Watched with glee and joy in his eyes. In case you missed it earlier today it was absolutely amazing his wish to become k9 officer coming true and the first step in his transformation right here at fox5. Heres the deal. Holly as we just saw earlier this morning was with him when he learned that he had to go where, holly . What was his first stop . Well he had to come here to fox5 because he has to get his officially issued Police Uniform because, you know, hes going to be looking for bad guys today. Hes going to be helping keep the city safe. Let me tell you this right now. Every k9 officer on the d. C. Metro police force wishes that he was riding around in that right there. Hes got a very special ride to take him on his mission today. Let me just tell you, its not a good day d. C. It is an awesome day d. C. Because this wish is being granted for ember. Hes just eight years old. Hes been fighting Cystic Fibrosis. He lost a lung when he was just two years old. And he has a feeding tube.
Channing street. Caution there. We have a red line delay. A full look at traffic next. Back to you. 7 oclock is our time right now. Developing overnight the power is back on at the worlds Busiest Airport. But now thousands are backed up after being stranded and delayed in atlanta. All right in the thick of Christmas Travel of course and fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National airport with how these major delays are affecting us locally. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, and, yes, it is definitely affecting us locally. We had a number of passengers who told us that they came here to the airport yesterday, their flight was canceled they were rebooked on flights for this morning. They got here this morning and those flights were canceled and thats why weve seen such big backups here at the terminal and also at the at the check in counter as people are trying to figure out where are they going, how can they get there and when can they get there, all of this because of that power ou
December 18th 2017. Glad youre with us. Happy birthday to you. Thank you. Happy birthday to your daughter sidney ton all you statue tanners out there. Happy happy birthday. What time is the party . Well, you know the older you get the more parties dont mean that much. So were not invited. Right. [ laughter ] in other words. Thats the bottom line. Were not invite. What happened was ing. Still empty mix. Maybe next year. 9 01 is the time. Also a ahead a teenager with local ties made us history becoming the first ever black woman to made the olympic Speed Skating Team well introduce to the 17yearold talk to her coming up next. All right. Thats exciting. Very exciting. Im getting exciting. I love the olympics. I do too. Im an olympic junkie. I like all the stories. Im mad if i miss the opens stories. I like it all. Lets take live look outside right now because its pretty mild. Gorgeous morning treat to do beautiful sunrise. Mike has a lk store for this monday. Hey, mike. Hey, guys. I saw w
Happened a little before kw8 this morning about 40 miles south of seattle. About 80 people were on board that amtrak train at the time and the train itself was moving at about 80 Miles Per Hour Officials Say and heading to portland. Dozens were taken to the hospital, including people who were hit while driving on the highway. You could see right there just how many emergency crew vehicles were out there today helping out victims, not to mentions a you just saw several of those passenger cars just dangling there over the overpass. When we got to the scene, it was obvious that there were some fatalities and a lot of injuries and some people were able to get off the train. Multiple cars and struck were struck by train cars that evident there the train tracks and went down on to the road. The people that were in all the vehicles, even though when you see the pictures its pretty horrific. At this point nobody in any of the vehicles is a fatal. Now were told the trains new route is part of 1
Were told crews rescued two women one taken to the hospital with critical injuries. The other for evaluation. A firefighter suffered minor. The fire is still under investigation. Were also following a developing story out of southeast dc tonight. The scene of a deadly shooting. Were told someone opened fire in the 1800 block of. Fox 5 evan lambert is live at the scene with the latest. Evan . Reporter tony an a n c commissioner an youth worker both say a teen i was shot and killed. Were near at the Douglas Community center, theres a park, a playground, we understand that the shooting happened on those basket ball courts. Police spent much of their time focusing on the area and on the Basketball Courts. They sit right next to a playground with there were shell casings all over. Police eventually brought dogs to sniff the area. Kids play at the park connected with the Community Center all the time. Police so far have not confirmed the victims age or identity. The anc commissioner in sweet