Police and you can see by this video we actually have videoe vd shot by one of the residents red who was outside never mind,er we dont have that video foreo you but these were prettytty intense flames here shootinges t out of these homes. H it was pretty much touch andttmh go for these firefighters asighr soon as they arrived here on heo scene. The fire has affected a total of six townhomes that stoodes t along chadds ford drive along ag the 7,000 block here inere brandywine. Four of those homes aremes are completely destroyed andestr gutted. The fire under control now but w what youre seeing are firefighters doing whats called an overhaul and basically looking for hot spots. Amazingly, everyone including ii pets made it out safelyafel without any injuries, a total t of 15 people, three children,hi three dogs have been accountedet for and they are standing bytain here. He hopefully well be able tobl chat with them soon. Ch they will be receiving helpl ri from the red cross. Ross meantime we understand fire investigators will a hiccup to c the operations as soon as they got here with the clo hydrant. Heres fire chief mark m bayshore talking about it. A take a listen. The first unit laid theirnild hose line from the hydrant. Hyda when the second unit showed up s to chaecrge that hite hydranthih and charge that line the tophe of the hydrant blew off sow off that delayed getting waterayti down to that first engine. Eng they have their 500 gallons00 there they have on board thateyv first unit ande then 500 gallons coming from this unit but when you have this want of fire that water goeser pretty quick. Ui there was a delay getting the actual supply in. Ac reporter again i justep want toor reiterate its amazina at that time of hour that hou everyone made it out safely. Sal thats the good news here but you can see theyve lost their homes. Fire investigators are on are scene and they will be goinge in shortly to determine theermie cause of this fire. S thats the very latest here in brandywine. Dywine. Back to you in the studio. Tudio. Annie thanks. S. Well stay on top of that story. Breaking news from fairfax n county where police say they pol were trying to serve a warrant r where their cruiser was hit by b another car. Her car two of the suspect had beenpect Melanie Alnwick joins usaniej now in Spring Fields with the latest. Latest bizarre story, mel, goodrre stod morning. Reporter hey, good morning, steve and allison. Teve yeah, it sounds like a reallyy chaotic scene here on tray leen woods court in the springfieldid area. It happened around 10 oclock0 l or all started aroundun 10 oclock last night. Ast n and we can tell that youat you residents reported there were helicopters and search dogs and even Police Commands overe o loudspeakers that were keeping e them up and when they came out o to try to find out what was wt going police told them to geto back in their homes soheir homes certainly a lot of activityy t f going on overnight. Oveig so, police say that they weret w coming here to serve a warrant r and while they were coming into the neighborhood close to e the house there were two wer vehicles that were cominging toward the police cruiser. Cru one of those vehicles struck str the police cruiser. Ruis that driver was detained. The second vehicle was also detained and apparently thereenh was some sort of thing going on as well. Butter when they were able ton w get the driver and the t occupant of the second vehicleie out, thats when theyy discovered that those two men to were suffering from gun shot wounds. They were taken to theere ken hospital. Were told their injuries are not considered to beered to be lifethreatening but itsut i still very curious as to what exactly hatched we can tell that you police were coming here to tray lee woods courtds because they were serving aer warrant back from the 19th for9h someone who apparently a many a who had been reported byte neighbors as being out here he firing a gun into the air so a they continued that investigation, developed the information, were coming heree m to arrest that person for that reckless discharge of a weapon a charge when all of this went down. Do no Police Officers were were injured in the incident. From what we understand, thend person who they were servinger the warrant on apparentlyppentl still at large. L but they are questioning thosesg three men because apparently apn they are somehow connected the home where they werere t trying to serve the warrant. Th. Live in springfield, im i Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. News thanks mel. Lets head overseas to o brussels for the latestsels developments in tuesdays terror attack. This mornienng news outlets inn belgium and france reporting a second attacker. That man was captured on surveillance camera carrying a n large bag alongside a suicideci bomber identified yesterday. Its not clear if this second te suspect was s on the run or r was killed in the attack. Att the urgent search continues for the man you justr saw in white. W in that picture from the that pr brussels airport. Br the man in the tan coat withhe c the hat on. The airport will remain closed o until at least saturday. Sat we are learning that two that to americans a brother and sistera were at the airport when the bombs went off and are stillre s missing. Miss secretary of state john kerry arrives in brussels tomorrow to formally express condolences of the unitedf the i states. Prince georges countyprin detective jacai colson. C it is at borgwardt funeral home in beltsville from 2 00vill p. M. To 9 p. M. To tomorrow morning a viewingroa will be held at the firstst Baptist Church of glenarden in i Upper Marlboro followed byollowe colsons funeral. Funeral he will be buried on mondayon m but in his hometown of linwood, pennsylvania. Ennsvani last night biker groupserup from several states rode to r the Greenbelt Police stationnb to remember colson withel alsith prayer vigil. Vil organizers say the motorcyclehet commute wanted to pay tribute to those who keep them safe. S colson was hit by friendlyy f fire during an ambush shootingg outside of the District Three Police station. A heads up for marc train riders. Service on the camden lineon will be extremely limited this morning due to brush firesre close to the tracks. Os this is near the dorsey marc station. Marc officials recommend using a penn line or taking metro. Service is expected to be backec up and running full speed by b the evening rush hour today. I like that music. Mus. I like that better than the traditional. Lets see if Tucker Barnes b likes it. Did you hear our jazzy music . Allison i cant hear thet hr music but i can tell you this. I it is very peaceful out herelute this morning. Im trying to do my best likee serenity now. Now very quiet, very beautiful outeo here. Im not an expert but i canert c tell you this. Teou i was out here yesterday and much more bloomage thanag t yesterday. All the trees are doing their thing compared to yesterday. Yee so its going to be a perfect p dame i think this will likely be peak bloom. Sunrise in about an hour. R full moon off from my rightf frt hand shoulder here and alreadyrr people down here takingowre t pictures and walking andng jogging around the tidal basin this morning. Orni please come down and say hi toio me. Ill be here until 11 00. Nice and mild out there. T t 57 leonardtown, 55 in fredericksburg. Little chillier north and c west. Frederick is 34. Martinsburg. Nsburg were waking up generally withay clear skies. We got a fewcl otherwise nice conditions condis today. We are going to see a fewfew showers late tonight andig during the day on friday. Fri more on that coming up butin u look at todays planner. 77 degrees, very warm out,ery there, very comfortable. Foable enjoy another beautiful day. Util ill have all the details onls o our Holiday Weekend forecast fec in a couple minutes. Es down at the tidal basin whereine erin is going to join me a a little later. L theres that sevendaytherethat forecast. Cast well talk about that later. Abo erin, how are the roads thisds s morning. Rn roads are quiet tucker. Are t i am so excited to join you and experience the cherry che blossoms for the first time upor close. 395 southbound lingering roadrig work zone after seminary. Semin its going the opposite way from the usual morning commute u and then as you makesu your wayw inbound we are problem free. Mre. Quiet across the 14th streetet bridge. Heads up if youre taking mac ta this morning. Service is limited because ofisl a fire from yesterday. The following trains listed tran are operational 846, 851, 8 45 not affected. If youre caking one of the other trains penn line willine w honor your we have normal Service Resumeded on the orange line. On t earlier repairs at new atew carrolton had some residual res delays left over. T no alerts for the other rails this morning. Youre moving very nicely intoi the wilson bridge as you cross u the inner loop. Thinner loo lets take a look in prince i georges county. Geor 50 inbound a live look withk w our camera some volumeom starting to increase for suree at 202. At you can see that that ishat at definitely starting to slowin to down inside the district new die york avenue inbound somenbou s congestion picking up but no major delays just yet. Got you covered. Ered any questions feel free to ask a me on twitter at erin fox55 d. C. Steve. Coming up next a stateg nex dinner in argentina turned into a viral hit overnight ove because of something president ot obama d well tell you what itl is and show you coming up. Omg all righty. Ll rig plus we now know who is helping the fbi crack therack locked iphone that belongedt bel to the San Bernadino gunman. The details are ahead. Spring is not really bringing warm pleasant weathera to everyone. Very look at what happened in colorado. Colorado a snowstorm that started there t moving into the upper midwest now. Now. At one point the snow was falling at the rate ofhee of 3inches an hour in the denverve area a lot of flights canceledge out of denver yesterday. Yester. Is it over . Is that video done . Okay, thanks an updatehau now on the debris that was discovered in mozambique mozam believed to be from missing Malaysian Airlines flight 370. Australian Officials Say thean tw oo pieces certainly from that missingt mis plane. Until now the only other piece r of debris from that plane that t was confirmed was a wing partin that that washed ashore on theot islands of reunion last year. Y an alarming discovery inveri mexico leads to an even biggervb shock in california. Alor police uncovered a drug tunnel t four football fields longl fiell running from a restaurant in in mexico all the way to a home toh in california. Calif Officials Say the house was hse built last year for the sole purpose of hiding the tunnel. Tt so far agents seized at least 3,000 pounds of marijuana. Maria four people have been arrested. President obama ending hisnt first full day in argentinargeni with a state dinner in his honor at buenos aires. Res. The event went viral. T why you ask . Because of this. The commanderinchief hittinghh the dance floor for a tango performance. Tango. The First Lady Michelle Obama also joined in paring up u with a male tango dancer. Ance the first family heads to patagonia today to take in beautiful sights before heading back to the whitehe house. Funny. It is funny. Still ahead anotherup dateup from brandywine. Ndywine. The scene of that townhometow fire. Re also lets head back als outside. Were going to spend the day with Cherry Blossoms today. If you cant make it down can there just keep it locked inee here. Well show you all the pretty te pictures. It is 6 13 on this thursday morning. Weather and traffic next. Stroand restoring aing a newbfathers faith. Its standing tall after one surgery. Not six. Stronger is being a typical kid. Stronger is finding it earlier. And coming home sooner. Stronger is seeking answers. And not giving up, until you find them. Because we dont just want your kids to grow up, we want them to grow up stronger. This is whats happening right now in prince georges w county. Brandywine marylan big fire overnight these were p ighe townhouses. Three of them caught fire overnight displacing at leastnga 18 people. 18 ppl crews are on the scene right sct now assessing the today. The everybody made it out sale se including the pets. He annie yu is out there this morning. Shell have a live update in aa few minutes. Minu first though lets get aou check of some Early Morning beauty. Look at that. Ha are you talking about tucker . Ke . Well, i was talking aboutki a the flowers but i guess iterbutg could go either way. [laughter] theres somebody behindres you. Be careful. There was. Steve, youre so sweet to so me. Yes, i just had somebody set up right here. Here. I guess shes going get some pictures of the sunrise can which will be in about 45 a 4 minutes. Nus. Big difference from yesterday. Rd were going to talk to diane d mayhew in a few minutes aboutino peak blossoms here but ioms b suspect that today is the days t and if you get a chance getet a down here. Down its going to be a beautifulutif day. Daytime highs in the mid tohigh upper 70s. Ill be here until 11 00. 11 lets get to the weather. A full moon off my shouldery s gorgeous out here early this hey morning. 50 in washington. Ngto aap 55 degrees. 56 baltimore, 56 quantico. Quaic generally mild temperature. Little cooler there. Lehere 30s north and west hanging hgi out at this hour at 36 in frederick. Fr if you liked yesterday youllese love today. Even a few degrees warmer. Eges well go played to upper 70ser7 for daytime highs. H dry afternoon for you. For y theres your planner. And again how about 77 for your daytime high. Ig does look like well get welet showers late tonight and into that first half of friday. In fact we have showerseho lingering into the day onhe dayn friday. Friday lets get to the sevendaytohe y forecast. Let me show you whatsho going to be happening hereppenie because i know we got a lot off weekend plans easter bon netsers that kind of thing. That we want to keep dry and ip and think were in great shape for s it. Tomorrow some showers around lingering in the morning. Mor notice the cooler temperaturestp this weekend. Weekend it will feel like an earlyl el l spring weekend but honestlyon with just a few showers aroundra tomorrow morning and not a lot a of wind i think the blossoms bss will stay intact through the end of the weekend if you geteeg out here saturday and sundaynd s should be absolutelyolel beautiful. Thats the latest weather. Weatr down at the tidal of guests all morning long. All one of my favorite days whendayw we get to be down here. Crowds are starting to build. Bi sll quiet at this hour. Lets do traffic and get the get latest from erin. Fm e right now ill give you the tidal basin report. In were looking pretty good but gd traffic will be picking up inn a couple hours were guessing. Absolutely tucker. Well see a lot of increased i volume heading to the tidalo td basin. Ill probably get stuck in it about 9 oclock when i head to join you. Skyfox showing you an alreadyn crowded commute if youre com i taking the outer loop you can see all of those brake lightsrae there picking up as you make your way from 95 to georgiaia typical morning congestion. Cono inner loop picking up as well w but flowing a little bitowin better as usual. Asu aside from skyfox well take ayl look at our maps and show youho how else things are flowing areo this morning. Inner loop is still moving very niles across the wilsones a bridge. Once you hit the springfieldgfie in are change quiet throughgh annandale. An little bit of congestion inon in Tysons Corner and if youre taking marc limited serviceimiti today because of a fire frome fm yesterday. Er the following trains operational 846, 851. 46,51 however keep in mind if one of your trains is affected byy service penn line and metronnin will honor tickets. Something to keep in minds for k your morning commute. Eeorning as far as your metro rid ceome normal Service Resumed on the orange line. Line. Early repairs at new carrolton o were causing some earlierear delays. S. Aside from that in alexandria well let you know when those te lane closures clear afterre seminary and just to keep in kei mind things picking up in stafford. St we are slow 95 northboundorthbo across the occoquan. N. 270 from frederick slowsderi s through urbana. Roug thats your traffic, guys. Guy thanks, erin. Thank how does this sound . Newsod york to london in less thans four hours . Perfect. Sounds good to me, too. S goo so, what will it cost you andou when can you expect to jump onn board . In the next. In t first though, one ohef d. C. famous pandas pans whats going on. On. Its bath time. Enjoying the warm. We thats tian tian taking an ta bath. It is a nontoxic bubble bath. Ub. Got to feel good, right. Rig. National zoo posted this video to its twitter page. Tt p you can cant sit in there. Ie i can try. [laughter] its about taking a stand. For too long, wall street banks had their way. They crashed our economy. But democrat Donna Edwards wont take their money because she stands up for us. As a single mom, she knows the challenges our families face. Shell be our voice. Tightening regulations on the big banks and fighting to keep dark money out of politics. Democrat Donna Edwards, marylands next senator. Welcome back. Well, flights from new york tofr london in three hours . Whats happening . First though ag . R check of the markets. Joining us from the Fox Business Network studio laurenr simonetti. Tti. Happy friday eve. Friday reporter i know. R good morning. Happyep early easter. Tell us about the markets. Are they in a festive celebratory mood. Day for investors. Estors ill be here tomorrow even the e markets are closed. E dow down 80 points. W do nasdaq down 52. That was actually the worst in t the bunch on a percentage term down 1. 1 percent. Pcent. Big reason why stocks wereere down is that oil pricing oh myhy goodness, they fell 4 percent 4t yesterday we got this reports from the government. He governmen essentially saying that weha have like three times the amount of oil in inventoriestors than we expected. E we got too much of thixps stuff. Thats why oil prices are down again today. So, another reason why stock w s futures are weak this morning w as well. Okay. Lets move on to some big news n with the fed and apple. Fed anda you know, there was this w t report yesterday that was justaa like, okay, well, you know, k the feds just not going tot notg worry about going through t apple. Ap but now we see maybepl theyre e get something help from an outside company. E reporter ocokay, remembery,r earlier this week we had thishi big Court Hearing we were we wee bracing for between apple and the Justice Department tryingent to force apple to create the back door into the San Bernadino terrorists ip some are saying canceled ccele because apparently the fbi gotth the help of an outside partyde r to get into that phone. Ho well, guess who the outside outi party is . Many reports thisor t morning saying its an israelise Company Called celebrate. Theyre a mobile forensice company. Theyre experts in this sortpe of thing and the fbisbi cautiously optimistic that celebrate has what they neede to get into theha shooters shor phone. Phon okay. And we are looking at video n we were of the San Bernadino bna shooter and thats what thiss is all coming from. F lets end with good news and nes heres your bad news. Ad n okay, the good news is you cansc get from new york to london indn about 3pointer five hours but b the bad news for me, i can me, c never afford to do this. T reporter 5,000. 5, and you can get from San Francisco to tokyo in four and a half hours. Ou these are super fast flightsli at a startup. Rt ill tell you the name of the t startup in a second but super sp fast flights that they plan toln test fly next year. T y theyve got some great peoplegrp on their team. On their t were talking exml exnasa, exboeing. These guys know what theyre doing. Doin virgin the airline, you know, ko Richard Bransons airlineir theyve committed a letter of o intender if they like the way le this jet works out, theyll, ey buy 10 of them for 2 billionlln from the Company Called boom. D b i think they mean sonic boom, b jets will be going super superer fast. Fast. I know but its a little l reporter no airline airli should be called boom. Lled bm. Thats a little too cute c for me for something thats ata prototype going super fast in f the crowded skies. Kies ill let them work it out. T i cant afford it anyway. Lauren simonetti thank you. Reporter have steve buyave b your ticket. Lauren. L sure. I dont want to be in a plane called boom. An its like the driverless thes cars for you. Y unless everybodys going thatdys fast, i dont want to be e its like the old concorde ce which was great until eat unt it wasnt. I it wasnt. I bet they rename that. I bet they do, too. O, t before they go it. Hey, boom goes theth blossoms, boom goes thems, boome temperatures. Ures thats legit, right. Thats legit. Thanks allison. Ha warm today. Wa breezy today. Br it will be 10 to 20 south, southwest. Southw again temperatures yesterday mid 70s. How about lets go upper 70s0 for highs today. Today lets do it. Ets how high can we go . Can wee get an 80 culpeper, culpe fredericksburg maybe you get an 80 down there. The real quickly this easterly weekend. Saturday looks great, cool,l, 62. 62 Easter Sunday mild, 65. Nice easter bunny. Aste its good. Good reference. Eference. Its going to be a real niceo be weekend. Ek looks great. Looks great. Lets check in with erineckt find out what the roads areheoas like right now. 6 26. 6 26 and we have a lot ofav congestion pick pentagon up pic around the area. Nothing out of the ordinaryout here. Fairfax 234 to Centreville Noev accidents to report. Eport. However you dip do do unto about 32 Miles Per Hour with m congestion for that portion ofit yourio ride. R unless stafford 95 northboundoro here you go you can see 630 610 down to 25 Miles Per Hour. As you get into Prince William l 95 northbound also jams dale city to woods bridge 27 milese m an hour. 395 congestion duke street to st seminary road. Se r lets take a live look atoo skyfox. They are seeing congestion onin the beltway. The beltway. Outer loop extremely jammed as you make your way out towardsow montgomery county. Ry inner loop looking a little bit better. No crashes. Sh. Just a whole lot of people trying to get to work on time. Well have more e. In just a few minutes. All right, we look forwardwea to it erin. Eri coming up next a liveiv report from that awful sceneawfu in brandywine. Ndin the good news no one losto onlot their life. Ei the bad news is three is townhomes caught firefire overnight totally destroyed. T to terps trying to get past p flub one seed kansas. Ansa what will it take . Well hearl from marylands head coach coming up. Time now is 6 27. We need women in congress. If we want to be heard, it was the women who forced republicans to include Womens Health and contraceptive coverage in the Affordable Care act. In congress, ill fight for pay equity, family leave and tougher gun safety laws. And, as an environmentalist, ill work combat climate change. I know as a journalist and as a Senior Executive in business that when women are at the table, we get things done. Im Kathleen Mathews and i approve this message. Cherry blossoms in theirhe peak bloom time right nowom t today, tomorrow, reallyomorro ra gorgeous. Our Tucker Barnes is down there for us giving us that closeup view of what looks sokss pretty from the studio att least. T. Welcome back to fox5 newsx5 n morning. Of course we will have weather and traffic on the 5s at 6 35. 6 right now, though, we do want w to get back to our breakinging news. Several homes caught on fireughr in brandywine. Randywin lets check in with our annienne yu for the latest. Such a devastating loss behindsb you annie. Annie good morning. Reporter allison youre all right. Four homes are completely destroyed, two others affectedaf by this fire. By its amazing at 4 00 a. M. That everybody got out safely. Afel were talking about 18 people including three dogs. D i just spoke to a displaced resident who has only been b living at this home for twohihor months. She said her son quickly ranan into her bedroom and said mom, dad get up we got to go. G they ran outside where where neighbors were waiting forweaiti them so everybody reactedea quickly and everyone got out safely. That is the good news. Newbut wa firefighters and investigatorsto trying to determine a causermine and doing what they call a an aa overhaul watching out for hott t spots and whatnot. What this was a very intense fire. F we have video im sure youre looking at at what it looked loo like when firefighters firstfi responded much this is alonglo chadds ford drive in brandywine, maryland. Arylan very, very nice homes here. Again, this resident just had hd been living here for about twobt months now but now shell behee receiving help from the red cross until she can get backshc on her feet but just a news, guys, is that everyonee is out sale and fire sale an sas working to find a cause. caus. Breaking in Fairfax County cy police trying to serve a warrant when their policewh t cruiser was hit. R was hit. This happened on tray lee woods court in springfield. Ld. Police say two men in one caron were suffering from gun shot sho wounds. They had been shot. Had they were in one car. Ar theyre expected to fully ful recover. Recover. And police in waldorfdorf investigating a double doubl shooting there that turned thera deadly though. T ad two men shot last night in the t 2500 block of gettings court. Cu one of the victims a 19yearold died at theoldied hospital. The other victim a 21yearoldyd is expected to live. Investigators believe thereors was a fight before the shooting and that the suspects may have fled in a car. We head overseas toea brussels now for the latest lats developments in tuesdaysuesd terror attack. Rr this morning news outlets inleti belgium and france reporting ang second attacker me, is suspected of taking takig part in the bombing on the subway train. Bw that man reportedly capturedapre on surveillance cameras in them metro carrying a large baggeag alongside a suicide bomberomber Police Identified yesterday. Yes. Now its still not clear if if this second suspect is on thepet run or was killed in the attack. Back here locally, Arlington County police say say two men tried to abduct a woman near the lubber park runkn park and amphitheater. Thr. The suspect approached thepproah woman from behind while she was walking. Ng one attempted to place an unknown object over her head while the other man inappropriately touched her. Her a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a plan whost o tried to abduct a child at the t smithsonian air and spacen air p museum earlier this month. M perhaps you saw the video very dramatic. His name is bernard crime hesmh 60 years old. 60 hes known to frequentlyrequenty travel to the united statese and canada from israel and isun beislieved to have left the country now. Try n Surveillance Video shows himce v trying to and walk away. Walky. Then you see him run away when e a chaperone yells at him. Ls at m u. S. Park police are alsore still trying to track downn another person seen with thatha man at the museum. Useu time now for steve and sports. P. And that means time for theio morning line allison. Aon mark turgeon will try to do something hes never doneever before defeat his alma mater kansas. Terps zero and six against theix jaw lakes. Akes all previous meetings comingsom as head coach of texas a m. M stakes considerably higherrablye because as maryland faces the te number one seed if they lose theyre done. Turgeon knows his team hasha nothing to worry about. About theres no reason to bes n tight the rest of the way. St its a good chance well be an a underdog in most games. Rdog in i just wantmo our guys to be ready to play well on thursday s night and enjoy the moment. Only 16 of us left. Coach being loose andeing getting back to the basics and d telling us just go out theregout and have fun, name on the front of theth jersey and for each other and if you do those eac things t regardless of the outcome out were still winners. Winns. Maryland coming into tonights game a sevenpointevp under today. Unfortunately for early risersea it is a late game tonight, ton tipoff scheduled for 9 40 in louisville. Could start later. Staying with college hoopstl gw advances to the nit if i think four beating the floridari gators 8277. Congrats to the colonials. Ls. Theyll face san diego state. Te that will be tuesday night. Sdayg in the nba chance for ther wizards to get over that. 500 t0 mark for the first time in the four months but they failed toa it make it two in a rowe it against the hawks. Awks they played them twice thatwicet three days. Days. Wizards gave up 70 points inoint the second half. They lose at home 122101. 22101 washington trailing the t pistons by two and a half games. Ga good news from florida asris we get closer to opening day. D Stephen Strasburg electric elect stuff yesterday. F yeday. By far his best outing of the t spring. Five innings, 13nothing victory over thethe yankees. That is a long ball from wilson aramis. Aramis. Hit a two run homer that i tha believe is the fifth of the spring. Great job. Alex rodriguez says he say plans to retire after the 2017 season. Seon. Thats when his 10 year y 275 Million Contract expires. S. The the yankees slugger told t espn its time to go home ande a be a dad. How much did you his lastd yo contract was . 275,000,000. 10 years ago. 10. All right, time to can check in with Tucker Barnes. Amazing. Am hes taking in the cherryy blossoms. Alex rodriguez is makingez is k millions of dollars. La but the Cherry Blossoms arehr free. Yes, they are. A good morning. M and theyre you know kno what and theyre absolutelyyret beautiful but steve recently rel signed a contract just underntrj that allison. Thatison dont let him fool you. Ool y ive seen what hes driving. Drg lets get to the cherry chey blossoms. Blossoms. Absolutely gorgeous down here. Oe already a crowd building andg a its going to be a p down here with daytime lies inm the mid to upper 70s. Hey, if you get a chance heree h i want to show you the full tul moon because in addition toion the beauty of the sunrise here r and the Cherry Blossoms, weoms, got a gorgeous moon thatsn that set,. If you get a chance check itkt out. Its really very picturesqueture earing thiearly this morning. Mi temperatures right now about abt 50 degrees here in washington,to 56 in quantico. Ntic 55 in fredericksburg. Sb a cooler 40s north and west. Hagerstown 47 at this hour andua 45 in winchester. Inchester. Going to be a beautiful dayul d much like yesterday. Terday. Our daytime high yesterday 75. R7 believe it or not a few a degrees better than thatnha today. Were going to talk to a a National Park serviceervi spokesman coming up in aing i minute here but i suspect today is peak bloom day withh daytime highs in the mid toid upper 70s, 77 degrees ands warm. Coming up well talk easteralk a weekend forecast and weve gotse a couple special guests over the next few hours. Next few hou so, please, if you get aou g chance come on down, say hi, ill be here until 11 00 thiss morning. Down for the first time to see s Cherry Blossoms. Blossom thats erin. sn. Im so excited tucker. Tucke talk to your friend behind you y and we want to know if she wasow taking pictures of the sunrise s or of you. Or of you anything else you guys want toat know or is that it . T . That covers it. We really enjoyed that sonj thank you tucker. Tr. You played our morning so far. F skyfox your morning is notmo being made if youre headed hea out on the outer loop. Theer l all jammed up 95 to georgia. O gg you can see traffic is just atat a crawl there as they showe that delay. Th no crashes to report just a whole lot of people trying tog o make their way to work. Heir w inner loop looking a litaytle bit better right now. Well switch it back to a look o at our maps and show you what y else is going on. 395 north congestion from duke f street to seminary. Seminar inner loop jams just a little at bit from prince georges across the wilson bridge. W and into the districtil we do do have delays and crashnd activity. Unfortunately a crash on o suitland parkway. Par let me get out of the way there. First sterling avenue, that isve causing some significant signict slowdowns from branch avenueanca on through. Then 295 south slow from Eastern Avenue to pennsylvaniasa avenue. North of that point b wb parkway the southbound sideboun that area really congested asges well. We heads up for marc riders. Limited service operationalraal trains are 846, 851 and you andy can always take the penn line pe or metro. Or met they are honoring tickets. Ickets keep it to fox5. More just ahead in a few. Hey hows it going, hotcakes . Hotcakes. This place has hotcakes. So why arent they selling like hotcakes . With comcast Business Internet and wifi pro, they could be. Just add a customized message to your wifi pro splash page r eyes are already on their devices. Order up. Its more than just wifi, it can help grow your business. You dont see that every day. Introducing wifi pro, wifi that helps grow your business. Comcast business. Built for business. Change and progress now atan the capitol after nearly twoaf years the scaffolding is star capitol dome. Of course it was put up thereutr while crews worked on aorked ona restoration project to fix more than 1,000 cracks in the dome. Workers now moving on to the ont next stage of the project, pro that is painting. Paint and the project is expected to e be finished before next years a president ial inauguration. Ugat Vice President joe biden pre will be speaking at georgetownn this morning about supremeni a Court Nominee judge Merrick Garland. Remarks will be made ats georgetown law school. Last week president obamawipres nominated Merrick Garland to g take the spot left by the late l antonin scalia. Scalia at least a half dozenalf doz republican senators say theyll meet with garland inan n about two weeks once the Senate Returns from recess. Pepco exelon merger getting g the green light. N the d. C. Public servicec. Vi Commission Approved the 6. 8 billion merger between mern the two Power Companies last cns night. Reaction mixed. Mixed some residents worried aboutriea rate increases. Ncrees others say the merger meansergee reliable electric service. The merger makes pepco one of the largest utilities in the nation. Tuck her join us with as guest from the National Parknal service. Well talk more about how long l you have to get to can check out the peak bloom. If you have a news tip share it withha us. S. Or email your up to fox5 tipsoi at wttg. Com. Ttg. Co its a thursday morning, 50 degrees. Were back in a moment. Steve i kind of miss ourve old music. I maybe we can just mix it up n mix i a tt maybe we can. 70 percent. D. C. s famous Cherry Blossom trees almost at peak bloom. Peako theyre about 50 to 60. Out 50o 70 would make them peak butak they still look beautiful. We sent our own beautifulut man to see the beautiful beaut Cherry Blossoms. Bloss steve was supposed say that. I opted out. [laughter] r] sounds a lot better when you say it. Im down at the tidal basin. Overnight lows back in the lowkl 50s. 50s. Already a big crowd building and i am now joined by one off our favorite people who i have h seen a lot over the last week or two. Good morning tucker. Morni tc welcome. Welcom how are things looking . S ing lacking great. G the difference betweenif yesterday morning andday yesterday afternoon as far asafo the number of blooms that weretw out was striking. In expected yesterday temperaturera in the 70s. Your forecast for today, i today be able to certify it as i 70 percent of the trees in bloom can which means were atra peek. Pe there has been a great slowbeene going on for the last 24 to 48 t hours regardless. You got about a week. G exactly. This is the start of the peakhep bloom season. Bloo blossoms can last up to 10o days if the weather conditions i are night. Are nigh that means no heavy wind or rains or storms that will blowib the blossoms off. So off but generally most yearsears anywhere from four to 10 days. D so, right, you dont have to ha be down today or tomorrow. Or probably got the better part p of next week to come down d events going on at the national Cherry Blossom festival of families vat foral o the next several weeks. Ne there are species ofxt treeses that will bloom a couple weeksok after the yoshinos. Osno its an john going celebration. Brion. Exactly. The celebration started early. The sun isnt up yet and we got a pretty good crowd. Crowd i was amazed how people were here. H we were out here last night and throngs of people already. A its gorgeous day. Day the color is beautiful. Eaif come on down but be prepared. Pe give yourself a little extratlea time to get here. Me t take metro, the circulator. Ccua dont try to drive down here. Rie its going to be crazy. To be are there any sort of secret enclaves to expect the best colors and you can avoids the worst of the crowds. He is that a part of the basinas that gets a little lessss action. The best place to look ate tt trees as far as im concerned in between the Martin Luther king memorial and the cuts bridges bi where some of the original trees from 1912 still bloominglm over a hundred years later. Er thats great to look but down bd East Potomac Park for exampleex a little bit away from the tidal basin thousands of treesds down there as well. Res w little less crowds. Beautiful color there as well. Lw good to know. K want to give everybody a quick reminder to we dont want totao climb on the trees, we dontonht want to take pictures hangingke from the trees, we dont want dn to Touch Everything is very fragile. Exactly. Easts mates are up to asts million and half people aroundd the tidal basin during the festival. Stal. That many people with thee withe fragile trees can do damage. Dam help preserve these trees forre another hundred years. R hund yes dont pick the blossoms, dont climb the tree, dont break the bows off and well be sete for not only a beautiful showif this year but for years toorea come. Come its an awesome event went w look forward to it every year. Ry you guys do a great jobob accommodating everybody down here and just a great big a g b thank you. Again, this afternoon we still s have prime time, the parade of f the festival continues for theer next couple weeks and itks and should be a lot of fun. Ould be o great absolutely. Absut lets do weather really quickly. Y you can join me. Have you ever done the weather forecast. Foreca would you like to do it. Lets do it only if i can wear i your hat though. Ur hat 50 in washington. Whing 55 in annapolis. N polis well cool overnight. Vern 47 in hagerstown right now so the overnight temperaturestu here not too bad. Re noo b trees along the averageheverage temperatures. I love your angle. Lov tell me about this afternoon. Iso whats happening to thesese trees. Ees. Going to be anotheroing gorgeous day down at the tidal t basin looking to go up to the u mid to upper 70s by 4 oclockyo this afternoon. Afton. Wonderful time to get out take t a stroll around the cherry therr blossoms with several thousand of your closest friends. Fen its real quick its theck it weekend. Check this out. Check th lets focus on what this might do for the people coming downing to check out the blossoms. B another gorgeous weekend. Ther looking at peak bloom, lookingl at temperature in the midreth 60s, lots of sun. Easter weekend, easter eggas roll on monday, perfect time, pt to come down to the tidal basin. Ba thanks for joining me. Nk mys pleasure. Le if this park service thingvi thi doesnt work out ill bring myng resume. Re not at my station but im im sure we can find you a jobyoa jb somewhere. Lets go to erin como. Our traffic reporter has neverfs been down here. Be first time ever. Fi i hope shes new to the area because if i had from somebody who says iveays v lived here for my whole life lie and have never come to see it. Eo i am so excited tucker. Tuc it looks beautiful down there. E cant wait to take a strolla str and take in all the sights andes sounds. Right now 50 on the westboundtb side we are dealing with awi a crash. Its blocking the left theef shoulder left lane out by row so give yourself some extra era time to get through that area. Ta that is as you make your way out towards the beltway, thatay is what youre up against thissi morning. Well keep you updated on howedn that is affecting your commute. E. Cascades parkway southbound after algo algonquin parkway. Ar 66 on the eastbound side 234 sid to centreville 32 miles permi hour with congestion. Stn. Really slow moving trafficving a there. Your alternate 29 is picking up with congestion thisst morning. And then 95 on the northbound side 630 to 610, 25 miles per25s hour. Big red zone there in staffordrd as you try to make your way w north towards dale city youreou going to hit all that of t same story once you get tory on dale city to woodbridge, woodb 27 Miles Per Hour. Er hour. And then 395 inbound reallyy jammed congestion duke toduke seminary. More traffic in a few. Allison. 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A female students told police pl she was raped by anotherhe student. She may have unknowingly beenly drugged. Drged. Another female student told police that she was raped in awd dorm on monday by a man shea man met through a dating service. Time for the fox beat rightag now, 6 53. 63. Kevin good morning. Good morning steve andd mo allison. Trying adjust my claire. M good to see you. Odo se you and i both love dave grohl. Gr i love this story. I love this so i dont know if you read it soet far. Hes defending a group of british teens. Brith t the teens are in applet at a band and practice in their in parents garage but were w recently slapped with a noise a complaint from city officials. They have been ordered to keep k the volume for their practicescs at 30 to 40decibels which as he points out is a noise fromseo the the teens wrote a letter to grow grohl. Gro he wrote a letter an. He went on to say its tremendously important andlympor help me through those otherwise difficult yearsis growing up. Now, grohl asked the council c to be lenient towards the kidsth playing in garages anding basements because for someause r thats the only resource to let their passion thrive. On thrv awesome story. Ese love that he would getth involved in that. Inlved in that. I love him first of all butlt hes a hundred percent right. Edg i mean, that youd rather have those kids in there playing there rather than getting themselves into into trouble. Ble cool for him to do that andor h that he responded. Th thats the power of socialowf so media. Me sure is. Coming up at 7 47, i sit down with wonder woman hersel herself. You know her from the fast andro furious. Furi you know lindoua carter. Car this is th woman in the film Batman V Superman she plays wonder p woman and her performance actually people are saying shery steals the film. 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I remeer w 6 56 right now. 6 56 right nw lets can check in with garyh mcgrady with a look at the forecast. St whats up gary. Wh picked a great day not really under her control but a l great day to have a birthday because lots of sunshine. Unsh we start off this morning with the full moon. Full sunshine today. Ll a few clouds around at 11 oclock. 11 oclock. This looks really g leaded up to about 77 degrees for a highoh temperature and i wanted toante show you, too, that in the area today there will be arel couple places up around 80. Culpeper, you might be one ofe those, fredericksburgrisbur 78 degrees, too. 78 deg heres erin with a look at your thursday morning commute. M ill keep it to trafficl keeo instead of bullying kevin overve my picks. Well do it tomorrow. W and ill weare my wonder myw woman costume because it feelsse like a good way to end Batman V Superman. Up we have a role boulevard. Traffic stacking up as you make your way out in way o annapolis. Youll hit that slow down. Hit watch out for that one. Hat we got you covered here on fox5. Well be back in just a few. The bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. Dunkins new grandde burrito a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. Go grande with veggie or sausage today. America runs on dunkin. This is fox5 news morning. Mg developing right now atght wa 7 oclock an destroys several townhomes in prince georges county. Geo theres a live look at the damage. This overnight more than a tha dozen people left now without wt a place to live. Ace to well have a live rot from theeo scene coming up. U and also breaking news fromwm brussels this morning. T new details about another possible suspect involved in iol the terror attack and he may be at large. T lge the latest on the manhunt tonto find him is straight ahead. T ah. And the president and theresi first lady hit the dance the floor. Theyre attempting to tango. More on the president s tripes to argentina and the moment now going viral. Do you tango, steve . About that well. Tel giving you a live look outside on this thursday morning. Getting light out there. G ligh mat n, it is so pretty in i washington at this time of at m year. Its thursday march 24th. 24t those blossoms almost at peek. P Cherry Blossoms almost there. Te our Tucker Barnes is at the the tidal basin this morning. Erin como will join himim shortly. Well have weather andl have w traffic, though, coming up on the 5s at 7 05. Like always. A good morning, im allisonlliso seymour. And im steve chenevey. Te