Temperature in the mid 80s. I have all the details on that weather forecast. Erin how are the roads. This is what youre up against, sluggish commute use low beams and caution on the outer loop about a 20 minute delay from 95 over to Georgia Avenue. Also in virginia, gw parkway just outside alexandria shut down because of a crash scene. Well help you steer clear of all those issues with your traffic. We got you covered this morning, allison and steve. Our big story this morning though new details in that breaking news out of delaware where a tense standoff in its 19th hour between police and a man they say shot and killed a delaware state trooper yesterday. Trooper stephen j. Ballard was gunned down as he approached a car and parked at a convenience store. Sadly we learned trooper ballard had had a local connection to the d. C. Region. Melanie alnwick joins us live with the latest this morning. Reporter steve and allison, many of Corporal Ballards friends have changed their facebook profile pictures to this, a police badge with a blue line through it. Hes fm were learning overnight the suspect continued to fire on police. The gunman has been hiding out in a house in a residential neighborhood 15 miles away from the shooting scene. Overnight homes there shook with the sound of explosive blasts and gunfire. Terrified neighbors could hear police on bull horns trying to talk the suspect out but at this hour still no resolution. Yesterday evening end of watch, the duty no officer ever wants to do. A sea of blue uniforms outside the hospital here where 32yearold trooper ballard passed away. Then the solemn escort for a 9mile trip taking ballards body to the medical examiners office. People along the procession saluted put hands on hearts and wiped away tears. It was noon wednesday when Corporal Ballard approached two people sitting in a parked car at a wawa in bear delaware. Man got out. There was a struggle. Sources say he pushed the trooper, then turned and opened fire. The suspect ran away on foot. The other person in the car was taken intous delaware state trooper for eight years. The officer down memorial page says he leaves behind wife. Delawares governor has ordered all u. S. And state flags to be flown at halfstaff there and Maryland Governor larry hogan this morning has sent his condolences. Steve. Also developing overnight President Trump says he will not pull the u. S. Out of the north American Free trade agreement. The president told mexican and canadian leaders he would not leave nafta in it. President trump taking a major step to undo an obama era environmental policy. Now the president has signed an executive order asking the interior department to review the designation of millions of acres of planned utah as a national monument. President obama used the 1906 Antiquities Act to designate the land. The act was originally created to protect land from drilling mining or development. Utahs state the governor oppose the move by the former president. The Trump Administration says the act has been abused by previous administration. U. S. Set to tighten sanctions on north korea. President donald trump announced his plan to senators although it is unclear what the sanctions would impose. North korea already has extensive sanctions from the u. S. Including a blanket ban on trade an blacklist of anyone dealing with north korea. One person too many. Thats the slogan of a group of Congress Women who are pushing forward after the spike in social media awareness surrounding d. C. s missing teens. Several Congress Women joined Law Enforcement officials on capitol hill yesterday to discuss how to better help thousands of missing women and teens of color. According to the black and missing foundation t37 percent of missing people in the United States respect minority are minorities. Fire crews on the scene of a massive fire in colleg p on monday. Fox5s bob barnard is live in college park with more on why this fire is still demanding firefighters attention. Bob, good morning. Reporter yeah, good morning, allison and steve. Theyre still here. Were told theyre still at this hour putting 250 gallons of water per minute on this fire. You see the ladder truck here Prince Georges County firefighters still dealing with flareups. Theyre up there on the roof. Theyre apparently four locations that are still on occasion igniting. And thats not smoke youre seeing here, this is this foggy morning here in college park. Now, this fire has been burning off and on since monday. Were told the fire is deep seated into the rubble here. This Apartment Building that was almost completed does have a Sprinkler System installed but not connected to a water supply. And it is, of course, designed for fire doors that were not yet in place. Were told investigators still cant get inside to examine the area where they believe the fire started because the rooftop is still so unstable. Now, were told its almost a total loss. There e to this building so the far far have to come down. The other part of the building will be preserved here at fuse 47. Spoke to rushern baker. Theres not only Apartment Building but retail connect of connected to this so theyre hoping to work with the developer to make sure that they can have this project go forward but we are told because of these flareups which continue this morning, at least through this afternoon, Prince Georges County firefighters will remain on the scene. This is the biggest response of firefighters in Prince Georges County history, guys. Thats amazing, bob. Thanks very much for the update. 7 06 right now. Tucker barnes back with us. Little haze in the background in bobs shot this morning. Yeah, little fog across the area. That will burn off and well be in for sunshine and warmer conditions. Mid 80s around here. Amazing. Air condition kerr might be coming later. Right. Did it even get out of the 60s yesterday. I think we hit 71 at Reagan National yesterday yeah but we didnt get the Late Afternoon sunshine. 58 dulles in baltimore 58 as well. Quiet conditioning other than the fog out there and once we get the winds kind of shifting here out of the south, well clear things out pretty quick. Mostly sunny today. Bright, beautiful and summery and again, daytime highs about 15 degrees warmer than yesterday. Plain old warm this afternoon with highs in the mid 80s. Theres a cold front out into Eastern Kentucky and tennessee. That will get in here tonight. We may have a few showers around after 11 oclock, midnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. This afternoon enjoy it. 84 and sunshine. I will enjoy it. Ill have the weekend forecast in a minute. It will be an enjoyable day. Erin good morning. Good morning. Problems continuing to grow around the district maryland and virginia. Starting off in uptory marlboro pennsylvania avenue four inbound a crash at woodyard road. Seeing delays back to 301 so please give yourself extra time to get world the beltway this morning. Maryland commute the outer loop jammed up. A lot of fog there. Seeing delays from 95 over to Georgia Avenue. About a 16 minute delay 95 north and southbound dealing with slow traffic. Earlier crash in calverton at 212 on the northbound side cleared. On and off delays all the way down to the beltway right now. You can see through gaithersburg and rockville a yellow zone its about a 45 minute delay from that 70 down to the spur. Thats because of some light fog as well as just some heavy congestion. Earlier crash by 85 cleared. 66 eastbound delays and then 295 southbound all lanes reopened by the 11th street bridge. Earlier crash. Traffic still really backed up from 50 on down, about a 15 minute delay. 50 inbound jams from that basically 202 over to 295. And then new york avenue by bladensburg is slow. Gw parkway this is outside the beltway down past alexandria closer to wellington, its closed between morning side lane and wayne wood boulevard so try to keep it to route one to get around that as you head towards groveton this morning. Just seeing a wide view of slow traffic on 395 inbound bottom of the beltway. Metro is on time except for safe track. Back to you. 7 08 right now. This morning a tense battle continues to brew ov absentee policy. Metro says its bracing for a sickout tomorrow. This after nearly 500 rail and bus employees filed advance absence requests. Fox5s annie yu is following the story for us this morning. Shes live at Friendship Heights metro with the latest now. Annie. Reporter hey, good morning, allison and steve. Well, this is all happening during an interesting time. Right now metro is going its doing negotiation times with its Largest Union and so its very tense, its getting ugly but this recent possibility of a sickout stems from a new policy that was issued by metros management. And it aims to crack down on the excessive absence of its employees and, you know, gm Paul Wiedefeld says that he hopes by doing this it improves productivity holds people accountable and so this is this went into effect march first and since then, this has been really kind of a battle brewing between metro and the union workers. Basically the policy re twist three days request three days in advance. Metro says they received nearly 500 of those requests for this weekend so the Transit Agency says it has denied all of those requests saying that they expect to offer full bus and rail service for customers as scheduled but of course if workers dont show up for work there could be major disruptions for commuter. A spokesman for metro says the three day windy is for requesting excused absences so for things like doctors appointments for example. Now workers can still take an unexcused absence so if they wake up sick one morning they can still call out sick but the employee would face disciplinary action if they abuse that. Now, a rep for metros Largest Workers Union say metro is putting workers and passengers at risk by rejecting the surge of absence requests and the Union President adds that she is unaware of a sickout. Take a listen. Theres a possibility that members have taken it upon the directives that wmata has given which is calling out on the policy. But that does not thats not providing us with a safe system. And thats what were calling for. The policy is asinine. Reporter why. Because theres nobody that i know of that works for any particular organization that can give a threeday notice telling them im going sick or im going have the flu on tuesday. So im going to call you on sunday. Thats ridiculous. Reporter again, i think its very important to clarify and know the difference between the excused and unexcused absence. That three day window is for excused absences and the Union President jackie jeter who you just saw s says if employees expect to be sick on friday they are only adhering to wmatas policy so metro letting us know they have denied those 500 requests. As were talking to passenger for the best. Obviously they want regular Service Friday but they are also looking at a plan b. Thats the latest from the Friendship Heights metro. Back to you in the studio. Annie thank you. 7 11. Tonight the Loudoun CountySheriffs Department will host a meeting discussing an incident where seven students at River Bend Middle School shared a drink reportedly containing xanax. One student had an elevated heart rate. Ultimately all were sent home with a parent. Police are investigating any possible connection between the incident at river bend and two similar incidents at potomac falls high school. On saturday, the sheriffs depth will hold a prescription take back urging people to turn in their expired prescription drugs. Tom Montgomery County now are police are trying to figure out what happened to nearly 40,000. Its missing from the countys council of ptas. Police believe somebody inside of the council who had access to the Checking Account stole that money. Members of the Council First noticed inconsistencies in the finances in march. Missing between 2016 and march of this year. Its unbelievable that somebody would do that to kids. And families that contribute. Its horrifying. Its donations, its fundraising that were doing, all for our students and our teachers and our schools and our communities. The council of ptas overseas nearly 200 local Parent Teacher associations with each school having one or two representatives. Still ahead this morning, as United Airlines announces sweeping changes to its policies another Airline Coming under fire for its treatment of a passenger. Well have that video next. This puppy was left for dead t his name is eddie. He was in bad shape when he was found. Hear from the animal control officer who helped nurse eddie back to health. And how you can give him a forever home. I hope so. Yeah, i just saved a whole lot of money by switching to geico. Huh. We should take a closer look at geico. You know, geico insures way more than cars. Boats, motorcycles. Even rvs geico insures rvs . Whats an rv . Uh, the thing weve been stuck on for five years wait, im not a real moose . . Weve been over this, jeff. Were stickers im not a real moose . Give him some space. Deep breaths, jeff. Whats a sticker . . Take a closer look at geico. Great savings. And a whole lot more. Hey tuck. Little bit of mist and fog out there to set a scene but once we get that out of here its sunshine and beautiful and summer meteorologist, summery around here. Mid 80s. Ready. Ive been ready. Ready for little beads of sweat down your back. Thats fine. Ready to feel alive in the warmth. Maybe are pants are sticking to you a little more than they normally would. Thats all right. What do you mean. Because youre sweating a little bit. Okay. cause youre sweating cause its hot. 59 in washington. Yeah, were going to be in the mid 80s later today. Satellite and radar and the radar all quiet. Its not picking up the fog out there and the haze because of all the moisture eve had in the region the last couple days. Once we get in out of here, we get the winds out of the south well pump temperatures into the mid 80s good 10, 15 degrees warmer than yesterday and most of the day should be sunny and bright. We have clouds out to the west that get in here later this afternoon. Showers tonight with a cold front. Theres your seven day. Do that want to mention a few showers overnight and then sunshine tomorrow, 83 a little cooler. Then we step it up to near 90 degrees, 90 degrees on saturday. Whoohoo yes. Get out the slip and slide, steve. Im back. Okay. Ready. All right. I looking forward to it. Im sorry, maybe i missed the sun erin. Good morning. Me, too. If we can get a slip and slide to our parking lot for good day id be all about it. Just not in the parking lot again. We need it on the grass again. Did we do it in the parking lot before. Yeah that will turn you off. Lesson learn. Outer loop from 95 to Georgia Avenue were dealing with about a 15 minute slow down but you may encounter some denser patches of fog. If thats case use low beams. Please reduce your z be cautious this morning. Tucker promises sunshine is on well show you a look at our maps right now. Other issues you need to steer clear of. Pennsylvania avenue inbound theres a crash at woodyard road in Upper Marlboro. As side from that closer look at the top of the beltway. An earlier calverton crash 95 northbound at 212 cleared. But were still dealing with just a little bit of a residual delay. South of the agent cc down to the beltway heavier traffic. Bw parkway touch heavy by powder mill road in both directions but a better bet than 95 just outside the capital beltway. On and off delays 270 southbound as you make your way down things get heavier from gaithersburg into rockville. About a 45 minute delay right now from clarksburg to the beltway. And 66 eastbound sluggish commute about a 30 minute delay as you come from gainsville to about fairfax. And taking a look 295 southbound all lanes reopened by the 11th street bridge. Residual delays lingering from 50 on down of about a half hour. 50 inbound remains slow. Suitland parkway jams to south capitol. Safe track inimpacting the green and yellow rush plus. Allison and steve. Penalty phase in pennsylvania. Eric frein sentenced to death late last night. Sentence coming just a week after he was convicted on charges of murder and terrorism. The 33yearold led police on a 48 day manhunt in the poconos after he ambushed a Police Barracks and opened fire. Corporal Bryan Dickson the second a marine veteran and married father of two was killed. The other victim trooper Alex Douglass critically injured. According to prosecutors the shooter randomly attacked the officers in hopes of inciting a rebellion. Confederate statues and monuments getting backlash saying it disrespects africanamericans. Others say it honors the lives lost. Lawmakers in texas moving forward with a bill that would change how the state deals with statues and monuments. Under the bill before anyone can relocate or remove any Historical Monument memorial, they have to get approval first from the legislature, the Texas Historical commission or on the state preservation board. Theres new information out this morning after the fallout for United Airlines after a viral video showing a passenger being dragged off an overbook flight. The airline says its making big changes. A total of 10 changes including no longer using Law Enforcement unless theres a safety or security issue. Boarded passengers will not be asked to give up their seats unvoluntarily. United increasing compensation for voluntarily giving up your seat to up to 10,000. Flight attendants and gate agents aloud to hand out miles. If the airline permanently loses your luggage, many of us have been there theyll pay a no questions asked flat fee of 1,500. Now as united tries to make amends delta dealing with their own pr headache this rn video showing delta Security Officials asking a passenger to get off the plane. Why . Because he used the bathroom right before take just. The incident happened on april 18. The Flight Attendant told the man to return to its seat or the plane would lose its line for take just. He quickly went to the bathroom. After he refused to get off the plane all passengers were ordered off the plane. One passenger said it was one of those cases where they were ready to take off and then the pilot came on and said were going to be here for awhile and half hour later they were still sitting there and he went to use the restroom. Rules are rules but, you know if you urgely have to go. Who knows if he had a medical condition or what have you. Unfortunate. To maryland now. An update on the puppy abandoned a container left for dead in columbia last month. Animal control officers did not think that little puppy would survive. His name is eddie. But take a look at eddie now. Eddie continues to gain weight. Eddie has recovered from all the open woundsnd fur. I knew from the beginning that he was a really tough puppy. For him to be in the condition that he was in and still able to show love and want to fight, there was a really good chance as long as he was willing to work with us and the vets to get him back to where he needed to be. Props to that animal control officer. Eddie now up for adoption. Police in Howard County still trying to find the person responsible for abandoning and hurting little eddie. Great to see hes doing well. Steve, stop me before i adopt again. You need to talk to me in the commercial. Im serious. Eddie is so sweet. Still ahead, the quest for the cup continues. Huge night in the district. Caps set to take on the penguins at Verizon Center game one of round two of the stanley cup playoffs. Story line that doesnt go away. All right. These two teams know each post season. Specially in the time to rock the reds caps fans. Maple leafs now in the past in the Rearview Mirror and right in front of the caps train now the Pittsburgh Penguins once again just like last year. Caps face the rivals in game one tonight at the Verizon Center. I dont want to talk about last year. Lets focus on this year. Trust me, a. You dont want to bring okay. Focus on this year. Lets do it. Get the caps fans ready take part in the a rock the red Scavenger Hunt starts at 9 oclock this pucks will be hidden at different locations throughout the d. C. Region. Each fan who finds one of these selected pucks will receive a pair of tickets to tonights game. Scavenger hunt. Exciting. Clues will be released on the capitals official team twitter page. Also, all babies born at medstar hospital get complimentary caps gear. Cool. Game day freebies like glow sticks and rally towels and beardathon where you can grow a playoff beard for charity. See if this is the year the caps make it past the second ground. We got to claimant. This is the year. I want to look forward. Totally not having a baby. Now i can have a baby so i can get the free caps gear. I dont think its possible this week. You never know. Allison i have a question. If i have my own hockey puck and i find it theyll know. Youll embarrass us. Okay. Doublechecking. 59 now in washington. Mid 80s later today. Sunshine, bright and beautiful. I know theres fog for parts of the area, thank you, getting fog. It will burn off and then well be in for nice conditions. Dry afternoon and warm, mid 80s around here later today. This will be a quick moving cold front likely to bring us showers after 11 oclock maybe midnight and then should be out of here early tomorrow. So, thats our next chance of a little rain. It will get here after dark tonight and be out of here early tomorrow. Back in the sunshine, 83 tomorrow. Perfect for conditions for happy hour tomorrow, erin. Yes. 90 on saturday. Uhoh. Jam cam. Were going to need happy hour after this commute. From an earlier crash down by the 11th street this look by Eastern Avenue still in for a 30 minute day delay from 50 down to the bridge. Bottle next again. A lot of leftover delays. Have patience there. Aside from that were seeing some heavier traffic coming through southbound right now. Well take a wide view of the rest of your commute next. Back to you allison and steve. Erin thank you so much. Still ahead this morning. Senators from across the country on capitol hill for a special meeting on north korea. The u. S. Set to tighten sanctions revealed by President Trump when we come back well talk with one of those senators there virginia senator tim kaine to see if he can give us some insight. Were looking for something thats comfortable but yet durable, and thats going to last us a really long time. I dont want to buy new furniture every couple of years. Its custom made so you know its good quality. Im just speechless because its perfect. 7 30 right now. Time for the morning briefing. So much cover this thursday morning. The senate gets briefed on north korea. President trump says he can give you, me and a lot of business as break on our taxes, plus support for Health Care Reform back in the mix. We turn to virginia Senato Tim Kaine who joins us live from capitol hill this morning. Good morning. I want to start with north korea right now. Great to be with you guys. Great to see you. You and many of your colleagues from the Senate Meeting with the president getting briefed on north k what did we actually take away from that meeting . Well, look, im glad the white house is taking a very seriously. Im on the Foreign Relations committee. Last year, we pass add bill allowing the president to do greater sanctions against north korea so we put that in place in the last administration. Sounds like the administration serious about using the tools that weve provided. This is a very serious thing. Look, china needs to do more. China is the nation with the leverage against north korea and china also is the nation that has the most to lose with unstable north korea because they have a massive border with north korea and north korea gets unstable, refugees could flood into china. China has got to step it up, and we encourage the president to make that known, and it sounds like the president his team are working with china to do that. Remains to be seen whether china will take the steps they need to. Senator cane tax reform one pager comes out yesterday from the administration. Does it go far enough, too far hooks does it hurt well, your use of the word one pager is the keep very few details. I mean whats playing is that if this were enacted Something Like this it would be a massive give away to President Trump and his family. So i mean its a plan thats good for him. I want to see a map thats good for regular people and Small Businesses thats what im going to be looking for so right now without any details, its difficult to say. The other thing we have to look at is how do you pay for it . Because if youre just going to dramatically increase the deficit and then, what, what do we gogo borough money from the chinese, sell bonds to the chinese to pay for the deficit spending that this tax plan would produce . So weve got to see more details, but the feature that seems obvious right out of the gate is it would be great if youre President Trump. Also, want to ask you as this new administration nears its 100 days, you say the administration hasnt kept promises to your constituents the people of virginia. Im asking you in what also, have the promises to the American People been kept in your opinion . Well i think the key of fiss 100 days allison is unpredictable. Its just been extremely unpredictable. I think the American People are entitled to predictability including around promises. Heres an example really hurt extra have a. The first step that the president took before he was even inaugurated in congress we were ready to do a budget for the full year that would have really helped defense in virginia, would have really helped the private sector in virginia and the president came to congress in december as president elect and said dont do a budget. Instead do a shortterm spending thing through april 27th and well it out later. You see were on the verge of, you know, april 27th and its not been figure out. They injected uncertainty into the economy, and thats not good for defense and other prio priorities. So whether its that, whether its telling the american public, you know, nobody will be worse off under health care than supporting a plan that would have from 24 Million People or retreated on his pledge that mexico was going to pay for a border wall along the United States, this is a president that is backing away from many promises and in fact doing a lot of things that actually hurt people that voted for him. That hun 100 mark coming up on saturday. Lets bring it back to virginia right. No earlier this week we talk with Corey Stewart is running for governor of virginia because we were talking about some of these confederate statues in virginia, and his take and we pointed out hes from minnesota. Obviously hes been standing, you know, he has his take which is very strong when it comes to confederate statues andes and you as people pointed out are also from minnesota. You also were successful in becoming governor of virginia but im guessing your take on the confederate statue is that so little different. Yeah, corey is completely wrong on this. Hes completely wrong. In fact, the statement that he used is, cities making a decision after dialogue their citizens to remove or move statues shows that isis has won. Thats what he said. Now, if he thinks that the removal of statues by a city council after they have a dialogue with their citizens and decide that its in the best interest of their community is equivalent to isis winning, then hes clearly had his head buried underground for some time. Senator, i want to end with couple of fun notes while we still have time right now. Speaking of minnesota we saw some video of you jamming with your favorite minute money bands that would be Tommy Simpson fro the replacement. [ laughter ] look weve known that you played for long time. We invited you on the show to play with us at some point. We know that youve been playing all over the country. This had to be a thrill for you. This was. Yeah, he was in richmond saturday. This Tommy Stinson who helped found the replacements long time base player for guns and roses fronting a great band called bash and pop. He was in richmond and we played music for an hour his tunes tunes us blue grass tunes. Im come on the set you got to get a good guitar player a piano player. Well have fun one morning. Well make it happen. Well set it up. We got time for one more. I like that. I like that. Senator cane before we leave we understand you will be giving the commencement address at vcu. Yes. Can you tell us this is commencement season. Right. It is commencement season. Selfishly i ask if case i have to do a graduation at a center for higher education. But whats the theme . What are you telling young people coming out into really an uncertain economy, you know, hot spots still around the world . Whats your message . Yeah. Well, look, you want me to be brutally honest the speech isnt until may 13th is day is april e some time. You havent start goods im working on it. In fact, im doing the vcu graduation on saturday and then the Northern VirginiaCommunity College graduation the next day. So, look, i usually talk though in kind of way you said i usually talk about resilience know, so much of childhood and education is promoting success. You know we have to learn to deal with failure and adversity in productive ways that are not negatives but can teach us and move us forward. Im sure thats what ill talk about. I almost never talk about politics when i do a graduation speech, because look, thats not what the graduates or families there are to hear. But some life lessons from 59yearold they seem to go over a little bit better. Keep it short. Make it funny. Give some advice. Thats the formula. And from somebody whose a senator who just got to jam with one of their heroes from back in the day as well. Good life lessons all around much senator thanks for joining us this morning. There you go. Indeed. Thanks. Look forward to playing with you guys. Well set it up. 7 37. Tuck you have to learn how to play the guitar or piano. Wait a minute, steve. You play the guitar. No he said lets be clear he said good. He said he needs a good guitar player. You play well, self deprecating. Yeah. Im not shy about the fact im a pretty good singer and quite a performer. I do a mean triangle. That on that line i might be good. Who was your Commencement Speaker . I dont remember. Do you remember your Commencement Speaker. We had this conversation the other day. Mr. Unforgettable. See. So what does that mean you forgot. He doesnt remember either. My speaker did talk politics it wasnt like, what be us . What about us . Sleep snooze. Find something to relate. Umhmm. Like the weather. We can all relate to sunshine. He gave great advice. Keep it short and sweet and keep it moving much thats what im going to do. 59 now in washington. Mid 80s later today. We are going to be sunny and bright. I know weve got forgot there early but today promises plenty of sunshine. Winds out of the south and a gorgeous afternoon. That is a weak cold front out to the west in Eastern Kentucky and tennessee bring us a few showers overnight tonight. I will show you the seven day talk weekend in just a minute. 85 and sunny. Winds out of the south. All right. Erin, how are roads . 7 38 right now. We have breaking news from metro if youre taking the Red Line Train Service right now has been suspended between gallery place and Dupont Circle. Theres Fire Department activity at metro center and they have requested buses. This could really set back your morning commute if you take the red line. So please plan ahead. Well be tracking this. You can check in with me on twitter the erin fox5 d. C. For the very latest. Fire activity at metro center Train Service suspended between gallery place and Dupont Circle on the red line with buses requested. As we take look at our morning drive times, really big delays right now. 95 northbound dale city to the beltway, thats about a 49 minute commute. South at that point you jam up northbound fredericksburg through stafford and once you cross the mixing bowl 395 from the beltway to king street. Should take you about three minutes. Thats now a 22 minute ride. Just to give you some perspective. 66 from 234 Prince William parkway to the beltway not terrible. 35 minute commute. Inside the beltway little bit of residual delays because of earlier crash by washington boulevard. But not terrible. And then the outer loop 16 minute delay 95 to Georgia Avenue. Also keep in mind inner loop bottom side of the beltway slow out by b as you cruise through Upper Marlboro pennsylvania of a crash at woodyard road cleared. So be mindful if youre heading to the beltway. The inner loop jams a bit by pennsylvania gets heaviest from branch avenue to across the wilson bridge. Outer loop as we showed you the drive time is slow and 95 north and southbound two and from the beltway icc heavy and then just a sluggish ride both directions at baltimore washington parkway around powder mill road. 270 off and on delays. But looks to be pretty heavy delay about 60 minute slow down an extra our from frederick all the way down to the spur. Safetrack sill isnt place impacting the green and yellow rush plus. Allison and steve. Are you ready for our next little bit . Yup. Steve, how do i look . Never mind. Ill ask echo. I had a response ready to go. Whats echo, al . Oh, yeah. Let me answer it. Its a voice controlled camera for those looking for fashion advice. Oh. If you think you look fat in those jeans, dont say really . Echo has an opinion. My goodness. He just called me fat. Well try this and see if it is honest or not. It tells you if you look fat in it . Never. Never. You look amazing. We are back now at 7 43. The ma lala fund inspired by this young lady ma lala is teaming up with Celebrity Cruises to encourage diversity and gender equality. The fund is committed to ensuring girls around the world have access to education. Ceo of Celebrity Cruises says ma lala is an inspiration in their mission to offer opportunities for everyone especially its cruise on board its ships. Ma lala took on life of activism after she was shot in the head by the taliban in afghanistan. She later went on to winnow bell peace prize. Starbucks expanding its Brand Planning to take over fourstory crate and barrel building in the heart of chicago. It will open in chicago magnificent mile in 2019. It will be the third of its kind when it opens following a Flagship Store in seattle and new york city expected to welcome visitors in 2018. If you need four stories of starbucks,. Like is it going okay. Ill ask in the break. How do i look . Amazon new echo is answer that for you called echo look, and it features a built in camera with led lighting to tell you how ugly or hot your outfit is. Ugly such an ugly word. It is an ugly word. Style check feature that allows users to get free advice from fashion experts. The device is currently only available by invite only. Its selling for 200. What does it tell you . I think it tells you amazing. You dont look so good. Perhaps do this. What a stylist would normal dollar. Does it actually say im not really feeling the combo here. Or add this or take it away. Accessorize. I havent been invited. I hope theres a politeness setting. I hope so, too. Brutal honesty. Too much. I do consider that stranger. It is a stranger. Device. You have to buy it so youve invited him or her into your home. Thats true w we come back jury selection in bill cosby Sexual Assault trial set for next month. The actor and comedian has his mind on something else. Well tell was that is next. Z2c56z zi0z y2c56y yi0y packed with flavor, one hero was on a mission to save snack time. Nt a piece of me . Good, im delicious. Creamy, delicious, 100 natural cheese. Mini babybel. Snack a little bigger. 7 48 right now. Lets give a quick look ahead to good day d. C. Two big names on the show today. Olympic star simone biles joins us live. Simone is visiting a school in Northern Virginia this morning. Well find out what shes doing there. Plus, singer actor and reality star omar yann stops by the life has so much going on new music, mew video well talk about that with them on good day. Cant wait. All right. In the meantime lets get sunny, bright and beautiful. Mid 80s expect the around here after Early Morning fog. Mid 80s are back. The mid 80s. Umhmm. Oh, my goodness. The heyday. Right . Allison. Here we go. 59 in washington. 60 in quantico. 61 in manassas. Nice mild start to the day. Yes, we still got a little fog in spots. Just hang in there. That will burn off and then well be sunny, bright and as mentioned beautiful. Get our winds out of the shift should take place pretty soon. Satellite radar a little bit of low cloudiness there and then as i open it up for i was little bit. Weve got a cold front out into Eastern Kentucky and tennessee and this will roll in tonight. So we should be mostly sunny again with southerly winds and very warm today. Mid 80 force daytime highs well get a few showers tonight. I think theyll be widely scattered as the cold front comes through. It will come through overnight. Right back into sunshine by tomorrow late morning early afternoon. Warm conditions expected today. About 15 degrees warmer than yesterday. Sunshine, dry conditions outdoor plans later today sporting events after school, playing under the lights tonight softball that kind of thing great shape for it. Theres future cast, and there we are at 7 30. Well get clouds late in the da for nice sunset as the front comes through a few showers probably around midnight. There we are at 11 30 with showers moving through the area and well gradually clear it out tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon looks great. 83 with sunshine. Look at saturday. Could that be our first 90, 2017 it might be. Awfully close. Little cooler on sunday. And you can see temps bouncing around back into the 70s by next week. That is a weather update. Erin is back with miserable roads. 7 50. Start you off with breakig news from metro. Smoke in the tunnel at metro center thats why the red line suspended service between gallery place and Dupont Circle. The Fire Department is on location. Buses have requested and we have crew on the wage live look at that as soon as we get it. But right now, avoid the red line between gallery place and Dupont Circle getting tweets folks asking about those delays. So, again, just be prepared for major delays on the red line as they sort out that issue. Your drive times are really slow this morning. 95 northbound from dale city to the beltway, 49 minutes. Thats the worse of of them. Look. Foggy commute use your low beams, reduce your speeds if you run into any visibility pro problems. This one out by college park at New Hampshire avenue basically 95 to Georgia Avenue. 16 minute delay as we forward our cameras along, well show was else youre up against this morning. Crawling along during this foggy commute. 270 southbound montgomery avenue. Basically parked. Its a solid hour delay from 70 in frederick all weight down to the beltway. You know the drill in. 355 dealing with bail out traffic as well. So thats not much improved. This is 395 northbound at duke street. Really heavy volume from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. Thats going to take you about 35 minutes. Well keep you posted on your morning ride. Metro also dealing with safetrack work impacting the green line and yellow rush plus. But the red line is the biggest issue. Steve and allison. Thanks erin a month before jury selection begins in his Sexual Assault trial bill cosby is speak out in several interviews wednesday cosby said hes hopeful he can one day get back to his career. Cosby also claims he lost his vision two years ago but did not in the past cosbys lawyers have told the trial judge hes legally blind making it impossible for him to identify the women who claim he sexually assaulted them over several decades. Jury selection is set to begin may 22nd in pittsburgh. Allison and i gave a simultaneous eye roll. What now . 7 52. Heres Kevin Mccarthy. Allison and steve. By the way so big movie opening up next week guardian of the galaxy volume two. One of the leading stars of that movie is from wads. Should we faint surprised were super proud that hes from d. C. Hes awesome. Yes, we knew. This is dave battista. Show some video of the film h here. Dave battista you know as wrestler mma fighter hes really become a massive movie star now with this franchise guardians of the galaxy a big surprise a couple years back where it came out of nowhere made 773 million worldwide. This new one probably going cross a billion. I spoke to him misses about washington, d. C. Tracks is his character most famous laugh that he has in the film. And also how long is his makeup process because the make up is insane in this film. Watch this. Have you been back to d. C. Recently at all. No, no. Im going to go probably next month because i havent caught a match game in years. You should go. Every summer i want to go because one of my favorite things in the world to do. Thats intense. Whoa when you do that shot, how it looks for you, when youre doing it. What are you leaping off of . I was leaping so i was on wires and i was leaping into a great big green screen. [ laughter ] it was r really weird, becaue you wouldnt think it would take so much but we shot that over and over because james was re really specific about how he wanted me to look from behind. And every time i thought that i was big and spread out enough, but it just it w enough. Went on and on for hours you have to contort yourself in these weird positions it gets really uncomfortable. Harness for the wires its horrible. [ laughter ] you told of one your deepest darkest secret. Dude, i think youre over reaction ago little bit. You must so embarrassed. [ laughter ] do me, do me, do me. You have to sit there and do laughs all day. There are a lot of them in this movie. Yeah. Does the script just say drax laugh. Do you add those in yourself. How does that work . No i usually i go by the direction of james and he usually wants my laugh, you know, really big. But, no, i just go by his direction and sometimes now because of the were learn on the first film i can lose my voice from that laugh. Really . Hes uses very sparingly and hell say, you know, just do half laugh. Do silent laugh or sometimes ill just mime it. But then hell say just go for it. Ahh because its really loud its le top of my lungs. Do you have adr laughs. I have, yeah. Thats funny. Like the stuff i dont know if you would ever imagine that the ridiculous stuff you have to do in adr. Just make motion noises, grunt. You have sometimes have to go in the booth and go grrr. Im curious what the day looks like. You gloat what time . And then the actual process of makeup going on then off. How long is your total day . Typically we would shoot ten to 12 hour days. You know, its not uncommon to go over. Yeah. So to tenhour day turns into a 14hour day real easy ferremia make up process went on really fast. I didnt have that bad it only took about an hour and a half to put on. It amazes me its only an hour and a half. A lot of thats his actual body. Right. Its not a body suit. Hes just that big. He is massive. By the way one thing he mentioned was called adr. What that means is after movie is done filming they do into studio can get every sound when you shoot a movie. You have to sit there and fake run and grunt and things like that you can actually fill in what the character sounds like. Its cool. Movie opens up next fly day. More coming up with kurt rus russell. Zoey sal don know. James gun the film maker. Im very excited about this movie its huge. Awesome. We want to say hello oh our facebook fan of the day. Kelly boo is having a little fun in the sun. Hello there. Kelly boo i love your face. Rocking the bandana. Trendy lenses, too, looking g good. Kelly might be looking for love because she says someone will marry her some day because she can tell a funny joke. Umhmm. I love it. Good luck to you. Having a great sense of humor is a super important part of a relationship. Always. Trust me, i know. Yes. So important. Aww. Her face makes me happy. Ive been telling for jokes for years and no one will marry me. Thats untrue. No guarantees. Untruth. Kev, i met a viewer who wants to tap into your energy. Really . Yeah. I just want a little bit of kevs lets be best friends in life. Okay. See thats probably scarce him away a little bit. [ laughter ] mid 80s later today. Clear skies, clearing skies i know weve got the fog out there but a couple thousand feet up were clear and we should be in really good shape as far as sunshine today. Theres cold front out to the west that will bring us a few showers after sunset tonight really probably around midnight well get a few showers in here. Otherwise, let me just mention again the warm temperatures. 85 today. Wake up with few clouds tomorrow. Sunny and bright and beautiful tomorrow afternoon 83. 90 degrees could it be number one for 2017. Saturday afternoon well see what happens. 7 57. Updates on the red line. Again smoke in the tunnel at metro center. Keeping in close contact with metro and theyre giving us great information to get around it. Right now service is halted between Dupont Circle on the red line and gallery place. Theyre asking to you use alternates now metro bus ive tweeted out the bus options at erin fox5 d. C. On twitter. Also consider using the green line between fort totten and gallery place or customers can or farragut west for blue, orange or silver line service. Again avoid the red line because service is stopped. Buses requested between Dupont Circle and gallery place. Tons of information coming in from the red line. We have a crew out there. Keep it to fox5. Well be right back. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning. Im allison seymour. Im steve chenevey. It is eight am on this thursday april 27th. Heres wagon whats on the fox5 news morning menu. A report of possible smoke in the tunnel between metro center and Farragut North. Train Service Suspended. Big delays. Well have a live report straight ahead. Also still developing in delaware, a Police Standoff a tense standoff at a home with a suspected cop killer. Negotiates on the scene for more than 20 hours now. Weve also learned the slain trooper was from Prince Georges County, maryland. Plus, Northern Virginia mother going viral this morning after she was asked to find a private room while Breast Feeding in church. Why that mother decided to post her experience on social media and how the church is resp responding. Still such a controversial topic after all this time. Live look ahead right now outside. Going to be a gorgeous day. Nice and warm and sunny. Tucker will be along shortly lets get started 8 00 oclock with that breaking metro news. Big delays on the red line after reports of smoke in the tunnel near metro center. Red line Service Suspended between several stations. Fox5s mike thomas on the scene for us at the metro center much whats going on, mike . Reporter hey, allison. So far we just arrived here about ten minutes ago. Weve been talking to firefighters and some witnesses. They have kind of evacuated the station. Theyve been pulling people off the trains. We tried to go down earlier. We got turned around pretty quickly visibility wise were not seeing any sort of smoke talking to firefighters they say down around the tracks the only thing they see is maybe a light kind of smokey haze but nothing too kind of easy to see there. What weve been told by d. C. Fire and ems is that whats happening on the tracks possibly a fire. And thats light likely closer to the Farragut North station than here in at metro center but what we can tell you thanks to metro theyve been tweeting out updates all service on the and gallery place has been suspended for the time being. Theyre encouraging you they have set up buses, shuttle buses starting at Dupont Circle for anybody coming in to way off the red line. For those coming out of glenmont they encourage to you hop on the fort totten green line train and you can still take that down to gallery place. Gallery place is not closed. Only metro center here is cl closed. Again, theyve stabbed shuttle buses for that. We have not seen anything. I talked to some witnesses earlier coming out of the trains. They said it doesnt look that bad here. Again, indications are that what may be a fire on the tracks is probably closer to Farragut North. Well continue to talk to fire and ems personnel here as we get updates in. Well bring them back to you. So life here from metro center, mike thomas, ill send it back in to you steve and allison. Mike, thanks very. Root now though 8 03 more on that breaking news out of delaware. Tense standoff is now in its 20th hour between police and a man they say shot and killed delaware state trooper yest yesterday. Trooper sph was gunned down as approached a car parked at a convenience store. Sadly we have learned the trooper had local connection to the d. C. Region. Melanie alnwick joins us now live with the very latest. Good morning, steve and allison. Many of Corporal Ballards friends changed their facebook profile pictures to this. A police badge with a blue line through it his page says hes from bowie, maryland. And we are learning that overnight the suspect continued to fire on police but now it appears according to our sources in philly that the situation has been taken care of. Thats what one of the reporters on the scene says. They were told by troopers just moments ago. The gunman had been hiding out in house in a residential neighborhood, 15 miles away from the shooting scene. Overnight homes there shook with the sound of explosive blasts and gunfire. Terrified neighbors could hear police on bull horns trying to talk the suspect out. Where these houses are, where its actually happening, from my deck i could actually physically see the house. Three cop floored it ran past us. Five minutes later my mom called me shots going off in the neighbor. Reporter yesterday evening end of watch. Duty no officer ever wants to do. A sea of blue uniforms outside the hospital where 32yearold trooper stephen j. Ballard passed away. Then the solemn escort for a 9mile trip. Taking ballards body to the medical examiners office. People along the procession saluted put hands on their hearts and wiped away tears. It was about noon wednesday when Corporal Ballard approached two people sitting in a parked car at a wawa in bear, delaware. A man got out. There was a struggle. Sources say he pushed the trooper then turned and opened fire. The suspect ran away. The other person in the car was taken into custody. Stephen ballard had been delaware state trooper for eight years. The officer down memorial page says he leaves behind a wife. Delawares governor ordered all u. S. And state flags to be flown at half staff and Maryland Governor larry hogan has accept his condolences. Back to you guys. 8 05 right now. Going to be warm today, steve. Going to be hot today. Yeah. Yeah. Well be searching on hot with temperatures in the mid 80s. Have a little fog early. Once we get rid of that, should be full day of sunshine. Sounds great. Things i will do. Oh yeah . Yeah. Going out and play . Hmm. A little. Okay. Excellent. Tomorrow too. Saturday. Saturday might be 90. Mid 80s are back. Yeah. Hit 70 yesterday. Things improved during the afternoon hours yesterday got a little sunshine. Today we should have plentiful, bountiful abundant sunshine with dry conditions expected for your afternoon 61 at Reagan National. Dulles 59 up in baltimore 58. Much of the area in the upper 50s to start your morning. We are battling a little fog here early the sun will help burn that off here in the neck few hours. Then we should turn sunny and bright and beautiful with winds out of the south and it will be a very summery day. Might even notice little humidity in front of our neck cold tonight probably more like around midnight tonight there maybe a few showers as cold front comes through overnight tonight and early tomorrow. 85 and sunny. Perfect. Some people love that. Some people love 85 and sunny for sure. Me. All right. You love tight. Yes. Love whats going on the roads right now . No especially not the rails and red line. Mike thomas gave a great update from metro station where that station is currently closed. Smoke in the tunnel and impacting the red line. No Train Service right now on the red line between Dupont Circle and gallery place. Bus service has been stabbed. Metro buses available. You can also consider the green line between fort totten and gallery place and also consider walking over to Farragut North or west to use the blue, orange or silver line to get around that. Red line delays bus service or other rail lines available. Mike thomas will keep bringing up updates from metro center smoke in the tunnel there slowing down the re line. Pennsylvania of a even though earlier crash at woodyard lane cleared over to the shoulder delays from 301 to the b inner loop jams from pennsylvania avenue across the wilson bridge and then for the top side of your commute in maryland, just outeat side the capitol beltway 95 north and southbound heavy to and from t theism cc baltimore washington parkway southbound very slow as you come down from 32 to past powder mill road about an hour of extra time needed on 270. Off and on delays. Pretty much our solid delay right now from 70 down to the spur. Safetrack impacting the green line and yellow rush back to y you. Intense battle over metro absentee policy. Metro is bracing for a sick out tomorrow. This after nearly 500 rail and bus workers filed advance absence requests. Annie yu is following this story fours. Shes life at Friendship Heights metro with the latest. Annie, metro is already responded, right, to those massive sick out calls . Reporter thats right, allison. Good morning, steve. Metro says that they received nearly 500 advance absence requests. They have denied all of them. So this will be really interesting come tomorrow because of course this morning you have, you know, donely town here things runly smoothly. People able to move around and get on board on time. But you know it could be much of a different scene come friday when you have a ton of workers who dont show up, and so that is what metro is bracing for and this all stems from a change in policy that was issued by management that really aims to crack down on excessive absenteeism. It went into effect march 1st and since then, guys, its just been a battle brewing between metro and its Largest Workers Union. Now, what this policy requires is that its workers to file absence requests three days in advance and so metro says they received 500 of them for this friday. They have denied all of them talking both bus and rail employees. And so it will be interesting to see how this plays out. Of course f workers dont show up, were going to see disrupts for commuters. Commuter that is we spoke to say they are bracing for this as welcoming up with a plan b. Metro meantime says that the three day window is for requests excused absences and i thin thats highlight that that window is for excused absences so were talking about things like doctors appointments, medical appointments and things like that. Now workers can still take an unexcused absence meaning if you wake up one morning and feel sick you can still call out but if you abuse that, and have excessive unexcused absences, you will face diss plain nary act. Metros Largest Union the atu local 689, they say that, you know, this is basically the rjection of 500 absence requests is putting workers and passengers at risk. And she also adds the president adds that she is unaware of a sick out. Heres her response. Theres a possibility that members have taken it upon themselves to start following the directives that wmat has given which is calling out on the policy. But that does not thats not providing us with a safe system and thats what were calling for. The policy is asinine. Because theres nobody that i know of that works particular organization that can give a threeday notice telling them im going sick or im going to have the flu on tuesday so im going to call you on sunday. Thats ridiculous. Reporter you have Union President jackie jeter there talking about the policy and, you know, they basically made it clear that they are following wmats own policy when it comes to requests. So, again, it will be interesting come tomorrow whether these workers are going to actually show up for work. Meanwhile passengers we spoke to say look were hoping for the best they can work this out. But they are preparing for other ways to maneuver around the d. C. Region. Thats the very latest from donely town. Back to you in the studio. Annie thanks much. A mid mondays five alarm fire in college park causing problems for firefighters few days later. Fox5s bob barnard still live on the scene for us this morning. Bob, good morning. Guys, the largest fire response in Prince Georges County and three days later flames are still appearing on th come back. Youve worked hard. Busted tail. And impressed the boss. Maybe, its time to be your own. Transform your career with strayer universitys mba program today. Lets get it, america. Packed with flavor, one hero was on a mission to save snack time. Watch babybel in the great snack rescue. You want a piece of me . Good, im delicious. Creamy, delicious, 100 natural cheese. Mini babybel. Snack a little bigger. [ laughter ] welcome back, everybody. What is it still 59, tuck we havent budged. Two days. The fog is holding things. Give it a second. As soon as we burn the fog off. It was 59 all day yesterday. It hit 70 late in the day. All right. While we were here, though. Dope despair. We got cuteness. If i first five cuteness of the day. Double trouble. Two for. Thats awesome. They are so cute. Steve i what happened a picture like that with you. Double the cuteness today. Oh, my goodness. Ava we have alyssa and a ava. Yes. So cute. I hope i get that right. Alyssa on the left. Ava on the right. Im going to guess from the picture theyre relate. I would say so. Three months old. At first i thought it was you know how you do the pick collage with two images of the same child. My goodness they are identical. Awful cute. Yes. Theres so cute. Oh, my goodness. Go ahead. Im sorry. When do we hear foreigner on the morning show. Double vision. Three months old but already big fox5 fans they tune in each and every morning. They get up nice and early with their mom in stereo. Awakening mom, its morning, lets get up get on this lets do this. Great big day in front of us. In stereo. I wonder what steve is going to say . Right. My goodness. Theres tuck. We love your photo. Theyre so cute. Love your outfits and love your smiles. Thanks for sending in the picture. How in the world would you tell identical twins like that apart i wonder. Toenails i guess. They have their own little personality. Paint their toenails. Can you paint them that young. I guess so. What else would you do. Steve is getting clever. Thats a good one. You can probably one is in blue and the other is in yellow that day. Maybe they each get a color. Maybe so. Look how theyre coordinated i love everything about these little two. All right. Tucker, im sorry. When i was growing up high a good friend was a twin and their parent always dressed them a lot. No doubt if i had twins they would be dressed a like. Oh yeah. Yes. My two little doll babies, yes. To send us your child picture go to fox5 send it into our Facebook Page. I want you to know yesterday i went through all the pictures we got and i tried to did you. Try to at least everybody cant get on the air we try to recognize everybody. 61 now in washington. We are expecting 80s around here i know the fog is holding stuff in spots. But once we burn that off just a few thousand feet up were clear and all ready to go with makings of a nice warm afternoon an dry afternoon. Let me mention dry conditions expect the later today. Cold front out to the west will move in tonight after sunset. A few showers overnight tonight. Early tomorrow morning. And then back into sunshine and 80s around here tomorrow as well. Look at saturday. Maybe afternoon thunderstorms but before it hot and humid. Umhmm. Steamy and sunny. Yes and 90. Your turn. It will be hot. I said steamy, sunny. Hot and humid. Glorious, lovely. Amazing. He doesnt want to play. You took the best words. If we were doing family feud i would have been the fifth person. I said pretty and perfect. Okay. There we go. Trend continues aww. Sorry steve. Roads arent pretty and perfect. Thats sad. Foggy commute inner loop crash at green belt moved over to the right shoulder. Steady flow of inner loop congestion right now. Want to get over to our maps because theres big mess on the red line. Smoke in the tunnel reported out at metro center. Becaus of that, Train Service has stopped on the red line Dupont Circle and gallery place. Theres metro bus option. You can take the green line between fort totten and gallery place. You can also consider walking to Farragut North or farragut west to access the blue, orange or silver lines. Were gathering more information out there. Fire department on location. And again the red line stopped because of the smoke by metro center. Aside from that were dealing with safetrack impacting the green line. More problems on the roads. Gw parkway northbound is closed after the i66 overpass. That is causing huge backups northbound side of the gw park washington and 395 northbound, 14th street bridge, all of our inbound traffic really stacked conditions on the key bridge as well as roosevelt bridge because of this. Be prepared to detour around that big crash scene there. Heavy down into rosland and this morning. Arlington bridges take look at four inbound even though earlier crash cleared at woodyard road delays lingering from 301 to the beltway and then were still seeing inner loop delays as you make your way toward 50 because of that crash at green belt. Taking a look at our map you can see 270 southbound off and on delays that extend all the way back into urbana. Thats your heaviest traffic down to the beltway Still Holding strong with about an hour delay. Back to you guys. Prince georges county fire crews continue to battle hot spots at that massive Apartment Building fire in college park. Thats a fire that broke out on monday. Fox5s bob barnard is live on the scene now with more on how the firefighters are trying to keep that area safe. Bob, is it me, it just seems like from monday to now is pretty incredible. Reporter yes, it is. 72 hours later, Prince Georges County firefighters are still here. You can see behind me down the street here they have the ladder truck up there and extended. Were told theyre still putting water on this fire. Three days theyre apparently four hot spots that are still flaring up up there. In fact one of the construction workers down here said this can still see flames coming from the roof here. Crazy. Fire Officials Say the fire is deep seeded in the rubble and thats the problem. As you can see from our file video its been burning since monday. Were told that obviously this was building building under construction very close to being done that it had a Sprinkler System installed but it had not been connected to the water supply. Fire doors which would have prevented the spread of the fire had not been put in place yet. Investigators were told still cant get inside to examine the area where they suspect the fire started. Thats because the rooftop is still unstable. Its almost a total loss this is kind of like 27 story towers with retail on the bottom of the one of the towers were told is a total loss where the fire started. The other tower closer to us may be able to be saved. County Officials Say they want because this was an Important Development project. They want it to, you know, after probably have to tear down the one tower be able to stay and rebuild it. Thats the idea. And Prince Georges County firefighter Officials Say firefighters will probably be here through the rest of the day today at least, because of these continual flareups, guys from mondays tos fire. 72 hours. Incredible. Later. We also thanks bob. We also continue to follow br breaking news involving metro. Service is suspended on the red line downtown. Details coming up in a live report. A smart use of technology or an invasion of privacy . The local start up that helps Companies Track employees with bar codes. Its happening here in the dmv. Were looking for something thats comfortable but yet durable, and thats going to last us a really long time. I dont want to buy new furniture every couple of years. Its custom made so you know its good quality. Im just speechless because its perfect. Hot one today. It will feel like summer. Will lead into the summer feeling for real on saturday when all the humidity comes around. Head overseas right now. Zoo in austria boasting a brew of rare tiger cubs and there they are. What . Wait a minute. All four of them. Ahhh. Oh, yes, roar. Welcome to the world. Roar. Four little white tiger cubs made their debut. Theyre names are falco, toto, mia and dee bounce see. So cute. The cubs weighed to pounds a peace when they were born last month. But theyre now tipping the scale at 11 pounds each. Little kitty cats. The zoo says the cubs will be donated to zoos around the world that offer the best environment for them once they are all grown up. Sharing the well. Very nice. So cute. So cute, right . All right. Lets turn things over to tucker barnes. 8 25. We learn about things like that when it comes to weather school. Ding ding. I dont think this is happening. Class not in session. Professor forgot. Come on. Professor gets an f. We need a substitute. Wait a minute. I get how youre coming at me here. Just dont even do it, tuck. Our favorite morning of the moment of the morning shattered. Im back. Okay. I dont have my equipment but im ready to go. Where is your pointer . The attitude is here thats all we need. We ready to get to business . Kind of Weather Report card, sunshine. Well get an a this afternoon because well burn the fog off and it will be beautiful. Winds will be out of the south. Were giving that an a. Pump in that warm temperatures around here. Afternoon temperatures mid 80s. Thats an a. Watch the caps beat the pens, steve, a plus. You can stay up late. Ive give you everybody permission. No homework tonight. You can stay up and watch the game. Over all, an a. Kind of feel with all the as you just mailed that one in. Yeah, did he. Literally mail it. The professor really doesnt get high marks for this one. No. Queue my music any ways. Im hot for teacher you dont deserve that song. Yeah, you dont. There you go. Do better tomorrow. Walk of shame for the professor this morning. [ laughter ] oh well. Erin always delivers. We will stay up late. He was looking for his pointer so we can tease him and couldnt find it. Did you hide it. I wish i did. I would have been over here with my glasses on doing your traffic report card. A lot of fog. Foggy conditions causing visibility problems use your low beams. Were seeing a lot of slowmoving traffic inbound on 66 the beltway as well. Big metro problems. Between get right to the red line were tracking. Smoke in the tunnel at metro center. Red line Service Suspended between Dupont Circle and gallery place. Use Farragut North or farragut west to the blue, orange or silver or consider the green line between fort totten and gallery place. Mess of metro bus options to get you around that. We have crew down there. Fire department on scene. Anticipate red lion delays. Allison and steve. Thanks erin. Still ahead the controversy over Breast Feeding in public. Virginia woman asked to leave a Church Service because she began to nurse her baby. Well now shes speaking out. Youll hear after the break. Its 8 27. 8 30. Breaking news concerning that tense stand out overnight in delaware involved a plan believed to have gunned down a delaware straight trooper yesterday. Our colleagues in fox 29 report that stands off is now over. Quoting a Police Officer on the scene who said, it has been taken care of. So we dont know if that means the suspect has been injured or killed. We are trying to find more information. The trooper killed yesterday is identified as Corporal Stephen ballard. He does have ties to our area. Hes from bowie, maryland. He had served with Delaware State Police for eight years. Theres other breaking news were following. Major delays on the rode line a fire crews investigate smoke in the tunnel between Farragut North and metro sent. Red lion Service Suspended between several stations. Shuttle bus service set up. Lets get back to mick thomas at metro center this morning. Mike, whats happening now. Reporter steve were at 11th and g where the bridge has been set up for all the metro buses to come and pick people kicked off the trains. And are now trying to make it to their destinations. Not a lot of happy people here. Ill be totally honest with you. No one can blame them for that. I talked to a couple witnesses. They did want to be interviewed on camera. But what they basically said was that they were on the train, they were forced to sit on the train still for about ten minutes in the center itself and then eventually they open the doors and said we need everybody to exit. None of the witnesses i spoke to said they saw any smoke at all. So, again, as we look down im not seeing any smoke coming out of the metro center. Anything like that. Earlier reports suggested that any sort of fire or anything unconfirmed reports of the fire would have been closer to the again here at metro center at 11th and. Good is where they set the bridges up. Just wanted to update you from Metro Rail Service does remain suspended between Dupont Circle and gallery place. They do suggest that you use other modes of transportation if at all possible or you can hop on one of these bus bridges that they have set up both here at gallery place and then as well at Dupont Circle. So, again, its a travel nightmare already on the red line this morning. Stick with it all the morning long and let you know when things start to clear up a little bit. Ill send it back inside. Mike, quite the renaissance giving us breaking news. We appreciate it. Doing it all. The white house announced the president will renegotiate the north American Free trade agreement or nafta with mexico and canada. This morning the president tweeted saying if he cannot reach a deal witness countrys leader hell terminate nafta he believes a good deal is possible. Yesterday the three leaders agreed to renegotiate the deal to benefit each other country. On the campaign trail, president called the deal a disaster and blamed nafta for americans losing jobs. Now mexico considering taking action against the u. S. Over the president s plan for a border wall it would impose an entry fee and retaliation for the proposed wall. Meanwhile a bill in california would prohibit that state from doing any business with any company that does any work on the wall. Almost 30 million americans visit mexico every year. As President Trump nears his 100th day in office on this saturday, lawmakers are nearing an agreement on 1 trillion spending bill. It come after the white house backed off of a threat to with hold payments for lower income americans under the Affordable Care act. Passing a spending bill will avoid a government shut down. A virginia mother going viral this morning for her response to being asked to cover up while Breast Feeding her baby at church. She took to facebook to defend her decision to breast feed without a cover. Maureen joins us nor. The talker today. Annie says she was confronted Summit Church in springfield this past sunday. The first time was when she dropped her 19 month old daughter autumn off at the churchs baby center but before she left she says her daughter became fussy so she decided to breast feed her while sitting on the floor of the baby room. Thats when annie says a Woman Working at the Church Daycare immediately asked her to go to a private room. When annie declined she says the woman tried to cover her up. And cover her daughter up as well. Annie posted this video to facebook to explain her version of the incident. She says during mass she was called back to the daycare room because cher daughter was being fussy again. Annie says she brought her daughter back to where the service was being given and began Breast Feeding her daughter right there. That time she was immediately asked to move elsewhere but she refused. After the service annie says she was confronted by a woman who said the concern for her nursing during the service was because the Church Streams the Service Online and they didnt want to offend anyone. In her facebook video she explained why she feels its her right to breast feed her daughter whereve she wants. Started to cover up autumn with a fleece blanket. Ill like, no, please dont cover her up. Shes fine. Shes like, oh she started like touching and playing and very uncomfortable for me. I never go in. I never leave to go anywhere to feed my baby. Um, i just feel that its important to feed her wherever and when ever and just give her milk. In the state of virginia Breast Feeding is a legally protected right thanks to 2015 law that says women have the right to do so anywhere they have a legal right to be. Annie says she has hired an attorney and is encouraging the church to reverse its policy. Her Attorney Says the church claims they are aware of the have have a law that says a woman can breast feed anywhere shes legally able to be. As you can see its a talker. I dont know if you agree with this woman or not. When she put it like, i was trying to give my child some milk exactly. It seems to make sense. Right. You know, and i is the law. But like we said earlier, people are very connicked about this. It should be natural a woman Breast Feeding her child but i get how some people might be uncomfortable. I dont know. Its a toss up for me. I dont know. Yeah. All right. Mo, thank you. Time right now 8 36. Theres a look outside this morning as were waiting for the temperature to climb and oh, it should climb quite nicely today. Still sitting at 59. Expected to get, oh, north of 80 today, right, tuck . Yeah. Actually were up to 61, steve. Improved 2 degrees the past h hour. And were expecting a big bounce here by late morning, early afternoon. In fact mid 80s for daytime highs. Theres a live shot. We are doing this leftover kind of foggy misty morning. Thats all the moisture that of course we had the last couple of days. We kind of burn it off here. We will later today. Might feel a little humid this afternoon. 61 in washington. Richmond 65. 72 down in cape hatteras. Were featuring sunshine for the most part today. Do have clouds out to the west but i think most of southerly breeze should be very pleasant around here and dry. Most importantly dry today. So you have outdoor plans this afternoon. Go for it. Should be great afternoon for it. Do want to mention a weak cold front out to the west this will get in here after sunset tonight likely bring us a little bit of light shower activity maybe a quick moving shower here between about 11 and two, 3 00 oclock in the morning. 85 and sunny this afternoon enjoy a beautiful day. I will have the weekend forecast and a sneak peek into next week. And my caps pens prediction. Ooh. Fancy. Look at that. Coming you. Were looking forward it to. Right now as you make your way out in maryland, we do have big delays. 95 north and southbound pretty at a crawl between theism cc and beltway. Lets moving things back to our metro maps if we can. Pennsylvania of a crash at woodyard cleared. Heavy delays remain there. Red loin dealing with problems mike thomas was telling us about Service Suspended between Dupont Circle and gallery place because of smoke in the tunnel at metro center. Fire department there to keep of one safe. We do riders on the red lion. Get around that consider metro bus. Several lines available or maybe taking the green line between for to the ten and gallery pl place. You can also consider walking to Farragut North or west to take the blue, orange or silver lines. Tracking safetrack surge 14 impacting the green and yellow rush plus. Really the red line is the one dealing with major disruptions this morning. Well keep you posted on that one. Again, we have a crew live out at that locate. Gw parkway closed right now. Big problem ons the roads there on the northbound side after the 66 overpass. And look at all those overflow of traffic. 66 eastbound backing up. Were dealing with tons of southbound delays leading from the beltway down toward the roosevelt bridge and also 395 the 14th street bridge is heavy but look at that as you try to make your way toward the Memorial Bridge arlington bridge and key bridges so please allow for extra time there youll have to detour this could put a big damper on your commute on gw parkway north and soul this morning. In the district lot of congestion as usual on our roads around the capital. So heads up f district as well. Thats your look at traffic. Back to you. When we come back sheer talker tracking workers whereabouts. Area developers now putting hightech bar codes on construction workers to avoid delays. Back in a moment. 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Its the same Technology Used in ez passes but is it an inn vo native tool that helps companies safe time or money or is it an invasion of privacy . We know who is here, how long theyre here, what trades are here. When theyre here. What consistency were here. Were able to look at that date in real time. I wouldnt want to wear a bar code if that were me. Why . I would like i like my employers to have trust that im going to do my job and be where i need to be and not have to track me with a bar code. About Dozen Companies are currently using the Iris Technology and about 25 projects in the d. C. Metro area. I mean its an interesting concept obviously for a large scale job site like thats very spread out employees coming and going lets you know who is there at a certain time. But the thought as if you are a bag of oranges. Isnt whats next, right . Exactly treat me like a person, please. 8 42 right now. Okay. Lets check in with holly, wisdom, maureen who do we have today . It look like holly and wisdom. Holly and wis. Were here. Were ready to give it to you and were against the bar code in case youre counseling. We are all over several still developing stories at 9a. Red line delays. A possible metro sick out and the latest out of delaware where a state trooper was killed. Dangerous new trend that you should know about involving sex. Social media and a breach of trust. Parents and young people you should get informed about this one. The tools to fight back. Ladies, erin has a live demo with skills that could help you in a time of need. We have a super star guest list on this thursday morning. Control room put up that guest list and holly hit it. Here i go, wis. Two big names not one but two big names on the show today. Olympic super star simone biles joins us live. Shes visiting a school in Northern Virginia this morning and well find out wha plus singer, actor and reality star owemarion stops by the loft. So much going on right now. New music, new video. Well talk all about it. Beyonce discover him on a new york subway and later actually performed with them. Too many zoos are here in the loft and theyll perform for us. Top rated good day dc the only place to be in the dmv. See in you a few minutes. Looking forward it to. Thanks so much, guys. In the meantime still ahead Kevin Mccarthy with Entertainment News this morning. What are you working on, kev. Steve and allison, stack fox beat coming up. Celebrities mourn the death of oscar winning film maker. Bryan cranston gets 12 out of 20 questions right on a breaking bad quiz, and m knight shymalan announces an mazing sequel an tweet about blockbuster thats gone viral. Stay tune. Fox5 news morning. Stand by me vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me 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. 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. Metro single tracking on the red line downtown. Problems down around metro center and mike thomas giving us all the details this morning with the bus bridges, et cetera. Seeing an example witness shuttle. Starting to hear things are slowly, slowly working but you see everybody working the phones right now saying im going to be late. Its not my fault. I was on metro on time and then this happened. So mike is down there getting us the latest info. Let test word from metro there still be some delays. Lets switch to sports right now. After a nearly a 50 year absence nfl d of brotherly love in philadelphia tonight. Skins have the 17th overall pick. Should they stack up on defense find a quarterback . Running back . So many ways that they can go. Oh, pete from fox sports mock draft has them taking peppers of the failed drug test in the last week. Who knows which way it will go . It starts tonight at 8 00 p. M. Skins number 17. Probably draft sometime between 9 00 and 10 00. Why did it take so long to get back to filly . I dont know. Awhile. All over the place. Okay. Remember the jets fans always boo thats how you know its in new york. History of booing at the draft pick. All right. No booing when it comes to the forecast today. No. But youll have to wait little bit. Not 50 years. Just ten seconds. Just ten seconds. All right. Lets thats all you need to know right there. Mid 80s are back in the forecast today. We hit 71 yesterday and well be good 14 degrees warmer than that today as were really going to watch these temperatures jump real quick here now that weve got the sun up burning off that fog. 61 in washington. Annapolis 61 degrees. Most of the area fell back into the 50s overnight. Dulles hanging on to 59. 60 in fredericksburg. Satellite radar quiet. Left over low clouds, fog and little mist out there. Again, we should burn that off. Winds out of the south today really pumply the warmer temperatures and we shall see a nice surge in temperatures. It will be dry today as well so if you got outdoor plans as ive been mentioning all day sporting events after school or this evening youll be just fine as we shall be nice and quite around here. Theres your satellite radar. Shower activity out to the west. And that cold front will get in here later tonight. Probably ten, 11 00 oclock tonight. A few showers around as that front moves on through. There you go. Once we get the front east of us back into sunshine tomorrow. Little cooler tomorrow with temperatures in the 80s so today, tomorrow in the 80s. We may do perature theres future cast 8 30. You can see the front is not terribly impressive likely bring a few showers across the area as it moves on through. There we are at midnight 12 30 and gradual clearing tomorrow and again 83 tomorrow afternoon. 90 ahead of possible storm saturday afternoon. That will be our first of 2017 if we hit it awfully close. Okay. Thats update. 85 sunshine. Maybe few storms tonight, guys, back to you. Time for the fox beat. Hi kev. Hey, steve and allison. Stocked fox beat today. Love toll see you as well. Unfortunately, one of the greatest film makers passed way jonathan demi. You probably know his work silence of lambs probably most famous work or philadelphia. Rachel getting married he passed away yesterday and its very sad, but the beauty of a film maker as ive mentioned over the years is that these films can live on forever, and ive watched silence of lambs so many times it really does still hold up. But what i wanted to do i to show just kind of how celebrities in hollywood showing their appreciation for jonathan demis work and this is the scene from the silence of the lambs an absolute classic if you havent seen it i do recommend it dont watch it if youre a kid. The not for kids whatsoever. Anthony hopkins won so many Academy Awards including johnny demi Won Academy Award as well. Lets take look at some of the celebrity reactions. First off, you have jodi foster chiming in. Jodi foster was the star of the silence of the lambs. She is amazing in the film. Interesting side note by the way. I dont know this is 100 true. I believe that Anthony Hopkins may be only on screen for about 16 minutes. I heard that. In silence of lambs. Jodi foster said im heart broken to lose a friend a mentor a guy so singular and dynamic you have to design a hurricane to contain him so passionate as music as he was about art he was an will always be a champion of the soul. Jd most beloved something wild brother of love director of lambs. Love that Joe Dee Foster chiming in there. An interesting one. I actually didnt know about this relationship between Justin Timberlake and johnny demme. Timberlake and him worked on a documentary film called Justin Timberlake plus the tennessee kids. It was a documentary concert film. And timberlake wrote on his instagram saying you master of humanity you genius of story telling you generous and warm man you special soul. That was kind of cool. I wasnt aware of their relationship. Finally spike lee this is really cool thing spike lee one of the greatest film maker of all time. He posted this really cool shot of jonathan directing Denzel Washington in philadelphia. So i moon you think about jonathans work he directed some of the most incredible performances of all time. Anthony hopkins obviously tom hanks in philadelphia. Denzel washington. I mean it really is an ama amazg career hes had so far. So cool to see all of those amazing celebrities reaching o out. I always say with the directors especially, like i dont know many directors names. So theyre likeay can name right off. Sure. When youre one of those clearly, yeah, youve left your mork. Scorcese, spielberg, demne a lot of them out. There copy pole la. Definitely ones you know by name. Hes one of them for sure. Most definitely. Breaking bad quiz is kind of rallying up breaking bad fans a little bit including Bryan Cranston. Now the buzz feed quiz well show here basically says that if you dont get more than 15 out of 20 on this youre not a real breaking bad fan. So a lot of different types of questions in here. I took the quiz myself. But the thing that blew my mind the most was that Bryan Cranston the lead star got this score. Lets show his lets show his tweet. He only got 12 out of 20. [ laughter ] actual leading star of breaking bad got 12 out of 20. Oh boy. I took the exact same quiz i only got tell out of 20. My wife gotten out of 20. Is he a true fan or just the lead actor. Hes the lead star. How do you not get 2 20 . How did you not get 20 out of 20. Im in the same boat as Bryan Cranston im okay with it ill post the quiz on my Facebook PageKevin Mccarthy fox. M knight shymalan. If youre a fan of unbreakable. Yes i am. Bruce willis movie. And split hes making a sequel. Which one . To both of them together. They both exist in the same universe. I dont think split did that well. Split costs 9 million. And made over a hundred 60 over 274 million at the box office. Whats interesting i spoke to sam jackson a couple months ago for the cong he was in unbreakable thought unbreakable was going to be trilogy but they never made another film but split came out which ended up being in the same universe as unbreakable. Okay. Now hes writing a sequel to both those movies. It will be in the same universe a super hero type of universe. Lets show his tweet if we have it he just confirms this is w 13,000 likes yesterday. 8,000 retweets everyone is excited about that. He tweeted a whole rant. Us what willis will be back and sam Jackson James mcavoy. This is a tweet gone viral. Pull it up its amazing. My autistic brother was sad that blockbuster was closing down so my parents made a mini one at home for him. There are still some block blockbusters around the country. Not that many. Right. Just a few. Amazing tweet thats gone extremely viral. Take a closer look at the brother as hes excited about the particular blockbuster shelves hes seeing. Really cool tweet. If you havent seen it probably coming up across your feed at some point. Just fun fact as i mentioned there are handful of blockbusters that survived the chain after it filed for bankruptcy in 2010. The bulk of the ten remaining stores are in alaska. Wow. Thats great. We saw that earlier it was just it makes you feel good. Really great tweet. Right elli real is. Above and i dont know. I mean, you know, parents do so much is super special. I love that we can see it. Social media. Thanks guys. Thanks kev. Short break. Back with the forecast after this. 8 55. Yes, kendrick hello. Want to say hell to our facebook fan of the day its kelly boo. Looks like shes having fun in the sun. Kell pool. Rocking the bandana. Trendy glasses, too. Kelly might be looking for love because she says someone she can tell a mean joke. Good luck, kelly. Having a great sense of humor is really important part of a relationship. So no doubt. Youve already done it. Okay. Got to claim it. Right, tuck . You got that right. Umhmm. All right. Love it. Quickly, quick weather update. 65 now, steve. 65 in washington. Dulles 60. Bwi marshall 59. Mid 80s. Fog, mist left over here early this morning. Get that out of here. Well get sunshine. Front out to the west late day clouds an few showers around midnight tonight a couple of showers maybe a thunderstorm moving through and then back into the 80s tomorrow much look at saturday near 90 degrees with, um, hot and humid conditions expected around here to start our weekend here we go. Perhaps our first 90degree temperature of 2017. That is quickly weather. More coming up g day d. C. Coming up right after the break. The perfect summer has a voice. If we listen close enough, we can hear it. It whispers, one more game, one more swim, one more round. And it speaks softly through the cool nights, murmuring, one more log, one more marshmallow, one more walk along the shore. The perfect summer is waiting. The perfect summer is pure michigan. 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