By preventing the drug from depressing the nervous system. It comes as a nasal spray or as an injection. The cdc says opiate abuse is an epidemic with fatal overdoses that have nearly quadrupled since 1999. President obama has surprised a group of College Journalists by crashing a special white house briefing. The president strolled into a packed room where press secretary josh earnest was offering rookie reporters some insight into what really goes on. Well oh, my god. I hear theres some hot shot journalists here. You know, josh was speaking for me and i wanted to make sure he was getting it right. So the president answered some questions for more than a half hour. Pretty good. And even made news. He also announced a plan to enroll 2 Million People in pay as you earn which aims to help students manage loan repayment more efficiently. I like the girl that you can hear in the background oh, my god, oh, my god. Very subtle. We should point out the president will be working on his jokes t
We are going to begin tonight with breaking news. A portion of metros red line remains suspended at this hour between the van ness and Friendship Heights stations. Metro says its the result of smoke in a tunnel from an arcing absolutelitor. No injuries have been reported and metro is currently providing shuttle service. Were going to continue to follow this story and bring you updates as soon as we get them. Good evening, everyone. Im matt ackland. Now to another big story. Some great news out of Prince Georges County tonight. Volunteer firefighter kitchen swain was released from the hospital today. The 19yearold was shot last week responding to a welfare check at a home in temple hills. Fox 5s Alexandra Limon is outside the fire station with alex . Reporter well kevin swains firefighters tell me he left the hospital in some pretty good spirits. Swain was shot four times a little over a week ago but some good news for him tonight. He got to head home to continue recovering with his fam
Wilson bridge over there. The i believe it is down around thet area of the national harbor. R. Yeah. Ea fantastic out there thisic oe morning. Old town alexandria iow believe. It is gorgeous start to the dayd much better than yesterday. Ay oh y. We had the rain and eh. E but so far today, good start. Ta cool start though. Hoh. Temperatures fallen back intok the 40s. 40s bright sunshine come your waye o just like your shoes, annie. Yea. Bright yellow. Thats whats heading our wayhew later on this afternoon. Fternoon lots of sunshine. Much quieter day you dont havev to worry bout rape or grabbing your um blame today it will be l gorgeous afternoon for you here. However temperatures are cool to start well get those in an minute. Heres your satellite and radarr absolutely nothing on it thiss morning. Rning. Ridge of High Pressure settledrl in over the eastern half of thee country, and it is large and in charge. Here we are. Spinning off to our south we soh have a northwesterly breeze b toda
Right now on fox 29 news at 10 00, police are looking for a killer who gunned down a man in north philadelphia. Investigators say a 36yearold man was shot several times inside a car on west hunting park. Police say, g evening im done timmeney. I apologize here. Were having technical difficulties. Woman i was a victim avenue kidnapping and she survived a terrifying ordeal. Fox 29s Sabina Kuriakose is live at the philadelphia special victims unit and sabina, you talked to witnesses. Reporter we did, dawn. We spoke in fact with the people who ran to help her when all of this hammed and we have just learned the victim has now left the hospital and shes here at the special victims unit where she is currently being enter viewed by detectives. Now we do know, though, dawn, whoever did this is still on the loose. Police dont know yet whether it is one person or several people. But again theyre still on the loose and we spoke to people who helped her. It was ridiculous. I never seen nothing lik
Happening. How extensive is the damage, we are going to find out. That is why we are going to walk every trail, stream and swamp we come across to see what is out there. Im an into einteinto entomologist. Ill share my findings with a biologist specializing in ecology and evolution and an engineer who has designed everything from bionic eyes to space satellites. Thats our team, now lets do some science. Welcome to tech know, im phil and you guys know i spend a lot of my time in the jungles and do my research in the tropics and usually looking at spiders on butterflys and i went to costarica to look at Something Different and there are scientific issues out there and protecting the rain forest is one of them and maybe its not quite high enough on the list because we are realizing now that rain forests are doing Incredible Services for us in society. They are doing them completely for free and do dot think about rain forests providing fundamental services but they do. As someone who lives