Bit of mud problem here asere as youre trying to get through. Hr we dont see any crews cews actually working on this sohis o far. Fa were told it started as a leak around 10 oclock last okt night and then got larger. That according to operationspers here at Reagan National n airport a theyre in charge ofaf the ramps and the accessacs routes here. Utes he. They say that this is a armya a corps of engineers issue, sos io army is going have to come out o and deal with this but we butwe dont see anyone out hereout right now. The good news isri this is justt the access ramp. Ra my photographer, mike rickertrit and i drove past the closurelose point, so what you do is yous yu just keep going like youreike going toward the airport. Air there is another exit, anothernr southbound exit for reaganr eagn National Airport. Nati it takes you to the old terminal but you can make youra way from there to the newhe new terminal as well. Ll. So, traffic impacts may depend d on a lot of people were confused we saw, so if theyrete slowing down they dont know knw where theyre going we could end up with a couple backupscku here. Really just depends on howus well peoplet d onramp exit to the airport i that perhaps thrpey might not be used to. O. Association that is its thet latest from here outsideou Reagan National a airport. Irp. Back to you guys good take itke slow this morning on thosemornin cold r. Ads. 4 32 is the time right now. O lets turn to politics. O attorney general Jeff Sessions s has recused himself from anyromy investigation into whetheratione Trumps Campaign had improperd r contact with russianssan officials. Sessions made the announcementno late last night followingfollowg revelations that he met withe mh the Russian Ambassador lastt year. Some democrats are alsolso calling for the attorneyg general tofor resign saying egg lied under oath about theder oae nature of those meetings. Sessions insists he was truthful during his confirmation hearing. Earing. In retrospect i should haveuh slowed down and said but i did d meet one russian official a offa couple of times. F tims. That would be the ambassador. Bas President Trump respondedpond to sessions recusal on twitteri last night saying in part hepa could have stated his responsesp more accurately. Cc it was clearly not intentional. Intentiol. This whole narrative is a wayiva of saving face for losing an election. Ctio. One month after president th t trumps controversial travel trv ban was struck down by federalel courts, the white house hasuse s yet to release a revised plan. An announcement for a new plan n has repeatedly been postponed. Ps white house officials now say y a new plan will not be e unveiled until next week ate the earliest. The ees experts say the delay isdelay s likely due to legalo legal difficulties and a possibleposs shift in administrationinistrati priorities. O lets go to maryland now. So, a lot of mar ylfamilies dea with a big pderoblem here. Hee many families have been en dealing with heroin epidemic. Pi governor larry hogan has been h talking about this hesasing abh declared a state of emergency sa in materyland. Ar heroin and opioid overdosed orde deaths doubled in marylandoubl last year. Is puttingpun 50 million over five years tos fund the effort to stop this th problem. Part of the problem is thatis ht many users dont realize their heroin is laced with fentanylfen a drug thats 50 times more m powerful than heroin. Roi in maryland we dealt with riots 90 days after i became bee governor. That was i emergency. We sent 4,000 and members of00 f the National Guard and wend stopped the rioting but webut we didnt lose a single person. Er no deaths. Here were losing people everyoe day. Governor hogan said the Opioid Epidemic did come upme u during the governors meetinggo at the white houseve a few dayss ago but he hasnt spoken tooken the president about the statethe of emergency. Governor hogan will be a guest. Hell join us liorve h to discuo this Opioid Crisis in marylandd and why he chose to declare aece state of emergency over this particular issue. Thats today on good day inmerg ourpartoday 9 oclock hour. 4 34. Also happening today in thehe district, d. C. Teachers will wll rally downtown for fair pay. Last week the washingtonash Teachers Union rejected thejecte latest Contract Offer by d. C. Public schools. Ic s now, they saych teachers haves e gone six years without a paypay increase and say the latest the offer falls short on pavementt a the rally is happening fromg 8 00 a. M. Until 11 00 a. M. Atat freedom plaza. 4 34 is the time right now. Rw lets talkbo because, man, a couple daysouple ago when i say we were on the th up and down, i knew that this ts was going to happen. App i knew we were going to geto et some snow somewhere. Om you did . In february. Februa. Even though its eve officially. Arch. H. Spring, right . Youre a weissman. Well, its s your officiallyciy meteorologically spring. Sprg. Spring doesnt start until the end of the month if youre being specific. Youll have to explain to tol me the difference betweene be meteorological spring and realdr spring. Sp wellri talk later. [laughter] [lau temperatures outside cold. 36 degrees in washington. In. 30s and many location os wakeca up to below freezing thisw frzii morning. Guess what . If you look outok u your window if youre inre n northern prince georgesn prin s county or northern annehernnne arrundel county youre seeingug some snowflakes flying. Snow do not hiflt that panic button. T its conversational snowon showers today. Ghu see how light they are. Ve youll be int thaneyd outa ofh very quickly as we roll we rl through the morning hours. Ho lets look at your forecast for the day today. Your f 39 degrees with flurries at wit 10 00 a. M. A kind of on and off flurries through the day today. Ugh the by 1 oclock, 42 degrees andgred by 4 44. Oon so, a ery chilly kind oflly k friday up ahead and well havewe that full weekend forecast fornt you in just a couple of minutes. All right, e frinin, jus over to youver to for some traffic. Raffic thank you, mike. Ke. 4 35. 4 bundle up. 35 youll needbu that heavy jacketa gloves and hat today. Ved hat taking a wide view of our mapo the beltway is looking good. God but as Melanie Alnwick toldk tol you with our team coveragecov water main break impactingmpc traffic gw parkway southbound. Oh ramp to Reagan National reagan o airport is closed at thesed at t access ramp. Ramp. Continue on the southbound side of gw on parkway get off f the following ramp or take ortae route one to get around that. T. Were Hearing Police do hopelice to and have that reopened by rey the morning rush. Well keep yournin posted on th. Could cause slowdowns ifwdowns youre headed to reaganto reaga national this morning. This mor well slow you a liven lookloo around maryland. Mar this is 270 southbound traffic moving along justin. Ving wisdom you can see alsome snow in camera though so beso cautious as you head out. Ou you could hit some slick some sk spots. Well keep you updated ifpdatedf theres any crashes. Rashes 4 36 is the time. 6 is the ti. Coming up on to fox5 news nws morning Vice President mikeic pence coming undere fire p for o actions some democrats say is Colin Kaepernick says hellss no longer take a knee duringkne the national anthem. Hm. Were going to break rightngt now with a live look outsideusi across the dmv. Ss the dmv. The time right now is 4 36. 4 . The temperature 39 degrees on this friday march third. Riday it is the, what is it, it meteorological spring. Orolo spring, yeah. Gi spr not real spring buting b meteorological spring. Spr fake spring. Prin fake spring is what mike isni caing it. T. Its cold, ill tell yoully that much. Uch fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in stomer satisfaction jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. Get our best offer of the year. 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone. L for 79. 99 per month, r the first year with a oyear agreement. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. Go to getfios. Com or call 1. 888. Get. Fios get the best. Get fios. 4 39 right now. Time to take a look at the stories youre engaging with the most this morning on social media. First up, moreo tayou eml ma controversy, this time by vice b president mike pence is in thei hot seat. Hoeat. In a statement yesterday, hisst, office announced that pencenced used a private email account ac to conduct public business asctu governor of indianasi and he was ultimately hacked latertimatelya that last sumtemer. Summ now during the 2016 president ial campaign, pence criticized democratic nomineecrn hillary in private email server while she was secretary of state. Te. Well, next up another bigtheg hollywood name is getting political after tom hanks. The machine was delivered toel the white housie Briefing Room with a note urgingief reporters fight for truth, justice and the american way especiallye the truth part. Itse not the first time hankss gave the press at coffee c machine. He did the same bac k in 2004n 2004 when george w. Bush wasen georgs president. H all right. Got an, if y android smartphone, google isoge about to make it even smarter. E now the company is rolling out google assistance to some ofo these older devices. Devic now the u. S. Will be the firstl to get that update withwit australia canada, the uk andk n germany to follow. Foll. Google hasnt revealed which hih devices will be eligible butgibb they promised that hundreds ofuf millions of Android Users will nefit. T. Sounds good. Od. Colin kaepernicks timeernickse protesting the national anthemae at Football Games will come tooe an end much kaepern hes ending his protestr because he got his messagege across successfully. Cessfully kaepernick wanted to drawnted t attention to the racialial disparity in the u. S. The 49ers quarterback will bete a free agent next week and is, who to go sign a new contractwct with a new team. Tam. A if youre thinking aboutnko attending the university of Central Florida the school isis sweetening the pot. Its planning to bailed lazyin river, mini golf course and a cabana area an resortresr style some resort stylesort amenities as well. Ities as we ll takeke it. For a college campus. Ior a c the just for theolle low price f 25 million. Thats all. The project is being funded entirely by private donation. On. At least theyre not usingyre government money, school money for this but i dont know what d you would need this for onon on campus. I would have loved the lazy h river to relax after class. C really . At college. Yes. I might not have gotten the great grades i did if i was so o relaxed. Xed. Anyway, okay, well talk about t that later. E coming up, Police Search for answers after two sepate shootings in the district. Ngs id and rescue crews incue crewsn rockville, well, their search se for the owner of a burned downed home continues. Con and as we head to break,brea, heres a live look across the ae d. C. Region. Region. Time now is 4 41. It is cold outside. Outide. Just checking in at at 39 degrees. And some flurries. Flurries. Its snow around the area. Rea well be back in just a few. Ing. 5 news mning. 5 news morning today on fox5 news morning,mn crews search for the owner of or a home engulfed in a massivema flame in rockville. E in rockvi and a live look outside sot the cold air of winter is backbc and it brait along someonome conversational snow in partsinp of our region. Re all right, good morning. Mo thanks very much for joining fog us. Im wisdom martin. Im and im erin como. Wisdm today is friday. E lets enjtooyda the word fridayy march third despite that coldirt weather. All right. So, mike thomas is here too talk about the weather. Weat real quick, mike, it wask snowing up town. Thats all im going to talk a about all day. All da you can see some of it onof t the ground. Ground. Yeah, quick little burst oftf snow came down, kind of right rh down i270 maybe left a briefa i coating on the cars inrs Montgomery County. Montgory cou but that will kind of quickly qi move on and that will be thehe story of the day. Wellory have some snow showerh on and off throughout the afternoon here. Nd off heres futurecasttern at 8 00 a. Showing snow flurries in days. Fl we work until the afteurrnoon,ar we break out from clouds tom clo sunshine and then up towards baltimore you see a few morew m snow flurries there onow flurri futurecast. Th afternoon thand evening commuteg hours we could still have a couple of snow flurries comingse across but past that point ipo think things really start to calm down. Down we clear it out tonight andght d get very cold during the nextin couple of overnight hours. Hors. Heres your fox5 accuweather5 ae 7day forecast. Recast. Only 45 today. Oday. Then look at that low tonight. Nh 27 degrees up top 44 tomorrow. O. Plenty of sunshine all weekendld long but it will be on theill be chilly side only 47 on friday ra not until we get into the nexth work week do we start warming things up a bit. P 60 on monday, 68 on tuesdayues and then 64 next wednesday. Dnea. The up and down kind ofn kind of weather here late winter early y spring continues. Ng c all right, thats the weather. E erin, over to you for traffic. 4 46. Slick spots, reduced ed temperatures this morning andur snow around the area. Es tsnow right now w aereround thcrashn the beltway, 295 and 395 butnd b as you make your way out on gw parkway were still tracking ag water main break that could put a damper on your commuter on if youre headed t yo reagano rn National Airport this morning. The southbound ramp from gwom gw parkway to Reagan Nationalgan na airport is closed. If you and corpntinue on thorenn you can take the second exitsecx to National Airport and workortd your way there or take route re one. Melanie alnwick getting thealnwc latest on that so wellk ge keel you posted. Any questions at erin fox5tion d. C. Ons twitter. Tter. 4 47 is the time right now. G lets go top montgomerys county. Go a home is in ruins after auins late night fire in rockville. Rol emergency crews arrived toeno find the house totallyseotall engulfed in flames. La this morning fox5s annie yus ay is live on the scene with thece very latest. Annie. Reporter . E hey, good morning to yougoodo erin and wisdom. Widom. Yeah, you can see right behindgt my shoulder here that some sixss hours later we still have firefighters from the Montgomery County fire and emsfc working tntoy fiput out those e spots. You can see that smoketha billowing from the home btut i i mean, the home is completelyomp destroyed and firefighters aredf now waiting on some daylightaylt to continue their searchheir sea efforts for the homeowner. Meownr were told right now that its s still unclear whether thisethe person was inside the homee h when the fire broke out but one person still unaccounted for at this tim this is willow lane inlow e in rockville. Its sort of a secludedseuded neighborhood and the fire is thr out now but clearly smoke isoke still going. Go this is skyfox video that youre looking at from them he scene last night. Sc by the time firefighters gotfig here as you mentioned the home was just fully engulfed sogulfe this was a raging fire. Re. It happened just after 10 oclock 75 firefighterslock coming to the scene and werefie told they just basically ba attacked it from all sidesom al just trying to get it under control. Ntrol. Now, were told that theld that flames from the house actuallyel sparked nearby brush firesrby bs around the area of the home hom which made this even moreeven m challenging and aggressive. Ggss. And at this point its unclear n what caused the fire. Fire its too early for fireire investigators to be able tole tell what exactly happened but if you look on the ground ground there, all you can see is can ss basically debris and just cansta charred materials and items m but againat, no cause yet andt d firefighters waiting on someno more resources. Re they have a command post just j up the street here set up to to bring us some more resourcessous later on today to begin theirinr search efforts. Rockville, maryland, annie yud,u fox5 local news. Ews. Annie thank you very much. Erc 4 48 is the time. 4 48 is we continue to followe to follow developing news in thevelo district. Police are investigating a double s ahooting innv northwest last night two men were shot inre the 700 block of fairmount street. Two people were seen drivingle away from that scene in a wtwoo door green vehicle drivingdring towards euclid street. D street. Police say another suspect gotsu wesigh in a black sedan. Se both victims are due to recover. In prince georges countyri this morning, counselor additional security will be on campus at potoncmac hige his mc after a student was shot andot killed at an apartment complex o in oxon hill yesterday. Yester the shooting took place at ace a playground filled with with children at the time. Childr the teen was a junior ator at potomac high school. Police are still looking forook the suspects and a motive. Moive. In Fairfax County crews will return to holmes run parkmr today to search for human remains. Police and the fbi have beenfbin searching the park sincee tuesday night after receivingtee a tip that there may be bodiesbo in area. In ar Police Say Detectives haveay d that found evidence of a crime m but so far theyve note not discovered any human remains. Ea police found two bodies inein that same park. Pa they were gang members who hada been murdered and decapitated. C. Seven men were tried and and convicted in that case. Case. Coming up on fox5 newsox5 new morning the new secretary ofw sr the interior causes quite ar cat scene during his firstis firs official day on the job. The ob. And the program to a key k to cleaning up the chesapeakeheh could soon be on the chopping th block. 4 50 is the time right now. H. Live look outside. K outside you see it coming down. D if you squint just a littlequinj bit underneath thatust light very light snowflakes. Ery you can see some snowflakesls coming dowomn. All right. All mike thomas going to talk allk l about the snow that is and howah its not a big deal even though its meteorologicals mea spring. Its conversational, it though. S co its conversational snow. Thconv in a moment. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. Maybe thats why weve been ranked highest in stomer satisfaction jd power 4 years in a row. And now you can love fios too. 150 meg internet with equal upload and download speeds, tv and phone. L for 79. 99 per month, r the first year with a oyear agreement. Plus get hbo for a year and free multiroom dvr service for two years. Go to getfios. Com or call 1. 888. Get. Fios get the best. Get fios. Back now at 4 52. Developing right now b could l ongoing efforts to clean underu Chesapeake Bay hit a roadblock o under President Trumpsder presn administration. The white house is set to t propose a 93 percent budgetrcend cut to the epa. The agency coordinates cleanup efforts and monitors Water Quality within the basement semt the white house has yet to yeto confirm the report. Repo. When scott pruitt wasott prui ws questioned about continuingcont that cleanup he says hes he remains committed. Omitted. This isnt something youmethu see too often. The new interior departmentdepat secretary ryan zinke made amadea grand entrance for his firsts day on the job. O he rode into d. C. On a horsea wearing a cowboy hat and a jeans. Zinke is a republicanzinkis a congressman from montana r. Man. He will now oversee the countrys 500 million acres oflf public land including 59 national parks. Na lets turn to basebaltil now and the play of the day wasntat even on the fielder the on the. A big swing right there and miss. But the problem is he lost hist bat and it flies towards the me dugout. T. Wow. And you see the pitcherpit right there makes a nice ni one of the players right therehe makes a nice catch. Catch. Look at that. Look at t. Caught it with one hand. Very smooth. Yeah. That was pretty good. That was prettyhat impressive. P kind of nonchalant but youalantb know what, you do what you gotot to do when youre ducking anduc dodging in spring training. Ing. Thats a great play that hethate caught that bat. That bat. Saved somebody from saved som potentialleby getting hurt. H do you want a fun activity for the entire family . Theily . Whole family to enjoy. Enjoy. Sounds good to me. Sound because for thiss weeks fox beat friday you can enter todau see the ultimate harleme Harlem Globetrotters experience. Et thats rightrott wisdom. W one viewer could win a vip prize package including four tickets to the harleme arlem globetrotters on march 18th at t the verizon center. C the prize has an approximatean e retail value of 548 bucks is 5 that provided by harlemby globetrotters international. Ernn go to our fox5 d. C. Facebook. 11 59 p. M. And enter for ap. M. Chance to win. One winner will be selected byey random drawing on march sixth. S. All entrants must be 18 or1 older. Complete rules available at fox5dc. Com contests. Fox5 i bet mike thomas would like woe to win that one. I love the ive seen seen them several times, theyrere fantastic. Wait a minute, mike. M did you know that i got aou k g chance a couple of years ago to play against the globetrotters. How did it go . Did you d win. Im going toid you goes thisi didnt go too well wisdom. Wi lets talk about the lets weather. Its cold out there. [laughter] te now, i would pay big moneyuln to see that again. Ai. Well, theres video. s vid lets take a look at thes th forecast. E oh, theres video. Theres v. Yes. Oh. Ill have to searc h throughthro the archives downstairs. Owns. 28 to 41 as the kids get offet f to the bus stop this morning. Ng. Scattered snow flurriesattered f around. Even after school there could bew. Few. Choo the snow today is mores ore conversational which is oursati way of saying itson really notl too big of a he will today. He it will be chill and also also breezy just about all dayt all long. 45 degrees your daytime high hih here in washington 44 tomorrow. 44 tomw. Saturday and sunday featureature plenty of sunshine but they will be on the cooler side. E. Temperatures below normalaturesn which we have not had to say s in quite some sometime here as we roll through the weekend. Wee then next week we startstrt getting back up. P. 60 on monday, up to 68 degrees8s by next tuesday. N all right, thats a check ofh the forecast. Ecas erin, back to you with a checkik of traffic. Thats right. Thats ght. 4 56 right now. Right now. Taking a look at our roads. Ros. 66 on the eastbound side sde traffic is flowing. Lets hop outside for a live lve look since we have someavesome conversational snowflakesersa falling. Watch for slick sptiots. S we could encounter some, youmeyu know, difficult areas on theease roads. Well let you know if anyl let y crashes pop up because ofhes thatpo. P that. 95 northbound still lookingoong good. Very light volume. Vol as mike has mentioned comingg down 270 stretch thats wheres were seeing a little bit ofeing snow on the road but notthe ad n enough to cause any issuesny i just yet. Things in virginia lookingooking good everywhere except on gw parkway and southbound. O we are dealing with a ramp on ra the southbound side of gw parkway. Its closed right now toow Reagan National because of aiona water main break. Main break they hope to get that openedthan by the just continue ton gw parkway paw take the second exit to the the airport. Airport any questions at erin fox5esti d. C. On twitter. We want to help you get around m hoelrning. Oring. Ay 4 56 is the time right now. Gw coming up on fox5 news morningmg we continue to follow newsollow from overnight of a deadlydedly shooting in forestville. Rs most of the trump cabinetmp t is finally preparing to get to o work after drawnoutdrnout confirmation process. R all right, were goingl ri break right now with a liverighh look outside across the dmv. Mv. The time right now is 4 57. 4 im going to say it again. A it was snowing up town. Town. Grab your jacket. Gra youre going to need that hatha and gloves today. Mike thomas says its oglkay. Relax. Rela he says its almost spring, right . Eh. [laughter] [l this is fox5 news morning. Mor today on fox5 news morning,o attorney general Jeff Sessionsfs recuses himself from anyom future probes into russianbes in involvement in thet in th president ial campaign. Esidential some say he didnt go fargo far enough while others are calling for the witch hunt tofou end. Lets go ahead and looks gon live outside this mod rning. Thats where we find our other e top story in fact because youacu know why . Winter haswinter has returned. We are talking fre ezing temperatures, even some se conversational snow in some students. Whats conversational snow. S i dont know but all of at sudden ive heard that term ivh like eightat tim tes within 10h0 minutes. Conrs