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Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20160907

Failed in Congress Even as cdc warns its running out of money to fight the spread of virus. Senate democrats blocked 1. 1 billion measure last night because they objected to conditions tacked on by republicans. That included offset doubts pay for bill. And a ban on money to planned parenthood clinics in puerto rico reporting more than 13,000 locally acquired cases of zika. Zika now touched every state in the u. S. Including 11 cases in d. C. , 85 in maryland and 75 in virginia all travel related and florida is dealing with dozens of cases not track related theres concern the virus will spread further. The white house is pushing for action. Each day that goes by, until then is a missed opportunity for the u. S. Government to be doing Everything Possible to protect the person people from the zika virus now Public Health Officials Say the money is needed to develop a quick test, vaccine and Rapid Response team he rat rad indicate zika clusters where they emerge. It causes micro cephaly in pregnant women, the birth defect were babies are born with small heads and other defects and infection in health yeah dults causes mild illness lasting a week. Many dont seek medical treatment therefore theyre not tested for zika. Florida lawmakers blasted funding bills failure calling on both sides to present a clean bill without any strips or riders. Now back out live here the next opportunity here on capitol hill will be if someone for fightsing zika virus fip certificated into continuing resolution heard about those before they need passe budget bill in order to keep government running. Thats a must pass bill. Idea may funding to that one. Live on capitol hill im Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. 5 02 school out for good for students at Itt Technical Institute and campus as cross the country and right here in dmv. For Profit School announce today is closing up shop and leaving students with unfinished degrees. Annie yu joins us live from the springfield campus with what is done house the students and staff i guess. Where does everybody go, annie . Yeah, absolutely. I mean were talking about 40,000 students across the country affected by this not to mention the jobs lost and staff and faculty affected by this as well. This morning if you go to i it t institution you are greeted with this were currently not enrolling new students. Shut down affecting 40,000 students. Itt Technical Institute made at announcement friday. Theres two locations in northern virginia. Chantilly and theyre closing all 130 campuses nationwide and the for Profit College made the change a week after the college was banned from enrolling new students that really rely on federal Financial Aid. Now itt is center of government investigations and lawsuits for years now and it is blaming government for the drastic move because feds have basically gone after for Profit Schools like itt and in this case it was matter of not having required carbon hand to ensure it had appropriate resources to educate its students across the country. The school also filed for chapter 11 a few weeks ago and completely stopped accepting new students. Decision to suddenly close was not totally unexpected but left those that invested years and thousands of dollars in education in a complete bind and more importantly with unfinished degrees. Why did i lose a year a of my life go to school work 40 hours a week and go to school at night to get a degree and i cant do that anymore. I have to look somewhere else. So many students scrambling to figure out what to do next. Department of education released a list of things theyre doing to help displaced students. We have that information listed for you fox5dc. Com. Basically students have two options first continue to payoff loans and try to transfer credits hoping to keep their fingers crossed other schools will accept the credits or theyll have to start over or if youre accepting student federal aid you can get it dischargedal together under closed school program. Theyre Holding Webinar later today and we have a direct link and information for that webinar taking place at our web site fox5dc. Com along with hot line for students in case they need that number as well. Thats the late nest springfield, virginia springfield, virginia, annie yu, fox5 local news. And 5 05 now and were at 74 degrees and on our way to 90s right something. Its september right . We are. Technically were still summer. Thats right. Just because were past labor day doesnt mean its not capable of being hot and humid. Thats where well be today, tomorrow, next day and into saturday as well. Milder this morning. 74 in town. 60s in suburbs. 7 0 dulles, martinsburg, winchester 72 and yesterday morning winchester you were in 50s. Warmer this morning. Leonardtown 64. Out in annapolis its 74. Now temperatures come up a little bit. Heres the deal for later this afternoon. Temperatures pretty much wrevr about 90 to 39 and the feels like temperature today with increase in humidity will be 95 to 98 okay not everybody will feel 98. If by the watr leopard town 88. Thunderstorms around looks like thunderstorm threat really is after 6 00 a couple little thunderstorms before that. Well talk more about that and 7 day coming up in a couple minutes. Stick around for that if you like hot and humid. Erin como is back on this wednesday morning. On time traffic brought about you by toyota. Visit toyota. Com for special offers. 5 07 i dont love hot and humid bibut i like the idea of having a pool day in septembe septemberfy want to. Wednesday morning we have terrible traffic tuesday yesterday. Lot of increased volume during morning rush started earlier and take it slow through the school zones. Right now 295 look going in both directions 50 inbound from annapolis is cruising around and problem free beltway to 14 street bridge through pentagon and crystal city and things look going across 11 street bridge. As you make your way to Prince William c eastbound side. No problems past Fairfax County parkway and false church and arlington quiet. We have roadwork that cleared route 1 north at paint Branch Parkway. Traffic again moving fine route 1 north and southbound. 95 looking good as well. Lets hop outside for a live look 270. This can be a problem later in the morning. Youre wide on northbound cruising traffic as well. Back to you maureen and holly. Thanks, erin, coming up on fox 5 news morning. Theres new indication cyber spy from russia are work around the clock to disrupt the president ial election. New details surfacing this morning. A live look across the d. C. Region. Time 5 08. Were back with more fox news morning after this. 5 09 now in lopezrivas laos president obama promised to help clear away the bombs lost a generation ago. They would double spending on bomb clearing efforts over the mr. Obama is first u. S. President to set foot in laos in the Obama Administration. Made entirely in cash use is nn u. S. Currency settlement of decade old arbitration claim of u. S. And iran initial 4 million cash delivery was sent same die tie ran agreed to release american prisoners. The Obama Administration said they were separated and the cash was used as leverage now they say for nornz leave iran. 5 10 a race for the white house theres no indications cyber spies are trying to disrupt election and attack other interests along the world. Theyre investigating possible russian plot to convince americans to distrust voting outcome in november. Even before first ballots were cast. Last week u. S. Officials say election systems in illinois and arizona were hacked and russia was responsible. Russia president vladimir put inrejects that. Hillary clinton spoke to the press for second day in a row. Reporters asked whether she thought there was double standard with investigating her as opposed to her opponent donald trump. A lot of this behavior coming from him seems to be expected somehow. And thats fine if youre reality tv star or youre a Real Estate Developer i dont think it is fine if you want to be president of the united states. When asked about polls showing her trailing trump clinton says she doesnt pay much attention to the poll. Donald trump will hold a rally in philadelphia this morning. He spoke to supporters in north car line ayesterday telling the crowd America Needs chan corrupt politicians and vowed to undo all president obama executive orders in first day in office. Fox news morning need switch up wardrobe for fall. If you want edgy and comfortable look no further than singer rihanna. She has a new fashion line. Details ahead on her inspiration and where you get her new threads. As we head to break this monday morning a live look across the d. C. Region. 5 12 its comfortable 74 for you. Back with news, weather and traffic after this n with a 1. 99 medium macchiato or latte from 12 00 to 6 00 p. M. Sip in the season today. America runs on dunkin. [000 13 10;00] i found her wandering miles from home. When the phone rang at 5am, i knew it was about mom. I see how hard its been on her at work and i want to help. For the 5 million americans living with alzheimers, and millions more who feel its effects. Lets walk together to make an even bigger impact and end alzheimers for good. Find your walk near you at alz. Org walk. People in new england are still feeling affects of hermine. Check out the waves the storm caused over the Holiday Weekend the surfers took advantage of the winds. Wind gusts of hour. Im going to be honest. Really tireing for me. Im not going to say hermine now. Not going to talk about her anymore. Were moving back to summer. Thats right. You knew it would stay gone for a while. It is coming back. Heat wave. Another one think this will be number 8. Oh, mike thomas counts these things. He always needs us notes, number 8. Reagan National Temperature out there 74. Dulles is 70. Bwi marshall 69 this morning. So you can already begin to see a little more humidity coming back in. Heres deal on next couple day days. 93 today. Thats hot. Humid and chance of thunderstorms too. Ill show you that in a second. Tomorrow, 96 degrees. Its even hotter tomorrow. Its even more humid tomorrow and tomorrow were talking about heat index that will be triple dimming its so you know. And again, he i eluded to and been eluding to it all morning. Another heat wave. Average High Temperature this time of year is 83. Were not going to sigh that for a while. Matter of fact we may not see that for a High Temperature until sometime next week well be above that. 93 today. We jump to 96 tomorrow and what you need to know thursday, friday, saturday, is heat inde index, 98 to 103. Some spots may be even more than 103 degrees. Especially saturday. Saturday looked looks looks right now like hottest day. May not be most humid but hottest. In terms of future cast were good. Look what happens this afternoon and evening. A couple of scattered showers and thunderstorms. Now what future cast averages a lot of this. It makes it look more ominous than what i think it will be late this afternoon. We could have a couple thunderstorms spotty in nature as we progress into the evening hours. Future cast thinks more in the way of coverage of thunderstorms moving through. So i think thats ago forecast. So spotty thunderstorms late this afternoon early this evening. And then more numerous showers and thunderstorms later on this evening. And it does look like tomorrow will be mostly dry as thunderstorms will stay back up to the north of us. Real quickly heres forecast for today, 93. More humidity pm thunderstorms and evening thunderstorms as well and i promise you the 7 day forecast. Here you go. 93 today, 96, 95, 97, next week maybe upper to middle 80s. Heres erin como. Up to middle 80s sounds more septemberish. Well need and want it by the time we get to it. For sure. Did that make sense . It made a lot of sense especially temperatures in the 90s this week and were seeing a back to school rush kick in yesterday. 301 to 5 to 50 looking good and 5 problem free and 50 inbound cruise ago long annapolis to beltway and inside the beltway as well. Ill let you know in Southern Maryland when picks up 301 and 5 and coming in from annapolis when 50 kicks in so far so good. Well move over to maps. Quiet conditions in Prince George county and route 1 north paint Branch Parkway that Construction Zone cleared and since traffic moving fine through college park and green belt you can see 295 nice and quiet no issues on 95. Prince George Country as you make your way 52 to 295 it doubled now because of con just job. Youre dealing with 3 minute delay. Pretty manageable a bit of early start and things look going upper loop 267 to linlon bridge. And 270 southbound moving along long fine through frederick. Metro right now on time. Blue line dealing with safe track surge and spring coneia springfield vandoren. Back to you alley and maureen. One celebrity is tired being in the tabloids with the whil wind. Well turn to wisdom martin at the realtime news tracker. First up this morning rihanna new collection for puma is popping. Star lunched her line foot locker in new york city and she drew inspiration from said she drew inspiration from japanese street culture edging klengs mostly black and white featur featuring loose sweaters, pants, dresses, sneaker and sneaker heels. Next up Britney Spears wants media to know shes going after lies about her and shes starting with in touch magazin magazine. Britt lawyer wrote a cameing letter to lawyers at in touch warping them not to publish the story and theyre push about her acting erratically at mtv music awards. A source says the singer and team are tired of made up stories especially in the face of her life around and timely, looks like sparks are no longer flying forte lor swift and her man. They smrilt after three months together. The split was amicable and the two were not spotted as much in recent weeks as of whil windrow mans started in june. Looks like swift has a blank space now to fill with the new beau. Im not. Im taking the high road. No. She told me so. Thats what she wants to say. I believed. Shes still a sucker for love. Thats a rick james song. It is. 5 20 is the time coming up on fox news morning are you ready for the big reveal that apple will make today . We heard true more what type of features the new v some arent happy about it. A look across the d. C. Region. Time 5 20. Lets get going on wednesday, 74 pleasant degrees and it will be hot and humid later today. Well talk about that and more when fox news morning comes right back today apple is expected to unveil the new iphone 7. Headphones will be wireless or plug into the existing lightning port. That do make it possibly even waterproof. Many are outraged they may have to buy new head phones or adaptor. Outrage. What . First world problem. Exactly. Airlines say outage forced millions of loss in revenue. Cancelp Airlines Rate of completed flights 98 in august from 98. a year ago theyll offer vouchers to those affected by the outage. Under armour ceo kevin plaque plans to sell 2 million shares of stock more than 1. 8 million of personal shares and 2 0 0,000 held by charitable foundation. Stock will go on sale next month and continue over a nine month period. Headquarters are based in baltimore. All right it is coming up on 5 25. Gary papa were talking about our beautiful weather. Well enjoy while we can. I can almost feel the cold about to make that turn and settle it in. Im with you. We have more heat and humidity to get through before that happens hopefully. Fall is coming i promise you. It gets here whether were its a little late. But it always gets here. Humidity returns. All right . And it returns not all at once. Well feel more today. Really it gets back to full strength tomorrow and its going last right on through saturday. So just get ready for that. Obviously humidity makes it feel so much hotter out there and bus stop forecast looks like this 68 to 76 this morning and couple spots in 60s. Lots of us in 70s in suburbs and after school, temperatures will go upper 80s to low 90s and little more humidity. Temperatures feel 3 to 4 above actual air temperature when you factor in humidity to get the heat index. Humid obviously couple thunderstorms this afternoon. Looks like most of the storms will be later on this evening. Were talking about that coming up right now. We have to talk traffic now, erin como, what do you got . Youre saying brigham brel alater tonight. Yeah if are you out this evening have it just in case. Good advice. Right now if you wake autopsy round the dmv a live look at maryland, 50 west inside the beltway, 4 10 to 201 and as you get closer to 201 youre starting to slow down with congestion. No crashes to report. I would say leave five minutes early now to play it safe for that portion of the road. Lets look at maps now. Were seeing on the big picture a lot of green on maps and no problems to fairfax. Drive times as they should be in virginia and south of that point stafford towards 610 were seeing congestion building. Looking good upper loop now from 26 to leemon bridge and 66 good and secondarys in glen echo and chevy chase cruising so far i like what im seeing on the roads. Nothing like yesterday yet. Holly, maureen. Coming up, more on the fight against zika on capitol hill. And school out for good for i it t tech students why and how how the impact will be felt by students and staff. Lets go to break. A live look across the d. C. Region. Getting wednesday started, 5 26 is the time. 74 these enter degrees. Going to be a hot one. Well be back after that. That. Straight ahead no money. Zika funding fails again in congress. How law makers in taking jazz at who should take the blame. No school. Itt tech shutting down. The question is, whats next for the students. And plus, a new report on ride ridership means more bad news for metro. Fox news morning starts right now. Good morning to you thank you very much for joining us im wisdom martin. Im holly morris. Today is wednesday. We made it halfway through the week. We got our team in place ready to guide you. Gary papa talking weather, er

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