To the u. S. S. Intrepid. The president is expected to spend a weekend at Trump National golf club in bedminster. President trump will sign another executive order making it easier for churches to participate in politics. Without risking their tax exempt status much the order will protect faith based protecd pay for contraception coverage under the Affordable Care act and its also aimed at easing an i. R. S. Provision that forbids churches from endorsing to candidates. An escaped prisoner from Howard County back in custody. Police caught david watson last night in jessup. Police received a tip yesterday morning that watson was spotted in a wooded area near the location where he escaped custody from officers last week. Watson was in jail for attempted for murder. Alcohol smuggling and other security risks as it was making nearly 700 million to protect the u. S. Air base and p16 fighter jets in iraq. There were accusations of prostitution, of human trafficking, of sex trafficking, females brought in from other locations in baghdad that came from other countries and were selling their services on base but seal port decided they didnt want us to look into it and shut us down. The allegations also include alleged Security Breaches including allowing Iraqi Militia members onto the base. Former seal port investigators claim the misconduct was not revealed to the United States government until an auditor began asking questions. Seal port strongly disputes the allegations. We continue to follow the latest in the investigation into a hate crime targeting black students at american university. Now the fbi is involved in the search for a suspect seen on university surveillance video. Police think the person in the video hung bananas from nooses at multiple locations around campus and wort the harambe bait with the letters aka on the bananas. The universitys new Student Government president who was a member of aka. Theres a 1,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. We learned about a similar incident at the university of maryland a noose was found inside the phi kappa tau house. Campus police are investigating. New information about a rat infestation at dupont circle. City leaders are supporting a plan which would force restaurants to do a better job of keeping trash and grease away from rats. Under the proposed rodent prevention plan restaurants will be required to store cooking grease inside or make sure its sealed up. And they are also required to keep trash cans sealed. Restaurants would be fined if they violate the terms of that legislation. Be used to help fight the citys rat problem. Its too early for that. Youre not a fan of the rats. It is rodent video. Lets change the subject then and talk about weather. Please. Mike thomas when i walked outside i got to admit i was a little mad at you. Mad at me. Yes. What did i do. Youre the weatherman and i know its not your fault hes killing the messenger. Did you leave your jacket was you werent paying attention to the forecast yesterday. Yes. See s honesty. Yes to the second part. Uhhuh. All right t yeah, little chilly. Wisdom is right. Grab a jacket as you head out the door because that early spring kind of morning feel where were chilly in the morning and then better by the afternoon, thats what we have for your day today t satellite and radar showing a mix of clouds and sun s, well, sun is not up yet but once the sun gets in the sky it will be a mix of clouds and sun to start the day and then clouds will gradually thicken as we head into the afternoon hours ahead from showers that arrive later on this evening. Temperatures outside right now reagan is at 55, which isnt bad compared to our suburbs which are very chilly. Bw many of our suburbs waking up to temperatures in the mid 40s. First your afternoon planner for today t by 11 oclock mix of clouds and sunshine. Temperatures should return to the 60s by then. 63 degrees by 2 oclock. 67 with more clouds moving in by 5 oclock. Still dry but mostly cloudy, 69 degres. Again showers hold off until the evening hours. All right, thats a check of th forecast. Erin como is back with traffic on a thursday morning. Thursday morning it is and 4 35 crash blocks the right shoulder 95 northbound just north of the Fairfax County parkway. You you can see flashing lights but traffic gets by to the center and left lanes just fine. Southbound volume very light and south of that point in fredericksburg were quiet. That trend continues through stafford. Once you past that that point youre looking good as you get to the mixing bowl. Aside from that crash were seeing all green all good right now 395 not 14th street bridge problem free. 295 also in the clear. Top of the beltway 95 to georgia aven i none of the usual morning delay and were at speed to the beltway from frederick down on 270 southbound. Not seeing any problems on your neighborhoods in gaithersburg rockville. Nice conditions in bethesda this morning. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Well take a look at metro as they gear up for service at 5 00 next. Back to you. Deputies save the life avenue teenager who command top commit suicide on facebook day. A new email scam is using a popular Google Program to target victims. A live look outside across the dmv. 4 36 is the time, 55 is the temperature. Fox5 news morning back after this. Art. It can be sculpted, bringing to life beautiful detail. Or painted in luxurious strokes. And in rare cases. Both. Well its a perfect nespresso , george. Hold on a second. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] hey there. Want a lift . Where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . 4 38 and were back with whats hot on the web. These are the stories youre engaging with the most this morning on social media. Heres holly. Hey, good morning. Good to see both you. Good morning, everybody out there. Fbi director james comey says he decision to disclose the reopening of the fbis investigation of Hillary Clinton during the 2016 president ial election. Recently clinton partially blamed comey for her election loss to president trump. Comey did say though that the thought of his actions affecting the outcome of the election made him mildly nauseous. During the president ial election sources say the Obama Administration used the nsa to collect information about more than 30,000 americans. The data included peoples email addresses and telephone numbers and some of those names were unmasked by special request by the Obama Administration. Sources say among those names unmasked William Campaign or transition associates of President Donald Trump as well as members of congress and their staffers. In georgia, deputies save a teens life after she tries to kill herself on Facebook Live. She took pills and placed a plastic bag over her head. People who saw the Facebook Live video called 911 and when police found her she still a pulse. They took her to the hospital and shes expected to be okay. Beware of invites to google docs. Everyone listen to this one. A malicious email spreading through the internet and experts warn it is a phishing attack. Users are asked to click on a link which gives the hackers access to their google account including emails contact and documents. Pack your pink bunny pajamas. You can spend the night in a house from a christmas story. The home is located in cleveland. The owner of a christmas story house and museum says hes received a lot of requests from fans wanting to spend a waa well, now their Christmas Wish has been granted. Merry christmas. I dont get a christmas story but i know a lot of people love it. Im with you. Thanks holly. Uhhuh. Coming up, World War Two veterans honored during a ceremony at the World War Two memorial. The smithsonian celebrates the birthday and the life of one of the most popular president s of the 20th century. Heading to break with a region. The temperature. A little cool this morning. Take you to that as were heading out. Back after this. Art. It can be sculpted, bringing to life beautiful detail. Or painted in luxurious strokes. And in rare cases. Both. This is fox5 news morning. Time is 4 43. Here are some of the top storie fourth. An emergency staff meeting scheduled for 5 00 a. M. Our time at Buckingham Palace called overnight setting off speculation about Queen Elizabeth and her husband prince philip. Were told there is no cause for concern. Royal fishes say such meetings do take place from time to time. Today the house will vote on the American Healthcare act the gops latest effort to repeal and replace the affect the newest version of the gop bill includes an amendment. President trump is scheduled to meet with australias Prime Minister and deliver a speech on the u. S. S. Intrepid. President trump will sign an order. The order will protect faith based groups from being forced to pay for contraception coverage under the Affordable Care act. The story we dont really want to talk about but we have to. Another tough night on for the caps against the penguins at the Verizon Center. Caps lose three to two. Pittsburgh controls the series three games to one. Game five saturday night at the Verizon Center that was without sid the kid so not good. No. Not did that. But theres always hope. Got to have hope. Good morning to you. Thank you for joining us. Im maureen umeh. And i believe wisdom martin. Mike youre a very busy man today because youre going to be out and about. Tell us why. Ill tell you why. Why mike. We got weather day today. My goodness. Were going down to nats park. Ill be there, tucker will be down there starting at 6 00 a. M. We will take some live shots from tucker down at nats park. Sue is going to be down there, caitlin is going to be down there, the whos who of the weather team will be there. Lets get your forecast in. Heres futurecast. 10 30 a. M. Theres your mix of sun to start the day t i do think well get a decent amount of sun in the early half of the day before the clouds move back in through the afternoon hours. By 6 oclock were all cloudy. You can see showers just off to our south there. We work into the late evening hours, the showers start to push in. Kind of from west to east here, i81 is a soaker by the time we get to the midnight hour and then here especially early tomorrow morning we could do a very heavy soaking rain even strong thunderstorms despite the fact theyre coming through in the morning are possible. Were under a marginal risk for severe weather. Again nationals baseball today, 1 oclock, it is weather day. Should be pretty good weather for it. Theyll get the game in. Temperatures topping out near 70 degrees. Thats a check of the forecast. Erin is back will traffic this morning. 4 46. Keeping our eyes on the road. Southbound 295 nice and quiet from 50 down to pennsylvania avenue. Eleventh street bridge looking good from both directions and 50 inside the beltway problem free. Outside the beltway 50 from the bay bridge through bowie is really quiet. 66 eastbound, 234 to the beltway we are at speed. 28 through chantilly good. If you have an early flight, traffic is nice and quiet. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Maureen and wisdom. 4 46 is the time. Developing in maryland Montgomery CountyHigh School Student facing serious charges accused of stealing at least two cars and two Police Weapons. Police say the 18yearold drove at least one of those stolen cars with the stolen weapon inside to Albert Einstein high school where he is a student. Melanie alnwick is live outside of the school with more on this story. Mel. Reporter good morning, guys. Yeah, Montgomery County police are crediting an observant School Resource officer with noticing something unusual here in the School Parking lot on monday and police say the teen had those two stolen cars and two stolen Police Weapons stashed around the school. 18yearold Mario Alvarado was spotted parking an unfamiliar blue mazda three toward the back of the school park lot on monday morning. Po alvarado get out of the car, walk toward the school then back to the car and then he got in and drove off school property. The officer followed him. Alvarado ditched the car at a nearby intersection and ran. He was arrested when he returned to the car a short time later. In the trunk an ar ar15 rifle. End side another car officers found a shotgun stolen from the same Rockville City Police cruiser. Parents learned of the incident in letters from the principal and the School Superintendent dr. Jack smith. It is concerning. I want the schools to continue to inform the parents about maybe a little bit more information would be helpful. I think some of its a little vague. Reporter now, a woman at address told fox5 that the 18yearold is still in custody facing again very serious charges, gun charges as well as auto theft charges. Police also arrested the very next day a 15yearold in that connection with that second stolen vehicle. Were told that he was released to the custody of his parents but is facing auto theft charges as well. Melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. Mel thank you. 4 49 is the time. An escaped prisoner from Howard County back in custody. Police caught david watson last night in jessup. Police received a tip yesterday morning that watson was spotted in a wooded area near the location where em escaped custody from officers last week. Watson was in jail for attempted murder. Happening today, the man convicted of killing and burning his exgirlfriend will be sentenced. Police say Maurice Whitfield stabbed his exgirlfriend multiple times before pouring gasoline on her and setting her on fire to destroy evidence of the murder. The two had a child and the victim obtained a protective order. He faces the maximum sentence life without the possibility of parole. World two veterans will mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of the coral sea at the national World War Two memorial. Now, the battle of the coral sea was between the Imperial Japanese navy and the navy and air forces from the United States and australia. It was the first sea battle in which neither side could see is the other o the commemoration begins at 11 30 this morning. Today in maryland the Governors Office will host a breakfast for national day of prayer. Marylands Lieutenant Governor will be on hand. It is observed on the first thursday of may calling for all faiths to come together and pray for the nation. It was created back in 1952 by president truman. Coming up on fox5 news morning more fallout from a controversial smash space in a local Elementary School. Imagine a stress free trip on the beltway during rush hour. Hm . Yeah, one local county working to make that a reality. Were going to break right now with a 4 50 is the time, 55 is the temperature. Mike thomas is going to the baseball game today. Well, hes going this morning because its weather day. Hes going to talk all about that coming up. Hes also got a Weather Forecast to talk about. Back in a moment. 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Three people died and two others suffered lifethreatening injuries in that crash. Police say the driver was an employee of the auto auction company. The vehicle did not stop until it crashed into a concrete wall. The cause of the crash is still under investigation. I have a fox5 followup the Montgomery County principal who created a smash space at her Elementary School is resigning. Barbara liess sent a letter to the parents and staff at Kensington Parkwood element army it said shell remain atsht look for another position in the school system. She did apologize last week for creating a space on the schools loading doctor staff to hit a broken rocking chair has a way to help reduce stress. A glimpse at the future making a stop in virginia. Were talking about self driving cars. Fairfax county is making a big push to be at the forefront of the new Technology Hundreds of people turned out yesterday to take a ride in two self driving cars. The audi q7 and the tesla x. Both ve