On the 5s at 7 05. 7 lets take you right to thea big story, though. Big ory, you can see it right here. Death and destruction innd southeast virginia. Ut a live look fromhe the town ofno waverly as we begin right hereig at 7 00 a. M. At good morning, im allisonll seymour. And im steve chenevey. S welcome to fox5 news morning. Wsi right now virginia remainsem under a state of emergency. Stat the National Guard has beenal g called up. The the weather is being blamed for the deaths of fourord people in the commonwealth. State police say a plan in appomattox county was killed kle after a funnel cloudnel cl reportedly destroyed his home. Em in essex county the storm injured 25 people and pple destroyed at least 15 homes. Omes and in the tiny farming townng w of waverly a tornado is tordo believed to have touched downedd killing three people. Ing the pe. Thats where we find anniee n yu. Shes there with the veryy latest for us this morning. Is annie. Reporter good morning, steve and allison. D son. Yeah, this is just devastation. Statio Virginia State police remaintare on scene. Ne they actually set up a commandom center right up the road heree but as you enter the town ofow waverly this is what youre your greeted with right behind here. Theres just destruction everywhere. We have homes that are thatrt have been taken down, multipleul agencies here. Ere. Theres so much damage andso flooding and we understandnderst tens of thousands of homes and businesses in this area are in e without power at this time. Er as you mentioned, this is a small farming area with aboutbo 2,000 people and you see as you drive up and down route r 460 theres branches trees knocked down. Theres multiple structures that have been damaged and ween see some, you d know, homes that have been wiped clean even though the structure is standing. Andi theres a laundromat here thatet is completely ripped apart and you see whats interesting iss the washing machines andhines an drivers are still standing. Stan and then if you drive around aun you see some homes untouched,ch, some businesses untouched andese then across the street the businesses and structures are damaged. Dama there are multiple roads thatler are closed right now along route 460. No word on when that willill reopen but thats due to d flooding and destruction. As you mentioned this storm stom did kill four people ine virgini appomattox county which isou about 90 miles from here. 90 the three other victims were mhm found in this area. A we understand it was ad it 50yearold man and ayeaold 26yearold man an an twoyearold. O they were found 300 yards fromro their mobile home and imnd im being told on the scene heree that their mobile home is just beyond this white home herewhit closer to route 460. Te 4 so, its just a sad, sad situation out here. Ou h last night First Responderses went door to door to make sure r all residents are accounted acct for and according to stateste police, Virginia State policee e there are no reports ofepor o missing persons at this timepe but whatrs remains still a mystery is reports of thatfha funnel cloud have not yet beenn confirm. The National Weather service is supposed to be out hered conducting an investigation togi determine whether a tornadodo actually touched down. D one last thing i want toant mention is late last night l around 7 30 they enforced a curfew basically asking people o the stay off the roads, stay, s home so that they can get those First Responders outrst sn here to help clean up. N up. That curfew remains in effect for now were being to Virginia State police. Ol thats the very latest here in waverly. Back to you in the studio. U annie thanks. Thanks. Devastation in northern a virginia. Inia. Downed power lines causing power attaches as well aswell as having an impact on the commute. Mm Melanie Alnwick is live inwin great falls with the latest. Les mel, good morning. Me reporter good morning,ning, lost people here wondering wde when is it that the powerhat t p company is going get here. Were not faulting them. Them. A lot of dangerous work to do wo here and you got wait untilaitnt sunrise and then when the sun t comes up you can see exactlyly what is causing the problemhe here. I know weve got some skyfox video as well. Vide interesting thing, though, t when we saw this tree this treth morning we were like oh my gosh i cant believe how bigan that is. t now im told that this i s a small tree, that there areee, e actually two other much largerge trees also down here goingereoig from this spot here and all a a the way down to springvale on georgetown pike and this ishis just one of the locations here h in the great falls mcleanls mcl area. I believe that this happened thp gh im told when people reported that they had lost power. Ow we also understand that theres a tree down, someown, wires down on lawton street intn mclean. Mclean. Thats kind of right downtown mclean proper. Ro also ultimate route 123 and then just not too long agoo ago Fairfax County police tweetedewe out that they also had anad issue, they were saying sorty rs of in the georgetown pike corridor between balls hillweil road and delaney, that wholet ol corridor there, big problem p there as well. The as there may be an issue with a transformer so as soon as wes wrap from this location wereat going to go over to thatoha location check it out and lett l you guys know what we find. Back to you. Y thanks so much mel. T we do appreciateha it. Shows the devastationastation across the state from the southeastern part of the stateot to rider here in our area. H now at a we see a little littl sunshine and we made it we i through. Yes, things are gradually grl getting better, yeah. Y yesterday we had it all,erdawe h didnt we. Yeah, we. We did. Weid. Including the flooding. Od i had no idea how serious h s it was and high to take my t child to basketball practice p and i was like what is goingat g on. The the flooding and and theyndt were you were its really badeaa out here. Out dangerous for a time. Anrous. Yeah, were trying to getng t things gradually a littleittl better. Bett its not going to happen inhappn the next hour or two but iou think by this weekend thingskeni will be a lot better. Ette heres the good news. No big storms today. Please dont forget weve got wt very saturated soil. Oi parts of the area picked uprea d more than 2inches of rainn yesterday. I think it was record rainfall a up at bwi marshall and with winds blowing 30 or 40 miles mil an hour we may see additionaldda trees falling or branches bnc falling that kind of thinghi here so just keep that in mind n as youre out and about. Few leftover showers on 95. Sh it will generally be a cloudy cd day relatively mild. Y m temperatures right now up nearp 50 and well keep them up near 50 this afternoon. 50 t there are your winds. E yourds. Theyre expected to only picknl up in currently 15 washington, 12to out at dulles. Dul again we could expect winds gusting 30 plus miles an hour pu later today with a high h temperature of 53 could be a few showers lay this afternoon. What we get will be widely scattered. Sc not expecting another outbreak o of Severe Weather like yesterday. Y. As much day looks sunny brighton and warmer. D for everyone looking for signs g of spring i think youll likeouk it. In fact i guarantee youllee you like it. Like its the spring guarantee. Uaa i think it might be wee might be 20 days out fromm spring. Thats it . Ts it yes. All right. Under a month. Thats a good thing. Ood th getting close. Etting close. Lets check in with erinwih see how the roads are. Ds im thinking about shopping for spring clothes allison. All thats right. Thats much more excitinge en than spring traffic. Ing trfic really messy thursday morning. I skyfox is over georgetown pike p at springvale road in great in r falls virginia. Vgini do you understand trees, donder you understand pair lines. You can see a really bige cleanup they need to get tooet t this morning. This morning this is one of severalev intersections that is affected f by some downed morning. So well keep you updated butyoe be prepared as you head out o from great falls this morning youll need to detour aroundd to georgetown pike. Town p lets look at our maps. S. Aside from that, westbound wtb side of the freeway stillreeways dealing with a crash sceneshce after sixth street. S delays back to the 11th street s bridge. In addition to that northbound side of 295 at suitland Parkway Center lane bocked with a crash. Youre jammed up inbound 295nd 2 both directions between thetitw beltway and 50. 0. 50 inbound new york avenue by bladensburg tons of volume. Urg s same story south capitol as you head in from suitlandd parkway. Well take a live look outsideoi right now. Were seeing a lot oft congestion. This is inbound south capitolap at the Douglas Bridge stackeddgd up for several miles. For s 395 inbound an earlier crashli has cleared by duke street but t still from the beltway to thetwo 14th street bridge a lot ofe volume and the key a bridgeses backing up into georgetown. Eoetw more traffic in just a few. Few steve. St still to come this morninghi Donald Trumps taxs attack. Tt how mitt romney is nowow involved and how trump isrump i fighting back. Getting a li there. Also president barack obamasi reportedly eyeing a johdeningohn leader as a possible nomineeom for the supreme court. Ou more on the man being bei considered. Ider and were still followingll breaking news right now. Pardon me. Pardon m this is out of new york city. Nc that fishing boat ran agroundrao in far rock a way eens, new york. The coast guard ship tried toar get it and overturn. Ortur that crew being rescued bycued members of the new york city n k fire department. Epartment. Coast guard ship was trying torg res i cue people on that boat. So far good news for everyone. A lot of today. Its 7 09. Donald trump blasting mittld t romney who has been calling onas trump to release his tax records. Trump tweeted mitt romney who should have been won and whosenw tax returns made him look like a fool is now playing tough tou guy. Romney says trump quit dragging on releasing his rel h returns suggests he has something to hide. Republicans preparing 20li face off in houstocan tonight. N the last debate before super be tuesday. Last night in texas all butal one of the gop candidates sat down with foxs megan kelly kel for a town hall. Guess who wasnt there . Yes,re donald trump. Ld missed the forum due to a quote unquote schedulely s conflict but his opponentsisppon came out swinging. Swing well, listen, there haste never been a candidate likedi donald trump. Donald t if you look nationally inat the head to head polls, donald consistently loses to hillary. Il i consistently beat hillary. Hiy so the question right now isow how do we prevent nominating aot candidate who loses theidwho lo general election or for that fot matter if donald wins thehe general election, who the heck h knows what he would do as president . I mean, you know,t . E we need a president we can w trust. applause . appla marco trump saying he is not a conservative. Democratic president ialcrat candidates are gearing up for south carolinreas democraticra primary this is a. Bernie sanders talking to voters about poverty in southsoh carolina. Tomorrow hell have arr hell h community for numb flintunity accomplish began to talk about b the water crisis. Th Hillary Clinton also addressing the water crisis inin flint. Int. While South Carolina shee stressed her compliment toer c helping the city. Could president obama be considering a republicana ubli nominee to replace the late thel justice antonin scalia. Sli according to sources, Nevada Republican governor brian b sandoval is in the running. Republicans have threatened to reject any candidate by they president. Iden he met with area rea harry reidr lets take a live lookiv outside on this thursdayts morning. There you go a little bit of a t sunshine. Maybe that helps a little bit h compared to what weve seeno wh the last couple days. The st cous weather an 5s next. N its 7 12. What is a good word. D w is this a beautiful sunshine rainbow day we saw aaw minute ago or a heavy cloud layer kind of dark day thatnd od were seeing depending whatngha picture we look at. Or this normal or were in a big area. A its going end up being overcast cloudy rather moodyathe looking day, okay. O so we should enjoy this t time when we see it. When see yes. Cooler air trying to work inok and a secondary front. Da were really not done with the sort of leftovers. After a big storm like thatstort you often have leftovers the next day. Thats what were dealinge with. You can see the cloud cover out there. Yes, a fthew peeks oe sunshine for parts of the area. 50 in Southern Maryland at the moment and a little bands ofeds showers set up moving right across 95 the northeast sideeast of the beltway there and thentwe out along route 50. So, lets see, beetleville,eetll college park getting lightetting shower activity. Bowie and annapolis over the ov next few minutes. M what can we expect today . Generally cloudy skies. Ski youll get some peeks ofe ek sunshine. Look at that mess to the west turning into winter into ohiotoe indiana and parts of westsf virginia where theyre gethere something pretty good up slopeds snows. We can expect lots of cloudsec today. A few showers. Few owers. Temperatures about 50 the mostht importantly the winds. Y the w the winds are going to goi blow 30 plus miles an hour 30 around here afternoon so be ready for aso b very windy day. Very windy day there are your current winds gusting 25 in pittsburgh, 31 richmond, 33 boston and wennd w currently have winds gusting gus about 15 to 20 around here butde as our area of low pressure pres continues to push away anda deepen were going to get ao get pretty good Pressure Gradientnt today and a lot of wind. W thursday your seven day. Ursday lets talk about sunshine andbod warmer conditions and wells w get that by the weekend sundayka and monday up near 60 degrees. Nice. All right. All something good to lookhing gl forward to. O. Very cool. Cool. Lets check in with erin chek see how things are on our o commute this thursday morning. Theyre slow. Its 7 17. Weve played to it friday evet e but if youre trying to get to work on team heres a look atook 66 by a gallows. Crowded conditions. Conti nutley street a crash issh blocking the right laneig between nutley and the beltway. Ltway. Give yourself extra time to get from manassas throughfrom ms centreville this morning. Is m 395 on the northbound side byboe duke street heavy trafficra there from the beltway to theayt 14th street bridge. Youll hit a lot ofit a l stopandgo traffic. Op top of the beltway outer loop by New Hampshire usual flow ofpi traffic slowing us down between 95 and 270. 70 its just a lot of heavyfea traffic across all lanes. Allan no crashes there. The now inbound south capitol as you make your way fromour wafrom suitland parkway you seeee things are just really jammed jj up getting into the city. Same story new york avenuekve inbound as you make your wayour past bladensburg road. Bladensburg also backing up. You can see just how mucht w volume is around the area. Are that continues 270 southbound. On down to about 16 Miles Per Hour from frederick all the all way down to the spur, justpur, s really heavy conditions. Diti and then as you make your way yw out on the westbound side ofes the freeway we have a crash csh after sixth. Delays back to the 11th street e bridge. Crash on 295 northboundbo throwing us down by suitlandd parkway. Well keep you updated. Updat thats your traffic. Ra back to you allison and steve. Ad thank you. After being ranked numberd nr one Transit System in the bob barnard is live at the it Eastern Market metro station. Ta tell us how were going livere g up to our number one status. Bob, good morning. Reporter hey, goodep morning, guys, yeah an interesting thing came outg thi this week. Ill tell you more about thatu in a minute. In ainut yes, todays metro boardet b meeting has a strong focus on safety. Safe not only things that happentap like happen on the green line ln earlier this week, a shooting so on the green line, other kindsis of Violent Attacks but also in a some in house stuff talking tal about this new report aboutor ao distracted and daydreamingmi operators, the federaled government reporting something m like 47 red light runners since 2012. 2. We are here at Eastern Market. Ae this is the on blu orange blue d silver line trains. Train metro says theyre installingrn systems to monitor red light violators. Violator they say they can already a intervene automatically if trains move on without actually getting clearance to do so. So. They say sometimes metro m be leaving the platform heres kind of t in a daze and so metrm says theyre going to be adjusting schedules enhancing e some of their procedures tof th try to improve that kind of Operator Safety here in theoraft metro system. Also metros new gm has g reportd that they have begun installing 100 miles of coaxial cable in under grounde n tunnels to improve Radio Communications for firstunicionf responders and wireless wir service for customers. Icfo its a 120 million projectct here. And they are also working withow the wireless providers to t improve communicationss underground. Undergro you mentioned that new york based if this tech Company Smart assets that wast basically crunching thecru numbers and they basicallyas said that our metro system is number one in the country, sansn francisco being second. Ec and its based on basically basl the time you save by riding metro as opposed to driving tong work and to home after worker here in the d. C. Metrore so, despite some of the safety issues, our system is number n one at least according to thisni new yorkbased company thatsha come out with this survey thisy week guys. Weekuys. Looking good on paper atn least when it comes to getting i there on time. E. Bob, thank you so much. M still ahead some aad s encouraging news about thisws at years flu vaccine. Vacne and we continue to followtieo breaking news out of new yorkf k city. Ci. A coast guard ship overturnedd off shore near far rockaway inka queens. The crew is being rescued by b members of the new york fires of department. The coast guard ship was trying to rescue people on aon a fishing boat that had running hn a ground. Well