Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20170106 : vimars

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20170106

Well talk all about stormal number two and the timingk al oo it and how much snow we could mc be looking at hereh but alreada winter storm warnings for lower Eastern Shore winter storm watch for Saint Marys County. Thats a quick look ath fo ook at weather. Storm number two on the way. Lets do traffic. Er tles do t thats been a problem thisraffim morning. Mo erin has got your latest. 7 03. Keeping our eye other big issue in jessup maryland. Up mar 95 on the southbound side ae sot crash involving a fuel spilll l abox truck an tractortrailer. One of the trucks off the road. The t. Right now two left lanes are getting by. Ling by. Previously this morning forhi the past several hours just j one left lane had been getting by. They stopped all traffic and opened up two lanes after they e towed one of the trucks out of e the way. However, traffic is still very v backed up to 895 an little bit of a rubber neck day picking pki outflushed side. Pickingg up on the northbound side. E. Traffic is c its been parked like that since we started reporting atn a 4 oclock this morningta. Rted we have Team Coverage. Rk th fox5s Anjali Hemphill isis also tracking that crash fromsho the scene. Anjali what can you tell us . T e how are things shaping up out there . Reporter well, erin, eri more than four hours after aer this crash happened you cand u c see traffic now finally moving n and crews have finally towedly d away both of those trucks thatth were involved in this crash. His and im sure there are stillll some residual delays from when these three lanes were shut down. Do. But traffic moving pretty wellvt now. This was a nasty crash and it i was the talk of the morningorni because obviously really rll caused some snarled trafficarlef here. Take a look at the video weeo w shot of one of the trucks tru involved in the crash. Lved i this in s a cloverland farms far dairy delivery trucky deli tru completely on its side downn iti the embankment here, veryer visible damage to the fronthe fo cab and it also looked like it rolled a couple of times tim judging on all the mud and mud d snow all over it. That driver wsne dowo know was w taken to Howard County general spspital. No word on their condition. Dion then fur the other tractortrailer tractt involved an 18wheeler truck also overturned. It was blocking three lanes of traffic. That many truck also has since been cleared but that dtrriucver was transported this time to shock trauma. Trau no word on their condition either. Now, as you said, traffic israfi now getting by. Tting by. It looks like all lanes have been reopened but we are still s seeing a little bit of bit of residual delays but thatsbu going to get a lt ot better asr traffic continues to move. Move. We do not know the cause ofse o this crash. Is c werent thing to note bothoteh trucks involved were facing fin the wrong direction when theyhey were found possibly indicatingsn speed maybe that wintryin weather this morning. Ther this again we dont know the causeaue of the crash just yet but y b again, if youre heading outg this morning, make sure youre y extra safe. A you dont want to get into any o sort of situation like we just saw early this morning. Or thats the latest near howard hr county Anjali Hemphill fox5 f local news. 7 05. 7 also developing overnight arn a family out in the cold after their home in clinton marylandad became engulfed in flames. Flam. Take a look at it. I it happened late last night in the 6500 block of springbrookrir lane. Thankfully Officials Say nols sn one was hurt. Also happening today, thepp four people accuseden of o torturing a mentally disabledabd man and Live Streaming that onha facebook in chicago will makewim their first court appearance. Nc. All four charged with a hatehare crime. Were learning more details about the assault. Police say it went on forarningr hours and it started after the e 18yearold victim met up with one of the attackers said toack be his friend on new yearsw ars eve. President obama now among theob many people reacting to this story. This has been harderhis heartbreakingfor us. U a lot of these killings are are happening miles from our our house. These are neighborhoods that iib know that i love. L there are people, great peoplepl there that are feeling embattled. Police say the hate crime cri charges stem from thes rom suspects use of racial slursac and references to the victims mental disability. In the meantime lets meante bring now. President elect donald trump navigating moreelec administratt appointment as electoralent lecl college prepares to meet to confirm him as presses of theset United States. Maureen umeh joins us withit the very latest. Very l reporter meeting withng the director of National Intelligence for briefing once f thine suspected Russian Election hacking. Hain yesterday James Clapper toldjam the Committee Russia had had stepped up Cyber Espionage. Esp. But he did stop short of declaring the russian hackingn g an act of war. Meantime president elect trumpse has selected former indiana senator dan coats to lead thecot office of the director of of die National Intelligence. Ligence. Coats served as a member ofrved the senate a intelligencenc committee before retiring fromgf Congress Last year. Yr. And today on capitol hill hl congress will meet in a joint jt session to officially county unt the Electoral College votes v certifying Donald Trumps victory. Vice President Joe Biden will then announce the result butdent several democratic lawmakersmake are set to be consideringng challenging those results. Esults and finally in an unusual uu step president elect trumpsdene transitio t not to let u. S. Ambassadorsmbass app pointed by president obamaby to stay p for a grace period ped beyond Inauguration Day. I the decision has lefnat ambassadors scrambling to find n new living arrangements visa rules and what options they they have for their childrens chires schooling it could also meanea some u. S. Embassys are left lef without ambassadors for months n as trump finds hi footing. Oo and thats a roundup. Back to you. Back mo thanks very much. Lets bet back to tucker. O. I was late to work this l morning because high to getat uu to brush. Did it i was in one swoop l to go back a second time aec because a few stragglers weree hanging on. You know how weather people can be a little defensivehow. Ns i dont want toiv make any jokes but since you started. Started wait a minute. Wa we said dusting. Sng. See what i mean. Mea never mind. Ver mind. This was me this morning. S get upme open the blinds. Ugl, close the blinds. He you know what i wish upon upo your house. Ou what do you wish. W aha blizzard. Hey, dulles airport,. An inch. Our friends of the north and west, winchester two and half inches, purcellville over anurcn inch. Official al trace at Reagan National for all the residents s there. Currently reaganly rn national 32 degrees, 29s, 29 dulles. Du 30 bwi marshall. Shall. Our storm number one out ofr onf here. You can see its still snowingtn in southern new england. Thern nn were going to be in ford. A partly sunny blustery and any b chilly one today. Only in the mid 30s ands quickly our focus is on storm number two. Before i proceed i just want w to let you know ourou confidence, that means whether communitys confidence on this storm low to medium so were not exactly sure how close the precipitation shield whether its going get into our area. G theres going to be a very,area. Very well defined line between e the haves and havenots alsonoto we think right now general. Enal washington south and east willll be the areas that see snoww tomorrow. Mo the further south and east youau get towards the ocean, salisbury ocean see across thehe bay the higher your snow totals and there we could be looking at up to four to 8inches. Ill show you more coming up. G u but the time frame again forai r tomorrows storm daytime hoursmu tomorrow starting probably dayyd break tomorrow morning. Okay. Thanks tucker. All right. Check in with erin. Ochec ak not get o tff t good start on the roads. Rt on tr no, its been a rough ride r all morning through jessupessu maryland especially. Ryla 7 10 right now and want to update you anjali has beenhaseen giving us great Team Coverage. G all lanes now opened 95pene95 southbound at 175. At 175. You can see that crash fully ful moved over to the shoulder. E she it was involving a tractortrailer. Rtr a box truck and a fuel spill. Uel look how heavy traffic is. You can see the onramp comingin down from 100 completely swamped. Backed up to 895. P 895. Hoping things dissipate and traffic flow gets back tos backt normal. Right now i would suggest sge still keeping to it route onein southbound or 295 southboundto5o coming from baltimore towardar the capital beltway. Tway. A little bit of a rubber neck delay lingering on the onhe northbound side but again thatgt crash fully moved to theo the shoulder. Er. Around the dmv you can see can s snow as skyfox takes a widerak w view and again were seeing sin heavy delays from the bailout traffic. Traf 295 your best alternate asernate well as route one southbound. Ou. Also in Silver Spring justus want to point this out pete outp perringer tweeted it a crash crh in the parking lot New Hampshire along powder millder i road. Be cautious. Slick conditions even onco secondaries as well as parkingei lots. Steve and allison. Erin thanks so much. Anks smuh busy day. Big break in a gruesome grues murder in maryland. Rder i a young mans body found in a shallow grave in montgomeryav mn county after being supposedlyupy lured to our area by a fakeake facebook account. Book new arrests in this case with some suspects as arres yous just 16 years old. O. Bob barnard live in i gaithersburg with more. Or bob good morning. Bob reporter hey, allisonorter and steve. And steve. Good morning to you. This is the areaod m where that shallow grave was discoveredcord by hikers back inby midnovember. H r vmiictims 22yearold from new jersey jordy mejiaej had been missing sincece october. Thats when he told his motherim he was coming down maryland t meet a girl that he had beend be communicating with on w facebook. Well turns out according tong Montgomery County police, it seems he had been lured here by as many as five people andnd then he was murdered and buried here in this fieldie where underneath some powereower lines just west of 270 near270 n crop erode. Now we have mug shots of threeoe of the murder suspects. S. They according to montgomeryding county police have ties to ms13. 3. The other two suspects are 16 and 17yearold girls. Irls. Their mug shots were notot provided by police. Olic all five of these people havee o been charged with first degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Fromf them a 21yearold gaithersburg, one of the menrg m is due in court today for a bond status. Nd s all of them at this point arepoe being held without bond. Uton what this was all about, whybo,w they targeted this young manng n were not sure. Ur but again, it was a 22yearold man jordy mejia mej from the newark new jersey area who ce talking to on facebook and he was murdered and buried in a shallow grave here ingr gaithersburg, guys. It all right bob. He a horrible. 7 12 right now. 12 also in maryland a mother motr pleading for answers after herna son is struck and killed by a ba vehicle but it is not thee bus first time that driver hasr been involved in a tragedy ongeo the roads. Those details are next. Nex an Important Health alert all parents need to knowrentneed about. Abou the new guidelines that could cu help prevent children fromren developing a dangerous food allergy. Y. As we head to break theresdo mike thomas in the news room. Thats sam our web guru web working together puttingr g together some live facebookfa videos right now to track the forecast. What this looks like some shenanigans. Sh camera is pointing the other way. Facebook page live next. So you saw mike thomas andu oursaw web guy sam down in then Weather Center just as we wentee to break. To b heres what theyre doings ght t now. Wha this is our live video on vid facebook right now. Fa if you want to goce on you can watch, you can ask mike any questions about either snowno that you had got 10 overnight on or perhaps more importantlympora tomorrows storm head our way wy especially if you live to thevet south of d. C. You want to know k when its going to hit howo hito much snow youre going getnow ue where you should go ono o vacation if you want to escapesc it. The conversation is live right g now on our fox5 Facebook Page. P or if you just want to say ts hi mike and sam. Nd s hi. Thats all right too. Alrigh works fine. And well see those hearts tt going all across the screen as everybody likes it. Mike gets into a lot ofe ts i details. Hell i wasnt questions forwa you. Hes a very passionate scientist when it comes to thest weather. That is very true. And so are you. Why thank you. Just dont get as much timehm because i spend most of it it talking to you guys. You snow from last night out ofm here. La 32 in was ohifng boston. Steve i got a new move there. E e did you like that. I do. D chicago 0 degrees. Rees that is the serious cold. C theres serious dry air here too. O. This is a big player in ouryer r forecast for tomorrow. Re ill show you why inca a secondc snow is out of here. Her let focus on storm number twoum getting its act together. Talking historic storm across a the deep could you think. One to 3inchesdeep c across acr atlanta. Theyre not ready and feeling prepared for snow. S this is going to become an area of low pressure offer the carolina coast slide up out todt sea during the day tomorrow t and looks like well get aoklike swath of moisture across our moo area. Im going to show you why its i so difficult for us to predictoi exactly how much snow werey hos going to g the models are all al over the place. Anywhere between zero for f washington and six plusix plu inches. Inches heres what we call thet we cl e american model. Its trying to give us about a lets see threequarters of anoa inch of snow during the dayhe time hours tomorrow. Hoursorrow. Leonardtown about 3inches ofhes snow fredericksburg 2i ill switch it over to another model called the nam andhe n a thats trying to gig usigs significantly more about 2. 5ut 2 in washington over seven in leonardtown, seven inown, sev cambridge, 10 in salisbury soo until we have a better sensete of exactly where this line is going to be we cant predict with a whole lot of accuracy ofc how much snow well getw mu tomorrow. Bottom line weve got thech e got ingredients in place for some fs snow tomorrow generallyer washington points south andonoit east. Theres already a winter storm m watch for Saint Marys County. Ou winter storm warning for lowerrm Eastern Shore. I can pretty much guarantee tproetty getooing w pretty good snows. Pretty good i cantsn with full confidence say how much well get along that 95 corridormu achlthough ih looks like we could have a cld a period of some snow around here during the day tomorrow. Om. And its possible its justt another situation where right r here in washington we get app dusting. Sunday looks sunny and bright ai but cold temperatures in theper 20s. Look at the 50s next weeke 50 e wednesday thursday. Day. What. Yeah back into the warmere wa temperatures. Ill take it. 95 tucker seeing this is a live look 95oo southbound by 100. By 1 we had seen it basically init by parking lot condition from well before 4 oclock morning. G now all lanes are opened by 175 just the shoulder is blocked, the right shoulder byur 175 from an earlier earli tractortrailer crash and fuel f spill. Starting to see normal trafficma patterns from 895 to 175. 1. Were seeing a lot of bailout bo traffic though causing delaysdes on 295 southbound through thathh area as well as route onete o southbound. So just get an early startan eaa coming from baltimore through th jessup this morning. As we move over to a lookjess ak our maps now that things are a getting back to normal therehe well see what else youre elser dealing with but i want towiut i show you the map just to show so you the 295 and route one rou o delay. 295 southbound volume from 370 0 to the spur. To give yours telf extrhea time frm gaithersburg and rockville. Rocl stopandgo traffic from 70dgof through the truck scales andthe urbana as well. But it scenes to be pretty Clear Conditions in terms of weather there. Theres also a parking lot s Al Gaithersburg newersburg ne hampshire avenue near powderar w mill road just caution throughju secondaries you may encounterer icy or slick conditions. Tions. Allison and steve. Erin thank you a mother in laurel says she is outragede is this morning she wants to know o why a driver who struck anducknd killed her son is not being charged. Charged. This accident happened last tuesday on route one whenccideno Jonathan Swinton was hit byy 55yearold brian esser who essw was driving a box truck. Ru its the second time in just inj three months that esser has essr struck and killed a stdestrian. 23yearold victims mriother is now questioning whether this tragedy could have been avoided. Theres no crosswalk there. He was walking. As walking he was trying get home. Wasryin he and i know him. H he wasnt in the middle of the street. Street. Does this man need his eyes eye checked. Checke what Something Else has to bee e done. Do it cant just be like oh, he he killed two people and thats ths just the end of it. Juhe e its not fair. Air. You hit somebody. U t some you killed somebodys familyily member. Mb the human thing in you should have done, pick up the phone. Hoe try to find the family. Apologize. Ize. Both accidents that esserat s was involved in happened alongad route one. Route one. Its a busy fourlane road way. Way. No crosswalks there but cross officials in Howard County say he will not be charged becauseeu the victims were walking inalngn the roadway. Rdw again no crosswa

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