And thousands are letting their inner nerd out this weekend. Were talking to you awesome con your news starts right now. Thank you for staying with us tonight im tony perkins. Im shawn yancy we are lesses than an hour away from the metro safe plan. La all the stations will be closing over the next yearov repair work will effect eff thousands of people even those of you who dont take metro. Fox 5 Lauren Demarco is live tonight with more. Reporter tony there areare actually two big things here, first tomorrow, the first safetrack surge begins in virginia. Were going to get to thin just a second. We want to talk about all of the metro rail stations shutting down at mid neither. Nei begins tonight system wide. Wid they will close from now on forb repairs at midnight. Its going to clearly effect anyone that works late night shifts . A. All those out en joyce the areas night its going to put a hamper on where you are able to go to. Maybe you are going to stay local, stay close to home. Im going to go get a job soon. Reporter along with all metro rail stations now closing at midnight the first safetrack surge begins this weekends. 13 days of around thd clock single tracking between the boston and East Falls Church metro station starting saturday. Trains are expected to run ever 18 minutes at all times. They will be eight car strains. Worse i think packetse unfortunately on the orange an d silver lines west of Boston Biggest effecteds will be durind the rush hour. You can expect extreme crowding and long delays. Reporter metros new general manager paul wed field plans tt accomplish three years of work in one year. While first project is expected to run through thursday june 16th its only the first of 15 planned surges. Officials from arlington and fairfax joined wed felled for a press conference make sure commuter are prepared. Pre well have bus roots that t serve the metro. Met well have bus roots and shuttlt opportunities that can take people from here to a place that is not experiencing signal. Reporter metro has not met gotten attention he needs its getting it now. Its an extraordinary under taking that. T riders of East Falls Church every planning to add at leastt half an hour to travel time. Ness area eveville seems like they nexted it long enough. I wish they would do it you know at night instead of weekends, they are not changing the prices that we have to pay it needs to happen i stand by that im happa were doing it but its going to be a rough time. Reporter a little more like 10 months thats goes according to plan. Now as far as the rush hour commute officials are un engining folks to use tello u commuting, also car pooling andd van pooling. Check your local bus out. Theres added bus service. We got all that information open fox 5 dc cot tom. You also want to look into as far as the night life situation uber and list where the guy mentioned that in the beginning they are offering deals, also added services in other parts of the regions check tho out ask th well. Here inhe latest northwest. Lauren demarco fox 5 local news. As lauren said plans are in i place for people who will be impactedded by repairs. In Dc Bus Service will be extended during morning andnd evening rush hours by 30 minutes. They will run along core doser that connect key bridge to therg Central Business district. D dot is beefing up parking restrictions to free up street lanes. Capital bike shares offeringin discounts. Mark trains willin have additional cars during peek in the meaning time as thes district prepares for heavier track d to the has improved its traffic signals. Today crews adjusted trafficic signals in northwest dc. Crews retiming traffic lights at 386 intersections. Ions did the d to the plans to monitor flow of traffic and make adjustments. Ad they hope the changes improve Pedestrian Crossing times. An all right lets take it outside. Most of the storms showers have moved out of theor region therer a good chance we will see Severe Weather over the weekends gwen joins up with. Garages, graduation parties, any hope . You know the pressure is i definite physical on. Fini unfortunately we are slated for Severe Weather. And storms also for tomorrow t while the severee weather is sited for sunday. We had a few storms that rolledt through tonight. A bit of rainfall as well. Things have greatly improved. D most of that you think east. I cant rule out a pop uop showu in the overnighted hours. Talking about fog overnight that will linger for your Early Morning hours as well. Heres a look at where we have mr. Flood advisory calvert and an a runnel two a. M. Until eight a. M. Especially high tide there could be major issues. Dc right now basically cloudy skies. 73 degrees. Look at that relevant humidity 90 . Dewpoints have been up all day long. Its really been you can feel it very uncomfortable when you step outside. Heat and humid did the are adding to instability thats ins going to continue to build up in the atmosphere and help to fuel the storms. Right now temperatures in thepeu low 70s and upper 60. As far as your forecast is concerned, were looking at at saturday as seeing late dayat storms not a washout on saturday, however. Sa sunday is the day where things t are going to be wide prejudiced and we do have enhanced riving of severe w ill have all the details unjust a bit back to you. Lounden county community gott Early Morning wake up call whenl police raided a house in leesburg. Investigator would not reveal much. But they did say the raid was part of a longstanding investigation. Self Law Enforcement agenciesag participated in the raid. Neighbors told us they are aware of Gang Activity in the count but not in their neighborhood. Sort of shocking consideringg like, you know the different types of like history of gangs in this area. We never really heard of anya Gang Activity out here its weirs out of the blue u it applies sat they plan to reveal moreeve information in the next few days. Police are investigating ata scary Sexual Assault on metroet and they need your help findingi suspect. We have pictures of of them. The female victim says she was approached by these three men around 9 30 last night on a yellow line train there they are. That train was traveling northbound from hung ton. Has the train approached bradppo dick road station the men asked her to perfm she refused she said they assaulted her if you recognize any of these men police call police. Ning nre learning new details about theew pennsylvania man sht outside the white house lastth month. E mo federal prosecutor have charged Jessie Oliver rewire assistinge officer with a dangerous weapon. Secret Service Agents shot himth when he refused to put down his weep Important Court documentsnt say he told police quote i came here to shoot people. He remains hospitalized if convicted he face 20 years in prison. 12 pink tonight there are reports that boxer ali is on life support now listed in gravn condition. The 74 year old was hospitalizes in phoenix yesterday with respiratory reissues. According toir Associated Press his ailment may be more serious than Previous Health stairs. A spokeswoman for his daughter u says her fathers wellbeing is her number one he has battled park kin sonsin disease for more than three decades. Certainly wish the best foror him and his family. Absolutely. Coming up why the addhe a campaign for the new exman movim is under fire. Tweaks in other words and comic fans you quite. Thousands are in town for awesome con at the convention center. There. 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The billboard was intended highlight evil of the villain. 20th sen curb lee fox is owned by the Parent Company of fox 5. Okay. Kay. All right. Rig you know my family has seen that movie. Really. I had road mixed reviews. Well, they said it was awesome. Okay. Speaking of awesome. E. Thanks, tony. [ laughter ]. Awesome con has taken over the convention center. The annual event draws thousandw each year. Comic, movie, tv fox 5 Sarah Simmons went to check out the festivity tonight okay, so im here at awesome con, i feel like im here by myself even though im not im a little overwhelmed because i have never been here. Im have abode disbarred who better than captain america. Have fun, have and get to know everybody ound. Awesome con is i technically a comic Book Convention i think technically a celebration of everything thats sci, fi, we get a bad wrap like watching people who wear an taylor pant suits. Theres more things than politics and lobbyist. Theres fun people here who doho stuff like this. This is my. Reporter youll see plenty of costumes and fun stuff foruf kids. Of new exhibits too. New this year is the science and technology area, so its a whole pavilion right behind me. H thats also sort of the biggest crown in that jewel is bill nye doing star talk here on sunday thats a whole new area. When you measure accurate you ever unit of measure we have a video we want more kids to go kd into science and engineering its really fun row warring career. Youll see plenty of peopleey who just enjoy dressing the part. He showed up im the side kick, but once he showed up like a into its like your family you see people who were here w last year, people who warrior favorite cartoons specializing with different artists and actress who youve grown up watching an amazing experienceg into. Reporter orb the joker. Oh yeah. Reporter what was that. T wa oh yeah. Reporter i like the voicee v pretty good. So, you can see theres a lot tt do here for the big kids and young kids, this is going on until sunday at 5 00. You can still get ticket as well they start at 40 dollars. Awesome con. Com Sarah Simmons back to you into had maybe in thats a great place to be since its going to be rainy to be inside. Definitely you want to be inside. Insi we got storms not a full washul out tomorrow. Sunday as day we have to be very very careful. Lets take a lookout side hereeh now. We had some rain earlier. But now weve got just cloudy skies. Were going do have some fog thats going to set in. You can see outside a little bil on the wet side. Things have real improved a lot. We had some storms that reallyey barreled through parts f o our f viewing area earlier thishis evening. So were happy now that things have calm down quite a bit. Saturday will not be a wash out thats at least mr. Good news. Take a look at radar you can see down to the southeast where things that moved. I can rule out maybe a passing shower in the overnight how many times plenty of cloudy skies foi thats going to develop. We do have a Coastal Flood Advisory in effect this kicks in saturday at two a. M. In effect until eight a. M. Deaf filter issue at about high tide do be aware of t that. Of lets take a look at the all factors in what is going to be happening. 73 degrees dc same at manassas, 72 degrees at baltimore this hour, 70 at win chest and 68 degrees at frederick, as far ask those dewpoints are concerned, it was sticky today. You step outer side you really e felt it. Relative humidity levels at 87 in the last hour. Dewpoints right now in the upper 60 and into the low 70s. 70s so you are still feeling thatee and guess what, that humidity and heat is sticking around through the entire weekends as well. So heres what is happening,s were going to deawhl with some storms tomorrow in the Late Afternoon evening hours. And you are going to see a lotot morning we had today. However, sunday is the trigger daylight sunday is there day we need to watch things are going to become more widespread. Were dealing with a couple pieces of energy as well as the tropical moisture thats movingv up that is what were dealing with bonnie once again thatce a became a Tropical Storm which is actu before too long. Were going to get all that moisture. We already have a lot off moisture in place were looking at a low pressure system moving in as well a as a cold front. Theyre going to be triggers as well as well as warm humid airi mass. Energy in the atmosphere everything comes together, as t our models are showing, then wen are going to be in for some widespread thunderstorms thators could be severe as we move into sunday. So we got cold front coming in n hot humid air pass mass lots of tropical moisture and the energe from the upper atmosphere were looking at the strong cold front coming into his hot humid air mass, storms are going to firee up. Once we get into sunday we could be in for some pretty strong sto gusty winds, even some agent ane we are under an enhanced risk oh Severe Weather for our area for sunday. So sunday is definitely the day to keep youre eyes were looking at how much sunday we get thats going to be fuel fort fire the more sunday is i going to heat up the atmosphere even more make things worse thae were talking about. Heres a look at what is l happening with future cast for saturday 8 00 things start to sa fire up. Two in the morning and sundaynin look at this. We get a little break sundayreak morning then it starts to move in in the Late Afternoon eveninn hours for youre sunday. And then it getting out of hereg by sunday night. Et planner by midday tomorrow, we can see a few showers by the 5 00 hour were looking at a chance of stormings fox 5 accuweather 7day forecast look at the calm after all this. Were talking sunshine and temperatures going to be 80s. Were doing great once we gets into monday. But definitely saturday and sunday keep your eyes to the sky. Lets check with sports heres brody. Thank you gwen how do you put a price on a 23 year old mvp. The price could be three thre quarters of a billion a reporter said negotiations with harper will start at 500 Million Dollars and could go as high as 15 million a yerkes thats 750 Million Dollars. Dust debaker back in cincinnati. Another tough outing for gonzalez particularly the second inning allowed four runs. Six surrender five what a day for trey turner, trey day. D batting second s he went threet store three with a walk, he he takes up from first, look. L burning into third base. He was initially called safe but the reds challenged replay shown he was tagged out under the circumstances when he pops up off the bag call overturned. Still hes fun to a nat lose 72. 7 orioles hosting yankees, who let this guy in former steelers coach in the front row, yeah a little suspect how did he get those tickets. Alex rodriguez fly ball to write field. Clears the ball back to back. Homer orioles rallied in the sixth two outside brings home mark tram bow. M win 65. Columbia, the, columbia added a second goal penalty. Second half us great chances in the second half. Kicked away by column yandy fender then 60 third minuteute spins it, great save. Usa down. Tomorrow big sports capon fox 5 get your engines started at one p. M. For nat car. Copy spa america all wraps up with yankees and or ryals starting at seven p. M. Its going to be a tough one for usa. A. Columbia is the third best country in the word for soccer. E so tough one today. But maybe makes up in the nextnh two and they can still advance. Thanks, broad de. Well be right back. Its time to get out and explore. Look beyond the expected. Hidden among the trees. Theres a special place. Where getting away. Brings us so much closer. Vacation packages start at just 50 per person. Busch gardens williamsburg and water country usa. 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