our hank silverberg is at a commission meeting that just broke up an hour ago. >> reporter: you know the names john geer and sacolosi. there have been a lot of information on how the police handled that and it's now all subject to public review. >> my son would be alive today but for 2006 fairfax county policies to routinely use s.w.a.t. and its aggressive tactic and procedures against people who were certified by fairfax county police to be low risk. >> reporter: that's socalosi sr. talking about his son who was shot dead by police in a gambling raid in 2006. he is now on the 37 member commission along with jeff stewart, a friend of john geer's. >> i'd like to see independent oversight at the very least, possibly independent investigation when complaints to the department rise to the level of criminal. i don't think it's out of hand for this commission to make some meaningful changes and i hope those come about in a timely manner. >> reporter: the commission was set up after a series of events that included more than a year without any information being released on the shooting of j

in columbia heights, hank silverberg, wusa9 news. is that that's a kind of pro -- >> that's a kind of provocative name. i wonder how it tastes. the outcome of the case could have a big impact in the world of advertising. >>> investigators have yet to talk with hairson ford about his crash landing on a -- harrison ford about his crash landing on a southern california golf course. >>> the actor's plane clipped a tree and landed hard. he's recovering at a nearby hospital. the plane was taken to a hangar for further inspection. >>> tonight new jersey senator bob men in dez is responding to -- menendez is responding to unconfirmed reports the justice department plans to file corruption charges against him. menendez says he's always behaved appropriately. according to reports he helped a friend and democratic donor with his office. >>> coming up a local lawmaker defends her decision to skip the israeli prime minister's speech to congress. >> also ahead a giant panda come down from the mountain to wander city streets and its adventure is ca

our hank silverberg is live with a look at the st. patrick's day festivities and what's being done to keep them under control. >> reporter: there's no question about it. the best place to celebrate st. patrick's day is in an irish pub. that's what a lot of people are doing here in arlington. everything went really smoothly tonight, but there's some concern. there's a shamrock crawl on saturday, which is one of those public crawls that have created so many problems in arlington. this is a scene last summer at a pub crawl in this corridor that led to 25 arrests. >> you get 4,000 people in any given area there's going to be some problems, but when overall the county and police department does well maintaining the crowd. >> reporter: one of the 12 bars participating says stepped up police enforcement should help prevent repeats. >> it's nice to have the restaurant full at 2:00 in the afternoon on saturday. so would we go under without it? no. >> reporter: it cost arlington 15 to $20,000 in police overtime during last summer's event. this

reporting live in southeast d.c., hank silverberg, wusa9. >>> some of us saw snow. some saw rain, but it was a raw wet day for all of us. >> first alert chief meteorologist topper shutt joins us now. top, what about the rest of the day? hopefully some relief and maybe some springtime? >> i think we can accommodate both those desires. tonight temps won't go below freezing inside the beltway. on futurecast at 8:00 we still have clouds, temperatures mid- to upper 30s and 10:00 36 in frederick and also in masses. if you're out super late coming home by dawn, you might have some slick spots well north and west. by midnight we're still above freezing, 35 in frederick, 39 downtown, certainly inside the beltway no slick spots at all. maybe frederick has some slick spots late tonight. looking ahead, on our first full day of spring we'll give the weekend on a whole a grade of c, probably c minus because it was such a miserable day today. becoming partly cloudy tomorrow milder, passing shower possible saturday night. another cold front comes through and cooler but still pleasa

hank silverberg joins us live to explain. >> reporter: the express lanes on 495 have been open since 2012. since then hundreds of people have been fined, many for not following the rules either voluntarily or on purpose and many didn't follow through or didn't pay the fine. that has gotten them in debt to several thousand dollars, but their court challenges have shown the flaws in the system and it's opened up a whole can of worms. >> it could be thousands of people. >> reporter: this attorney represents just one of the people who are challenging the fines and fees. >> there's just too many people saying i have a valid e-zpass and it didn't work with transurban. >> reporter: a judge has upheld most of the fine, but during the traffic court proceedings the system of fines and the process has been under attack. >> they cut corners. they use just the name transurban. they didn't put an address on the summons, so it was hard to determine which entity was suing you because there's 12 entities named transurban. >> reporter: this man had an e- zpass but was still fined several times even af

hank silverberg is live at i-66 in arlington. could they have an easy sell this time? >> reporter: maybe, maybe not. they are sure of is that i-66 both directions in rush hour is very crowded and slow. so they've come up with an idea that's been floated for years, of course, the express lanes, but these express lanes proposed for i-66 are not the same as the ones done already on i-95 or i-495. i-66 at rush hour inside the beltway slow, congested, often in both directions. it's frustrated motorists even while restricting them to two people per car. so express lanes with tolls similar to other local highways are touted as a solution, this time unlike the fight against the express lanes on i-90 5, arlington county is on board. >> they're going to look -- i- 95, arlington county is on board. >> they're going to look at all the impacts of people bailing out of 66 onto arlington streets. >> reporter: motorists would pay the toll with ez pass, but this plan does not include a private company by transurban making a profit. this time virginia would get the toll money. >> it's g

silverberg with more. hank? >> reporter: that's right. that crash did take the life of 16-year-old ryan mccall. he was a student pilot but had been flying since he was 15 and hoped to get his permanent flying license soon. investigators were combing through remains of a single engine piper, a small fixed wing two seater, which crashed after taking off runway 8 here at orange at airport. the young pilot was a student at skyline flight school and is described as a promising teenager who loved to fly. there is no indication what caused the crash. witnesses told investigators the plane banked to the left as it was climbing past the runway and crashed. there was no fire. mccall's familiar was secluded in their -- family was secluded in their home but issued a statement part of it reading ryan was our beloved middle son, a typical teen-ager, who we loved so much. a spokeswoman for the spotsylvania county school system says young ryan will be missed. >> he is a student at river bend high school and he will be sor