Tuck its beautiful out there but look at the sun glare on the roads. 66 on the eastbound side from 234 Prince William parkway to the beltway youre basically parked. Going to take you about an hour and 15point in get to the beltway. Leave early from manassas or centreville. Taking a look at metro. Metro is on time except for safetrack impacting the green line and yellow rush plus. Allison and steve back to you. Our top story this morning is the second time the charm . In just a matter of hours the house set to vote on a new healthcare bill. While republicans say they have enough votes for it to pass it could be a different story when it comes to the democrats. Foxs doug luzader live on capitol hill with the latest now. Doug. Reporter good morning. Well, yeah, this is kind of the second bite at the apple for republicans. This time, though, they think they have the votes to get this thing done. From the white house to capitol hill, the lobbying effort has been furious. Based on our and the agreement on this amendment, can now be in a place where i can support the bill. Reporter the white house won over some moderate republicans who now back the repeal and replacement of obamacare after a last minute infusion of cash. 8 billion over five years to help consumers who have preexisting conditions. Beyond that the plan would unshackle states from the Affordable Care act allowing them to pair back required benefits to help keep premiums down. How much will it cost or save and how many would lose benefits . We just dont know yet. I got to be honest with you, this process could put a bleep is a mess. It really s. Reporter democrats are apoplectic about this. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi telling her members to rally against the bill today. But this is a critical test for both President Trump and House Speaker paul ryan who couldnt get this done back in march. Now gop confidence is growi step one. Here we have a situation where theyre doing the absolute minimum to try to claim this as a victory. Its no victory. Theyre kicking the can down the road to the u. S. Senate. Reporter well, the second part of that is absolutely true. I mean this thing would still havely to pass the senate and the fate of this bill is very uncertain there and well see what happens today in the house but we could see a vote relatively soon. Steve and allison. Well look forward to the vote and well be talking with the member of the senate coming up at 7 30. Doug thanks so much. Today the president will visit new york city for the first time as commanderinchief. Hes scheduled to meet with the australian Prime Minister. Hes expected to spend the weekendd the Trump National golf club in bedminster. David watson has had the state of maryland on edge but now the manhunt is over. Fox5s annie yu is live in jessu Police Caught up with him. Annie. Reporter hey, good morning to you allison and steve. Well, for nearly a week now, multiple Law Enforcement agencies have been searching for 28yearold david watson but it was a crucial tip that that Police Received yesterday that really played a key role in finding him. The caller called 911. It was a local worker here that spotted watson Near Railroad tracks not far from the clifton t. Perkins Psychiatric Hospital. Of course we have been here for days now reporting about this story. This is where he escaped Police Custody as he was being transported last friday. He was due to that undergo a mental evaluation here but, yeah, sure enough, after searching all day yesterday about 12 hours watson was found hiding a few hundred yards from where the tipster spotted him near the Railroad Tracks. It was in a wooded area off of dorsey run road around 9 40 last night is when officers from a Howard CountyPolice Tactical team made that discovery. They found watson hidg. Drainage pipe about 18inches in size. They also found some packing materials inside there. Its unclear right now exactly what type of materials they were and what he might have used it for. We are told that the convicted felon was and found wearing a white hard hat and safety vest which police say were stolen from a nearby Storage Building and this pipe, guys, that police and the fbi found him in, they had searched this previously earlier in the day but officers rechecked it hours later using night vision equipment and they say that watson surrendered and was taken into custody in good condition. Now, you may recall watson was serving a sentence of 100 years for attempted murder in delaware. He was also facing some charges here for attempted murder and so thats what he was facing at the time of his escape. Were told that this morning hes still in the custody of Howard County police and in just a few hours we are going to be attending a press briefing at Police Headquarters for further details. Thats the jessup maryland. Back to you in the studio. Big doings down at the ballpark today its a 1 oclock game. Hours before that the wheels are already in motion. Yes. Talking to young people, steve. Right. Getting them fired up about weather is it share the knowledge with the youngsters. Its a beautiful weather day and tucker is there now. Good morning. Good morning, allison. It is an absolutely gorgeous morning its a little cool out here. Temperatures overnight have fallen back into the 40s and 50s. Very excited for weather day. We give a local presentation to our students from d. C. Maryland and virginia and they get to stay for the game its one of my favorite days of the year. Speaking of teachers, Teacher Appreciation day is on may 12th and thats nurse Appreciation Day as well and thats the same night that the first 25,000 people get the bobble head, the trea turner bobblehead. Thats going to be a big night. Allison and steve you guys know im a teacher as well. All right, lets do the forecast. Were looking at overnight lows again which have fallen back into the 40s and were currently 55 in washington. 50 out at dulles. Looklooking at dulles looking at temps out to the west 43 in winchester. Satellite and radar is featuring quiet condition coastal storm, lots of clear skies and sunshine for the first part of your day. Well get clouds this afternoon and as as ive been mentioning the last couple days its all about the rain for the day on friday. So, again, were in good shape today. This afternoon well get some clouds and then well get some rain overnight and particularly tomorrow morning were going to have a a lot of rain around for that are morning commute and the possibility of some thunderstorms. Heres your forecast for the remainder of today. Daytime highs in the 60s to about 70 and a quick look at that sevenday forecast if we have it. I want to mention the heavy rain tomorrow. Potential for heavy rain tomorrow about an inch to an inch and a half and then a weekend forecast which will feature unsettled conditions. A look at that seven day coming up. There it is. Lets do some traffic and get the later test i have some homework for you since are you a teacher ill give you some homework. Can you bring me back a halfsmoke and cheese fries from the ballpark. Ive been having dreams about that since the last time i was at nats stadium and the line what too long. You can do that. Erin ask and you shall receive. Of course i can do that for you. Thank you. Well move over to the roads and the rails. Metro is on time except for safe track impacting the green line and yellow rush plus. Also keep in mind we are tracking a crash. This on the outer loop bottom of the beltway blocking the right lane right shoulder. Seeing big slowdowns there. Carlos can you tell me exactly that intersection . Onramp to 395 so this is just some breaking news skyfox found it when they were checking out those delays. Right lane right shoulder blocked. Lets move it over to some of our cameras right now and show you what else youre up against this morning. Other slowdowns. This is a crash. Theyve really zoomed the camera in. Its involving a tractortrailer 95 northbound as they zoom out you can get a better view of that by 123. That disabled vehicle from an earlier crash could start to show you down during your virginia commute past Prince William parkway getting into newington. Big delays. Getting i dont and to 395 youre sluggish from the beltway to about the 14th street bridge with a 20 minute delay. This is at seminary road where you can see sun glare is a problem. Watch for that visibility issues. Grab your sunglasses today. Youll need them for sure. This is the inner loop through oxon hill. Slow from branch avenue to across the wilson bridge. Turning out to be a pretty crowded morning. Sun glare every. 66 eastbound, 234 Prince William parkway. An 18yearold student faces serious charges accused of driving a stolen vehicle to school with a stolen weapon inside. Police are crediting an alert School Resource officer for arresting this teenager. Melanie alnwick wit good morning. Reporter well, receive and allison, this is one of those stories that the more you dig into it, the more you hear, it just keeps getting more and more crazy. What we have now is two students under arrest. Two stolen cars with two stolen Police Weapons found here around and on the School Property on monday. Right now 18yearold Mario Alvarado hes the oldest student charged in this. He was spotted monday parking an unfamiliar mazda three in the back of the School Parking lot monday morning. Police say the School Resource officer saw alvarado get out of the car, walk toward the school then back to the car. He got in and drove off School Property so the officer followed. Alvarado ditched the car at a nearby intersection and ran off. He was arrested when he returned to the car a short time later. So, as police began investigating, Montgomery County police determined the mazda three was stolen in wheaton last thursday. T ar15 rifle stolen in a Rockville City Police cruiser last saturday. There was ammunition in the vehicle as well. Police said a second stolen car a Nissan Frontier was parked near Einstein High School. Inside that vehicle officers found a shotgun stolen from the same Rockville City Police cruiser. Parents were told of the incident in letters from the School Principal and also from school superintendent, dr. Jack smith. Now tmore that weve learned here is that alvarados bond was set at 2,000. He was able to post bond. He is now out of Police Custody awaiting his next court appearance, but we also learned in the search of Court Records that he had only been out of jail for two weeks. He was arrested in baltimore two weeks ago also for car theft. He was also able to post bond in that case. As for the other student involved in this, hes 15 years old and police tell us that the student was released to his parents custody and he is facing live at Einstein High School in kensington, im melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. A group of cyclists representing the 26 children and educators killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School will gather on capitol hill today. Its the starting point this year of the fifth annual team 26 ride. It raises awareness for common sense gun laws. Took off from newtown,ders connecticut and end end at the capitol but this year the group says theyll ride with congress at their backs until they do their jobs and pass laws to make americans safer. Still to come. Oh, boy, rats everywhere. Thought we were done talking about this. I wish we were. Yes. One neighborhood, though, in d. C. Getting especially cramped. Fox5s bob barnard at the center of it all. I hope you have on some big tall boots. Reporter i do. Our mild winter was bad for ski resorts and sweater makers but pretty good for d. C. s rat population. Sightings and complaint lawmaker plans to do about it. Theres nothing like trying something new. Especially when it comes to snacking. Thats why were introducing cheese dippers. The creamy cheese and crunchy breadsticks that go wherever you do. Cheese dippers by the laughing cow. Reinvent snacking. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. I hate this belt. Man oh man. Mom, we have a situation. Lifes bleachable moments need clorox bleach. So curious what tucker has for us next. You are . Lets not delay. Tucker barnes good morning. Chilling. Oh, yeah, im absolutely loving it out here. Bright sunshine, im sitting down in section 115 here and im all ready for the game. Im all ready to start doing that action. The nationals this year have a Brand New Program called the pick em plan where you can pick 40 games, any games you want to go to and decide if you want to go to that game and its right here in section 115. Thats why im sitting in 115 which i think thats a pretty cool program so maybe well look more at that as we get into the morning hours. Lets talk weather. And its absolutely beautiful out here. What a great start to the day. It is cool. Temperatures overnight have fallen back into the 40s and 50s and after some morning sunshine we are going to get some clouds. Currently 55 in and washington. Winds out of the east at about five to 10 miles an hour. Looking ahead, well have clouds move in this afternoon but we should see daytime highs near 70. Culpeper is very cool, 45 this morning. 46 in fairfax. Weve lost him. We have lost him. But hes there at nats park and we will rejoin him later. Theres your seven day. Hes not that far away. Yeah. Going to be cooler. Big change if you saw it yes is tomorrow that rain starting tonight and big soaker tomorrow morning for the commute. Good for the game. But that will be tomorrow mornings commute. Lets talk about this mornings commute with erin como. Since we lost tucker cinco de washout. Thats a sad rainy friday. The morning commute tomorrow right now were dealing with a crash. You can see the right lane right shoulder blocked. This is on the outer loop. Let me get out of the way so skyfox can show you if they can zoom back in on that crash that would be great. Theres a disked disabled vehicn the right shoulder. Once you get past that scene things ease up. Thats causing big outer loop delays. Bottom of the beltway as you merge onto 395 northbound. Lets switch back over from skyfox to a look at our cameras right now. Were also dealing with a crash involving a disabled semi. 95 northbound right by 123. Traffic is pretty light at this point. But from fredericksburg into stafford you have a lot of heavy volume. Its about a 40 minute delay from fredercksburg to the beltway. And youll pass this crash along the way. Well switch it back over to our maps right now and show you what else youre dealing with this morning. A lot of slow traffic on 295. Inner loop bottom of the beltway really jams up as well from branch avenue to the wilson bridge. Outer loop top of the beltway slows from 95 to Georgia Avenue with a 15 minute delay. 270 southbound building volume from 70 into clark bunch you can sao he then youre also heavy from germantown down. Right now its still a 45 minute delay from that 70 in frederick down to the beltway. Little bit of stopandgo traffic right now. So to and from the Baltimore Beltway just factor in that typical morning rush. Secondaries in Silver Spring looking good. Problem free in colesville and kensington this morning. Bethesda dealing with typical volume into the northwest section of the district and 301 northbound watch for a crash blocking the shoulder at mchenry road. Metro is on time except for safe track. Allison and steve back to you. Thanks so much erin. 7 18 right now. And new this morning from london, Prince Philip the husband of Queen Elizabeth will no longer carry out you public duties beginning in the fall. However the 95yearold is still continuing to head numerous charitable organizations. Buckingham palace made that announcement earlier this morning after calling a rare emergency meeting of full royal staff. Another black eye for Delta Airlines a California Family says it was kicked off a flight after refusing to give up their twoyearolds child seat. Their encounter with Airline Staff with cell phone video of course. Heres a portion it. Another ticket or another flight so that my son would have a seat and youre saying youre just going to give that away to someone else when i paid for that seat. Thats not right. You need to do whats right. I bought the seat and you just leave us alone. I got a solution. The family was on their way back from hawaii when the airline told them they needed to give up that toddlers seat for another passenger and have the child sit on his parents lap. Now as you can see the family refuses. They are argue that they paid for that seat and they shouldnt have to give it up. However the family originally bought the seat for their 18yearold son but thats son decided to take an earlier flight home and thats when the family put the twoyearold in the seat. The airline argued that the toddlers name wasnt on the and, therefore, the airline had the right to give it to someone else. In the video the Airline Staff can also be heard threatening the family with jail time and telling them that small children should sit on a parents lap but that seems to counter whats written on delta and the faa web site which both encourage parents to buy separate seats even for young children. The family was ultimately kicked off the flight and they were forced to pay 2,000 for another flight. Lets go from the skies to the ground right now. Rats taking over d. C. Turns out there is a new information about a rat problem throughout the city. Now city leaders theyre trying to do something about this and fox5s bob barnard is right in the middle of it hes in Dupont Circle with more now. Bob. Reporter hey, guys, were on 19th street which is kind of the backside of okay. Backside of a lot of these restaurants and what you see behind us a lot of garbage. Obviously out here this is garbage collection day. Weve seen trash haulers coming by. You this mild winter we can show you what we found over in adams morgan another neighborhood with a lot of restaurants and garbage and grease pits that attract rats. Rat complaints are on the rise we are told in that neighborhoods nearest rants. D. C. Council members pushing a new rodent prevention plan because of that. They want restaurants to keep their cooking grease inside after they dispose of it, keep it inside the restaurants and make sure their trash cans are sealed. Here now Charles Allen d. C. Council member. This would take us up to the next level which would really be trying to get all of these establishments to kind of have best practice how those trash containers are stored ideally internal not external and really get at the grease trappings. Ive heard a lot of neighbors talk about it between the trash and the grease its like a buffet for the rats. We are trying to get at that. We got to get that out of our alleys out of our neighborhoods and really make sure were controlling for it its a serious problem for a health and safety issue neighborhoods. Reporter now, again we can show you this is one of these grease pits that theyre talking it says fryer to fuel and most restaurants when theyre done with their cooking oil put them out in containers like this but that is just, you know, catnip for the rodents and so thats one of the contributing factors. You also this is one theyve been talking about, they want businesses to chain up their garbage to keep it harder for rats to get in there guys. Its just a by product of this mild winter more rats more complaints and if you look carefully youll see them out here. Were going to let you do the looking this morning, bob. Were going to get you some gloves though the next time you want to show and tell a dumpster off. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Serious problem though, serious complaint. Coming up self driving cars. Foxfox5 Lauren Demarco got to test drive one out. Well show you coming up next. Well its a perfect nespresso morning here, george. Hold on a second. Mmm. [mel torme sings comin home baby] where are we going . No dont tell me. Let me guess. Have a nice ride. How far would you go for coffee thats a cup above . I brought you nespresso. Nespresso. What else . 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 online, for the first year with a twoyear agreement. Its the only internet with equal upload and download speeds. Cable only offers upload speeds that are a fraction of their download 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 back now at 7 25. A glimpse of the future perhaps making a stop in virginia. Hundreds of people turned out yesterday to take a ride in two self driving carbs. The audi q7 and the tesla x. Both vehicles considered level two automation that allows the car to know when to stay in a lane h or when to brake. Cool seeing how they stop so the biggest problem is distraction many people are doing all kinds of things in their vehicle when theyre supposed to be paying attention to driving task. They started placing sensors along i66 into part of its research into sinking self driving cars into every day life. You cant control everybody else on the road. Everybody its either one of us or none of us. Im on board with that. Have i not said this before this moment . Ill say it when i say good morning to mike. Mike, may the fourth be with you. May the fourth be with you as well. Waited until 7 26. Yes. How have we gone this far its Star Wars Day. Its Star Wars Day, its weather day. May the fourth be with you. May the fourth be with you as well. 73 degrees your temperature later on this fourth of may. 69 dulles, quantico 67 so still temperaturewise a nice day but well have clouds rolling in ahead of this. This is your morning commute tomorrow. Rain and thunderstorms around maybe one more round into the early afternoon second half of the day some showers still around but conditions improving. The worst of it will be the first half of the day tomorrow. Were under a marginal risk of severe wet weather. Best chance of those strong storms will be during the morning commute tomorrow so well keep an eye on that. For now its time for the jam cam. The jam cam. Guess what . 66 is the worst of the worst this morning. Eastbound side at 50 crawling along. Major sun glare. Watch for visibility problems. Grab your shades and just keep in mind its about an hour and 20 minute delay from 234 Prince William parkway to the beltway crawling along. 395 northbound stacked 270 southbound stacked 95 northbound through fredericksburg also stacked but 66 is jammed the worst. Back to you guys. 66 wins. All righty. Coming up next Aetna Insurance says it will stop selling plans in virginia. That is likely going to give republicans more fuel with todays vote but the democrats arent backing down. Well talk with virginia senator tim kaine when we come back. Seven coletit right now. Time for the morning briefing as we take a look at the u. S. Cam toll dome this morning. House republicans say they have the votes now to Pass Health Care reform to overturn obama care. That vote set to come later today. The bills chances in the senate still unclear. Something that happened yesterday giving the gop new fuel to argue obama care has got to go. Insurance giant aetna will stop selling individual health plans in virginia next year. The company says its losing hundreds of millions of dollars on its Affordable Care act exchange business. Its already pulled out of iowa and aetna says more states may be ahead much those few states left. Reaction from have a have leader senator tim kaine joins us thirty five capitol hill this morning. Senator, good morning. Hey, steve, good to be with you. In your opinion how does this first of all impact with net pulling out what happens in have a have because many virginians would be left with one choose choice when it comes to health care . Steve, its not good. I think the key is to focus on aetnas reasons. They said that theyre losing money. One of the reasons theyre losing money significant one is this administration is throwing the enforcement of the Affordable Care act into chaos by not enforcing the individual mandate by not promising to pay the reimbursements to Insurance Companies that were part of the Affordable Care act and then the second thing that the aetna ceo said, look, repealing the Affordable Care act would be a huge mistake. What Congress Needs to do is be about fixes, and so when this repeal bill in the house gets over to the senate, were going to do everything we can to stop a repeal and instead focus on bipartisan reforms. Thats what we need to do. We can improve health care but we shouldnt break it. This latest example though that something no matter how you look at it, senator, no matter what side of the aisle youre on something has to be done now. You in particular have thousands of virginians that be needing health care. This is their only source of getting it as its written now. So what do you do in the meantime now to make sure that people in virginia have cov coverage . Well heres what we do. When this house bill if it comes over to us, we have to sit down as democrats and republicans and find fixes. As an example, i have a bill that im working ton stabilize the individual insurance market. Im working on with a lot of colleagues. I think it would be the kind of bill that could get bipartisan support. Whats going on in the house now is an effort to find a way to do a repeal only with republican votes. Theres no solution, steve n1 party is going to be able to do without listening and reaching out and working together across the aisle that will be good for americans. The other thing you see going on in the house theyre trying to rush this through before the congressional budget going to cost and how many people will lose insurance. Well know that by the time we take it up on the senate side so my hope is and again im on the Relevant Committee in the senate the Health Committee buy my hope finally lets work across the aisle don what the aetna ceo said we should do. Not repeal the Affordable Care act but up with repairs that will stabilize the market. You may know that score when it gets to you when it gets to you in the senate, doesnt look like the house will have it as you mentioned before it gets there. Search the house kicking the can down the road in this case the road being the senate . Absolutely. Look, when you have a house rushing to do something because they dont want to know what it costs, and they dont want to know how many people lose coverage, that tells you something. That theyre afraid of the answer. The earlier version was going to 24 Million People to lose health insurance. Thats the combined population of about 16 states. They want to try to vote today and get out a town for a week recess before they know ho bill. But the senate will have the information, and im going to be doing everything i can on the Health Committee with my colleagues to address this in responsible way. Is that enough, though, senator just having that information and youre preaching by bipartisan ship which is the way many people feel the government should be run to begin with. But we all know that its tough to get that. Just because its in the senate now instead of the house, do you really truly feel that you can work on it in bipartisan way . Steve, i do. I wouldnt be here if i werent an optimist. The idea is theyre going to try to get something through the senate but its hard to get major legislation through the Senate Without some bipartisan support theres 52 republicans. Its unclear whether the house bill can even be passed in the senate with less than 60 votes, zone theres a fairly good chance at least some portions of the bill will need democratic support. And even if you could pass a bill just with republican votes, youve senate who are all over the map. Some dont think this house bill is conservative enough and some think its way too conservative. So again what is in the best interest of the American Public the best interest of the American Public health care is important. This isnt a football game. Its not about saying i can get a win because i get a vote. Its about peoples lives. And so we ought to if the house bill comes over it ought to get put into the two help committee and finance commit which does medicaid and medicare. We should be ail to have hearings about the effect of the bill get the information about who would lose coverage. Propose amendments to fix it and make it better. And if we embark on that kind of a process in good faith, listening to groups like the american medical association, the American Hospital association, the American Cancer Society that say this house bill is a disaster if we hear their perspectives and take their suggestions well come um with a good product. Senator i want to jump try to rush it senate would be a big mistake. I want to jump real quick for one second. The house vote expected to come up later today. I want to switch gears before we run out of the time with you which is raptorly approaching unfortunately. Sure. Information coming out of course we heard from Hillary Clinton for the first time talking about the election. We heard from director comey talking about the election. You were her running mate. What is your response and reaction to what came out . Well, look, it was it was kind of gratifying and horrifying at the same time to hear director comey finally acknowledge that he was kind of made nauseous at the fact that his actions had on the election he decided to break 2fbism rules that you dont talk about pending investigation and you dont put controversial information out right before an election and he broke those rules with respect to what they were looking at with respect to Hillary Clinton. But he followed the rules and would not talk about the Major Investigation into the trump campaigns connections with russia. That was made very plain in the, you know, in the i to go down as a very low moment in the history of fbi probably next to the fbi wire tapping of Martin Luther king probably going to be one of the low moments in the history of the body. All right. Senator, we have to leave it there for now unfortunately. Well talk to you again soon. Appreciate your time as always. Good. Look forward it to. 7 37 right now. Get back out to the park right now thats where our Tucker Barnes is. Good morning, tuck. Allison g morning. Im wandering the park who do i run into . One of the weather team caitlin has arrived. Who would have ever thought. Good morning. Good to see you. You excited for weather day. I am. This is my second weather day. Beautiful morning already. I cant wait to be out here. We cant wait for the kids to come too. Shell join me traveling around. New section here very quickly want to point it out 108 that section is not knew they do something knew here called the k street second. Last friday every month you get this really cool tshirt they give you k signs when ever theres a strike out and its a big party they sold out the last event they did i guess last friday for can get that at nationals. Com. Thats new this year the k street section. Weather forecast quickly. Clouds this afternoon. But we are going to keep it dry for both our weather day presentation and weather day. Thank goodness. Quick look at the seven day. I do want to mention the rain tomorrow heavy at times particularly the first half of the day tomorrow might be thunderstorms with temps in the 70s unsettled and cool weekend few showers around for the day on saturday. Plenty more weather coming up. Dont leave for school yet. We got the president s. Thats coming up next. Hopefully less than ten minutes. Erin how are roads. Thank you tucker and date caitlin. Beautiful day to be down at the ballpark right now unfortunately the sun glare at the ballpark causing problems on the roads with sun glare. Dale city to the beltway 34 minute trip. We have a crash blocking the shoulder by 123. 395 its a 30 minute ride from the beltway to the 14th street bridge so about 25 minute delay. 270 southbound from 109 to the beltway 41 minutes and 66 Holding Steady with an hour and 13 minute delay from 234 Prince William parkway to the beltway that is the worst of the congestion this morning because as we take a look at our overview thursday morning commute in college park basicly from route 1 over to Georgia Avenue its going to take you an extra 20 minutes. Were seeing heavy delays on the outer loop from earlier crash still blocking the shoulder on the ramp to 395. And were also seeing inner loop delays up toward annandale. Also keep in mind inbound suitland parkway theres a crash at stanton road jammed back to silver hill road. It gets congested this time of morning any way and that accident delay is really adding to the stress. For pennsylvania of a 295 super slow as well a view of 66 you can see its solid red line all wait into fairfax like i said get an early start coming in from gainsville or manassas. Metro is on time accept for safetrack. Allison and steve. When we come back internet giant facebook investing 1 billion in u. S. Manufa manufacturing. So what a what does that mean for the American Worker . Thats coming up next. It is 7 39. Ed chest of drawers, to a cozy bed, can be yours for less. Save up to 20 at the ikea bedroom event. To a cozy bed, can be z2cpsz zi0z ss. Y2cpsy yi0y at ikea, we believe that your dream bedroom, from a personalized closet, to a wellorganized chest of drawers, to a cozy bed, can be yours for less. Save up to 20 at the ikea bedroom event. 7 42. Beware of invites to google docks malicious email is spreading throughout the internet and experts warn its a fishing a tack. Users are asked to click on link that gives the hackers access to their google account including emails, contacts and documents. Apple now looking to the future. The future of the u. S. Economy that is. The company with that treasure wealth says its creating a 1 billion fund to invest in american manufacturing. Apple also says it plans to Fund Programs it that could include people how to write code and an interest in new technology. Thats awesome. Looking for morning boost how about a caffeine infused bagel . Einstein brothers bagels now has espresso bun bagel dub the worlds caffeinated bagel which each bagel contains 32 milligrams of caffeine. Thats about third of whats in an average cup of joe. Hell eat three then. It has bacon on it, too. [laughter ] i dont think thats what they want you to do. No. Id try. Still ahead major break in the ant arctic ice shelf could create an iceberg the size of a us state. Hmm. Isnt that crazy . The size of delaware. Yeah. Narrator the time is always right to do what is right. Ralph northam. Army doctor during the gulf war. Volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. Progressive democrat. In the senate, he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound antichoice law, and stood up to the nra. As lieutenant governor, dr. Northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. Ralph northam believes in making progress every day. And he wont let donald trump stop us. Take a look at todays good day guest list. Coming up at 9 00 oclock today, obviously weather day fun will continue at Nationals Park. But back here in the loft youll meet lucas bond the onetime Elementary Schoolteacher from reston, virginia who is now a stand up comedian and the laughs continue when comedian bruce bruce joins us for celebrity dish. Actor laura lynnly will join us live this morning hiphop star young dough will stop by. Well see what he and other Young Artists are doing in d. C. Today. Awesome. Of course mor ballpark. It doesnt stop. It goes right up to the game today at 1 05. Isnt first pitch today. Tucker what time will class begin this morning . Well, class officially begins when the students get here at about 9 45. Thats when our presentation starts and were assembling the weather team as we speak. Caitlin has arrived. Sue is on her way. Mike thomas will be down as well, and were very very excited. Allison is coming down. Allison we cant wait to have you and big representation starting at 9 45 or 10 00. Were in front of the team st store, because with pedestrian dee. With teddy. His jersey he has tucker you have one yourself. My shirt is getting old. Lets go get a new one. All right. Well try get in the team store. Open not open yet. So im hearing from the nationals teddy im hearing from the nationals that theyve got all kinds of new great gear. When i was a kid it was like you went down to the ballpark and one hat and one ts there werent that many options but check this out. Yeah. Ive got on my nationals zip up with the logo nice and fitted and you can even unsip that and look ive got a female nationals tshirt. Totally deck out. For the weather here but theres maternity gear. For all different ages theres a lot of young kids gear now thats new at the team store. As well as different sizes. Weve got a white varied of different sizes. Most importantly this is what theyre into these days customization. They can like put cool name like barnes on the back of your sh shirt. Professor barnes maybe. Something like that. Or just homerun hitter would be fine. Oh homerun hitter. We got teddy here. My personal favorite president because, you know, the struggle is real. Of course we do the president race at every home game poor teddy hes zero for how many games weve had so far. He hasnt wouldnt race yet. So teddy, i know you dont have a lot to talk a you came close to winning on easter the bunny, yeah knock him out. Easter bunny took him out. Thats as well hes done this year. Today is a brand new day. Maybe today is his day for weather day. We hope so. Its home day, weather day and well have the president race which occurs after the tim inning i believe. Yes. Teddy we want to know maybe youre really looking for that victory today. Any new moves youve got planned, any stretching exercises to get this going . Right. Theres serious flexibility there. I dont quite have that. Exactly. Ahh all right. Lets see if we can give him a test. Teddy a chance to beat people that are not very fast racers. You want to race. Run a lot less than you. This is my favorite time of year. Every year i pull a ham stripping when i do this race. On your mark were tossing to you erin in traffic. All right. On your mark, get, set, go teddy i think caitlin won. Girl power. Go caitlin beat the boys. Right now 7 49. Ill let yall keep running and move over to the roads. Not going anywhere caitlin, tucker and teddy did were in standstill traffic on 66 eastbound. This is at 50 youre at a crawl. About an hour and 20 minute delay Holding Strong from ga gainsville basically to the beltway. Sun glare use your shades. Youll have visibility problems westbound side a little quieter. Switch it over to our maps right now and if you are skipping the roads taking the rails, were only dealing with safetrack right now slowing down the green line that is no Train Service between green belt and college park. Free Shuttle Service available. Green belt station closed. Yellow rush plus not offering service. Use the blue or yellow line as an alternate. Outer loop right now theres still a crash scene on the ramp to 395. Little bit of a delay as you try to cross over the wilson bridge there because of that. And also keep in mind that the inner loop super jammed up all through annandale sluggish across the American Legion bridge. Inbound suitland a crash at stanton road jammed to silver hill road because of that and delays on four inbound just typical delays sluggish outside the beltway by dower hour road. In brandywine 301 at the five split slow and theres that view of 66. Luckily 28 is looking good. If youre headed to the airport there is typical congestion but 28 through chantilly looking good and in fairfax its just thats so slow on 66. Inner loop to the legion bridge like i said through mclean also very jammed up. Excuse me. Thats your traffic. Allison and steve. Just in case you were cur curious, abe lincoln won the most president races this year seven out of the 14 so far. All right. Honest abe. 7 51. Startling allegations this morning based on i guess a virginia based Security Company accused of ignoring sex trafficking, alcohol smuggling and security risks while making millions of dollars. The company was hired by the us military to protect an air base and f16 fighter jets in iraq. Foxs Steve Rappaport with more. Repte allegations against u. S. Government security contractor. New investigation by the Associated Press finds that an American Company sally port global is accused of turning a blind eye to allegations including sex trafficking, security violations and alcohol smuggling by some of its employees. All as the company was being paid nearly 700 million by the pentagon to secure an air base in iraq. There were accusations of prostitution, of human trafficking, of sex trafficking, females brought in from other locations in baghdad that came from other countries and were selling their services on base. But sally port decided they didnt want us to look into it and shut us down. Report roar the company is also accused of abrupting firing its investigator after they uncovered the alleged wron wrongdoing. Fired investigators claim their findings not revealed to the Us Government until an auditor began asking questions. They claim at one point sally port employees were flying so much smuggle base a plane was observed see sawing on an air strip due to the weight. There was an incident where there were three large generator that is were stolen from air force base. Allegations include alleged Security Breaches including allowing Iraqi Militia members on to the base. The perpetrator whos stole these, they literally passed win about 10 feet of a sally Port Security guard force. Reporter sallyport stoppingly disputes the allegations saying it follows all us contracting rules. Steve rappaport, fox news. Company based in reston virginia. The commute in atlanta bad. It just got worse. Sing hole formed on busy road due to water main break. Crews work through the night try to ticket. The city urging drivers to take alternate routes. Major wash out in parts of louisiana heavy rainstorm led to flash flooding yesterday. Much of the town now inundated due to the flood as you can see its been hard for drivers to drive through the roads with water. Residents are advised to staydey major break about to happen in antarctica . Take a look at these images showing a crack in the ice shelf. Scientists say that could create an iceberg the size of the state of delaware. Were toll its branching out spreading faster than expected. Scientists now fear it may break at any moment. Experts say if that happens, the ice shelf may become increasingly unstable and could fall apart. Wow. Time for our facebook fan of the day. Take little breck from the news right now. Thats rob fogle he tunes into fox5 every morning beginning at 5 00 in the morning. Hi, rob, good morning. Hes going through a tough time battling lung cancer. His family says watching fox5 gets his spirits up. Rob, we wish you the best. Yes, we do. Speedy recovery hopefully. Were septembering good thoughts your way. No doubt about it and thank you so much for being a loyal fan. For your chance to be tomorrows fan leave a comment and photo below robs photo. Lets flood it with positivity. Thats right. Get rob some good news today. Thats right. You can do that on our facebook page. In the meantime rob hope you have a fantastic day and for many, many days to come. 7 55 right now. Mike is joining us for one little weather hit. Yeah, lets do it. Quick look at your Weather Forecast for the day today. We got a big storm system on the way. Good news, not this afternoon actually some sunshine tucker has been showing it all morning there at nats park. But as we head into your daytime hours tomorrow particularly tomorrow morning this system brought all this rain caused all this chaos and flooding down in the Southern States over the past couple of days, thats heading in our direction. Let me show you future cast real quick. This is really overnight tonight when the showers start to moveness specially from the west here. We get into tomorrow morning, morning commute looks like a mess. Rain which could be heavy along with thunderstorms. Some of which could be on the strong side. Well have to keep an eye on. We work our way into the afternoon. Things will start to dry out a bit we can get one more round of scattered showers thunderstorms before things c second half of the day well keep showers into the forecast on saturday as well. Again theres future cast at 4 30 showing a couple of thunderstorms around d. C. All right. Fox5 accu weather seven day forecast 70 your daytime high today. Beautiful day for weather day. Head down to nats park and see us. 74 tomorrow. Rain and thunderstorms especially the first half of the day. Saturday keep a few scattered showers if the forecast. Cooler 66 degrees. Sunday 64. As we head into next week we keep the cooler weather around but get the sunshine back, 63 on monday and only 64 for a high on tuesday. So some cool spring like weather through the first half of may. Hmm. Thats a check of the forecast. Erin is back this morning. Traffic time. Traffic time for sure. You might hit traffic on your way down to the ballpark today, mike. Oh, no. Youll be in the midst of the rush ill keep updated. Outer loop still dealing with crash on the ramp to 395. Thats slowing things down a bit. Look at that little delay leading toward that point, but really its the inner loop because of a rubberneck delay unusual heavy traffic from the springfield interchange through an nail dale. 15 minute delay. Entire stretch of 395 jamac beltway to the 14th street bridge to 95 heavy leading toward the beltway as well. Inbound suitland parkway still dealing with a crash scene at stanton road jammed silver hill road seeing slow traffic on five inbound, four inbound as well two north and southbound to the Douglas Bridge and 11 many street bridge really heavy and seeing heavier traffic 295 northbound closer to the bottom side of the bell way. Still an hour and 20 minute delay right now its been fluctuating saying over an hour delay from 234 to the beltway. I would just leave early have some patience or heavy sun glare. Metro on time except for safetrack. Keep it to fox5 news morning. Well be right back with more news weather and traffic. Beautiful view of nats park. Head down to weather day if you can. Gov seeing us on the jumbo tron there. Well be back in just a few. Ust. As we cross a bridge known as the mighty mac, we find it. Something the ojibwa call gaagige. We know it as timeless. A land that says slow down. Listen to my stories. Hear my songs. Timeless can be as big as the sunset on a great lake. Or as endless as the stars that watch over us. Welcome to michigans upper peninsula. Welcome to the purest of pure michigan. Your trip begins at michigan. Org. We just got the keys to our new house we got the keys ahhh wooo this is exciting weve got our own house yeah im sorry do you like it here maddie . I love you. I love you too. This is fox5 news morning. Good morning. Im Allison Seymour. Im steve chenevey. Thanks so much for joining us this morning. It is 8 00 on this thursday may fourth, may the fourth be with you, 2017 of course much heres whats on the fox5 news morning menu. Captured david watson back behind bars this morning of the he didnt make that it far where he made his escape. Fbi helping American University investigate who hung bananas from nooses around campus. The president and editorinchief of online newspaper well be live to talk more about the latest acts of hate on campus. Plus your kids are demanding them. Schools are banning them. So whats the deal with those Fidget Spinners. Do they really help kids i was dhd like so many claim . First show it is weather day and were giving you live look down at nats park right now. Looks a little overcast but supposed to be nice. No rain today. No rain for the game today. This is fox5 weather day. Tucker, caitlin and sue ready to welcome students this morning. The whole crew mike is going down. Im even going down today. Well check in with the crew thats there in just a couple of minutes. First at 8 00, though, were a little more than an hour away from learning more details about the capture of this man david watson. Howard county police got him last night after sixday man manhunt. Investigators will release new information this morning at the Howard CountyPolice Headquarters. In the meantime annie yu is live there with what we know now how police found him. It doesnt seem like he got very far. Annie, good morning. Reporter right, steve and allison. Good morning to you. He didnt get very far, and i can tell you theres a big sigh of relief here at Howard CountyPolice Headquarters. We are told that he was taken into custody late last night around 9 40. Again a big sigh of relief. We have video of a lot of the search efforts that went into the day yesterday it was a 12hour day for a lot of the local Law Enforcement agencies as well as the fbi and police say it all started with a tip on wednesday morning from a local worker who spotted watson near a Railroad Tracks of course they have been searching for days but this tip really revamped that search evident. The search really took place not far from Clifton T PerkinsPsychiatric Hospital where he escape Police Custody as he was being transported last friday. We have been spending days there watson was found hiding a few hundred yards from where the tipster spotted him off of dorsey run road near those tracks. And Howard CountyPolice Tactical team made the discovery found watson laying inside a small Drainage Pipe about excuse me and also found packing materials inside. Were told that he was wearing a white hard hat and safety vest when he was found which police say he stole from a nearby Storage Building. And this pipe that he was hiding in is where police and fbi say they had previously checked earlier in the day but officers recheck it hours later using night vision equipment. He surrendered tape into custody in good condition, of course, watson was serving a sentence of over 100 years for tempted murder here in delaware but also facing charges here in maryland for attempted murder as well. Again, he is in the custody of Howard County police and in just a few around 9 30 were expected to get a briefing from police here at Howard CountyPolice Headquarters and so hope fell well learn more about the search and arrest. Back to you in the studio. Annie, thanks very much. Lets get to politic right now. The white house looking for a big victory today in just a few hours house members are set to vote on new Health Care Plan and republicans say this time they have enough support to pass the measure. Bill was updated to include help people with preexisting conditions pay their premiums. Were focused on giving states the ability to get that waiver and get out from under the regulations that are driving up premiums for families plain and simple. So while this is not full repeal its the best we think we can get out of the house. Were willing to support it and then keep working for full repeal. As you might imagine democrats not happy with the new plan much house Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi telling her members to rally against the bill today. Crucial test for both President Trump and House Speaker paul ryan who could not get the deal done back in march. Happening today at the white house, President Donald Trump will sign an executive order making it easier for churches to proa participate in politics without risking their tax exempt status. This is aim at easing an irs provision that for bids churches from directly opposing or endorsing political candidates. The order will also protect faith based groups from being forced to pay for contraception coverage under the Affordable Care act. Todays signing comes on the same day as the national day prayer. Also today supporters and protesters getting ready to welcome the president back to new york city. Hes set to arrive this afternoon. This will be the president s first trip back to the big ap apple. Of course, new york is home state. First trip back as commander in chief hes scheduled to meet with australia tosses Prime Minister then deliver a speech on the uss intrepid and spend the weekend the Trump National golf club in new jersey. New this morning from london Prince Philip the husband of Queen Elizabeth will no longer carry out public duties that will start in the fall. He will still, however, continue to head numerous charitable organizations will not play an active role in attending engagement. Buckingham palace made the announcement this morning after caring a rare emergency meeting for all royal staff around the uk. Prince philip 95 years old hell turn 96 later this year. Said to be in good health though. Queen elizabeth will continue to carry out full schedule of public engagements. He actually had public event yesterday at the age of knife. G. This is his retirement. Deserves some rest. I would think so. Deserves some rest. Somebody though who is hard at work mr. Tucker barnes. He and caitlin roth are down at nats particle park for weather day. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. Were hard at work finding great happy hours here at nats park. Little early but thats okay. We want to show you everything that nats park has to offer. Real quick, though. Its chilly especially when were up a little higher here in the stadium. Theres breeze. Youre getting the kids dressed and coming out to weather day themselves jackets needed yi. Lets talk about this new feature here. This is new this year. It is. Called the beer penn. The swing big beer penn to be exact. This is pregame festivities. Five dollars off bud lights and bud your favorite drink. I believe you can get in when the gates open so a couple hours before the game, they have specially priced beer and great view. You can hang out here and watch the game ticket is in the park which is pretty cool. These views are fantastic. Theres also second place that nats park is featuring and that is right up here on the left hand side. It is the Left Field Lodge. Okay. So this is an area that opens were when gates open but this stays open throughout the game. Theres picnic tables. Family friendly. But it does feature a lot of the Devils Back Bone beer which theyre new one featured this year era. Do you know what that stands for . Equal rights amendment. Earned run ale. Of course. Thats all right. You were right on target. Thats the brew theyre featuring this year. As well as many other specials both in the Left Field Lodge and we are here in the swing big beer penn. Were here five hours early theyre not serving beer yet. Well come back in couple every hours. 1 00 oclock game. What do you think . Yeah. Maybe around 11am. Let me do wither weather quickly. Cool out here. Definitely a jacket should be considered. Yeah. As temperatures are in the 40s and 50s. Upper 60s to about 70 later today. Getting cloudy pretty quick. But the rain will hold off. Thank goodness. Overnight tonight and tomorrow. Well talk about friday and weekend forecast coming up. Erin thats the latest on all things happy hours here at nats park. See you don here. Back to you. Well toss back to allison and steve. Well cover for you. Traffic is bad. 8 08 right now. In the meantime lets move forward right now. Check back in erin in just a minute. Caitlin and tucker down at the ballpark. Lets get to fox5 follow up right now. Montgomery county principal who created a socalled smash space in her Elementary School resigning now. Barbara lee sent a letter to the parents and staff at Kensington Park wood elementary. Shell remain in the school through june then though shell look for another position within the school system. She apologized last week for creating a space on the schools loading dock for Staff Members to use a baseball bat broken rocking chair as a way to help reduce stress. All right. Parents heres question for you. Has your child asked for one of these little gadgets right there . Do you even know what they are . Theyre new fad when it comes to kids toys. As you can see from the screen theyre called Fidget Spinners, and they were allegedly made to help kids focus especially students with adhd. But as kids demand them teachers are saying enough is enough. Just much like how i feel right now. Why al . Holly joins us with a look at why teachers say no more. And this is a good example. If you saw what your work friend was doing with that Fidget Spinner in high eye ball. A little distracted. Are you talking to me . Maybe we just showed you why teachers dont like them, right . Okay. If you dont you really have to do it one happened i cant even do it one hasnt i need the second happened to get it started sipping. But if you dont have kids you probably never even heard of the Fidget Spinner. But if y recently been dragged to toy store or 7eleven to purchase this latest must have gadget. What exactly are they . Well, simplest form here. Fidget spinners made from plastic or metal with a bearing in the center and several prongs that spin around it. So he whats the point . Mind less play. While you sit. Thats it. You actually may be surprised to know that theyve been around for years. But for some reason according to google trends online searches for Fidget Spinners, it began spiking in april. The inventor of the device cannot even explain the surge in interest. The devices are being marked as a from everything from stress and adhd to anxiety and autism. The basic claim is that spinning the toy in ones happened helps increase focus. But as so often the case, theres little science to actually backs these claims up. Parents are becoming increasingly worried about their childrens constant use of them and teachers are so annoyed theyre students using them some schools have toy. Heres what we really know about the gadgets and attention. No one ever studied the impact of Fidget Spinners specifically on Mental Health or cognitive functioning, and even related research isnt that promising and one clinical psychologist wept so far to conjecture using the device would serve more as a distract for those with adhd than a tool to help them focus more. Moreover theres little proof that fid jetting devices would be useful on the stress relief front either. Interestingly, though, the inventor of the device catherine het tin injury told money magazine the Fidget Spinners were conceived as a way to keep kids out of trouble. Doesnt have anything to do with Mental Health aid. For you parents that are worried about the Fidget Spinners under mining the learning process, note this. There is very compelling evidence that constantly checking for messages and updates significantly interferes with your childs ability to concentrate which in turn impairs learning. So might be bette use than their Fidget Spinner use. How about that . Which one is worse . Exactly. As far as the use im going to go with the person who cr created them as to what they would be used for. A little note on that she was in israel and was inspired to come up with this because kids were throwing rocks at Police Officers and she thought if they had Something Else in their hand they wouldnt do that and it were keep them out of trouble. Right. That was the real reason this was invented. I think thats the most interesting part of the story. Right. Yeah. Morphed into Something Else. Its a fad. It will move on. Exactly. Like it will go the way of slime which was also banned in my kids school. It becomes an obsession and then its gone away. Or something even more recent the pokemon go craze. Right. Thats out. This is in. Yeah. Okay. There you go. There you go. Spin away. Thank you. Isnt next well have a new pokemon go story. You know how we always do. Right. Hndreds of military families turn out for town hall meeting much veterans are dealing with crumbling health care and they want answers from the va. Details next in a report. 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. Beyond is a Natural Pet Food that goes beyond assuming ingredients are safe. To knowing they are. Going beyond expectations. Because our pets deserve it. 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. Theres a look outside right now. We had little sunshine earlier. Now we have cloud cover. Temperatures a little on the chilly side and theyll stay there for a few days. 57 right now 8 15. Now it is 8 15 allison. Yes it is. This is one of our favorite times of the day. Cuteness time. Typically the point where tucker helps us out and shares the cuteness with us. Because tucker is down at the ba enjoying amazing view of the ballpark we are going to let them act out what were saying. Oh, we are. Thats why theyre there. Thats why theyre there. They hear us. They can talk to us. Well share the picture of Young Lincoln. Nine month old lincoln. Tucker picture yourself as Young Lincoln. This could go very wrong. A adorable, nine months old strapped into his little carrier with a nats hat on. Right . Isnt that cute . Everybody picturing that right now a little tucker Young Lincoln all ready for weather day at nats park. Yes. He just went to his first nationals game this past wee weekend. He tunes in to fox5 every morning with his mom his little fingers tune us in on the remote i guess no dial any more. And you are sew super duper adorable. And so are you caitlin and tucker. Caitlin and tucker, keep an eye out for Young Lincoln today. Just nine months with the little nats hat. Hes adorable. Super cute. All right. To send us your childs picture go to your Facebook Facebook page fox5 d. C. And send your childs picture in. Many, many, youngsters will be at the ballpark today. Thats why caitlin and tucker are down there this morning. Thats right. It is weather day down here at nats park. So excited. Hundreds of kids will be filing in about an hour or so. They start coming we get things underway a little bit before 10am. Weve been on a best i can tell a tour of all things alcohol related here at the park and now were at a brand now place the guy island club brand new this year in the main concourse its got great views. Great spot. Open air look of the stadium to i love so much now being featured here in section 112, section 113, where they have the goose island bar. So its new. Its a great place to come and grab a beer and stand out and watch the game from this Vantage Point if you want to get out of your seats also make to take seven future in shade when it gets hot later on in the season. Another one of the features of nats park. They keep reinventing themselves and every year giving us new places to go and new place and speaking of which they also have an app that you can put on your phone that can be very helpful threw the season. So check this out. Its called ballpark app its for the nats. You can download it on your iphone or android and you can do all sorts of things ahead of time upgrade your tick. Get all sorts of coupons and deals for the game that youre going to. And coming soon you can even buy concessions from your app because thats what we do. We just learned to everything from our apps and keep going from there. You got it. At some point youll be able to able your food from your seats from your app. All right. Let me give you a quick Weather Forecast. Steve mentioned the clouds moving n its definitely getting cloudy. Its cool out here. Temperatures in the 50s. Well look at daytime highs in the mid 60s. We will be dry this afternoon. Coming out to nats game, no problem with rain. Youll be out and about later today. No problem with rain. Live look at your satellite radar. And we are going to be very wet overnight tonight particularly tomorrow for sin company did he washout. Come on. Laugh at that. Thats clever. I think we need the spanish word for washout. I dont know. How about wash outid mayo. That sounds better. Saturday sunday unsettled with showers on saturday. Quick look at your seven day. Lets toss it back to erin. Erin i dont know what happened on your last hit. I heard shoes and then all of a sudden steve and allison were talking. I hope it goes well. My microphone battery died. Were all good to go right now, tucker. Steve summed it up with traffic is bad and frankly i was going to tell i was long verse of t that. 95 on the northbound side between 17 and three we do have crash and this is a delay. So as you come from fredericksburg, very heavy traffic. Please give yourself at least 30 extra minutes to get out of fredericksburg and into staffed for. Once you cross the mixing bowl all the way up the stretch of 95, look at 395 by edsall road. Holding strong with about 25 minute delay to the 14th street bridge because of volume. More traffic delays as well as we forward our cameras once again. Look at 66. Still crawling along by 50. No delays because crashes on the eastbound cidar however from 234 Prince William parkway to the beltway dealing with an hour and 15 minute trip. Things on the beltway looking much b out toward the beltway but this is 270. Southbound side just heavy volume. Still dealing with a 30 minute delay from urbana to the beltway. The beltway is okay on the inner loop but the outer loop college park by New Hampshire avenue delayed about 15 minutes from 95 to . Good a avenue. Lets switch it over for a look at our maps. Well show you what else youre up against this morning. Right now you can see those are the slowest drive times. Things are even worse right now. Its actually an hour and 20 minute commute on 66 eastbound to the beltway. Well keep updated throughout the morning but right in you were just seeing a lot of congestion metro on time except for safetrack. Back to you. Erin, thanks very much up to p new top boss at dv veteran affairs is, it becomes after Inspector General report found dirty storage areas improperly stored and dirty supplies. Bob barnard is live in northwest with more on the concerns. Bob . Reporter hey, good morning, guys. Yes, this all started with a tip back in january to the vaigs office. They launched which came out with its report last month. So here at the va last night sponsored by the American Legion there was a town hall meeting for people who come into contact with the va. Patients and their family members, veterans, to meet with the new Va Medical Center direct hes an acting director eight this point Lawrence Connell and they let him have it basically. These were people who said when they hear their dirty storage areas that are supposed to be sterile, theres dirty equipment and a shortage of Surgical Supplies thats just not acceptable. Here now the director and before him some of the people who were complaining last night at this town hall. This is what he put over my husbands port on his arm. I mean this is just unbelievable. You dont do this to veterans. In addition to removing the former Medical Center director, three d. C. Va medical for acquisition, storage and distribution of inventory have received proposd removals. Reporter so you see there have been some jobs lost. The top person here at the va hospital has been changed. Mr. Connell now the acting director. He said to the town hall last night the people gathered that no patients were harmed despite some of the examples that he heard. But, again, just more outrage here at the va which is suffered a black eye for a number of years now and this most recent complaint a string of them found to be true by the Inspector General here, guys, at the va. So theres more to come obviously but the folks here say they started the process of getting things back to where they should be for the people who need the care here. All right, bob, thank you very much. Coming up next, we head out west for a look at whales doing what whales do best. Of Sunset Cliffs in california. So majestic. 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Fox5 weather day at Nationals Park. Does that sound good. Sounds good to me. Sounds good to me. Me. Too. Tucker and caitlin are down there and sue palka will be down there and mike th thomas and Allison Seymour. How about this. Im kind of jealous. Look how close they are to that person in boat. Thats frightening. A great whale and her baby enjoying a swim off point loam ma california whales came win 1 mile of the shore before they eventually decided to swim back from shore. Rs a little further i mean, just beautiful. One day one day. Person chilling in the boat doing a little fishing. I know. One day ill see that with my own eyes. I tried to go. Went out on the whale watching adventure and we didnt see one of those. No whales. It was bad weather. Okay. Speaking of weather, we have a substitute teacher today. Bad weather teacher. But nothing will stop class from being in session because its time to go to weath school with tucker oh, no. No, no. Its mike thomas. Hey, mike. Substitute teacher day. Im getting this class in order. I have notes from professor barnes he says allison gets an a. Yes, thank you. Hes got you werent an f steve. I dont know why. Youre at least a d minus in my book, steve. Whos the teacher today. You get a d minus. Thank you. Sunshine today. Well give 8c little bit of sun early back to the clouds this afternoon. Humidity is an a. Low humidity out there afternoon temp as b. Nats weather day down at nats park where professor barnes is playing a little hookie today. At a ick in baseball that gets an a plus. All right. Thats the report card. Who is that . Utoh. Mike, youre a natural. As if you write this segment every day. He can hear us. Its the man whose playing hookie. [ laughter ] youre going to like this. Queue my music. Play my music. Walk thatff oh, thats what you call a walk off. Back after this. Back after this. In the middle of a storm destiny struck. Did may imagine april showers bringing her fashionable, but thats the beauty of a store full of surprises. You never know what youre gonna find, but you know youre gonna love it. We really want to hear specific actions in regards to the what the administration was going to do to address the actual problem at hand and what was going to happen after the investigat wanting that kind of information would have given us peace of mine which we just didnt receive. They really just did more of the same which is, um, kind of just talking around the issue instead of actually addressing what they want to do going forward. Well, there has been another racial incident on the campus of American University and students are reacting to it for days students have demanded action from au officials, but just what they are seeking is beyond just the schools statement of condemnation. Joining us this morning Jenna Caldwell president the campus publication the b good morning. Laura lump kin editorinchief of the black print. Tell us what the black print is. Its fairly new, yes. Its our School Magazine focused on people of color. It is an extension of the au chapter of the National Association of black journ journalists. Okay. And you serve as the president . You serve as the editorinchief. Whats the responsibility as far as you see with this publication of getting the word out about whats going on and your activism. I folic lot of people just because we are kind of like the black publication on campus a lot of people are looking to us to kind of release statement to cover protests and make sure that we are keeping the community informed on everything thats happened. s happened. And say what is the black print going to say about this . People are looking to us to make comments about whats going on and campus. Let me just say first and for most American University has always had a reputation of being open. Its right in the middle of northwest d. C. Umhmm. I was surprised to learn that there is any racial tension happening there. But a the mood on campus on a regular day . Well, currently the mood is very tense. Last semester we had similar situation happen young black woman had bananas thrown at her by her floor mates. It happened again with a second time and were left without any answers and theres no transparency between the administration and student body. Has this been on going issue as far as the mood on campus. Definitely. People say i cant believe this happens at au. Things like this, yorks want to say all the time but jenna it happen last semester. With the university failed to is give us real solutions. I mean we have a lot of town halls and conversations which are great but i mean thats not really a solution. In fact we have seen Students Walk out of one of those meetings. Why . What are you not getting . Well one thing students feel like theyre not being heard. A group of made a list of demands and the schools provost agreed to have meeting with them at 10am and that meeting was so we feel as if our the things we werent heard not being heard and the they continue to want us to have conversations that are repetitive. Meeting was canceled and the students were told to do what instead . Yeah, really interesting. The students so a Group Organization on campus administrators lead theyre hosting kind of a workshop called anti racism and allied ship and they told for students of african die as per to go through this thing. Were not the racist. Were not the allies. Its so its kind of inappropriate response i think. In fact the clubs of color have stepped up now and what way are they working as a block of activism, awareness, trying to get solutions. One thing theyre list of demands theyve cull come together to create comprehensive lists one of those things being transparency between the university and the student body. Another is just seemingly having workshop not workshops, but training for faculty and students alike so that these continue, and, um, we wont have see Something Like this again in our fall semester. We were showing some of the demands there. Another one to have more faculty of staff of color. Umhmm. Right. Okay. Lets talk about another program theyre implementing that is called the aux. Yeah. Good trying to i guess sensitize students as they come in. But it doesnt start until a couple years from now. Yeah. So it does become mandatory for students until 2018 which means the entire university will not have gone through this program until 2023 and that seems like not an immediate solution to the problems were having on campus now. Aux was designed to give that racial and sensitivity students training to students. We have this bran in you program racism is over but its not really a solution that will take place any time soon. Its something thats a longterm solution which is great but we need something right now i think. To that end, the young woman first of all youre going to a prestigious university, American University. And to have that incident i cant even imagine what that child went through child because im a parent, excuse me, young woman went through. What happened to the students who did that. Nothing. Thats the problem. They still go here. They were never expelled and a lot of people were just left not knowing what happened to them because the University Never updated us with any sort of like their status whatsoever. Do you have faith that this fbi is looking in this now. This is being look at as racially motivated hate crime. Right. Dovetailing that this student or students whomever will be punished . I hope so. I mean this past semester the government student we passed legislation that made amendment to the student conduct code saying that when, um, department at the motivated sorry, when incidents like this happen that are motivated by persons identity like race, the university has to process. So because of things hike that, i think that hopefully University Administration will take that into account thats why theyre looking at it as a hate crime. So, you know, i think thats the least they can do honestly take it seriously. Listen to us when we say we want these students expelled. I dont feel comfortable going to school with these people honestly. White students joined black students with the overwhelming feeling that you have. I dont feel safe going to school with mentalities like this. Whats the bottom line what you see need to see from the university youre paying to to . Right. I just need to know that these people are going to be expelled. Honestly as simple as that. We want transparency. Theyre huge divide between the students and administration and thats not good. There needs to be trust and that relationship needs to be repaired honestly. Going off that, there needs some sort of sensitivity racial not only do we see large hate crimes put even in the classroom we suffer from a lot o aggressions from other students and at ux program implemented now would be the best ideal situation. Jenna caldwell, laura lump kin au students. Much success in your college career. Thank you. Thank you. Back to you tuck Kearse Barnes who is out at nats park. Allison, its not just me. Were joined by not only caitlin. We got sue here yes hold on. I got get a selfie with caitlin and tucker. I never get to see them. Everybody asked about you all the time everywhere i go. Where is tucker when are you going to bring tucker to save way. He cant come today but nats bark. Were here. Yeah we are im dressed with my twin sue palka. We love our free nats gear. We do this quite often. Including today here at nats park. Were both so thrilled to be here with you tucker. Whats the best part of weather day for you . Honestly i love meeting the kids. Many, many decades ago i used to be a teacher and kids really get me excited. They come out here. They love to meet us. Weather and then we all get to wash baseball ive become a huge baseball fan, too, in the years that the nats have been here, and this is one of my favor it are days of the year i think this might be getting just a little bit above thanksgiving right now. Oh wow. Weather day. Highranking day. Its only time they let me anywhere near a field. Usual im in the upper section like 400. I was here the tucker throughout the first pitch. That was a strike. That thing had heat on it. Right. Right. I dont think bryce could have handled it. He cannot have handle the it new york city. Everybody would have been even scherzer was nervous. Youve flown out first as well. Mine was so far to the right of home plate. I got it over there. My husband made me practice over and over and over. You cannot bring shame to this family. So i up at orchard high school. I had to have elton john surgery on my shoulder from the over pitching even got into the plate but it was like 45 degrees off the plate. All that evident. Did you it. Paper plate. The fox5 weather team is very all birds are safe. Real quick look at the forecast. We are going to be in the upper 60s to 70 today. Clouding up but no rain for our big weather day or for the game this afternoon. This is bet than last year. It was very warm. Chilly enough for jack but its comfortable. Quick look at the seven day well have a lot of rain and thunderstorms around tomorrow. More on that coming up. Ill toss it to erin. Weather day coming up in about an hour. Yay all right. 8 40. Thank you guys. Looks like such Beautiful Day out there. The sun keeps getting brighter. Right now italy if youre trying to get to work, this is 270 southbound by shady grove road come to go stop. Just south of at this point theyre a crash blocking the right shoulder holding with 45 minute delay from 70 down to the beltway well switch it over from this cam ran take look at our maps show i was bunch of read zones re really slow in the inner loop from branch avenue to the wilson bridge. Youre sluggish crossing the 11th Street Bridge in Douglas Bridge and north of 50 on down 295 southbound very slow traffic. Were also dli safetrack work. No green line trains between green belt and college park. Free Shuttle Service available green bell station closed no yellow rush plus. Use blue or yellow to get arro all other metro rile lanes on time all morning. Back to you guys. Little bit of good news. Maam stone makes a sweet gesture to an arizona boy who invited her to the prom you. Might remember this video it went viral. And while emma said no to proposal she didnt forget about him. That story is next. All right. Do you remember this story . The arizona teenager who put together an epic promposal for actress emma stone. Recreating scenes from her hit film la la land. Video got the attention of the act stress who had to decline jacobs invite saying the prom conflicted with her schedule but she didnt forget the gesture. She sent him a boutonniere and corsage handwritten note damaged to the flowers saying a Little Something for you and your lucky date much love emma stone. Jacob posted this picture to instagram showing him and his date very so cute very cute little girl wearing boutonniere and corsage sent. Thats very cool. He joined us after he made the proposal the next day on the air. Kevin had chance to talk with him. Awesome job by him to put it together. Awesome. His date was very beautiful. Yeah. Win win speaking of that sounds like every day on good day. A win win win guys. Yes it is. Good morning to both of you. Developing on good day, police will hold a News Conference about the capture of that prisoner that escaped in maryland. Weve burlingtonbristol talk about it all morning long. Well have that for you around 9 30. Also at 9a many complaining about rats in d. C. And this morning well talk about how city leaders are planning to fight back. Were live with the latest. Control room lets do it put up the good day guest list its thursday morning meal buy lou what is bone the oneElementary Schoolteacher now stand up comedian and the laughs will comedian when comedian bruce brows joins us for celeb drott did the dish at 10 15. Actress lauer l. Any of the ney will join us live and hiphop star young dro will stop by. Hell share what he and other Young Artists are doing in washington, d. C. Talk about the star power at nats park. Were talking tucker, sue palka, caitlin roth are live tv event from over the next two hours. All right. I think Allison Seymour will be a part of that at some point this morning, too. She is indeed. Kick it up a knowledge from here to here. Top rated, number one, good day d. C. Minutes away. Right here. Taking it up to this knowledge. I love it. Im actually on the way right now. Yes. Ill bid i was fond farewell and see you in the morning im my way to nats park with mike thomas right over that all dressed up. Good day group coming up in 12 minutes. Have a safe journey. Mike got hess thomas jersey on look for him with the number five on the back. Say hi everybody if youre down at nats park. Give me a nats high five, steve. For a win today. See you later. To a cozy bed, can be yours for less. Save up to 20 at the ikea bedroom event. Z2cpsz zi0z y2cpsy yi0y at ikea, we believe that your dream bedroom, from a personalized closet, to a wellorganized chest of drawers, to a cozy bed, can be yours for less. Save up to 20 at the ikea bedroom event. Good start to the day at Nationals Park today. Should have good weather. Should get the game in. Maybe rain tonight. Yes. Maureen why am i giving you the weather. I was going to say. You know why we got the man of the hour coming up in ten seconds. All right. This is the part of the morning where we doin tense seive interviews, sue. Very intensive. Were so happy to have Valerie Camillo join us out here. Weve got the best weather for weather day today. Were so excited. Couldnt be better. 1300 kids coming down. Whoo which i have some up here. I understand you had a part in writing this. Yeah i did write the part of the workbook here. I guess youll quiz us on the questions i wrote im not going to remember the answer toss, right. I dont know if you can answer. Maybe sue will answer. All right. We dont cheat. Ill ask you a couple of questions. Ill only answer if you tell me where you got your raincoat. Loving it on fleek. Nordstroms. Very nice. So this is sort of thing the kids will be learning about today. We love to use the park as an opportunity not just for baseball but to do positive things for the community and learning about weather certainly one of them. Heres your question. What was the hottest temperature the nationals played home game in last season . Oh, my gosh. I mean weather day was hot. It was in the 90s. Im going to say would you have played in a 94degree day . On august 13th it got all the way up to 101. Thats awful. Yikes. First of all, im giving mycete self up for knowing that. I dont know how the players do it in that. I think they drink lot of water. Stay hydrated. It was oh, my gosh. One of our popular promotional day all these costumed characters i was the poor chewbacca guy was dying Star Wars Day is may 27th. Come out this year. Well is cooler weather. Do you lost themes for the games. Whats unusual this year . Star wars will be a big hit. I think the other big one were looking forward the first time weve ever done it is game of thrones night. I love it. June 23rd. Is jayson werth still using that as ace walk up music . He used it last night. He played ring of cass toy mirror for those who walk up those who are big fans which i certainly am. What is your favorite day. Star wars day. What did you press up. Last year i was princess lea. Sad Carrie Fisher well miss her. This year i think im going to be captain if as m im a hard core fan. People at home who is that character. For game of thrones ill be mother of dragons. Youve got to be. That would be wonderful. You can come as cerci. First of all thank you very much. Thats quite generous of you. One of my favorite days when you can bring your dog to the park sue is a little bit shy to ask shes interested in bringing her cat to the park. We debt that request lot. There are little harder to coral than the doing. But we have to figure it out because so many people are like we want cat equality. Oh, my gosh. We need to figure it out. Theres more skiddish. On behalf of the cats i would say they would hate that kind of thing. They would rather change owners than homes. We might not have to do that. But i didnt realize you had the doing out here, too. Thats blast. We have six pups in the park day annually. You can bring down your dogs sit in a special section they are they have place for the puppies to go during the game and get some rest and relief and so its a great opportunity if you love your dog outdoors love the park. Were honored to be here again today. This year six,. Seven years. We love to reach out to the community too. Thanks for inviting us out. Thanks for doing this every year. We get great feedback. Well be over 30,000 day for a gay dame during the school year becae thanks so much. Weve glad you had weather so far this season and the team is off to a fantastic start. Were really excited about that. Real quick weather. Its going get cloudy this afternoon upper 60s to about 70. Nice and dry and ill show you the seven day. Theres your seven day right there. Heavy rain tomorrow. Talk more about that coming up guys. Back to you. Thank you very much. Sue, thank you very much. In todays fox beat we are headed back over seas. As we saw yesterday Kevin Mccarthy globe trotting young dashing young man. Boarding the venice sim and lon Orient Express in venice its super fab. This morning kevin gives us a tour of that train during a stop before crossing into austria. Ive been on the venice Orient Express since 11 00 11 10 this morning. We started off in venice, italy, and now were in brenner which is amazing. Were right by the austrian border. I can see my breath. Look. Take you on the train. You got to see how cool this place s were here for murder on the ori this is one of my buddies right here. This is ricardo. Hes awesome he helped me out with my door earlier. Yes. How is your day going so far . Not easy but we been a good crowd for you . Yes. All right, good. Well head into the train. Well show the train. So come on in. This is absolutely incredible. City and allison you got to see this place its amazing follow me through here. I am current until car k for kevin. They name it after me apparently. Lets follow through here. Jim from ign youll be on tv tomorrow in d. C. While youre watching this, obviously im further away now this is my Current Location as of wednesday afternoon here in i guess italy almost in austria. Moving down. Check it out. All right. Lets see what we got here. This is actually where im sleeping tonight. Im bunking up way gentleman holding the camera chris from amazing miami. Ill be sleeping tonight. Heres the cool actually going to bunk this bed there will be two bunks and basically going come in tonight while were at dinner and put this on top and chris and i both have our own reading lights which is really cool, and look at this. This is our own little bathroom. I dont know why im showing you all these details. Thats how were charging our phones much this is my tuxedo for dinner tonight. Really really cool event. I interviewed josh gad earlier today. You know him as olaf in frozen he play as character in this film that Anthony Perkins played in the 70s version. Eighty three today we had an amazing lunch with Matthew Pritchard hoot grandson of Agatha Christie that this train inspired. More on this coming up when i get to to london tomorrow which is the day youre watching this on thursday. Im speaking to you from the past youre watching this in the future i guess. Im going to be getting to london going to see alien covenant the new alien film. And t panel with pretty much the entire cast of murder on the Orient Express including judy den much and daisy ridley, josh gad, the film maker and more. Back to you guys in the studio. I love you so much. I miss you all very much and i cant wait to see you monday morning. Back to you. Award winning interface. Award winning design. Award winning engine. 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