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WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 6 February 3, 2017

Busiest tourist attractionstr home to the famed mona lisa. Li. Were still followingre sti developing news out of lorton, viinia. A. Fire crews still trying totill o contain a massive overnightight fire at a recycling plant. Cling. They have been battling thetn blaze all night long. Annie yu has been there for thee some time as wie. Wie she joins us now with the now we latest. La annie. Te reporter hey, good morning, steve and allison. St good morning, everybody. Eportev we just got anev update fromm assistant fire Chief Johnsonjonn out here at the scene and heand tells us that this fire was as very challenging because it it was deep seated. Sea it was massive. Masive. And by the video that youllo tl see in a second youll just see those flames shooting outot of the roof but he just let useu know that this could very well w be a multiday event. Nt obviously the cause is still sil unknown at this hour but what you see out here is just black k heavy smoke, thick smokesmoke coming out of the buildingthe b still while they try tothey tryo contain the building and if andi you see this video here, i, i mean, you can just see how ow massive this was last night last around 9 oclock when it all happened. This is basically the where trash trucks bring theirre waist, its the county recycling and disposal centerl c on furnace road in lorton andton more than 60 firefighters have been working oveferignight close to nine hours now and i knowan theyll do a shift changechange shortly. But again, they plan on this ons being a multiday event. E they have units here from that neighboring departments asin well and Chief Johnson saidg d n that once they s get someet so daylight theyll actually havela a better sense of what theyre e dealing with. Of course they want to get a gea good look at the building, the,e structure, the integrity ofntegi the building and then theen t investigators will go in there e and see what the cause was. E ws. But one of the challengingallegg things and sets this thinghis t apart from house fires andes an other fires is that theres sot much debris because again, ag this is where all those trashtht trucks bring the waist and w recycling products and so not only is cold and dark out hereh for the firefighters but they have been out here for hourshors and so a lot of challenges outlt here early this morning buting t the fire still going at this gos hour. Thats the very latest hereery t from lorton, virginia, annie yu, fo happening today, a statusstat hearing scheduled for the manan accused of the quadruplequadr murder of a prominent d. C. Couple. The victims were beaten andd stabbed before their woodlynne drive mansion was set on fire. Darrun wints hearing is sets s to begin this morning. Egin thiso a urnnion official saysic sas Sergeant Steven floyd savedloydd his colleagues lives byol warning them that inmates haleda set a trap. D the 47yearoldyearld called out to warn officerswf coming to his aid after he was a forced into a closet. Loset. Floyd was a 16 year veteran y with the prison the firstthe f corrections officer inr in delaware to be killed. Ki president donald trumpsident turning on the d heat in iran. A he is warning nothing is off off the table not even right lanen r out miilitary action after irani test fired a Ballistic Missile the white house plans toe house impose new sanctions againstio iran as early as today todayoday in response. Rs iran said it would not bow tod o the threats from the unitedrom h states and would continue itsuet missile activity. Missile ac meanwhile that country is retaliating against president g d trumps executive order banning visas for seven seven from seven muslim countriesunris including iran. Including i the official news agency ineny n the capitol of iran saysn american wrestlers will not be able to compete in the t freestyle world cup set too coe take pculace p tsehere later ths month. Month. A ruling timed keep firearms out of the hands of some mentally disabled people on itsut oll wy diay to being sd now. The republican led house votee to repeal the rule put input i place by the obamaama administration it required theed Social Security administrationmr to share information with thenfr gunma background check systemk t about people with mental illness. Critics say the regulationeg increased the stereotype st people with mental disordersta are ngngerous. L democrats saery repeeling they rule would lead to more gun violence. Violen push to get president preside trumps education secretary nominee approved t procedural vote at 6 30 this 30 morning less than a half houralr from now. From n. That vote would end debate onte betsy devos nomination. Senate rules require thatles irt another 30 hours must passrs mua after this vote before membersfs can take the final vote. Vote. That means her confirmationnfirn vote could come on monday. Ondy. Right now its looking like l Vice President mike pence willil have to weigh in and cast the ce tie breaking vote. Vo five minutes past the hour. H good morning Tucker Barnes onngt this friday. Ucrida good morning to friday,riday yeah. Good morning, friday. Ng, good morning. Good morning. Hello. Hey, good morning. Hey, go Cool Temperatures out thereod early. Peratu eaatrl 34 degrees right nowht w washington, freezingshington, fe temperatures for everybody else. Today is going toziures dybe e next couple days going to beo on the cool side. Cool si. Okay. And cloudy side. Sie. The. The. February, im used toru february. Right . Little cold. Cold. It will be warm next week wek so wont stick around tooick art long. 34 at reagan national. Atio you know what i did last night i watched quote ground hog day. It was on. O i almost got sucked in. For got how gooit 31 at bwi marshall. Arshl. Going to be a mostly cloudyly c day today. Y to a Little Energy in theergy in t neighborhood as we have ahood av system passing to the south int the carolinas but well stay sta try but well remain cloudy cluy and cool. And co will not be as warm as the the last couple days. Da notice the winds out of thehe wn north and wesdst o at 25 and a a temperature around 40, so make e sure you got your you know,k, your heavier february jackety ja ready to go. Okay. Ill have the weekendl ha forecast in just a minute. I all right. Check in with erin get a look ak at whats happening on theappeni roads this morning. Roads hi, erin. This m hey, getting in right nowet because we have breaking newstig on the roads and the rails. A turning into an unfortunatelyory busy morning for just 6 00 in6 n the morning. Mo center lane blocked 95 on theone northbound side. S this is as you make your wayy up towardsowards franconiaspringfield parkway. You can see they need ritngo fio police out there, get themm moved over to the shoulder sohe youll have to take outhouseouth two right lanes or the leftt la lane to get through. This is causing ane nef tew mill slowly moving traffic. Ffic allow extra time. Ti hop off at 95 northbound andound take route one northbound to ono get aroundun those delays. D lets move it over and take andt look at oum other big problems weres were dealing with with metro. Met a disabled train at dupontpont circle. Circ were going to show youle a loo at this as well. S asell. Reports of a smoking train out t there. You can see the smoke comingcomi out actually so it isis confirmed smoke on the tracks. R this is new video from jimim lokay out by Dupont Circle. Ci red line impacted by this this smoking train so some breakingeg news developing on metro this ms morning. This is going to cause somes red line delays. Re we will keepd you updated onpd this breaking news. Ws. Expect delays to glenmont e because of that smoking training out at Dupont Circle that is i disabled. Not the only metro delay thisy s morning. Train malfunction at ballston. Bl silver line residual delays toay largo. More traffic in just a fewla ass we track that breaking news. Ne. Back to you. An emergency meeting about a bed bug and rodent problemblem at one southeast d. C. Schoolschl left some parents a bit some pa frustrated at a lack of new solutions. Lution parents at savoy elementarylm school now questioning how theoh pest problems will be stopped. O. Our Melanie Alnwick joins usnwin live withs more. Moe good morning. Reporter good morning, steve and allison and ttehr e te School Headquarters taking aa lot of flak because parentspar believe the School System ande c the school itself reallyhohoole didnt pay a lot of attention al to theot problem until now. Now, parents were given somen kits that they couldme take home or were given information onormi how they could get those kits ks to check their own homes for for bed bugs and the school isol s working on a comprehensivemprehe treatment plan but manyut parents left that meeting lastet night feeling like they needed a little bit more. M there was outrage anger and frustration in that savoyation N Elementary School t auditoriumud last night at this meeting. M savoy parents say the bed bug be issue was known about sincesi november or december when they complained of itchy red welts re showing up on their kids armsm and legs. Last night the principal d. C. L. Public schools representatives, theepre department of health andsement representatives from generalheal services were there to listenlis to those parents and answernd nr their questions but some say say despite city efforts the problem continues. On i was aware of the issue back in december but the principal was nonchalant about it. Are bed bugs still in the school. Yes. My daughter works here. I hav work s grandchildren that goes here. H reporter now d. C. Publicuic schools say in a response thatpt they were made aware of there o incident and that they hiredird professional cleaning contractors to thoesroughlsyioty clean the school to develop an ongoing cleaning plan for theni buildingn ordered new nap mats s with 2foot risers and aresers e working with the school andoolad the community in beingbeing vigilant in keeping unwantedu pests from getting into the inte building and the issue aboutt the risers and the nap matse important because theres somech information that it could have e started in one of thethe kindergarten classrooms with those mats that a lot ofts children share. Thats one of the things you need to do is keep of a lot off bedding and personalperso belongings separated from eachoh other. The other thing, too, steve s and allison, is many parentsar are also asking for help withp h treating the problem if they thy find it in their homes because bed bugs are such notoriousus hitchhikers. Hi if you find it in onetc placene you can easily take itto another and if the school isool cleaned but they cant theytn dont have the tresources tourt clean their homes, theyrethere concerned that cycle of infestation will that continuect again. Live in northeast, im melanieam alnwick, fox5 local news. New and we want to let you know w later this morning the d. C. Public schools chancellor thelle brand new d. C. Public schools chancellor Antawn Wilson willso join us at 8 30 this morning. Mo hell discuss that incident atsh savoy and his new role at d. C. Public schools. Ools. That interview coming up at 8 30. Wizards on a roll. On a roll. Another win at the verizoneriz center. Yeah. Tignd tiger woods making headlines overnight woods m withdrawing from a toakurinnamev under way rightour nnow. Now place where he usually plays pla pretty well, too. Too. So why the sudden dropout . Weo are back in just 30 seconds. New this morning the new secretary of Defense James Mattis is on a missio tnar iny asia. He arrived in japan just hoursjt ago following a stop in southi korea. Hes expected to reaffirm thet United States securityited commitments to key allies. Ey al. Hell meet with japans primeans minister today, then tomorrow tw mattis is set to meet with hiswt counterpart in tokyo. Toky the mexican drug lord El Chapo Guzman due in federalguzmn court today in new york. T he was initiallyto set to appear by video link but his lawyersis argued that would make it lookek like hes too dangerous to appear in hell be transported to ando ad from a high security manhattan jail cell. Cel he has pleaded no not guilty. T los angeles made its pitch to host the 200024 summerummer olympics. The international olympicoly committee will begin thetee wiln bidding process today. L. A. Which you might rememberyo hosted the olympics most recently in 1984 and thenhe earlier in 1932 is competingom against paris and budapest. Udpe. The host city will bethe hostitl announced i bn september. If you remember the 32f yo games let usu know. Kn dukes coach k looking to gettot his team back on track. N ac set to return on saturday toturo coach his blue devils versus pittsburgh. Pittsbgh. Hes been sidelined for a been i month now recovering fromne back surgery. Duke just four and three during jus his absence but associate head coach jeffead co cable running the time. Tiger woods withdrew fromtho the dubai desert classic. Woods suffered back spasmssu after dinner last night. Ffenigh. After hours of treatment this te morning he says he still cant t get the spasms to calm down. Ms a w he just cant make a full rotation in his swing. Is sw yesterday on the course hehe cee shot around 771 week after hek h failed to make the cut in the Farmers Insurance open and that was his first tournamentout after sitting out for almost aos year and a half after hish second back surgery. Ack su how about those wizards 16wi straight now at home secondme sd longest run in franchiseranise history, john wall with 33h 33 points 11 assists scored a whole bunch in the fourth. Bradley beal with 23 points. Nts. They beat the lakses. La next up they host the pelicans tomorrow night. Tomo where are the pelicanshere ap from. El new orleans. You know, ive never heardic now, iv before. The jazz left and now jazz theyre back to t lhe pelicans. Okay. Coming up, why the ceo of uber b has canceled a meeting witheetit the president at the whiteesidee house today. House to and a live look outside aslod we head to break this friday riy morning. Weather and traffic on the 5s. Coming up next well valuewel live look at metro next. Ne there are some problems there. Sr well tell you coming up. G up. Lots of problems on metro. Pm thats smoke cometing fromg ro underneath a metro train rightt now. No just walk around. Ar this is in Dupont Circle. Cic were getting you some live li pictures this morning. Ct just giving you a heads up. Uru well get an idea of what kindhk of delays this may pose. Pose. That train has been sittingrainn there for some time not moving and does appear like theres ths smoke coming up fromp from underneath. Undern erin will have details in a in a minute. Minute im going to go with inng ton doesnt look good steve. Stev bus stop forecast. Ore chilly out there again. Again. Cold temperatures to startempe your day. 20 or most of us. Us. Low 30s, 34 in the city. City after school today its goingod to be a colsd one today. Daytime highs only about 40. 0. Breezy conditions and a lot ofs clouds today. Cl make sure you wear your you february jacket as you headket d out this morning. 34t now in washington. Asngton. 28 in gaithersburg. Gaitheburg. Notice north and west it looksil like everybody yup,r everybody is at or belowyby is a freezing. Little warmer near places likeai quantico 35 degrees. Quantico 35e 32 in leonardtown. Leo we have a pretty good cloudtty d deck across the really tells the story here. H well be in for a mostly a mo cloudy day today. Cloudy d today. We got some energy in theenergye neighborhood and thats going to bring us some cloud choodovec but we should remainlo uddry. Dr not expecting any rain any Winter Weather here today. E you can see to reour south aouha little area of low pressuresure pushing across the carolinas. Were getting residual cloudidud cover with that off to our north. This afternoon we might build b in a little sunshine and wellnl keep the breezes and coolnd Co Temperatures around for the forh remainder of your afternoon asro High Pressure starts to buildssl in. That will deliver a very coolvel saturday but a quiet saturday. A. Weather looks fine tomorrow tomr and by super bowl sunday welln get some clouds around but theb chances for a little rain or a little light snow not veryw no high here. High we might get a little i something on sunday butay but whatever we get should be verytr light. Theres your sevendayyour sevey forecast. Keeping it cool for the next couple days and then look aten t your warmup. Ur warm by next week we do introducei ranin showers but hints of spring around here perhaps thep first of our little snowdropsite will be coming sup from the ground. Whew. With temperatures 60 to 65 thats a look at weather. Ear. Erin you didnt know this buthis my mom is like a super s gardener and i used to spend a lot of time in her garden with her. Her. My grandmom sap supers gardener. I loved going to her house. She had the little wind mills. D it was beautiful. E you know whats not beautifully. Tic. Fic. Metro. Train onted train on Dupont Circle. Ci smoking on the tracks. Watch for delays to glenmont. Lets look at that video sogloka you can see howt that v serioust is. Bob barnard is on his way out wt there right now with his crewisc to check out the situation. But again chase on the red chone line. Disabled tray on Dupont Circle. Sabled smoking on thet tracks this morning. Ook at ont thahet blacklack smoke billowing out from underwt that train. You can see some folks on the fe platform there. Want to keep everyone safe but s if you are in the dupontupon circle area they have not yet shut down that station. T s updates to come throughout the t morning here on fox5. Fox5. Unfortunately thats not thehate only metro slowdown thiswn this morning. Delays on the silver line l center. A deer struck near van dorn. Mule delays lingering franconia to van dorn. O van dor well let you know when thingsen get back to inner loop. Southbound 295 crash before that east capitol. Keep it to fox5. Nd 2th we also have aep b it itog f cr5 northbound causing delays by y franconiaspringfield in virginia. Virginia. You will definitely want tole slow down if youre travelingn y through rockville maryland. Oura the citys police departmenndttt installed more speed cameras. Am. Maryland avenue is where they are. The grace period has now endedpe and that means theyll start issuing tickets to violatorsolas today. The camer

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