Excuse me. Where a tense standoff is in its 18th hour between police and man they say shot and killed a delaware state trooper. Trooper stephen j. Ballard was gunned down as he approached a car outside of a convenience store. Melanie alnwick joins us with the latest. Reporter the gunman was able to make it 15 miles away from the shooting scene and hes been hiding out in a house in a residential neighborhood. Overnight homes shook with the sounds of several blasts and neighbors say they could hear police on bull horns. This hour still no resolution. Yesterday evening, a sea of officers, look at this, stood outside the hospital where that 32yearold trooper Steve Ballard passed away. Then a solemn escort for a 9mile trip taking ballards body to the medical examiners office. People all along the route saluted and put their hands on their hearts as the parade of sorts passed by. It was about noon wednesday when Corporal Ballard approached a parked one of two people inside, a man, got out and opened fire. The gunman then ran away. The other person was taken into custody. Stephen ballard had been a delaware state trooper for eight years. The officer down memorial page says he leaves behind wife. We also know that the delaware governor has ordered all u. S. And state flags to be flown at halfstaff today. Steve. Thanks very much. More to come on that story throughout the morning. Also in Montgomery CountyPolice Investigating a possible drug deal that that went bad. Yesterday afternoon shots were fired near downtown silver spring. The first shooting happened near dale drive the other a few block away on spring street. Three people were taken into custody and we have learned a significant amount of marijuana was recovered at the scene along with a loaded handgun. Prince georges county fire crews battle hot spots at that massive Apartment Fire in college park. That fire first broke out on monday. Its thursday. The building was under construction and just months away from. Fromopening. The five the largest response in the history of the Prince Georges County fire department. White house announcing the president will respect negotiate the north American Free trade agreement with mexico and canada. This is major shift from President Trumps attitude towards nafta on the campaign trail where he called the deal a disaster. This news comes as President Trump continues to take on north korea and tax reform. Foxs Jackie Ibanez with the details. Reporter with the Rising Nuclear threat from north korea republican and Democratic Senators meet on the tractortrailer white house wednesday. While there was little new information revealed during the meeting part of the strategy against the communist country is not reviewing plans. You dont say what you will do, wont do. Everything should be on the table. And you want to encourage the North Koreans to forego their programs to have nuclear tip missiles. Reporter even some democrats, though, sale action pyongyang. Im encouraged with what we heard about steps that are being taken bogue to engage our allies around the world and both to make this chinas problem. China is the single largest supporter of the north korean regime. Reporter President Trump rolls out his tax reform plan which is already taking heat from democrats who say the proposal will most likely help the wealthy. There will be many, many deductions gone. As a matter of fact were taking all deductions out other than mortgage interest and charitable donations so. Effectively the effective tax rate will not be a reduction for the rich. Reporte some economists say while the tax reform proposal favors the wealthy and businesses, there will be benefits for workers as well. Lowering the taxes on businesses to the extent it makes them more productive is good. And in fact its the one thing in this bill that real is for the small man because if it has an impact it will help to create jobs. Reporter this comes as congress has to pass a spending measure to fund the federal government by the end of the week. Fox news. 6 05 right now. Starting off better than it was yesterday this time warmthwise, steve. Hi tuck, good morning. Hello. I like your purple. I like your purple. Yours looks really. Good okay, lets do the forecast. I dont know if you noticed or not but ive already been on. Yeah, a good, whew, 10 minutes. That paycheck is going to look extra nice this week. Steve is calling me out. Extra 10 minutes. All right, mid 80s today. Yesterday we made it to about 70 for most of the area. As we got some late day sun. Today well be soaring into the 80s with lots of sunshine. Nice quiet satellite and radar. All systems go for a summery day today and again were going to be unseasonably warm around here this afternoon. Weak cold front out to the west. That will get in here tonight. Maybe a shower early tonight early tomorrow morning. Well look for more sunshine friday. Tomorrow is going to be a good happy hour day. More on that coming up. Uhhuh. Today is going to be a ne 85 and sunny. That sounds real nice actually. Can you handle that. Yeah. For sure. Enjoy. Id like to try erin. Id like to give it a try. I think tucker just invited all of us to happy hour. I heard that, too. Thats what i heard. 6 06. Youll probably need a nice relaxing evening after you battle the traffic this morning. 66 eastbound please use caution. You can see a First Responder out of their vehicle cleaning up some cones. Huge crash scene 66 eastbound after washington boulevard. Jammed back to Leesburg Pike. If we can switch things over to a look at our inet camera, i can show you that delay. You can still see first First Responders Police Sirens trying to get to that crash scene. Traffic is moving. All lanes had been blocked before but youre still dealing with at least about a 35 to 40 minute delay from Leesburg Pike to past that that point. Anticipate that inside the beltway 66 eastbound. Lets switch over for a look at our maps. We have a lot of other big problems. 295 southbound still closed at the 11th Street Bridge. You can access the 11th Street Bridge but its a standstill mess o back to 50, about a 30 minute delay at least. 50 in50 inbound dealing with bailout traffic. Folks try to steer clear to and get around that big backup leading to that crash scene. All lanes had been blocked and they still are but you can detour to the 11th Street Bridge. Well keep you updated on that one. Lets forward our maps and show you what else youre up against this morning. Were dealing with a big problem out in anne arrundel. They had opened west front street between four and two. A crash and police activity. But once again some lanes are blocked at least so please use caution and be prepared to detour around that. Normal Service Resumed on the yellow line. Earlier malfunction at huntington. If youre taking metro we have safe track work impacting the green line. No trains between prince Georges Plaza and greenbelt. No yellow rush plus service. College park and greenbelt stations remain closed so factor in extra time there. 95 northbound backing up through fredericksburg and stafford and 270 southbound volume picking up through urbana. Im going to help you get around all that mess. More traffic in just a few. This morning a tense battle continues to brew over metros absentee policy. Metro says its bracing for a sickout tomorrow. This after nearly 500 rail and bus workers if i would advance absence requests. Fox5s annie yu is following the story for us this morning. Shes live at the Friendship Heights metro with the latest now. Annie, good morning. Reporter steve and allison, this all stems from a policy that was issued by metros management and its basically to crack down on excessive absenteeism. Its a policy that was in force earlier this year in march and since then this battle between metro as well as the Workers Union has just been brewing. We spoke to both sides and basically i want to explain what this policy involves. It requires workers to file sick leave requests no less than three days in advance so were talking about within that 72 hour window, you are requesting excused absences so for planned medical appointments days off and vacation. Employees can still take an unexcused absence for instance if you wake up sick one morningut penalties to that if its excessive. Now metro says they received nearly 500 advance absence requests from both rail and bus employees for this friday. The agency says it has denied all of those requests and they are expecting service to be the same as scheduled for this friday as it always is and here is how the Workers Union is reacting to this. The president of the union, jackie jeter is accusing metro of putting workers and passengers at risk by rejecting this surge of requests and adds she is unaware of a sickout. Take a listen. There is a possibility that that members have taken it upon themselves to start following the directives that wmata has given which is calling out on the policy. But that does not thats not providing us with a safe system. And thats what were calling for. The policy is assanine. Reporter why. Nobody i know of that works for any particular organization that can give a three day notice telling them im have the flu on tuesday, so im going to call you on sunday. Thats ridiculous. Reporter now, just to reiterate this policy that were talking about is for excused absences so within that 72 hour window were talking about requesting leave for planned medical appointments and things like that. And we also want to mention that metro says they have denied those 500 requests and so they are expecting to offer service as and scheduled for this friday. And, you know, this time is interesting because theres a tense negotiations going on between the union as well as metro but according to the union this has nothing to do with the contract negotiations. Thats the very latest here from bethesda p, or northwest. Back to you in the studio. 6 10. Were walking the red rocking the red all morning long. Mike thomas is going to show us how to fight the stress are of tonights gamely. Policies generous far air travelers. Back in just 30 seconds. Conds. A man who shot two pennsylvania troopers back in 2014 has been sentenced to death. A week after he was convicted on charges of murder and terrorism. Eric frein had that led police on a 48 day manhunt in the poconos after he ambushed a Police Barracks and opened fire anders he show. Shot. University of california berkeley still bracing for possible violence today even after a planned speech by ann coulter was canceled s the Student Group did not pack the event far enough in advance to guarantee a large enough space for the speech. Colcoulter says she might still visit the campus. A plane had to make an Emergency Landing at dulles last night right after it hit a flock of birds. Skyfox flew over the scene around 6 00 p. M. Thats the footage youre seeing here. The plane land safely and taxied to the gate at dulles. Another plane flew those passengers to florida. Appears cal ripken is having a hard time selling his Baltimore County mansion. The price has been reduced now down under 10 million down from 12. 5 illion when it first hit fall. The estate features six bedrooms 15 bathrooms and not one but two four car garages. Comes with a full baseball field Indoor Basketball Court and a pool. Still ahead a closer look at how americans feel about the economy as President Trump nears his 100 days in office. Take a live look outside right now as we head to break on this thursday morning. Weather and traffic on the 5s next. Its 6 13. 66 eastbound after washington boulevard, the delays all the way back to Leesburg Pike so just a heads up there. Well check in wither flynn a minute. For folks coming from the west very heavy already on 66. Tuck. Lets do the bus stop forecast. Not a bad day to be going to the bus stop because we got quiet conditions out there. Little cool in spots. 50s for parts of the area to near 60. Dry conditions expected. After school nice dry afternoon. Plenty of if you got sports after school that kind of things with temperatures in the mid 80s so it will be a little sweaty out there. Make sure you drink some water if you got sports after school. All right. Current numbers. 59 in washington. Still 60s off to the south and west. Culpeper 60. 61 in manassas. [laughter] every day that thing gets 58 in quantico. 55 in leonardtown. We are looking at quiet conditions, very quiet conditions. Cleared out overnight finally we can look forward to full day of abundant sunshine. We have a weak cold front. This front is going to make its presence felt late tonight. Might be a few showers overnight and then well quickly clear out tomorrow. By tomorrow afternoon as i mentioned we should be right back into the sunshine and perfect conditions to enjoy your friday afternoon. 70s to our north. Mid 80s around here today locally and a look at your futurecast i just showed you the shower activity approaching from the west. Again we should be nice and quiet this afternoon. No rain afternoon. Anything we get will be later tonight. Should be very light. There we are at midnight, 12 30 with some light shower activity as that front comes through. Little cooler tomorrow behind the front but it wont last. 85 today storm this evening. Tomorrow looks good. Saturday near 90. We got a hockey game. Hopefully the items wont melt. Temperatures cooler by sunday 78 with a spotty storm or shower. Thats the weather update. Enjoy a beautiful day. Lets see if traffic is beautiful. Far from beautiful. At least the weather will make up for it. This is a look at the crash were tracking after washington boulevard 66 eastbound. It had been blocking all lanes. Now the right shoulder is blocked. Right center lane blocked as well. So, as you can see traffic getting by in the left lanes and the outer right lane but folks are out of their vehicles cleaning up that crash scene and investigating. Use caution. Reduce your speeds. Were backed up a all the way past Leesburg Pike with at least give yourself extra time there. Lets show you what else youre up against this morning. First thats a look at the delay where you can see traffic is still approaching emergency vehicles. 295 on the southbound side, big crash scene as we make our way out toward the 11th Street Bridge. Traffic is being diverted i dont and to the freeway there. You can axles the 11th street street access the 11th Street Bridge. 50 dealing with bailout traffic after 295. As you approach new york avenue youre dealing with such heavy delays. That crash setting us back this morning. Route one northbound in lorton we have a crash at gunson cove road. As you cross the occoquan its in worse shape so 95 is the way to go this morning. 270 southbound as you come down from frederick we have a crash at 85. Delays back to 15. So allow extra time there. Big dot of red on our map light now and then you delay just s heavier volume. Aside from that as you head out on the third street tunnel, we have a southbound crash before the southeastsouthwest freeway. Thats a photo from d. C. Police traffic. You can see it blocking the left shoulder. Metro on time except for safe track right now. Back to you. Happening on the hill a call for Climate Justice jobs and a clean energy economy. Congressman jerry conley and house leaders will be on hand for that rally at nine. Also on the hill today alumni and students of historically black colleges and universities plan to rally urging faculty upgrades at predominantly black institutions. Happening today at two major airports in our region hundreds of workers are expected to walk off the job in protest of federal labor violations. Workers at Reagan National and dulles are against what they call Interrogation Practices and improper discipline. Theyre employed by a contractor for the airport and thats who they are set to strike against. It is set to begin at 11 00 this morning. 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[narrator] tame the tuition monster all the way through grad school. Well, ill see you in law school, kid. [narrator] visit virginia529. Com. Time for our business beat. Back with some of the changes united is making. We shall check the market. Joining us from Fox Business Network studios, lauren simonetti. Hi lauren. Good morning. Go m yesterday i was, you know, the nerd that i am looking at several business articles. Literally three articles in a row. First one said market optimistic about trumps tax return proposal. Reporter yeah. Next one said market is okay with this. Next said markets uncertainty where are we going with this . What impact is it having. Reporter one page. That was the tax proposal we got yesterday from the administration. Lacking details. So while massive tax cuts are Great Investors wanted to see more of the details how they plan to get this through congress, et cetera. So stocks fell a little bit yesterday. We have had a massive rally driven primarily by corporate earnings and no losses that we saw yesterday really erased that rally. A lot of optimism based on what we expected to see from this tax plan but also because of what weve seen over the last couple of years now when it comes to the economy, when it comes to jobs, all of this pointing in a good direction. Reporter were almost at the first 100 days for the trump adminis you think about it and fox news is out with a new poll asking people how do you feel about the economy. Look, this is not good news. Only 4 percent think its excellent 29 percent good. Poor in december before well, 23 percent in december and poor 19 percent. Not the best numbers. You have to say maybe if the tax cuts do go into that effect and Companies Start to hire more workers and pay those workers more money, we can turn things around but it looks like we have a ways to go on our thoughts about the economy. All right. Lets talk quickly about the next couple topics. One united trying to reverse course a little bit and throw extra money at passengers if theyre inconvenienced. Reporter yeah. 10,000, thats how much united will give you if you are voluntarily bumped from a flight. That is an amazing amount of money. That could hurt them in the end cause youre going to have people fighting with each other in order to get bumped but at the same time united says its also going to make sure that when they dont overbook as often on that last flight of the day so those are just some of the changes that united is making after that viral video of the passenger getting violently dragged off the flight. Im a big fan of the lost bag policy no questions asked. Theyll just give you some money if the bag is lost. Mirror, mirror on the wall youre fired we dont need you any more because we have electronics. Reporter yes, to tell you how you look. So, amazon echo look, its a device 200. It has a micro phone and a special light and it takes pictures of you, you can put on two ifferent outfits you ask alexa who powers amazon look how you look. And shell pick hm outfit looks better thanks to Artificial Intelligence. This replaces the jobs of so many husbands and boyfriends out there. Hey, honey, how do i look and my husband just says great and doesnt even look. Theres a stock answer for that, yes. So perhaps the camera will speak a little more truth. If only it just posted to your already embed. Embedded. Then we would be on to something. Thank you lauren. See you friday. Reporter goodbye. Theres no greater truth teller than a 16yearold girl. That is true. Thanks, sid. Especially when shes stealing mine. Lets do the fork. There is going to be Artificial Intelligence thats going to tell you how you look. I could use that. Do you know how much time i spend in front of the mirror figuring out which tie to wear. Ive seen you. A lot. Mid 80s later today. Were featuring sunshine southerly winds, dry conditions and the best part well get rid of the clouds for the day so it will be a nice bright Sunny Afternoon for you. We do have a weak cold front. That will get in here tonight. Late afternoon there will probably be a few clouds associated with that and that will bring a few showers overnight. Thursday, friday, saturday, quite summery. Look at that 90degree afternoon. Humid, too, all right. Thats not going to be enjoyable i know. Bugs will be flying. Im going to try im going to use all my strength to try to get through 90 and sunny. Im going to sail right through it. I cant wait. Maybe a little lounging outside. Youre mocking me, i can feel it. Not mocking you. Only the next four months. We feel bad for the drivers on 66 eastbound after washington boulevard. Theres a crash. This is a look at the backup. Now the left lane is getting by but you are just parked back to Leesburg Pike. Right now its about a 35 top 40 minute delay holding strong. Give yourself extra time inside the beltway to get around that. Well switch back to our maps. Thats not the only problem. 270 southbound theres also a crash at 85, big delays there. Keep it to fox5. We will be right back. Well its a perfect nespresso morning here, george. Hold on a second. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. For coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . Did you know slow internet can actually hold your business back . Say goodbye to slow downloads, slow backups, slow everything. Comcast business offers blazing fast and reliable internet thats over 6 times faster than slow internet from the phone company. Say hello to internet speeds up to 250 mbps. And add phone and tv for only 34. 90 more a month. Call today. Comcast business. Built for business. Now through sunday at havertys, everythings on sale during our Anniversary Event. Find furniture and accessories for every room. From traditional to contemporary, the newest designs and the freshest styles. Plus, youll get twentyfour month, no interest financing. Even when life isnt. Hurry. The Anniversary Event ends sunday at havertys. Life looks good. Welcome back. It is 6 30 on a thursday morning. Taking a look at the backups on 66 eastbound right now. Why is traffic moving so slowly . Well, this is because of a crash after washington boulevard. Welcome back to fox5 news morning. Weather and traffic coming up on the 5s at 6 35. First though at 6 30, we continue to follow breaking news out of delaware where an intense standoff is in its 18th hour between police and a man they say shot and killed a delaware state trooper yesterday. Officials say the suspect is home 15 miles away from the shooting scene. Trooper Stephen Ballard was gunned down as he approached a car parked at a Wawa Convenience store. The 32yearold was an eight year veteran of the force. He leaves behind a wife. This morning d. C. Police are looking for a person who shot a man to death. The shooting happened on bruce place in southeast around 4 00 this morning. Right now police are trying to figure out a motive. To Montgomery County we go and police there trying to figure out what happened to nearly 40,000 thats missing from the countys council of ptas. Police believe that someone inside of the council who had access to its Checking Account stole that money. Members of the Council First noticed inconsistencies in its finances in march. An audit found the money missing between july 2016 and march of this year. Shocking, absolutely shocking and just its unbelievable that somebody would do that to kid families that contribute. Its horrifying. The council of ptas overseas nearly 200 local Parent Teacher associations with each school having one or two representatives. Tonight the Loudoun CountySheriffs Department is hosting a meeting. Theyll discuss an incident where seven students at River Bend Middle School shared a drink reportedly containing xanax. One student had an elevated heart rate. Ultimately all were sent home with a parent. Police are investigating any possible connection between the incident at river bend and two similar incidents at potomac falls high school. On saturday the Sheriffs Department will hold a prescription takeback urging people to turn in their expired prescription drugs. To maryland now and an update on this puppy. You can believe it right there who was abandoned and in a container and left for dead in columbia last month. Animal control officers didnt think that he would survive but take a look at eddie now. He continues to gain weight and he is recovered from all of missing fur and guess what . Heres the best part. Eddie is looking for his forever home. Hes up for adoption meanwhile police in Howard County trying to find the person or people responsible for not only abandoning that little guy but really that torture putting him into a container. Steve over to you. Well, hopefully we can start with some better news but terrible scheduling by the nhl once again puts the top two teams in the league in the second round of the playoffs. Either way whatever you feel about it, it starts tonight. Capspens d. C. 7 30 the puck drops. To get fans ready you would take part in a rock the red Scavenger Hunt starting at 9 oclock this morning. Pucks will be hidden in different locations throughout the d. C. Region. Anybody who finds a puck gets a pair of tickets to tonights game. That starts at 9 00. Clues released on the teams twitter page later this morning. As we know it is a very stressful time for fans. What better way to ease your mind than with a yoga class. When you think think yoga. Capitals Yoga Instructor hosting a playoff yoga destress session on the rooftop of the teams practice arena in arlington t our mike thomas is there. Well check in with mike a little bit later on this hour. Hopefully hes found his zen this morning. Verizon center last night rocking as the wizards took care of business in game five of the series against the hawks. If you turned it on for the opening tipoff. It was pretty empty. When the fans got there, the team made it up. We know they have an amazing crowd. Theyre definitely going to come out and be loud. Theres real this is really our first time having a close out game on the road and we got to see what we can do. We just got to keep taking care of the ball, taking over the shots. John wall so clutch last night. Tipoff friday at 7 30 if a game seven is needed and we sure hope its not it will be sunday back at Verizon Center. No rush hour there. Ce eliminate the bulls from playoffs in chicago on friday after taking a three games to two series lead last night on he home court. Isaiah thomas Avery Bradley with 24 points. Baseball now. Another high scoring game for the nationals in colorado. Adam eaton trea Turner Bryce HarperRyan ZimmermanDaniel Murphy a combined 13 for 24 with three home runs and 11 rbis. Got to love the thin air in colorado. Nats improve to eight and one on this 10 game road trip and that wraps up the game four against the rockies. Geo on the mound and back home tomorrow to take on the mets. They love hitting in colorado. How about this for a baseball note. Special moment in pittsburgh. That is 27yearold pirates rookie gepa from south africa. With that single became the first player from the entire continent of africa, first player born in africa to play in a Major League Baseball game. Can you believe that. No. Not op only did he play he gt a single. He said he had to tell himlf not to cry described the feeling as awesome and yes hes a 27yearold rookie but 2t he has a younger brother in the pirates organization. A great baseball game. Engepe brothers. That is a great name. I love it. Amazing. They probably dont play a lot of baseball. So, and other sports are much bigger. Much bigger. Yeah, i guess but its still surprising the entire continent of africa. I know, thats amazing. Okay. Anyway, now that were over go caps, go wizards. That was such a beautiful slam that wall had last night. The game was great last night. It was fun to watch. And it was early. I know it was a stinker for those who had to try to get down there for 6 oclock but if you were watching a the home it was awesome. Game was over by 8 30. For us it was great. Lets do the forecast. Weather is going to be great. 85 and sunny this afternoon, 59 now in washington. Yes, sunshine, well drag the clouds out of here. They moved out we are dealing with a little fog in a few spots. I just got tweeted tucker fox5 that were getting some fog in lanham. Once we get the fog out of here well look at bright and sunny conditions. It will be even a little humid later today with temperatures in the mid 80s ahead of our next front. Weak front tonight will move through overnight with a few showers. Then well be right back into sunshine for the day on friday. Ill have friday and the weekend forecast coming up. Lets enjoy our thursday. Sunshine and 85. Very nice. Erin como how are we looking on the roads. 6 37 ta lot of slow zones, a lot of crash scenes so well keep it to our maps on this report. 270 southbound in frederick a crash at 85 delays back to 15 and then sluggish traffic continues all the way down through clarksburg as you get into Montgomery County. So right now its about a 25 minute delay 270 southbound. Aside from that 95 northbound in calverton we have a crash at 212 with some debris. Delays back onto the ramp from the inner loop. Youre basically parked there. Rubberneck delay picking on the southbound side. In b both directions a better belt than 95. 295 all lanes had been blocked. Right now the right lane is opened. Because the left lane is still blocked were at a standstill back to 50. 50 dealing with bailout traffic. Keep it to fox5. Well be right back in just a few moments. Its time, america. Theres work to be done. Its not going to be easy but theres grit inside of you. And if you need extra motivation the grad fund at Strayer University can help push you forward. Because up to your last year of classes could be on us. Today is the day. Strayer university. Lets get it, america. Back now with whats trending on the web on this thursday morning. A woman in seattle says a bank of america atm gave her a fake 20dollar bill. Darcy fox is her name. She says she withdrew 300 bucks and she quickly noticed a tattered bill after taking a closer look she noticed that bill was fake. How did she know allison . Heres how she knew. President Andrew Jacksons face seemed off to her and several areas on the bill stated it was not for legal use, steve, but for use in Motion Pictures only. Thats a good tipoff. It is a good tip. Ps, they gave her a real 20. I would have wanted to keep the 20 because its kind of cool if it said for Motion Picture use only. But worth nothing. Maybe thats me. A missing hiker from taiwan has been found after being lost for 47 days in the himalayas. Sadly his girlfriend who was with him died three days before he was rescued. The two survived by eating snow and salt after their food ran out. 47 days found alive. And stores, yup, a thing of the past. Theyve been closing across the nation for years, right, but when one man who is living with autism found out that his local Blockbuster Store was closing he took it pretty hard so his dad came and with a brilliant plan. He built a mini blockbuster at their home. His son who is nonverbal was thrilled when he saw that mini Blockbuster Store and just in case you were wondering, there are abhandful of blockbusters that survived after the chain filed for bankruptcy in 2010. Steve, guess where they are . Where, a. Theyre in alaska. I just saw a whole report about this. There are about 10 of them and up there its just you know, its a social place, its a Gathering Place and, internet is really expensive and blah, blah, blah. So there are still blockbusters there and for this young man. Blockbuster in pennsylvania though and i did see some of the you know, video stores, the mom and pop. Right. They used to be everywhere. Back in the day. Around these parts it wasser it rolls. 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Beautiful sunrise on the roof of the well, its the parking garage next to what was the mall. Whole project under reconstruction right thats where the caps practice and this morning, i see a lot of red. Uhhuh. I see a lot of perhaps. Zen. Mindfulness, peace and yoga. They keep forgetting about any worries. I see what you did there. And there you love yourself some michael mcdonald. You know hes top hundred. [laughter] i love that they do that. Okay. Whats up . Beautiful sunrise. Going to be a gorgeous day. Mid 80s. Sunny, bright, beautiful. Low humidity. Medium humidity. I dont know how to sell the humidity. It comes with it. Yeah, exactly. Lets go to the forecast. I start out with the sunshine. Its back. We havent seen it in days and days. I know parts of the area got some yesterday afternoon but it was slow to develop. I think today will be full sunshine for much of the day. Much warmer than yesterday. About 70 yesterday. More like 85 today. Sunny bright and 80s. Back in the 80s tomorrow. Near 90 by saturday. And feeling hot and humid around here saturday afternoon up ahead of system. Thats going to feel like certainly going to feel like a summery day. Everybodys looking at upper 50s to start the day. A lot of sunshine today. We should bounce the temperatures pretty quick and again mid 80s around here later this afternoon. Next frontal system is a weak one. You can see it out here in eastern tennessee and kentucky and that will move in as we get into the evening hours. Really after probably 11 00 tonight well have a couple of showers around here. It will be a quick mover. Theres a look at it. We should be back in the sunshine by tomorrow but up ahead of the front wheel have the nice push out of the south so were going to really warm those temperatures up about 15 degrees from yesterday with all the sun. Heres futurecast k let me show you the system moving n 7 30 we get clouds. You got sports after school, sports this evening under the lights that kind of thing youre fine. Look at the shower activity moving in 10 00. Probably after 11 oclock tonight well get a quick shower moving n we should be back in the sunshine tomorrow afternoon. First 90 of the year on a little cooler for sunday. Maybe a scattered thunderstorm saturday afternoon. Erin is back with the roads and then weve got memes. Im excited for the memes but we got a lot of bad traffic. 295 southbound its kind of foggy out there as well. This is by Eastern Avenue and we are jammed from landover road north of 50 down to the 11th Street Bridge. Earlier crash completely cleared. All lanes opened so im hoping these delays start to dissipate. But for right now traffic is basically parked. 295 southbound i would try to avoid that route if possible for now. Otherwise it could set you back at least 30 minutes to your commute. Northbound side looking good. As we move over for a look at our maps we can show you that again the crash has cleared. Eleventh street bridge is cleared but 50 dealing with some bailout traffic from earlier mixed with congestion. From 202 to all the way into new york avenue were seeing a very heavy flow as well. As we take a look at 95 northbound in calverton earlier crash at 212 cleared back to the shoulder. All lanes opened. But as you can see the delay that was back to the beltway starting to dissipate. Just n traffic jams to that point. Southbound side rubberneck delay and heavy volume coming down from the icc. And then taking a look at the wide view were dealing with a lot of slowdowns 395 backing up as well. Taking a look at all those drive times, 95 from dale city to the beltway, thats going to take up 49 minutes. Really heavy delay there. The beltway to king street, that little stretch is going to take you 22 minutes. Outer loop 95 to Georgia Avenue were dealing with a 16 minute delay. 270 southbound from 109 to the beltway is looking good. But 270 on the southbound side system super jammed up by 85 from a crash blocking the shoulder so keep in mind two be 70 in the frederick area is a different story than that green were seeing on the happen right now. Metro is on time except for safe track that is slowing down the green line as well as yellow rush plus service. Keep track of me on twitter at er lets get to it. Time for our morning memes. My goodness. [laughter] love this one. [laughter] i love it, too. Thats hilarious. Sun dont hold me back. Where is the sun. That is so funny. Thats perfect. I promise well get you some sun today. Thats a good meme picture. Thats a great meme picture. I cant have allison going off on me. All right. How to tell i like it. Thats adorable. Yeah, rock on little one. Thats a tiny baby. All right. Read this one carefully left to right. Okay. Lets put you outside little guy. Found a cute little spider. cause all life is precious. Spider says hey there, im a penguins fan. Oh, no more. End of spider. Go caps. Slapshot would you expect anything less. Keep them coming. Lets do it, kev, morning meme. Send them in. Puppy and kitty friday. Every friday should be puppy and kitty friday. I think we should. Thanks erin. Thanks tuck. Done. 6 51. Heres whats coming up a little bit later this morning. Got some big names on the show today. Lets give you a quick look ahead to good day d. C. Olympic star simone biles joins us live. Shes visiting a school in Northern Virginia this morning. Were going to find out what shes doing there. Plus, singer actor and reality star omar onall four of him stopping by the loft morning. Has so much going on he cant contain it. New music new video. We talked about the caps game tonight. If you are stressed about the playoffs, you are not alone. Once again the caps take on the Pittsburgh Penguins in the sen of second round of the stanley cup playoffs. Their stress doing playoff yoga on top of the caps practice facility in arlington and thats where we and find our mike thomas live. Look at you. Yes, downward dog tlooks like youre getting a good stretch. Good morning, mike. Good morning to you, allison and steve. I am one with the universe this morning here at ballston ice plex where the capitals do their morning skates. Ready for tonights big time playoff game t im out of breath. I heard you say it earlier caps taking on the penguins tonight here in d. C. , Verizon Center 7 oclock tonight. Again, big playoff series. Caps struggled a little bit at times in the first round but they got the job done but the stress levels were very, very high. To kept kind of compound that stress get a little off were doing morning yoga here at the caps ice plex. This is something that they do before each of the playoff games for the capitals. It starts at 6 30 in the morning, it goes until 7 30. This is kell moore who you see there. Were going to talk to her coming up during the 7 oclock hour but we dont want to disturb her while shes giving everybody their lessons this morning. We have a pretty good crowd out here. It was definitely cold to start but the sun is finally rising, the dawn of a new day, the dawn of a new series and again, were trying to keep the Blood Pressure down and the suppress levels off as stress levels off as we get ready for tonights big playoff game. We have some people here that were going to talk to just a second see what they think about this yoga. Hi, good morning. Good morning. So, whats your name. Karen giardo. Karen is this your first time doing the capitals yoga in the morning. Yes, exploits what do you think. I think its great. I think that kelly does an excellent job with the team and now the fans are channeling our energy and our support for a. M. Victory in the whole series not just tonight. Uhhuh. Now, be honest, your stress level is a little high about this series. My goodness, yes. Or do you feel good. No, stressed. You feel nervous. Yes. So the yoga is helping. Absolutely. Ill let you get back to us. Thanks talking to us. Youre welcome. This is one of several things the caps are do. Well be with them all day and well let you know whats coming up. Here on your screen right now well show you some of the other things coming up today at 9 oclock once again you remember last series they were giving away bobble heads. This series theyre giving away pucks you have to find on the capitals twitter starting at 9 oclock theyll be giving away clues of where you can find these hidden pucks around the d. C. Area. You go, you find a puck, you will win two tickets to tonights playoff game against the capitals. Those are against the penguins. Those are highly sought after. Other than that, around the region caps playoff baby, any babies born at medstar washington General Hospital will receive a post season cap as well as a post season blanket and gifts for the mother and father as well to welcome newborn are caps playoff babies caps playoff babies during the capitals playoff run as well as dont forget about the beerathon coming up tonight. Were doing the, you know, grow out purchase playoff beard. All proceeds go to charity. You can find more about that on the capitals web site if youre interested in participating or if you want to donate to people who are growing their beards throughout the playoff series and then also in gammar in a give away. Starting tonight you get light up what are they called theyre lightup foam things theyll be waving around at the game and game two theyre giving away rally towels. Ill get back to yoga here. Well get back to you at the 7 oclock hour. Live from the washington practice facility in ballston mike thomas. Thanks mike. Make sure they will get out of there before the players drive into practice. That would ruin the peacefulness of it. Yes. Beautiful sunrise, gorgeous day. Mid 80s. Not all systems go for a beautiful afternoon. Winds out of the east well shift out of the south later this morning and thats really going to allow our temperatures to soar here later today so again mid 80s. Satellite and radar both quiet this morning. Generally sunny conditions today. Few clouds later this afternoon as our next cold front approaches. That will move in overnight with the chance of a shower or storm after 11 oclock tonight. Theres your seven day. Hot by saturday t90 degrees. All right. Erin has got roads. More weather coming up. Well, 6 56 right now tucktory. Well do a tour of slow moving cameras. This is 95 northbound past Prince William parkway slick sluggish there. About a 45 minute trip from that dale city to the beltway. As we forward things along things jammed up on 395 by duke. Its about a 30 minute delay from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. As we take a look elsewhere, ill show you what else youre up against. This is 66 eastbound foggy kind of gloomy start to the day by 234 business. Note once you get inside the beltway thing an earlier crash after washington boulevard cleared. Well keep you updated on your morning commute. 270 southbound sluggish. Keep it to fox5 news morning. More news, weather and traffic with your 7 oclock hour. Were looking for something thats comfortable but yet durable, and thats going to last us a really long time. I dont want to buy new furniture every couple of years. Its custom made so you know its good quality. Im just speechless because its perfect. This is fox5 news morning. Right now at 7 oclock breaking news from overnight. Gunfire and explosions as de tense stand just with a gunman suspected of killing and shooting one of their own. The slain trooper we now know was from Prince Georges County maryland. Well have the details ahead in a live report. And mondays massive five alarm fire in college park is still causing problems for a firefighter. Crews trying to contain several flareups burning in the rubble. United Airlines Announced major policy changes. Next time a customer gets bumped united says theyll be compensated up to 10,000. Good morning to you. Im allison seymour. And im steve chenevey. Thanks for joining us. Its 7 oclock right now. It is april 27th. Heres a live look outside and were going get some sunshine throughout the day today. Little Early Morning haze now at 7 oclock. Lets get a quick check of weather and traffic. Tucker and erin standing by. Tuck youre up first. Steve its about the fog this morning. Once you get the fog out of here sunny bright anduc