Here on the house floor as the democrats came saying that t they were not going to take noeo for an answer when it came to a vote on gun legislation. Egisli all of this, of course, the cou, frustration after the shootings in orlando and four af failed votes in the senate to try the get some sort of legislation passed. N a lot of democrats believets bie that theres some momentum toent get something done in themethini house because all of the houseth is up for reelection son s theyre saying that theres a lot of pressure that they cant put here to trany to get something done. Nonetheless House Speaker paul ryan brought the house backk into session saying were going to continue to doontinu regular business. Bus about 2 57 in the morning tookni a vote on zika and then the adjourned. The House Republicans left and t so they are saying that they th are no longer in session. Seson they plan on coming back att 9 oclock in the morning. Mor theres also going to be as g meeting among democrats at 10 oclock this morning to tryst to figure out what their nextirt move is. But certainly an extraordinaryra day here on capitol hill in the fg legislation. Back to you guys. All right. 4 31 is the time. S theime. Later this morning d. C. Mayor. Cy Muriel Bowser will chime in onon the gun control debate. Shes expected to urged to urg lawmakers could mass gun reform. Bowser will be joined byine police chief cathy lanier. Both will be expected to address gun violence. Vle patience carter is expectedcx to testify before the housee e h committee. She will speak at a hearing about isis inspiredpe attacks. C carters close friend wasd among the 49 killed. The 49illed. She was shot in the leg but iset expected to make a full aul recovery. And the man who claims to m be the former lover of orlando o shooter omar mateen isee i speaking out. O he told univision that mateen m was seeking revenge when he opened fire at pulset lse nightclub. Ni he says mateen had a deep fearr of being used by his partnerstnr and was terrified of contracting hiv. The fbi confirmed that they met with the man who only goes g by miguel. Univision has said they cannott confirm his account of mateenf e is actua were following some w breaking news right now fromt no southeast d. C. At this hour. Athi a bicyclist is in criticalri condition after being hit by a driver who then took off. Off now, this happened just after jf 1 00 this morning in the 2900in0 block of minnesota avenue anu southeast. Het. Investigators are still on that scene and have thatav that blocked off have that road r closed off to traffic right now. Now. Baltimore is awaiting there i verdict in the late of thee of t trial in the death of freddie gray. Gray officer Caesar Goodson isn the third of six officers to to stand trial. Hes the only one facinge fin murder charges. Charg goodson was driving the policeec van when prosecutors say gray suffered a spinal a fatal fat spinal injury. Spin now, if convicted, goodsonso could face up to 30 years in prison. Prince georges county teceacher busted during a a prostitution sting. Tion s now, he is a teacher at langley park Mccormick Elementary School in hyattsville. Hy annie yuat is there with more oo how the teacher got caught. Au whats the deal here. Reporter good morning,r g wisdom and holly. H right now whats unclear from police is whether this was a w sting specifically targeting tae the suspect, perhaps aftererha receiving a tip, or if it wasas just a routine operation where perhaps others might have beente arrested. That is unclear and weve unclea reached out to police to t figure that out. Meantime as you mentioned, he is a teacheryo here at langleyeg park mccormick elementaryley school and we have a picture w of the suspect. Sct detectives arrested arres 29yearold martin brown ofr Silver Spring on tuesday in lanham during a prostitution prn sting operation coordinated byed Prince Georges County policege department. He is currently charged with wit two counts of prostitution and o humanf trafficking after police say he solicited a prostitute pt and also rented a room thatoo was used for prostitution. Now, according to the schools web site brown is a fourth a fou grade teacher here at thee the Elementary School and the School System did send out a o statement saying that they arety aware of the situation, aware a of the arrest and that they willfully cooperate with lawopel enforcement in its investigation. N. Pgcps is not going this kind of conduct. Is kind ofc the district remains focused on our commitment to ensure aene quality education in a safe a s environment for the childrenenf of pgcps. Martin brown we understanderstad remains in Police Custody andtoa is due to appear in court on july 29th. July thats the very latest here in hyattsville, maryland, annieand, yu, fox5 local news. All right. Time now to talk a littleow t weather and i believe wereliev about to get some a interesting change in the weather. Were bracing for it. Yeah, we got to get ready. Ry got to get ready. Y. Always be prepared. Ys bprep thats the best we can doo here. We have kind of a rare event. Et we dont get a lot of thunderstorms early in the morning typically around d. C. D but that will be the case ashe e we go through the next couple of hours. Look at the rain on the door t d seven. Very heavy in places. Eavyplac there is a Flash Flood Watch in effect off to the north andtt west there. He as i zoom in here, those down dw to the south kind of the i66 corridor, if you draw a Straight Line through there,iner points south, those will have w the best chances o thunder and lightning withnd this rainfall early thisarlyhi morning. Farther off to the north, cumberland maryland,d, hagerstown maryland, not a lot a of lightning. Every now and then i see a strike but for the most part mot its just heavy rain. Rai regardless of whether or notr or you have thunder or lightninghud or just the rain itsen certainly going to make thee commute a mess this morning. A me again, its about anss hour or two from downtown d. C. So be. C. Prepared for that as you hithat the roads this morning. Isning by 8 00 a. M. , thunderstorms going on, about 72 degrees. 2 dee by noon were probably dry, 77 and by 4 00 p. M. , it may be breaking out into a little bitib of sunshine. Ofunsh its after about 5, 6 oclock oo tonight when we may have to hav get ready for round two. Nd t more details on that in just a a bit. All right, erin como get themete to jobs on time. T ly. Were trying, mike. In mike. 4 36 right now. Right now good morning. We have a crash in theavcras district. Its an investigation from ann earlier crash closing ang portion northeast section off town, 2700 block of minnesota ie avenue closed both directions. Ei well let you know as soon as y that does reopen. Notice 295 right now no southbound moving along just fine. Fi none of that typical morning mni congestion yet. Et. In al alexandria and from earlier water main breakre edsall road is still shutti s down. Lets show you what else e youre up against. Again also Construction North of thetf beltway affecting 95 near 216 n as well as bw parkway par northbound and 198 eastboundtb on the ramp to 295. So, youll want some extraxt time as you head out towards bwi this morning. Aside from that were tracking k safe track surge two. Ferack well take a close look at howt thats affecting orange blueb and silver line next. Lver le ne back to you, wisdom and holly. Coming up Bernie Sanders isur getting ready to address hisddss supporters about the future ofuf his campaign. Hi and the Chicago Bulls bid bid farewell to a former league m. V. P. Leading to a social a soa media firestorm. Iresto many, though, are wondering which derrick rose will show ro up in new york. The high scoring phenom or mr. Glam. Mr. Glam. I got some thoughts onts ill keep them to myself. Ths as we head to break a liveie look outside across the d. C. C. Region, 4 thirty seven is the time, temperature is 73 degrees. We are back after this. Re welcome back. Time now 4 40. Lets take a look at the stories youre engaging withngg the most this morning on social media. Cial first up, latin nightclubig pulse is resuming tonighton avenue the deadly shootingin there earlier this movementis m the nightclubs owner announced that it will be hosting a street party in downtown orlando that will gorln through the night withigit performers and dancing. Dancing. On the campaign trail,thcampn Bernie Sanders still in the race for the white house. Ou but hes acknowledged toedged cspan that he is not going tooi be front and center at ther the Democratic National convention. Conv sanders says that it is it nottn appear he will be the b democratic nominee andaticomin announced plans for a rally a r tonight in new york city tok ciy discuss where he will go from f here with his supporters. Suprt and speaking of new yorkakinw city on the basketball the knicks they picked up derrick rose from the Chicago Bulls and hopefully the formeror nba m. V. P. Can be their answer as point guard. You see how i messed that up. All right. Derrick rose has been with thewt bulls since 2008 and a source ac close to him said that he wase w emotional about leaving leaving chicago. Thats his home after all but b he wanted the big stage of new york. Yo hm. Social media also sounded off on the trade with fansrade a criticizing the knicks forhe kcr picking up a player who hasrho been hurt so often even though t he was at one point the league m. V. P. M. V. Be careful what you wishfuwht for. I know. I say its not going to work w but thats me. S careful what you wish for. Coming up on fox5 news morningsr pepco issues a warning to its customers ahead of todays stormy weather. Weath before the gun sit inefor started on the house floorlo congress did manage to make ae e decision about the zika virus. As as we head to break letsreak take a live look across thecros d. C. Region. Eg time right now is still 4 41. Pretty mild out there, calmre, c for now but it could get aet little stom well talk about it. L abo fox news morning back right bac after this. Afte z212lz zi0z y212ly yi0y after trying brookside chocolate, people talk about it online. Love at first taste. I would liquefy it and bathe in it. Curse you, brookside your nefarious plans have succeeded. Nefarious . Are we still talking about chocolate . Brookside. Talk about delicious. Z212mz zi0z y212my yi0y back now at 4 40 as severe storms get ready to moveet reaoo across our region pepco ispeo getting ready to tackle any outages. Ge now, tuesdays storm knocked outckedo power to about 16,000 16,00 customers. Cuom now, it has scheduled extrara field and call centerl nt personnel to deal with w whatever may happen today. The midwest also dealing dea with Severe Weather. Eaer the chicago region remains on alert. Ert. Several tornadoes touchdowns twn were confirmed. Were confirmed. Four homes and a gas station gai were damaged and hundreds of of flights were grounded. All right. Its going to be a busy day today. To i guess the entire day becauseec mike thomas is telling usng us theres some activity moving into the region. Eg wisdom youre right, there is some activity moving intoty the region. Early morning. Were not used to it here inere d. C. In terms of heavy raineavya and thunderstorms in theorms morning this time of year. R. Typically that holds off until u the afternoon hours. Hou know. Not this time though. Well get to the radar int a moment. Me. 73 degrees. Notice the humidity,idit 90 percent so theres a lot ofhl moisture in the atmosphere. Tmos thats a lot for the storms tos work with as they move in. Moven. Theres the big picture here,reh very, very powerful power wisdom just mentioned moved m through chicago and portions por of the midwest yesterday. Those are still just about tobot reach charleston. Haes ndvere thunderstorm watch inhu effect there. Here in d. C. No Severe Weatherer watch or warning in effect foreo the time being and in fact fac ill throw those on right now. Iw i guess looks like we justs ke have the new one posted downtedd towards Central Virginia therea but for the most part noaro Severe Weather coming across,inr its just heavy rain with thunderstorms so far. Rstorms sor Storm Tracker radar is justs jus about to push into loudounou county northern portions of fauquier county, front royalnt r down i66 starting to see the te heavy rain this morning and mora its moving at a pretty goodg t clip. Im going to loop this through the past hour and you can seeana how fast its coming across. Acr i think by about 6 oclock inlo the morning, if not sooner were probably dealing with the rain and thunderstormshu here in d. C. Here in d. C this is the setup area of lowf pressure riding along a along frontal boundary ahead of of entertained right over our region u because of the setupech were under the rick o weather, slight risk here in d. C. Enhanced risk out to the west, main threats today are high winds and flash flooding. Ln now, this potential is really ia going to come with the secondhen round towards the afternoon. Erno well have more on that inn that just a minute here. H flash flooding flash floodsh watch in effect through later tonight off to the north and a west. This does not include d. C. And. Baltimore but up towardsowards hagerstown and cumberland,rland, they are thunder watch. Are thuh here is. Futurecast at 9 009 00 a. M. Showing those heavyseea thunderstorms still rollings stl through. Then we probably clear it outabi as we head into the 3 oclockck hour this afternoon anderno a dependent on just how much sun m were able to squeeze out willzl depend on just how strong thejuh storms are able to be later tonight. This is 9 oclock tonight. Oclkg thats round two. Rnd t it doesnt look too bad there te but if were able to get moreetr sun it could be worse. Stay tuned. Change to the forecastt unfortunately we did have to he add thunderstorms in tomorrow. T theyll be spotty and we do wo not expect them to be severeevee but we did have to in. Good news is the weekend still looks fantastic. All right, thats the weather. Erins got the roads. Oads its going to be a busy oneusy e for you this morning, erin. Ning thats right. 4 48. 4 48 were hard busy. Were ha we have more information onor the closure in the northeastor section of the district. Dtr a bicyclist struck by a car. Ist it is a histt and run crashunsh right now so police are atre that location investigatingtigai and the person driving therivint bike did sustain some serious injuries. Ri. So 2700 block of minnesota minne avenue is closed in bothn b directions. Di well let you know once we get e more information and once thatto road does reopen. Doeen. In addition, were tracking tin other breaking news in thehe area in also a. Ea in so a this water main break happenedbd yesterday edsall roadd westbound remains shut downow between south van dorn streetor and south whiting avenue. Hiti please use caution as you use c detour around that area. Are watch for any potentialoten leftover ponding. Pdi grab your umbrella, youlll need it later today. Ater today. Construction right now northon of the beltway 95 northbounday t before 216 and then bw parkwaykw northbound offramp to 198 to closed. Well let you know when that does reopen and then 198 eastn t the ramp to blocked. So if youre headed towards bwi give yourself extra timee on 95 and baltimorewashington parkway. Well take a look at metro next as they gear up for up service at 5 00. At 5 back to you wisdom and holly. 4 49 is the time. The tim coming up federal Health Officials are asking yourking yr childs doctor to stop using nasal sprays to fight fluto fht viruses. If your and some right you could soon earn a piece of thend Whitney Houston estate. Estat time right now again 4 49, 4, temperature 73 degrees. Mike thomas says theres some activity coming to the region. In were going to talk aboutngtalkt that. Were also going to talktalk traffic. Woof got news, weve got everything you need to know this morning when we come back. Yni happening now, house and Senate Republicans have reached an agreement, its anper ageereement an owe on a 1. 1 billion measure to combatoc the zika virus. The bill partially because it will not allow funds for f planned parenthood to provideret Birth Control services for women at risk for becoming infected with the virus. Irus. Years ago officials toldfics doctors that be that should use the face in spray flu mist s on kids instead of the flud of t shots but a cdc study shows it does very thrill protecterthrile children from actually gettingtt sick. Well, its being called the largest takedown for medicaidic and Medicare Fraud in history. Rs the Justice Department says 301 people submitted 900 million worth ofor o fraudulent had this claims. Loretta lynch says the peopleeo being charged include doctors nurses physical therapists andhy Home Healthcare providers. Prode residents in the districttric are concerned about led lightseu installed around the city. He cit doctors are warning peoplengl across the country about theut dangers of those lights. Ers of g they say the lights may be too t bright or may emit the wrongt te type of light couldnt causen e sleep problems. Sleeprob now according to the american te medical ridge led lighting may disrupt sleep and interfere with thefert bodys natural 24 hour cycle. Hoc neighbors are concerned aboutrno those lights saying that they want the lights gone if its going to affect their health. Eit i dont sleep. Le im like why i cant sleep. My physical life, me insideis my heart, inside my life, no,if thats not good cause i donte even know whats going on andinn youre killing me and i dont even know it. Noit. Ddot says there are about 300led lights in d. C. And theyre considering installingg about 6,000 more. M its a chance to own ae to n piece of Music History so youoou dont want to miss that. Tha its just a big opportunitypptu here. Chance to own a piece of owne Music History. Hisry yeah and its big, huge. H more than 100 items once owned by Whitney Houston will ht be up for grabs. Ra its happening in beverlyberl hills tomorrow and saturday. Sar among the items are sneakers snk given by Michael Jordan and an a autographed book from nelsonaphk mandela. Ma fa script from the 1995 film waiting to exhale. Exh Whitney Houston is one ofone those where she wasnt just a pop star. She has a huge global appealalpp in so many areas so i think thats important to rememberort and thats why certain people are more collectible than others. Ot and as a side note. Okay. Okay. Items belonging to music legend prince and david bowie b will be available during theing auction. Thats going to be quite an auction. Auctio busy day on tap for you,or yu mike thomas. You are absolutely right,bsol for me, for tucker, for anybody, even sue latern su tonight because this is just round one this morning. Th mor potentially another round ofer u Severe Weather later on ler o tonight. All right, theres your storm ym tracker radar. We do have heavy rain startingnt to push into the d. C. Reachea none, northern fauquierauquier county, Prince William countyine and northern and westernnd wes portions of loudoun countyudou already seeing the rain,y seei e Frederick County maryland uparyl towards hagerstown seeing therse rain this morning. There are embedded eedde thunderstorms. Rsto on ill show that you in ahow at y minute. These storms are moving at a mot very good clip. Thats an hour loop yourelo seeing. Theyre moving to the east at about 50 mmoiles an hour. Es a so, theyll be here before youre know it. Frederick maryland 5 06 a. M. This morning, here in d. C. C about 5 30 is when our system os puts the storms right overhead o here and then 5 58 aim a. M. Aim. For baltimore maryland. Theres this one warning wayarng to the south and west, w augusta, Nelson County in couy virginia. Keep you informed on ifmed on f any other warnings pop up asher we head through the morning. 85 degrees, thunderstorms likely today. Did have to add storms forrm friday as well although not as widespread, very spotty forad, o tomorrow afternoon. Tomorrow aer weekend still looks great. Ks g mid 80s on saturday andatury sunday with very low humidityity and just perfect weather for wtr the weekend. Erin como has got the roads thes this morning. Hey, erin. Hey, e 4 55 and its already busyaly and were not seeing any rain ay hitting the area just yet. An update from d. C. Police pol right now. T now. The person lit by a car on car bi is actually in southeast its the 2700 block of Minnesota Mine avenue southeast so well keepwl you updated on that accidentcc investigation. Injuries involved as well. Were also dealing with theith leftover work from a water a war main break yesterday in alexandria. An edsall road on the westbound wtd side remains shut down between south van dorn street andvadorn south whiting avenue. Youll need to detour aroundr that and if thats your normalrn route as more traffic hits the e road watch out for delays in de that area. Thatrea. Notice 395 all that green ont g the map right now. N traffic cruising along from the beltway to the 14th street4t bridge. All of our area bridges rightest now are quiet. Uiet and metro is on time as wee gear up for 5 oclock thislock i morning except for the safe track work. Well check in with that next. K holly and wisdom. 4 56 is the time right now. T. Coming up on fox news morning mg wildlife investigators believeto they found the alligator who killed a young boy in florida. Oi last nights nationalsdodgers games included one of the mostthet sensational plays of the year y so far. What . Oh, okay, i see what t happened. Before we head to bre got to show it again, heres a r quick check of the stock o futures for today. Future were back after this andhis were going to show that youho great play, all of it in its entirety. More news, weather and traffic as well. Back in a moment. Blan this is fox5 news morning. Straight ahead on fox5 newss Morning House democrats resort s to a sit in on the house floor f as they continue to demand ad vote on a round of gun controlon bills. The city of baltimore oncetie again bracing for the verdict inhehe trial of another officer charged in the death of freddie gray. Reddie g lets take a live looke l across the region. He rion. We are indeed expectingecti another round, perhaps severalpv rounds today of Severe Weather. Thunderstorms, gusty winds, heavy rainfall, you ntoame it. T. Our Weather Department is of course on top of it go. I good morning. Thanks for joining us, imoroini holly morris. Holly morris. Im wisdom martin. Today is thursday june 23rd. Un23 weve got the crew here holly. We sure do. Weve got mike thomas andke ts weve got erin como, weather,er, traffic. Af mike. Hey, holly. I just want to do a quick a q radar update. Update. Were starting to see heavyee h rain push into the region. Reg lets go straight to max three here and this is pretty much as wall of water coming at us and its coming at us prettyy quickly. Ic rain has pushed just aboutt a halfway through loudoun countydu covering now most of fauquierau county and starting to pushg ps into prince willm