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WTTG Fox 5 Morning News February 22, 2016

In for al on. Lets get to more breakingo o news. This coming out of princece georges county wherege firefighters on the scene ofn this big fire at a beltsville agricultural center. Cu skyfox over the scene right now. This is atth powder mill road and Animal Husbandry road. The fire chief in Prince Georges County says the firety is in a boiler building. The flames have caused theause roof that of building to buildit collapse. No word yet how it started oredo if there are any injuries. Apparently Montgomery Countyly has now come into try t moy to assist as well. El theres another picture from the scene right there. The we will follow this story andry bring you any more updates asata we get them. T another developing storyher this morning. Thorni this one out of montgomeryne county where a car crashed o right into the front of a beerrb and wine store. Fox5s bob barnard isox5s b live on the scene now ine scenw gaithersburg with the latest. L goodat morning, bob. Ning, reporter hey, maureenau and steve good morning. Oong nobody hurt. Nody h this happened at 12 45 this45hi morning. This is the beer and winer w store. Were in the 400 block of 400 bo north frederick avenue. Ve were just south of 124 months h ago village avenue inage gaithersbu you see this car mashed, it was a White Mercedes smashed right into the front here. To t fortunately the place was cly osed. Cl nobody was here. W nobody hurt. No and they dont believe anything was taken. A 19yearold woman was driving the car we are told. Ol she has been arrested for dui. A 27yearold male passenger par who after this crash got intoish the drivers seat and drovet ano off hes been arrested with hitandrun. Drun. Apparently besides this piece ti of the car, something was leftal behind that allowed police to identify the address whereress w that car belonged. D. Police went there just aboutent 3 miles from here, found the the car, arrested the teenagedeege girl and the 27yearold man. Mn they are in custody. The store has some work thatork needs to be done here. Edto b the owner has just gotten heregr and says that he does have does Surveillance Video that haso been given over tobeiven gaithersburg police. Olic he doesnt know if anythingny was taken. Was take an early look at some of theomef Surveillance Video according acg to police shows them that jusths the passenger got into thenger i drivers seat then t someone who was at the nextex door 7eleven thought they were burglarizing the placehe p but police dont believe thats the case. Ats t they believe the passenger passe just got into the drivershe drs seat and thats what they sawwht and took off. Ff. And this is unders investigation guys with twoatiou people arrested. Oplerreste a teenager with dui, d 27yearold man with hit anditht run the day will be spentl be s cleaning up and fixing this fix place here in gaithersburg,therb guys. What a mess. Wha thank you bob for that. For t lets move to fairfaxe toai county right now where police are looking for the man whothe n broke into a womans apartmentas and sexually assaulted her. Fox5s melanie alnwicke live on that scene ian mount in vernon where the attack took place. Place. Mel. Reporter hi, good morning, yeah, this is a pretty busy section hteere ofof the mount vernon area, fairfaxax county. Y were sort of south of old o town in alexandria right offndro of route one. O this is the woodlawn apartments. And police are still trying to develop a composite sketchsike here of the suspect and getnd more information as to how he got into the womans apartment. Ap we do believe that this was a ground floor apartment here. Menh it was the midd night, 3 a. M. Saturday surda morning, a 51yearold woman was asleep when a man broke m b into her home. Herom he threatened her, then sexually assaulted her and ran off. She told police he isice i hispanic, short in stature, about 25 years old wearing ang a black jacket and carrying a black backpack. Bac police say that he did seem to be familiar with the area. T neighbors hope theres an arrest soon. Feel a heart mew heart with her. Thats awful. cause we never have thingsve t like that happen here. N reporter now, fairfaxairf county k9s patrol officers,ffr detectives and helicoptersel have been canvassing the complex, spent a lot of timepe e here over the weekend. Nd still noor rest. Noor police are reminding people tope lock their doors and windows win and use timers and motion a moto sensor lights. L i did notice here in these heret apartments that there are some s motion sensor lights outside. Si i havent been able to see anyny security cameras out here just t yet. But we do know again police are looking at every e bit of information that theyormi can. They also want to hear from he the public and they also saylso that as soon as they get those composite sketches done and ready for distribution, thattrib they will be out here handingng out those fliers to let peopleee know who they should beho ty sh looking out for. G t f live in Fairfax County, im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Happy monday. H happy monday to you. Kind of nice to see melanieee not all bundled up out there. Its relatively mild tod start your day. D saturday was gorgeous. Ge friday were you at theday wizards game. Oh, yes, i was. As yes, you were. W you were behaving. They had good things to saygs about you. Yeah. H. Yeah. Thats all ill say on camera. The game started at 7 00. 70. The night was still young, yu i know. Vip guests so you betterette behave. Yi certainly did. I was on my best behavior. Bavio 41 in awhile i try to be a role aol model. Every once in awhile. E in north and west youre at your the freezing mark there nowre and in winchester and inan i frederick so a little coldere ce there to the north and west. Th. Well try to clear things out. Generally sunny conditionsdion today. To kind of partly sunny day. Paly s. But a mild day. Mild low to mid50s. And dry. An d but we do have rain in thein forecast by tuesday and by tuy wednesday well talk all abouttl that coming up. That coming dry conditions this afternoons r and again temperatures in the 50s. Winds out of the north at five i to 10. To 10. You should really go to ald r wizards game. To. Would love i heard you were invited. E it they were good on friday, too. Yeah a couple days in a rowpl theyve been looking prettye p good. Next time. Keep going as we get closereo to the playoffs. Theyo lets check in with who ish o here today caitlin. Caitlin. Aitlin. Waiting for someone to come m keep me company over here. Her on my way over. Ver. Come on. Oh, honey you called. Oual woman is alone in this inhi studio could use a friend ord hes on it. Be careful what you wishyou w for, right. Ig behind me here 395 northboundd really heavy because we had aecw crash in the center lane. Te you can see where theyreerehe directing traffic to the right and to the left. An this is at the gw parkway approaching the 14th street bridge. Br 395 northbound very, veryy,ery heavy. Back to the inner loop inthinne Fairfax County, thats where the we also have some really heavyey delays. De this is approaching braddockdd road. You can see these really heavy y buildups and this is from an a earlier jam but also now weveow got crash on the shoulder shoul right near little river r turnpike so all of that goingoi cause very heavy delays inner loop near braddock road ind i Fairfax County. Fax county. Thats going to take you quiteky a bit on that stretch of the oft beltway. Belt we have a couple other crashes o to tell you about or at leastora starting with metro where w weve got delays to glenmont gln on the red line. Red line. Thats the only one out there. Te its been the only one of the t morning so not so bad. Ad crash that just came in. Baltimorewashington parkwaywa southboundsh after 198, use soms caution. Weve got a crash on thea crasho shoulder there. Shou thats a look at traffic andrafa steve back over to you. Ck over o alall right, caitl were still talking aboutlka sang carl anSouth Carolina and d after a busy race for the t white house. Ite hous a michigan uber driverr accused of killing six people. O what we expect to learn. Fire in beltsville at the beltsville agriculture center. Re fox5 live with bob. We have details coming up. Its eight past the hour. Nine minutes past the hour. Te developing in michigan the manmi accused of going on a shooting spree is due to make his first f Court Appearance today. Od 45yearold jason dalton who dan worked as an uber driverrive killed six people and injurednj two more. Two m he was reportedly picking up fares before and between bef the attacks. Aac now the community is trying tomn make some sense of this horrible tragedy. Ib megan dice joining us withng usw reaction from passengers and unbelievable. Un reporter unbelievabletenb story, yeah, guys. Jason dalton a former ormer 45yearold uber driver a former insurance adjuster who police say had no criminalad n record and was married with w two children was arrested inesti connection with the shootings sn after a massive manhunt. Manhu on the uber web site they t relieved a statementreli confirming he was driver andng said he passed a h background check. According to the web site ithe s includes a check of theudes a National Sex Offender public puc web site, National Criminalrimi search and several different data bases used to flag fla terrorists. Uber prohibits both passengersts and drivers from possessingssing guns of any mind a vehicle. Vehe now were learning more. Earnin there may have been at least l one warning sign here. E. This post on facebook showsooshs dalton drove in a crazy manner m according to one woman when he had uber passengers in hisers is vehicle and the woman urgede wau everyone to stay away fromm dalton. Dalton take a lift the tone customers o who claim they rode with himm th before and during the shooting shooting. I harl heartedly joked at him and said youre not thee n shooter, are you and he said. No and i said rush . And he . Ad said no, im just really tireded and looking back its awards way to respond. He got maybe a mile from myle house, he got a telephone calll and after that telephone callonc he started driving really erratically. We were running stop signs. Ig in a statement the chiefhehi Security Officer for uber said we are horrified andrrd an heartbroken at the senselessenss violence in kalamazoo michigan. Ig our hearts and prayers are with the families of the victims of this devastatingevti crime and those recovering from the injuries. Iur we have reached out to the t the police to help with their t investigation in any way wen inw can. A spokesman for uber confirmed d dalton had driven with the company in the past butinhe p declined to say whether he was driving saturday night. G sa i heard the youngest victimoi was 14. S 14. Yeah, thats right, there tha were six victims in all. Ictims a i just reached out to uber andnd i asked lets just confirmon triple check to make sure thatt this guy saturday and they said wereaidr going to have to refer toer police. All right, thank you, megan. Coming up, can donaldald trump be stopped . That is the s question everyone is asking. Is n were hitting the campaignam trail as the president ialdeia candidates gear up foror tomorrows caulk can can youan y Tucker Barnes will be backare with your full forecast. 7 12. I do everything on the internet. But, its kind of slow. My friends say i should get fios because its the fastest. I just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. Thats seriously better. husband were out of 2 i wonder what else could be better around here . husband i heard that. Switching to Better Internet is now easier than ever. Only fios has the Fastest Internet available, with uploads up to 5x faster than cable. Plus tv and phone for just 69. 99 a month online with no annual contract. Switch to better. Switch to fios. Back at 7 14. Breaking news for you now. Again, this is at a power por this is rather at power millower road and Animal Husbandryhuan road. Ro the fire chief says the fireayse is in the boiler building and there the flames have causedflam the roof of that building toing collapse. No word on how it starter orstte if there are any injuries buturs again these are live picturese u from the scene. Frhe s the fire chief tweeting outetino pictures from that scene toce t give us a closer look at lk whats happening butspening firefighters trying to get try this under control. Er control. More details as we get it here into fox5 studios and newsew room. Room. In the meantime if you looka at the temperature were inpe the midra 40s in washingtonasho this morning. This mning not bad. Not bad. Lets take a fox5 field trip. Ti okay. Were going to gooingo go traveling. G. Where should we go. Take a look. How about l. A. Or new orleansrl which both look to be nice and d mild today. Ay. There you go. Curtain numbers in how i h about miami. T mi look at miami 68 degrees rightht now. New orleans 67. Rlea there are our local airports. A in the upper 30s to low 40s. 0 all systems go. Ms quiet weather if youreou traveling across the country. Het we dont have much to talk t about other than the makingshe of ourr next area of lowf lo pressure in east texas andexas louisiana. Looking at partly sunny forar yourtl monday. Onda our high temperatures will toppe out in the low to mid50s. Mid5 ive never heard owl len do o yoheard ofowendale. En tweet us if you live there. E wed like to love more. The computer populates. Uter we dont know whats going happen. Its like new york, d. C. And owendol. Ow rain returning. Urng mostly wet tuesday andsd a wednesday. We thought that might be ami winter storm. Looks wet. Oks wet. Well talk more about that ine t just a minute. St a all right. Well take rain were. W we will. Rain will be returning to owendol. Hey caitlin. Hey caitlin. Never heard of it either atie all. Not even close but i like itt its kind of like trivia foria the morning. Morn well try find a newtown every e day or something. Somet lets start off with metro here. Train malfunction. Delays to glenmont. Gnm only thing metro has at thist ts hour that will slow you down. Owd two major delays, first, 395ir, northbound at the gw parkway. Ay. Earlier crash pushed off todff the shoulder right up to theigho ramp to the gw parkway. Arkway this is your view approachinghi the 14th street bridge butridgeb still heavy delays. Earlier when we were last onen s 10 minutes agot the center lanl was blocked but now you can can access it with everythingveryin pushed off to the shoulder. Also 495 this is at braddock road. Road youve got some really heavy delays on the inner loop. There was a delay to begino b with then, a crash on the t shoulder near little riverr l down. Wn this is in Fairfax County. Cou a couple can other crashes toras show you. You lets begin here in prince ipr georges county. Count baltimorewashington parkwaye southbound rightwa after 19882 you have got a crash thats on a the shoulder. Look at these really heavyally delays. Looks luke a gaper delay too because you have northboundord delays building up as well. W inner loop through lane delays approaching the wilson bridgeth down to 13 Miles Per Hour so hor pretty slow on that stretch,tet too. Thats a look at traffic. Traic much more coming up in lessin than 10 minutes. Than0 mi steve. Caitlin thanks. Can donald trump make it three in a row . Republicans areubli gearing up for tomorrowsing up nevada caucuses after aafr weekend that saw big wins for trump and democrat hillaryde clinton. Wisdom martin joining usma live with the latest on thertlan campaign trail. Campaira busy weekend. Absolutely and its goingutel to keep getting busier. Ng b this is a question of momentum m for the front runners. T unne for trump this is about thes out power play even though theres s no actual power. Because to put them in our jails because they didnt payca while the lights went outs on trump when he campaigned inpg up the crowd when they camehenh back on. No, get those lights off. Li. That may be the first timey e that trump has shied away fromer the spotlight. Spoig but his political instincts seem to be on point scoring at i decisive win in South Carolinaan on saturday in a contest that saw marco rubio can coming inn i a surprise second. D. And jeb bush dropping out. Trump is well positioned toione win tomorrows nevada caucusesau and from there heading into io super tuesday he may be tough bt to stop. To donald trump is in a commanding position now. N could change but a very strongus one and Hillary Clinton i clion think is headed to thehe nomination but her onlyy constituency looking at the a exit polls is africanamericans where sheanwh has strong majorities. But that will be crucial for clinton heading intoding saturdays democratic primary da in South Carolina. Arolin after a big win in nevada overad the weekend she will be in california today tapping intopig the well healed donors whoheal have largely fueled herled he campaign. Campgn sanders relying on smallermaer do South Carolina where hes making an electability. Abilit if you want a candidate that can beat donald trumpna t youre looking at him. A john kasich will make a make Campaign Stop in our area are today. The Ohio Governor is set toernot hold a town hall meeting attinga george mason university. Ity. Hell also make stops in catsville ancharlottesville Andr Tim Cook speak out over they every wonder what Nature Valley is made of . No artificial colors. No artificial flavors. No artificial sweeteners. Nature valley granola bars. And now introducing delicious biscuits with Almond Butter or peanut butter. Light fit, 15 delicious flavors, each 80 calories. Try to beat that it is 7 30 right now. Is 7 0 live look at traffic right nowrn on the beltway it looks pretty p good right now. Good right now this is actually the inner loopo of the beltway near connecticutc avenue. Now this is the same place where we had all those problems onem o friday morning. M what a difference a couple of ce days makes. M this was friday at the samehe s location. Youll remember that tractorr ta trailer overturn on the outer or loop. Loop the contents spilling over on ti the inner loop. The inne the driver was killed in that crash. Crash. Traffic, however, grid lockedckd for hours afterward. Fterwa

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