Flashing lights and everything to grab attention. Its a quick exit if you will. Head north on to kenilworth avenue, be aware. Head on collision at everett street, a neighborhood street. Be aware in this section, you will be rerouted. Also, this is morning number one of phase 3 metro rail continuous work. It will close between braddock road and National Airport. Jack, thank you. Most of you are probably getting ready to take on your morning commute for the first time. Phase 3 of the Safetrack Program could tangle traffic in northern virginia. News 4s derrick ward is monitoring the situation for us in alexandria. Derrick, good morning. What are you seeing in. Reporter what were seeing now is folks sort of getting used to this. Were at the braddock road station here. What is going on essentially is the blue and yellow lines are shut down between braddock road and National Airport. Now, if metro is providing metro is providing stt service. Theres lots of people on hand to tell you where yo
Baton rouge where there officers were killed and three others injured. The governor called for calm during the recent state of violence. Today has been a very tough day in baton rouge and in louisiana and in the country. An unabsolutely unspeakable lane ous act near baton rouge claimed the life of two police officers, one sheriffs deputy and injured three others one of whom right now as we speak is absolutely fighting for his life. Its unjustified. And its unjustifiable. The violence, the hatred just has to stop. Law enforcement officials identified the gunman as gavin long of kansas city. They believe he acted alone. All agencies are in baton rouge assisting with the investigation as country react to the news, all officers have to travel in twos. Five days ago i travelled to dallas for the Memorial Services of the officers who were slain there. I said that killer would fought be the last person who tries to make us turn on each other, nor will todays killer. It remains up to us to mak
Good to be back. Thanks for joining us this morning. 5 40 a live look outside caityln is here and usually i talk about the weather has been there or that and ive been gone for a week and fwrept my air conditions car to air conditioned house only to find out how god awful humid it is the last couple days. Its like a big bowl of soup for three days. Tough to be outside. I hope you were in cooler places. Oh, yeah. Because its warm to come back to. Live look outside at the National Monument. Clear skies this morning lots of sunshine and relief in hul hultty today. Finally youll notice when you step outside it doesnt feel as muggy early in the morning and double figures for you right there. The accuWeather Forecast and break in humidity all good news this morning. We should have a really sunny one on the Sportsfever Television Network tap. Great to be out at the pool. Not too oppressive to be outside. I was downtown at the monuments not museum. People are busy. People are looking for someth
The heavy rain that has fallen where we can see up to 2inches of rain. Scattered showers through the dinner hour and then you can see all of this begins to fade by the time we lose that daytime heating. So seven, 8 00 oclock at night some spotty showers and then it comes to an end. The big story becomes excessive heat. It will turn dangerous tomorrow. More on that coming up later in the broadcast. All right, talk to you soon, kathy. Stay prepared for Severe Weather by downloading the fox 29 news app. Youll get radar and alerts sent right to your phone. Just search for it in the apple or google play stores. Developing to night in allentown, police are trying to figure out who shot and killed a barber in front of his shop. The victim is 40yearold eric wagner. He was killed in the middle of the afternoon. Investigators are still trying to figure out what led up to that deadly shooting. Dawn timmeney is following the Murder Investigation live now in allentown. Dawn . Reporter well, good ev
Station in dallas that suspect shot and killed hills. The protests have been a response to the videos. Two black men shot and killed by police. First shooting death of alton sterling in baton rouge. Then st. Paul of castile his death streamed live by his girlfriend. Dave kitchen you have first hand accounts from dallas. Reporter yes, we always have remark as made from the president. Were monitoring video being fed in from our station capturing the attacks. We want to caution you. It may be hard to view. This video shows several officers on the ground. We have blurred them because of the obvious sensitivity of the situation. You can see that he can ducking behind their police cars. You will see an officer or two rush in and try to bring this officer, drag him or her out of the line of fire right there. Very desperate situation as you can see and just very chaotic there. Chilling video also showing one of the texas gunmen armed with a rifle opening fire on the streets of dallas periodica