They say that they are continuing to look for this, 28 yearold david watson. They will be keeping us updated and we will be relaying that information to you when we get it. Live in howard county, im ileana diaz, wusa9 news. This is supposed to be the best times in their lives but instead a maryland man and his daughters say it is hard to go on. Their hearts are broken on. Their house is empty. And they are searching for answers after a car crash killed 68yearold wife and mother Sandra Newsom of maryland. Debra alfarone brings us the story you will only see here on 9. And i just screamed. I didnt know what to do. I was just in so much shock, i couldnt believe it. Reporter and like that, netanya newsoms life changed forever. Her mom, 68yearold sandra, was killed in a two car crash on the wilson bridge. That december morning in 2015 netanya re a job she never went back to. Flashing back if i was on that with her, i would have tried to get off and find out how can i get to my mom. Reporter netanya and her dad know, this truck is the other car involved. They say they have been told there are no witnesses. Time has done little. We were married for 48 years. It was very hard for me and still hard me with not having any answers to what happened. Reporter netanya and emmit has pictures everywhere of the mom, wife and grandmother who was involved in her church, sang in her choir, loved to help people and was just three months shy of retiring from her job at innova fairfax. This is emmits favorite the day he first saw her. I told my classmate, thats my wife. Thict dads surprise 70th birthday party. Reporter police say the crash that killed sandra was on the inner loop express lane of the Woodrow Wilson bridge a little before 7 00 the morning of december 11th, 2015, a friday morning. The family says they will soon move from this house with all its memories, but moving forward is something they cant quite do yet. Someone knew and thats what we want, whoever seen it, to please come forward. Reporter i talked to the Prince Georges County states attorney a little while ago, they say they have completed their investigation. They charged the driver of that truck with traffic offenses including failure to obey speed limit and failure to avoid collision. They say these are the only charges they can bring based on the evidence they have, leslie. Yeah, we see these crashes all the time. We dont always know the stories. Theres always a story behind them, deb. Thanks for sharing that. If you have any information, any at all that might shed light on wusa9 app. Breaking news out of metro headquarters tonight and you might not like it. The Transit SystemJust Announced that five stations on the orange line are going to be closed for track repairs for a full month. These closures are scheduled from may 16th through june 15th and thats coming up pretty soon. Its all part of the year long safe track program, but you see the original plans for safe track called for single tracking between those stations but now as you just heard, those stations are going to be closed altogether. Buses will replace the trains between the New Carrollton and stadium armory stations. Congress approved a temporary measure today thats going to fund the federal government for just another week. The move spares President Trump from a Government Shutdown on his 100th day in office. He began the 99th day of his presidency by signing his 32nd executive order. It reverses the previous administrations arctic ban. Mayors in South Carolina came together to blast President Trumps executive order that expands offshore drilling. In atlanta mr. Trump became the first sitting president since Ronald Reagan to speak at the annual convention of the rifle association. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson chaired a special meeting of the United NationsSecurity Council today. He called for tougher sanctions against china and other countries that continue to trade with the rogue nation. Tillersons comments follow trumps interview with reuters where he said the u. S. Could be headed toward a major conflict with north korea over its nuclear and missile programs. Five days after the first alarm, the last fire truck finally packed up and left that catastrophic scene where a College Park Apartment building under construction was pretty much done in by fire. The final inspections were done today just to make sure that all those last embers are thmpletely out. Damaged that people cant even go inside without extensive shoring for fear that it may collapse. The developer of this 275 unit complex is Wood Partners of atlanta and the company has not announced whether it is possible to salvage this 39 Million Building or whether it will simply have to be torn down. It was 15 years ago today that a deadly tornado tore through la plata, maryland. Take a look at this monster funnel cloud captured on home video. This tornado was a half mile wide, it was on the ground for 24 miles, just in Charles County alone and when it was over, five people were dead and 100 million in damage was left in this storms wake. Our chief meteorologist, topper shutt, is in la plata tonight and, top, the people in Southern Maryland will never forget that tornado. Reporter they wont and we are at the 15th anniversary milestone here but its really more of a celebration at this point because la plata has that night is one we will never forget. We covered that live as it went through. Over my shoulder here, the first people that you see was the old bank and real estate called baldis real estate. That building was pretty much gone. Behind that is another, and thats the United Methodist church. Thats where we will have a town hall meeting tonight. This is route six, that intersection is 301. The tornado littlely came right down route six a half a mile wide. Let me introduce you to some of the first folks on the scene. Chris thompson did the right thing, bill fanning, not so much. I noticed that things were starting to deteriorate, the weather was moving in, i could see the clouds behind us, a little ominous. I decided to go to work. I told my family goodbye, my fiance came outside with me. We parked over here and as we got across the parking lot here, i noticed i could see it coming right off direction, kind of a northwest direction. Its moving through town . Its moving through the town, moving off the main artery through the town of charles street. She did not see it, right . No. Then what did you do . Grabbed her by the arm, pulled her across the parking lot, went back inside the house and as i got back inside my house im yelling at my family get in the basement, theres a tornado right outside. I began to feel safe and as i turned i saw this beautiful twistedder and it was coming twister and it was coming right for me so i did i didnt get back inside. I got in the car and i began to drive down this way, so im driving down this way, down here and i get down there a little bit past the church, where that yellow sign is there. Water and wind and powerlines fall over, trees fall over behind me, in front of me in the road. I was lucky it wasnt right where i was. Repor y yeah. Reporter chris thompson, he shelters his family and then does what all Emergency Service people do, they go to work. And bill knows not to get in the car and try to outrun the tornado. Thats a big nono. Heres the review of the tornado. Originally categorized at an f5. But down to a four. Its now an ef5 so two different scales. Now simply an ef5. On the ground for 24 miles in Charles County, 78 68 totaled, nearly 70 totaled and 100 million worth of damage. We will come back, we will talk more about the exact track of the storm, introduce you to some more folks who actually were in that building right there and lived to tell about it. Looking forward to it, top. A member of the navy assigned to fort immediate is dead fort meade is dead following a crash in upper marlboro. After mid 99th with 34yearold Jonathan Griffin lost control of his Dodge Charger on route 301. Police say that car was going northbound when it crossed several la slammed into a guardrail. That crash closed route 301 for several hours. Washington will be the sight of another large protest this weekend. Environmentalists will take to the streets tomorrow for the peoples climate march. Actor leonardo dicaprio, Richard Branson and former Vice President al gore are among the celebrities expected to attend. And organizers say unlike last weekends march for science, tomorrows demonstration will be more political and aimed at specific Trump Administration policy. Turns out being commander in chief is more difficult than President Trump first thought. Yeah, we are going to tell you what mr. Trump misses about his old life, plus a look back at the incidents that stalled Race Relations 25 years ago today. By the time i get to la plata, the windshield in my car is broken out. But right after the break, the track of the tornado that left this damaged dier we are back at la plata live. We will be here all evening. That is the the pa that is the a episcopal church. Lets go over the track of the la plata tornado. First touching down southwest of jackson in quicksburg, virginia and we put out a warning it was on the ground. Weaker but destroyed three homes and 19 barns. It raced eastward not on the ground but we had reports of funnel clouds and large hail and then it crosses patomic river, weak at first, strengthens. Now its an f4 as it rolls through the heart of la plata shortly after 7 00. By this time you have interrupted 60 minutes and we are on the air live tracking this. F4 downtown, that means winds 207 to 260, when it trekked through la plata, route 6 and 301, it was a half a mile wide, one direct fatality again shortly after 1 00 p. M. Then crosses over the patuxent river, still strong, two more fatalities, and finally begins to lift up west of salisbury but by that time on the ground for nearly 70 miles. Just simply unheard of for a tornado in the eastern seaboard and it ends up being the second strongest tornado on the eastern seaboard, number 1 is worcester,ss damage. On the side im standing, a ton of damage. The courthouse past the episcopal church, minor damages and windows blown out. Tony rose was in charge and heres his first take when he showed up at the scene. I came to la plata from home. It was sunday afternoon, sunday evening, i came to la plata and i am hearing information on the radio about building collapses and things like that but i dont have any idea that theres been a tornado. By the time i get to la plata, the windshield in my car is broken out because i got caught in the hail from the tornado, so half of my windshield is gone by the time i get here and then when i turn onto charles street and coming past the hospital, first thing i noticed aside from all the debris everywhere are people, people that are clearly injured wow. And its still not clicking yet. I see all this damage and im having pro and i havent processed it yet because we dont have those things, right . Just beyond us the road goes down and you can see the trees the trees in april have no leaves on them at all. Reporter defoliated. They are gone. Reporter yep. And then it starts clicking whats going on. And my first thought was going to go to the 911 center and make sure they were okay. As bad as the damage was, Mother Nature was grateful to us because the school, ans, which is at the bottom of the hill was destroyed and had it been 2 00 in the afternoon and that school had been full, it would have been a completely different story. Reporter yeah, it was a blessing at the time it hit late sunday evening when the businesses were closed, werent too many folks in town. Look at notice how small they are . You know why . They are all 15 years old. Even though the north side of route six, minimal damage on the side im on, the south side, major damage. We will come back, we will talk to someone who is right witnessed the tornado and tried to get two people in a car outside her office. First, though, we will take a look at the seven day. And we will look at the seven day. There we go. Like summer this weekend, 91 tomorrow, 88 on sunday, some afternoon storms, better chance for storms on monday, we will monitor that for a yellow weather alert day. Only 80. We go back in the 70s, pretty nice actually tuesday, wednesday and you may complain about the heat this weekend, let me see if youre going to complain about how cool its going to be next week with temperatures in the 60s with rain returning. We will come back, we will talk to bonnie greer of baldis real estate and she was right at ground zero. Her story coming up. We will see you soon, topper. Can you remember where you were 25 years ago . George h. W. Bush was the president at good men and my cousin vinny were in the theaters and joe gibbs led washington over the Buffalo Bills in 1982 to capture the teams third super bowl but the los angeles riots also broke out on this day 25 years ago, the unrest broke out after four white lapd officers were acquitted in the videotaped beating of a black driver, rodney king. What happened out there can teach everyone a lesson. More than 50 people were killed and 2000 others were injured in six days of rioting and lewding in l. A. That unrest caused a bill dollars worth of damage. Donald trump says he thought being president would be easier. He made those surprising comments during an interview with the reuters news organization. Trump also looked back at his prewhite house days. He said he misses driving and because of all the protection around him, he cant really go anywhere. Good news for people in e National Adopt a shelter pet day is happening this weekend to mark the occasion the Humane Rescue Alliance in d. C. Is cutting adoption fees in half. Those fees can range anywhere between 25 and 250. Menudo and sago, two friendly cats, just a couple of the animals up for adoption. A ball of yarn, unique personalities and a willingness to connect with fellow students. We will tell you about the unity project at the university of maryland. And we will check in on our own jan fox as she makes jan jeffcoat as she makes a special appearance on cbss the talk. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month online, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their download speeds. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com in a time of division, a local art project is looking to call attention to what connects us all as people. John henry joins us from the university of maryland with more on the unity project. Reporter check the word unique in the dictionary and this is what you will find, being without like or equal. Whats your name . Ben. Courtney. Reporter what makes you unique . I think my intellect makes me unique. I can touch my nose with my tongue. Repr apart, theres also a lot that brings us together. Great to bring all these people together to understand the importance of diversity. The unity project really tells people helps people identify what makes us ourselves and what makes up other people. Each of the poles behind me has a different identifier attached to it. I am a first generation immigrant. They take the yarn and wrap it around their identities. Back in the middle. As youre walking, youre walking under this web that literally shows the interconnection of us all. Its this one. I think its important to have a project like this because it shows that we are more interconnected than people think. Especially the past few months and few years, theres been a lot of issues going on as people not being tolerant of each other. But this project is a really visual representation of what diversity actually is. Once you get to here, you tie your knot and now you have created unity. Reporter and thats a lesson here on campus today. While its important to embrace wh forget we are all bound together by a common threat. Theres more strength in being together. Alexandria artist Nancy Belmont is created with creating the first unity display. If youd like to take part in this cool project. Tomorrow is your chance. You can see it from 10 00 to 4 00 at the cleary Smith Performing Arts Center on campus. Maryland day, should be a done going on in college park. Fears of metro sickout unfounded. Tonight employees are speaking out against a sick policy they say is hazardous. The new policy requires employees to give a 72 hour notice or face disciplinary action for repeated sick calls without notice. Metro employees, they are not happy about it and now they are teaming up with local doctors, one doctor tells wusa9 he believes a lot of metro employees will avoid getting the medical care they need and he says that could put the public at risk. If i had chest pains in the morning and afraid i was going to get docked for work, a heart attack as a result of the initial symptoms of chest pain, with that train going full speed, even if they had an emergency situation could jeopardize the whole train load of passengers. Metros sick policy allows employees to have up to three unexcused absences a year. After that, counseling is required. So if you were watching watching wusa9 a few hours ago you might have noticed our own jan jeffcoat on tv. Jan joined the ladies on the talk and here she is chatting with actor joseph fines. I understand you have