Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News Saturday 20160528 :

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News Saturday 20160528

That haze hanging over ther the studio. It is warm out. Wow. It really got hot in a hurry hry and the humidity got prettyot pe high yesterday, too. , to thats what we have for today. So, as we take a peek at yourou saturday forecast, i will say wy this is probably the best day ta of the memorial day weekendi forecast because it will remain dry but it is pretty is p sultry out there this morning. I satellite and radar cleare and skies overhead just someust sunshine. A nice looking start to the t day but those temperatures struggled fall overnight andd fa just like in the middle of theil summer were starting the day around 70 degrees and its muggy, too. Temperatures in the mid 60ses north and west but thats asha cool as it gets and welle watch those temperatures jump j very quickly into the 80she today. Heres the setup for youror y memorial day weekend what it wei looks like on the surface map. Fm High Pressure off shore just like a very summer type te pattern, 80s, upper 80s to around 90 degrees yet againyet today. It might be a little lessa ttle humid this afternoon but weft are going to watch some tropical moisture move in fromo the south. South we have tropical depression number two impacting the carolina coast today. Oast as early as tomorrow afternoonft and evening well see popup pop showers and thunderstorms and then an even better chance on mondenay. Mond monday memorial day could beoule pretty soggy so that is going to throw a wrench in somench ins afternoon plans. Afternoon plans. Lets take advantage of the o te sunshine while we have it, right. Saturday pool planners are already opening at a if theyf t havent already. Aea 87 and a warm afternoon. No 83 by later on this evening. Veni use the sunscreen. Unsc you really need it. This is the time of year your get burned when youre notre used to be out in that strongtr late may sunday. Un if youre going to be at the bat pool or area beaches make sure s you lather up. You ther up. Later tonight for the nats andsa the cardinals as they continue i their memorial day weekend weend series plan on it being very v warm. Thats a look at your forecast. Forecast. Well have your seven day still ahead. Ha annie. In other news this morning, metro crews will be hard atl bea work this Holiday Weekenday w making those repairs and that aa means some long wait times forif you if you are riding the ridin rails. Fox5s alexandria limon iss live at West Falls Church metro station this morningationr with more. Hey, alex. Reporter hey, annie. R h, an this Holiday Weekend there are e going to be a lot of repairsep happening. In fact, they will t be happening on all six metroet lines but Northern Virginiairgia residents who rely on theon t metro to get around, well, you y will be hit especially hard. Now, we are here at the west t Falls Church Metro station and this is just one of thehe stations that will be closedd all weekend long. In fact, youal can see there are signs here letting people know k thats the case. C this is just one of those tse stations that is closed and insi fact, there will be no orange o line trains running at allt through the weekend. Eeken now, the vienna, the dunnhe d loring and the west fallstal church stations will be closedeo through the weekend and again,gn no orange line trains running rn at all. However, people can take theake silver line instead. Instead. Silver line service will operate between wiehlerestonhlt east and new carrolton but with delays. With metro says the blueline trains will be be running about every 20 minutes m or sewn the red, yellow andellow green line trains will operate e about every 15 to 20 minutes20 t and all of this is coming, ofin, course, during a very busy Holiday Weekend with a lot of events and activity happeningap all around town and tourists flooding the capitol. Ooding. I have no idea. I hav our question is we knowwe kno because we live here but whate t about all the people that arepe coming into town . Wn . Yeah, that would have been really bad. Ly reporter now, somethingr in else that you need to know isnos that on monday, trains willl actually operate on a sunday sua schedule so just keep that inha mind if youre planning on plang catching the metro to head to hd any memorial day events aroundro town. Town here you can see a lot ofot of activity behind me. That iacs because there isre Shuttle Service is, free f Shuttle Service for peopleeo from West Falls Church stationhi and the other stations that are closed today in order toodao get people to those otherer stations where they can catchch a train. In most likely thats going to be g the East Falls Church sta thats where youre going to gng want to head if youre tryingrt to catch a train into d. C. Into. Reporting live in fallsfas church, alexandria limon, fox5 x local news. Ns. Well, staying with metro,tay, police are looking for a womankw who stabbed a man on a metrobus. Meobus. Metro says it happened at hapne lockwood drive and december drive last night. Were told the two were t wer arguing and then the man spit ms on and punched the woman. W. Thats when the woman stabbedtha the man in the shoulder. Sul she then took off. Ookff police are still looking forng r her. Its not known if the two knewhk each other before the incidentnd took place. La. Metro says the man has nonlifethreatening injuries. Ur. This morning d. C. Policeor are investigating a deadlyea shooting on a block inn southeast d. C. Het d the latest happened thursday thu afternoon in the 2700 block of langston place. Pce thats the location of seven murders since april of 2013. F01 Police Identified the victim as 29yearold Demetrius Steven soon he was found shot f in a stairwell inside anirwell apartment building. Ap his mother says she tried toed t help detectives find out who may have wanted her son its disgusting. Gust took a good boy from me. M they have a lot of leads andnd theyre not telling. Tling. They just wanted to know Little Things about why was he around there, what was his hs you know, meanings for beingr be there. There. Stevenson is the 50thtevensoi person to be murdered in thed it city so far this year and the a latest in a string of daytimeofi killings. Llin and the fbi looking for afb suspected bank robber inr in alexandria. Alex the robbery happened yesterday afternoon at a sun trust bankrub on mount vernon avenue. Erue police say the man handed a note to the teller and implied he had a weapon. Weapo he that then took off on footn o and several nearby schools were put on lockdown. The same bank was robbed last month. To Howard County where police there are trying to find the vandal or vandalsanor v responsible for damaging rivergr hill high school. Police tell us at least four at incidents have happened over the past few weeks. Ks. Investigators are not sure at st this point if these are senior o pranks or somethi sinister. Sini in one of the cases someone seo sprayed graffiti on the outside of the door andr damaged several door locks. And happening this weekendpp hundreds of veterans and theiret families are in town to honor veterans for the big rollingigol thunder event. Last night there was a candlelight vigil at thehe Vietnam Veterans memorial to honor the troops who never n made it home prisoners of warf r and those missing in action. Act the main event is tomorrowom during a ride in solidarity solr from the pentagon to the t penta National Mall. Tional i think the first time i firm rode in it seven years ago, it brought tears to my eyes toars think of all the people thateo were standing on the side ofid the road thanking us. S. After that big ride sunday sa afternoon theres going to be a rally near the reflecting rlet pool. Po were told president ial candidate donald trump will be e speaking at the rally. Ki weve got an entirnge list of the Rolling Thunder events andnd everything you need to know on y our web site atou fox5d. C. Com. O. And several states acrossve the country arera expec unwelcome visitors thisitors ths weekend. Were talking about wild a weather. The latest on a deadly systemys making its way across the south side and here at home a locally we are in the clear for now. For now. Thats good news. Atsnews but you can expect hot hot temperatures. Mper caitlin will have another lookhe at your saturday forecast. Fore. Stay with us. Well be right back. K. Test test welcome back. It is 7 10 right now. Good news if you plan on s flying out of town this of tow memorial day weekend. Rial so far holiday air travelers tra are actually getting a break b from long security lines. Lines thats excellent news. Le this after travelers dealtvelera with massive slow moving linesgl for weeks. This opened extra screening lanesni l and even started using bomb usib sniffing dogs to give some dogsv passengers a break fromakro removing their shoes. S both changes have slashedave sld security wait times to less than 15 minutes. W in other news wickedews wicd weather lab hitting the south and midwest ahead of theb ahof t Holiday Weekend. Kend. Flooding turning deadly inn texas while twisters causing cai destruction in kansas. An we have the latest at thishis hour. Reporter torrential rainrenl caused flooding in southeastn sa texas. Te at least two people have died and several are missing. Sing. Maybe 10, 15 minutes afterft he was in his truck it just flipped. Fl ems was on a little boat. Tle they could see her in there in e and after that, they said,d, well, we cant get in and getet her cause she was already a dead. Reporter more thanor 16inches of rain fallingllg stranding drivers on washed out roads. There have been more than 50 tha water rescues since rain rai started thursday morning. Mning cars almost getting washedtid here already and then we weren e going to turn around and go back in that direction and itoni looked like more of the sameike that way, so were back here. K h reporter 50 homes weree evacuated overnight inig i Washington County and about a cn hundred homes in the area were damaged. Severe storms also sweeping through parts of the midwestrt including this funnel cloud caught on camera in fargo, f north dakota today. Od sirens warning residents asiden twisters hit parts of kansas thursday. I could hear the tornado, toa grabbed the dog and get to the basement. Less than a minute later then lt i heard the tree hit the hit t house. Reporter several tornadoes causing scattered damage. Nti rig the rotation right i between those trees and it just all of a sudden sounded like a Freight Train coming. Re all of a sudden a crash anda then you kind of wonder if the wholsue house was going to taket off. Of you really didnt know whatw was going on. Goin reporter as residents in kansas are cleaning upleaning up following those tornadoesostornd folks in texas are bracing forra the threat of more severeeever storms and flooding throughghr the memorial day weekend. Eeke in new york, fox news. Ews. To new york city wherew drivers recovered the a pilot who crashed in thehe hudson river yesterday duringted an air show. An air the pilot of the small world smd war ii plane was doing a stuntos when the crash happened. Sh hd. Officials say it appears theeart plane suffered some sort of engine failure. Time now 7 13 and we arere dressed in bright colors bri because thats just how weow w feel these days. The sun finally returnedallyr and its starting to feell warm. I know. Weve seen such a big difference this week compared to the last few weekends we were sitting here. Ng ive turned my ac on. Have you turned yours on. D yo o. I have and then it promptly broke. Ok that is what happens. That is what happens. Happe will this trend continue for us or will we cool off a bit. This is continuing. Connu this is typical of d. C. , onced. O you get into warm weather, wth late may, here we go, were in it until september. Septemb it is sultry out there. The it felt so warm and got pretty e humid yesterday too. Rdoo weve already seen the changesad that the weather has brought. We went from abouty th marcharch weather this weekend so like lik it or not, summer is here and ha along with the summerlikemerli warmth and its summerlikeummeri humidity, see if we can tiltil that camera a little bit, weve got also some tropicall activity to talk about, too. Oo. No . All right. Ig the cameras dont want to want t work, the air conditioning doesnt want to work. T nt to no one is ready for the changehe in seasons. Seaso satellite and radar weve got clear skies overhead and somehes sunshine. Heres what im talking aboutt n down across theg southeast offe the coast here, this swirl ofirl moisture is tropicalroca depression number twoum impacting the carolinas laterinl today. It is not a strong tropicalpi system. It is still a depression andpren it is expected to remain thatait way. Y. Remember, a depression is a lower graded storm than aad Tropical Storm which is lower than a hurricane but tropical depression number two expected to stay that way with windsh sustained at 35 to 40 miles ann hour. Late tonight making landfall ldf somewhere along the southhe souh carolina coastline and then andn moving northeast. These are spaghetti slots. Lo these are projected plots ofedf where the storm is going to go but theres enough consensusgh c that it will probably move me inland into the mounta there and then take a hard h right up into virginia, the delmarva and then moving outnd v to sea. To s so what does that mean for us . . It means clouds increase incre pretty quickly tomorrow t morning and then moisture inoi the form of rain andnd thunderstorms also increasesalsi pretty quickly. Qck so, timing it out for you hereor at 9 00 a. M. , beautifulutiful saturday. Sa this is your pool day. L day this is your beach day. Ch d it looks really great. G warm and sunny but then asns early as tomorrow morning mor heres those clouds racing in. I dont expect a beach dayea tomorrow or monday. R mon if youre going to be at thegoi pool early is your best chancehc for sunday because by midafternoon showers andft thunderstorms are likely. Some of which may be heavy and we could have some good thunderstorms within there, too. Erto by early mondaldyrm morning, mni heres that moisture makingmoisn that hard right turn off the tof coast impacting places likeik the jersey shore,rsey philadelphia, down through thrgh delaware but still enoughll clouds and showers around to t keep it unstable and therefore we may see another round of roud showers and thunderstorms oner monday memorial day. So, that wrench in theat memorial day weekend forecastndf definitely going to be the tropical system. Ical temperatures outside righttesidt now, a warm 71 in 69 in baltimore, 66 frederick, i 70 dulles and 66 in winchester. Lets take a look at projected o highs later on today. 88 degrees here in washington. G so, we went from high fm hi temperatures in the 50s last l weekend to well above theve normal of mid to upper 70s. 7 now look at those projected proe high temperatures athi 90 Degrees North and west. Esth d we have yet to hit 90 in i washington. Sh normally do around may 15th. 15t not yet. Y. That we are still waiting for. Lows overnight, i dont thinkt were as humid later thisater ts afternoon. Its just a touch drier soer s temperatures will fall back into the 60s for everyone. Ery i dont know how much youllkn notice that if yourowe out at o the nats game this evening, itvg is going to be pretty warm. W memorial day weekend forecast,oc heres how it all shakes outhaku for you. U. 88 degrees, nice pool weatherool today, hot and humid. Umid Rolling Thunder tomorrow ong sunday. Weve got those cloudse gothos increasing. Weve got a few storms likelyory in the afternoon. Aer monday same thing. T mostly cloudy, storms arerm a likely. That will keep temperatures only in the 70sl. So, any parades or ceremoniesem around town may be com because of that wet weather unfortunately. Sevenday forecast, we do take a little edge off that heat h thanks to the tropical weatherle moving in. Vingn. 83 degrees there on sunday, 78 , like i said on monday. Y. 85 mostly sunny on tuesday. Tue and so we return to the hot theh dry weather. Y we 87 on wednesday. Ne sun and clouds and a chance ofno thunderstorms as we head into h next weekend. So, enjoy the nice weatherea today, right, annie . At leasttl weve got saturday. Saturda looks beautiful to be t b outdoors. Thats right. Enjoy the moment. Thanksen caitlin. Memorial day weekend ismo the time to remember troopsr who served and sacrificedsaificd everything for our country butuy the unofficial start to summermr also means people will bell b spending big bucks. Ks. Foxs Lauren Simonetti breaksimn down the Business Aspect of memorial day. D reporter fire up the fire barbecue the unofficial startias to summer is here. H memorial days really theal e start of the season and so a s its a big weekend whereke w people are enjoying hot dogs on the grille and enjoyingenjoyn nice outdoor weather. Reporter the first cookirsto outof the year calls for hot for dogs. Do the National Hot Dog councilil esti about 200 million hot dogs20 this weekend. 0 theeke aaa says more than 38 million mi americans plan to go somewhereo over the long weekend. The u. S. Travel associationssoci says well spend 12 billion on trips, thats just over 300ur bucks each. Cks each. Memorial day travel dayorel weekend is going to seem see busier than ever at thever athe airports this year especiallyecl with the t. S. A. Backup thatc were seeing. Werseei the biggest piece of advice i a can give travelers is to do the one thing thats underhats your control and get to theet airport three hours early. Early reporter that could be thatl why most americans will drive. Look at the road tripsat t within your vicinity within a fivehour drive. Ri hotels where you can easily gory on aou site like orbits and get a promo code for 15 to 20 percent off and takend tak advantage of that for a short ao weekend get away thats nots n going to cost a lot of money. Mn reporter cheaper gasoline is helping r. Is hpi gas prices are 48 cents8 ce lower than they were same time a year ago. A these are the lowest summerum prices weve seen since 2005nce5 so thats inspired a lot oflot f people to in fact take a roadoa trip. Trip. Reporter memorial y go shopping. Hoppg. Deal experts say youll findlind the best deals on mattressesres appliances and spring clothing h and did you know that memorial day was celeb

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