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WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 January 26, 2017

Road in bethesda. Ad in be. Overnight that store held up hep about 3 a. M. Police say the suspect had aecta gun. Nobody was hurt. As hurt. We also know of another cvs inon bethesda an riteaid in silvernd spring all of them robbed inhemb the Early Morning hours. Ho trying to get more information i on if there is in fact act connection between the three. He. Also breaking overnightso be that group of greenpeace protestors who scaledaled construction crane in d. C. And a stayed there for hoursay yesterday will face a judge ine just two hours. A short time ago our crews were there as the demonstrators were booked andate transported downtown. Do anniew yu is there live at theie site that of downtown protest. P reporter good morningismter good morning, steve and allison. Good morning, everybody. Theod mprorotestors marore wie Environmental Group greenpeaceu and they hunkered down on top of this crane yesterday prettyrd much all day at ay15th and landl streets northwest downtown. Owntn and some of the workers were ot unable to do their jobi job yesterday as this protest protet played out but as you can seen this morning it is business asns usual. I also want to show you this video of the seven you just mentioned this, they ty were leaving the secondh District Police station. Tr we were just there thisict re ts morning as the officers transported all seven downtowndw after spending the night thereig at the station. They are due to heappear inar n court at 9 00 a. M. Facing burglary charges destruction cha of property among others. Now, all of this after they basically climbed thiss 270foot crane yesterday. Cranet it just sits blocks away from ay the white house. It started around 7 oclock o and we along with everyoneeverne also watched the moments the unfold from start to finish. Fii the demonstrators they climbedrt up there, hoisted a huge banner with the word resist r on it and the group saysupsays theyre protest president esdent trumps decision to push forward with the keystone xl cant Dakota Access pipeline. Pe. They said they had this ths demonstration planned fornstrat semonths. Onths. Pl these guys were clearlyarly experienced climbers. Limb they had all the equipment toipo chain or tether themselves toems the crane and they were ablee an to stay up there for about 15ab5 ho it certainly disrupted thedisrue flow of traffic downtown. Downtow d. C. Police had to shut down dn about three city blocks toto traffic while the protestorse po were on top of this crane andhi all day officers did not tryotty to coax the protestors downotes but finally around 10 oclock, the protestors started to make their careful descent and it des was cleared but i wantce to show you this tweet from d. C. M police. It reads in part quote a smallam group of protestors have engaged in dangerous behaviorger downtown and while we respect rc everyones right to protestpr todays actions are extremely dangerous and unlaw. An multiple Government Resources gv are being tied up. Are beintied. Streets are blocked off forfff First Responders to safelysafely address this issue. E. So, again, it created a lot of f chaos not only for thely for the construction workers but alsoa for the government officialsfics and police. Ice but again, all of them appear ap in court today at 9 oclock clok down at d. C. Superior court curt where they will learn theirern r fate. Thats the latest fromats lates northwest d. C. , annie yu fox5 f local news. News. Annie thanks. Ie tha from the white house today ashie President Trump talks strategyte with fellow republicans. U his critics are lashing outeu but donald trump, president , pre trump says hes followingys heg through on his Campaign Promises. Doug luzader with more now. Reporter President Trumpr p heads to philadelphia today. Lado he also plans on signing atninga least one more executive order r from the white house in a weekak where his focus has been on on immigration and national security. This is what Community Looks like. Reporter protests outside the white house. His is rep even a giant sign hung from acrania few blocks away all ina response to that president si trumps actions during hisng first full week in office. Oi i mean, im working long log hours. I mean, the country has a lota of problems. Reporter and he says inys in his first interview on abcn abc news that he felt that he hadhed to move forward on a border bor wall almost immediately afterftr taking office. Offi considering how prominent that t issue had been on the campaigncn trail. But what we still dont knowntw today is how he will pay fory or it. Or rather, force mexico to pay as he had put im just telling you there will be be in a payment, y it will be in a form, perhapsper a complicated form. Ted you have to understand what iern am doing is good for thego united states. Its also going to be good forer mexico. Reporter trumps wall push has angered mexicosngered president who may cancel ao may u. S. Visit next week. Week. And here at home trump hasmp as also targeted sanctuary citiests threatening to withholdo withho federal money from cities that do not cooperate withdo not immigration en cforcement. Oonf next up, hes expected toected scale back refugee programs. Still even his fiercests fierce critics acknowledge that nonelet of this is a surprise. A s some of what he srays willys have its popular appealpeal because the immigration was an issue that he fueled the fued te flames in his campaign. Am reporter today trumpepr tod will head to philadelphia areile republican lawmakers areblican l holding aaw retreat. Reeat no doubt discussing anotherbt d trump issue that will requiret l not just executive orders butor acts of congress as well. Repeeling and replacing obamacare. An reporting that trump isp considering big changes in the e nations interrogation andogatia detention policies. Hes also piolanning on nlanninn apparently reversing president ns obamas order to close thethe detention facility atcil guantanamo bay. B in washington, doug luzader, fox news. Fox news. Fox5 will bring you thethe president s remarks at thehe congressional republicansss retreat a little later today. Ila well dollar that live. L doar t the president due to speak s around noon. Thats right here on farox5 also streaming on fox5dc. Com and our fox5 d. C. Facebook page. Nice look at the whitee looka house this morning. T yes,hous indeed. In familiar upstairs. F still need to eat no ammatte who is there. Here light on. On. Steve. It is breakfast time. Actually you know what, aha, viewer tweeted me a picture pi from inside of the white housetu and said that in all likelihood thats a bathroom btm with a kitchen right behindghtbd it. No, thats not true at all. S its a kitchen. Its a kit its a light in the upper and righthand corner. Ght it is a bathroom in it. I sounds gross. And a little nightlight. Ni lets do the forecast. Or 52 now in washington. A all right, so, heres whateres were looking at today. Mid50s so still going to beoie very mild but this is a cold a d front coming through thats thrs bringing us the clouds and ae ca couple of light sprinkles andkld showers out there early. R most of the action has beenon h just east of us out across there bay were getting some showermer activity, maybe annapolis and nd pearl and diehl getting aehl get light sprinkle or shower. Sower. Could we have another shower . R yes. You could see a few moresee a fe developing out to the west. Wes predominantly well move thevete clouds through, move the front t through and well startstrt gradual clearing. Adua well be in the mid50s kind5 of late morning and then falling back into the 40s bys y the afternoon and most of yourto day will be nice and dry but i do that want to mention theon te breezes again out of the westn f and north and west at 15 to 25. All right. G sevenday forecast. Cooler temperatures and theempe the i was important weekendwas t forecast coming up. U palm trees are beautifuleau yeah. Makes us feel like summere time. Us fe right. Were still in washington,el in wash right . Ngton, okay. O all right. Were there palm trees. Beautiful palm trees. Why are you getting allettinl technical on me. Me thinking summertime. U animation, steve. A okay. All right, guys, a very slowry w morning across virginia. Vir inner loop crash that skyfoxat is over that is still ongoing. N it has forced the closure oflos the express lanes on the innersa loop. This is where you hitnn 12er3. 3 the good news is the left mostt lanes reopened. Open. Still very heavy delays on the a inner loop from 123 in in virginia extending back to the E Springfield interchange so anano incredibly long drive on therive inner loop and if you use o that to get to my Dulles Airport my o youre going to need a real hefty amount of extra time toout get there. Ot th lets go to our cameras. Caeras. Weve got other crashes on the inner loop as weller c as 66. 66 heres an inner loop crash r right where you hit route 77it 7 virginia. Westbound ramp andamp an the ramp, the westbound sidee of the ramp iss closed. Close thats where all these all these emergency vehicles are butncy vl traffic is squeezing by ones tht and eastbound side of thatde ofa ramp but look at all of this his jammed traffic on the inneric oi loop. Dulles toll road back through th 123 through route seven. Seen. 66 eastbound we also have aal crash there. Crash lets go tto our next camera. C. Its pushed off to the th shoulder 66 eastbound attbound t washington boulevard. Washingt pushed off to the shoulder. Sho. Traffic is squeezing by but 66 t is jammed all the way back tobao nutley street. All right, that is a tlook at lo traffic. Steve and allison. Alls other news this morning thee man accused of shooting aotin woman at a bus stop in frontin of several kids turned himselfef in. Rowland sims turned himself him into prince georges countyri policence yesterday. Esterday. Family members many membersbers say sims is the father of thethf young girl who witnesses saysay he attempted to grab at the at e bus stop. S stop d. C. Police investigatingv three separate shootings all within 30 minutes. In 30 mi a total of seven people weree we shot in the incidents along minnesota avenue northeastue bass place southeast andeast mellon street in southeast. Sou four of the victims all young y peop juveneniles. Fortunately all survived. Uived. Developing overnight in mississippi two deputiesis recovering from gun shotsi wounds following a shootouvetrit with a suspect in the city ofty south haven after the deputiesei who carjacked someone. O carj one Police Officer shot in the e foot the other has a collapsedcd gun. The suspect was killed in the exchange of gunfire. Ange this was the scene in his wan Washington State overnight. Ove. Its a huge fire. Its a huge fi it ripped through an apartmentat complex. Broke out in the city ofity of linwood. The building was and underunder construction. Collapsed. Ol the blaze triggeredt blaze t evacuations of at least two nearby apartment complexes. Mple the red cross is scene as assisting those residents. E crews in a philadelphiain ap suburb trying tohi secure theur ground around this massive sinkhole. Sinkhole a pickup truck was swallowed. T it appears toru be abouckt thata 20 feet deep. No one was20 hurt but people but living in two homes have beens n evacuated. Here at home and happeningd g today we should learn morehoul about the firing of nd early two dozen metro employees. Epl a much higher number than originally given by the the transit agency. An those employees fired after ant investigation which that foundih inspection records had beenrdsan falsified. Lsified. Metro said six people had beenpl fired but the union un representing metro workersng mew says the number is actually 21ta metro general manager Paul Wiedefeld expected to comment c this morning. Metro will hire an independent contractor toon examine trains shaking homes. Ak. We told you about this problemrm early december. Ly decem some residents say the shakingha wakes them up and causes up andc things to fall off the waltz. Of. They say it began when metromero started using the heavier metro 7,000 trains on thea green line. A d. C. Man says somebody stole his identity and itsm becauseee of a Security Breach involvingci a social worker for the cityss Behavioral Department ofepa behavioral health. Be this comes a week after wecoa reported on a caseworker accused of hiring a. M. Cuse hiri. Complete stranger to do some std of hero work that involvednvlvd confidential files. On bob barnard joins us now livei withhe d details. Bob, whatets going on . O reporter . Epoter . Well, allison, steve, we areve, along mlk avenue in southeast d. C. And this is the company,cop the contractor were talkingracl about inner City Family Services a d. C. s department ofp behavioral health. Behavioral what were learning is 12 i clients as many as 12 clientscl may have had their personalir p information compromised including Social Security numbers. One of the alleged victimsg so i Gregory Miller spoke to uspok last night. Basically the allegation isthe this. S inner city p ut out an ad on adon facebook looking to hire t parttime employees. Part a caseworker allegedly sent 12et case files to a College Student who answered the ad. A that many College Student then in turncoll alerted authorities about this. Out this is under investigation byi the city. The city we spoke to mr. Miller aboutr au his ordeal last night. Ly. I called miss sanders and asked miss sanders what wasss going on and aske sd what myamy information going out o sheo h said no. Sa four days i called her and shene said yeah, my information beenn breached. Reporter now, mr. Millermr miller says that al new cable billw c and a cell phone bill washone bl opened up in h is name. Na doesnt have a cell phone sooneo his identity had been stolen. St this contractor is stillcontracl working with the city. The city. We asked d. C. Mayor muriel. Bowser about that last night. Nt i think that the department knows spoke with thepoke wit problem. Its limited and the personnel actions necessary have alreadyly been taken. Reporter now, she dide did say that that caseworker hassewh been fired. Fed. My colleague tisha lewis has tis been following this story forhi the past couple of weeks,s, guys, and well stay on top ofao it and let you know how itho it develops. Thank up, bob. Troubling. Bl really troubling story. Ng s thank you very much. U very much still to come this morningcoe a trip down memory lane. Remember, what the skins dide 25 years agsko today. Plus, heinz is taking as, hei different approach to the super bowl thisnz ye ienart. Next, the petition circulating online thats gone viral andgon could be headed, yes, to congress. Back after this. Well see. Well see. At dominion, were putting our energy to work creating a cleaner environment by using cleaner Energy Sources like solar, wind and natural gas. Weve reduced Carbon Emissions by nearly 25 , which is the equivalent of taking close to two million cars off the road. Cleaner air and cleaner water. Its good for all of us. Dominion. Depend on us for more than energy. Still dealing with a crash on the inner loop at 123 inealig virginia. Inia. The express lanes, they hades, t been closed. Clo looks like just kind ofu creeping by right now but you rg can see heavy damage there on o the express lanes of the inner n loop. Well check in with caitlines rn just a couple minutes and getndt more details for you. Ls for you. Right now, though, it iss tucker time. Ti all right allison thank you a so much. Lets get to at this time. S tim. We got mild temperatures toureso start your day. Star its a cold front coming col through if youd notice aa sprinkle or shower out there. Ot well look at the radar in a a second. Our favorite tim e of day. Da. 52 now in washington. Hey, the cold arctic air we e havent seen much of the pasts two weeks its out west. Est denver this morning 9 degrees. 9 you can see the colderhe colder temperatures down to albuquerque 22. Were going to start to gee t in on a more wintry feel around here, more typical januaryanary pattern later today and really as we get into friday and intodo the weekend. All right. Th whats happening . Cold front coming througnih, songme showero east of the bay. St of the ba you can see a few there inein Southern Maryland and a few more stragglers off to our off o north and west. Bottom line is that the front i will move quickly through theuge region and any shower activity i we get should be very light. Later this afternoon partlyernoy sunny, breezy and cooler soolero our daytime highs in theighse mid50s. Mi well hit that first half of the day. Thed i think by afternoon ourn r temperatures will be in theures mid to upper 40s. 4s. Heres your forecast. Orecast. Hey, can we include friday as fs the weekend . Friday,ay, saturday, sunday, sunny and cool and breezy, particularlyary friday and it looks like wellll get overnight lows back nearbacr freezing by saturday andaturdayd sunday morning. Something we haventay done inon pow two plus weeks now. Now. Thats a weather update. Date. Caitlin has roads. Real quick skyfox over thefoh scene inner loop where iter looks like at least one of thete express lanes has reopenedast ed from an earlier crash. Rash. There it is right at about 123 o on the inner loop so it lookst like we are at least gettingg one lane on the express laness l opened on the regular slot ofulo the inner loop but delays ares a still extensive back to the thE Springfield interchange youd in can kind of seete that as skyfox zooms out. Zo a lot of problems in thisblems s area. Lets go to our camera shot ofht another accident on the innerci loop, this one deantt route seve it is the westbound exit whichih is blocked there on the offramp. The eastbound lane is that is ta opened on the off ramp soramp traffic is squeezing by butby ut very heavy delays through theug whole course of the innercoursee loop. Well show you that as we go yos ur our maps. We had a lot of problems rightig in that Northern Virginia areagi of the innera loop, 66 and and dulles toll road. Ra well zoom in because those tose delays through 66 begin back bk towards manassas all the waythey through 234 and then they gethet very heavy leading up to the te beltway. All right, 270 southbound offutb and on delays urbana to thena e spur. Spur. Coming out of frederick countyc

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