Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20160408 : compar

Transcripts For WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 5 20160408

Windy today but enjoy it. Today n tomorrow not looking so good. Not what we want to hear for he the weekend. Th weather and traffic on ther an 5s. Those details ahead at 5 05. 5 want to get right to to geit serious breaking news off the no top right here at 5 00. 5 parts of massachusetts avenue in northwest shut down right don now near Thomas Circle. Cir this after a pedestrian wasestra hit overnight. Fox5s annie yu live on theon scene now with the details. Etls annie. Reporter hey, good morning. A lot of Police Activity outof p here early this morning andhirng you can see that the accident ac Reconstruction Team is stilltrua out here processing the scene. S police still have the 1300 and 1400 block of massachusetts ofco a closed in both directions. Din its been closed for aboutor a four hours now as police polic conduct their investigation. D. C. Police tell us that theic accident happened arounde 1 301 this morning. Orning a car traveling eastbound onastu this main access road just jt past Thomas Circle hit a pedestrian. Rian. That pedestrian did notat survive. P now, much of the scene iscene right beyond the two cruiserswos here, from the crosswalk. Crosswalk. Police say the driver did dver remain on the scene but its b unclear right now whether the wt driver will face any charges. Cg meantime we are also hearinglsoa on scene but not confirmed byfid police yet that the driver of the vehicle was a female. Fem the victim a male and from from what we can tell just if beingfb out here the striking vehicle is an older toyota camry which i did stay on scene. Ce keep in mind as you head out hea this morning that the massachusetts avenue betweense 13 and 14 are closed. That includes tttndhe tunnel ase well and its going to be this t way for quite some time. Back to you in the studio. O. Annie thank you very muchha for that report. That r happening today a formerenia sailor convicted of rape and ofp murder in virginia more thanmorn three decades ago is gettingcad out of prison. Virginias highest court threwew out keith harwoods conviction i after new dna tests failed toedo identify his genetic profileetio in evidence left at the crimeeft scene. Sc he has been serving a life life sentence since the 1982 t killing of jessie p the rape of his wife ine newport news. The state has officially removed harwoods name froms the states sex offender oende registry. Two women under arrest andm charged with murder after a thdeadly stabbing this week in frederick. 36yearold brian graves wasan a stabbed on north market streeton before 2 00 a. M. On monday. On a investigators say the twoors sao women got into an argument a with graves inside the bar andse later stabbed him outside. O over to montgomery county. Cu these two men are behind bars ba accused of kidnapping and raping a 12yearold girl. Yearlg police say henrik company carbajal and victor tome wereice involved with kidnapping theidne child from northeast d. C. Theyon took her to a home in wheatonn w where the alleged assault took place. Investigators in d. C. And also a, virginia are checking toa ar see ifch the two men might also be involved in other assaults. Au a recent two day search for missing eightyearold hasea come tro an unsuccessful end. Relisha rudd originallynally disappeared about two yearsbouto ago. The most recent search focusedh on the fox5 spoke exclusively with relisha rudds grandmother. Ramoh she says she was encouraged eou there was another search buteabu shes unaware of why policehyol would search the national arboretum. I havent talked to theketo e detective or the authoritiesho period in two years. Y i havent talked to them sincehm it first started. Srt from my understanding theyhe first the first time tim from my understanding they had h already searched it so im noten understanding why they evenhey e went back to, you know, what wt led them back to that section oveover there. Re. D. C. Police will not sayilot what led investigators back torc the arboretum. Thbo friends and family willds anl gather to say their finalth to goodbyes to a d. C. Teen killed k over easter weekend. Nd 15yearold devon at anyevon aty washington was with his family w when he was shot and killed at Deanwood Metro station. He was just a freshman atresh largo high school. Largo washingtons funeral will behion held at First Baptist church of glenarden. Na Services Start at 11 00. Gary mcgrady here now toy talk about weather. Mctalk abouta we have some snow hether in ouro future. Not really a lot of slo a lo. Sometimes it snows inws i april. Apri gary, go ahead. Ad talking about the artistt formerly known aspirins whenin he was prince. Not only was it opening daypeni for the nationals but its but opening day for a lot ofor a Little League teams. League teas thats right. Ts ri this weekend. Wisdom martins angels. S ang thats right, thats right. Ts youve heard of charlies angels, this is wisdoms wis angels. Now well is to hear about that for the next three months m this morning. Is mning cold rain and snowflakes mixed in tomorrow. In tom 45 degrees right now here ines w town. You get out and you get going g this is whats going to hitwhat you in the face. Yo the wind this morning makingni it feel like its in the 30sn t out that. Out gaithersburg, you feel like lik 34. Some sun and clouds today. Ay we do have a little bit ofve a cloud cover coming across thisch morning and way out west aes little bit of light snow s activity is trying to comeing te over te not surprise me to have anav errant sprinkle here or therer this morning as well as a snowflake back out to the weste and to the northwest oe f us, aa errant snowflake. Sla not an erin snowflake but itaket could be anker are ringre snowflake, right, erin . She likes that. Likes 57 degrees for a high57 degre temperature today. Mper it will be breezy and chilly. Cl again kind of a mixture ofixre clouds and sun. Clou were talking some rain and r some snow this weekend. All the deet tails on that ins a a bit. Right now lets get toow lets traffic. Tr erin is patiently waiting. Wai ontime traffic brought to bt you by toyota. T visit buy a toyota. Com form special offers. Ff were still dealing with a massive accident investigation. Instig 13 to 1400 blocks of o massachusetts avenue northwesttv remain shut down for thienst do deadly crash investigation. Tigan give yourself extra time toextrm get around that area in the t district. Ct. Aside from that this earlier eer road work in montgomery countyy cleared. Cl inner loop by clara bartona b looking good. In g problem free on gw parkway. Inbound traffic in Prince Georges County looking goodou on four and five. R and ve. Freely and 50 is problem free. Heading in from annapolismnn youre not going to hit that usual congestion just yet thisn morning. Morn same story in frederick. Reri a live look from the truck t t scales down to the spur were su doing just fine right now. Usfinr were not seeing any problem ano areas. Eas. Aside from that in frederickrede this morning 66 is looking l great from visit to the connector. Same story in virginia on 95 northbound through stafford and dale city. Ill let you know when thatw wht typical friday morning congestion does pick up buton d for right now enjoy the quietet conditions on he our interstate. Fox5 has learned georgetownrg university is the victim of atif cyber attack. Att thats according to an emailn e sent out by university officials. Ficial the hack happened last week. La w it was not related to theed to cyber attack on medstar health. No students information, normat University Data was compromised. Happening today, local bustc drivers will be speaking outspek about what they say are dangerous conditions to putondin riders at risk. R this after an audit of a popular bus line shows bige shos safety problems. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick livee ic from Union Station with this wh story and mel, i have toed a toe mitt, makes me a little a l reticent to want to step on step one of those buses. Hose b reporter yeah, you know,orte good question, though and iio to havent been able to fighting fn out yet as to exactly how manyly people actually ride that d. C. Hc circulator those are those big t red buses with the yellow y stripes on them. Theres only six routes thenutes run in the main d. C. Corridorsro over to roslyn. To costs just a dollar to ride sord it really is a good kind ofood f shortcut for some of the majorar walking areas around the city. E now, its been in operation ora for about 10 years and some of the buses are approaching the end of that useful life. E. So, ddot conducted an audit aud last august taking a look at the upkeep of the buses and and really was not happy with thethe results. Resu so, it said that there are 29 ae buses that have been inve bn Service Since 2005 and 20 in i Service Since 2009. Since theyre getting kind of old and theyre very worn. Yre veryo they said they were dirty andy d maintained so lets talko letsk specifics here. There was an average of 22 o defects found per bus and that a is a much higher rate than t other fleets that are run byeetr First Transit. Nsit First Transit is the privatete operator that is contracted bytr wmata to run the circulatorr service. Service. 40 of the 42 buses2 bu inspectorred had criticalriti safety defects. Efects. Things like fire extinguishers headlights tire treads,li emergency windows that dont work, brakes and steeringing problems. Now, the can conclusion of the audit was that most of the defects were the result oft o neglected maintenance andtemain pointed the finger at wmatafinga saying it has not provided provi sufficient oversight of its o contractor First Transit. St tras so, that is this ddot hearingeai today and i think the question t a lot of us had guys is thats it this audit was done in august of 2015. Its almost a year later. L you would think that most of tht those issues especially the critical ones would have beenne taken care of. But the union that represents the drivers for the circulator said they did their own sort of i march and found that some off these problems remain. Rem theyre still not up to speed as far as the maintenance that they would like to see so thatdt is what they will be testifying about in front of ddot this afternoon. Aer back to you guys. And mel, im just curiousus has anyone been injured on injed these buses to warrant thisrrant audit or is it because theyau needed to see how safe they safh were . Reporter yeah, no, aseporte, far as w ae can tell, the auditd itself does not mentionon anything about any actualctua injuries. Its just talking about that t there is a big problem, problem theres something very serious s could happen and they alsohe wanted to see if they needed the to retire any of those buses sooner than they ordinarily would. They planned for them to stay to in the fleet for about 12 f2 years and theyre getting petr close to that now. Ha i see. Thanks mel. Very disturbing that theistu list of problems with those wit buses, thats huge. Buses, thath its not like theres a flatres tire. Right. Were talking about majorki mechanical issues on a lot oft buses. Buses. On 40 out of 42 buses, o42 b yeah. Yeah it will be interesting to seetit what happens at this hearing today and how they talk about that. W well follow it of course. 55 10 is our time t what a new a poll has to say about howll popular donald trump is withld s voters. O not so he good. A High Speed Police chasee ending with the suspects taking selfies, yeah, selfiesel in the middle of this mess. Fhism were back in 30 seconds with sw the details on that d, that and put in place tougher sentences, because Domestic Violence can never be tolerated. Yvette mr. Ivey showed compassion. I felt like i could trust him. Narrator glenn ivey. As states attorney, a proven leader. In congress, hell combat Domestic Violence, and protect president obamas legacy. Glenn im glenn ivey and i approve this message, because im on your side. Back now at 5 12 and now to the race for the white house. Ort bernie sanders, Hillary Clinton flexing their campaignin muscles before their nextle contest. S the two are courting voters ing pennsylvania now. Pesylv 189 delegates are up for grabsor in that state on april 26th. 2 now despite their negative waraw of words both clinton andli sanders said they will supportpp each other if they get the nomination. Nominati meanwhile the gopmeanwhile candidates are making the makin rounds in new york. Rounds in ne ted cruz visited a jewish bakery while touring brooklyn. Oo he tried making some mat is as a and as for john kasich he wasase in the bronx. Inhe he met with supporters ath supp mikes deli near the bronxthe zoo. Kasichs campaign has carriedar onri despite calls from cruz and trump for him to drop out. Ut and speaking of donald odo trump, he is leading his home h state by 32 points. Poi but in a new Associated Press p poll trump isnt so popular. Opul it reveals hes can owe unfavorably by seven in 10 americans. Rica. An illegal california califor joyride turns into a policee chase and ends with selfies. Elfi two robbery suspects sped downsd a hollywood freeway in a i a stolen convertible. At one point, they did doughnuts as you just saws asouj there on hollywood boulevard. Ba they even actually ran into a tmz bus. They ran red lights, drove onhto the wrong side of the road. R they dhowever, slow down forw pedestrians. Pe wasnt that courteous of them . They even highfived some of the pedestrians. The chase lasted about 90bout0 minutes. Te the suspects finally surrendered tomes whiledere onlookers took pick surrendered to police while onlookers took pictures. Why not take a couplee selfies before you go to jail. Be another day in hollywood. Hoy brilliant idea. Bryce harper already onyce fire this season. Fi coming up he continues to makeae baseball fun well talk about the makee baseball fun again campaignn thats debuting and hesebutin talking about his new cleats n s as well at yesterdays homerday opener. First though lets check inug with gary. Look at temperatures out tem there this morning. 30s and low 40se but it feelf colder than that with the tt wit winds. I hate to say it but im b talking snow coming up. In stay with us. Full forecast coming up, more news and traffic. Stick around. Cookie dough, or new pistachio. Enjoy one today. America runs on dunkin. Fios is not cable. Were wired differently. In the last 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. But weve received a few more, including jd power who ranked us highest in Customer Satisfaction for the third year in a row. Only fios has the Fastest Internet on the most awarded network. Now get superfast 100 meg internet tv and phone for just 69. 99 per month, online. 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We progress into spring butsg alas not the case. C remember last time thisime t happened we were like no, we wwl cannot have more snow. E re s thers have snow he in april. Pr oh, well, famous last words. 45 degrees in town. T manassas youre 39. re its colder cause the wind is n gusty this morning so it feelsos like its in the 30s and the0d low 40s out that for justor j about everybody. Vedy big regional temperatures, news, york city is 45 now, bostonosn 45. Binghamton 30. 3 pittsburgh 31 degrees andees a columbus her to. Lumb h so, theres nothing outrageously cold here and as aa we bring this clipper acrosser r the area for tomorrow, now, n look i want to give a little disclaimor here. Imor her it is april, okay, so a lot oflt times its hard to get accumulation of snow down herewn this way. Isay just simply because its juste s going to be too terribly warm. Br so, heres the deal. He dea as i take you into tomorrow,o t, the snow begins to accumulateuml but i really think were going g get some flakes here mixing inke with the rains early tomorrowom and then probably later ony lat tomorrow afternoon andnoon tomorrow evening. Eveng the significant snow is out to o the west. The now, this will be real deal d out here for west virginia, viri Higher Elevations of virginia vi and western sections of Winter Weather advisory w already in place out that. They may get threeea to 6 inchee of snow and a little bit moree m than that at Higher Elevation ei and then you go way up intopnto central pennsylvania, theynia, could have as much as two toas t fourwo, maybe three in spots of very wet snow. S i put in one to two because beginning to see a consensus css now that its going to be fairly cold up here throughhrouh Northern Maryland. Yl this is probably northern nth baltimore county, over towards t belair places like that ands lid then up to philadelphia where there could be on grassy areass many rooftops, cars, placess, pa like that. Li i dont think its a problem p on the road f youre traveling a that way tomorrow i dont think youll have to worry about it other than there will be big fat snowflakes falling places but maybe one to two. Ay could we get a dusting heretingh across Northern Counties . Ies . Yeah, we could. Ou maybe a little bit of white temporarily from time to time with a snow burst on the grassy areas. Sy other than that its not going t to be a big deal other than that say the fact that its aprils and its going to snow. O sno 47 degrees for a h

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