Morning it is going to affect tf your commute. Yo if youre riding thue orangea or silver lines youll need lots of patience. Melanie alnwick is live withickv what you need to know beforenowe you walk out the door this morning. Mel. Reporter hey, guys, yeah, so, you know, this section of track from ther orange line from ballston tollst East Falls Church initiallynialy this work was planned to benn done in november but then theute federal Transit Administration you may remember came back and a told metro, uhuh, you got toott do this line first basicallyasly because theyre very concerned n about trying reduce what they saw as very dangerous smokeke and fire incidents telling telli them there were three sectionstn of track that had to be numberur one, right at the top of their priority list and so that is i why were beginning today withow the orange line. Here at ballston were kind of waiting to see how exactly it is going to impact riders and people. This is where people are gpeoing to be
Those shootings coming onomin the heels of a desperate pleaesp to End Gun Violence in thence t district. Fox5s annie yu live at liv Police Headquarters thisce morning with the details. Ls what can you tell us, annie . Ou reporter husey, goodey morning to you holly and steve. D. C. Police tell us that thetelt shootings started coming inmin i around 9 oclock last night. T ng as you mentioned, that homicide was one of four of fo shootings that happened lastla night. That one happening at 800 ht block of bladensburg road in northeast d. C. We were out there this morningoi and they had wrapped up the hpp scene but d. C. Police were w still canvassing that area are because they are still searching for the shooter. Shoo we understand that an adult adu male was found there around arod 10 30 with gun shot wounds. Tou sadly, he did not make it andnd police still dont know what w caused the shooting, whetheringe it was a robbery or or just j a, fthey knew each otherlyth they dont know the motive
Will we get to those triple tril digit temperatures . Wellempe tell you how you can beat theraa heat just ahead. Atust staying cool right now. Ht no. We are hitting the road againga on this friday morning. Mni this morning we are zip zip tripping it to the shaw the shaw neighborhood of d. C. Orho our Maureen Tucker and kevinev all there this morning. Hisornin. Were going to check in withck t them in just a little bit. It in the meantime good g friday morning everybody, imdym along seem. And im steve chenevey. Ve ch. Welcome to fox5 news morning. Org lets start this hour with the finale of the republican r national convention. Veion. Donald trump formallyy accepting his partys pty nomination for president. Presi. He he gave a speech last night. Night. His biggest moment so far of o the election donald trumpld tru spoke for a little more than an hour laying the groundworkdw for what is expected to be a bitter fight for the general election. On. But did voters take to his message. Sse. Fo
Good, good. Ood, reporter where did you did start and where are youand heading to i know youre heading to new carrollton. Arrolo where did you start. Sta naylor road. Reporter normally you would be at work at this time. Or oh, yeah, imwo running realr late. Reporter what is this going to be like for youor. Y. I wont be doing it nong it o more. Reporter what are you going do. Get up earlyor and camp the e bus, right off the bat. Ff t this is too much right here. Ig. Reporter sounds like as l long complete for you justom trying to get to work. Plget wor normally its like an hour. Now it seemed like its three uh wow, three hours. D ree h. Well, good luck chris andis and again all these folks are heading to metro rail serviceer over at minnesota avenue. Anu were going through part of p the city now that does not have rail service, will notlot until july 3rd along thed g orange and silver lines and at 5 30 we were live with paul p wiedefeld the general managererr of metro and i asked him wh
Hillary clinton. Nton and prepare yourself that unbearable heat weve beeneve telling you about, it is here. Upper 90s, possibly even triple digits coming your way. W good morning to you. D thank you for joining us. S. Im holly morris. Mor and im maureen umeh. Today is friday or we like too say friyay. Riya mike thomas talking about our triple digit heat and erint erin como standing by with yourit traffic update isnt at thet ah top of the hour the moment hasas come republican president ial p candidate ton trump too donald o the stage to accept his nomination for the gop president ial bid. Trump addressed the crowd thd of thousands at the event withth a lengthy speech laying out his plans to make america ameria great again. What he plans to do to noto only win the election but to close the border. De we cannot afford to be so politically correct anymore. Rre. So, if you want corporate spin, the carefullyarl crafted lies and the media, med the democrats are holding their Convention Next w