Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20160314 : compar

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20160314

This morning his brothers bh and sisters in blue are blue grieving the tragic loss as aloa motive in the unprovokednproke attack remains unclear. Ule were live with the veryh theer latest. But before we get to that at live look outside on this ts monday, it is march 14th, 1 2016. Gary mcgrady and erin como theyre going to have a check c of weather and traffic in just i a few minutes. W thank you for waking up withpit us, thank you for joining us. U im wisdom martin alongside aloi holly morris and maureen umeh. U we begin with a story a sto thats gained National National attention. Were talking about theki ambushstyle attack in princeac georges county that leftthateft officer jacai colson dead. Ea fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Police Headquarters inen palmer park with the veryark wi latest on this senseless actsess to say the least. L mel. Reporter thats right, guys, yes, so you can see heree that barlowe road is still is s shut down here in palmer park. Ar so were several blocks away awa from the police station, thehe district three stationtaon attached to Police Headquarters. T theyre literally just stepslly apart. Apart. Now last night sorry Hank Stawinski said that this was an attack without any known motive and that officer jacai colson was able to ae return fire before he died. D Police Officers from aroundfromo the county gathered outsidedut Prince Georges Hospitalce g center last night to honortoonor officer colson as the news the w broke that he did not survive. E they joined hands and prayed p as the night darkened. 28yearold jacai colson hadn been on the force for four years. He was an undercover narcotics o detective and was not inwas no i uniform sunday. S the ambush began around 4 30d 4 in the afternoon and it was it chaotic scene. C scene Police Say One suspect opened oe fire outside the station andon a several officers including ilu colson rushed out to the gunun fight. At about 4 30 this afternoon an individual launched an unprovoked attack a on the district three policeth station and brought several ofb our officers under those officers did not shrink. R they bravely advanced and engaged this individual. Iivid reporter now, officer oic colson was taken to theo hospital in a police car. Ar fellow officers wanting to getet him there as soon as possible. L the suspect was also hit by b gunfire but were told he will survive. There is a second suspect whopew police say actually fled onced o the shooting began and was arrested at a nearby Shopping Center. He is being questioned byinques police. Poli it is believed the twohe suspects are brothers. A fellow. Fellow policelow officers said jacai had a had smile that could light up a cldl room and said that he was ahe w good friend and a good Police Officer. Chief Hank Stawinski said thatkt the community has lost one oflof its defenders. Def live in palmer park, im par i Melanie Alnwick, fox5 localocal news. As you can imagine reactionac is pouring in about thisou incident on our faceboorik pagep donny wrote just awful. Se thank you officer colson for for making pg county safer. Saf ill be praying for yourng f family, your brothers andth sisters in blue and everyone evn else that will miss you. Denise wilkins said he wasa cleaning up the streetsng up putting his life on the linelinh to make pg a safer place, a true warrior we salute you. Latest tragedy comes twoomest weeks since another shootinger t in our area targeted law enforcement. Last month Ashley Guindon wasgun shot and killed on her very v first day on the job. J she was laid to rest in herid hometown in massachusetts last week. Crystal hamilton the wife of wif the suspected shooter was alsoew killed. Two other officers werer officee injured in the shooting,hootin jessie hempen and david mccune. Both are still recovering. Ecovin officer hempen was releasedse from the hospital last week. Checking our other stopthertp stories this morning, eightng, firefighters were taken to therw hospital after responding to a s threealarm fire in germantown. Rm a townhouse went up in flameswe onnt the 1900 block. B this morning. This the entire home collapsed. Laed firefighters are expected toxp be okay. Y. In virginia Fairfax County c police are investigating atitina deadly overnight crash. Ight cra Police Say Two people wereeoplew killed when their car crashed in the 6,000 block of burke of b commons road in burke. B this happened just beforetef 12 30 this morning. Right now burke road is stillros closed. So far no word on a cause. Cau there is breaking newsing from the midwest. Mwe an amtrak train derailed in kansas overnight just about a four hours ago. Fourrs a the train was traveling fromvelf los angeles to chick when atickh least five cars derailed aboutdt 20 miles from dodge city, kansas. Nsas there were 128 passengers and 14 crew members on board. B there are reports of numerous nr injuries and patients taken toeo several nearby hospitals. Spital well of course bring yououbrin updates as we get them. We want to get an update ong the weather right now. N i dont need to say its raining. In i dont know to say it rained ii yesterday because we alreadyy be know that. So, lets just keep it moving. V i believe in our businessur s thats called a recap. Recap is that what it is . Is i think. I dont wanthi to gutcher act aa if i know something i dont know. So what do we have coming cin up next. N there we are. This is the bus stop forecast. O. I like to deal in the future, okay, not so much as the fast. Ht cause you can cant changet the past. You got to get ready for thehe future. Unless its how the pastits relates to the future. Tes to tht we do thatur a little bit init n meteorology. 44 to 50 degrees this morningths for pickup for the kiddos. Kid were not talking aboutki a anything thats even moderateode rain. In there may be a shower here or there mainly its going to bengo cloudy drizzly. Dzz there will be fog out, too. T i dont think the fog is goingfg to create too much of a problem. Ob doesnt seem to be right now. Later after school chilly and dreary, 53 to 57, clouds andlos drizzle pretty much the dealpret there. Temperatures out this morning,ei you kind of get a sense of of tf where we are. Its not too cold. T but then again its not n its not too mild, either. Ehe 49 in town. Tn. Fredericksburg is 48. Generally stuck in the 40s. In heres erin como this morningco with a look at your mondayonday morning commute. Mute ontime traffic brought torot you by toyota. Oyota. Visit buy a toyota. Com fora. M special offers. Were dealing with problemslg around the area. A Montgomery County policeme activity middlebrook road m eastbound is shut down atidist o wearing station road. D. Germantown road is the best thes bet to access 270 south thisou t morning. Then as you head out in Fairfax Burke center burketer be common road remains shut downd e both directions for accident aid investigation north of burkeatib Center Parkway. Center youll need to detour aroundd that one. Loudoun county in leesburg,eesb Leesburg Pike right now seven ns west shut down. Ow crash investigation at augusta drive. Detour at Lakeland Drive. Well take a live look next. Lo n thats your traffic. Coming up a deadly d explosion in turkeys ury capitol. The strong message the mesge t nations president has foror those responsible. But first the clock is firstc ticking ahead of this weeks big primary vote. Im vote. How candidates are rallying rlyn last minute support. Republicans may have one last shot at taking downcat donald trump during tomorrowats primaries. But the donald is fighting ft back at his critics. Kelly write has the latest one a the race for the white house. Teu reporter republicans and rls democrats are going after donald trump with the next big g round of primaries tomorrowom for what is being called tuesday two. Y wo senator ted cruz attacked thekee donald for his wealth butut still plans to support him ifup he is the nominee. Nom donald trump is the system. S donald trump is washington. As donald trump is big business. Us. And instead the answer is to t support a candidate who willl stand with the hard working taxpayers. Reporter senator bernier s sanders condemning trump for encouraging violence at his rallies. A candidate who for president of the United States should condemn violence. [cheers and applause] not encourage violence. Vioe reporter but donald trump gave credit to himself hse for canceling his rally inisally chicago. Due to a protest outside the venue. We had to make this decision. Si. We want peace. Wan we want happiness. Appi we want everybody to go home really happy, really peaceful. U so we said you know what well was a very wise decision. Dec reporter ohio governoro oveo john kasich has also a criticized trump for theiciz violence at his rallies and rals says he plans to win his home hh state with a positive campaign message. Messag weve got have positive solutions in this country. On we cant bes running aroundnina yelling at one another. Another. Reporter five states are up for big grabs tomorrow andomo with more than 350 delegateselet at stake, this could be theth cu last chance for republicans too try and stop trump. Tmp in new york, kelly wright foxrit news. Ne breaking news out of the midwest where an amtrak trainmta derailed overnight. Plus, were continuing tori follow the tragedy right hereigh at home as the prince georgeses county Police Department pol mourns the loss of one of its own shot and killed ons the job. Job. Gary. Thanks a lot. Thank listen, theres a little bit of fog out this morning. Mni in some cases visibility hasibil been reduced but it doesnt appear to be too big a deal. Dea the lowest here were seeingreee is right around 2 miles but milb just keep in mind spots out there could be areoule little bit thicker with theithhe fog. Fo a lot of drizzle, too. Rizz little dreary today. Little dre well talk about it. Ut full forecast is coming up. Do stay with us. The bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. Dunkins new grandde burrito a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. Go grande with veggie or sausage today. America runs on dunkin. Back now at 5 14. We have pictures in from theur breaking news in kansas. Ksa an amtrak train that derailed overnight. Ov five cars flipped on theirhe sides when the train left the te tracks. This is about 20 miles west of dodge city, kansas. An hospitals are treating sever of the 128 passengers and 14 a crew members. Ew members it is unclear right now how severe those injuries are andiee just how many people are hurt. Developing closer to home a Prince Georges County policerg officer gunned down right outside of Police Headquarters. Police say officer jacai colson was shot yesterday y afternoon around 4 30. 3 he was an undercover agent inr t the narcotics division. Ion. Now, the two suspects are in ari police custody. Officer colson would have celebrated his 29th birthdayday this week. Well, you know, you can just see the pictures of the traffic out there this t morning. Right now its moving prettyinpt good thank goodness. Dn erin is going to be in with an h update on that but with the drizzle this morning and the fog out there, no doubt onceo do we get more volume going,oi temperatures staying in theuresa 40s and the 50s today. Tay its just going to look and be dreary on and off your entirean morning commute and yourg commun evening commute as well. Ut w Reagan Nationals 49 degreesgres now. Now. Dulles 47. Bwi 48 degrees. Deges most places this morning areorna mid to upper 40s, okay. Look, heres the deal byy midweek. Until we get to midweek, were,e going to have drizzle, cloudy conditions but this represents wednesday here. We we will be mild, even possibly warm. Were flirting with are wefl going to go the upper 70s ons o wednesday or will we stay w s lower to mid 70s on wednesday . Right now were rie going to keep it lower to midowm 70s. There could be a little aittl thundershower here, too onwe wednesday ahead of the nextex front. Fron as this front comes throughomes cooler conditions will bes wi coming on in late week and through the weekend as well. Wl. Not cold but definitely cooler. Now, theres going to be some chilly mornings in the wake w that of front. Th next couple of days drizzlezzle today, 55 degrees for a high. Hg the best were going to be to able to do. Optimistically maybe we get a little sunshine tomorrow afternoon late before the sunfos sets. Sets. Otherwise, it will be cloudy c and drizzly. Andri temperature will be a littlewili warmer than where we are today d colder air will start to break down tomorrow and that should allow us to get into the 60s. showers moving on. G on. Were left with drizzle in places. The Bigger Picture here showse h most of that rain is moving up to the north and to the northeast. Again, we still have a chanceil for showers around here, here, thunderstorms deeper end ofr the deep south andnd southeastern states so drizzle today, occasional shower movesio through. Winds will be northeast at b about 10 miles per hour. That kind of reinforces the clouds and the drizzle sorizz temperatures today onlyeratur getting up to about 55 degrees obviously cool. Oo 63 tomorrow. 63 tomor were lower to mid 70s on wednesday. Wednday. And we could have some showersse and some thunderstorms. Eror little jumping leprechaun onauno thursday temperature of 65. Perao we cool off a little bit going g into the weekend. Into heres erin. 5 17. Lets take a look at what thatkt drizzle is doing to the roads. Ea right now moving my hand out hau of the way sorry about that. Ha 66 eastbound volume isumes definitely increasing at sudly road. Ro its rainy commute. Cmu still moving along without any bigger delays that should tha shape up in a little whiletl w this morning. 95 northbound is starting tota back up through dale city. Nothing atypical there. He well take a look right now atow our maps. R were dealing with a fewdealin issues that could slow yould down this morning. Dohi in Fairfax Burke commons road closed north of burke centerr parkway for an accidentn aid investigation. In loudoun out in leesburg,g, Leesburg Pike seven westve w closed way crash investigationes at augusta drive. At theyre detouring you aturin you Lakeland Drive. Watch for extra traffic there. E Police Activity right nowct Montgomery County. Ntgo this could cause some problemsse this morning. Middlebrook road eastboundtb closed at wearing stationweng si road. If youre trying to get to to 270 south use 118 germantownernw road. Ro that will save you some timee this morning. 270 looking good on thed southbound side. Id grab your umbrella and packac your patience this morning. Is it could turn into a roughgh ride. Back to you. Thanks erin. Appreciate it. Tprec right now it is 5 18 and8 ad we want to go ahead and check ce on some of the other tp stories that were followingatrf so for that well head to hd maureen in our news room. News r all right holly we begin in i louisiana and mississippiss where evacuations are undernder way. Heavy downpours createded widespread flooding and at least four deaths have been dea reported in louisiana. In 10 nd heavy rains breached a levy and flood warnings are in effect across then tire tn region. Out west, residents are looking forward to drierg rw weather today after a stormaf s brought strong winds heavyt st n rain and even snow to california. Officials warn beachgoersrn b about high surf along thegh sntral and southern coast. Over the last sothree daysre Northern California has seena hs more than 7inches of rain. Ain. Now over to new york where e the search has been called off o for the third crew member whoebe went missing after a tugboatug crashed into a barge on the a hudson river. Dson r. Happened saturday morning near the tappan zee bridge. Ri the tugboat ran into aannt construction barge andtr immediatelucy started to sync. Yn nearly two dozen workers werersr on that barge when it was hitrga but no one was hurt. Divers believe the body of aelie third crew member may be hidden in a section of thef boat that was severelyy damaged. Damage the death toll is climbinghg from that deadly car bomb b weekend. Week 34 people are now reported repte dead and 125 others wounded. Wou the blast rocked the capitolthe of ankara. Ankar a car load with explosives expls blew up in a bus stop in thep ie citys main square an area are close to government offices. Official believe kurdishal militants carried out thatca suicide attack. Ide attac they say one of the bombers what i was woman. And more bloodsheded overseas. Alqaeda has claimedqae responsibility for the death of at least 16 people gunnedpl down at a beach resource in the ivory coast. 14 civilians and two security sr forces were killed along withngw six attackers. Attackers. There are no indications ofndics any americans were among themont victims. This is the third attack on a Tourist Center in west africaic since november. That is a look at some ofa the otherlo stories were following this morning. Mor lets sends it back to youit bau hole and wisdom. Ho thank you. Have you filled out your out brackets yet . Coming up the march madness teams are set. Well take a look at some oft so the matchups straight ahead. Hu still doing my rpsesearch. Esc okay. Later though allergy aer sufferers you may be in for abea long haul. L. Why t news for you. News f stay with us. Were back after this. 5 23 is our time. The ncaa tournament field isfi seven. Lets take a look at our a brackets. Virginia lost the acc championship but it doesntship matter because theyre theec the number one seed and they getne n to take on in state foe theoe t allison seymours from hampton university. Maryland terps they jackrabbits of south dakota dota state and travel 2400 miles to4i spokane for the first roundst r of that round. R the ncaa is looking into how its tournament bracket wasent leaked online before it was unveiled during cbss selection sunday show. The leak happened about halfway through the n

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