Good morning to you, imni allison seymour. N seour. And im steve chenevey. m ste welcome to fox5 news morning. Mg get ready for a little bit offo a challenge this morning. It is the first week day rushk h since metros safetrackaf project began. Began it affects the orange and orangd silver lines. This week metro riders beingei encouraged to find another wayot to get to work. O w reporter we have liveter we Team Coverage this morning. Ornig erin como standing by with a a look at todays travel times. Jennifer davis is talking with riders on the silver line. First lets heck back in with Melanie Alnwick live on the orange line at the ballston station this mnwe orning. Morni. Good morning. You just talked to the generaldn manager i hear. I hea reporter yes, we d he has been here for the majorityat of this morning and i can tell t you that now that it is 7 oclock, he is headed over o to the controls, the rail operations center. He wants to be there in personrn watching as everything is sort t of being shifted around thisthis morning. So, very, very handson for him today as his big safetrackck plan this is his baby ass it begins today. S tod now, here at the ballstonallsto station, to be h not seeing too many impacts onmp riders right now. Ders right now we are seeing a lot of extra metro personnel directing dir people as to which track theyckt wander to go on. So, even throw they are single tracking beyond ballston here, here at ballston theyre actually adding a few extrara trains and then passengers ares just kind of switching backac and forth between platforms listening to the direction of the station personnelhe as to a which side to go to catch a train to head down into thehe city. City folks that are trying to get tot back into Northern Virginia,irgi maybe a little bit more delay here for them. The its all part of the safetrack a plan as we said. Theyve got to replace major rlr parts of the third rail. Rd rail. Theyve got to get reduce the incidents of smoke and and fires. That is what this is allhat thsl about. I talked with general managerrae Paul Wiedefeld about whetherer this is all going to be worthinb it fore riders in the end. Nd it wil will be more reliablea and safety issues will bes will minimized. Thats were were getting outr of this. This. Here. Unfortunately its not shiny shi and new stuff. Ff. Its the balance lasts, the ties, new rail, things of thatnf sort which the customer isntrsn going see but theyll theyll experience it just in more reliability. Ab reporter and one of the of e other things customers aregs cte seeing this morning that we saw, lots of maintenance personnel coming in and going, more ithan ive ever seen in the past. Th when we first arrived here h this morning, a large, large group, several buses worth of metro workers leaving one 12hour shift with another, anoh several bus full coming in forfn their 12hour shift. Shift 12 hours on, 12 hours offrs thats the way it will be here e for the next two weeks whilehi they get this section of theti line done and again there is t just part of phase one. Live in ballston, im melaniels, alnwick. Al back to you guys. You in the meantime jennifer jeir davis is live at the tysons tys corner metro station. Station shes been talking tong to travelers there this morning. Er what are thethy saying, jen. Ingj reporter hi there guys. Er i well, i can tell t you iveou iv talked to people who have comeam out as much as two hours earlier than theyha typically would on theirwould e commute. Co we are at the Tysons Corners cor station here along the silverhel line and as max pans down you do can tell there is a long lineonn of people here. Theyre having about await a thats about triple what they te would be used to. Tip pick al train should come here everytr six minutes duringg rush hour but right nowig theyre looking at about every 18 minutes. 18 mines. This side is heading into thente city and that is certainly the busiest side right now. Now. Although we do expect this hour and next that a lot oft people will be coming intoing it tysons not just for the mallshes but you have a number of o businesses here includinges h fannie mae and a number of hotels. Ls now, silver line riders haves he been warned. Be those using theen wiehlerestont east spring hill greensboroensbr Tysons Corner and mclean mcl sites all are going to beoi to impacted by the single sgl tracking. Were just two stops awaytops ay right now from east fallsal church and then ballston is i the next stop so these ridersid do have to get past that tha difficult point. 18 minutes is what been warned between trains andbw folks say theyre ready for it. Ey heres what some riders toldides us this morning. Us this morning. How are you feeling as theyel start the Safetrack Program today . Were you concerned. Ed. No. I just wish for the best andnd if it doesnt work i gok i g downstairs and catch the bus. Normally i get huer about hut 10 minutes later but i was l like, you know, with theh the schedule, i better be here aer little bit early just to see t how it goes. Toe reporter are you nervous or you youre just glad jusad theyre doing it. Eyrdoin im glad theyre doing it. Id rat come a little bit early be to little bitli bit saverrism back here live youck can see thats route 123 right now. Now. When they built the silverr line they said they saw a 15 percent reduction in carson around the area. So, they are warning driversrive they do expect roads will be a little bit busier with things that are going on. At i have to tell you, though, soho far so good out here in northern virgini ga. Irgini things are moving pretty prey smoothly as the trains haves hae come through. Weve seen people able t seats and so the first day so ds far is going pretty well. Back to you guys. Guy were going check in withng h erin como right now. Ht n were going to get a look at traffic this morning and iorning guess metro taking the leadhe la once again, erin. Eri thats right. T just want to recap all the t great information that melanie e and jennifer gave us. U East Falls Church to ballstonalo single tracking on the orangein and silver line and ballstonalln to New Carrollton. They have additional orangel org line trains running to help to make things move a littlee smoother. If you want to avoid the rails take metrobus satisfies. Theyve increased service servi there. Arlington transit has increased buses. Se b uber and lyft zip car to goo capitol bikeshare andl shar telecommuting if that is aning a option for you with your job. J 66 inbound through arlingtoningn heavy traffic but thats that pretty usual. Ty u parking restrictions keep inp mind are extended by 30d by 30 minutes on bus priority priorit corridors. Co that will last through will st t 10 oclock this morning. Ng just kicked in at 7 00. 7 0 no parking there along the h and i street corridorsrrs portions of m street in in georgetown for example. As you can come across the keyhe moving over to the roads now thn crash did clear on the outerut loop after georgia but delays bl are still very heavy actually aa alall the way back to 95. To 9 huge line of slow movinglow mov traffic. Traf bw parkway northbound andun and southbound jams by powders by pw mill. 95 southbound icc to the t beltway. Lt gw parkway at the memorialial bridge oversized vehicle vehic causing delays. Delays back to the overlook. Clara barton cabin john river slow. Sl crash in crystal city as you approach the 14th street4tstre bridge. Id any questions for your morningrg commute at erin fox5 d. C. On. C o twitter and im tweeting outg the list of all the metro updates and road updates youou need to get around the dmvd t this morning. Morni. Back to you steve and allison. 7 07 right now. Now traffic is just really dominating things. Tng you have to take a back seat today. Yesterday we had sometee severe thunderstorms. Hunderstors yesterday you were the show. Today is erins turn. Yeah. Thats good news. Well be in the mid to upper ytr 80s today. 71 now at Reagan National 67 dulles. Ulles. Still humid out there. Humid out. Front brought a little bit of of relief but as far as thehe humidity, its right back and b well be in for another warmnotr wasnt today. Sntay in fact very warm. Act warm. Mid to upper 80s this0this afternoon. So lots of water. Ater u. V. Index is very high this time of year. Me of make sure you put on that t sunscreen. Creen. Okay. I was out yesterday and even though it was cloudy i still gotit a bit of a glow thiw morning. A bit of a burn. It yeah. Theres your planner. S your p 86 this afternoon. 86 should be a dry afternoon but a war tmy day and wait until yt see the sevenday forecast. I think generally everybody will love it. E it. Got lots of good news on it. I love the sounds of that. Undso yes. All right. Deils get the details in just a few minutes. First lets get you caught upyou with some headlines thises ts morning. Still developing the search for twopi fishermen who wentho w missing on the potomac potom yesterday. Crews found the boat but no sign of the men. Th last nights bad weather made md it difficult for divers toers to search the water. The missing boaters have been identified as lawrence grayay and roer crews will be back out on then e water today conducting their search. Happening at a timepe Baltimore Police officer facing the most serious charge in the death of freddie graydi g heads to court. Officer Caesar Goodson wasson ws driving the police van when vann gray suffered a fatal neck injury. Fox5s bob barnard is lives liv in baltimore with a preview ofro what we can expect for this trial. Bob. Reporter hey, allison, good morning. Yes, this is going to be aoing a jury trial. Jury selection scheduled to begin tomorrow. W. Today goodson will be near court, Caesar Goodson jr. For a pretrial hearing, motion, mot hearings. Hes the 46yearold policeld pe van driver from back onn april 12th of last year theea t day freddie gray was arrested. T. He was driving the van from west baltimore the t neighborhood where freddieho gray wasod arrested to a police station. Hes the one they say did notid strap freddie gray into the police van. Of course freddie gray was w jostled in the back of the vanan and suffered that fatal spinalaa cord injury. Caesar goodson jr. 46 years yea old is charge degree murder. He faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted. Victed. Hes also charged with secondchr Degree Assault misconduct ingeci office and manslaughter byy vehicle. Cle. The Second Degree murder charge is interesting. Iinte its called a depraved heartea murder which is described inescb the Court Documents as adocumen dangerous and reckless act with indifference to theto the consequences and perils pil involved. Yes, he is the one that mostt mo people are pinning the death d of freddie gray on. Hes the third officer to faceac trial just last month officer edward nero was acquitted of all four misdemeanor that isanoi he was charged with and a William Porter the first to goog on trial, his trial by jury j ended in a hung jury. G jur that was in december. Edward nero decided to beero deo tried by the judge, jump barrymy williams. In this case we believe that tha officer goodson is going to decide to be have his fateisf decided by a jury and again, guys, some hearings today tod about pretrial evidence and what have you but it getst it g under way for with jury selections here insels baltimore. Still to come this morning, i saying goodbye to a legend. Bye. A growing memorial andorial an tributes pouring in this morning for muhammad ali. Hamm first though miss d. C. Waking up with a new title tit this morning, all about your new miss u. S. A. Next. 7 11 now. Vo for dominion, part of delivering Affordable Energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. Our Energyshare Program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energysaving upgrades. Its more than helping customers, its helping neighbors. Stand by me miss u. S. A. 2016 is district of columbia. Ct o col [cheers and applause] yay yay the crowd goes wild and d. C. D. C says good job. New miss u. S. A. Deshauna deshaun barber. You know i watched it because b im a bit of a pageant junkie. J shes a logistics commanderma for the u. S. Army. A i wonder did she make historyake by being the first army arm you are the pageant junkie. At i know. Im going defer to you. Ng de. Army officer there. 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She answered the questione que awesomely but you know theyely asked miss hawaii in her question who she was going vote for. Thats weird. Donald trump or Hillary Clinton. Clin she did a great job in side stepping that but they had the host come back and say s wasnt it Donald Trumps t pageant. Or the Miss Universer mi portion of it. I dont know the. The host had to come back and say this was a question not a judges choice. It was a question of theuestn pageant so people booed it. T soo it was kind of uncomfortable. Om. As an outsider looking in lkg im not an expert like you iikei have no idea. Feels like theres a differentie pageant every other week. Theres not. Theres not. Is thilis the miss u. S. A. Miss americaiss m those and Miss Universe thosee o are the ones we like. Those are the ones i counter. Cu this is a big deal. S is a dea huge deal. Uge de. Im totally excited. Ed. Excited about the weather, too. Mr. Worldwide sweater not,ord its not a big thing. Thi. Thats what he wants. Working on that. Heres your weather. Your w mid 80s. 8 quick look heres colin ourcon latest Tropical Storm. Caltorm. Third of the season. Th winds are at 50. Ret it will be a Tropical Stormpi sm when it moves across northwestor florida overnight tonight andht during the day time hoursim h tomorrow. It will be quickly out to sea. Os thats expecting to be a heavyea rain maker there. Rain more on that coming up. Omg our current temperatures arepere in the low 70s and upperpp 60s. 71 right now at reagan areag national. Expect a warm and very humid day. Y. Upper 80s today. T and look at the midweek forecast. Forecast wednesday, thursday, friday, less humidity. Hum gorgeous june weather upper 70s low 80s. 8s. So, if this is your last weekouw of school, you picked a good week to wrap it up. Iup lot of folks already out. Yeah. Okay. All right, lets got tolet get the latest on metro. Met whats happening out there. Good pageant weekend. Wrist, wrist,ly bow, elbow e. Really heavy traffic top of the beltway. Beltway. Laurel bw parkway southbound soh 198 to powder mill jams. Der mi m 295 in the district jams byict b eastern as usual. Heavy volume as you make yourueo way out in virginia on 9595 northbound. From dale city to 123 just3 j that small portion of road of right there is going to take you 13 minutes. In delays lingering south of thatnn point in stafford, 610 as youd, head to quantico as well. W crash activity on route one northbound between gunston cove road and lorton road. Anrton notice on 95 those delays holdol very heavy through lorton as lor you head to the bottom of them beltway. Be inner loop is delayed as you mak wilson bridge. Rie. 395 from washington boulevard b to the 14th street bridge, b three minutes to get thats to gt little portion of your drive oyd and then 395 northbound fromd edsall to king street, that iss a 15 minute commute. 15 min we have a crash in crystal city, 395 northbound in theunint hov lanes. Hov lan right lane is blocked by that one. Overheight vehicle right nowig gw parkway souhtthbound at theu memorial bridge. Delays back to the overlook. Rlo. Cabin John Clara Barton insidehn the beltway jammed and 66 c if i youre driving avoiding metroidn on the orange and silver linevel 66 is heavy as you make your may way past the vienna metro and then again inside the beltway. W a closer look at metro next. T. Back to you. 7 18 right now. This morning the body of muhammad ali back in his homes m state of kentucky. Kck a public funeral is plannedsa for later this week. S wisdom is back with more onithor how the 74yearold is being remembered. All right. Remembering the champ. A lot of people paying tribute t to the champ this morning. He c allison and steve, following, fg his passing on friday in arizona, his body has beenhas flown back to his native citye of now ta large motorcade wasca on was there to escort thesct body a hear from by funeral hea home a family spokespersonposp says he died of septic shockho caused by respiratory illness. I also on sunday an interfaiths it Memorial Service was held to s celebrate the three time boxing clams legacy. Y. Fridays funeral will include i eulogies from former president ri bill clinton and comedian billy crystal. Ryst a growing memorial of flowersofo candles and cards as well. Louisvilles mayor calling alilg a sports champion civil rights icon and interfaith pioneer. Ithi ali is also being rememberedbe for his very public battlee with parkinsons disease. Meanwhile, donald trump being b criticized for this tribute heth tweeted following alis death. D many calling trump a hypocrite. Hypocrite. Following his call for aowin temporary ban of muslims. Last year ali publicallyli denounced that ban. Now lets talk about a couples t of people who also paid tribute. Lot of people doing this. Young guy lebron james talked about what w he stood for and im going to to read this quote right here. What he stood for i mean itsi i a guy who basically had to had give up a belt and