Wrong there. This is ward seven. So far this year there have been 20 murders here in ward seven. Last year at this time, only six murders. On the scene over there on benning road i talked to vincent gray. He is the former mayor. This is what he had to say. This is an outrage that this kind of thing would happen, period, but then happen in broad daylight. Were in the middle of a well trafficked intersection where pedestrians are going back and forth. When are we going to see somebody get killed just innocently walking down the street . It is time for this to be over with. Reporter again, police are working five shooting scenes in our city in recent hours. Okay, four in southeast, one in northwest. Its unclear as to whether any of these are another. Police are looking into that possibility. Theyre trying to get evidence and figure it all out. Were on top of it here. Were gathering information. Ill be back later with more. Now back to you. Pat, thank you. Quickly, breaking right now, poli
Fall apart as they come east of the mountains, but a stronger line of thunderstorm chances comes our way in the metro later this afternoon. Muggy and mild yesterday we had 50s on the map, today everyone is in the low to mid70s. So the next 24 hours, chance of strong to severe storms today between about 2 00 and 8 00. And then moving in to Southern Maryland after that. 75 this morning with showers in the shenandoah, but nice and dry in the metro. Fairly cloudy start coming up tomorrow morning with temperatures near 70 degrees. That leads to another storm chance on thursday. More about that coming up at 5 21. It is time for traffic right now. Good morning, dave. Good morning. No signs of trouble. 66, 270, montgomery fredry co e county line, lots of space. No signs of issue or incident. Out on the rock creek parkway, doing the work zone near the kennedy center, northbound lanes blocked for another few minutes. And on metro, other thrangnd next week for safetrack. Thats the latest. Back to
Ton. Sober ride is offering free cab trips from 10 00 tonight until 4 00 in the morning. Call 1800200taxi for a way home. More than 230 people took advantage of that service last year. I think we might be okay as far as the weather goes this morning. Fingers crossed for the fireworks tonight. Chuck has 4 things to know for us. Fingers are crossed. That may be the best hope of keeping fireworks dry this evening. The things you need to know about your fourth of july forecast. Grab the rain gear. I wish i could give you the all clear for rain chances but rain chances are most likely between noon and 6 00. We should be getting a little break in the rain after about 6 00, 7 00, 8 00. Thats just about time for the fireworks. They should be able to fire them off this evening. But this is an iffy call at best. The back end of the rain, which is the most important part now is still across parts of at the general pace its going, its about 13 hours away from being done. That means the back of the
Joining us im tony perkins. And im shawn yancy. And we begin tonight with a confrontation in the courthouse metro station in arlington a woman west after the man she claims housed his phone to record video up her skirt. Take a look the woman won tronted the man 3 p. M. As soon as he got off the escalator and you can see him there talking to the woman and then trying to throw thinks phone on the ground to break. It and other riders saw what was happening and also stopped the man from leaving the station. Arlington county and Metro Transit Police arrested the man hes charged with unlawful filming. A baby that went missing from virginia has been found safe and sound in maryland. This after an amber alert was issued earlier today. And fox5 Lauren Demarco joins us liver from hyattsville with the details, lauren. Well, tony whether you were near a tv, radio, sdriving down the highway and saw one of the signs or got the alert on your smart phone theres a good change the you heard about this a
The downpours earlier, light showers left over across parts of Prince Georges County from fedex field through clinton and brand winn back brandy wine towards attic a. K. A. Kee. Quantity coin quantico at 7 06. Light showers leftover from parts of southern st. Marys county. Tomorrow a chance for a couple of storms in the afternoon here or there, not a yellow weather alert but sunday that could be a very rough weather day around here. Ill have more on that coming up and i also urge you because of that on sunday, you want your wusa9 app with you. Download, its Free Download it. Its free. Back in a few minutes with the rest of your week from metros big safety surge so when the clock strikes midnight all rail lines will stop running and stations will close. This is just the first part of metros safe track plan which involves 13 days of continuous single tracking between boston and east falls church. If you think you will not be impacted because you drive, think again. All the people usually