Southbound 50 inbound residual delays. And next. 7 01. And we learn that deadly train sdmaent Washington State may have been caused by speed. Later fox five Melanie Alnwick is live outside head qu5r9ers. Mel, good morning. First full day for ntsb go team which left here in washington d. C. And headed to Washington State for that crash. When they arrived at the seattle tacoma area quick briefing gave jaw dropping information and 80 miles an hour in 30 mile an hour zone. One of the trains then data recorders. Interests state 5 there in Washington State this is about will be closed for a portion of the day. Still today while volingttors landed on to interstate five. Train was making its inaugural run on fast iter root from see at toll port long, horror. There were 08 passengers on boards. Theyre looking at many factors including spied. And the speed limit is known to operators and and the speed limit and that is will help show us. We can tell you that crew members have not yet been interv
Seen from miles away. One week before christmas at least 30 people are now without place to stay. Their decorations and almost all their belongings completely destroyed. Take a look hide me. Fire investigators remain outside the building five hours after the fire first started. We are being kept on the property. Off the in this video you can see the flames shooting higher into the air at the Carriage Hill apartments in hillcrest heights. The fire started just before 7 00 this morning on curtis drive. When firefighters first arrived all three floors of the garden style apartments were on fire. At one point the flames were in theg 20 to 30 feet air through the roof and firefighters were told to get out immediately. All of this happening as families were scrambling to wake up and get out of the building. They were bringing on the doors thing theres a fire its time for us to getut and called my sister to let her know the building was on fire. There was people screaming and the fire truck s
Airplane theres plenty you should know before you get to the airport. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National with some of those details. Mel, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Still only seeing really delays out of los angeles this morning and even then not that many. So, things do seem to be moving pretty well given the fact that this is supposed to be a record year for Holiday Travel. This seventh year in a row travel has increased. Its not your imagination if you think there are more people on the airplanes and the security lines. Weve seen a couple of different configurations here going on in these t. S. A. Lines. Right now this is pretty normal. Passengers are moving pretty steadily. Now, when the k9s are in operation, then its a little bit of a different scenario. They come back and forth and they sniff the shoes and the bags and those instances then people dont have to take off their shoes at security and it really does make things go a lot quicker. We ti
Through 9 00 p. M. We are dry across the area. You can see a crayola effect of colors. The blue indicating the snow. Green indicating the rain. Ice. Ink indicating the temperatures are definitely cold. It is 1020 Degrees Higher than it was at this time yesterday. 17, manassas. Kids that are already going to be going to school this morning, if they are not already dry at thewill be bus stop. We will have some rain and it will be freezing rain falling and creating some icy road conditions, but we have a bigtime warmup coming our way later this week. When i join you in 10 minutes, i will take you through our futurecast coming out the precipitation in your neighborhood. Common this time of year. Crayolaou said it was a box of colors, was that a 64box . Or the 16 box . Eileen the 16 box. How about that . [laughter] main we have water breaks. We have crews out there working your red top road because of the water main breaks. Only the left lane is able to get by at this time. We also have the
Over to mayor where point ridge and marlton elementary are both closed today because of heating problems. All other Prince Georges County schools are opened today on time. Dorchester county schools are closed. Queen annes county schools are on a 90 minute delay. Talbot county schools are now closed for the day. And in West Virginia grant hardy hampshire jefferson and Mineral County schools are all closed. You can see the closings and delays running o bottom of the screen and the fox5 news and weather apps. Our Team Coverage continuing this morning. Tuck joins us now with the first check on the forecast talk about the threat of freezing rain which is really what were worried about this afternoon, right, tuck. Hard to believe with temperatures as cold as they are this morning were talking about freezing rain. Upstairs several thousand feet temperatures are going to warm first then work their way down to the surface but in the meantime were looking at this period later this afternoon earl