Tucker 95 southbound from dumfries to quantico because of a crash just beyond that point blocking two lanes. Problems continue in laurel this morning, were un97 remains shut down between bw parkway and powder mill road. Bw parkway completely jammed. Well help you steer clear of those issues. Allison and steve. Breaking overnight in England Police arrested six people during anti raids near london. One woman is shot but is serious but stable condition. She has not been arrested in connection of the raid. Sky news posted photos of the raid to the web site. Officials say among those arrested a 16yearold boy. Police say all of the suspects are being held on suspicion of preparation of terror acts. The United States could be headed to major conflict with north korea. That is the assessment of President Trump. The commander in chief is live on capitol hill. Good morning. Reporter allison and steve good morning. We know of course members of congress have been briefed on the north korea threat but its President Trumps blunt language thats getting so much attention this morning. New video this morning out of north korea. A military drills and rhetoric heating up. What is dictator kim jong un planning and what will President Trump do about it . In a radio interview with Reuters News Agency the president did not mince words. Theres a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with north korea. Absolutely. Reporter its no secret that north korea has been scrambling to develop both Nuclear Weapons and long range missiles. And when those two come together then certainly parts of our country are at risk. Reporter Homeland Security secretary john kelly spoke of the danger while secretary of state Rex Tillerson tells fox china has agreed to lean on north korea. And in fact we were told by the chinese that they informed the regime that if they did conduct further Nuclear Tests china would be taking sanctions on their own. Reporter but beyond that the white house does have public support for its aggressive stance. The new fox news poll shows that a majority of, 53 percent of registered voters favor military action to stop north koreas Nuclear Weapons program. Back at home meantime the president s legislative agenda has stalled somewhat on capitol hill. A vote on healthcare reform that the white house was hoping for this week has been pushed back. But a temporary spending bill to avoid a possible Government Shutdown on saturday is moving forward. And that would be good news for President Trump but if that happens, well see what set the day but that shutdown would have coincided with the president s 100th day in office. Steve and ais hill this morning. Doug, thank you. President trumps pick for secretary of labor has been confirmed. Completing the president s cabinet. This will make alex acosta the first latino member of the Trump Administration. Acosta was assistant attorney general under president george w. Bush who later appointed him u. S. Attorney for the Southern District of florida. Developing in delaware this morning, police now have that identified the man who killed a state trooper at a convenience store. That man then engaged in a 20 hour standoff with police at this home several miles from the shooting scene. Police say 26yearold burgon seally jr. Killed Corporal Stephen ballard who was investigating a suspicious vehicle at the time. Seally later shot and killed by police during that standoff. Its unclear if Corporal Ballard was targeted because he was wearing a Police Uniform at the time. The 32yearold originally from Prince Georges County leaves behind a wife and fiveyearold stepdaughter. Closer to home in Montgomery County an Elementary School princal apologizing for a controversial way she let her staff let off steam. The issue stems from a socalled smash space. Its a trend popular on social media that in which people smash various items to relieve stress. Melanie alnwick live outside of Kensington Parkwood elementary where that smash space was found. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning, steve and ally son. You know, some people were disturbed by this but other people frankl told us they dont really know what the big deal is. So, back on march eighth there was a rocking chair that was broken beyond repair arent ande principal brought it over to a loading dock area behind the school out of the sight of students and told staff essentially they could take a whack at it as a way for them to relieve stress but after someone posted about it on a school list serve thats when the controversy began. Now, in an apologetic letter to parents the principal explained that they she got the idea after reading business articles about Companies Providing anger rooms or smash rooms as a way for employees to relieve stress. On youtube its pretty see that the trend has been popularized not only on these channels but on other and social Media Channels as well. Looking at these videos you can see how it might be distressing to imagine teachers with some kind of suppressed anger acting out in this way but parents we talked to said it was nothing like this and the whole thing has been overblown. I think that some people are being a little too sensitive to the thing, that the fact of the matter is that our kids come down here to an amazing principal, to an amazing staff who care and love for them every day and no ones ever been worried to send their kids here. Reporter now, principal Barbara Liess admitted perhaps she didnt really think through the idea as well as she should have saying in a letter to parents this was a lapse in judgment and i recognize the concerns this may have raised. Our staff is committed to modeling for students a productive and appropriate ways of handling stress recognizing that she says while well intended this scenario is counter to teach students and has noplace in a school. The one parent i talked to said that what he learned that only one staff member took advantage that of opportunity to perhaps have a little fun tor take out his or her frustrations thon particular rocking chair and they do not believe there have been any other incidents like this. However, Montgomery CountyPublic Schools still saying theyre taking this very seriously. Theyre investigating the incident and also wanting to let the School Community know that they do have programs to allow any School Employees ways to deal with their stress. Live in kensington, im Melanie Alnwick, fox5 local news. Mel, thank you. I was just going to admit it. I might need a smash space in my house after watching the caps game last night. Oh, yeah. But theyre still alive, right . I mean, its okay. Those foam bricks that you throw at the tv. What happens if another game is lost . Is this like is it that big of a deal its not over yet. Rig here cheer up tuckerroo. I think it makes them motivated. Lets go to the forecast. You know what else gets you motivated to get outside and play. The warm temperatures t mid 80s today. That humidity is on the rise along with our summertime temperatures. Mid 80s today and believe it or not 90 or so tomorrow. 67 at reagan national, 58 dulles, 62 bwi marshall. Were going to clear it out here. A little bit of lingering cloud cover bay and east with a weak cold front that came through. Looks like a leftover shower down near ocean city, thats about it. Everybody else will be in on the sunshine including ocean city later today with temperatures in the mid 80s. So, enjoy a beautifulutiful a dry afternoon as well. Were not going to get any storms or showers later today. It will be nice and dry for you. Weekend forecast coming right up. Thank you tuck. See how the friday morning commute is going so far erin good morning. Its not terrible right now so thats better than bad. Right now we have problems so i want to start you off with the issues quantico a southbound crash on 95. This is going against the typical morning rush so an atypical slow down. Arrow truck and police sirens. Two left lanes blocked. Right lane is crawling by. Youre backed up from 234 in dumfries to this point in quantico. Factor in about 30 extra minutes to your commute. Route one southbound is pretty opened other than usual morning volume. Skyfox in laurel, beautiful view of the trees but unfortunately 197 is shut down in both directions. Its hard to make out the utility workers and trucks because of the beautiful trees there but the road is completely shut down between powder mill road and baltimorewashington parkway. You need to detour around that. Lets go ahead and switch it over for a look at our maps. Also keep in mind look at baltimorewashington parkway right now. Both north and southbound sides completely jammed up between the beltway and 32. Southbound side even heavier. Coming to and from the capital beltway to the Baltimore Beltway i would say route one or 95 better bets so you dont get stuck in that massive slow down this morning. The outer loop theres a new crash a blocking the left lane. Thats in the backup already, about a 20 minute slowdown 95 over to Georgia Avenue and another inner loop crash that were dealing with out by 95. 270 southbound jams into clarksburg. Back to you guys. Erin thanks. Lets talk more about the commute this morning as we track metro. More issues could be in store for riders today. Yesterday was problems on the red line today could be lack of workers. Fox5s annie yu is live from metro center with the latest now. Good morning. Reporter hey, good morning, steve and allison. Well, you know, the good news is so far riders tell us its been so far so good. Theres no indication that a sickout is happening but of course, that could all change. Its still very early in the day. But you know, talks of a possible sickout have been going on all week and i want to show you some video from a Board Meeting yesterday that we shot where things did get pretty ugly between the union as well as metro. Many of the metro workers showed up to protest and theyre upset about the changes in policies and this hard line approach by management so dozens of workers did stage a protest there. They dropped protest petitions right in front of metros gm Paul Wiedefeld as they turned their backs, they chanted the words, who moves this city . We move this city. They joined hands to form a human chain outside of metro headquarters and theyre challenging this absenteeism policy which is the route of this possible sickout. This rule requires workers to file absence requests three days in advance for things like calling out sick doctors appointments to get them excused. Metro says this revised policy cracks down on excessive absenteeism. Met says theyve been bracing for this possible sickout after they received nearly 500 sickout requests for friday today. All of those requests were denied. Metro says they expect to offer full rail and bus service today. The union has repeatedly denied that a sickout is planned. Now, wiedefeld says hes not taking any chances. Hes asked supervisors tom pitch in wherever they can to keep things today t meantime this tension between metro and its Workers Union continues because we do know later on this morning the union has scheduled a a News Conference to call for change in this policy so this is sort of await and see situation guys as the day progresses and of course this, you know, relationship between metro and the Workers Union continues. Thats the very latest here from metro center. Back to you in the studio. Annie thanks. 7 12. Lets get to the ice. Verizon center last night caps kicked off round two of the post season with the penguins. Second quarter was the forgettable one, gist 12 seconds in pittsburgh scored. 52 seconds later they would score again. Caps come back to tie at two but then a third period score by nick bonino sealed the deal. Caps loss add home. Redskins luck working out quite well. They got in guy at 17. Team drafted was not expected to be still on the board at that point. Allen told the post mike jones i just want to prove the redskins right for picking me. Nice to have the local guy here. He grew uprooting for the skins so i love that. Welcome back homely. Definitely invested. Yup. Texas teacher in trouble after staging a mock assassination of the president. Inside of her classroom. Details of that coming up. And arkansas carries out its fourth death sentence in just eight days but witnesses Say Something went wrong. Well talk about it when we come back. Theres work to be done. Its not going to be easy but theres grit inside of you. And if you need extra motivation the grad fund at Strayer University can help push you forward. Because up to your last year of classes could be on us. Thats right. On us. Today is the day. Strayer university. Lets get it, america. 7 15 right now. Traffic is just crawling along. Uhhuh. Actually its moving pretty good. For a friday. Erin said it was surprisingly, you know, cooperative out there on the roads. Summertime weather. Maybe people are just taking those who can take a nice long weekend, at least a later start of it. Thats why i love summertime. Yes. The living is much easier. I have a traffic complaint. Whats that. Lately when i have been hitting the beltway about 2 oclock in the afternoon theyre doing construction in the middle of the day so the traffic is as bad as it would be. They have to do it then. Would it be possible for them to do it like overnight. I think they do do some overnight. You said do do. Lets get to the forecast. And i laughed. [laughter] right. 67 in wash. Washington. Low to mid 80s later today with even a little humidity. I think youll notice the humidity. I noticed it yesterday. Youll feel it creeping up over the next several days. Near 90 by saturday. All right. I have a map that doesnt want to move. Weak front last night. I didnt get a shower. Maybe a few of us d its pushing off the shore there. You can see it out towards ocean city. Thats really the only weather feature of note here. Otherwise High Pressure builds in. Well be in for a beautiful friday afternoon temperatures in the low 80s. Drive later today if youre going out tonight dry conditions. It will be warm tonight going to the baseball game going to the nats game tonight temperatures in the 70s at game time and heres your weekend forecast. It will be mid 80s today. And your saturday sunday forecast hot and humid tomorrow 91. Sunday could be a popup storm temperatures in the 80s. Oh, boy, really . Popup storm new. Its beep been there are fora couple days. Big plans for sunday. You dont need a popup storm then. Hi erin good morning. Good morning. 7 17. We have a few problem areas on the map. Well start you off with a live look right now. This is a crash seen in the process of clearing but it looks like the left lane is still blocked with that arrow truck 95 southbound at 619. Heading from dumfries into quantico youll hit that delay about a route one southbound dealing with typical morning rush f95 southbound atypical slowdowns. Northbound side not interpret ribble but you will hit some stopandgo traffic across the occoquan. Well switch to skyfox. Tracking a problem in laurel all morning. Utility work heres a nice close view of it. There was a downed pole and some downed wires laurel bowie road between powder mill road and bw parkway. Detour around. That its been closed for sometime now. As we look at our maps bw parkway northbound and southbound this is the worst area of the commute right now between 32 and the beltway both directions with really heavy delays surrounding powder mill road. 95 northbound and southbound better bet to and from the Baltimore Beltway. Outer loop crash left lane blocked at New Hampshire. Caution there. Backing up from route one over to georgia with about a 20 minute slow down. A crash on the inner loop right by bw parkway so give yourself some extra time there. 270 southbound jammed up just a bit from that 70 to clarksburg. You open up and then south of father hurley more delays so about a 35 minute slowdown from 70 down to the spur right 66 eastbound typical slowdowns especially from 234 to 28. Right now its about a 30 minute delay as you head to the beltway. Metro is on time except for safe track. Back to you guys. A check of our top stories now it is 7 19. The state of arkansas facing some criticism over its latest execution. Overnight 38yearold Kenneth Williams died by lethal injection. Witnesses say he was convulsing shortly after he was given the injection. He died 13 minutes after that injection was given. His attorneys are calling his execution horrifying. Williams was convicted in the deaths of two people in the late 1990s. Arkansas set to carry out four more executions over the next three days before one of its lethal injection drugs expires at the end of next month. An ohio man accused of kidnapping his neighbor and keeping her in a hole behind his home is being held on 1 million bond. Police say they found the woman after responding to reports of cries coming from dennis stones backyard. Police found that 30yearold woman inside a three and a she had been reported missing two hours earlier. Police say that dunn has a history of Mental Illness and ad getting harassing phone calls from him. Texas High School Teacher