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WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 6 April 1, 2016

For trooper dermyer near the nre Greyhound Bus terminal. D bus ten that starts at 6 oclocks at 6lk tonight down in richmond. Rond. Four officers have died inir the line of duty so far thisar year and that richmondichmon shooting brings its flub to five. A Police Officer in thee district is recovering afterofve being hit by a car while on the job. The job. Accident happened aroundnt h 8 oclock last night atk southern avenue andlanue an mississippi avenue southeast. The officers injuries werenj not lifethreatening and theenin car that struck him stayed on sa the scene were told. The tennessee man accusedacs of firing gun slots inside theie u. S. Capitol Visitors Centers nr this week has been formally charged. Charged. Capitol Police Officer shotce o larry dawson after he allegedly pulled thews weapon wa out at a security checkpoint. Ckn dawsons weapon was a pellet gun. Hes facing resisting arrest aes and assaulting a federal Law Enforcement officer withent dangerous weapon charges. Charg if convicted, he could face up to 55 years in prison. Ri happening this morning, police still actively searching for a newspaperfo vendor they say stabbed a many outsidste of a Prince Georges County county metro stop annie yu joining us lives l with the details. Dails. Good morning. Good morning. Reporter good morningte eeureen and steve. R its already very busy here atba the addison road metro station i at this early hour. Ou this incident happened at 8 30p yesterday morning at the t height of rush hour so you can u imagine just how crowded thised station was when all of this t went down. Went d Metro Transit Police is askingig anyone who may haveho information or know theatio suspect to give them a call. Cal we have a picture of the the suspect that they are lookingaro for. He is daniel brown, a 50yearold man from temple tem hills, maryland, and as you mentioned, hes a newspaper n vendor but officials havent han confirmed to us whether he was on a paper route when all of this happened yesterdaype morning again around 8 30. 8 he got into a fight with a manai just outside the station ended d up establishing thatlishing that pennsylvania. Pe the victim was taken to a nearby hospital and thankfullasu is expected to recover justecovr fine. Its unclear at this point what this argument was about a and how it all went down but metro is certainly hoping that footage from surveillanceur cameras will help them. Ll h take a listen. Lis the metro system so when you y commit a crime on metro, metro chances are were going to bengo able to identify you and then ad use that evidence against in i you court. Reporter again, metroga, me Transit Police looking for for 50yearold daniel brown of temple hills, maryland. An they say if you have any a information or know thishis person, to give them a call. Al that number is 202 9625151. 96 thats latest here in capitol heights, maryland. Annie yu, fox5 local news. Al ne. After a woman said she wase s attacked wednesday at the petworth injury have a avenuey metro station. Me she said a car nearly hit herrl when she crossed the street thes outside the station. Sta two women jumped out of the car chased her inside the her station and hit her over the the headway box of bus schedules. Ul a metro spokesperson told fox5 x that incident was not howeverot recorded on surveillance cameras. President obama hosting o World Leaders the the white house last night forth dinner. Ne he sat next to the primeto t minister of india and the president of kline florida. K they are in town for the nuclear summit. Ear s this years focus is keepings nukes out of the hands of the ho extr it comes as north korea claims to have fired missiles missiles overnight into the sea off of te its coast on the east side. As sd today is the second andecond final day of the summit. Day the so still a lot of roadf ro closures around the washington g Convention Center. On c this is a live look at 11th 11t and n streets northwest. Orthwe Mount Vernon Square station isei also closed. Lo thats the metro station. Stati this afternoon president obamaoe will close tsihe summit out witw a press conference. Fe today is the official startlt of pothole pal lose s. Los d. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser kicksos off the campaign unveiling newgn technology that will be used thi to try to identify and repair rp the damaged roads throughout the district. The distri the event can kicks off at 11 00. 0 it is its eighth year. Igh y drivers that means you can youan report potholes to the city and they will try to get themete filled within 72 hours. Like a party. Arty. Pothole party. P pothole party. Party hi, good morning. D morning good morning. Goo beautiful, beautiful morning. Mr didnt need a coat, nothing, nog just came tearing out the house. I like the blue. Thank you. E t you well, you know why were all wel wearing it, right. In, ri yes. You want to tell them . Youre, autism speakssp wearness month. Wearness month big day, right. B day Autism Awareness month. Month yes. We have our telethon today starting at 8 oclock, call, donate its very important. Nt. Meanwhile. There we go. G phone bank starts at noon,s at from 8 oclock until noon. Noo you can text autism to 25383. 23 when you do that, its 10 it donated and really it does i make a difference if youvefouv been watching our stories thisrs week. Very moving, powerful. Pow well trying to make a changee e here at fox5 and we can dond w that with your help. El all right. All right. All meanwhile, yeah, you saidah,s it, dont really need aa jacket. Jacket. Temperatures near 70s this nea morning. Almost a little warm and darendd i was i humid out there. Yeah. Right. Ico, 68 int fredericksburg. Big jump from yesterday. Mid 60s in the mountains both t hagerstown and martinsburg, winchester, all well into the 60s. 60 got the clouds. Clo kind of a mix of clouds and and some showers approachingro from the south and west. Outh ans bottom line, were going keepng showers and thunderstorms inthu the forecast today. Fo not going to rain alrel day butb well probably have a coupleoupl different waves of moisturef mot move through. Move through. One this morning and thenorni maybe a rounds ofs of thunderstorms this afternoonth as a cold front moves on in. In. So again, clouds today. Sod keep an umbrella handy. Dy well have a couple rounds of showers and thunderstorms and the big change from yesterday fo were going to keep showershors lingering in the forecastorec through tomorrow morning. Morni. I think well clear it out by early afternoon tomorrow butbu were going to keep thein k showers then. Showers well talk more about that. T t 78. 78 showers and storms are back. Bk. Winds southsouthwest at 15 to 25 but temperature well above we normal. You can get out the blue the blu shorts. Rock the blue shorts. E blshor okay. All right. Say good morning to erinrn como. How we looking today. Ooki good morning. Good morning. Gd mo busy already unfortunately. Na a my crash 295 south atouth a benning road. D. Earlier we had another one by east capitol. Capitol use caution as you headea inbound from the top of theop o beltway. Anne arrundel a deadly crash. Ra you can always take 424 get around that. Getting information from police theyre letting us know t that the crash happened just j after 410. Af the driver of the vehicle did also suffer minor injuries. No i 270 southbound in frederick delays 109 to the truck truck scales. And then out in fairfax right now 66 on the eastbound side sid moving well into centreville. Ev you can see no red on theth screen. Scre in dale city, however, 95ever northbound picking up withndic those typical slowdowns. Wdns well take a look and remind you about the closures for thelo Nuclear Security summitse downtown with your next lookcuix at traffic. At tra back to you, steve and maureen. Maureen. This morning georgehimorn washington is celebrating itsrai first nit championship. Congratulations to them. The Mens Basketball Team beat valparaiso last night. Ig cavanaugh named the teams m. V. P. M. V. The tournament m. V. P. Actually. Actual congrats to him. Lycong colonials finished the seasonhen with a School Record 28ecd victories. Victor great to have a championshippion here in the nations capitol. Sure is. Sure well done. Still ahead controversytr over the renaming avenue localuc University Law school. Lawool. Plus, donald trump holdingdi a surprise sitdown with the the head of the rnc as he begins ben to slip in the polls. Were back in 30 seconds. Narrator all that political mail might be overwhelming. Lets simplify. Only one candidate has been endorsed by the Washington Post Kathleen Matthews. As a journalist and progressive leader at marriott, she has a broad and deep facility with policy. Emilys list praises matthews as prochoice and the post says on gun control, clean energy, education and Health Research Kathleen Matthews has greater potential, following the van hollen model, to move the ball forward. Kathleen im Kathleen Matthews and i approve this message. Tossed his truck into ased ditch trapping him inside. Pi at least 10 people were0 le w injured in the storms. To overseas now rescue crewsea in india still fs inding bodiesd as they continue to clear the c debris of a collapsed overpass. Over it is believed there are noieve more survivors. Vivors. 23 people now confirmed dead. D 80 more injured. Njur the overpass was under u construction when it collapsedia yesterday and just a few hourssw ago police in india detained dei five construction companyn mpa officials. Fi caught on camera along the u. S. Mexican border two teens from mexico scaling a border fence in arizona. Fence there they are. E th a mexican news crew was filming when it spotted thepoed teens entering u. S. Territory to when they realized that they t were being recorded the teenstht ran back to the fence and fce a returned to mexico. Mic an infant kidnapped from a fm mall near philadelphia is backib home safe with its family this morning. Rn tips poured in after p Surveillance Video surfaced of the suspect leaving the mall with a seven week old baby. Aby. The woman took off with theh t infant from the food court c area after offering to holdo h the b stepped away to make a phone call. The two women had just met. Men the suspect is facing seriousero charges. Here locally an elderly eldr man from Montgomery County isonm lucky to be alive after he got lost and drove his car into aisc river. Ri relatives reported shing wong w missing wednesday night. Ing we Police Called the 72yearold2o but he was too disoriented to t tell officers exactly where hehe was. They started tracking his cell s phone and got a hit near thehe aberdeen proving ground. P that is some 80 miles away. Police say they matched maps of the area to bridges wongdgesn described and finally located his car. Car we have unlocked the today. He had been in the water wen in estimate about two, two and a half hours bite time we got to him. Hi his legs were pretty crampede up. He couldnt stand on his only ho lucky for me he was a pretty light guy so we just picked p him up, walked a 150, a 1, hundred feet back to dry land. N wong was taken to awatake hospital where he was treatedat for hypothermia. Othe were told his condition has improved. Students at george mason lawge school. The university annou nced theed t school will be renamed tol be honor the Late Supreme Court justice antonin scalia. Calia. The renaming comes in light of 30 million in combined gift git given to the george masonrgason foundation to support the law school. One third of that donation, about 10 million came from the charles koch foundation. Fnt the controversial conservativeot koch family has helped hel facilitate millions of dollars m if donations tilo colleges colle across the u. S. U in Chicago Schools arehi sch shutting down today as t thousands of teachers plan tochn walk off the job. Some 27,000 Teachers Union uni members in the city have beenhe working without a contracttr since june. Si the Teachers Want lawmakers to adequately Fund Education and ad other programs. Pro new this morning, on thes mon campaign trail, fresh polling pl data shows donald trump may be losing momentum at a criticall time. Ahead of tuesdays wisconsinisco primary ted cruz is leadingeadi and john kasich is gaining. Yesterday the republicanhe rep frontrunner was in d. C. Toin d. Meet with the chief of theeff National Republican committee. M today trump is expected toump is announce a group of foreign of e policy experts who will be ad still ahead teslas new less expensive model is mel i finally unveiled. U were going take a look. Ke a a live look outside as we as head to break on this fridayth f morning. Well have weather and the t traffic for you on the 5s. R u s tucker is up next. Heres the wilson bridge. Put more fun in your day with icecreamflavored coffees at dunkin donuts. Go for delicious flavors like butter pecan, cookie dough, or new pistachio. Enjoy one today. America runs on dunkin. Wait a minute. Ait my walk is pretty good. K all right. Isght hey, live view of the beautiful Jefferson Memorial mer and were off to a rather cloudy start with some showers. Shower warm and humid conditions out there. Er you are really going to notice those nice mild temperatures. Were in the upper 60s toer 6st about 70 early this morning. Thr our big headline warm butt unsettled. By unsettled that meansns possibility of showers andilit thunderstorms today. Un not all day but well have h certainly that possibility here. Well have a couple different ways of moisture moving onvi o through. Through. 69. Check out the warmect th temperatures. 66 in gaithersburg. Itherur 69 here in washington. Ashing 68 in leonardtown. Eona a little cooler by the bay, 67ay in annapolis, 69 out in baltimore. 68 manas fredericksburg. Everybody off to a nice mildf start. Highs today will be on they wilb warm side. Rm s mid to upper 70s. So, thats great news. New we are going have some rain in n the forecast. Th weve got a pretty good swathgod of moisture developing off tongo our south and westtown downown n towards charlottesville. Earlier i had some s thunderstorm activity. Er thats pushing in ourou direction. Wont be long before we see we showers break out and then we at get a break and well see ifee showers dont reemerge, maybe my some thunderstorms this thu afternoon as the actual cold t front starts to cross itsts to region. Regi its lagging off a little bitff to the north and west. Es and as that moves througheshr weve got another chance late this afternoon for a rounds ofor showers and thunderstorms. Thundt so the bottom line, bring an umbrella. You want to be ready for some showers. Not going rain every minute m today but weve got it back in the forecast. Orecast. Heres your futurecast. Ec theres the shower activity ate 9 00 a. M. Sh9 00 a its kind of hit and miss. A m that will be the theme today. Me and then well see if we dont i get a line of showers andshower thunderstorms about 4 oclock. R change from yesterday. Fro thats tomorrow morningsorng forecast. Fore. Early tomorrow morning the morni front that comes through doneoud nigh will be a area of low pressurewe with it. That will give us a rounds of showers. I think it will get out ofll g here in time for the gamehe gam tomorrow afternoon. Owernoon. Another look at it. Look a it. Heres your weekend set up. Up. Area of low pressure gets outur of here pretty quick. Ui late saturday night a real good shot of very cold air fordr this time of year as we kick kic off a shower and maybe a anday flurry and then well be plain i old chilly on sunday. Day. Daytime highs on sunday, b are. E. Are. Rr. Rr. High temperature only t 52 degrees and it willem be very windy. Windy. 78 today. Showers and storms. By saturday at noon we should be done with the rain for thes o weekend all right thats all weather. We as for now bring yourfow br umbrella. Um it could be a dicey morningorni commute later around 8 oclocktd if the rain starts to pick up. Yeah, well definitely haveld showers this morning. S th drive very carefully grabra the umbrella. Umblla. Crash and closure in anne arrundel. Ar deadly crash. Ly crash. Three north remains shut down between 450 and crawford45an boulevard. Lets show you what else you youre up against this a morning. In the district crash activitycy 295 southbound at benning road. Girl yourself extra time. Urse you do back up for a little atle bit leading towards that location. Locati 270 southbound right now thisndr is out in frederick. Erk. Typical delays and volume from o 109 to the truck scales. S and then in fairfax 66rf eastbound in arlington we are we moving well into that centreville but once you getllen into arlington byon b westemoreland you start to get that usual congestion. Lets hop outside for a livetsid look and show you how things t are shaping up. E sh u the outer loop is starting tota see some volume pick up by new hampshire. Hamp nothing terrible jussht yet. Just the usual tap of the u tapo brakes and some congestion asont you head out from 95. Lets switch back to our maps. Kp aside from that keep in mindn that the station closure forlosf the Nuclear Security summitmm still in place. Trains bypassing Mount Vernon Square for the green andor yellow line. Lin use shaw or gallery place. Er ple thats through this evening. Metrobus also detouringde between seventh and ninth. Venthi between n and k we also haveav several closures in still incl plosace. I was talking to tucker abt yesterday and noticed they d no amount of closures that weres at affecting traffic. Affecting traf a lot of overflow of trafficff causing a traffic headache for a your evening ride so watch for o that this morning and tomorrow. Id avoid the area by thed Th Convention center and by the t white house and just bet prepared as you head outared ay anywhere in the district youll see a lot of additionaloi traffic for some motorcade. Someo an

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