Rehearsal for an invasion. At the live desk, im aiericka gonzal gonzalez. Good morning, everybody. Im Aaron Gilchrist about. And im eun yang. Lets check our weather. Chuck bell talking about rain still in our forecast. Whats going on, chuck . The rain has been in the forecast for a while and its staying in the forecast for quite some time. We actually need the rain. Weve only had about half of our average rainfall here in the month of april about a. And not much better for tomorrow. Any chance to get outside and enjoy some tdry weather, all those hopes hanging on saturday morning and afternoon. For now, though, here comes the rain moving right up i81 and i95. So to plan on a soggy finish to the thursday morning commute even though its not necessarily all that wet outside just yet. Next 24 hours, cloudy with showers moving in at 7 00. Occasional showers, nothing all that heavy by early this evening. Temperates and light rain likely to get your day started for tomorrow, too, with temperatures only about near 50 degrees. So nothing all that pretty. Roads are dry for now. Lets hope thats making the thursday morning commute all the easier. Making it easy right now. 95 at newington in virginia, no problems yet. Of course as chuck has been saying, that could change as the rain rolls in. 66 from Fairfax County parkway to the beltway, going to take you nine minutes here. Remember to listen to wtop 103. 5 fm when you hop in your car. 270 northbound southbound no problems. Earlier we had a car fire near shady grove road. That has cleared out of the way. And georgia at arcola, no more construction happening there. Ill be back in a couple minutes. It is 5 02. And were following breaking news in alexandria. A barricade situation happening on east reed avenue and evans with details. Reporter Tactical Units will be using flash bang technology as they tried to make contact with a man who has barricaded himself inside a duplex. So folks in the area, you may hear some loud noises here in the next hour or so as this situation continues to unfolds. It began around 10 00 last night. It appears to be a domestic situation, a family situation. Police saying all of the people involved are adults. One Family Member fired at another Family Member. The one Family Member inside a home, we just heard a loud bang there. I dont know if you could hear that behind me here. Not exactly sure what is going on, but obviously some movement here with those Tactical Units on the scene. But a shooting, one Family Member shot from inside the house, outside at another Family Member. Nothing was hurt. But we now have this barricade situation here as po t that they believe is still inside that home here in alexandria. We are hearing some loud noises. No injuries that we are aware of, but certainly something that is unfolding as we speak. And well continue to keep an eye on it and bring you updates. Back to you. All i wanted was to wake up from this nightmare so i can continue my life. Jeanette lopez is crying out to find her miss sister, lizeth lopez. She was captured on video walking in to a cvs woodbridge store. The family reported her missing two day later. Police found her car near where she works. Contact police if you have any information. 5 04. Greenbelt police are working to find a suspect in a homicide there. Police say a man was found dead on a patio in the 6900 block of hanover parkway. Officers found the victim after Someone Called Police to say they heard a gunshot. The caller did not notify police until hours after the shot was heard. Were working to learn more about a deadly stabbing inside a takoma park apartment building. Officers responded to the king bridge around 2 00 yesterday afternoon. A one was pound with stab wounds inside an apartment and an injured than was found near the lobby elevator. The woman later died at the hospital. Wssc says its planning to replace a whole stretch of pipe in bethesda after a mess there yesterday. We covered this this for you all morning, that water main break on Rockville Pike at cedar lane. The road is open now, uses had to shut down the lanes though while they replaced the pipe and then they restored Water Service and finally fixed the road. The break happened at the same spot as another water main break back in october. Wssc says the issues are happening because of how old that pipe is. Today you can learn more about what Montgomery County is doing to keep you safe in the zika virus. Will join other county officials in the twinbrook neighborhood to talk about how you can protect yourselves against mosquitos. A new page has also been added to the countys website to give more information on symptoms of the virus. Right now there are no reports of the zika virus in our area. 5 06. The race for the white house goes west today. Bernie sanders campaigning in oregon while Chelsea Clinton rallies on her mothers behalf here in washington. John kasich will also be in oregon today. 12340r ted cruz is focusing on indiana which holds its primary on tuesday. It offers gop hopefuls 57 delegates winner take all. Donald trump has multiple stops today in indiana and california. While trump stumps in the west, r representatives of his campaign will be on capitol hill for a closed door meeting. Well monitor paul ryans weekly address later today to see whether he shares any details about this mornings conversation. If we a one, win the nomination, but number two, even more importantly, win the general election, we must unite. Senator cruz hopes a call for unity and the announcement of former rival Carly Fiorina as his Vice President ial pick will give him a better shot at the republican president ial nomination. Cruz made that announcement yesterday just a day after Donald Trumps five state sweep. Fiorina ran for the gop nomination of course but dropped out in february. A different response from senator sanders after losing all but one of tuesdays primaries to Hillary Clinton. His campaign plans to layoff hundreds of staffers and other aides even though sanders promises hes staying in the race until the Democratic Convention in philadelphia. A Campaign Spokesperson is he a staff of about 300 workers is now focused on a sanders win in california in june. All around town we know you are rocking the red because the Verizon Center for round two of the playoffs tonight. Not only that, but they are playing our rival pittsburgh penguins. Even the players are talking. Its been a rivalry for a long time. So should be a lot of fun. It is an epic matchup. Penguins beat the caps last time back in 2009, but that was so long ago. Now we have holtby on fire going in as the leading goalie. Hes amazing. Still some tickets out there. We saw some on stub hub abo100 bucks. And metro staying open late tonight. Go caps. The rain is moving through, but will you need the wipers on your drive in to work . Chuck bell has a closer look at your commuter f trusted member of the community, but this morning a Prince Georges County woman says a bishop sexually abused her. The charges hes facing. And should you vaccinate your kids . How great time for a shiny floor wax, no . Not if you just put the finishing touches on your latest masterpiece. Timings important. Comcast business knows that. Thats why you can schedule an installation at a time that works for you. Even late at night, or on the weekend, if thats what you need. Ut. I did not see that coming. Dont deal with disruptions. Get Better Internet installed on your schedule. Comcast business. Built for business. Good morning. Its now 12 after 5 00 on a thursday morning. Temperatures are in the low to mid50s right now, all cloud cover and if its not raining at your house yet, dont you worry, rain moving in. Could be moderate rain for the second half of the morning commute up through early afternoon. Tapering back to just occasional showers later today. If youre traveling, rain within about 250 miles of us. Minneapolis, detroit, cincinnati and vegas, its raining in vegas today, as well. Well detail when the heaviest of the rain is coming up. Speaking of your thursday morning commute, here is melissa. I dont want to mess up your thursday morning, but i think we will perhaps later on. 395 north after duke, all lanes thousand open. So that road work is out of the way. 270 at old hundred road, we know it will get probably pretty busy here in the next 45 minutes or so. Right now looking good headed south wouboun southbound. Earlier problem northbound near shady grove car five is now out of the way. Beltway all of the routes if and out of town, we are nice and greene here this morning. Overall no worries in Prince Georges County. And 50 looks good into town and out of town, as well. 5 13 right now. A teenage girl will be sentenced as an adult for her role in destroying evidence linked to a gangrelated killing at a popular park. Now 17, guttierez pleaded guilty in february. Police say members of the ms13 that with ea back in november. Also today a man from gaithersburg could be sentenced to life in prison for killing a man during a robbery. Last fall a jury found him guilty of killing mark saint alban at his home. The body was found in his driveway in march of 2015. Miles was also found guilty of first degree burglary and armed robbery. A bishop is out on a 10,000 bond after accusations that he repeatedly made unwanted sexual advances toward a young woman who worked at his Prince Georges County church. Michael turner senior was arrested tuesday for what a 22yearold says happened inside the Miracle Center of faith missionary baptist church. The woman says the abuse went on for about four weeks before she told her aunt. We arent identifying the victim, but she was willing to speak with us about what she he told me not to say anything and not to be scared because i was a big girl. The charges include assault, fourth degree sex offense and harassment. No owoone answered the door at home and the Church Office has not returned our request for comment. Today some Police Offices in maryland will get a refresher course on when and how to use tasers. Since 2009, Montgomery CountyPolice Officers have been involved in four of 191 deadly taser incidents in the state. The Baltimore Sun oig reports in three of those skipts, officers used tasers for longer than the recommended 15 second safety limit. You can weigh in on how the fbi headquarters site will be redeveloped. The National CapitolPlanning Commission is holding a public meeting. Commission wants ideas for what to do with the site once the fooi moves out. The bureau is expected to move to a new location in either maryland or virginia. Downtown d. C. Rosacea may be linked to dementia. Researchers at the university of copenhagen say they tested about 80,000 people and they say 7 were more likely to develop dementia and 27 more likely to development alzheimers. While researchers say that rosacea causes the elevation of a certain proteins in the body that are also involved in neu neurodegenerative disorders including dementia and all timers. More parents are opting out of vaccinating children alltimers. More parents are opting out of vaccinating children. The number is now below the National Average in florida. The vaccines protect children from 14 deadly diseases. I dont think that they should be concerned about vaccines. I think they should be concerned about the diseases that the vaccines protect against. Parents say that theyre opting out for religious reasons or concerns about the side effects. Health experts say parents should do their own research when trying to figure out what is best for the health of their kids and always consult with the doctor. And even yesterday i was talking to dr. Weiner who was mentioning about the concern of having too many vaccinations at one time, and there is a way to ask the pediatrician to spread those out if there is a concern. Knowledge is power, right . 5 17 your time right now. A good night to follow sports. We know a lot of you will tune in for the caps game of course. At the same time, its the nfl draft. Draft happening in chicago this year. A lot of prospects and League Executives already out there. The redskins have the 21st pick. Experts believe the team will take a defensive lplayer this this year. Time to check our draft. Watching the skies to see it if we will have a rainout day ahead. Chuck here with the 411. I guess we dont call that any anymore. Can ask siri now. Maybe its just a hash tag right now. Clouds and raindrops coming in our direction. So dont expect much in the way of mice treatment from Mother Nature at all. Temperatures today will be stuck mostly in the 50s and i have grave concerns about your weekend plans especially if they involve being outside for any real length of time. So there you can see on radar now the marching in of the rain drops, even some Early Morning thunderstorms now out across the mountains of West Virginia down into parts of north carolina, all part of a warm front which is washing in our direction, it will run right over us here during the course of the morning. Heaviest rain likely mid to late morning up through about lunchtime or so. Here is future weather and the way it it handles it by 7 30, 8 00 this morning, periods of light to moderate rain southern maryland. As we get towards about 9 00 or 10 00, that pocket of moderate rain goes right in to the metro area. So heaviest rain inside the beltway between about 9 00 a. M. And lunchtime today. After lunchtime, we should get a little break in the rainfall. Clouds arent going anywhere. You wont get any sunshine. But at least the rain will ease up a bit and then go back to hit and miss light shower chances in to the evening. Temperaturewise, we are stuck, every. Our average high now is 71. Were in the 50s now and well be be in the 50s all day long. So if youre going down to the baseball game which starts at 4 00, could have a rain delay. Temperatures in the 50s. They should be able to get the game in. If youre headed down to Verizon Center for the 8 00 game for the cap, bring the umbrella. Game time temperatures mostly in the 50s. Lets sweep the penguins right out of the series. Maybe a few showers by saturday evening, but most of the saturday morningd sunday looking a bit like a washout. Well have a closer check on the forecast for the next couple of days coming up in a few more minutes. For now here is melissa. So remember, in alexandria, east reed avenue shut down across from potomac yard for a police situation. Megan mcgrath is on the scene. 66 and 95, we dont have any worries there. 270 at shady grove road, northbound and southbound rolling along just fine here this morning. Big look at the beltway, nice and green. Everything is looking quite good and the beltway at Central Avenue dont have any real worries there here right now. No problem on 95 in maryland either. And i have to say, aaron, i called 411 which is information of course and he said when is the last time anybody used the term whats the 411 and they said it was Aaron Gilchrist. Should have been 1992, but unfortunately, he just she does her research. 1992 was a great year. Just saying. Thank you, melissa. So graduation season is under way in Montgomery County. College trax hecks held its am celebration. Fr fr thats you. The organization tries to help students get into and through college. I hosted the event for the second year here. A lot of students do cost from low income or immigrant families or theyre the first in their families like me that have to navigate through this process of going to college and the applications and the essays. Its so daunting. So this satisfy from college tracks help the kids figure all that stuff out and then stay with him through college to make sure that they can graduate. Just a great organization. One of my favorite things to do, just to be in that space with kids who are being successful and trying to better themselves. Youre such a good role model. Hats off to them. Thank yo russia launches a rocket from its new space facility. Im Erika Gonzalez with the story from the live desk. And say cheese. When you could soon pay your pills bills by taking a selfie. Why not wear something red to assume the caps . Game one of the second round of the stanley cup playoff s. An husband and fatherinlaw of a Fitness Instructor who was killed are the subject of a search warrant for a shirt with blood stains on it. The two men were voluntarily questioned by police yesterday. They were not arrested. Police say just four days after missys death, her fat dropped off a shirt to be dry cleaned that appeared to have a blood stain on it. The men say the blood is from a family dog who was killed in the fight with another family dog. I wanted to make sure that we get over here and put this fire out pretty quick. Flames going on, so lets put it out. The two men also thanked the dry cleaning employee he for their diligence. A successful rocket launch from russia. The soyuz booster blasted offer in the russian far east. President Vladimir Putin flew to the area to witness the launch himself. The launch pad is so far equipped only for the launches of rockets carrying small cargo like satellites. Back to you. 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