everybody. Eva longoria thank you for the hosting. Kelly clarkson we love. Everybody watching its officially time to light this tree. [cheers] are you guys ready to count down . Yeah. We are going to start from five. Are you ready . Yes. Are you sure . Yes. Okay. Lets go. Five, four, three , [cheers] merry christmas, everybody. Im proud to say that our next performer is a five time latin grammy winner. All right. You have watched the first family light the national Christmas Tree for the very last this is the obama familys eight time flicking the lights on this Beautiful Tree and of course all of the trees for each of the states and territories. State ts states and territories. They have a beautiful lighted journey for people there and people that come to visit. Theres 57 trees in fact to mark all of the states and territories. This particular tree, the National Tree has been anthony is performing next. We will kind of dip in and out over the remainder of the newscast. A lot of people take anything in tonights consumer alert it is a malware called gooligan and hackers have infected more than one million google accounts with it. Check Point Software traces this virus through dozens of legit looking apping on older android fans. They get access to your data from your data, Google Photos and google do play store. Its more likely an interest increase will happen as the u. S. Economy continues to get better. Thats pushing Mortgage Rates higher. According to the Mortgage Bankers association the Mortgage Applications plunged more than 9 last week compared to the previous week and apply cay cases applications to refinance have dropped. Today hes continuing to recover after emergency bowl surgery. Hes still eating softer foods like Sweet Potatoes and special biscuits. Vets are makin