Of the evening rush is when we see rain move back into our area. We are getting a big break throughout the bulk of friday as we wrap things up. A cool day. The temperature is once again low. A good soaking overnight and said a morning, if you have plans for saturday, maybe the kids were going to have some soccer games, dont think that is going to happen. Looking like a washout. Lots of clouds, of course. Not a big range of our temperatures. 51 degrees. Manassas, warrington to 53 in d. C. On the cool side and once again we stay under 60. The average high is 74. Back into the 70s on mothers day but look at the rain returning to our area 6 00 this evening. We will show you how much. Julie we are still looking at a problem in Calvert County outbound on four. This is where we have the crash from over night. Southern maryland boulevard is blocked off outbound headed toward making way back up towards anne arundel all lanes open. It is a crash with poles and wires down. Southbound 270, taking a peek at this commute coming from i70, started to see some yellow. The lanes are open, continuing southbound, a 15 minute commute from i70 back out towards 121. Just volume. That is our traffic watch. Thanks. Breaking while you were asleep, townhouse in Fairfax County going up in flames. Larry John Gonzalez live on the scene. Neighbors telling you they heard something out of the ordinary before the saw the flames. John thats right. They heard a loud explosion and they felt a shake, a tremor here in the neighborhood at around 1 30. The home is nestled between a cluster of townhomes in this neighborhood in lorton. We can tell you that power and gas has been turned off to some of the homes here. Some of the folks will be displaced for some time because not only is that home a total loss by the adjacent homes also significant damage to those. And neighbors tell us that they actually saw the homeowner leaving about an hour and a half before this fire started. One man telling me he actually approach to because he saw him with several pieces of luggage. He said, are you moving out . He said no, were not going anywhere and then the fire at 1 30 started with an explosion. You see some of the video. Heavy smoke pouring out of the house. Firefighters dowsing the house with water. They are still doing that. The fire started in the rear of the home and quickly spread. Suchlame so large and heavy smoke that firefighters were unable to go inside. They fought the entire thing from outside. If you come back to us l hats. Those are fire investigators. We cover a lot of fires. And we are noticing not only investigatorsl but also perhaps talking to more residents than they usually do. Coming up later this hour, we are going to talk to some of the neighbors who tell us, well, they thought it was very unusual seeing the homeowner leaving and the fact that they say this house was in the process of foreclosure. That this homeowner was going to be evicted tomorrow. Were working to get all of that confirmed. You will hear from one of the neighbors coming up on good morning washington. Back to you. Larry we will talk to you soon. The story as to whose idea was to fire james comey. The white house said it was the fbi director to be let go on the advice of the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein president fire comey. He wanted to stay on. And i said, ill consider. We will see what happens. Larry and another snag for the present. Testify before Congress Offering more contradictions to claims the fbi had lost confidence in the former director. Director comey enjoyed broad support within the fbi. And still does to this day. Larry there was another revelation that came out about the investigation into alleged russian interference in the election. When Andrew Mccabe said about that coming up in a live report at 6 45. Also new, james comey getting the united chairman on the cover of the upcoming edition of the new yorker. Just coming out. The photo features the attorney general Jeff Sessions dragging comey down the isle of an airplane while President Trump watches. This mirrors the notorious images of david dao dragged off that united flight in chicago last month. Autria the story changing by the minute. Stay up to speed at wjla. Com. Getting to other news. The desperate search for a missing mother and her young baby. Take a look at your screen. An amber alert for this baby from hampton, va. Chloe johnson is an extreme danger. Her mother is also missing and may have been adopted. If you see them, call police right away. Larry turning to sports. Another d. C. Sports Team Fighting to stay alive. Do or die tonight in the phone booth for the wizards as they host boston. Game six. Wizards blown out in game five. Good news for the wizards is the home team has Won Every Game in the series and certainly hoping that they can get it done here. We wish the caps could say the same. Disappoint us. New overnight, you have heard of weather delays, mechani how about a scorpion delay . The guest who made a mess of an overnight flight. Get ready for spring soccer. More rain on the way. Veronica johnson is telling you when your weekend mi im at higher risk fore as depression. Ave a stroke. Im 26 more likely to develop an irregular heartbeat. I have a 65 higher chance of developing diabetes. No matter who we are, these diseases can be managed or prevented when caught early on. Because with better research, the right medicine, and with doctors who help keep me healthy to begin with, we will thrive. Veronica another day with temperatures in the 50s. I really think it is going to be quite some time before we have consecutive days back to back days that stay under 60 degrees. Take a look at the forecast for today. The temperature of 53. 56 at 11 a. M. To noon. Notice the cloud cover. Could get a little bit of drizzle, but the bulk of our rain returns late today after 5 00. You can see the drops falling with a little bit of sun possibly breaking through right before the sunset. Moderate rain overnight. It gets very hard that rain coming down. Isolated flooding through seven morning. Late in the day saturday, we are dry. We are not going to see the clouds move out but at least we are going to see the rain end. Tonight for nationals taking on the phillies, it could be a delay or cancellation alter the game 57. All through the game. Road conditions tomorrow, likely to see some delays. We will talk about traveling, getting on the airplane and where i think there could be other delays across the east coast. Julie from the east coast to the west side of town, this is some problems. Ve eastbound along 66, a 10 minute commute from fairfax parkway to the beltway. The crash is reported before notley street. The can see the flashing lights on nutley street. Traffic in a crawl from 123 towards nutley street. Within the next 10 minutes. Already a slow go coming from fair oaks mall did inbound towards the capital beltway. The crash has been reported along route 7. Traffic is tied up in each direction. 6 12 now. Developing right now, it happened again. Another noose found at a school. Suzanne this time it was a middle school. A letter going out from the principal and Anne Arundel County. A live report is coming up when good morning washington returns. Well its a perfect nespresso hold on a second. Orge. 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. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . Theres the view. Theres more to life than the climb. Youve gotta stop and look around a little. Come, shed lifes layers in asheville. Let the child inside you out to play. Remember who you are. Life is for the taking, not for taking it easy. Asheville. Discovery, inside and out. You are watching good morning washington. On your side. Autria breaking overnight, and unusual delay on a flight. Sam sweeney is at the live desk. Its ashley not the first time we are talking about this. Sam what would a friday be without United Airlines story . The time making headlines because of this. Ive seen mechanical and weather delays in air Traffic Control flight 1035 from houston delayed for more than three hours. A passenger said the scorpion planed from its the was taxing for takeoff and the pilot decided to return to the gate. United not taking any chances. It took some time. Paramedics say the passenger was checked out and was not stung. Passengers left 3. 5 hours later. No scorpion was ever found on board the plane. Autria quick question. You worked for an airline it were things ever this exciting when you worked there . Sam i could write a book but i never saw a scorpion. I have been stung by a scorpion twice. It is not much worse than a bee sting. Autria well, cant wait for that book. Hope it talks about the scorpion. 6 16. Right now and student are waking up learning about another noose at a school. Their first lead. Suzanne kennedy is live from the school details. Suzanne good morning. When we arrived an hour ago in the parking lot of the school you see behind me on davidsonville road there was a Police Officer that had been put there overnight. That Police Officer, we spoke with her. She said there were Police Officers at a number of schools in the area. After a noose was found hanging in front of a window that faced a courtyard. Look atyou to take a these pictures provided to us late yesterday by Anne Arundel County police. Two teenage boys captured by surveillance camera. One wearing a sweatshirt, another with a baseball cap. The two were caught on School Grounds around 9 45 wednesday night. That is what the timestamp on the photo says th. The noose was found the next morning. Authorities are not sure exactly how the boys gained access to the noose. The principal saying this incident is disturbing on many levels. She goes on to say we cannot ignore the intolerant message that this act conveys. Authorities are working with the county police to find those two men. Those are very good pictures. They are hoping somebody in the community will recognize them and will give police a call. 6 18 now. This noose citing follows those other two other incidents. Students at American University in. D. C and the university of maryland in college park reported seeing nooses. Police still investigating both incidents. Autria a new lawsuit accuses Howard University of mishandling several sex assault allegations. Five current and former students reported being sexually assaulted between 20142016. They say the school failed to investigate and did not provide wto women say the same resident assistant raped them two of the women say. The University Said they are committed to investigating any such allegations. Larry the man accused of stabbing and killing a man on metro is due in court. Told police he was hearing voices when he allegedly killed American University alum kevin sumlin on a red line train. Autria a woman says someone stole rings from her late mother while the woman was at medstar Washington Hospital center. The hospital for heart infection. Her daughter jennifer says while her mother was there her ingrained h engagemente ring and wedding ring disappeared. These rings had been on her fingers for 67 years. She into the room and assaulted my mother its awful. Gruber died surely afterward. She reported the theft to the hospital but never heard back. An apology and police are investigating. Larry peter nugent will be officially sworn in as head of d. C. s police department. The ceremony will be held this afternoon at the Wilson Building in northwest. He will service the interim police chief since cathy lanier left last august. Autria that ceremony is set for indoors, hopefully, not outside today. Veronica oh, yes. Up until 5 00, we should be dry. Just overcast. Another cool day for us. The newest information shows the rain moving out a little earlier. Not today but tomorrow. So, its at least going to be better for the afternoon hours. If you have planned thro light. Your road cast showing green lights for the morning rush. For lunchtime. More cautionary conditions for the afternoon and evening rush as rain moves back i n. That rain ramping up in a hurry. The intensity, itll start falling much harder by the time we get to 8 00. Heres look at future weather, 5 00, moving in, warrenton, culpeper seeing the rain first. It overspread the area by 11 00. Moderate rain already showing up down i95, around Caroline County and stafford county. 6. A. M. Tomorrow. You have plans before 10 a. M. . Because it is going to be a real soaker. You can see the i95 corridor and annapolis and down south towards calvert, still seeing rainfall. 11 a. M, finally it starts to move out of here. For today, jacket on, umbrella ready. 59 for the afternoon and evening rush. Saturday, cautionary conditions. Moderate to heavy rain especially before lunch. Air delays, atlanta and National Maybe even up towards new york city early in the day. High temperature around 55 degrees. From kingman island, blue grass festival. Julie, look at next weeks high. These are just for you because i know you like it hot. Close to 90 degrees on wednesday. Julie the only thing missing on wednesday and thursday is a nutty buddy. Around the beltway you will find a crash that is affecting your commute along the georgetown pike. Traffic is affected in each direction. Waytrack 7 making their over to the scene. We are looking at sky track and through the trees to see the activity. Some traffic is able to get by under again, one of the cars, a lot of front end damage. No word on the injuries but we know its tying up traffic. Boy, is it going to be a slow ride. You may want to pick up route 7, headed back in towards tysons. Also on the west side of town, as we move over to the maps, some problems eastbound 66 working past nutley street. Sceneash with vdot on the has traffic and the through lanes getting by in the to write lanes. Delays forming through 123. That is our traffic watch. Back within the next 10 minutes. Autria what happens in the white house after hours . This morning and hes was a look inside President Trumps private residence and the personal touches he has added to 1600 pennsylvania avenue. First, we are celebrate moms. Send us your photos. You can tweak them using morning washington. Autria we are getting it inside look at the private residence at the white house. Reporters from time granted rare access. Gma in this mornings first look, a unique look inside the trump whaite house. The president showing off one of his favorite hobbies, clicking through cable. A new tv above the dining room fireplace. Despite his twitter habit of lashing out at the media, trump says he is learning to tune out the bad news about himself. Explaining i have been able not to watch or read things that are not pleasant. In terms of your own self, it is a very, very good thing. Of the personal touches he has put on 1600 pennsylvania avenue. Even the walls and his private ni time magazines nancy gibbs at 7 a. M. [doorbell] when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Now good morning washington. Breaking news alert. Aautria graduate of this morning, two fires as you wake up this morning. New information coming in as we speak. Larry take a good look at your screen. A desperate search for this mother and baby. An amber alert issued for chloe john the mother and baby in a black kia. Vaw2197. Let the police know if you know anything about this young lady and her baby. We are bracing for some soaking rain. Autria first, we have breaking news from the live desk. Sam we are following breaking news out of pakistan. Weve learned that seven people were killed when a bomb exploded, including the deputy leader of the pakistani senate. He was injured. Bodieseports show and injured people surrounding this car. In happened in southwest pakistan. So far nobody has claimed responsibility. Meantime, back at home, on a lighter note, Veronica Johnson following showers moving into our area. When will this rain stop . Veronica first it has got to start. We have one break, sam during the overnight. Now there will be more rain moving in for the evening rush. An overcast sky. Not too bad this morning. 53 with a little bit of patchy fog. Not too much. Winds out of the northeast at seven miles an hour in d. C. A lot of moisture we are going to have come into the area related today. Look at our sky cam. Would not be surprised if at times today the clouds will show signs of breaking a little bit, maybe a little bit of sunshine. Onto whats to come sunday, 50 degrees. For the most part we are going to be in the 50s throughout the area today with rain coming back late. Look at 9 00, downpours. With this storm, rainstorm, we will have some winds. Heavy rains during the overnight. The easterly wind picking up tomorrow. 70 24 mom 72 for mom. That, temperatures in the 80s and close to 90 for next week. More on that coming up. Julie right now we are taking out to the west and on 60, this is where we had some problems with a crash, eastbound 66 trying to make your way past nutley. Sky track 7 is above the scene. Well, they were. We couldve shown you some of those delays starting to form their 123. The outer loop coming from college park headed towards 270, a 14 minute ride. All lanes open was found on 495. Outbound 4, Southern Maryland boulevard still tied up because of an Early Morning crash with poles and wires down. Inbound towards Anne Arundel County, lanes open. We do have that earlier picture. You can see that crash on 66. Traffic is able to get by to the right. Back within the next 10 minutes. Autria wmore breaking news to get to from overnight. A one person was hurt. Sam it started late last night in new jersey just outside atlantic city. Take a look at the incredible video. Thiscrews rush into Industrial Complex about 30 minutes northwest of atlantic