i'm sarah simmons. let's say good morning now to tucker barnes to get the latest on our weather. >> good morning, sir. >> got some rain showers moving in from the west. >> are they close? >> yeah, this areal close. >> are they bad? >> they're coming down. gorse yeah, they're real close. >> are they bad? >> they're coming down. >> we'll have some warm temperatures like 80s. we'll kick off may with a summery feel. let's get to it and show you the showers moving in from the west. if you are watching out towards leesburg, frederick, winchester, front royal, you've already seen the rain showers and earlier, even embedded were a few thunderstorms. it looks like those are falling apart. you get the idea here. we are likely to see some rain showers across much of the area in the next hour or so. i think parts of the morning commute will likely be on the wet side. we'll get it out of here and we should get some clearing by afternoon. temperatures are mild. 61degrees in washington. 59 at dulles. get ready for a very warm day. the humidity will believe the enclose for the next few days as a warm front punching through. high temperatures in the low 80s. maybe 82 degrees by 5:00 p.m. it will be nice to go to the nationals game tonight. good conditions there. >> perfect. time now to check in with julie wright with a check on this morning's commute at 5:00 in the morning. >> good morning. right now, police activity is what is closing a portion of florida avenue at rhode island avenue. they've got the intersection blocked off right now. ongoing investigation there. new york avenue open for business. no problems to report leaving northeast to northwest. you will find lanes are open on the top stretch of the beltway trying to get past university boulevard and around towards georgia avenue. southbound 59 in good shape. no problems to report out of laurel. 29 traffic behaving nicely leaving randolph road headed back down towards the beltway. you will find lanes are open if you are traveling in virginia along 395 working your way past the pentagon and across the 14th street bridge. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic. we are following some breaking news out of the district this morning. search is on for the suspects involved in two fatal stabbings. >> the first happened around 1:20 this morning in the 4500 block of coral street northeast. just an hour later in northwest d.c. another fatal stabbing took place. that is where melanie alnwick is live with the details. >> reporter: good morning. florida avenue remains shut down. we are here at florida and it looks like sixth street. it is also closed down at fifth street as well. d.c. police or district police starting to wrap up their investigation just a little bit. what we are told is that this was a stabbing scene. but when we arrived, take a look at what we found. we found a lamppost on the ground right in front of shaw's tavern. if you look a little further back under the street light. you will see that is the black bmw sedan that is crashed into the side of shaw's tavern. we don't know exactly what transpired here when the alert went out from d.c. police, we know that we were told the victim was found with a stab wound in the neck. it was an adult male victim. he was transported to howard university hospital and then d.c. police sources tell us that victim was pronounced dead so this is a fatal stabbing. we don't know exactly what transpired that led to the bmw being crashed into the side of shaw's tavern there. some sources tell us that they believe, again, not confirmed at this point, that they believe that the victim may have been trying to transport himself. may have been trying to drive to the hospital and at some point you can only assume was not able to maintain control of the vehicle. that is what we are hearing at this point. we are waiting for d.c. police command ers here on the scene to talk to us. all the tv stations here are waiting for them to come and talk to us to give us more information. at this point, it certainly looks like this part of florida avenue is going to be shut for some time. that is the latest we have here from northwest. back to you. back to you. other stories making headlines this morning, the search is on for two armed robbers who officials say staged fake car crashes to trap their victims. now, police have just released these surveillance pictures. the two separate incidents happened last month on jones lane at potomac, maryland. in one of them, the driver was allegedly assaulted, placed in the trunk of his car and taken to atms to get money. >> d.c. employees may soon see a little extra cash. d.c. workers were forced to take four unpaid days off raft year and the city council would like to pay back the employees for the lost time. e lost time. more details now on the battle between montgomery county schools and an atlanta newspaper. the atlanta journal constitution recently reported on several blue ribbon 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right now in washington. 57 for you in gaithersburg. 59 in manassas. -- 62 right now in washington. here is a look at your futurecast. at 7:00 a.m., it is eeforts city. still portions off to the south and east of our viewing area getting some rain showers. then it is all out of here. we'll quiet down today and the possibility of a shower or thunderstorm return to the forecast during the day on wednesday as we've got a bit of a steamy air mass in place. -- at 7:00 a.m., it is east of the city. mostly cloudy tonight. mild overnight, 62. thursday, a little cooler. check out your daytime high, friday. and we'll cool it down a little bit for the weekend. still 80 on saturday. that is your weather forecast. let's do some traffic and see if julie wright was up late rocking the red. >> all right, tucker, downtown is where we have some serious tie-ups to report. melanie alnwick has been reporting live. we showed you this particular camera angle along rhode island and florida. we had the police officer block the intersection. eastbound is still blocked there. westbound lanes have been reopened. your lanes are open if you are traveling the top stretch of the beltway between college park and bethesda. southbound 270 still holding strong notch problems to report germantown to the split. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic. drones similar to the ones used in the military could soon be a regular presence in the skies here over d.c. >> they will do things like help monitor traffic on the beltway. that is not all they're going to do. fox 5's bob barnard has the story. >> they've been killing militants and terrorists in pakistan and afghanistan. patrolling the u.s. border with mexico. now, remotely piloted aerial drones are getting ready to fly over a community near you. >> if i can keep people out of the harm's way by using technology and that is the way i want to do it. >> this one is call the quad copter i'm much smaller, friendlier looking variation of the military's predator zone. the faa come 2015 plans to green light the use of small, remotely piloted aircraft for civilian purposes. as long as they don't interfere with commercial and military aircraft. >> just from the standpoint of an alternative to spotting traffic and sending information back on our smart traffic centers and being able to observe backups and change lights and everything else, there will be a reason for drones in the future. >> whether it is to help authorities fight forest fires, deal with hazardous situations or guide first responders through widespread flooding. >> if you look at unmanned systems as just being a commodity that allows that operator to do his or her job better. >> some in congress are concerned about this kind of surveillance violating people's privacy. but some say it is just like bomb squads using robots, also designed to the military. >> we use the infrared technology on the helicopters to help pick up bodies that we're looking for or people that may be lost out in the wilderness or in the water. again, drones can also provide that capability as well and i would suspect, once you get over that initial cost of purchasing the unmanned device, then the operating cost should be much lower. >> reporter: bob barnard, fox 5 news. news. >> now, by order of congress, the faa will begin deciding in two week where to test unmanned aircraft systems. >> the government wants six test sites that would start up in 2015. more concerns in the d.c. city council. coming up next, why one councilmember says she is done waiting for the new ethics board to be filled. >> you are watching fox 5 morning news. stay with us. 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a list of nominees from mayor gray to introduce emergency legislation to give the power to the council to nominate one person without delay. >> i will talk to my colleagues about how strongly they feel about having -- moving forward with some urgency and being able to have one of the appointments. >> council chairman kwame brown is also concerned about the delay but seemed to give the mayor a little slack on timing. >> leer i, you are always concerned that things aren't moving as quickly as possible. but at the same time, the executive has been reaching out trying to make sure that they have qualified after cants but more importantly that they are properly vetted. >> reporter: mayor gray's office says a list of strong nominees should be sent to the council soon but would not be specific on the exact time. all nominees must be thoroughly vetted and that is taking more time. >> it would be great for we could have it up and running. that is our main objective. >> matt ackland, fox 5 news. the latest on two deadly stabbings, coming up. >> some morning showers rolling through our area. we'll have the details of how long it will last plus julie is checking out possible trouble for your morning commute. stay with us, everyone. we're taking to you break with a look at 395 at the pentagon. q every day, an average of 5,000 people switch from cascade to finish dishwasher detergent. that's about 150,000 a month - over 2 million people so far. with finish quantum you get incredibly clean, sparkling dishes without having to rinse them first. now see for yourself why millions have switched to finish. join the finish revolution. and for two years in a row, finish quantum was rated #1 by a leading consumer publication. welcome back. it is coming up on 5:30 right now on this tuesday. we are taking a look outside right now. you can see the washington monday innocent and the capitol dome there on the left. it is a little bit maybe hazy to see through. we have a lot of moisture in the area because we have some rain in the area. >> showers moving in from the west and they will be with us for another hour or two. i think most of it will be out of here by 8:00 this morning. even a few thunderstorms have been aren'ted. >> on melanie's live shot, it was just pouring. >> coming down there for a couple of minutes. let's get right to the hd radar. you can see the showers moving in from the west. most of the activity here is generally west of 95 although we can see some rain showers now starting to get into prince george's county pushing out towards annapolis. this will roll through here for the next couple of hours. some sunshine and mild temperatures this afternoon. we are expecting highs about 80 degrees. a few flashes of lightning. cull and are some a -- culpeper had a thunderstorm. forecast for today, if you like summertime weather, you will love the forecast. 81 this affect and once way get the showers and thunderstorms out of here this morning, we should be drier this afternoon. >> we like drier. we still have some other stuff in the forecast which i know you you'll get to later on. possibly some more rain later on in the week. >> you have to wait and see. >> he loves to do that to me. let's get to julie wright. >> good morning. new york avenue, you will find lanes are open right now as you travel from northeast to northwest so no problems getting along new york avenue working your way past florida. however, there is an ongoing investigation which melanie alnwick has been reporting live from this morning. you will find that the eastbound lanes of florida remain closed off between fifth and sixth street. westbound open, eastbound remains closed. we'll hear live from melanie in just a few moments. lanes are open, no problems to report on the beltway leave being college park trying to get past university boulevard. traffic flowing freely now on the beltway between annandale and merrifield. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraffic. we are following some breaking news out of the district this morning. police are investigating two overnight deadly stabbings. >> one happened on coral street northeast around 1:20 this morning. the other, an hour later at fifth and florida northwest. that is where we find fox 5's melanie alnwick. she is live there this morning with the details. good morning. at this point, police tell us they have no reason to believe that those two stabbings are related. here on florida avenue, police are starting to wrap up the investigate into the stabbing here. they have reopened the lanes, the majority of the lane here on florida avenue between sixth and -- fisk and sixth street here except for this area where police cars are still parked blocking off the scene where they had this incident. let's go to some of of the tape we shot earlier. the vehicle that you see there, we didn't realize when we first got on the scene. when we arrived, we found a light post that had been upended, and a vehicle that was crashed into the side of shaw's staff he were here at fifth and florida. police sources tell us that the victim was indeed deceased but he was transported to howard university hospital first where he then died. unconscious when he was first transported. it appears at this point, we're not sure, but d.c. police are telling us they believe that the victim was trying to drive himself to howard university hospital, the hospital and howard university hospital is just maybe half a block from right where i am standing. we don't have any information right now as far as a suspect lookout. we don't know if this part of the street was indeed the scene of the stabbing, if the vehicle was the scene of the stabbing but we just know that an adult male with a stab wound to the neck found dead -- found with a stab wound inside that black bmw that. car was just recently towed away by d.c. police and now they are working to -- we are seeing them -- they did go up and down the street with flash lights looking for bits of evidence and they ever a been with a shovel shoveling up what debris there is left over from the vehicle accident and putting that into a d.c. police car presumably to comb through that for evidence. now that they are starting to wrap up the scene, we believe that we should hopefully be hearing something from d.c. police in the never future that will fill in a little bit more of those details and questions for us. that is the latest here from northwest d.c. we'll get back to you as soon as we have updated information. >> a lot of questions. thank you. making headlines, the search is on for two armed robbers. officials say they staged fake car crashes to trap their victims. police have just released the surveillance pictures of at least one of the suspects wearing a mask, glasses and a hat. aaa is now offering these advice to worried neighbors. >> here is what you should do. if your car is bump and you don't feel comfortable, opportunity your blinkers on and go to a 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we are checking weather and traffic. stay with us. welcome back. there is a tinge of fog out there covering up this picture. that is because probably, i'm just getting here, because it has been raining and the temperature is outside and you take the rain and the heat and that is how you get a picture like this. i'm just guessing. >> you are just guessing. you know what you're looking at? >> that is rainfall. rain falling. >> that is not fog or steam or something. >> it causes a little bit of fog. >> i said is guessing. >> tucker is a stickler. >> lots of water in the air out there. let's talk more about that. >> it is raining as we just showed you there in the live shot. we'll get you out to the of here and we'll be in for a anice day. >> sunny! >> at least partly sunny. it should be a decent day with highs on the warm side about 08 degrees later today. there is your rain falling across the area. -- on the warm side about 80 degrees later today. if you see some flashing here, we did have some thunderstorm activity down towards culpeper not long ago and it looked like we could see a few more flashes of lightning here. so this whole little area of rain is pushing through. we'll be out of here by 7:00, 8:00 this morning. i'll show you some more rain showers as they continue to fall. you can see we've got a little band of rain right inside washington. open it up for you a little bit and this is the leading edge of a cold front which won't actually bring us cooler air. it will start to dry out the atmosphere a little bit later today. that is the actual cold front there off to the north and west. we'll get the rain showers out of here. we'll probably have the clouds linger for a few hours. as mentioned w highs much warmer than yesterday, about 08 degrees or so, so get ready for a warm one. we are 62 in washington. 57 in gaithersburg. 64 no you in leonardtown. and 55 in frederick so temperatures on the mild side. we'll be off and running with the mild temperatures later today. early showers, storm, then some afternoon sun. partly sunny afternoon. winds will pick up a little bit out of west gusting to about 15. your afternoon high, 81 degrees. then later tonight, we'll be on the cloudy side. mild overnight, 62. tomorrow, some more showers and thunderstorms in the forecast. not going to rain all day tomorrow but some scattered showers and thunderstorms and check out your warming trend by friday. 88degrees. we're going with hot official will you by friday afternoon. that is your weather. let's do traffic. julie wright has your latest. >> on the roads, deeing with a lot of problems. the crew in sky fox with us right now. jeff and jeremy above the scene of this crash involving an overturned vehicle. this on the westbound side of the university boulevard approaching rigs road. there is one lane of travel be a to get by on the westbound side single file to the left. police still on the scene of. this we just lost that shot but eastbound, you will find that the lanes are open. if you are traveling westbound, it is single file to the left. make being their way downtown, that is where we had melanie alnwick reporting live in the rain. -- making their way downtown. d thank you to dave rysak bringing us these pictures. new york avenue still open for business. no problems to report there leaving northeast to northwest. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. etraffic. in this morning's consumer alert, can you have a front row seat to the summer's hottest concerts just by following pepsi on twitter. the social network says it will stream videos of big summer shows to pepsi followers. no word on which artists will be featured. >> reporter: microsoft will invest $300 million in barnes & noble's nook unit. the move comes after barnes & noble announced earlier this year that it wanted to spin off the unit as a separate business. now, the partnership also includes a nook specific windows 8 application that will launch later this year. microsoft will now hold 17.6% stake in the new subsidy. the devalues the nook and digital book unit at about $1.7 billion. but for investors, will microsoft's invest end up paying off long-term? 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