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remorseful for the things that occurred. we believe and we have every reason to believe that this was an accidental shooting. >> saunders accepts life with all but 40 years suspended. the first chance of parole comes in 20 years. betts was shot in the chest in his bedroom. three accomplices are scheduled for trial between now and late january. they were arrested after a caught on tape spending spree with betts stolen credit cards. his abandoned truck was found two days after the april 15 murder with saunders fingerprints inside. >> family was here today. they expect to give testimony...

some light sprinkles and light showers. that's all we are dealing with this morning. temperature-wise it's on the cool side. definitely need a jacket with readings in the lower 40s now, up 270, gaithersburg, rockville, laurel 43, as well. arlington 43. we have 40s this morning and a 0s this afternoon. 4:31. let's get the time saver traffic. good morning, once again. a live look at 95 northbound in virginia. we are indeed clear still from fredericksburg all the way up to 495. look out for wet roadways and back down on the speed a bit. moving toward i-66, we are quite clear. a little...

there. also i-66 gets the clean bill of health past 50 to the beltway. on the outer loop, we are clear. still a little buildup in places i-95 to 270 but nothing to hold you up. in the district, no problems as we take a live look at 15th and pennsylvania avenue. no issues there. there's a bit of good news and we will have a look at the toll road at 5:10. this morning, metro is scrambling for answers after the second major escalator malfunction in less than a week. >> in both incidents, passengers were seriously jostled. some ended up falling to the bottom of the escalator. on saturd...

>> i tried to hold on. >> reporter: the escalator was just inspected last month. it was installed in 1977, but many of these escalators are decades old. and metro says they want to get to the root of the problem, even though if they know there was a brake failure, they want to know exactly why they failed. lesli, anita? >> reporter: so speeding up to a point of a free fall, this is still pretty rare? >> reporter: yes, they said that metro had not heard of an incident like this one happening. it is rare, they are looking into the safety. of course, they want to get back to the people ...

bruce, what's going on? >> yeah, derek. firefighters still on the scene. they got the fire under control. i want you to take a look at pictures because it shows the heroism of these firefighters, just unbelievable. this is what it looked like when they arrived on the scene. you can see them yelling to the people who were up on the upper floors. up on the 10th floor. the fire was on the 9th floor and there were several apartments that were just fully engulfed in flames and the people on the floor above them, they were trapped. they couldn't get out. there was no way for them to get ou...