responding. and d.c. s mayor is cracking down on residents crazing chickens in the city. we d like a process to really talk about chickens and how wonderful they are and how many city ts allow hem hear from chicken owners who think the ban is for the birds. the news at ten starts right now we gin tonight with a dangerous national trend. kids experimenting with prescription drugs. it s happening all across the country and now right here at home. thanks for joining us at ten, i m shawn yancy and i m tony perkins. several loudon county middle school students got sick after sharing a drink lacedded with prescription pills. fox5 s teisha lewis is live in sterling with the details. teisha. reporter: and shawn and tony, tonight we re learning that the students could face disciplinary action. the school is lowe sed, but what with i can say it s very likely that lots of parents are conversations either tonight or in the coming days about the dangers of p i told you not to do that
those lanes closed now driver of the cab with serious injuries. heads up for you. today hundreds of volunteers actors along with first responders across the dmv the whole region will take part in massive terror drill to help them prepare for attack. emergency medical personnel police, fire officials along with actors will all take part in mock scenarios at 6 different locations. some in d.c. others in prince george countsy as well as arlington and fairfax counties in northern virginia. president trump plans to sign another executive order today having to do with education. order betsy devos to direct a study to identify potential over reach by the federal government and trump administration spup ports local control of schools and president said to take on tax reform and unveil blueprint. as part of the plan he ll propose massive cut in corporate income tax reducing top rate of 35% to 15% however new congressional estimate says even more modest rate cut say 20% would add l
you don t need a jacket, mid to upper 60s. i m more of a spring and fall person than a summer person. yesterday running outside, boy, did it feel warm. a lot harder to run in the warmer weather. that s for sure. it will be another toasty afternoon. afternoon highs 79 in gaithersburg. 83 in washington. 84 in fredericksburg. certainly warm weather for today. warm and dry to boot. warm and dry temperatures. sunday, also plenty warm. not record highs to finish out the month of april. monday, may 1st looks like it may be our next chance for everybody to get much needed rainfall. now for a check on friday traffic, let s go over to melissa. good morning, prince gorges county looking good. most of the problems we have been having are out of the way. that is good. taking a look at 66, fairfax county parkway to the belt no big problems there. listen to wtop 103.5. inner loop and outer loop of the beltway defining this problem on 66 and have cleared out of the way. melissa, thank
baseball. afternoon highs into the upper 70ed and low 80s. if you re going down to nats park, taking on the mets tonight. first pitch at 7:05. first place nationals, temperatures around 80 degrees and a dry and mild night for baseball. if you re following my advice, go to the beach. before you jump in the ocean, let me give you a friendly reminder. the water temperature is only 56 degrees. it will offer a significant cooldown the minute you put your toe in the water. we ll look at our weekend forecast coming up in a few more minutes. let s go over to melissa mollet. i just got goose bumps about you talking about that. mill and you can take powder mill instead. unaffected. southbound 270 at 109 before 109. we do have a report of a crash here this morning. not too much information on that. do have a report of a crash there. river road should be wrapping up the work zone here. we ll have travel times coming up. it s 6:02. return to the possible metro sickout that could affec
and rail employees. metro says they have denied all of those requests, so they expect to offer normal schedule today so that s the good news for the riders. but it was a bit of a mess here yesterday on metro center. old equipment was sort of the issue to blame for the delays and the issues here but things are back to normal. i want to show you some video from yesterday as things got tense right after this incident at metro center there was a board meeting. metro and its largest workers union they re currently locked in a very contentious contract dispute then protested yesterday according to this board meeting. workers wants their voices heard. they are upset about the hard line approach by management. they re criticizing this new absenteeism policy which requires workers to file absence requests three days in advance and metro says, look, this is necessary. we need to crack down on excessive absenteeism going on and increase the productivity but during the protest workers dr