We have something you may see that you should not be alarmed about. Out annie yu joins us with whatwt you should be wear of before you go outer the door. D heads up morning commuters. Dont be alarmed if you see a sa huge number of first of fi responders and fire apparatuspps equipment near the pentagonhen later this morning. R th the pentagon and firstd responders are gettingsp together holding a mass casualty exercise fromro 9 oclock this morning until 1 oclock. Its going to be on the north n side of the pentagon. En the exercise will involve a simulated Helicopter Crash and a a fire. A and the scenario may be visible from the virginiaa state highway routes 27 and a 110 with a lot of police and and Emergency Response activity inec and around the pentagon mall. Ml the pentagon says this is ayss a way for First Responders tos t test their skills and by thend way the exercise will not disrupt normal employee orye visitor access to thesi pentagon. To holly and maureen. Re thanks, annie. Appreciate it. Prec lets go to amatrice italy where the death toll from that earthquake stands at 247. Search crews are still digging g through the rubble. Rub three towns were hite especially hard including a tourist area that was actuallyay holding a pasta festival. Va taking you to burma where wre an. Quake killed four peoplee ki it happened yesterday. Y. 185 buddhist temples weretemplee damaged and police are guarding those temples againstst looters. There are some concerns more aftershocks could collapsecks fortunate structures. At a deadly attack on the American University ofe atvers afghanistan in kabul came to c an end good news there overnight. Nigh however, seven students arent believed to be among the 12 People Killed in the attack by militants. An ap photograph was in a classroom with 15 otherh oth students when he says at least l two grenades were thrownere rown inside. 30 other people were wounded. Wd so far no groups have claimed responsibility. This morning, the hunt is on for app peeping tom caughtauh on camera outside a home inn alexandria. Ex Police Released these images ima of the s and theyre asking for yoursu hope to track him down. O tr fox5s Anjali Hemphill is live in alexandria now with the details. Anjali. Reporter well, goodl,d morning. Imagine youre just sitting in i your living room when your yr Security Systems smartphonephoe app goes off alerting that you y a possible intruder is on thes t other side of your glass door. Oo thats what happened to oneo one family off south george masonrgm drive in a neighborhood thatsos just steps away from wakefieldwe high school on the border off arlington and alexandria. Lendri. Take a look at the video their r Security System capturedapture around 10 oclock mondayony night. Ght. In it very clearly you can see a man walk up to their home, h pier into their doors ando th windows. Nd Fairfax County police also pe ao putting out the alert theyrt t believe the man may have alsoe a been touching himself inappropriately and we spoked wo to a man who lives at that a home. He was not comfortable showingrg his face on camera so wereere going to protect his identity but take a listen to what het had to say. Alert, i was upstairs. Uir she was pretty terrifiederrified sitting on the couch watc the perpetrator do whatever hera was trying to do. Obviously thankful for havingg a security camera. Am i dont think it was someone wae looking to get their jollies jol or anything, i think it was someone that was either casing or looking for w an opportunityi bottom line, shes stills sti ranked by it, im still by affected by it and its by it something to all of our neighbors around here to be cognizant of. Gnizant reporter no word yet ifdet the suspect has targeted anygete other homes in this area buts in police want to hear from youom if you recognize that man int mn the video you are umped to t call them with anyh any information. Any information that leads to an arrest also to get a cash reward. Rd. Anjali hemphill fox5 local news. Officials in montgomeryls county looking to figure out how to dole out hundreds of thousands of dollars of donated money. Mon they establish the moneythe y will go for four places replacing lost documents forlost the families, replacing car c costs of sending remains backaib to the victims home country. Cou a cash allotment for everyor eve family displaced by the fire. F right now officials arere determining just how muchg justh money each family will receiveye but they say they recognizeze the urgency of the situationuatn and they are working quickly. Q virginia facing not so goodd Financial News this morning. L ne the Washington Post reporting ps that the states budget is expected to be over a billionli dollars short. Ho they say governor terryernor mcauliffe will announce thennoue news at a and that shortfall shl would be among the biggest in in the states history. Tory battle of the beltway is back here in the district. Bottom of the ninth we go at got nats park, nats come roaringe rn back, theyre down seven runs, Daniel Murphy rips the grand t a slam home run to right. R see ya. Then two batters later, guess what . Anthony rendon drillsdonl the rbi double. Ou nats down 10eight. 0gh but despite the exciting and on to win it 10eight. 10ei thats thats a lot of runsts though for one game. F thats an exciting game. Am maybe not as exciting thexcit weather and this humidity hidit coming back mike thomas oh manan say it aint so if i. Im association maureen. Heat and humidity spillingng back into the region. Nto today is not the worst of it. Humidity will be notice s itse tomorrow that things crank uprak a couple notches. Le satellite and radar here some sm clouds spilling in over thepill mountains this morning. Ins some of those will make ite ll m across. Well have a mix of clouds andfd sun here in washington thisgtons morning. Enjoy one more comfortableab Early Morning here inere in washington. Shingt 72 here in d. C. 66 in gaithersburg. Ther 68 in westminster. 67 at baltimore heres your forecast for today. 92 degrees in washington. Ashito. Theyre back those 90s. 91 quantico 93 for thats the forecast. s t erin como has traffic. Raff ontime traffic brought to you by toyota. Visit buy a toyota. Com for special offers. 5 07. Thank you for waking up withit us. As you make your way around wayn the dmv majors looking good. 301 north approaching branch avenue quiet. En as you make your way towards tor the bottom of the beltway we of are in great shape branch avenue through brandywine alsoyo looking good. Lo problem free on four threwur t upper marlboro. Per marlbo lets take a look at our maps right now. T we have road work however on wow branch avenue right nearea surratts road. Rd. If that starts to cause any caua delays i will certainly keep you updated on that throughhr your prince georges countys ct commute n Northern Maryland and Howard County traffic cruising along. Crui early flight at bwi or headed he to baltimore for work traffic on 95 northbound and southbound baltimorewashington parkwayshin north and southbound cruising. U top of the beltway from the belm beltzville through kensingtonhr also quiet. Alsoui and as we take an overview off our morning commute i likeute ik what im seeing on 395 fromro alexandria to the 14th stree bridge. All of our area bridges really quiet right now, the memorial,ia the roosevelt problem free andem the key bridge from rosslynsl into georgetown and as we takeek a look right now in arlington were quiet. E q inner loop from tysons up to upt clara barton in great shape. Toig not like the congestion we hadso yesterday morning because ofmo that overturned semi. Ned si. Taking a look in cheryl in cherl traffic quiet and 295 2 southbound is cruising from 50 on down. If youre taking 50 from50 fro annapolis to the beltway itohe b like what im seeing there as ta well none alerts on all of our meteorologist, david murphyogis, metro rail lines. Il lines. This break from safe track has been much needed. Eeded. Surge eight does can ick in onnn saturday. Well have everything you needu know about that. Know if you have any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On titter gottteg your back. Bac back to you maureen and holly. Ay all right, thank you erin. Ri coming up increasnsion inon the persian gulf betweeneen american and iranian vessels. Es a severe outbreak oftbreakf tornadoes in parts of indiana leaves behind a path ofh of destruction. Jessie j singing domino asoms we head to break. Break were back right aftr time is 5 08. Steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultrasmooth, fullbodied flavor. Discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on. America runs on dunkin. This Morning Company mainedi enkokomo end endin a state of e. Governor mike pence a warning conditions are still ripnce forr tornadoes to form. Form. Luckily, there have been noe b reports of serious injuries caused by the storms. Torm on the campaign trailig pences Campaign Partner madetnd some waves last night when heht used some pretty interestingesti language to take aim at Hillary Clintons 90 minority voters. Voters. Just listen to this. Is Hillary Clinton is a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beingsei worthy of a better future. R fut shes going to do something. Hi well, at least one audienceic member had a strong reactionion to trumps use of the word w bigot. Take a look at the woman toat t his left right there. Her. He facial expression is priceless. She appears to jump a littlee at his word choice. C her shock doesnt wear off for several seconds afterwards. Ftera for her part, clinton con responded to trumps criticismsm harshly saying he is takingin the hate movement mainstream. Nsa she then accused trump of pedaling big tree through hisre deportation policies andpo attacks on a ud mexican heritage. Hitag bill clinton defending thetoe good work of his family foundation. He weighed into the debate at d a rally saying he would no longer solicit donations if hillary was elected and the foundation would no longero lon accept donations from foreignnso governments. Gove clinton called questions absurd in an interview with cnn. Cnn. American destroyer in theesr persian gulf on tuesday. The ships came within aboutbo 300 yards of the american the ship. Sh the u. S. S. Nitz was on a routine transit when the incident occurred. It changed its course to avoidvo a collision with the iranian the ship n january 10 u. S. Sailors s were detained by iranian soldiers when their ship an advert tently entered iranian waters. Te they were released after being g held for 15 hours. Our it could be the imagehe ima comeback of the year. Ck you will never guess whats in store for ryan lochte. Ochte. Oh, boy. Boy and College Students in texas hold an protest the states open carry law. La as we head to break lets l go ahead and take a live lookoo across the d. C. Region. Eg there we go. E we this will get you going on an thursday. A little boom boom pow fromm por the black eyed piece. Where have they been. Bee fox5 news morning coming backg b after this. Back at 5 14 right now aat 5 monumental problem for one ofneo d. C. s biggest attractions. Ttrat National Park service says the elevator to the washingtonhingto monument is at the end of itsndf life and will have to be modernized which means thehe monument will be closed untild u mid september for immediate repairs and inspection. It will reopen while officialsic come up with a plan to rowow placto replacethe elevar okay. Ka i think thats probably thet right move. It was time. Iwas time. Everything has a life span. Sn okay. O coming up on 5 15 on this5 onhi thursday morning youreay looking outside, it is m a nicec warm start to the day. Ay 72 degrees. Mike thomas talking about theut humidity that is creeping back into the picture. Tu yes, absolutely right. Olutely humidity is on its way back. Bac say it aint so. Y it ain well, im sorry, yeah, i have, h to its my job. Hey, check it out. Out satellite and radar just a fewd clouds coming in over theinin o mountains should make for ae f very gorgeous sunrise but we b should keep things relatively r sunny for the first half ofirst the day here in washington. All is quiet outside for the time being 72 degrees. 72 degr maureen just mentioned it i 78 percent relative humidityeid so its starting to pull back pl in. Southsouthwest wind 10 Miles Per Hour that is going to pullig up that humidity from the south. Should be a gorgeous sunrise. Une there it is. Wow, wow, beautiful. 70 degrees later on thiser on morning for sunrise. Sunrise sun is setting at 6 31 a. M. A si minutes of daylight each day. Li that is a sign that autumn ist i on the way. Way summer is not done just yet. T utld front out to the west. Do this is the trigger for all of l that Severe Weather we haveve been talking about in theki midwest over the past couple the of hours. Hours High Pressure sinking down tonk the south. Thats going to push in the heat from the south as well wel bring us back into the 90sinto9 later on this afternoon. Fterno there is a chance of a spotty storm. St i think the chances are much better over the highlands anddsa the mountains out to the west. S cant rule one out around theunh i95 corridor. Orrido 9 oclock today a couplea couple showers in the mountains. Nt watch has that energy spillsat out eover the d. C. Corridor. Co noon hour maybe we mix with ait little bit of cloud cover. Clouce there we are at three,ee, 4 oclock seeing a storm or stom two maybe popping pup around aro the d. C. Area but again for ainr the most part most will stay dry today but we will mix with t clouds from time to time. 92 degrees daytime high today. T. 90s are back. Bac even hotter tomorrow. H well get to the seven day in literally 10 seconds. Sonds 76 degrees overnight tonight. Vet that humidity is back. Ac is going to s no more windows opened weatherdh at least not on the sevendayd forecast here. Forecast her here it is. 92 degrees today. Tod tomorrow zip trip friday. Y. Yay college park cant wait can to he sao you, 97 degrees. 97 dre 93 on saturday. Satday. 92 on sunday and then mid 90s s back next week. Wk. Hot, hot, hot. All right, erin youve got the traffic. Bare with me mike. Mik im bearing with you. Beari mikes going on. Mik mikes going on. O do you need me to do some traffic. We wont go there. We wont cross that bridge. Brig all right. So taking a look at thek at roads here, weve got some people, you know, driving, theyre any other doing tooany good of a job but at leastt things are moving. Gs ain i cant hear you still. Sti do you need my mic. I need taborer mikes micesc because my mic is on but mic i t unfortunately you guys cant can hear me. Ar me. Take a look behind me. A lot of traffic on the innerher loop. Loop. Police activity blocking theivit right lane between bw parkwaywe and route one soen please use that area. Keep it to the left. L mike youre a really good traffic spokes model. This is like the price isce i right thing. Hing youre my vanna white. Well take a quick look at our maps. I appreciate the team effort. T. Frederick county northernty maryland looking great. Ookingret drive times as they should be. H we have no metro delays andan you know what, mike, do youe, d ever like see those people that have the ventriloquists. Il. Thats what you are right now. I know, erin. [laughter] best traffic report ever. Back to you guys. It looks like u. S. Soccer. S. E is done with one embattled superstar as another athlete ate making headlines moves to theo e dance floor. Dance floor. Here with the details on the what the trending on this thi thursday morning is wisdomningsi martin. Rt hey, wisdom. Y, w good morning. Mor. First up West Virginia have a center joe mansion staying silent about the dramaticrama price increase of the he pie pen in recent years. In despite the fact that his rct t runs the company that producesuc the life saving device. Ev several other senators requesting congressional hearings and investigations. Ons. Leslie jones once againieon the target of an onlinein attack. This time her personal web w site was hacked and nude photos alongside copies of hersr drivers license and passportas were posted. The hacker also posted a video v in tribute to the gorilla harambe in an especiallyy offensive racist dig at jones. N the web site has been taken tak down but snl is yet to issue a Public Statement on that hack. Ac next up hope solos mouthot has cost her dearly. Dea u. S. Soccer suspended her forer six months and terminated herter contract with the womensct nati wonal team which means shes may have played her last matchtt this is all over comments calling team sweden a bunch of o cowards after they eliminatedlia team u. S. A. In the rio olympics. Olym other embattled olympian ryan lochte is also in theis headlines this morning, theorng, swimmer has reportedly joined je stars. The shows 23rd season sea premiers in just about twout weeks and well be anxious to see if lochte actually gets out there on the dance floor. E f finally how about this, ending d on a good note the nhl has its first female coach. O she has been brought on as theeb new skating coach for thee arizona coyotes. Coyotes. She was previously employed part time by that sameby that se franchise and she is, she says shes very excited about the abe opportunity and lookingity forward to working with the coaching staff. Sta braid also said she takes a ton of pride in being the nhls first leading lady. Ady. Ending on a high note. Ote. Proud about it, too. You go girl. Yo gi coming up on fox newsnew morning another automakeromak issuing another massive recal recall. And you might want to stayt o on dry land. As we head to break a liveea look across the d. C. Region. This is nell timbaland. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently, which means we can fix things fferently. Thanks for calling fios. This is ryan. You cant tell me this cord isnt in. I know its in. Its in, but its not working. App that going to let me see what youre seeing. Really . Yes, mr. Mcenroe. See that cord . Just plug it into the connector on the right. So you can clearly see whats in and whats out . Oh absolutely. I like that. Tech support that lets your technician see the problem over your smartphone. Only from fios. 5 23 right now. This is a very unsettlinga veryl story out of pennsylvania. Of pya a 14yearold killed hisis grandmother because he didnt want to go to school. Chl. Police say hunter reeseer shotht his 60yearold grandmotherrathr and then called histhenalle grandfather claiming that helath found her like that but laterutl he decided to call 911 and confess. Reeseer is being charged as aneg adult with first degreee murder. Not everyone approves of aprf new texas law which allowsll people to carry firearms on campus. Several rallies were heldrall yesterday on campus opposing the law. Law. Most of it we cant show youho y on television because thereecau were sex toys everywhere. Rywh the group which we cant sayan y the name of actually plannedlly the protest because they sayheys it doesnt make sense that obscene things like sex toys arent allowed on campus but guns are. A the bab bing brooks and and might not be as pretty as they look. Lo turns out waterways havewate pretty high levels orwf human h and animal fecal matter. Mte officials are now advising advis swimmers and kayakers to avoid a local waterways for about 48 a 4 hours after heavy rain storms. T. Theyre also asking localinlo governments to take steps to reduce pollution runoff into rof streams and rivers in thean region. Not sure what the rescue of of that little guy has to do withit it all but hope up get the g pick her isnt florida ford is i recalling nearly 100,000y 0, vehicles. The cars and suvs can stall c l without warning because of awarn problem with the fuel pump. Heue the part of the on boardn b computer which controls the pump can fail and when that wth happens, the engine might not nt start or even more worrisome wri the engine could stall whilell the cars are the o road. R ford says its not aware ofs ae any crashes related to the recall. 5 24, almost 5 25. 5 2 mike thomas its like a broken e record so im going pass it on i to you. To y ready for round sev lets to it. L round seven. Heat wave number seven. Numb. This is like our safe trackar surge. Hopefully this is the lastise one. Im trying to see maybe it is, maybe its not. N i really dont mind it. T. I dont either. I its summer. Im trying to hold ionto oo summer as long as i can. Long aca summer is almost over. Ver. Dont do it mike. M hold on as long as you can. N Debbie Downer just go ont g with the forecast. With the f kids are getting back toare a school. Thats a sign of the times. Ig all right. N taking a look at thingsthi outside right now, hi, were taking were lets get lg to it. All right, theres the jet the t stream. Ream. Forgot what my first map was mas for a minute there. Theres thee the jet stream. The its heading off to the northheh today. To and when it does that, the heat, the humidity it startst st bumping up from the south, south those 90s coming back intog bto the picture later on thiser on afternoon. Were talking about 92,lking 93 degrees for daytime high. Meig theres your planner. Plaer 82 by 11 00 a. M. , just a fewus clouds out there. Ds out maybe a few more by 2 oclock 2k this afternoon, 88 degrees. 8 dee then into the 90s we go. We g we could pop a thunderstormor te though its not terribly likely. Temperatures later today again highs 92 here in washington, wag 91 for quantico, 91 manassas maa 93 for fredericksburg, 87 for annapolis. An looks like those closest tolo the bay will be spared the baree first day of 90s here. T da thats a check of theheckf th forecast. Erin como has the words with wit hopefully a working mic. Hey, erin. 5 26 right now taking a look at your commute. C heavy traffic as you [inaudible] we apologize. Obviously were having audiog a issues with erins mike this ths morning. Morning. Well continue to work on itin and of course shell give you an update in about 10 minutes. T on fox5 news morning a mni lawsuit challenging marylandsan Congressional District isional t moving forward. And local researchers plan to open a center to study the su zika virus. Virus a look live across the dmv. Rope. We kind of feel like were walking a tight rope thisg morning and we might beg an falling off. Off. 5 26 is the time right now. Fox5 news morning back rightac r after this. Steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultrasmooth, fullbodied flavor. Discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on. America runs on dunkin. Coming up on fox news morning no cause for alarm. Ause a huge number of First Responders will spend part of po their day around the pentagon. Were going to tell you why. L yo the number of victims inms i the italian earthquake h climbed into the hundreds asinto geologists record a secondecordc quake. This one in asia. And federal regulatorsegat discover even more safety s failures involving metro trains. Tr fox news morning starts right now. This is fox5 news morning. Mi good morning to you. Goo thank you very much for wakingr up with us, im wisdom martin. Mm and im holly morris. Today is thursday, august 25th. We dont want to gonto go backwards. Back we only wander to goo forward. D. Want to make sure we goe su forward. Forw mike thomas and erin comoas i weather and traffic in a moment. Me we want to start with the to news at 5 30. 3 very Important Information youti need to know this morning. O knot the pentagon is going to hold a mass casualty exercise toda today. This exercise is going tosesg involve a simulated helicopter p crash and a fire. H an its happening today from 9 00 0 a. M. Until 1 00 p. M. On the. One north side of the pentagon. Pena pentagon says this is a wayays for First Responders to test their good morning, everybody. D im annie yu. Mo live in the news room. R happening this morning, the mng death toll from thefromhe devastating earthquake inn central italy continues to t rise with 247 people now confirmed dead. Amatrice is a popular tourist tu town in central italy and waslyd full of vacationing familiesie before yesterdays tremblerre and the presence of so manye visitors is making it hard for f rescue crews to estimateat exactly how many people mighte m still be missing. Still be m now,is following the quake there have been at least 150 lst aftershocks including oneluding measuring a magnitude 5. 5 and 5 this morning geologists ins i rome are keeping a very close eye on seismic activity in thece region to ensure residents in the hardest hit regions arens fore warned about upcominging aftershocks. This earthquake is shaping upap to be italys deadliest since the 2009 quake that left 3000 people did he do with an epicenter 90 miles south ofou o this most recent one. Its a devastating situation, si unstable as well and continue to before you knowo you the latest as it develops. Sl for now well send it back upk to you in the studio. Stu flew fta investigationti highlighting new concerns news about metro trains. Metrains a report found metro rail yardaa workers have not been using the hand brakes to keep parked trains from rolling away. Rom this is apparently beently going on for decades. Metro had three run away rail a car incidents just last year. Fta officials also found the Widespread Lack of complianceda with metros internal rules for rail cars and maintenance me equipment stored in the railstor yards. This morning the hunt isor e on for a peeping tom caught on camera outside of a house inn alexandria. Alex Police Released impatch of theht suspect. They are asking for youre as help to track him down. Trachim fox5s Anjali Hemphill is live in alexandria with thethhe latest. Anjali. Reporter good morning. Well, this happened as ahis haed family was sitting in their t living room at their home off o south george mason drive, its, a neighborhood along theighb border of alexandria and and arlington and just steps away aa from wakefield high schooligchoo here behind me. And not only did their Security System cap whicher this incredibly clear video around 10 oclock monday m night, it also alerted them onmo their Smartphone App that a possible intruder was on thewas other side of their glass door r as that were just sitting in their living room. Ei in the video you see a manideo walk up to their home peers p into their doors and windows win and Fairfax CountyPolice Believe the man may have also a been touching himself inappropriately. Y. Now, no word yet if this t suspect has targeted any otherdn homes in this area. Homes in thi police are taking this very ver seriously. They want to hear from you. R frm if you recognize that man ingniz the video, you could receive a reward for information leadingon to an larrest. To an a live in Fairfax County, anjalial hemphill fox5 local news theretr 5 33 is the time. Tim in maryland a lawsuitsuit challenging a 2011 redrawing1 ra of the states congressionalsi districts will be allowed toowet go forward despite statepite officials arguing that itarguinh should be dismissed. Dssed. The suit argues that that districts were redrawn toedrawn dilute the power of republicanel voters in there traditionallydiy blue state. The next step in the case is a panel but that likely wontely w happen before december. All right. Its that time. Itshat time of the morning when wehen say good morning again to Mike K Thomas and make our littleour lt stroll over here and talkll about whats happening ot wh outside. You guys have mastered theas stroll. We are excellent strollers sl at this hour. And it will be a an excellent week so far. Far fantastic. Its really been amazing. Zin. Only focusing on the positive. T and that is a positive. A piv today its not awful, its low i 90s. Humidity is back but its not that oppressive humidity quite yet. Tomorrow well be there. Owll b and then we have more heat and h humidity coming back nextominbak week. I to want to start with the wh t bus stop, though. Ophough. We got kids getting back to school this morning, anotherhisn day for d. C. Schools. Sls 65 to 74 degrees as you get the kids to the bus stop thiss t morning. A nice mild start to the day. Again, not terribly humid out there. After school a little more more humidity, 88 to 93 degrees,deee hot and humid and beyond after school hours we could pop a p a thunders early evening. Early even i want to focus on the weekend e real quick. Ck jet stream staying off to thenge north is going to keep hot and a humid air in here. 90s coming around. Roun High Pressure sliding off toss the north. That will filter in some drier d air at the surface so while it e will be hot we wont have ase as much humidity around ond o saturday and sunday. Unda so, it is some good news n there. 93 trees, lots ofs sunshine on your saturday. 92 degrees, still hot and a sunday. Humidity does start to return,or though, as we get into the next work week monday andk we mn tuesday. All right, more details other seven day coming your way inng just a few minutes. Ewinutes for now, erin como on mico on m number three this morning. Thren hey,er are in. 5 35. Can you hear me mike . Were good to go. Oo. Right now unfortunately wenow un have problems with metro. Etro earlier track problem at a Eastern Market has residualases delays in that area across theas orange blue and silver lines. In something to keep in mind as you wake up this morning. Morni rest of the rail line should be on time. No problems into prince pri William County through daley tha city. Nice and green on the maps. The p speeds as they should be. Shouldb well take a live look show you what else youre upre against this morning. Ng. Traffic 50 inbound fromound f Columbia Park road to 2011 smooth sailing, you can seeu cae really light volume on that t inbound and outbound side. Volume is building a smidgeildii closer to the beltway. Ltwa well let you know if that tha causes any slowdowns. Slowdowns. So far your drive times as tim a they should be. Suld be. Well go ahead and go back tok our maps. Ou want to show you some of yourf inbound traffic right now. T drive times on 395 from thatfroa washington boulevard to the 14th street bridge quiet south u of that point same story. Gw parkway southbound 123 tound the key bridge cruising. Cisin and im not seeing anynot e problems on cabin John Clara Jo Barton or river road. Frederick county minor delayinor because of volume. Of vol truck scales to 109. Scales t ill let you know if anythingnyn else picks up this morning. Any question at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Twitt lets get you moving on thison i friday eve. Friday e back to you. All right, 5 36 is the time. Coming up on fox news morningor the signing of a peace deal ined cuba mark the end of a 50 year y war. War. Residents of one northwestnot d. C. Community file a lawsuit aw against a homeless shelter. Live look outside acrossok o the region. Rio this is Michael Jacksons hit the way you make me feel. Fee i remember that from back in the day. Seems like there was a long time ago. Me a time right now 5 37. 3 72 degrees outside. Outside back in a moment. Back in it was a long time ago. A it was. Was i was just coming to theinto the realization it was a long timeil ago. One of the worlds longestrl running Armed Conflicts isme officially over. Columbia and rebels have signed a peace deal in havana hn cuba. The two sides waged a drugs funded which killed at least l 220,000 people. 0 pe 10s of thousands of others ohers have disappeared and millionsiln fled their homes because of the violence. Nc the deal still needs to beds te voted on in a referendumeren before it actually becomes law. Two orlando hospitals which h treated victims of the pulsehe e nightclub shooting say theyng sy will not bill survivors of thefe massacre for their out of pocket medical expenses. Edical n instead, theyre going theng t write it off about five and aiva half Million Dollars in i medical bills for those whoho w werent insured. Nsur the ceo of Orlando Health saysay its their way of paying the kindness forward that washa shown to the city after thehe ce shooting. A group in northwest nth washington suing mayor bowserng and the d. C. Council over anc plan to build a homeless shelter on the grounds of aroun Police Station just offtion wisconsin avenue. Scon the group says they did not the have a forum to voice theirice r concerns about how the shelter s would affect the operation oftio the Police Station and the surrounding neighborhood. Ghrhoo bowsers administration has h not commented on the suit. The s. In baltimore Johns Hopkinsopi Medical Center is medicineedn is planning to open the worlds first zika center. Cente. It will allow infect thet t patients to get care asare a researchers investigate thehe virus. The new center will bringl in together experts from Johns HopkinsMedical Center and thern University School of publicl of health as well as specialists in infectious diseases,isse pediatrics and social work. A maryland currently hasnd 64 6 known travel related cases ofaso the zika virus. Irus coming up on fox5 news5 n morning celebrities areg ce helping to bring attention to t an ongoing protest against a pipeline on native land. And new Research Suggests aging should be a time of joy for all of us. Ti really . [laughter] interested to hear that. O as we head to break though lets take a live look acrossos the d. C. Region grande sings arianna, oh, aryan marks, well, how about you know it is, you 60 at home, its the way. Its 5 41, 72 degrees rights rit now. Fox5 news morning back after this. There she is. There we go. We go. There she is. Re she is. Flin thats why i bought six of you. For when you stretch out. I want you to stay this bright blue forever. Thats why you will stay in this drawer. Forever. I cant live without you. And thats why i will never, ever wash you. Protect your clothes from the damage of the wash with downy fabric conditioner. It not only softens and freshens. It helps protect clothes. Fading and fuzz. So your favorite clothes stay your favorite clothes. Downy fabric conditioner wash in the wow. 5 44 right now. Live look outside. Loo weve enjoyed a beautiful weekte and now were going to enjoy a a return of summer. Umme yes, absolutely right. Y its all in how you look atoa it mike. It mike. Thats true. Ttrue i agree. Its all about the process. Or were Glass Half Full here. R im all about that. Ahat. Well have the sunshine, noin Severe Weather in the inhe forecast. Fo i like how youre thinkinghi mike. Its going to be a hot glass thats half full. Fl. A hot half full glass. Wow wow wee wow. Dottler earlier. The wow wow wee wow. Wow we were talking about thebout seven day. D its hot wow wow wee wow. Ow. Word of the day. Its not one word. You got to put a space in it. I got you. You. Okay. Well talk more in a bit. Bit i want to start with the traffic. We have two systems were watching. Hi the first is gaston a hurricane category one. Y o the bigger concern is this is yet, its invest 99l. 9 where you see red on your screen water temperature in tem the 80s. The these purple splotches arehe are where water temperatures areture 90 degrees or above. Thats fuel for the hurricaner fire. Were watching the track ofhe this system. Th right now winds at 45 so its approaching Tropical Storm sto strength here. Streng check out where all the modelsol bring it, miami southern florida. Might not be too strong when too it gets there but if it takes t a southern route and makes it ms into the gulf of mexico it gulff could really fire off pretty quickly. Qukl so, thats why were going to be keeping our eye on it overver the next several days. Sev possibly it could swing up iup through the United States andun bring us some rainit though itut wouldnt be a hurricane aturrict that time. Again, one really cool featureeu were watching this morning is the Hurricane Hunters actuallyhe out and about as we speak. Speak they took off from orlandoo earlier. Earl there they are flying oney a through and right now theyre te just now getting to where the t storm is and well get the latest date from them by the 8 oclock upday. Looks like they picked up a maximum gust of 35 miles per o35 hour so far. Ho so little piece of energyle swinging through the mountainsoh this morning. Most of that should not make not it to us but definitelyefely bringing some showers to westt virginia, maybe the maryland panhandle this morning. Near d. C. Were keeping iteepi clear. Cl 72 degrees relative humidity h is up, 78 percent with thoseh to winds out of the south andouth d west. Next couple of days, yes, unfortunately heat and humidity are back. This cold front will swinglwi through tomorrow afternoon andrw kind of clear out the humiditymd a bit but well keep the heatea around for the weekend. Ke jet stream off to the north soth well have 90s both saturday st sunday. For the day today, 92 degrees,dr sun mixed with clouds fromlos time to time a spotty storm spo cant be ruled out but its i not too likely. L 76 later on this evening so eveo again heat and humidity back, b no more 60s during the overnight unfortunately. At least not for a couple of o nights. Zip trip friday well quick q college park tomorrow morning. N its wisdom, its tucker its hole. s what a crew. What a come on down and see them. The heres your forecast. Ouc its going to be a hot one. O be. It will start comfortable 77for7 but will quickly get into the it 80s so dress lightly. Light take a look at your fox5 f accuweather 7day forecast. Orec 92 today, 97 tomorrow. Omorro well keep the 90s aroundrod every day on that sevendayny forecast. Fo all right, erin comore has got traffic. Trfi 5 48 right now. 48 well start you off with at youf look at metro. Lo at me dealing with delays. S. We had an earlier track tra problem outside of Eastern Market. Market. As a result residual delayst re across the orange blue and blue silver line. L the rest of your metro commute c looking fine. F white hurts freeway actually this the key bridge. Ri inbound commute looking nice nic from rosslyn into georgetown. Rg no slowdowns there. Well. E switch over our cameras. Over o this is a look at the 14th the4t street bridge where as youwhere come from 395 northbound andd gw parkway you are slowinglo down so watch out for that. T a lot of brake lights andights d reduced speeds. Ce things picking up south u s capitol as you make your way out by suitland parkway. Par moving along just fine. White hurts freeway by krts frey street is moving along with wh some volume building. Uig. Back to our maps rider nows ridw well show you that other areas of county like princeikenc William County 66 through centreville drive time doubled Prince William parkway toli Fairfax County parkway witamhkww congestion so about a 10 a 1 minute early start. Ta keel what was that youel w updated. Thats your traffic. At any questions at erin fox5 fox d. C. On twitter. Holly and wisdom. Wis bryce harper fans yourper far favorite m. V. P. Released a new n line of merch. Er thats a story the nats fans are all over on socialn ci media this morning. Dia lets see what else ise trending. Maureen umeh good morning. Ning first up actor Susan Sarandon and shailene woodleyoo outside a courthouse here inre d. C. To protest constructiont ct of a pipeline that they say would pollute water sources sou and desecrate sacred land. Land. About 100 members of thef the native american groupcan g demonstrated outside d. C. D District Court while filled a courtroom inside where legal battle unfolded unfl over the 3. 7 billion project. Rt a status hearing has been setn for mid september. Teer. Next up police in upoli baltimore are under fire forundr not letting residents knownow about widespread aerialead surveillance programs thata they have been using for over six months now. Eesi x a new report by the bloom by bloomberg reveals that ant a ohio Company First provided prod police with the technology to monitor unrest after the trial i of officers charged in the freddie grayha case. Ase. And claims that after the the protest police continued tonu crews it to investigateit t crimes. Officials are defending the program saying it has helped hal solve dozens of crimes. Cme bryce harper has just unveiled a limited edition baseball cap collection heap c designed for harpers heroes a s charity for children who havechl or are battling cancer. A portion of the proceeds fromc the cap will be donated to the leukemia and lymphoma society. Oe and exciting news. N one planet that might be another earth. Another earth. Astronomers announceds noun yesterday they have detecte planet orbiting nearby that could be home to liquid water and, therefore, life. E. Scientists have named thehe planet proxima bachelor ofache science b. Astronomers are opening theyll be able to view it iniew the next decade. Ecad pretty cool. Tyool. Speaking of space the latest batch of emails reveals bono featured footage fo from astronauts on the issss during north american and european legs of its u d3 603 tour. So there you have it. Y have it. All right. Interesting. Pretty weird. All right. Thank you maureen. Uhhuh. Lets talk about this. Former redskins yk player der manly due in court in Montgomery County accused of o assaulting a man who says he was looking at his phone when manly punched him out. Punched h manly arrested several times before on drug possession. Ssessi turning to nascar. As Dale Earnhardt jr. Will be out e for another couple of races. F rc hes still dealing with w concussion symptoms as a result of a june crash. Alex baumann will fill in this s week and gordon will fill in i again next weekend. Gordon had been filling in. Ling. Social media was kingl during the rio olympics ratings show viewership viewersp averaged about 25 million inion prime time. Thats down about 18 percent from the london olympics but b on facebook, 227 million 227 mil people put out one and a half billion posts. Pos twitter users sent 187 million8i tweets resulting in 75 billion i views on and off twitter. Nearly 50 Million Viewers streamed 3. 4 billion minutes of rio coverage on. 4 the web and mobile devices. Changing world isnt it. Ing l oh, yeah. Arlington public schoolslic s ushering in the new school schol year with a new unique sportquet for students to play. Ultimate frisbee. Fee. Okay. I love ult School Officials say itl of will be available to middlelabld and high school students. L practice starts next month. Xt m. Games will then begin inbegiin october. The search for players trainers and coaches is happening right now. Ppening righ have you ever played ultimate frisbee. No, i havent. O,aven its hard to throw thehe perfect frisbee. Sb. You got to throw theow frisbee and then catch it. H no, theres an actual gamega to it. Is it. Yes. Okay, all right. Ll rig wonder if they give outive ou scholarships cause if so i caf need to get my kids involved. Ol. They might in the future. Sounds good to me. Ound great news to report aboutws aging. Do tell. New Research Shows that despite the increased achesedh and pains, people in theirople h 40s and beyond are happier hap and better able to handle stress. Stre hm. Researchers found your bodynu may be better in your 20s and 30s but suppress anduppress and depression are bigger problems m for that age group. Roup there you go. We got aches and pains butai were happy. We are happy. He were hurt but wereut we happy. [laughter] take some med all good. L good. If youre free at 10 00re a. M. This morning consider mng n heading down to the washington n monument to help the nationaliol park service make history ando d thats because thethats organization is asking people i to help them form the Worlds Largest living arrowhead toad help celebrate the 100th anniversary. Participants shouldpants ul preregister online and firstirst 1,000 people will receive a tshirt and umbrella. Mblla. All right. All rig and i think the hundredthnk t anniversary is actually today. Yy cool. Super fun. How about some even betterst news than that . Its our nextt fox5 zip trip. Thats what im talking about. Ab the crew tomorrow will head towd college park, maryland. Aran were going to be right on o baltimore avenue and lehigh l road right next to College Park City hall. Al now, that crew that i wascrewha talking about, that would be one tucker barnes, one holly morris. Thats me. And one wisdom martin. Mti thats you. Y tucker gets things going atng 6 00 a. M. A. M and then well be joining joi him around 7 00. 0 it will be a whole lot of fun. Fn yes. Looking forward time to say good morningorng to our facebook fans of theacebo day and today we say hello to kala and meeka. Ha what. Look at how beautiful theyife are. Ar they were nominated by theirheir owner hattie. Is this a first. Fir it might be. It i dont know if weve had aowf e dog be orphans of th our fans od theyre gold Medal Winners wn dressed up with an app feature. Featur so theyre not actuallyrt wearing those. E. Right. Dont write in. Don theyre not actually wearing those. Right. She says the three of them t watch fox5 every morning from 7 00 to 8 30. They also love steve andve a allison in their matching outfits. Match they to. Lets talk weather. Were turning it right mike. Absolutely is. Abs we did the dogs on the wrong the day. Tomorrow is national dog day. D. 92 degrees later on today. Od heat and humidity are back. Ac check out friday. Fri 97 degrees. Yes, its summer time. Su were used to heat here in in d. C. But this is impressive by late augustan cards. Car the weekend is hot but itsotuti not terribly humid on saturday and sunday but the humidity isiy back for the start of the nextht work week. Wee 94 for monday, 95 on tuesday tud and wednesday. Sd hot, humid and sticky one more time wow wow wee wow. Wow wow wee wow. Thats your forecast. Ts erin como has traffic. Traic. I done were still dealing da with residual delays across the orange silver and blue line. Line. Moving over to our maps, as mapa you make your way out downtownot things good on the freewayonhe w problem free through the thirdht street tunnel. Street t were looking were seeing sn some volume building acrosscros the 14th street bridge from f 395 inbound so watch for that. T a live look outside well showll you what else youre facinge fac this morning for your ride. For 295 south at eastern avenuevenu volume building but so far youre much better than wete typically see this time ofe is t morning. Northbound side quietly anyid questions at ee rin fox5 twitter. Keep it to fox5 news morning. 5 e we have your 6 oclock alllock l right right around the corner. At steeped slowly in cold water for small batches with an ultrasmooth, fullbodied flavor. Discover the craft of cold brew today and keep on. America runs on dunkin. This is fox5 newshi morning. Straight ahead at 6 oclock this morning the desperate d search for earthquakethake survivors continued overnight in italy as the tragic deathc dh toll continues to rise. Es to quake zone coming up. And it is just a drill. A a warning for what you might mit see at the pentagon today as as something military officialsy o really want you to know about. B. Plus. Hillary clinton is a bigot. It more name calling on then president ial campaign trail. A strong charge from donaldge trump and it caught some at a his rally off guard. Thats coming up. P. First though live lookook outside. Its thursday morning, friday, a eve around here. Er its august 25th. Ugust 25 well have weather and traffic a for that you on the 5s at 6 05. Good morning, im allison ais seymour. And im steve chenevey. m s welcome to fox5 news morning. Mi we begin this morning atisori 6 00 in italy again, the deatheh toll now continuing to rise ris after that massive earthquake. The number of dead now up to 247. 24 the quake is the countrys coury deadliest since 2009 when 300n people were killed. Ople we ki rescue crews are still are sll searching for signs ofching survivors. Ors. Officials say its hard to estimate how many may bey missing since the summering sit season brings in a