Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20170216 : vimars

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20170216

All right. A we have cold temperatures tollee start your day. Even some lake effect snowse la off to our north andke west. E ill have all thes details onon the big weekend warmup. W steve and allison coming up inin a minute. A mi water main break in in alexania. A. The water gushing out of theushi ground in old town. To water main broke near theaink masonic temple at park roadk rad and the intersection near kinge street. Ne fox5s annie yu is now onnow the scene for us and we willwe that join her shortly. We will rejoin annie whennnie we were ready to go. E ready togo. Lets get to melanie in theeh meantime our other big storyg t, we do have annie. E. Annie can you hear us . Wes . We just saw you jump out of thet frame there. Well get back to annie in a in minute. Willhe other story impact businesses in thethe district. The day without immigrantsmms in support of its immigrant workers and to highlight theirlr impact on a daily basis. Ba Melanie Alnwick thiselan morning live in northwestie with more on this story. Is s mel. Y. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. So, lets put this in a little t this i perspective. Ersctive. Theres more than 2,000ha restaurants in d. C. Rants d we have about 60 right nowht that said that they are going gi to closes or participate ins or this movement. Adespreaot be a wid pespre impact but certainly many ofanyo these restaurants are being bei very vocal with their support so for this movement. Movemen one is busboys and poets. Nd poet all three locations being closed today. Clos the shops saying on facebookg ok that in solidarity with our immigrant tribe we will closee e for the day on thursday for a fa day without immigrants sayingsag that founder andy shalol is anin immigrant and a shining shing example of what immigrantsmi brought to the country. Oun immigrants are what make America Great. We talked to owners ofrsof other restaurants includingludin bar pillar that says thiss is restaurant will stay openedill d and staff hoop choose to workcho will donate their tips top coworkers who stay home o the movement is asking ing immigrants to stay home from frm school and work and not spend se their money either. Ither. The demonstration began as anan idea on social media meant asdis a tangible reminder of immigrants impact andct and contributions to americanti society and theon economy but iu is also a pushback touhb president Donald Trumpsent comments and actions blaminging unemployment on immigrationmm during the camigrapaign, his orr to build the mexican borderorr wall and his travel and refugee ban which is now on aowa temporary hold. Old. Actions are also planned also pn philadelphia boston houstonton Austin Chicago and new york. Yo we also know of one charter one school thats going to be tha closed today as well,t thats h the latin american montessori bilingual school. School d. C. Public schools alsoalo telling principals they couldncp see many more students out. Mor weve alsoud seen some pushbackk too. A lot of people saying look,ng o remember that Donald Trumpstrus actions are targeting illegalgal immigrants not legalegal immigrants and also some small l businesses who simply canty ant afford to have their criticalri that they maybe hurt hu financially by this movement. Y live in northwest,by t im melae alnwick fox5 local news. Es. Critics of the day withouty t immigrants say those takinga part are missing the point ofpof President TrumpS Immigrationmit policies which they say are meant to target Illegal Immigrants. O on our Facebook Page bruce says says donna says in part, so areo a these establishments employingtg Illegal Immigrants because be they are the ones that thist t country has a problem with. Otherwise, why protest . Theres a big distinctionstinctn between the two. Just some of your opinions. Please keep them coming on social media. Were talng busboys and poets himself animsf immigrant as we saw. Migrant we. Very cool. All right. Lets get back to breaking n bac alexandria. Ndria. A water main broke near theih masonic temple at park roadrk rd and the intersection near kingei street. Our annie yu is with us now. Annie, you might need an umbrella today. Reporter hey, goodumey, goo morning, steve and allison. Alli well, the good news out oft o this is that traffic is nots no being greatly impacted. Ipact in fact, this road behind meinde is the 2200 block excuse me ofse park road right next to the masonic temple and as you canasu see it is closed off toed off traffic obviously because ofy b that big water just shooting shg up in the air but no other oher streets are closed according to police scene. To police ene. Thats the other thing of then police are here on scene. However, the Utility Company coy is not and that is the virginia america waterca wat company. They are aware of the aware of e situation and they told usld us that they have crews on the the way but no one currently herecuy to shut off the water so you ou have this huge spray of water coming from this water mainth and its just if you looku l to your right, pat, all the the icicles th forming because it is very, ver, very cold out here and it was a windy morning. Or and so youve got these these icicles forming on theon branches of these trees. Tr were told this is an 8inch pipe and the water has beenthe shooting out for at least two hours now and we know fromn covering situations like this, i this is not a quick fix. Crews say it will take prettytae much the entire day. Da they are hoping to have ve everything back and repaired by 6 oclock this eveningenng right in the thick of rush t hour. Thats the very latest herelate from alexandria. Om alexandria. Back to you in the studio. The u annie thanks for the update. Date. 7 06 right now. 7 06 r n chilly out there today, too. T its cold. Most of the area at errablet era freezing. You saw the ice forming on theit trees and on the fence andon that kind of thing. E that k but ain d beofautiful sunrise. Ue it will be a nice looking day. N. It will be a cool one this afteoon. N. 33 in washington. Hingn. Bwi marshall 32 degrees. Degree. Winds are still with us. Are stih wind chills are in the 20s. 20. Bottom line, take a jacketjacke with you today. With you you probably heard a t lot about our big warmup. Warm not so much today. Much to that will be more like more ke saturday, sunday and mon currently winds out of they north and westwin at 10. A let me mention got a littleli bit of snow shower activity insh the mountainsow out along 81ong compliments of the great lakesoe which never froze this winter. I. Some winters they do, some som winters they dont. On this winter they did not. Ey didn you can see some of those tho streamers coming off the lakes t there off to our north andrth d west. For us it will be partly sunny y and seasonably cool althoughth wind chills will remain in the 30s so once again you want your jacket today. To seven day. St holidayrecast holiday weekend, i have all thethe details momentarily. Om should be a good holiday end. End. Yeah. All right. N. Hi i gooder morning. Od good morning. Goorning. I have so many crashes i have he to keep them straight in my in y head right now. Henow hot know how you do it. Well start you offw wyou he annie is. Its just aann incredible viewvw by the masonic temple. Teme. Park road 200 block closed. Clos. Water gushing out from a watera main break thats yet to beto placed under control. O its been out there for about two hours. S. Icicles on the trees. Trs. Watch for that slickatch for tha conditions along king streetlone as well. Even though king street this water could be impactingacg conditions on the roads. On tha. Again around king street parketp road please use caution thise ut morning. As we move things over for a fo live look we have a crash ase ah well that you need to be aware of. This is 50 on the inbound side at 202. At 202. Its moved over to the left l shoulder. It was previously blocking onece lane but youre jam packedackd from 410 to 202. 202 those delays actually extendxt to the beltway now. Bel as you get to the beltway fromyf bowie just anticipate a very vr slow ride to get to 295f aside from that well go ahead and d take a look at skyfox. We are dealing watith other othe delays right now. Ht n actually skyfox is down rightfo now but i can telril you 66 is s jammed up at the beltway. Eltw. Thats where they had beeny hadn showing us some trafficing us s conditions. Omtr 295 northbound a disabledrt vehicle blockinghbou the rightet lane at suitland parkway. Way. Heavier traffic on suitlandand parkway 295 northbound to the n 11th Street Bridge as orwellth a 295 southbound. U and theres a new crash on theon inner loop through annandalenaae out by little river turnpike. Tun youre jammed up from themed upe mixing bowl to 66. Mixing the back to you guys. Uys. Developing along the eastingl coast thison morning, the e russian intelligence shiplligeni continues to spotted off the coast ofoast of connecticut much remember it rem was along delaware just alawarea short time ago. Short time ago Officials Say right now aboutou 30 miles from a u. S. Navalu. S. Al base but its still considered to be in inttiellrnational wate. A spokesperson for the defensedf Department Said the ship haships not entered u. S. Er toker to t in the water and they respectot freedom of navigation exercised by all nations quote. Are u. S. Intelligence i officials holding out on o President Trump. Trump. Foxs doug luzader has more from capitol hill where both boh democrats and republicans areube already talking about a number of investigations. Reporter there appears to be a growing level ofvel mistrust between the president and the Intelligence Community that is supposed to serve him and both democrats and thects at republicans here on capitolhean hill want to s khenow more aboua series of leaks. At a press conference witheren h israeli Prime Ministermi Benjamin Netanyahu president anya trump to target, the u. S. Intelligence community. Papers are being leaked,s things are being leaked. Are be. Its criminal action. Ti criminal act. Iminal a and its been going on for aa long time before me but nowbut n its really going on. G reporter and the wall street journal this morningourn with an explosive headlinealosie that parts of the intelhe community are take on trumpt for the same reason. Rean. U. S. Intelligence officialsff have withheld sensitive intelligence from president en donald trump because they arecef concerned it could be leaked e or compromised. Or c theres no question that theret has been intelligence leakste that have hurtlligen trump, leap phone conversations betweenionse National Security adviser Michael Flynn and a russianrusan envoy led to flynns forced resignation this week. Week. Whos leaking . Some se republicans suggest it couldns s beug supporters of president resd obama. Some of whom are still working r within the government and theene chairman of the House Oversight committee is callingci on the Inspector General toeral launch an investigation. Vestig no matter where you are inin the political spectrum youtrum y cannot have information migrating out into a nonclassified setting. Et reporter democrats feel emboldened. Emboldened. Em theyre pressing forwardld on on possible ties between Trump Officials and the ruiesss ian government. I think as the public ceaseb whats going on theyre goingth to demand the kind ofhe bipartisan thoreaubipa investigation we are asking for. For reporter whateverhatever investigations take place itiona should not be led byke p u. S. U attorney general jeff sessions. In washington, Doug Luzader Fox newsily. Ewsily. Doug thanks. Doug th of course President Trumprs tweeting just a few minutes ago the spote ligprht j usht asy been put on the low life leakers. They will be caught. Caug that tweet coming out nineut ine minutes ago. Bed bugs found at yetbugs another d. C. School and that is not all. A live report is c. C soming up. Up. Plus, a truck fire caught on dashcam video. Ido. Police had to act fast to stopoo it from spreading. Stay with us. Ay with back after this. Ths. Wow. Another live look at the water main break in old townthen alexandria. That water just still gushingttg this morning. So, hopefully they will get a a cap on this soon. On this on. Always tough to figure outre ut which one of those knobs to knoo turn at the faucet. Fa is it the hot water . Cold water. Water. Theyll get it shut you have shf hopefully. Let the pressure build likede its going to blousing dont let it build up. Deep breaths. Youreeep welcome. Some good news about thatat emergency spillway. Spillw officials in orovillevill california say water levels lves have dropped more than 20 feet crews continue to work around tk the clock to make emergencyemncy repairs though. Irs there is rain inth the forecastt for today but officialsfficials areconfident the dam will holdmd up. Several people who were out of their homesral evacuatec you know, returned to find their home burglarized. Home bur. Arrests have been made. Water levels again dropped dr more than 20 feet. Good with the bad but thebutthe arrests have been made. Made. California has rain on theori way and thena the snow melt soo their challenges are not overver yet. Theyre saying theyrehey ready for it. Re read yeah, okay. Y yeah, okay. Remember yesterday they wereeste putting rocks in the hole. Hl im confident. Okay, i have a question. Yes. Whats up with all these, Little Salmon looking things. Th fish running off into theoffe ocean. With this map. Wit can you explain it to me. You oh, thank you,ex yeah. Ye i was not sure what you were whe talking about. Thats showing us our wind direction. N. Okay. Is it a difference with thewi colort variations on the map map like green is warm. Warm. Youre asking deepking dep questions here. He. Ra lighter blue is 30s, character purple means teensans ans. 0s. 33 now in washington. A everybody locally here here regionally what is waking upking to cold temperatures. P our wind chills right now are ci in the 20s. We have had almost noll snow. Sno weve had 1. 4inches of snow snw here in washington this year. But parts of maine after their third storm in the past week wek most snow theyve ever had inad february. Febrry. I know weve asked you thises before but have we hadd snowless winters entirelynt where we havent had any snow. O reminds me of like a a hairless cat. Ss i dont know. Don in the words of tupac shakur i aint mad at you. You. In 72, 73 and in i think 98th we had 110th of an inch of snow. Weve always had at least alw something. We have a little lake effectle e snows off to our north and west this morning. Orning. Tucker fox5 tweet me if youm have them and ill showshow pictures. And much mount to much most of our day will be partly t sunny, chilly. Wind chills in the 30s ands d still looking at that tat fantastic weekend warmup as iup mentioned earlier were goingrg to go right past the crocuses and the snowdrops intoow daffodil territory by next by nt week. Maybe some 70s by next week. We because of you i think iu i know what a crocus s its likes the little some littlesm greenery is popping up in myppiy yard. Yeah. Thats a crocus. And a lit ttleha tiny flowern will come up with it. Awesome. In truth erin its not my yard a its my neighbors but hey. Let them do the hard workthew and you admire it. An and exactly. Ex whenever i think of the of th word crocus for some reason i imagine like a frog on lillyl pad hanging out in the spring. S spewing water all over theg wal trees in old town alexandriatowa breaking news weve been been tracking active water maine wat break for over two hours now. N. 200 block of park road impact it predominant. Pr its shut down. Impact. Its thought as you can see the branches ofhe the tree looking beautifulb kind of complete iced overof c right now. Well keep you posted onom that. Annie yu is at that scene sce gathering more information. Rmao. As we switch things over from outer loop Winter Wonderland woe to look our roads. Ro clash on 202 cleared. Clea delays heavy back to the t beltway. Starting to ease. As we look at the istnner loop, out by little river turnpike we were tracking an earlierarler accident. He shouldover to the shoulder so things on the inner loopngs l looking good right nowoop fromwo the springfield interchange uprp to 66. Well keep you updated on your r commute. Right now metro is on time tme except for safe track surge 12 impacting the blue line. Allison and steve. Eve. Wow. sirens . Dashcam video capretured aura quick thinking officer in offern texas doing his part tos doing o prevent a car fire from spreading. This happened saturday night at a jack in the box drive through, its a restaurant. Aura. Officer chris womack used hisk truck away from the restaurant. Re there you can see pushing itshit right out of the drive throughvh to try to keep that fire from fm spreading. The driver was able to get outeg of that truck before it caught on fire and i think in partnar due to the officers actionscerc nobody at the restaurant orthe o the drive through was injured. J. New this morning, anotheringe d. C. School is reportedlyrep dealing with a bed bug problembm this comes after fox5 firstox5 f reported about a bed bug problem at savoy elementary. Fox5s bob barnard is livesive in northeast to tell us abouto this latest school thatsolts reportedly infested with theset pests. Good morning. Reporter good morning, ally son, yes, this is ormteiner Elementary School 15th and fan f streets northeast. Rtheast. School is opened today,toay, teachers are already arriving. Ar students wont be here forhere f awhile still but yes, we aree e learning mainly from dcs thatcst there is an infestation of bedod bugs. Gs. They also value rodent problem o as do other schools that havet h rat traps around the buildingsei or what have you butt have youut apparent three times in the past week pak students have been found to have bed bugs on their clothing. Theyre not calling it an re not infestation cabulltin obviously concern somehow these bed bugse got into the school probablyhe from a stu sdents home orome or Something Like that. Tha but the school is going tong stay opened as they work toy w clean it up and as you ou mentioned, we were the firstthet to report its been weeks now

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