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WTTG Fox 5 Morning News March 21, 2016

Our Melanie Alnwick is livee al from the Cuban Embassy nowassy n with more and mel, not too n long ago we werent even saying Cuban Embassy here in washington. Good morning. Go reporter good morning. Yeah, we were out here thatout t morning. Id never seen anything likeen y it. It there was so much jubilationbila when the cuban flag was finally raised here over whatveh was the former cuban intra section. There are tours, there was ather private dinner, a state dinner. Theyre also meeting with theh Business Community and of c course a little baseball. L theit obamas certainly were w greeted with a lot of cheersf ce in cuba but also tightt security. President obama and his family touching down at the main theain airport there bringing some s sunshine diplomacy to cuba on on a rainy sunday afternoon. On. The obamas toured the olde city of havana surrounded bydedb Embassy Staff and their families the president said s reopening the door cuba is beneficial to both nations. Critics say cuba isnt sharing i people. 15 months ago you may rememberer the Obama Administration decided to normalize relations after pope francis intervened. Er prior to the visit the streetsit were cleaned up, the there were many buildings that were t painted as well and also there were some dissident groups that were taken into custody. O u president obama today ist scheduled to meet with cuban president rau raul castro. O. He will not be meeting withng w his brother fidel. Tomorrow of course there willhe be a baseball match betweenmatct the Cuban National team and the Tampa Bay Rays in town for f the occasion. Then president obama willde address the cuban people. Ntpeop. Live in front of the cubanuban embassy, im Melanie Alnwick,ela fox5 local news. Mel thanks. A little closer to home c were following developingin news in the district this morning. Police say a water pipe hasde bursr t inside of Howard University hospital. Ty h bob barnard is live there with w an update on how its impacting patients. Bob, good morning. B, reporter hey, good srning, allison and steve. Gond yeah, right now a conflicting reports. No new ambulances are coming com here to the emergency room. In sense, the emergency room is closed according to mpd. The hospital says walkinalk patients are being allowed. Ed d. C. Water crews on the scene s tell us there is no water inat i the hospital right now. This was a 6inch internalal water pipe that burst around 3 30 this morning. Orning theyve shut the water avenueatu to that off tothat break in th. What the hospital pr peoplepl are telling us is that anybody who has appointments herepo should call their physiciansr ph beforehand because a lot of bec stuff is going to get canceledae until they get this water situation fixed here. Here. Again, mpd says the er is closed but walkins are apparently welcome. Welco no ambulances will be cominges w here for the time being, guys. And, you know, what this ist thi all about were not rea sure, just a pipe that has has burst inside the hospitalos here. He the basement was flooded at a one point so they had to move m eight surgical intensive carensc unit patients out of thatt basement floor to higher hhe ground, if you l so, there was. So, there was a evacuation inside the hospital. The surgical icu affected with t this flooding water break andbra no service right now. Ervice the er closed to ambulances atce Howard University hospital,pita, guys. That is very serious. Very all right, bob, thanks. Developing overnight d. C. D. Police investigating a doubleoul stabbing at a nightclub in northwest. Northwes this happened at the bravoned bravo nightclub on connecticut avenue around 2 oclock this ths morning. Mornin Authorities Say the two womenom were stabbed but their t injuries are nonlifethreatening. If right now police dont have a suspect eno dr do they have art motive. Motive. Also developing policengolic investigating a robbery androbbn assault in alexandria. Xaa. Now, this happened early this t morning in the 100 block of brag street just off 395. St 395 assaulted and robbed. Robbe no word yet on a suspect or a motive there. You get all your time. 7 05 and and lets do it. This weekend was all right. Ig hm. Weatherwise. A little indoor day if youif could swing it. Co i think both of them mightoft have been predominantly indoor o days. Days. Got that right. Ot 50 this afternoon but ais a chilly start to your day. Ay. 39 now in washington at reaganna national. 33 up in baltimore. Timo 35 in annapolis. Nnapis good morning leonardtown leordto 34 degrees. Notice the chillytice temperatures. You mix in winds and it event feels a couple degrees coolerr than that so bring a jacket jace today. The good news is well get g something we havent had in a few days sunshine. Yay daytime highs about 50. Mehs a a few degrees lower temperaturewise. Well be back into the 70s by wednesday and thursday. Thursda dining outdoors, steve and i ani can watch late afternoonfter basketball on a thursday. N thur how nice is that gi be. Be. Right. Throw some stakes on thee st barbie. Exactly. Ct i cant stay up until 9 30 onn thursday. Sd why not. Thats really late. Le. If they win ill stay up. Up. You need to get theou n information in advance then. He i will steve. L ste im going to find out. Into f 49 here later today. And again, ill have the seven n day in just a minute. Mut looks pretty good. Ok you know what i determinedat in life. Whats that. You do what you really want i to w do. To d if you really want to do it, i you would do it. T. Really . If you really want to support t one of your schools you would do it. All right. Erin como over to you. Y deep thought of the day. Of thats right. T if theres smug really want towt do, youll find a way to do d it. I agree. Uhhuh. U no excuses. Euses bam. Tucker is looking at me at with the eyes. Okay, moving over to traffic right now, skyfox is overs over bethesda. River road at goldsboroolbo theres a crash. Crash. A car went off the road. R they have a big cleanup. Leanup second flatbed at thatflatbe location. Traffic is getting through butng just use some caution. Aside from that 395 after shirlington we have a the northbound side. Ou traffic is backing up. Fic acki well take a look at one oft one our cameras and show you how things are shaping up as youp as head into the district from virginia. You can see flashing lights. Ashi they have a flatbed out there ot as well getting ready to get g that vehicle involveded to outve of the way. De from the beltway on up youre up dealing with heavy traffic oneac 395 northbound. 395 a look at our maps now. N delays continue for thisrhi monday morning commute inommutei northern virginia, 66 eastbound between 234 and 28 average speed 17 miles pered hour. And then 95 northbound daled dal city to 123 down to about a 27 Miles Per Hour. Ileser hour. You are slow across the wilson bridge. On the inner loop in looin alexandria and then theresre crash activity south capitol sth street at k street. Ee watch out for crowded cro conditions on the key bridge keg as you make your way fromay fro roslyn into georgetown. Etown. Gw parkway southbound jammingami up as usual. S u suitland parkway inbound slow. W. 50 inbound slow by 202. 202 outer loop delays continue 95 to georgia and dont forget in frederick youre jammed upre jmu from the truck scales downs dow through urbana. Back to you guys. Uy thats a lot erin. Youre busy. Usy. Still ahead this morningad tg attend robbery at a pennsylvania turnpikeurik tollbooth. Toll and shocking perhaps whoking is behind the crime. E cme thats coming up. And a new report, neweport, w information about thereatio maryland mother accused in theac disappearance of her two young children. Children. How shes tried to escape thehe hospital where shes being treated how many times. 7 08. Look outside at friendship fi heights. Its cold. 38 degrees. First full day of springfull bundle up. Tucker will join us at 7 15 7 for more. Or m a week after a shootout at t a Police Station in prince s georges county. Ge hundreds gathered to rememberhe officer jacai colson at t at a candlelight vigil outside of ouo ice district three policetr station the place where thatthe 28yearold officer wasr killed. Ol police say he was killed by for officer colson will happenil in the next few days. Few d we are learning newningew information about a montgomery m county mother who you seer wh there accused in the disappearance of her childrenhie citing Court Records theds t Washington Post reports r katherine hoggle has tried to escape from the psychiatricsych hospital where shes beinghere treated at least eight times. Htt in each attempt shes grabbedra a Staff Members badge andbae ad shes just run towards thehe door. Or. Hoggles children jacob and sara were last seen inst seen in september of 2014. 2 she is charged with neglect abduction andand ababinstructorring justice. North korea has reportedly rr fired another missile intoth waters offer the east coastt c that news coming a few hoursew h after the north released these imagesover night claiming to c show leader kim jong un inspecting exercises by theng e countrys army. Unys arm it was not made clear when these military drills tookills place but other reportsep suggest they were held lastey thursday in response w to u. S. South korea joint koi military training. G. The suspected terrorist terri apparently planning newew operations and was ready for rdy more violence. Vioe. His name is salah abdeslam. Aes he was arrested on friday. Ri hes said to be be cooperating with authorities. Ri. Officials say he told investigators there he wass thes planning another attack fromk f brussels and had access to weapons. Ap france is now asking belgiumw to extradite him to paris. O however, his lawyer plans to fight for him to stay in brussels. Experts are now examiningre the black boxes from the plane that crashed at an airport inrtn southern russia over thesia ov weekend. The fly dubai flight nosete dived and exploded after trying to land for a secondlaor time in strong winds. Win all 62 people on board wereer killed. Ed. Officials say the planes data d and voice recorders wereecor wer heavily damaged in the crash. Ca they cant immediately read that data. D the airport plans to reopen today. At least 13 people are deadra and 34 others are injurednj following a bus crash. Csh this happened in spain. S the bus was taking exchange eha students home from a festival fa when it crashed. Sh the passengers include students from 20 different can countries. Officials say Road Conditions were good at the time of the crash. Roash. Theyre looking into a cause. Awful. It is 7 12. President ial candidates makingai a stop in our area here today. Ea details on their visit their straight ahead. Taking a live look outsidek e things are getting a little l bit better, not warmer. Ar but there warmup is on thep is e way. Tucker will tell us when coming up next. Look. The scaffolding is coming down. Progress. Who has an update. Hasn u wait a minute. This just in. Go ahead steve. Go ahead steve. Our fan of the day we ask our great viewers to help usewsh out. We got his name. Ot his n his daughter called. James maple. M happy birthday. Happy hd about to turn 80. Turn can i give a shoutout. Sure. S curt who has been tweet meguh nonstop about representingo capitol heights. All right. Ab on my maps workin rg onig it. Okay. 36 degrees for you, curt sosc thank you for watching. Wat youre getting specific like areas on your i get a lot of requests like can you put my town. An i will put as man yy as i can. Obviously theres a lot of a lot people who live in the area. Are all right. So, he gets a specialoutoutci this morning. Awesome. You ask and you get the answer i guess. Gss 39 now in washington. Hi 28 in boston. Hey, its snowing up in it boston. Bo that sounds like fun. Ounds ke f uhhuh. Right . What a pretty town boston is. Is. Four to 6inches. Inc much of the country isuch fairly cool there. Coothere look down to houston were 42 degrees, 47 in new orleans, l 37 this morning in atlanta. Mor. Doesnt feel like spring. Ikspri these temperatures will stayill on the cool side thisl s afternoon. Well see highs locally about 50 degrees. Gh the good news we should clea rd c it out and get some sunshine ssh after a couple days of clouds and kind of on and off again ofa rain and snow around here. Here. Still snowing in new england. Inn mention boston providencerovidec hartford getting severalev inches of brand new fresh snow h for spring. Spring. And that will get out of heret r later this afternoon. Te but if youre traveling upr ral towards boston you may want toao call and make sure your flightoi is on time. N t 50 for us today. Od 60 tomorrow. Tor then were off and running. Runi blossoms will be blossoming,g, eaglets will be chirping. G. Aww. Uhhuh. Steve will be skippingbe ski through the flowers. Thr the uhhuh. With temperatures in theres mid 70s. Mid 70s more of af possibility. See. Well make that happen. H [laughter] be careful was wish for. Ful just dont hurt your back,rt, steve. Tricky. Erin como standing by withmow a look at the roads. Okthe hey, erin. Hey, good morning. Good 7 17 right now. N unfortunately were dealingatela with huge problems. Th huge this is the outer loop by good o luck road. Left lane getting by. Get theres a crash blocking theing right lane and part of the partt right shoulder. Righ so again as you make your way yr out this is the outer loop by lp good luck road. R big delays as you make yourasoum way out. Way out. Keep it to the left. 395 northbound at shirlington s another crash. Police lights getting ready to o tow the vehicle involved. Hi traffic is really sloclw fromlo the beltway o on through pastoup the 14th street bridge. E 14ee well check in now with oureck t maps. Were dealing with otherg with h delays. Ys 395 theres a closer look atoo that slow down 15 miles per milp hour especially between edsallel and seminary. Eminy from Prince Georges County towards alexandria you jam upexy on the inner loop over the ove wilson bridge. 95 northbound dale city to 123 he, 27 Miles Per Hour. P h 66 eastbound 234 to 2817 miles m per hour average. Per hour ave and then you jam up agai you make your way throughay thrh fairfax. Keep in mind clara bartonraar parkway as you make your way myr over the chain bridge trafficrig lights are out so use cautionse there. More traffic in a few. Thank you very much, erin. E while the president ial t candidates including ilu republican frontrunner donald trump will be here in there in e district today. Donald trump will tore hisp t future hotel in northwest onortt pennsylvania avenue. Pesylv then give a speech the a proIsrael Lobby Group. Protests are expected there. He hell also kick off a major m effort today to unite hisunite party behind his campaign. Hisag maureen joins us in studio stu with more. Wi a busy day today. Ay t very busy. Bus good morning to both of you. While in washington donald washg trump is also expected to meet o with a couple dozen gop doz insiders and his message will be unity. U [cheers and applause] a donald trump ralliesmplies continue to draw instigators i and violent clashes, this a pair of trump support pomeled p protestor. Pr for trump the larger issue is ie uniting people who should be on the same side, republicans. Ui and today in the shadow of thedt u. S. Capitol hes expected toece make an attempt m the largely undisclosed list of republican insiders. Licainsid we have to bring our party py together if we bring our partyty together, we will win. W we will win by numbers thatrs t youve never seen before. Bef reporter speaking at A Lincoln Dade dinner floridada trump talked about thep importance of uniting the party even as he facesces continued opposition from ted cruz, john kasich and somend s republicans who have talked tal about rallying behind a third a Party Candidate even as thendidn partys chairman thinks that that would throw the electionowe to democrats. Well, sure it would. Wo of course it would. W but i also think its far toor o late. Reporter one trump tactic involves the supreme court. Court. And republicans skepticismism that he would app pointerwo conservative justices asas president. Es hes prepared to make somee promises. I am go together give a list of either five or 1010 judges that i will pick a hundred percent pick that ik t will put in for nomination. Nin reporter trumps t Campaign Says they will alsoaysw be increasing security atg got out of hand this week. T w this time it happened in arizona. Izona. A protestor was punched in then face as he was being led outng l of the event. Of the event i think you saw that video a little while ago. Trump blames the protestor foram that violence. Es in d. C. Today im sure werey sw going get some news out of that one. At. That you can bet on. U can be. Maureen, thank you very much. M coming up a robbery turns deadly on the pennsylvania pen turnpike and who is behind it. I its going to surprise you. Sure how Authorities Say this say incident unfolded. Uol a bit avenue surprise bvenu there. Later frightening moments for parents in maryland. Rents in m how their kids ended up u 30 feet below ground. Time right now is 7 20. Its about taking a stand. 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