Car. What police did next to save his life. And from the sea lions rocking this boat to an unusual search for a missing dog to the owl getting cozy inside this familys christmas tree. All the top trending stories for your friday morning. Good friday morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We begin with the big holiday escape now under way. Millions of americans are hitting the roads or heading to the airport. In some places the weather will not be cooperating. Today is expected to be the busiest air travel day in history for the winter holidays with 3 Million People expected to fly on the major airlines. The toughest travel will be in the pacific northwest. You can see why right there. Heavy rain along the coast and heavy snow in the mountains. Wind gusts could hit 60 miles per hour. The other big weather story is the cold in the east. People from syracuse to boston are starting the morning in the Single Digits but temperatures will head back to normal today. Well take a closer lo
Hes also being investigated in cases in bowie and georgetown. One of the d. C. Cases has sparked a legal case against massage envy. One of the alleged victim is suing the company for 25 million. Pbs talk show hose tavis smiley is the latest to be suspended over allegations of misconduct. After an independent investigation into more than one complaint, the network has now hired an outside law firm to investigate smiley. This comes just weeks after charlie rose. Pbs didnt specify the nature of the allegations but said the inquiry uncovered multiple credible allegations of conduct thats inconsistent with the values and standards of pbs. Smiley has been with that Network Since 2004. He posted on facebook last night that he was shocked by the announcement and says he never acted inappropriately toward any coworker throughout his entire career. This morning, arizona senator john mccain is back in the hospital as he continues to battle brain megan mccain is worried. She is a cohost on the vie
Temperatures middle 40s but winds gusting over 30 is going to help it feel like the 30s all day. Hey erin. Plenty of green on the road. Metro is on time. Well get you around the red line problems. If youre just getting up with us now, well start with breaking news. Its from rockville. A pedestrian was struck overnight near the intersection of 355 and east middle lane. Rockville pike was closed for several hours but it has since reopened. Fox5 is still waiting to hear from First Responders on the victims condition and also what may have led to that accident. And were also following a developing story from annapolis. Around 11 50 last night fire crews responded to a 911 call to find this, a driver who had plowed their pickup truck into the side of a building. Happened on eagle wood drive. Two people were taken to the hospital with lifethreatening injuries. No word though on how they were injured. One victim was that found outside the building, a second had to be removed from the damaged
Most accurate forecast. Topper, you are here to talk about a little snow coming our way tomorrow. The operative word will be a little bit. Well take you through it now. Tomorrow morning the morning commute will be fine, temperatures in the 20s, cold and clouds streaming their way back in. By 9 00 were still fine, 29 downtown, 28 in bowie, but were quiet. Then we get into lunch hour, 1 00 on futurecast notice some light snow breaking out. A couple things, notice temps are still right around freezing or below. So it ill with be a light, fluffy it ill with be a light, fluffy snow and the best chance of seeing accumulation prince georges county, a dusting less to an inch, but because temps will be so cold some areas wont make it above freezing. Every little flake that falls will stick. We think going home will be okay. Im looking at so well confirm that and take you through the weekend. Net neutrality, youve heard that phrase a lot today and tonight well bring you some serious clarity to t
Tell us about what is going on with this search . Brandon, if you can hear us, pull that microphone up to you because we cant hear you through your phone. Okay. I was told we were on the phone. Okay. Well, here we go. So, anyway, media staging room for area. We have state police, we have the hospital over there and were a little more than a hundred yards down from brick mills farm elementary school. They just went through their lockdown. Theres a neighborhood on the other side of that where police were. We had some video that we got from a witness over in that neighborhood. We can show you some of that. Its very quick. It shows s. W. A. T. Running into a home, but we just talked to police. They told us that police have tracked down the suspect who is believed to be a part of that shooting. He was shooting at officers, several rounds, during a back and forth. But he will not leave the house. Hes barricaded in that house. Police are trying to figure out what the next step is we have. Tal