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An overturned tractortrailer. Police and crews still out at that scene. They just got enough debris cleared out to let two left lanes squeeze by. This is in the area of the inner loop between pennsylvania avenue and allentown road. The crash is closest to the suitland parkway overpass. As we move things over i want to show you a look at the delay though because this is still very much impacting inner loop drivers. We are at a standstill by ritchie marlboro road. That delay extends past Central Avenue. My best advice so you dont get stuck in about an hour and a half of extra traffic this morning hop off the inner loop at least by Central Avenue, work your way through the city and then hook back onto the inner loop at branch avenue. That will definitely save you some time. Be prepared because of bailout traffic. Secondaries once you get off Central Avenue are going to be jammed. Same story on pennsylvania avenue. Folks seeking those alternates. We do have a rubberneck delay impacting the outer loop drivers between allentown road and pennsylvania avenue as well. But again, the inner loop is the side dealing with again over a 5mile backup this morning. Huge delays have reopened were hoping things will start to ease a bit but you can see traffic is just crawling along right there. Aside from the huge issue out in maryland we have been dealing with a big crash out in Prince William county in virginia. Well take a look at 234 where were dealing with a big crash involving an suv and a truck next. Steve, back to you. Erin thanks very much. Also closed and impacting the commute this morning a portion of eighth street northwest near Howard University. Police there still investigating a man struck by a car early this morning. Eighth street between v and berry place remains shut down. Dont know the mans condition. The driver who struck that man though did stay on the scene. Developing overnight Anne Arrundel county police increased security at Southern High School in harwood. Officials contacted parents last night following online posts that made vague threats towards the school. The School System says it is working closely with police to investigate but there appears to be no immediate danger to students or teachers. Meantime Montgomery County police hav a allegedly tried to abduct two children and exposed himself a teenager on easter sunday. Police say two boys were playing at a Neighborhood Park when Jemberu Bekele Geda approached them and tried to take them back to his apartment. In that same Neighborhood Police say geda exposed himself a 13yearold girl. Well, this morning access to the white house a little different. The perimeter around the white house getting larger after recent security changes. Changes come after two intruder events last month. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live now with details. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, guys. So, changes here this morning mean that pedestrians will no longer be able to go across ellipse drive and e street to the fence line at the south lawn of the white house. That used to be the closest point that people could get to take their pictures, take their souvenir selfies. Now you see these white and red restricted area signs. Those little while ago. I dont know if you can see it but were also noticing that secret Service Officers and agents now sort of walking and surveying the area. Theyre getting instruction on what those changes might be so that they also can make the public and people who are coming by here aware. As you mentioned, this is part of an ongoing review of permanent and temporary security measures but we did recently have another fence jumping incident march tenth a man from california carrying mace got over the fence and roamed the grounds for 17 minutes before he was arrested. It was the latest in a string of high profile fence breaches since 2014. Last year the secret service added taller spikes on the fence to prevent jumpers. There are plans for permanent fixes to the fence to make it tougher taller and stronger while still keeping with the historical authenticity of it. Heres what the secret service had to say in a statement about the changes. They talked about the need to push the public back a little bit saying that it will serve to lessen the possibility of individuals getting i dont an but also that this area gives now a clear visual break to let secret Service Officers identify potential hazards including people who are trying to scale the fence. The secret service also saying that it would not hinder or restrict the publics ability to view the white house and as you can see back here live, you can still get a really nice view of the white house. Best spot here is this 0mile marker, a lot of people know this in the city as the key point here. So you can still see sit. I can tell from you taking photographers of it, its not as good as it used to be but again, you can still get a pretty clear view of the white house depending on what time you come and how many crowds you have to jostle to get your shot. Does that impact the National Christmas tree that type of situation. Reporter i dont think it will, steve, because again you can see the National Christmas tree is right here. So, this is along ellipse drive. This is where people just as you can see from where we are here, Christmas Tree here and then theres the area where people used to walk. Theres a Public Access fence or gate i should say closer to the security gates there where people were able to maybe go on a specific crosswalk and get across the street. Now they cant do that. Now they all have to stay right in this area. Mel, thanks very much. 7 00 06. Mel has got the jacket on this morning. Still little cool. 80s later today. So you can get out the shorts later this afternoon. Yes. Even a little bit of humidity as well. Hm. Thats humidity. I dont know why. 58 in and washington. Reagan national 58. Dulles at 55. Everybodys waking up to temperatures in the 50s. Few showers have already developed north and west. You can see those racing to the south and east and will be moving through our immediate area here in the next hour or so. So, expect some showers between now and about 10 00 this morning. Well get a bit of a break midday. Maybe even a little sunshine and then look out for an isolated shower or a thunderstorm mid to Late Afternoon particularly after we get some daytime heating. Temperatures will will jump around here later this afternoon. Cold front will come tomorrow changing up the air mass for the weekend. Today and tomorrow back in the 80s. 83 this afternoon partly sunny. Look out for those storms redeveloping this afternoon. Again we have rain showers in the next hour. Thank you very much, tucker. Uhhuh. Lets get back to the very busy erin como this morning. Oh, yeah, we have so many crashes and just want to get everyone the most updated information so you can plan your commute. This is a problem weve been dealing with in Prince Georges County. The inner loop right now two left lanes are getting by. A very serious crash involving an overturned tractortrailer. They had traffic stopped for some time on the inner loop so were dealing with just some huge leftover delays. Even though those two left lanes are getting by very slowly traffic is at a standstill back to Central Avenue. Two injuries reported in this crash. Getting information from mark brady this morning and still quite a bit of cleanup is getting by the delay has eased to about a 50 minute delay but thats still pretty heavy. By ritchie marlboro road youre crawling along. Seeing a lot of extra traffic on our secondaries as folks bail out of the beltway to avoid that inner loop delay. Central avenue inbound is backing up. Were also seeing a lot of extra traffic on 295 southbound. Things are backing up as you try to get to branch avenue to hook back onto the inner loop. Have some patience. A little bit of a rubberneck on the outer loop as well. Maryland not our own problem this morning. Lets look at our maps right now. Southbound 234 out in manassas theres a crash on the southbound side. Its between sudley manor and balls for. Moving to the district person hit pie a car eighth street northwest. Shut down between v street and berry place northwest still investigating that scene with police on location. Aside from that for the top of the beltway we had an earlier crash at georgia avenue. Delays right now from route one all the way over to past georgia avenue. Seeing about slowdown. 95 southbound backing up. Hey, if you want to take metro today, metro is on time except for safe track impacting the green and yellow rush plus. Back to you. Erin thanks much. 7 08 right now. Lets get to a fox5 exclusive. A 911 dispatcher in the district under investigation after an ambulance needed for a twoyearold boy was sent to the wrong address. Paulette liverpool tells fox5 she called 911 on saturday because her son was having a severe asthma attack. Liverpool lives on galveston street southwest but she said she heard the dispatcher say galveston place. Liverpool says she corrected the dispatcher but the ambulance still went to the wrong location. After waiting 20 minutes liverpool eventually drove her son to the hospital. I dont like to think the worst, you know, but somebody have to be accountable for that. And its not like oh, im trying to cause this big chaos. Im just as the mother a caring level i love my kids to death. What happened to that call . What i mean, nobody even called to say that where are we, were a nobody called back at all. D. C. Office of unified communication says it takes responsibility for the error. Officials say the dispatcher did not keep the mother on the line until help arrived which they normally try to do and did not call liverpool back to doublecheck the address. Today is april 20th. Its 4 220, a day. Word play. It involves congress but unlikely congressional members will participate. Bob barnard live from capitol hill with details. Bob we encourage you not to participate, either. Good morning. Reporter i promise i wont. Hey, allison and steve. Yes, proponents of legalizing marijuana will be handing out free joints here on capitol hill at high noon today, this joint session you mentioned basically any member of congress, staff, intern, journalist, anyone with a hill pass will be given two free joints if t today invited back here on monday to light up. Basically calling on congress to reform marijuana laws. The federal marijuana laws which makes it illegal to use, possess, grow or sell marijuana on federal land. The Trump Administration has basically sent out a couple of mixed signals according to these proponents that candidate trump during the Campaign Said you should leave it to the states but his attorney general Jeff Sessions as created a task force to look at Violent Crime and inside of that, also to look at the federal marijuana laws, not an easing of them but perhaps a. M. Crackdown. Statewide basically its a hodge podge o pretty confusing. 28 states and the District Of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana. Seven states and d. C. Have that legalized the Recreational Use of marijuana. So, its kind of, you know, a mixed bag across the country even though the latest polls show a growing number americans support legalizing marijuana in some form or another. During our 8 oclock hour, were going to be with one of the people who is conducting this joint session at high noon today here on capitol hill to talk about the efforts. Again its from that noon until 4 20 this afternoon at first and constitution northeast, guys. Bob barnard live on the hill for us. Bob thanks in this d. C. You have likely heard of pothole palooza. Now its alley palooza. Lots of palooza. D. C. Mayor Muriel Bowser will kick off a multimillion Dollar Campaign to repair eight alleys. The news continues. The u. S. Military cracking down on nude picture sharing among soldiers. The new regulation put in place. Tv Host Bill Oreilly is out at fox following allegations of sexual the charges. Rges. Whoa youre not taking these. Hey, hey, hey youre not taking those. Whoa, whoa youre not taking that. Come with me. Youre not taking that. Youre not taking that. Mom, im taking the subaru. Dont be late. Even when were not there to keep them safe, our Subaru Outback will be. vo love. Its what makes a subaru, a subaru. 7 15 and breaking news on the roads this morning. A tractortrailer crash caused major backups on the inner loop to the beltway earlier this morning in Prince Georges County. Crews right now cleaning up the scene where two people were hurt. Fox5s annie yu is live near the crash site now for us. Annie, good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, steve and allison. Good morning, everybody. This is a traffic mess out here. If your travels take you through pennsylvania avenue, allentown road area, this is what youre dealing with. I want to show you some perspective here. Behind me is the backup. Were talking about id guess by now five or 6mile backup and i just got off brady with Prince Georges County fire and ems and he tells me this happened around 6 oclock this morning and since then, traffic has just been stacking. This is a serious crash involving two cars. We know that one of those vehicles is an overturned truck and i got a closer look at it. Looks like its some sort of food Service Truck on its side. The two collided on the inner again between allentown road, pennsylvania avenue, it is very slow going. I know that they were able to open up just the left lane and so traffic is squeezing by. But over that time its been closed, traffic has been stacking up. At least two people are receiving treatment at nearby hospitals. Its unclear how serious those injuries are but again because of this crash were talking major delays between the closures on the inner loop between pennsylvania avenue exit 11 and allentown road. Theyre letting one lane, the left lane squeezing by here but its going to take quite some time. They didnt have an estimate of how long this could linger but, boy, this is a major backup at this point and growing. Back to you guys in the stu studio. Thank you very much, annie. We want to help you get around that. You saw the big delays and the traffic nightmare she was going you. Whats your best bet so you dont get stuck in crashing this huge crash scene . Lets switch over to a look at delay so i can help you avoid those areas. I wouldnt continue on the inner loop past Central Avenue. Thats when things get to the a standstill. Otherwise detour at 50, take 50 inbound over to 295 down to branch avenue. I would hook onto the inner loop at branch avenue from that point forward. Otherwise youre going to get stuck in about a 60 minute delay right now from Central Avenue down to that crash site that is by suitland parkway. So again just a traffic nightmare out there. Huge delays. Bumper to bumper conditions. Anticipate 50 inbound, 295 southbound branch avenue toward the inner loop all of those are eight. Typically slow so make sure you give yourself a were bu minutes to get around that. Well let you know as that inner loop stretch dissipates. I dont think it will happen before the morning rush is over. Well keep you updated the. Any questions at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. I know what it is like to sit in a traffic update like that. Back to you guys. Well, at least it wasnt raining when that happened. How about later today, tuck . Weather is little more peaceful. Couple showers out there early. Ill show you those. Maybe a thunderstorm this afternoon. The upside is warmer temperatures, low 80s. Im loo looking forward to i. A little more humidity. Not looking for that. Im ready for summer. Lets go to i guess well start with temperatures. 58 now in washington. Yesterday didnt get out of the low 60s. Today again we should see those temperatures surge a good 25 degrees or so, low to mid 80s expected. Theres your shower activity. Steve it is moving in from the north and west. Even a little bit of lightning indicated in parts of western Montgomery County there so you may hear a rumble of thunder. Let me know what youre handle. As this moves through, well get some showers and then we should see an improvement here kind of partly cloudy midday with those warm temperatures and well see if a shower or a thunderstorm doesnt redevelop this afternoon. The air mass a little unstable so today, tomorrow we keep it summery 83 both days. Cooler this weekend. Saturday night into sunday looks wet and cool, so not going to be a perfect weekend. Nice day to get ready for the work week perhaps. Get caught up on things, sunshine beginning of the week. Lets get to more news around the world. Exxon mobil seeking permission from the United States government for approval to resume drilling around the black sea. Thats in russia with a russian partner. The Drilling Venture was blocked when the u. S. Imposed sanctions on russia in 2014. The companies request being reviewed by the Trump Administration major extra scrutiny because it involves a Company Formerly run by sec s tillerson who cultivated close ties with vladimir putin. Cia and fbi authorities believe either a cia worker or contractor had access to the sensitive documents. The investigation is currently focusing on the names of churches of individuals who may have had access against to the materials. Meantime the navy and marine corps taking action in the wake of a recent nude photo scandal. Both branches now making it a crime to publish new pics of a fellow Service Member without their consent. The new rule was in response to the controversy over a private Facebook Group that was sharing nude photos of Service Member. Bill oreilly will not be back with fox news channel. Several companies also pulled their ads from the popular show. He was the host of the Oreilly Factor since fox news first started in 1996. Tucker carlson will take over the 8 00 p. M. Time slot starting on monday. Called the circumstances surrounding his firing tremendously disheartening. The judge that that President Trump accused of bias during the campaign because of his mexican discents back in the spotlight. Hell hear the case of the first known deferred action for childhood arrivals recipients to be deported. A 23yearold man who received protections against deportation. However his assignment is a coincidence. Judges in a district are assigned on a rotating basis. A survival lift who shot and killed a Pennsylvania State trooper and injured another in a ambushological now fight for his own life. Eric frein was convicted of 12 charges of capitol murder yesterday two years after targeting state police in a late night sniper attack. The penalty phase is expected to wrap up early next week. Soon it will cost you more to buy cigarettes in new york city. The mayor announced a plan to raise the cost for of smokes to 13 a pack. Mayor billdeblasio ace tobacco is number one enemy. Do you think if youre addicted to smoking youll buy a pack for 13. Some people will probably see the price as a deterrent some will not. Hopefully some will. When we come back the end of an era at seaworld. The last killer whale has been born in captivity. Details next. Its 7 22. Stronger is blasting her tumors. Without risking her bones. Its training her good cells. To fight the bad guys. Stronger is less pain. New hope. More fight. Its doing everything in your power. And everything in ours. Stronger, is changing even faster than they do. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up. The last killer whale has been born in captivity at a seaworld park. Birth at the San Antonio Texas theme park comes a year after seaworlds decision to stop breeding orcas. The orlando based company said the calf was born wednesday afternoon. Its the fast in a generation of whales bred in confinement. The mother was pregnant when seaworld made the a announcement last march that it stopped breeding theorcas. Picture that. Just super tiny. Thats what the baby looks like. Like maybe a fifth the size of that. Congratulations. Super cute. Yeah. Okay wait a minute. What does that orca think its doing right now. Why cant i taste that. Is that a snack or really likes licking the glass but i for one. Nd i have enjoyed the shamuld shows and all that but i hate to see such a majestic animal on display like that, you know, but they do a lot of conservation i would imagine they say. Over to you tucker. I had an opportunity to go to alaska last summer and i saw a pod of orcas. So beautiful. You know its my dream. Do not rub it in. 58 in washington. Guess what. Well be in the 80s later today. Yesterday we didnt get out of the low 60s. Today 80s. So much warmer temperatures by afternoon. Rain showers moving in very quickly so expect a quick downpour here in the next id say hour or so. This will quickly get to the east. Well gradually turn partly sunny late morning early afternoon. Then we have to look out for the possibility with a rather unstable air mass that we could see another popup shower or thunderstorm later this afternoon so it will be a little bit unsettled later today. Youll knowles the humidity this afternoon both today and tomorrow. Cold front gets through tomorrow. Cooler weekend. Second half of saturday into sunday looks wet. Looks real wet around here Cool Temperatures too. Plan accordingly. Okay. Erin is the star of the show because shes been very busy. I consider myself a little more than an eight. Right. Tucktory, likes to consider himself a bit higher than a three. Im referring to those were our fashion numbers yesterday. Well never forget. Right now for the jam cam, who wins . Unfortunately the inner loop. We have that overturned tractortrailer crash after pennsylvania avenue close to suitland parkway. Still from Central Avenue down to past the crash at allentown road. We are parked with over a 50 minute delay. Youll have to use your secondaries and have a a lot of patience this morning. We have some other problems going on in the district. Some Police Activity on first street northwest. Well take a look at that next. Back to you guys. Erin thanks. When we come back hes correctly predicted the outcome of every president ial election since 1984. And now an American University professor has another prediction. He says President Donald Trump will be impeached. How does he know . Well join usiv 7 27 now. It is 7 30 right now. He has correctly predicted out come of every president ial election since 1984 and now American University professor Allen Lichtman has another prediction. Very possible that donald trump will be impeached. He has new book out it is called the case for impeachment it lays out several possible scenarios that could lead to the down fall of the trump white house. Professor lichtman joins us now with more. Good to see you again this morning. Good to be here. First of all, the difference between the research that went into choosing the president and the research that went into this book, whats the difference . Big difference. For my prediction on elections, via formal tested predict tiffly for over 30 years. I dont have a formal model for impeachment there havent been enough impeachments but my book is based on a deep study of the history of impeachment, the process of impeachment, Donald Trumps career and Donald Trumps actions in his first couple of months as president. And from that, you are making the strong statement that he is more vulnerable to impeach many than any other president in the history of our nation . Why so . Because i looked at eight possible grounds that derive from Donald Trumps history and his actions as president. He is the first president in history to be under Serious Investigation for possible collusion between his team and an attempt by a foreign power to undermine our democracy. He is the first president not to divest himself from his business interests, and that means he has widespread conflicts of interest all ninety nine as well in interests everywhere in the United States that are affected by every action his Administration Takes from taxes to regulations to laib. He has a history of flouting the law. He has a history of lying. He perpetuated the bare they are lie about barack obama. He has a history bragging about Sexual Assault and maybe about a dozen women have accused him of Sexual Assault and voyeurism. So a lost baggage to bring into the presidency. These are all allegations have come up in the past, though, non action toward an impeach many or anything else has come forward at this point. When might something change as far as heading down that path if thats in fact what happens . Ill point to you three thing. Number one, there are three ongoing investigations of the the russian connection or the possible russian connection and the the hallmarks of a nixon type coverup. These guys say, we never had any contact witness russians. Then when it turns out they did, they deflect, they deceive and when theyre finally caught, they say, oh, it was all innocuous just like the Nixon Administration said water gate were you a third rate burglary. Secondly theres a lawsuit now on going with regard to trumps possible violation of the s socalled clause which basically said a president cant take anything of value from a foreign power. And thirdly, there is a lawsuit being brought by the feminist lo lawyer Gloria Allred a defamation suit by one of the women who had accused of trump of Sexual Assault and he had basically said that she was a liar, and that could put him in the clinton impeachment trap of having to testify under oath. For impeachment does it have to be based on something that happens while in office or can some of these allegations that happened long before he became president come back to still haunt him the framers put no restrictions on the grounds for impeachment, then put it in the hands of the congress, political body, not in the courts so its not a strictly legal process. But because its in the hands of congress, you have Republican Controlled Congress right now. Why should anybody in that Republican Controlled Congress want to out of the the president . Couple points. One, it only takes about 10 two dozen republicans to join it democrats to get major r2, members of congress are all up for reelection in 2018 they may decide that trump is a liability to their reelection. They may also decide trump is a barrier enacting their agenda we saw that with the health care bill. And finally, trauma app loose cannon with no relationships really with members of congress. They love mike pence whos a down the line down the pike conservative republican. And if mike pence becomes president , he gets to pick his viceprsident and republicans could get mike pence and paul ryan. So lets play along with this theory right now. Sure. This happens down the road and thats the way the process works. What happens in the meantime . Say this Republican Congress now goes through this process and says we would love to have mike pence as our president right now. Donald trump is still the president while these processes are going on based on his actions in the past, how does he respond to this and then who may be at risk of perhaps some type of political liability . Everyone is at risk of political liability in impeachment. We sought impeachment of bill clinton backfired on the Republican Party the democrats actually won in the mid term elections of 1998. Look, if theres one thing you can say about donald trump, he is unpredictable. I can see two responses. Number one, trumps instinct has always been to attack ton get even and he may turn on his own party and vigorously fight the impeachment, or he may decide, this isnt worth it. Im going to go back to my luxury life as a private an impeach many happens and what timeline . I think better than even and i think the timeline is either shortly before the 2018 mid term elections or heres another scenario, if thats a wave election and the democrats take control of congress which is not impossible, although remote, it could happen right after the mid terms. All right. Finally, after you accurately predicted donald trump would be president , you got handwritten or personal note from the president saying you made the right call. Have you heard anything since . I havent but i have a little chapter which says, President Trump heres the way out. And i lay out eight scenarios that he can use to avoid impeachment for the good of the country. Remember, this is the good of the country. Were not talking just about an individual. The genius of impeachment that it deals with the man and not the office. I dont see you getting a note saying thanks for the advice to not get impeached but [ laughter ] based on the title of the book you might the white house. Thanks for joining us this morning g to see you. Real pleasure. Book is out right now. Check in with Tucker Barnes and get a check of the forecast. Tee steve, its all about the warmer temperatures. Tomorrow we didnt get out of lower 60s. Today up up and away. Lets go to the forecast. 58 in washington. 48 up in boston to start your morning. Showers moving in very quickly here from the north and west. So take that umbrella. Youll need it the next hour or so. Already raining now in loudoun Montgomery County hagerstown and along 81 there. Again, this will move on through. We should be rather humid today and very warm late this morning during the afternoon hours and warm enough that we could pop up upping in the summer months how he wet isolated thunderstorm in the afternoons we can do that later today. A popup shower or storm between 3 00 and 7 00 oclock tonight. Look out for that. Otherwise just kind of warm and humid 83 today. Do it again tomorrow. Cooler this weekend. Rain showers by the second half of saturday into sunday. That could be good soaking rain across yards and gardens need it. Timing not perfect. Erin how are roads. Roads are still really backed up. 7 37 right now. Want to start you off with other issues were dealing with weve been so focused on the inner loop overturned tractor trailer in Prince Georges County. First keep in mind eighth street between v and berry place still closed because a person was hit by a car and theyre investigating. Also energy the district happening right now, 1200 block of first street northwest that is closed with Police Activity and were seeing a lot of slowmoving traffic on north capital street in that area. So please use caution there. As you head out in manassas southbound 234 dealing with a crash involving an suv and a truck. This is just south of 66 between balls forward road and sudley manor drive. Big delays detour around it, give yours self extra time. 66 inbound dealing with delays and all of our drive times very slow right now. You can see 38 minute trip from urbana to the beltway, 270 southbound and the beltway to 29518 minute trip on 50 delays there as well. Lets hop outside and show i was look the inner loop. To left lanes getting past an injury involved crash involving a tractor trailer. This particular camera is by ritchie marlboro road. Jammed from before Central Avenue all the way to suitland parkway with that crash scene. Again, two left lanes getting by they need to get that tractor trailer testified out of the way. Its about an hour delay. Sneak off at 50 inbound central of a westbound you have options to get around it best bet avoid that section of the inner loop from Central Avenue to suitland parkway and hook hock on to the inner loop at branch avenue. Big delays a lot of bail out traffic on those other inbound routes. Questions erin fox5 dc on twitter. Take look at your metro commute next. Allison and steve. Amtrak giving rider as boost. Well tell hugh the agency is partnering with that might make your commute little bit easier. Mmm [ keys clack ] [ slurps ] make it iced, then make it happen with flavors like butter pecan or new coconut creme pie. Its americas iced coffee, whenever, wherever. America runs on dunkin. Keep on going, america. Keep on giggling. And goofing. Keep on grooving. And togethering. With scott 1000s longlasting roll, well keep on going, too. Scott 1000. Americas longest lasting roll. Cvs about to look even more different. They got away with cigarettes not too long ago. The Company Wants its stores to be even healthier. All of the candy in the front of the store near the check out lanes will be replaced with healthier food choices. Cvs wants to provide customers with more health and wellness products. Okay. Okay. Youre not a fan . Just make sure you still have hersheys in the candy aisle in case i need that fix. It will be somewhere. Dont tell me i cant have it. President trump and travel ban throwed one major a line to cut flys to the United States. Emerates the Largest International airline by passenger traffic cutting flights on five routes to 5us airports with the company says the travel restrictions weakened demand for travel to the us. Both President Trumps travel bans have been blocked by us judges the ban has reportedly cost the u. S. Nearly 200 million. Some amtrak passengers are getting a java jolt. Dunkin donuts and amtrak announced Dunkin Donuts original blend and decaf now available on acela trains operating on the northeast corridor. The coffee will be brood using the same equipment Dunkin Donuts uses in its stores. Good business for Dunkin Donuts as acela trains move three and half million passengers a year between d. C. And boston. There you go. Still ahead this morning, you know bowes headphones and speakers becoming big brother. Some customer complaining the popular headphones doing more than just playing your favorite music. 7 46. Before we get to the forecast right now, we are looking ahead to good day d. C. So here you go. Calling all parents in northern virginia. Some of your kids go to school with newly named principal of the year. Well meet him coming up at 9 15 this morning. Also good day pj morton you know him from maroon five hes stopping by the loft. He also has a new solo album o out. And you know our next guest from say yes to the dress. Fashion director Monty Durham Erin will be hanging out with him later t helps make prom wishes come true for dozens of local high schoolers. Morton the keyboard it in maroon file. Well have to tell him how far back our maroon five respect goes. Back to sunday morning. How many years ago was that . Well have to go on facebook and tell the people what it is. Well do that. Thats coming up on good day today. Winners great news. Because were i was preparing myself to talk about awesomeness of last night and everybody winning. [ applause ] turning our attention to the nhl playoffs. Tj you get the clap, john carlson. Dont give him the clap. The applause. Reference from 1972, al. He wasnt even born then. The capitals in toronto for game four against the maple leafs for most game all caps all the time. Tj with the first goal. Wilson. Tommy wilson that was an awesome defensive play and turns around on the other end with the goal. Man, it was great. Tj had two goals. Alex ovechkin with a gl caps never gave up the lead. It got tight after while. It was fourone final score was fivefour. Series tied two games a piece. Game five back home at Verizon Center friday night. Wizards at home last night game two after they beat at land in the first game. Little back and forth. But john wall when you see that smile on his face, he looked like hes having fun. Thats what you need. Loose Fun Team Atmosphere to win the playoffs. John wall delivered 32 points, nine assists big story Fourth Quarter play of bradley biehl. 61 of his 31 points in the Fourth Quarter. Biehl and wall both had 30 points in the game plus wizards top the hawks 109101. Game three saturday in atlanta. I watched them both last night. I went outside by side tvs and going back and forth. It was awesome. What a great night it was. Nationals won. Fun to watch. Even my baby birds orioles won. Complete only downside they give these mugs away at the caps games that light up when they score a goal bright red but the sink was off with the tv it was lighting up five seconds before they scored. Okay theyre about to score again. Its awesome. Ruin eight little bit. If you were there awesome site. Oh yeah at the game for sure. All right. Im in a good mood. Yeah. Right . I mean yes. You know what this means. Im got to go to tomorrows game it. Means the skins are going to the super bowl baby. It does . Yes. All right. Weve got winning ways this y year. Yes, steve, it does mean t that. Maybe thunderstorm later this afternoon. Rain showers in the forecast in the next hour or so ill show you radar here. 58 now in washington. Quantico 59. 57 up in baltimore. 55 hagerstown. Much, much warmer than yest yesterday. Yesterday low 60 todays low 80s. So well really start to became up much these showers are falling apart but together enough here i think at least wet the roadways as it moves on through working down 270 montgomery, loudoun county. Expect rain showers in the next hour or so for just about everybody. Get a shower or thunderstorm to redevelop this afternoon. The air mass sort of what we typically get in the summertime months its a little unstable. We might get enough lift out there we drive a thunderstorm. There you go. High pressure to our south. 80s expected later this afternoon that warm front well north of us now and up ahead cold front we may squeeze out a storm later this afternoon it should be widely scattered theres our future cast you can see its trying to pop a few storms about four to 5 00 oclock this afternoon and then things will start to fall apart as we get into the evening hours well do it over again tomorrow. 83 today and tomorrow nice and summery. Cool weekend with rain showers developing by the second half of saturday into sunday things will be on the cool side. All right. Speaking of cool erin is back with traffic. You might be looking like a ten today but traffic looking like a two. How does that sound . I totally get that. Traffic is not looking good. New crash on the inner loop in mclean. We have a crash blocking the Left Shoulder left lane. This is at georgetown pike and you can see folks out of their vehicles traffic is slowing past this point now as you head out mclean have have a give yourself extra inner loop time. The big problem of the morning. This is a crash as you make your way out by suitland parkway between pennsylvania avenue and allentown road. So big throw slow downs there. Delays still in place standstill at ritchie marl bow road and back to Central Avenue. Keep in mind metro buses are on a delay of at least their minutes at forestville road and suit lapped parkway. A lot of bailout traffic to get around this inner loop delay. Its over an hour delay from Central Avenue to past that crash scene at suitland parkway so the bail out traffic also slowing things down on the secondaries as you get around this. Once you get to branch avenue the inner loop opens up. But its just this huge headache were dealing with. But again two left lanes get bypassed this tractor trailer crash. Lets take a look at our maps. Other issues in the district right now. In northwest, its the 1200 block of first street right by n street. N street traffic impacted Police Activity for a shooting investigation. Seeing a lot of slow traffic as you make your way out on route 1 and north capital street backing up. Keep in mound southbound 234 this h getting by balls for road on the southbound side. Back to you guys. 7 51. Developing this morning from chicago a lawsuit has been filed over bows Wireless Headphones the lawsuit claims that bowes when used with the app on your smart phone to track the audio that users listen to. The lawsuit claims the company then not only tracks what youre listening to but then sells that information without your permission. Filer of the lawsuit adds Data Collection is not helpinged in the company user agreements. Bose so far has not responded to that claim. 7 52. Here in the dmv on the east coast, but it is now, what, 4 52 out in la. Kevin doesnt care. Hes up with us because he has news to share. I mean he wept to see a cool movie. Got to talk to the stars of the movie. Hi, kev. Whats up . Good morning. Good morning, guys. How you doing. Good good good good. Guardian of galaxy i know you ca but were all super jealous talk about at least the people in the movie. I can talk about the movie. The movie comes out may fifth, and the first one was a massive surprise. I dont think anybody knew it was going to take 773 Million Worldwide because these are characters that no one really new about. I mean this is chris pratt obviously became a huge star after zero dark 30 and guardian of the galaxy i spoke to him yesterday, and this sequel directed by gentleman named jumps gun and the cool thing about these movies is, all the things that happened how they piece everything together. I dont know if people realize this Bradley Cooper plays rocket the raccoon in the film but the directors brother actually plays that character physically onset. Which is kind of crazy. Vin diesel this is probably the greatest job in the history of movies. He goes in for one day and gets an entire paycheck just for saying i am groot a couple of times throughout the day. So when i spoke to chris pratt yesterday i was curious about vin diesels work because in the script vin diesel has i am groot and then theres specific words as to what that means because but chris pratt does not see that and i wanted to know about that. So i spoke to chris pratt about the action scenes and the movie guardians of the galaxy volume two. Watch this. So were saving the galaxy again . Yup. Awesome. Were really going to be able to jack up our prices for two time galaxy savers. Yes i always geek out when you hit the side. Its so awesome. Im wondering when you shoot a moment like that, are you hitting it in exact spot. I know its cgi but do you wear that mask. Yes. Do you sit there all day and do that. I do have eighths specific spot because behind my ear youll see i have this little piece to what im assuming is some sort of like nano tech helmet device. Its often like when im doing giant stunt sequences thats the one thing i forget to do. So ive blown some massive shots by just not doing this before i do a run and fly off. Cameras, move, pan 100,000 waisted on this shot. Theyre not going to use because i forgot to do this. Does anybody have any tape out there. I want to put tape over the death button . Nobody has any tape not a Single Person has tape . You have atomic bomb in your bag. If anybody is going to have tape, its you. I have to do everything. Youre wasting a lot of time. Thats a really bad sign. Im freaking out this is so cool there was separate script that him and vin have for the translations of what i am groot means. Yes. I am groot. So in your script, all you you know what it means . Is that the whole point you dont know . I think its part of the point and oftentimes, you know, as the joke reveals itself, oftentimes its a little bit like the character that with whom hes speaking reveals what hes just heard. Like rocket. Rocket will say it or ill say it. Its kind of like when you see in a play and someone picks up the phone and theyre having a conversation but you cant hear whats on the other end you have to kind of fill in the blanks the person will be like, tom, yes, tom. Well, sure i can be at the airport 8 30. Why do you ask. Because youre down at the airport right now. You kind of fill in the other side because the audience doesnt know. Thats kind of the fun we have with that joke with i am groot. You know whats crazy to me to think that vin diesel gets a full paycheck for going into studio for one day and doing the all the i am groots you saw him there. And the cool thing that james gun told me yesterday the director vin diesel actually hire his voice in order to get the baby groot sounds hes baby groot in this entire film but talk about the greatest paycheck of all time, right . Right. Thats what i was going to ask you that little groot voice is so cute. So its his voice Something Else has happened to it . Yes. Basically what they do, and this is kind of cool. Vin diesel goes in. What you saw in the interview clip just him practicing the voice. He actually hired his voice to get that sound. They digitally do things it to obviously, but he did go higher in order to get that baby groot sound. So that is vin diesel when you watch the movie thats him saying i am groot. I cant wait for it. I really do love guardian of the galaxy. Me too. Allison youll love it. Exactly what you want from the a sequel. I actually bought the sound track for the first one. Thanks kev. We got to let you go. See you next hour. 7 57. Back with the 8 00 oclock right after this. For years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. But for many businesses, its out of reach. Why promise something you cant deliver . Comcast business is different. We deliver superfast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across our entire network, to more companies, in more locations, than fios. We do business where you do business. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in Customer Satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get 150 meg internet, tv and phone. All for 79. 99 per month, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. And Verizon Wireless customers can stream tv on the fios mobile app, datafree. Get the best. Go to getfios. Com this is fox5 news morning. Good morning. Im allison seymour. Im steve chenevey. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. 8 00 a. M. On thursday, apri. Heres whats on the fox5 news morning menu. Twoyearold boy struggling to breathe. An ambulance called for help and it never showed up. So what went wrong with d. C. s 911 system . The boys mother speaking exclusive toll fox5. Plus, safing metro. Today the agencys general manager is set to announce big system, but hes talking to fox5 first. We go oneonone with metros man at the top coming up. Marijuana give away. It is a quote unquote joint session like the capital has never seen before. This one will not cost i was penny. First though before all that news how about a live look outside. Temperatures tipping into the 80s today. But changes are on the way. Tucker will tell you what it means for the weeknd with your full forecast coming up on the 5s. Chilly right now, 57 degrees at Reagan National airport. Lets get updated on the traffic problems we face the this morning this was little earlier start on the inner loop of the beltway in Prince Georges County. A tractor trailer blocking all lanes at pennsylvania avenue. Two lanes remain blocked stale big backup. Two people hurt in that crash. Both went to the hospital with nonthreatening injuries. To the district now, where eighth street northwest near Howard University is back open at this hour. It had been closed for several hours after a man was hit by a car overnight. That man is in the hospital in stable condition were told. The driver that hit him did stay on its unclear whether that driver will face any charges. This morning the white house slightly less accessible after recent security changes. Secret service has closed down Public Access to one of the sidewalks in front of the white house. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick live with the details on how long it will be closed. Mel . Reporter steve and allison from we understand the answer to that question is indefinitely. Unless they decide to make some other changes. Let me show you where the biggest change is. This gate right here is where people used to be able to get across e street to the sidewalk in front of the white house. The one that directly goes along the fence line. Now, these security fences have been in place since 2015. But now they would close overnight. But now theyre going to stay closed indefinitely. People will have to stay right where you see the tour group is over there on the opposite side of e street and he will lips drive. No longer can get up along t fence line of the south lawn of the white house. But of ongoing review of permanent and temporary security measures in part because of jumping is still happening. March 10th a man from california carrying mace got over the fence and roamed the grounds for 17 minutes what youre looking at right here this video what we took earlier just this morning as they were putting those new white and red signs on saying restricted access. All along evicted area do not enter. All along that fence line. Again, its really part of the problem jumper that is continue to happen. March 10th was when the man from california carrying mace got over the fence and roamed the grounds for 17 minutes before he was arrested. That was just the latest in a string of high profile fence breaches since 2014. Thats when they started to say, hey, maybe we need to harden the perimeter here a little bit m more. Now, in making these changes the secret service said restricting public will not only serve to lessen the possibility of fence jumpers but will also create what they call a clear visual break to help the secret service identify and respond to potential hazards. If you look back here live now now theres this very clear open space as opposed to the secret service having to watch people over on ellipse drive as well up along the fence line very clear open space here. People still can get a good view of the white house from across the street. Its just not as up cloacitis it used to be. Back to you guys. Cant get those pictures through the bars and fence like you used to be of the unobstructed white house. Two top Trump Administration officials heading to the Us Mexico Border to get first hand look at security. Jeff sessions and general john kelly head to texas and california for closer look at the border today. Sessions focusing on stopping what he calls catch and release programs of Illegal Immigrants and building the he will kelly will focus on law enforcement. New report says immigration arrests spiked 32 under president trauma pops administration. Russia flying two long range bombers off the coast of the alaska the second bomber coming within 36 miles of mainland alaska. Would Nuclear Capable bombers were spotted by us military radar on monday two russian jets were spotted. Us military rushed to intercept them. 8 00 sorry five. Good morning, tuck. Good morning. We got some showers moving in. Well get a big of a break and get warm temperatures around here. 80s. Awesome. Thats like a thumbs up but also like showing you the direction. Up up up. 59 in washington. Not there yet. Wind out of the west here at 8 miles an hour. Lets look at the radar together. Showers moving in very quickly even a rumble of Thunder Associated with this about an hour ago. You could possibly hear a little thunder. And you can see pressing inside the beltway across 95. Everybody willet the next hour and then we should break out into partial sunshine many warm temperatures as mentioned upper 70s low 80s expected around here and even a little humidity and with somewhat unstable atmosphere later this afternoon itsits isolated thunderstorm develop. Keep that in mind. Got soccer practice that kind of thing you might encounter a couple of isolated showers or thunderstorms. All right. Today, tomorrow we stay nice and warm. Weekend well talk more about it but it looks like the second half of saturday into sunday no buono. Good book day or binge day. Exactly. Get your indoor stuff before the sun comes back out. Yup. Lets check in with erin. Rough start to the day. How we looking now. Still pretty roof. Improvement on the innr loop by old dominion drive. Earlier crash in mclean, virginia out as you make your way passed old georgetown. Now, thats cleared. So traffic dissipating but i want to show you Prince Georges County because delays head holding steady. This is the huge mess dealing with all morning long. This is the inner loop involving an overturned tractor trailer. Two left lanes getting by suitland parkway but we are still is it a stand till from north of Central Avenue to passed that point. You can see by ritchie marlboro a parking lot since this crash happened well over an hour and a half ago. So if you dont between sit about an hour of extra traffic get off the beltway on the inner loop work your way through Central Avenue, pennsylvania avenue, take 295, 50 inbound note that metro buses are on delays through forestville road and suitland parkway so many folks are bailing out of the beltway and take the secondaries. Watch you get to branch avenue the inner loop is moving along just fine from branch avenue on through. But its just this area thats been such a nightmare this morning much let you know as soon as all lanes reopen that delays starts to dissipate. Dis. And take the rails no additional metro delays this morning. Its just safetrack surge 14 impacting the green line and yellow rush plus. At least tomorrow is friday were getting through the week, guys. Back t erin thanks. Want to get to fox5 ex clues now. A mother calls 911 after her twoyearold son had an asthma attack. But the ambulance never shows up because of an address mix up. A mix up the boys mother says she tried to correct. Fox5s Marina Maracco spoke with that mom for more on what happened. They put in place instead of street. Reporter its a seemingly minor mistake when youre looking at a map. But it was a geographical error that could have meant the difference between life and death. I said no, its galveston street. She did say place to me. I said no galveston street. I corrected her. Reporter mistake made by d. C. 911 dispatcher. All day. Reporter twoyearold cody was in the middle of his worst asthma attack yet. Bleep. Saw his stomach getting in and out. Get him out of here. Gout to go. His saturday afternoon. She waited helplessly for the ambulance to arrive even asking for help from a neighbor who finally after more than 20 minutes of anxious waiting told her to grab her son and head for the hospital themselves. Did dispatch ever call the caller back to double check the address . Not to my knowledge, no. Reporter is that part of the protocol . I think that i think there was a high level of confidence that the correct address was recorded on behalf of the call taker. Reporter the office of unified communications admits the miss tack was on their agency, not on responding crews. We made a mistake, and we regret the mistake, and, you know, were taking the proper steps to make sure this kind of thing doesnt happen any more. Reporter but would not elaborate on what the corrective action entails. Ouc confirms theres an investigation into how the call was handled. We tried to stay on the call until help gets there. That did not hap case. So reporter are you saying the caller is to blame in this situation . Had the caller remain on the line no, no, no our caller should have kept the caller on the line. Your dispatcher. I mean, were not assessing blame on anyone but ourselves on this case. Reporter in the meantime, paulette liver pool still wants answers and wants to be assured what happened to her wont happen to someone else. I dont like to think the worst, you know, but somebody had to be accounted for that. Its not like oh im trying to cause chaos. As a mother i love my kids to death. What happened to that call . I mean nobody even called to say that where are we . Were at the wrong place. Nobody called back at all. Marina march rocco with the story. As of today the office of United Communications has not said what corrective actions have been taken or if the dispatcher is facing any disciplinary act. Still to come this pro activist hitting the hill today and they want to give away free marijuana. Fox5s bob barnard is on that story for us. Bob . Reporter yeah, good morning, guys. Most unusual protest here are some of the give aways to members of the congress and their staff and guess what . The party is kind of already started. Well be back or maybe we wont to tell you about that story. Just dont breathe in, bob, youll be okay. A quick check of whats coming up on good day dada. Well head to northern have a have to meet a newly named principal of the year. So exciting plus maroon five band member pj morton stops by the left and monty durham from say yes to the dress will join us as he works to make wishes come true for dozens of local high schoolers. 8 11. Stay with us. Stay with us. announcer theres more to life than the climb. Theres the view. Youve gotta stop and look around a little. Come, shed lifes layers in asheville. Let the child inside you out to play. Remember who you are. Life is for the taking, not for taking it easy. Asheville. Discovery, inside and out. [doorbell] when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. Visit kp. Org to learn more. Kaiser permanente. Thrive. Little cloudy out there this morning. Temperatures just shy of 60 degrees. Tucker saying as we took a look at the radar a little bit of rain on the way for everybody fairly soon. So we typically this time of the morning talk about cuteness. Its our cuteness factor. Yes. We talk about cuteness those five and under. Thats right. Theyre usually very small. Right now well talk about a little bigger cuteness. 75 pounds of it. Aww. How adorable is that . A 75pound polar bear cub on display now at the columbus zoo and aquarium. He look big until you showed me mom and dad. Hes just like i want to play too. Look playing. The zoos youngest member of the polar bear five month old now made public debut yesterday f thats how cute that cub is at five months, imagine when it was like a month old. Yeah. Like little puppy. Look at him playing. The cubs mom initially gave birth to twins sadly the other one did not make it. The zoo is asking the public for help finding a name. Theyre holding a naming competition which ends early next month. All right. We will get our fox5 first five coming up later on. We couldnt pass up that cuteness. What about snowy . I like that. Snowy, yeah. Do you . Sometimes its simple. Right. When scaler was little she used to add y for everything. Polar y. Iceberg. Y. Y makes everything better. Icy. Lets do the forecast. Except icy. Maybe they need some help. Just went into weather mode. 69 in washington. Well be 83 or low 80s later today. Much warmer than moving through as we speak you can see them pressing in the north and west. Not going get a lot of rain but enough to wet the roadways, and if youre headed out to walk the dog that kind of thing in the next couple of minutes be are there for rain showers. Midday well get a bit of a break. Kind of partly to mostly cloudy. Humid, warm and well see if we get an afternoon thunderstorm developing with temperatures expected to be in the 80s. Theres quick look at the seven day. Bless you pardon me. Sneeze see. Sneeze see. Yeah. I have kleenex y. 83 today and tomorrow. Get these place clean knee. Pardon me. Im setting overing. Ongoing battle. No excuse is needed, tuck. I know. We hope you feel better. Pardon me. Okay. Hi, erin. Antibacterial. Yall look so beautiful in your purple together. I love it. Youve been in traffic he double hock city key sticks today. Its been a rough morning. I dont like it i cant have as much fun tucker does awkwa to laugh as much thats uncomfortable and sad. Well be here when its better. Thank you i appreciate that. Diss trabel tractor trailer 95 on the northbound side at ro route 1 causing some slow downs. Arrow trucks out there First Responders on location a bit of a slow down through woodbridge because of that. Okay. Lets switch it over right now and show i was look at the big issue. This is what allison has been talking about. When she stalks about how traffic has been inner loop injury crash involving overturned tractor trailer two left lanes getting by between pennsylvania avenue and allentown road close to suitland parkway. Delays look at that it has not budged its a steady flow of bumper to bumper traffic with speeds under 5 miles an hour from north of Central Avenue to past allentown road. Be prepared for that over an hour delay if you choose to stick it with the inner loop but if you want to exit, central pike backing up, 50 inbound slow, 295 southbound slow, metro bus is in the area of suitland parkway and forestville road on 30 minute delay because of increased traffic. So much bail out traffic as delay so, again, as you make your way out in Prince Georges County unfortunate thursday morning commute. Outer loop in much better shape. Switch it over and show i was quick look at drive times. You can see 295 there again r really slow. The biggest delay 395 northbound from the beltway to king street. Just three minute ride will take you 17 minutes with congestion. Metro on time except for safetrack surge 14 impacting the green and yellow rush plus. Steve and allison, back to you. Erin thanks so much. It is a quote unquote joint session like capitol hill has not seen before. Today backers of legal Recreational Marijuana handing out free joints near the heart Senate Office being. Were getting preview with one of the organizers right now standing by with our bob barnard. Good morning to both of you eventually. Reporter yes, absolutely allison and steve. Helping 4 20 this is the day people who love marijuana celebrate every year and rain or shine this high noon joint and constitution avenues northeast. First street, constitution avenue. Look were outside the home of the man who got marijuana legalized in d. C. And is hite fighting his fight. Us citizen adam with d. C. Mj. This is symbolic but its also been a noose this jail in your front yard here. Thats right. This is a civil disobedience device its not used today but it will be at the National Cannabis festival if you want to experience whats its like to be inside a jail cell and, locked up. Something that will be up on capitol hill this is not a proper and. What do you have here adam. I have a legal amount of marijuana this is less than 2ounces. You cant carry more than in the District Of Columbia. And thats still lot of pot. Yeah. Its a lot of pot here. I mean theres probably for, you know, if you dont smoke that much this could be a couple months supply. But this is going to be distributed in pairs to members of congress, support staff on capitol hill. Any credentialed media. We already did a free give away during the inauguration for the general public, and more than 10,000 people came to Dupont Circle over three hour period we gave away as community about 9,000 joints. Today were saying members of congress, are you going to line up . Are your staff going to line up . Are you guys in touch witness American Public . The vast majority of americans want this to be legal and to dee stigmatize we have to give it away of this day 4 20 the holiday for cannabis in this world now. So reporter d. C. Has legalized marijuana. I mean there are a number of states for medical purposes or correct creation al purposes have legalized it you want the federal government to decriminalize marijuana, take it away from the controlled substances act, is that right . Correct. The controlled substances act schedule one puts marijuana in category where it has no legitimate use whatsoever. Its considered to be as dangerous as her row went. We know its not dangerous like heroin. There havent been deaths from marijuana ever. Theres no recorded overdose. But it does impair people. They get behind a car and you could have a Death Associated like that. I mean, first of all colorado studied this and that found that people who smoke cannabis and get behind the wheel are actually not dangerous drivers. That is a myth. But with that said it is against the law to use cannabis behind the wheel. But i think its very different than alcohol which impairs the entire body. Thats why people are getting into accidents because they lose control of their body while theyre drunk. With marijuana, the most common thing that happens after a large dosage is you might take a nap. Or you might eat some food. Also all cliches but true. Youre slowing down you actually dont speed up. You dont become erratic you actually become more conscious of your movements and so theres not a lot of evidence that actually smoking and driving are connected so accidents. But i dont think i dont recommend it. Thats not what our protest is about today. Reporter tell me about that. We got to go, but today you want members of congress and t doing by partaking in what youre doing to come away with what and to do what . Look, there are 670,000 people in the District Of Columbia. We have no Voting Rights in congress. And thats preventing us from writing our own local laws. Theres rider from representative andy harris in maryland preventing d. C. From writing any new laws on marijuana. We want that rider removed in the continuing resolution thats about to be voted on next week. And he want d. C. To write its own laws again and tax and regulate this. We legalize but were not getting the tax benefit the District Of Columbia and were also not regulating it properly because we can write more laws. Reporter adam, thank you very much. High noon today this joint session protest up on capitol hill. First street and constitution avenue northeast. Theyre giving away the marijuana today. Theyre inviting people back on monday to light up, guys, to try to get congress to change some federal laws. Bob, thank you very much. Still ahead, saving metro. The troubled Transit Agency in need of billions to keep riders safe money . General manager Paul Wiedefeld will join us live to talk about the new plan to keep metro moving much thats coming up at 8 30. 8 30. Hey allergy muddlers are you one sneeze away from being voted out of the carpool . Try zyrtec® its starts working hard at hour one and works twice as hard when you take it again the next day. Stick with zyrtec® and muddle no more®. Al, we have a responsibility now. Yes. Finally. Tucker busy preparing for Weather School right now. While hes that were going to educate our viewers. Oh, my goodness. Of the cuteness. Cuteness oh, my goodness. This is gracie. This is gracie upton much shes down in Southern Maryland and with her grand dad there who she obviously just adores. I love her shirt. They adore each other. Her shirt says its a beautiful life. They have matching hats. They work in the yard together. Matching smiles. Wearing their matching hats and matching smiles after they finished planting grass seed outside. Theyre still happy after gardening. Theyre together, right. Yes. The best. Happiness reflects off of one on to the other and they love fox5, too, guys. I say it all the time. That grand parent love and nurturing you just you just cant a price tag on it. Its a mazing. Can we go out in the yard again. Come on out gracie. Love it, love it, love it. May you all have many, many, many happy years together. That will be such a great photo keep sake, too. Isnt it. Love it if you want to send us your childs picture go to our Facebook Page at fox5 d. C. Already. Its time to go to Weather School. Class is in session. All righty. Hello. Im a method actor okay when i play this role i need some time to get into the role. I understand. Understood. Thank you allison. Another a for you. Sunshine that gets a c today. Winds get a b. Theyll be out south and west. Well be partly sunny later. Afternoon temps an a. Low 80s. Hey, read your poetry to the class. Thats an a plus. Play off sports in d. C. Both teams earned a victory after a slow start the caps prove they have some heart. They beat toronto to tie it at two and yes the wizards wouldnt too. Bradley biehl, john wall are great, this may be our first championship since 1978. That was pretty good, actually. Yeah. Queue my music. Okay, the walk off. [ laughter ] that is a walk off like bryce harper. Thank you gentlemen. Bravo. Method actor. Braff s metros general manager who i hope did not watch that will have a new plan to save the cash strapped agency. Metros man at the top Paul Wiedefeld joins us live next. N. Mmm [ keys clack ] [ slurps ] make it iced, then make it happen with flavors like butter pecan or new coconut creme pie. Its americas iced coffee, whenever, wherever. America runs on dunkin. In the middle of a storm destiny struck. Did may imagine april showers bringing her fashionable, flowers at such a sunny price . Never but thats the beauty of a store full of surprises. You never know what youre gonna find, but you know youre gonna love it. It is now 8 30 and we are tracking metro. The general manager Paul Wiedefeld out with a new bold plan to save the system ruin. Sounds scary but as we know its reality. Plan calls for 500 million a year in new dedicated funding from the d. C. Region. That would help boost metros Capital Spending to bill billion and a half a year. General manager wants to outsource some projects and look to trim more from workers including dropping pensions for new employees and switching them to 401ks. A plan have a shot . Lets fine out from the man at the top general manager Paul Wiedefeld joins us live from metro headquarters. Always good to talk to you. Good morning. Good morning. A lot of these proposals have been made in one form or another in the past much whats different this time and whats different about the chances of these being implemented . I think let me if i can put in perspective what this plan is about is out about our customers. For this system to maintain, you know, the quality that we all want for this system we need to invest in that much its a 40yearold system. Its a 40 billion investment. We made in this system. And to protect that Going Forward, we need to make these types of some of this is, you know, has been talked about before, but some of of it hasnt. So, for instance, in the Capital Funding where im asking for the additional 500 million per year id like to put that in lock box where it can only be used for capital. Could not be syphoned over to the operating side of the house. Even thats very very important to keep that, you know, to keep that separate from those dol dollars. And then some of the issues on the laib i think are definitely unique to this region. Theyre not unique in other properties. But to look at outsourcing, is there an opportunity for instance for the second phase of the silver line to basically have public competition for that with both the unions and private sector to deliver that service. Those are smart notifies for to us think as we think about the longterm Financial Stability of this agency. Let me ask you this much ifkf many of the rider and ridership, and metro itself, lets look at the big picture. Ten years from now say this plan comes to fruition. How will metro be better than it is now . Basically a lot of the things that were g customers are going through now is because we havent kept up with investment. So as things wear out, were to the getting ahead of them before they wear out. They wear out literally as the trains are running and we have to change that whole dynamic and what this allows us to do just do that get ahead of these things before they break down, before the airconditioning breaks in our stations. We know that the chillers are 30, 40 years old. We have to replace them. Lets get ahead of that and not wait until they break down. Which is what we went through, for instance, at Dupont Circle last year. Lets get ahead of those things before they occur. To do that, of course, that takes money, money, money. Were talking more than 15 billion over the next ten years. So where is this coming from and how will we be affected as riders . Sure. I think, you know what ive tried to do is ask the local jurisdictions and the states to contribute those dollars and also the federal government. We have this what we call pre ya funding 150 year pre year from the federal government new years left of that. That needs to be extended this is an important system for the sun country for the nation, for the Nations Capital it serves visitors and federal employees and god for bid when things happen from an emergency perspective it serves that. So we have to maintain the system to moat all those needs. Thats a big ask. Are you hopeful that that youll receive it and if you dont whats the fate of metro in your opinion . Um, i am hopeful that we do get it because i think again i think the stake holders across the region the business community, the riders, the elected officials, they all understand and theyve said to me repeatedly this system cannot fail. And so we need to invest in it. If we dont invest in it youve seen what weve had. Weve had it for the last tepp years or so. Youve seen the steady decline. And that slide would actually the slope of that would increase because as time passes, these things get older, and if you dont invest with them, they break down sooner. Thats what were up against. In order to know what to fix and how to make things better you h and what hasnt worked, and unfortunately for you i think a lot of the time spent since you took on this task you found more and more seemingly all the time that either had been neglected in the past or needed to be fixed. Did you know these needs were so great when you came on board . They were little deeper than i thought to be frank. And so thats but our approach has been we own it, its now this management teams issue. We own it, went want to fine the root cause of issues and we tackle them. Thats what we do. So thats what youve seen play out over the last year. Were not pushing these thing to the side any longer. Were not pushing them to the future. We are attacking them literally minute by minute and thats the way well continue to do it as we go forward, we want to get these things to happen less and less and less as we put in management and as we invest. Speaking of Going Forward and we might have to end it here i dont want to take up all your time, but in order to get some of the money that allison was talking about as well to get this forward youll need help from not just local jurisdictions government as well. Some lawmakers are on board with it. Some have questions want more answers. From the top youve met with the president at the white house already. Have you heard anything from the white house from the administration that might help metros moving forward . In my discussions both with the president and with secretary of chow we stress the importance of the system to the Nations Capital. They understand that. They understand infrastructure. They understand the role it plays. So so im very positive, you know, we obviously we dont have anything specific but im positive theyre of the same mindset that we all are. You cant put 40 billion investment and let it go to waste. That doesnt make sense. As always we appreciate you spenting time with us talking about fox5 first. We do appreciate it. Paul wiedefeld general manager for metro. Thank you vey much. Thank you so much. 8 00 arthritic right now. Lets check in with Tucker Barnes and get check on the forecast. Thanks, steve. 50s to start your morning. Cloudy skies and rain showers moving on in here from the north and west. 59 now in washington. 50 else. Heres your shower activity f falling apart as its moving through enough to wet the roadways and well have some temporary rain showers here. Then we shall get a break. I think midday kind of parly sunny. Warm, humid. Daytime highs in the low 80s bowden degrees warmer than yesterday and with that afternoon air mass a hell unstable we could fire up a thunderstorm a little later today. Just keep that in mind. Three, four, 5 00 oclock we may have a few showers and storms redevelop a little later. Heres your planner. Plan on a good time. 82 this afternoon at 5 00 p. M. With a thunderstorm. [ laughter ] erin, how is it looking. That was funny, thank you. Right now 8 37. Look at this. We have a crash eastbound seven out in leesburg again the left lane is block earlier crash scene there as well. Bigger delays lingering. Lets go outside because we have been dealing with big problems on the inner loop look at that rain tucker its out by ritchie marlboro rain. Use caution there. Still is it a stand till from arena drive to about suitland parkway. Earlier crash in the process of clearing involving a semi truck. Two left lanes have been getting by. I a open shortly until then if you dont want to sit in 45 minute delay exit at 50 inbound just work your way around to get back to branch avenue to hook back on to the inner loop but right now with the rain coming down were still seeing that heavy delay outer loop slows just a bit because of the rain as well. Use caution on the roads grab your umbrella this has been an issue for over two hours this morning. Slow downs for prince county drivers. Take look back at hour maps much metro on time except for safetrack impacting the green line and yellow rush plus. We havent gotten to touch on 270. Jammed from father hurley to the beltway about 40 minute delay. Caution there as well. Allison and steve, im headed off to go prom dress shopping now for good day. You need a break. Im so happy. Thank you. Youre doing it with the top say yes to the dress monty. You know him ill be with him. Love it. Thats i was m speaking of celebrating and people at the top, the patriots make an eastern at the white house. One player interrupts the Daily Press Briefing. I think press secretary is that. Im theres an opportunity. Do you need some help . [ laughter ] i know ive got this but thank you. You sure. Maybe. [ laughter ] trying to play cool but tough to do when you get a surprise like at the Daily Press Briefing and then everybody wept right back into questions. Most possible were like googling who is that man that just walk into the room. That was cool. S cool. Was big new England Patriots fan caught off guard new England Patriots rob grant could you ski peering in and asking if spicer needed any help. John spicer said i got this went right back to business. Patriots of course at the white house to be honored for super bowl victory. The twitter bio of sean spicer says hes a quote unquote wicked patriots fan. You know he was trig to play it cool. Probably just like gang is talking to him. First look youre like what . Thats awesome. Well have awesome show coming up gone day. Lets check in with holly and welcome back maureen. Thanks everybody. Gang is all here. We are ready to give it to you. What does it take tock named principal of the year . Well well find out live from Prince William county where one man has earn the hadnt nor. Well deserved honor that is. Wow also ahead a jam packed good day d. C. Lets put up the guest list. We will try not to swoon kevin sits down with chris pratt to talk about his new in many that could be a summer blockbuster. Also hes part of one of the hottest bands and guess who is live in the loft . Pj morton is here to talk about his new album and how you can see him tonight. Plus were also live with safe yes to the dress star monty durham. How hes helping young people in this area with their proms. Oh, and we will be live in the good day cafe as well cooking up some pot stickers. Jam packed good day dc delicious too the only place to be. Well see in you just a few. Look forward to it, ladies. Thank you. I like it coming up next were heading to hollywood. Kevin has Entertainment News live from las ang when we come back. Its 8 43. This is the silverado special edition. Man this is one gorgeous truck. Oh, did i say theres only one special edition . Because, actually theres five. Woman ooohh uh man 2 hooooly mackerel. Man 3 wow. Man 4 nice. Strength and style. Which ones your favourite . Come home with me make a strong decision. Find your tag and get 16 below msrp on select silverado 1500 pickups in stock. Find new roads at your local chevy dealer. Oh, boy. That never make it better. Out of the frying pan into the fire. Bad early this morning got little better and now little rain coming down out there. Causing more problems out on the roads. Well get to the roads little bit later on. Lets get to the forecast. But we need to wait for ten seconds. Lets down to business. Showers out there right now. Maybe thunderstorm this afternoon as were looking at a much more humid air mass moving in and along with that warmer temperatures on the way as well. 59 in washington. 56 dulles. 60 in fredericksburg. Here we go getting 60s. 61 leonardtown didnt warm up a flip the prompter hug after the show. Thank you. Theres your satellite and just the radar. Ill show that you in a second. Rain shower activity moving through on the live shot we saw the roadways are getting weather i know everybody gets wet here just about everybody if youre out along 66 towards gainsville and out to the west Fauquier County you might miss this. This is round one. Round two later today as we get daytime heating theres your satellite radar. Rather unstable air mass in place with warmer temperatures and low 80s expected later to today. Big picture High Pressure we get southwesterly wind going today. Remember yesterday we were off the ocean kept it cool. Today south and west that allows temperatures to warm up. Cold front tomorrow will start to make its presence felt. Kep storms in the forecast tomorrow as well. But today, tonight and tomorrow definitely on the warm side. Theres your future cast. And thats showing you round one i want to show you future cast likes the idea of round two between 3 00 and six, 7 00 oclock tonight things to st the daytime heating later this afternoon. Overnight partly cloudy. Seven day 83 today and tomorrow. That cold front comes through it gets stuck just to our south. We get air of low pressure riding along it and bottom line not great looking weekend a lot of clouds on saturday. Rain showers bite second half of saturday into sunday. And Cool Temperatures. We may not get out of the 50s sunday afternoon with a lot of clouds and rain showers around. Little better next week lets start with today. 83 couple storms this afternoon guys. Back to you. Thanks tucker. All right. Here we go today tosses box beat fresh off the live action beauty and beast. News about live action remake of another disney classic. Kevin mccarthy has the scoop. Hes live in la. Tell us right now, what is the next one. Good morning allison and steve. Yeah, theres a lot of interesting things happening happening now i think studios are realizing that these live action real remakes are extremely successful especially beauty and the beast which made just came out in march. I wouldnt be surprised if it passes a lot more than that cinderella made 543 million. Jungle book 966 million. Now the next one is lad din. This is definitely. Guy ritchie directing his film. I love guy ritchie. Hes known for adult oriented films. He did lock stock milling barrels. Rock and roll snatch with brad pitt im excited about seeing his take because john fave will he directed the younger book but the news that came out yesterday is that will smith is actually in talks or early talks not confirmed to play the jeannie. Now, i think this is interesting because Robin Williams was the original jeannie in the 92 f film. My assumption would be that this character would still be through cgi. It would have to be. Will smith would be doing the voice work because in the jungle book while you had one live action kid you still had good i. You had bill murray playing the bear. Scarlet johansson playing the snake im interested to see how this work out. I like this idea. I think will smith has great personality. I think Robin Williams obviously that role is going to be hard to top. In in my opinion i think he deserved an Academy Award for that. He didnt get nominate the academy has grown to give voice performers that recognition yet. I dont know. What do you think about will shim as the jeannie . What do you think . I think that like when you think about Robin Williams, will smith is on that same, upping, level as far as big personality, funny voice, all that kind of stuff, but i got to admit, i mean, there only be one Robin Williams doing the jeannie if my opinion. I agree. Im sorry. I think its a really hard role to take. I actually i love will smith. Me too. But if im an actor, i dont know if id want to touch that. Right. Because its a really its one of the most iconic chara inevitable theyre definitely doing this it has to be somebody. Theyre already remaking it so ice guess the question now s who would be better than will smith i mean obviously maybe unknown. How about an unknown . Well, theyre going to cast unnons reportedly according to variety theyll cast unknowns for the parts of aladdin and jazz minute. But if you looked at the jungle book that little kid was unno. Right. The girl from cinderella was unknown. So i think they want to surround these end p unknowns with big stars. Because i mean jungle book made almost a billion dollars probably because of the name and also because of the big stars behind it. I propose they switch it up havent selena gomez as, you know, the lead jazz minute. As jasmine. Yes. And have unknowns as everybody else. You know what, im im in for any idea. Put the call in. Disney is on a role with t this. Just rumor at the moment but im interested to see if this actually happens. Well kevin well see guy ritchie outside of his hotel and. Pass the word along. You know whats funny, steve, ill see guy ritchie in a couple of weeks for a new movie. So i will definitely ask him about this if it has hasnt been confirm yet. Well call it the seymour effect. Its a thing. Exactly. No its not. Let me city i can get this right this time. Richard simmons. This is the new story earlier this morning at 3 45 i called him Russell Simmons my apologies about that. But Richard Simmons obviously we know hes been kind of out of the public eye since 2014. This past monday he check into a hospital. He had digestive issues. But to kind of clarify that hes doing okay. He po posted a photo of himselfd pretty good size post about whats going on and in the post he said arent you sick of hearing and reading about me . Lol. By now you know that im not missing. Just a little under the weather. Im sure ill be feeling good and back home in days. And this is the part that i like the most. He said this is reminded me when you need help and you cant be afraid to reach out and ask for it, we all think we should be able to, you know, solve our problems all by ourselves and sometimes its just bigger than we are. And i think weve seen a lot of that theme recently in regards to like shows and tv shows and again im not comparing this to 13 reasons why but theres a whole concept of a lot of people talking about this idea that if you are having an issue, talk about it, go to somebody and i think thats an important part. Always. Kev, thank you. Hey. Do we have time for Serena Williams. We have baby news time. Serena williams posted snap chat yesterday. Shes 20 weeks pregnant which is awesome but even crazier part of this story and this came from twitter i believe tearing it up as the name of the actual twitter feed. Serena williams was pregnant when she won the Australian Open in january. But i c bed i cant read the whole full tweet here basically the idea is that Serena Williams was pregnant during her win at the Australian Open in january. Amazing. Awesome. Kind of a cool thing. I thought shes 20 weeks pregnant. Wow. Good for her. Im with the other mom. I can get imagine trying to do Something Like that and within too. I know. Amazing. That was this person was saying shes super woman. I cant imagine. Thats an amazing. She posted the photo to her snap chat. Owe also posted a couple other photos as well kind of hinting at things. Congratulations to her obviously but 20 weeks pregnant for Serena Williams. Super. Congrats. Thanks kev. See you on good day. 8 54. Back with more after this including our fan of the day. We want to say hello to our facebook fan of the day. Great picture. Great picture of some great paintings. Good morning to patsy culvert creating lovely artwork and what looks like an art class. Looks like everybody is on board with it too. So fun. Okay. Patsy was nominated by her daughter patrice. Patrice says patsy is a ded dedicated fox5 fan. Thank you so much maybe thats patrice in the picture. Im not sure. But thank you ladies for watching. We appreciate it. Keep it locked on fox5 for your chance to be fan of the day post your pick below this one. All right. We want to make the caps our of them. Right. However we can make that work because last night final al came where the offense came out and everything clicked for the caps in game four against the maple leafs most of the game it was all caps all the time. Tj had two goals. Alex ovechkin with a goal. Tom wilson with two goals. Caps never gave up the lead. They were up fourone. Final score on this 15four. Series now tied at two games a piece. Coming back home to Verizon Center tomorrow night. Caps have a chance to take that threetwo lead and after that you know what happens they win the fourth and then they go on to the second round. It will be glorious. Stanley cup. Theyll get there eventually. Wizards, you know what, i had fun watching this game last night to see john wall have fun winning the game last night. Right. Playing the game. Intensity was high. Smiles on the faces. Looked loose and relaxed thats the face of champion. Second time in row the wizards stars shining bright john wall 32 points. Bradley biehl 31 points. Wizards top the hawks 109 twozero series lead. Game three saturday in atlanta. They should make the little logo. Gortat doing his thing. I love that. Great energy all around last night. Win. Win. Two grand slams in one game. Nats dominated. We should change the name to district of winning. I like it. At least for the next 24 hours. Washington district of winning. 60 now in washington. Winds out of the south here at ten. Rain showers moving through the area. You can see those pushing to the south and east. Rain showers for the next hour or so. Get a break midday. Possibility of showers or thunderstorm redevelops this afternoon. Going to be warm and humid for this time of year. Temperatures back in the 80s this afternoon, today and tomorrow. Cool weekend an wet weekend saturday night into sunday wet around here. Plenty more weather coming up and lots of fun on good day d. C. Right after the break. Straight ahead, fired at fox. After 20 years the Cable News Network cut ties with Host Bill Oreilly and hes not going quietly. New security procedures out in front of the white house. Im Melanie Alnwick. Ill tell what it will mean for those selfies in front of the south lawn. Saving metro. The Transit Agencys general manager wants a new model and 500 million in extra funding to try to keep the system back on track. What he told