place before my marriage, though some have sadly taken place after. to be clear, i have never met any of these women or had physical relationships at any time. i haven t told the truth and i ve done things i deeply regret. house democratic leader nancy pelosi issued a statement today saying, quote, i am calling for an ethics committee investigation to determine whether any official resource were used or any other violation of house rules occurred. doreen, back to you. elaine reyes reporting from the news loom. d.c. council member harry thomas, jr., has been accused of funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars meant for youth sports to an account that he used for luxury trips and to buy an suv. d.c. attorney general irvin nathan announced today that the city has filed a civil lawsuit. john schriffen is at the wilson building with more on this. john? reporter: jim, good evening. harry thomas, jr., is the latest council member caught up in an investigation into the sp
at 6:00 this morning, we have a lovely view of the sky. beautiful out there this morning. thank you for waking up with fox 5 morning news. i m sarah simmons. thank you for being with us this morning. talking about the flood waters and the mississippi and its tributaries submerging streets and homes across the delta region. the mississippi governor urging people to leave even if they think there is just a chance that their home will flood. many of the victims already don t have much. nine of the eleven counties that line the mississippi river in mississippi have poverty rates that are at least double the national average. very tough situation down south now. bracing for more all the way to new orleans. will be a mess. and it will go on if a while t will take a couple of weeks for the waters to subside. then the clean-up it will take months. it has been a difficult spring across portions of the country, that is certainly true. here in our area, thankfully, we have a
perkins. what a way to start the morning. that who be odd. there are some clouds out there this morning once again. during the next couple of days, we ll start to see more and more in the way of clouds. there you go. no precipitation associated with these clouds and i think during the bulk. the day today, we ll see a good a sunshine. all right. current conditions being reported at reagan national airport, right now, it is 55 degrees. relative humidity at 89%. your winds are out of the southwest at six miles per hour. forecast for today after some morning cloudiness, lots of sunshine once again. temperatures once again in the mid- and upper 70s. do enjoy the day. more on the forecast coming up in just a little bit. a great week so far. let s check with julie wright and look at traffic. good morning. not so busy right now. light traffic volume if you are working your way to and from the wilson bridge. northbound 5 and 4 at speed coming in out of southern maryland. gw tr
and 59 in ocean city. after high temperatures back in the mid-70s. a lot of sunshine. one more beautiful afternoon. winds will be nice and light here out of the south at 5 miles per hour. it will start to cloud up tonight and that will bring us changes starting tomorrow. i ll have details on that coming up. back to you. now to a developing story that we ve been following for you all morning. the hunt for a killer in prince george s county. someone shot and killed a 7- eleven clerk during a robbery. it happened at the store on oxon hill road early this morning. stacy cohan is live at the scene with the latest. stacy? reporter: well i can tell you that this investigation is now almost six hours old and we still don t know a great deal more about what who the suspect is or exactly what happened here. i can tell you that it was around 3:30 this morning that prince george s county police got the phone call that there was trouble at this 7-eleven on oxon hill the phone call
more sunshine today and one more really great day. we ll get this one in and then the changes begin toward the weekend. current temperatures around the region, 54 degrees under increasingly sunny skies. things look good out there. dulles 53. baltimore is 51. at patuxent naval air station it s 49 degrees at this hour. forecast for today, it s a simple one. if you remember yesterday or the day before, well that s today. morning clouds giving way to mostly sunny skies. another beautiful one. high of about 75 degrees. we ll have more dedale details on the forecast and for a check on the traffic we go to julie wright. a crash involving a truck at piscataway road. outer loop still congested leaving colesville toward the exist for georgia. no problems on 95 and 295 out of laurel. delays from 7100 to 123 and again at the beltway. route 1, crash and follow police direction to get by. that s a check of your fox 5 on- time traffic. breaking news out of prince george s county this