circumstantial. there is an extremely circumstantial case against him. simple text messages. him moving out of an apartment. it does not rise to the level of an arrest. more correspondence revealed in court showed detailed conversations between johnson, his younger brother, and new girlfriend six months after phylicia barnes body was found in the susssuss river. johnson said, maybe i should leave this country and go to brazil. the way things are going, i m afraid things will hit the fan and i don t know how to deal with it. prosecutors say they have video of johnson buying a large storage bin at a walmart. they also say johnson removed a g.p.s. system that police put on his car during an investigation. changes this morning for the department of social services. a mother stabbed her own baby this week. what the state is doing to stop this from happening again. how did felicia thomas get a knife through security? the suspect in the case did walk through the metal d
be upgraded. so you ve got to live with it. reporter: metro riders not happy but not surprised by the second rate hike in under two years. in the past we ve had the increases, too, and things haven t improved. reporter: but metro s general manager richard sarles says the money is needed to close a $100 million budget gap. what the fare increase does is provide additional revenue to us to provide additional rush hour service during the peak period, to provide additional bus service, to improve our maintenance. reporter: today s vote comes after months of debate and no one has fought the fare increase harder than metro access riders. near 50 disabled riders packed metro s headquarters ahead of the vote urging the board to reconsider. these rates really affect our home and our lives going to the doctor and to the grocery stores. i need metro access. it can happen to you. that s all. just reevaluate. reporter: the board agreed to reevaluate at a later date but for
5:00 a.m. monika santami, did you know that s 20 degrees above the average for this time of year? it s just been crazy the last few months. and we need some rain. it s going to be nice and warm today. i think a lot of people are going to enjoy that and you re going to enjoy the traffic as well. i don t know if i should say that so early in the morning but things are looking great all around town. the beltway is incident free. there are no problems to report on most of the major neurofairs head thoroughfares heading to the beltway. looking good through tysons corner on 495 as you head south towards springfield. we ll take a live look at 66 first. here s what it looks like leaving manassas as you head into centreville. all lanes are open. let s go back over to the maps and this time to the other side. no problems to report on the northbound side of i-95 or actually we re going to go over here to the pentagon and 395 to the 14th street bridge first. we ll take a live look
interstate 83 to and from work. the left lanes were blocked on friday evening but tomorrow morning, it s the first rush hour to feel the changes. question is which way will you go. the detours may be as backed up as the jfx. a smooth ride tonight even with just two lanes opened on interstate 83. but this is sunday night. wait until the real test rush hour. a lot of people will be feeling it monday. reporter: you may have seen it this weekend but sure to feel the interstate 83 lane closures on monday morning. the left lanes on both the north and southbound side will be shut down for several weeks. you will notice the closures before and after 28th street. i live in reisterstown and i take 83 to get to work every day. i am going to try to take falls road. reporter: that s sharon s plan and next greg young. i live live on green spring and i will be driving downtown reporter: and to make it to the classroom on time. take either liberty road, which is the furtherres
things stirring on thursday morning, day before friday, one day before the weekend. friday eve. all right 49 degrees welcome to fox 5 morning news i am wisdom martin in for tony perkins. glad you are with us today tucker barnes not going to feel too much like friday eve however, chilly out there. it is a little cool allison temperatures 40s low 50s and we can expect a cooler day with highs only in the upper 50s to about 60 later this afternoon so might want to bring a jacket as you run out the door. let s get to it and take a look at current conditions regan national falling back to 40s. 49 degrees washington 46 baltimore, 48 this morning ocean city and 42 hagerstown. cool start to the day, all the sunshine in our live shot we should be in for a mostly sunny afternoon although we ve got storminess just off to the south and west of charlottesville the front that came through yesterday is hanging up down across virginia carolina border and will do so during the day some