Tri2016 season. Sso im allison seymour. Im steve chenevey. m s it is memorial day weekend. Al d. Thinking of beating theeati t traffic jams boo staying inc time. If youre planning onn using metro you might find yourself in congestion. Constio Melanie Alnwick joins us. Jns reporter according tor acct hot wire washington, d. C. Is w tied for fifth as theas most popular locations come and visit this memorial dayt is m weekend. We know always theres lots of extra visitors in town butvisi this is no Holiday Weekend for metro he maintenance workers who are really beginning that aggressive push to get metro m back into good working order ord and the orange line is goings to take the biggest hit here. Itr take a look. L orange line is going to be shutter down throughout theghou memorial day weekend until the u end of the day monday. That means that silver linet sil trains are going to replaceeplae three stations severely ser impacted vienna dunn loring and West Falls Church thosehose stations
Sarah simmons in for shawn. Well wait 30 minutes and go im tony perkins what everybody wants to know how is the memorial day weekend weather going. Gwen tolbert is in the wet sent to get us started. Today was hot sticky andnd humid. Lets take a look at the radar we did have a few storms that ta popped up to our far west things are finally changing. Cha go to our maps youll see most of that has really diminished a lot. We have a little bit of rainfalf thats still wrinkling ring through to north and northwest a other than that things are starting to calm down. And the temperatures right now n still warm outside. 79 degrees at dull wills 76 dc. 77 south of fredericksburg 68g degrees at win chest. Going to continue to be hot,ot, sticky and humid. Southerly flow continuing. So night partly cloudy sks with all the humidity. Once we get into the weekend get ready saturday feels likeke summer. Er. Sunday and monday a chance of o some unsettled weather. Were going to have all those details comi
Silver and blueline trainsintr will run every 20 minutes. Inut this weekend wasnt all celebration. Io a Police Officer shot andcefficr critically wounded a shoplifting suspect sundayy morning. When the officer tried toer tri question that man, police sayma he pulled a gun. Hea the officer told him to drop dro his weapon and when youou refused the officer shot glim sl a d. C. Police officer isffer is recovering after beingringfter assaulted sunday afternoon. Ftno this happened near 45th and 45t quarrels street northeast. Noheat police tell us someonece attacked the officer then took off had in his car. C officers gave chase. Hase during which this the suspect st hit two police cruisers. Officers arrested the suspect ss near the third street tunnel. Tun today is memorial day. Today we remember the sacrifices of men who serve whos and continue to serve our country. Jennifer davis is here. I h reporter it is a rorte beautiful very quiet right now here in the heart of o the city as d. C. Pr
That haze hanging over ther the studio. It is warm out. Wow. It really got hot in a hurry hry and the humidity got prettyot pe high yesterday, too. , to thats what we have for today. So, as we take a peek at yourou saturday forecast, i will say wy this is probably the best day ta of the memorial day weekendi forecast because it will remain dry but it is pretty is p sultry out there this morning. I satellite and radar cleare and skies overhead just someust sunshine. A nice looking start to the t day but those temperatures struggled fall overnight andd fa just like in the middle of theil summer were starting the day around 70 degrees and its muggy, too. Temperatures in the mid 60ses north and west but thats asha cool as it gets and welle watch those temperatures jump j very quickly into the 80she today. Heres the setup for youror y memorial day weekend what it wei looks like on the surface map. Fm High Pressure off shore just like a very summer type te pattern, 80s, upper 80s to around 9
Right now at 10 if you are planning to takeow metro into dc for the holiday weekend, yound, might want to think twice. Expensive repair work is undernr way shutting down entire stretches of the system. Yste how and when youll be impacted. Must have the courage to escape fear. President obama makes history as the first sitting us president to visit hiroshima. What local veterans have to say about the trip. Plus dozens of doctors plead with olympic officials to rethink the summer games in brazil. Fox 5 local news at 10 starts right now. We begin with the mass of metro repair work that will begin this weekends im tony perkins. Im Sarah Simmons in for shawn. Without access to metro rail during the busy holiday weekend. Plan. Reporter tony and sarah talk about bad timing all of this o going into the holiday weekend, a friendship, he asks what is going on with metro now. Construction, more of the same but you know were all used to it i can tell you whose not used to it tourists. Reporter eve