Team. Workers dropped protest petitions in front of gm Paul Wiedefeld as they turned their backs and said the words who moves this city . We move this city and once they were outside you saw that human chain surrounding headquarters. All week long we have been talking about this, management bracing for a possible sickout happening today because they did receive an unusually high number of absence requests from bus and rail staff, nearly 500 applied for that absence request and they have denied all of them. So, its a bit of await and see this morning. The union tells matt ackland yesterday, our matt ackland that they do not plan to be out sick today. Metro says but just in case, they have planned accordingly. They have asked their supervisors to step in if there are any problems. So, again, await and see game this morning. Thats the very latest here from metro center northwest, annie yu fox5 local news. Annie thank you. Today marks day 99 of President Trumps time in office. Its also supposed t deadline for congress to pass a budget bill and avoid a government shutdown. However, lawmakers are looking for a one week extension to move the deadline to may fifth. Later this morning the house will debate the extension bill. Lawmakers say it will give them more time to reach a deal on long term federal on a long term federal spending bil through september. Without that extension or long term funding federal workers will run out of money at midnight trigger a shut down. The Trump Administration says it is willing to directly negotiate with north korea over ending its Nuclear Weapons program. It comes as President Trump is warning of a possible major conflict with in country. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson laid out a diplomatic approach focusing on International Pressure against north korea. This all comes as the u. S. Is increasing reliance on china to impose tougher economic sanctions and as the u. S. Continues to send the region. What we are seeking is the same thing china has said they seat, a full denuke collarrization of korean peninsula. Secretary tillerson will at attend a meeting where north korea will be the focus. New documents suggest that he was told not to accept payments from a Foreign Government back in 2014 under the Obama Administration but he did it anyway. Yesterday White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer blamed president obama for this fiasco saying it was the Obama Administration that renewed flynns security clearance. Well, a visa program known as green cards for cash faces a questionable future. The programs original plan was to attract Foreign Investment to neglected neighborhoods in the u. S. It has enabled affluent investors to invest in high end al refusing to reauthorize the program unless things change. This morning parents in Loudoun County still have questions after a meeting last night about xanax issues in the School System. The Sheriffs Office called the meeting after the news several students may have been high on the drug during school hours. Seven students are suspected of drinking a liquid laced with xanax last friday. An investigation into how the students got the drug is under way. You dont know what could happen if things were put in someones drink. Its very scary and i do hear a lot going on at the high school of other things. Its trickling down and it scares me as a parent and i dont i dont feel like were getting the communication. The incident was the second time that it is month that students at River Bend Middle School are pleased to have been drinking a xanax mix during class. Four other kids were involved in a case early in one of the largest fires in Prince Georges County history appears to have been started by accident. The five alarm fire in college park began monday morning. Investigators say they dont know what led to it or what started this fire but they say so far sit appears to be accidental. The fire caused nearly 40 million in damage. All right, 4 35. Now to the ice at the verizon center. The capitals kicked off with the pittsburgh penguins. 12 seconds into the second period, pittsburgh scored and 52 seconds later, ooh, scored again. The caps would eventually come back to tie the game at two but a third period score by penguins nick benino sealed the deal. Caps lose three to two. Lets talk about the nfl draft. The redskins used their first pick on the defensive side. The team drafted jonathan allen. Replacement for the departed ricky john francois. Lets go back and talk hockey mike thomas. Do you realize every single time in recent memory, mike thomas where are you . There you are. Every time in recent memory that the penguins have won the stanley cup the team theyve beaten in the playoffs, one of the teams theyve beaten in the playoffs has been washington. The road has been through washington, it certainly has been. Did you realize in almost each of those occasions washington had won the first game and then pittsburgh would win after that so maybe this reversal i think it was pittsburgh was one and eight in game one, so maybe now that theyre two and eight, maybe things will flipflop. So youre saying theres a chance. Im saying theres a chance. Okay. Far from over. This will be a long series. Well be talking about this for two weeks. Reagan national 67, dulles 64, bwi 67. It is a warm mild and a little humid start to the day today. Satellite and radar showing sher shore. Those came through overnight and were in the clear for the rest of the day with sunshine coming back. Your afternoon planner temperatures back in the 80s. Mid 70s by 11 00 a. M. , 80s by 2 oclock, by 5 oclock, mid 80s around the region for today. Thats a check of the forecast. Erin back to you for traffic. Mike thomas im looking forward to saturday. Potentially in the 90s doesnt sound bad for a weekend. As you hit the road were in great shape much problem free in virginia. 95 northbound dale city to the beltway route one looking good. Once you get to the mixing bowl thingsin franconia are quite. Inner loop through annandale is cruising. 395 at speed from edsall road to the 14th street bridge. All area bridges are really quiet right now. The 11th street, roosevelt, memorial, everything is cruising along including the key bridge from rosslyn into that georgetown. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Well keep a close eye on metro when they gear up for service at 5 00. Coming up on fox5 news morning heres a shocker for gets booed in philadelphia. Oh, philadelphia. A man in court for a traffic ticket ends up facing much more serious charges after dropping a bag in front of the up. Were going to break right now. Live look outside across the region on this friday morning. Time right now is 4 38. Mike thomas says that the weekend is going to be hot so if you like hot weather its going to be fabulous. I cannot wait. How about you . Always looking forward to the weekend. I dont care what the weather is. Back in a moment. Time now is 4 40, friday morning and were back with whats hot on the web, the stories youre engaging with the most this morning on social media. Lets talk about this. The show the simpsons is marking President Trumps 100 days in office with a new spoof. Simpsons director producer David Silverman says it took them about two weeks to complete this. In that episode the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer takes his again. Ivanka trump becomes a Supreme Court justice replacing ruth baeder ginsberg. The city of brotherly love booed nfl commissioner Roger Goodell during the nfl draft. As soon as he hit the stage philly fans didnt hold back their dislike for goodell. He playfully encouraged them to keep booing. Meanwhile the Cleveland Browns choose miles garrett with the first pick. Roger goodell gets booed wherever he goes. I said blame dont philly for this one. Not a surprise. Can we say whoops . cause this man who was in court for a minor traffic ticket found himself in handcuffs after accidentally dropping a bag of cocaine right in front of the judge. He went to court in cleveland last week to enter his plea on traffic charges but when he walked up to speak to the judge, he accidentally dropped the drugs right on the floor. Oh, boy. Is brown listen to this. After her dream vacation in caribbean a woman came home with a rash on her northeast knee. Touchesturns out it was a c worm embedded in her knee. Shes recovering. She is now the subject of a new medical study. That is my nightmare. Ooh. Can you say eeeewwww. Actor johnny depp gave some fans at disneyland a big surprise. He made an appearance as captain jack sparrow on the pirates of the caribbean ride. Some fans they think he was shooting a movie, a new promo for the new movie pirates of the caribbean dead men tell no tales t and its the real john depp. I wouldnt be paying attention until somebody said that was johnny depp and then i would pay attention. Intending to speak out against a gas pipeline. Educators get in trouble with district leaders over socalled smash space. 4 42 as we head to break. Heres a live look across the d. C. Region. Were getting geared up for a winter warmup and if you could only see wisdom martin dancing across the news room. Well be right back. This is fox5 news morning. Fox5 news morning back at 4 45. Here are todays top stories. Will there be a sickout by metro workers today . Thats what were monitoring after a week of back and forth claims by the union and metro management. Union leaders claim their workers are being asked to give more than 72 hours advance notice of calling out sick. Metro says thats not true. The union does plan a protest an News Conference for this morning at 11 oclock. And capitals fans are on the edge after the team lost game one of their second round series against the pittsburgh penguins. Sydney crosby scored two goals in 52 seconds and nick benino scored the game winner. Pittsburgh penguins three, Washington Capitals two. Redskins used their first pick in the draft to strengthen the defensive side of the football. The team drafted jonathan allen. Allen finished seventh in the heisman voting. Hes expected to fill in for boy is. Nother mild day to end the week. The highlight is a warm warm weekend. There you go looking forward to that. Good morning to you. It will be hot for the nats game. Its going to be hot if youre doing anything. Good morning, thanks for joining us im wisdom martin. And im erin como. Today is friday. Happy friday april 28th. Mike thomas talk about the weather because youve established its going to be hot. Forget warm. Throw in the h now. We can say the word hot. You can say hot. It will feel like early to mid summer with temperatures in the 90s and a good amount of sunshine and youll notice the humidity finally after springtime, youll start to feel that summer humidity coming back into play here. Heres your futurecast. 11 00 a. M. Today, no problems, lots of sunshine warming things up. Overnight tonight we could have one or two showers much like last night across the region. This is at 3 a. M. Not going to be a big effect for anybody because most of you should be sleeping. Maybe some friday night activities going on. We wont question that. Noon tomorro out and again were warming it up quick. Heres a quick look at your sevenday forecast. Well go through this in detail at 4 55. Thats the weather. Over to erin for traffic. 4 47 right now. 4 48 exactly and drive times are looking so good right now. 95 through dale city, 395, 66 coming in from Prince William parkway to the beltway as well as the outer loop we are all green all good. Volume is very light. Crash free t now metro gears up for service at 5 00. A little bit concerned about the potential sickout but well keep you updated on that if that impacts any metro commuting times. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. We will have the very latest for you. 4 48 is the time right now. In the news this morning, Montgomery County thats where were going start the School System investigating the use of socalled smash room at one Elementary School to help faculty members blow off steam. The decision now has one Elementary School principal apologizing. Melanie alnwick is live outside of Kensington Parkwood elementary where that ssh reporter hey, good morning, guys. Yeah, some people told us that they were disturbed by this and others said they really dont know what the big deal s back on march eighth there was a rocking chair that was damaged beyond repair and the principal took it to the a to ag dock area and a trash area that she says was far away from the ability for students to see or hear what he going on and thats where she set up the smash space. After someone posted about it on a school list serve site thats when the controversy began. In an apologetic letter top parents the principal explained they got the idea after reading articles about Companies Providing anger rooms or smash rooms as a way to relieve stress. You can see on some of these youtube videos as well, how the trend has been popularized on social media. A lot of companies here, thinks that this is a good way for employees to maybe have a little fun and relieve some stress, too, perhaps on the problems. But while some people might see this as humor or think its a little bit of fun you can also see how it might be distressing for some people to imagine their teachers with such suppressed anger and rage that they would feel the need to take out their feelings on inanimate objects this way an principal Barbara Liess admitted in her letter to parents that perhaps she didnt think the idea out very well saying there was a lapse in judgment and i recognize the concerns this may have raised. I recognize that while we will intended this scenario is counter to what we teach students and has noplace in a school. We dont know how many staff participated in this smash. Montgomery county Public Schools says they are investigating this matter, they to take it very seriously and they also want to let folks know they have many programs to help teachers staff deal with any stress they may be feeling on the job. Live in Kensington Tim melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. All right, melanie, thank you very much. 4 50 is the time right now. Also in the news this morning a group of people charged with rioting in d. C. On Inauguration Day will be arraigned. Their hearing comes after a grand jury added new charges to 212 defendants. All face rioting and destruction of property charges but more than a hundred will be charged with assault on a police officer. 4 51 and happening today, dozens of climate activists are set to protest on capitol hill against the socalled Atlantic Coast pipeline. Protesters will use Sweet Potatoes from North Carolina to demonstrate how pipeline construction would harm sweet potato farmers across the nation. The Atlantic Coast pipeline is a planned natural gas pipeline that would run from West Virginia to North Carolina. Todays protest comes ahead of tomorrows peoples climate march. Demonstration permits issued by the National Park service indicate as many people could be on hand. Tomorrows march comes one week after the march for science. All right. And coming up on fox5 news morning, virginia lawmakers take steps to crack down on the scale and trafficking of illegal cigarettes. Virginia state Police Forced to shut down their email system. As we head to break, heres a live look across the d. C. Region as we gear up for a winter warmup. Mike thomas is going to have the latest on that forecast. Right now its already 66 degrees. Well be right back. 4 54 is the time right now. New this morning Virginia Governor Terry Mcauliffe is touting a new law law to crack down on cigarette tracking. Mcauliffe says it robs the state of revenue. The new so that people who purchase cigarettes for resale have to get a special certificate from the States Department of tax station. It goes into that effect next year. Coming up on 4 55 in Virginia State police shut down its email system to protect it from a new form of malware that infected the Law Enforcement agencys network last week. The malware didnt affect the Police Operations such as Traffic Enforcement and criminal investigations but it did impact the way the agency communicates with the public and delayed online updates of the sex offender registry. You could see Something Like this at the national arboretum. Construction set to begin this summer on the National China garden. Its expected to take nearly three years to finish. Ideas for the project first began more than 10 years ago but faced several funding hurdles. The money was raised by the nonprofit National China garden foundation. Listen up star wars fans. Kevin mccarthy that includes you if youre awake. This solid gold darth vader mask it could honor of the movies franchise 40th anniversary sthe mask willing go on sale in tokyo next week. Are you experienced about the price wisdom martin. Thats what i need a gold darth vader helmet. A cool 1. 4 million and it weighs a whopping 33 pounds so. I only got 1. 2 so its a little bit out of my price range. Okay. If they drop the price then they can call me. Mike thomas whats going on. Whats going on wisdom. We got good weather coming our way, hot weather coming our way. Let me start you off with the pollen forecast. All that rain didnt wash out the pollen too much. Tree pollen still very high. 84 today, yes, 91 tomorrow and look at those overnight lows. Only in the 70s so some very warm humid mild weather coming our way. We head into next week and things cool down a little bit. We get back into the 70s by wednesday, may thats a check of the fork. Forecast. Erin back to you for traffic. Roads are quiet. Metro picking up service at 5 00. We have safe track surge 14. Well let you know if that sickout with metro that is potentially planned for today could cause any rail delays and as you head out in virginia were so quiet on 95 through lorton. Problem free on 395. Again, questions any erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. 4 57 is the time. Coming up an Immigration Program known as green card for cash faces a questionable future. Pope francis is preparing to do something we havent seen in nearly two decades. Were going to break right now at 4 57, 66 is the temperature. Its going to be some hot stuff this weekend because the temperatures are going to be really hot. If you like hot weather, then youre in for a great weekend. If you dont like hot weather, too bad because you cant change it. Put the ac on and stay inside. Deal with it. I think we put this song on for mike thomas. Because hes hot stuff. You know. For years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . 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