And later, home Court Continues to be lucky for the wizards and now lets hope the luck carries over for the caps as they continue their request for a stanley cup tonight. Good day at 9a starts right now. All right. So we got the caps, we got the wizards trying to do their thing, we got the nfl draft. We the got the nats keeping on keeping on. So its all interesting right now who redskins going to pick much a lot going on. Empty meantime 9 01. Good day d. C. Thursday, april 23 are, wisdom martin, holly morris, maureen umeh, steve chenevey. Were all here. The caps take on the pittsburgh penguins. If you want to be there to cheer them listen closely and keep your twitter closer starting now like right now 9 00 oclock the team is kicking off another rock the you can win play off tickets. Mike thomas down near the Verizon Center looking for clues. Well check in with him a little bit later on. First though we want to talk about the weather. Because when those clouds burn off this morning, it
Tucker 95 southbound from dumfries to quantico because of a crash just beyond that point blocking two lanes. Problems continue in laurel this morning, were un97 remains shut down between bw parkway and powder mill road. Bw parkway completely jammed. Well help you steer clear of those issues. Allison and steve. Breaking overnight in England Police arrested six people during anti raids near london. One woman is shot but is serious but stable condition. She has not been arrested in connection of the raid. Sky news posted photos of the raid to the web site. Officials say among those arrested a 16yearold boy. Police say all of the suspects are being held on suspicion of preparation of terror acts. The United States could be headed to major conflict with north korea. That is the assessment of President Trump. The commander in chief is live on capitol hill. Good morning. Reporter allison and steve good morning. We know of course members of congress have been briefed on the north korea threat
And rail employees. Metro says they have denied all of those requests, so they expect to offer normal schedule today so thats the good news for the riders. But it was a bit of a mess here yesterday on metro center. Old equipment was sort of the issue to blame for the delays and the issues here but things are back to normal. I want to show you some video from yesterday as things got tense right after this incident at metro center there was a board meeting. Metro and its Largest Workers Union theyre currently locked in a very contentious contract dispute then protested yesterday according to this board meeting. Workers wants their voices heard. They are upset about the hard line approach by management. Theyre criticizing this new absenteeism policy which requires workers to file absence requests three days in advance and metro says, look, this is necessary. We need to crack down on excessive absenteeism going on and increase the productivity but during the protest workers dropped protest
Tucker 95 southbound from dumfries to quantico because of a crash just beyond that point blocking two lanes. Problems continue in laurel this morning, were un97 remains shut down between bw parkway and powder mill road. Bw parkway completely jammed. Well help you steer clear of those issues. Allison and steve. Breaking overnight in England Police arrested six people during anti raids near london. One woman is shot but is serious but stable condition. She has not been arrested in connection of the raid. Sky news posted photos of the raid to the web site. Officials say among those arrested a 16yearold boy. Police say all of the suspects are being held on suspicion of preparation of terror acts. The United States could be headed to major conflict with north korea. That is the assessment of President Trump. The commander in chief is live on capitol hill. Good morning. Reporter allison and steve good morning. We know of course members of congress have been briefed on the north korea threat
Arrive coming up. Erin. Problems on the roads and the rails. A crawl on the outer loop by New Hampshire boulevard New Hampshire avenue because of the stall by university boulevard. Blue line delays by king street. Well help steer you clear of the rail and road slowdowns with your next look at traffic. Erin thanks. More details on both coming. First lets talk politics. President trump on the verge of a legislative victory this morning but democrats say they won too. Congress close to passing a bipartisa agreement to avoid a Government Shutdown but there is a price for compromise. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live on capitol hill with more now. Good morning. Reporter well, steve and allison the price tag a trillion dollars with money in this spending compromise for many of the various priorities of the president and lawmakers and not very many cuts. Washington may be able to keep the Government Shutdown signs under wraps for a few months now with congress on the verge of inking a deal to kee