Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News Saturday 20160521 :

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News Saturday 20160521

For quite some time. R a heavy rain moving into the mon d. C. Area right now lets get n straight to radar. Straight well show you this soggyog saturday forecast. Orast. Starting off with this shieldshd of rain thats pushing from fro southwest to northeast acrosscr all of the dmv, Northern Virginia into northernoorthern sections of maryland including u baltimore where its going toe be quite the washout for the preakness this afternoon. Ftnoon. Lon nestly by the time we getme to the race it will be okay but muddy fields. Udield yellow and orange shows thews steadiest of the rain justes r getting inside the beltway andty about to push into theush into t district so if youre down inowi Northern Virginia places likelae Stafford County spotsylvania c countouy youve already seen thn had of rain for quite some rn time. Thats moving into Fairfax County, Loudoun County as wee speak. Ea you can see it kind of edging into alexandria. To ari you guys are starting to seeg ts steadier rain. Rn. Heavy from manassas towardss t mount vernon so along that 66 corridor into d. C. And then the along 95 down towards dale d city youre seeing theoure ng t heaviest of the rain. Heie heavy rain this morning will mnw taper off to just some showersho this afternoon but it willfterno s our temperatures right now pretty much where theyrety going the stay in the mid to m t upper 50s. 50s. 58 in washington. Ashingto heres the setup for today. Oday coastal low pressure system moving in now bringing us heavy rai in. Heavyai that will taper off to justo jus showers this afternoon andis a even those showers not goingrs to make it a nice day. And i expect a lot ofi ex cancellations of any sports s games today, any outdoornyut activities we know there aree ke graduation ceremonies probablyen a wedding or two so good luckooc to everyone battling theseinghe showers. Like i said the heaviest is insn the morning. It will be fairly light and some of us will get a break this afternoon. Temperatures steady in theus 50s with those clouds. Luckily we have some improvement starting tomorrow and the rest of the week finally starting to see that warmup as we head words memorial day. All that ahead in your sevenday forecast. Annie he. Well, we begin this morning with our top local story. Major shakeup at metro. Gm Paul Wiedefeld fired 20uritst managers and m aadeve t gshood oneld his promise to bring change to the transit system. Alexandria, when i saw this, wh yesterday i thought wow thatso quite a statement that hes making there. Tre. Reporter yeah, definitely, some et cetera, somt treeer announced 20 managers ars out and we know many of thosef t are top senior managers. Aner the agency also says moree firings could come. C now, all of this come after a ar series of concerning incidents including arcing insulators,nsut smoke and fire in tunnels. Tunns of course that deadly incidenten last year. Ea it also comes after the fta threatened to completely shut dowthe rail system because r of all theseai safety issues. Now, 20 managers may not be a huge number especially for an agency this size, but it could potentially send a big messageea about the Safety Culture to metro employees and customers. I believe its a problem of indifference and mediocrityy thats crept into the crept i organization over time and we have to turn thaton around so today was an important day in terms of sending a message i i hope to the whole organizationao and i hope those who as i said i are not prepared to meet those standards of safetyy reliability and Customer First they ought to leave. Ht t reporter did the cuts go far enough . Noh . I hope frankly that mr. Wiedefeld will be ablee over time to be able to move anybody in the organizationio that doesnt respect a cultureul of safety and that does notdoes treat the public with respectest and dignity. Dignity reporter now, this, t announcement came just a camjust couple of days after metro announced safe track, their plan for Maintenance Work. Basically they wander to cramdea three years worth of wth Maintenance Work into one yeare and it will have bigwo impactmpc for customers in continuous single tracking for weeks at a time. A also entire sections of theons e rail line will also be shut s down for weeks at a time. Metro service will end at midnight every single day ofingl the week including weekendsng we and all of this starts in early june. Rly june. Reporting live in downtown,ven o alexandria limon, fox5 local news. Tense moments outside the mts white house yesterday. E housst secret service says one of its uniformed officers shot a manfia with a gun who approached aro checkpoint outside the whitede w house and refused to drop hisp h weapon. The white house was brieflyrief placed on a security alert. Ale president barack obama was notba there. Ra he was playing golf. Officials say the armed manan approached the checkpoint on en street and the officericer repeatedly ordered the man to mt drop his gun but the man ignored those commands. T c Officials Sayhe officercer fired one shot at the man who mw was then taken to a hospitalospi for treatment and the gun wasas recovered at the scene. Scene and d. C. Police areic searching for the men whoe men w kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman walking down th drove up to her on wednesday wey morning in the 4500 block of benning road southeast. Outh she says she forced her into a van drove her to the 1100 the 10 block of 46th place and assaulted her. Investigators only have ae a vague description of the menio they were beln ieved to be driving an older model whitean d minivan. And staying in thean district, d. C. Police alsoice al want you to take a good look l at this sketch to helpoel identify a suspect wanted inantn connection with a sexuala xual assault. The incident took place insideae a home on engle side terrace t in northwest. In northwest the victim says the manan sexually assaulted her. H hes described as a hispanic hpi male way stocky build lastay sya seen wearing a jacket over at oe red sweatshirt. Weshirt. If you have any information,orma police want to hear from you. R m and a Fairfax County woman m is warning other parents afteras she got a startling phoneho call. The man on the line claimed he had abducted her daughter andand demanded a ransom but it wasas all a scam. Police say the same scam hase sh happened at least four timesours in Fairfax County since last las movement the west springf mother told us she heard a hrd girl crying in the background that sounded like her her daughter. Yeah, it almost makes me cry right now. Just absolute shear panic ande i fear for my daughters lifers and all i wanted to do was to get my daughter back. K. Susan emptied her bank her account and was still on the phone with the scammer when police arrived. Investigators told her they h te checked with her daughters dau school and confirmed that sheeda was fine. Fin the mom reached out to us to make sure no other parentther falls victim to this scam. His new information thisne herning in the search for twow missing Fairfax County teens. The fbi is now helping withngit this investigation. Tigation Police Believe 13yearold facet lima and 14yearold rudy torzano may have changede their appearance. Police do not believe theres te any foul play involved. Involve. If you have seen the teens t youre urged to call police. Rget fox5 has learned the t identity of the Fairfax County s in alexandria. Terese sansom was found in a park pentagon lot. Pa he was a classroom assistant ass who ran a Side Business as a graphic designer. Investigators hope cluesorpe c including a black safe left atet the scene will help them findin his killer. Il they may appear to be either evidence or it could becd that there are other vehicles vc involved. So, at this point trying toryg just say that it is just one jtn particular vehicle, it could ico be other cars here that aree parked as well that also couldau be part of the crime scene. Ne. Its not clear at this at point if the victim lived in lii the apartment complex or wasomew just visiting. Visit well, still ahead on fox5 of news at 7 00 well have thellav very latest on the egyptairptair deadly plane crash. Ly p. The latest on the search andrcha rescue. Well have all that and muchnd m more coming up. Re com u stay with us. St wit fox5 news at temperature will be right back and caitlin willal have another look at your look u saturday forecast. Ay welcome back. Time now 7 11. Yesterday search crews in the Mediterranean Sea discovered debris and humane remains from the doomed plane but theres still no sign ofl of the jets black box. Investigators still dont knowoo what brought the jetlinerline down. Down foxs katie logan has more on mr the investigation. Reporter a grim a gri discovery in the search for egyptair 804. Ir 8 search crews have recovered rec human remains luggage and and seats in the mediterranean seea sea. [speaking foreign language]reig the interpreter south and east of whernte the plane p was lost and further north oforh yesterdays sightings. S reporter it remains unclear exactly why the paris p to cairo flight crashed with f 66 people on blioard on thursday. Radar showed the airbus 8320irb3 suddenly turning left, then right falling 38,000 feet. Egyptian Officials Say terrorism is a likely cause but no militant group has gup h claimed responsibility. Nsility. For us its too early to definitively say what may have caused this. We continue to pursue allursu potential factors that have contributed. Te reporter americancan aircraft are taken part in thein search efforts and a frenchre ship equipped with sonar thatpet can help find the black boxesckx is on its way to the crashthe c zone. Ne. The water is eight to 10,000 feet deep where thehe plane went down. Obviously the egyptian authorities are in the lead here but we stand ready tieoo assist. Assi reporter italy cypressaly cs and greece are among the countries helping search forelpa the wreckage. Cke. But so far the main body of the plane and crucially theci black boxes have not beenot b found. In london, kitty logan, fox news. We got one good day this week. Ek we d were grateful for yesterday. Ye fantastic beautiful weather onbe a friday. Auay. Hard to imagine h changes but it does and its a has. Has. Like you mentioned in yourntr other report its going toport o cancel a lot of games im sures today. Yeah, i would suspectea because were just seeingh, thee heavy rain start to get nearet r the beltway and were kind ofay in an allday rain event. Unfortunately, its not justs no the falling rain its the soggy fields and i know soel many schools and so many so m sports programs have beens struggling with gettingng wgett practices in, getting thesetinge games in. Eva has had a lot of canceled soccer practices. I bet. B they were luckily practicingct on a turf field in georgetowneog but turf fields are hard to har come by in d. C. So those cancellations will continuewillu today. Da a zogby saturday with theth heavy rain occurring right now and that will taper off toill t just showers later thisrs l afternoon but even with those showers, kind of going to beindt just a chilly raw day with the e rain and the temperatures notrat budging out of the 50s. 50 satellite and radar heresar hes whats moving through rightthh t now. Area of low pressure of approaching the dmv. Mv heres the rain out ahead of it. Steadiest of the rain approaching the district as we speak but Northern Virginia, vii Southern Maryland has been mara seeing some of these steadier showers already where you seee e the yellows along 95 and even5 e some pockets of heavier rainai within there. Here. Its just rain, nost ra thunderstorms today but its todt will slow you down on the roads. Ad heres the southern edge ofedge beltway so alexandria startingrn to see some of that heavy rainai stretching over along 66 along Gainsville Manassas and thenhen warrington as you get a little t bit further west you guys are only seeing light rain. Want to know what youre y seeing outside your window andoo how heavy the rain is in your neighborhood. Neho tweet me at caitlin roth fox5. Now we have fallen to 57 with57h that approaching rain and thend thing is even as this heavyhiea rain moves out this afternoon ta probably not going to seeot to those temperatures rise tooperao much. Mid to upper 50s elsewhere. Ehe Fox Futurecast will put inl put motion for you. Motion for those heading up toadg up baltimore for the preakness, oh, gosh, terrible weather toth be outside. Beutsi just a steady chilly rainy r through the morning hours. H rain is gone but leftover lto showers will continue and inue i think theyll be pretty persistent mean even though its not heavy its raining or its drizzling and its justtus dreary out there. Showers will filter in through the north. The h. Theres early tomorrow morning, light rain and even l though we look to see someigo more breaks, this is sundayy afternoon, by sunday evening, ei sunday is still pretty cloudy,lo kind of showery, not thatt great. Gr little bit improved from todayda but well have to wait untilo wu monday probably to see some som decent sunshine and even and e monday brings a chance of some o showers. So, how much rain are we talking . Not that we needweee any. May has been a maddening monthnn full of the wet weather but we are looking at a widespread wida one to 2 inches through this thi weekend combined with heavycombw rain this morning with thes mort showers this afternoon and an additional showers on sunday. Accuweather forecastor 58 degrees northwest windin keeping us cool with steadytey morning rain giving way tog way afternoon showers. Heres your sevendayreou forecast. At least it looks better andbetr the most promising sevenday sed weekend since, i dont know, i o mid to late april probably. Bay. 65 degrees clouds and showers,u were still battling ontlin sunday. Su more sunshine and warmer on monday, 71 degrees with an an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. Finally getting some dryg sory weather tuesday and wednesday. Ed and with that dry weather lookeo at this warmup, the 80s are back. Ba were going from completely below normal through the monthl of may to finallyth above normaa with our high temperatures, 83t, wednesday looks beautiful. Auul 86 on thursday. Thuy. 87 on friday with even some popup thunderstorms available. Ailae. Hey, with that warm weather on wednesday, join our fox5oin ou f weather team for weather dayth at nats park. Ar the 1 oclock game against the mets and every dollar of eachfac ticket goes to the leukemia leui and lymphoma society. Lyhoma well all be out there. L all be. This is an annual event foreven the fox5 weather team. Er t kids from all over the d. C. Thed area coming through, they canthc learn about weather and youernd can, too. Come out for a great cause. Cse join us. U it will be beautiful weather. Wh annie, thank god. G i know. I know. Because it always rains onlwayrn weather day. Always. And we are actually finally a you would think it wou looking at some nice dry weather. Wehe were breaking tradition. Ratn thank you caitlin. In. Sure. The National Rifle R Association endorsing one of the candidates at their convention. Well have those details ahead. Time now 7 17. Welcome back. A big endorsement fort for presumptive gop nominee donalde trump. The National Rifle associagotion endorsed trump for president or p at their annual convention. Nt trump told his supportersers avoided if more people were armed. Trump has also spoken outken about his support for the Second Amendment and is a guns n owner himself. Self. Meanwhile president obama has signed a bill into law law that will once again allow the t ashes of female world war ii pilots to be placed attso be p Arlington National cemeteryonalt with military honors. Hon last year then secretary ofta o the Army John Mchugh revokeded that eligibility. More than a thousand womenan served in a unit called womenlew air force service pilots. They flew noncombat missions m to free up male pilots from 1942 to 1944. 194 hundreds of people ndreds o gathered for the Montgomery County Police Departmentsol autism night out. Autism it was designe nd to build b bridges between the police andt people with autism. A the event allows a series off incidents nationwide whereid whe police shot people with autism. A local teenager wrote ate a letter to Montgomery County cout police to explain in to themo what its like texo have for that to come out of myf m son who up until that timehat weve never really, you know,ou seen the inside of his mindin and his explanations were just there was humor, youoryo know, i think clearly but iut have a 6foot toddler body. Bod. His letter has gone viralonel all over the world. Over t wor his parents say people as far fr away as australia are talkingki about it. T. And the redskins honored emergency medical servicece workers yesterday at fed ex field. applause . Laus the team hosted one of thee final rest stops for ridersor rs taking part in this yearst in national ems memorial bikememori ride. Its just one of the eventsone e taking place during national ems week which pays tribute toto those who have died in thein t line of duty. D we would be in a lot ofa t trouble without firstst responders. Responders. Those folks are those who arere giving aid, providing crisis when most dont know how to respond so our police, se our fire and of course our o Emergency Medical Services areme there when people need themd t most. Riders began their longergan journey he from boston to arlington on may 14th. 4t national ems week will wrap uplu today with a memorial service. Le all right. If youre planning to hit the te road for memorial day weekendemr we hope you dont mind someom company. Holiday travel numbers are tl ahead and it may make you want n to stay home folks. Ol plus, caitlin is back with t another look at todaysod weather. We stay with us. Fox5 news morning on this saturday will be right back. Welcome back. Time now is 7 25. Youre taking a live lookti outside and it is mostly cloudtu covered

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