monetary fund. yesterday the meeting opened with good news. the world economy system expected to grow at 3.5 percent this year. better than the 3.1 percent originally forecast t meanwhile at the white house president trump signed new memorandum aimed at limiting chinese imports and encouraging domestic production in the u.s. >> for decades america as lost our jobs and our factories to unfair foreign trade. >> the u.s. is also looking at twice reduce its huge 500 billion-dollar trade deficit and limit new import taxes. >> we're following a developing story from prince george's county this morning where a teacher and could etch is facing child porn charges. police say 34-year-old christopher speights has been employed at bradbury heights elementary school and south county sports academy. authorities say images and video of children eng engaging n sexual conduct with each other and adults was found on speights phone. this morning cleanup efforts under way at the portion of its garage ceiling collapsed. these are photos tweeted out by d.c. fire and ems. one car was damaged but fortunately no one was hurt. no word yet on what caused this ceiling to collapse. >> this morning two men in manassas are being called heroes. they rescued two boys tra burning house. there were several people inside the home on brenton wood drive at the time of the fire and several were able to get out when the fire broke out but there were two boys trapped on the second floor and neighbors heard their screams for help. >> i saw three people. i say i -- i talk to the kids on the roof. hey jump over here i catch you. i saw and i say you can't jump. you break your leg. i go get my ladder. >> the two men used a ladder to help get the kids to safety. they were able to help them before firefighters arrived. >> new this morning, the redskins 2017 football schedule has been released. and here's the alleged toughest portion of the schedule. i don't know how you can say it's tough when they haven't even drafted or played a game yet as it stands in october 23rd at philadelphia at the eagles. week eight sunday october 29th they host the cowboys week nine they travel out toast face the seahawks. the following week they're back home to host the minnesota vikings. week 11 on the road at the new orleans saints. short turn around for the team for the first testify home thanksgiving game at 8:30 p.m. against the giants. >> football already. >> fast moving storms caused serious damage to that buildings and vehicles in adelphi maryland. >> melanie alnwick is live there. how is it looking. >> reporter: good morning guys. looks like a lot of cleanup to do in adele fire maryland. we're here on green spire road. there was a lot of damage last night. look at this tree. there are four cars underneath there, one of them crushed pretty badly and we also were talking about some apartment damage, too, late last eugene also going to show you, you can see the tree tops just sheared off. the apartment building behind under the circumstances, the tall presidential towers, the 20 story building, let's take you tovo from there. last night 250 people were temporarily evacuated as building inspectors had to inspect crazy damage. resees dents said they heard a whoosh and windows breaking. responding crews say they saw the walls stretch out. now let's take you to some pictures from prince george's county police. inside the building sections3 of dry wall had been loan off of interior walls. there were also cracks in the brick all of this apparently from very strong winds. >> the theory is that when this strong storm rolled through at about 8:30 this evening it pressurized some confined spaces in this apartment building and actually pushed out some walls. not really causing any real structural damage but cosmetic damage to dry wall. we had a broken window or two some window blinds were roughed up. very strong winds entered this building and somehow pressurized confined spaces. >> it was like a bomb. i said oh my god what's going on here. and i just look and on my windows t-i got really, really scared. >> reporter: so, as crazy as all that sounds, building inspectors say that the towers there are safe. but again, a lot of cleanup to do, a lot of questions about what happened here. national weather service says that it was a thunderstorm. i also want to show you this tree here. look at how that trunk is broken off. so, perhaps we may have had just some very strong winds, perhaps it may have been something else. we'll have to talk with our fox5 weather experts to see what they think about the as well. for now live in adelphi, i'm melanie alnwick back to you. >> mel thank you. our fox5 weather expert is mike thomas this morning and mike, yesterday at football practice for >> you made the practice. >> i'm not doing the practice. they practiced. it was good up until 8 o'clock and then it just went crazy. >> and then the storms came through. >> right. >> so stormy. >> yeah, one big round came through most locations and there was one big cell right where melanie is this morning. that might have been a down burst. we'll kind of hammer that out as we go through the day today. we don't have any official wind gusts from there. radar estimates only 40 to 50 miles an hour. we'll see what the national weather service thinks when they head out to survey. 64 in annapolis. satellite and radar relatively quiet except for off to the north where there are some rain showers moving through. no thunderstorms being reported this morning. your planner for the day. that's a check of the forecast. over to erin como now for trafficking. >> i don't like what showers will do for the evening commute but i can tell you right now at 4:36, traffic on the beltway is looking good. ino headache on the inner loop out by pennsylvania avenue. right now it's all green all good on the map. all lanes opened there. problem free on 95 northbound from dale city to the beltway t watch for a little bit of slick conditions from all the rain that came through. if you have any questions or concerns for your commute at erin fox5 d.c. on twitter. i'm going to try to help keep you moving this friday morning commute. >> 4:37 is the time. the justice department said to be considered filing charges against wikileaks founder julian assange. >> diet versus sweetened sugar. scientists finally end the debate about which soda is better or worse for your health. >> all right. it's friday morning, 64 degrees outside, 4:37 is the time. fox5 news morning continues after the break. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ >> time now is 4:39 and we're back with what's hot on the web. those stories you're with the most this morning on social media. >> here's what's hot. the united states government is planning to place criminal charges against wikileaks founder julian assange. assange has been on the government's radar since 2010 when his organization published thousands of classified documents stolen by chelsea manning. assange 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passing later today we could spark some thunderstorms. straight to futurecast this morning. here we are at noon. mix of clouds and sun out there but again it will b we work our way into the 4, 5 o'clock hour, that's when futurecast is really showing a blowup of storms mostly from i-95 and portions east. one or two of those could be on the strong side. not expecting a big severe weather day today but one or two could be on the severe side of things. working our way into tomorrow t-starts off cloudy and with scattered showers but as we work our way into the evening we get a steady rain into the region that could last through the overnight hours and into sunday morning. fox5 accuweather 7-day forecast a warm and humid 84 degrees today. down to 65 tomorrow with clouds and showers throughout the day. rain likely to start sunday but then tapering off to showers in the afternoon. change to the forecast monday tuesday now look cloudy with chances of showers each day. lower 60's.s held into the- we will really heat it up next week. in fact, mark it down. i'm calling first 90 of the year next friday so a week from today. we'll see about that. that's the weather. over to you erin for traffic. >> all right thank you very much mike. looks like you'll need the umbrella later today safe track surge 14 metro service picking up at 5:00 this morning. no train service on the green line between prince george's plaza and greenbelt. college park university of maryland ingreenbelt stations are closed. you can use the blue or yellow line as alternates to get around the yellow rush plus service that is canceled for this safe track surge. no other metro delays reported. roads are quiet right now. any questions at erin fox5 d.c. on twitter. right now at 4:47 we're going to take a look at other news. another black eye for prince george's county schools. one of its substitute teachers is in trouble with the law. >> police say some disturbing video of children was found on his phone. fox5's annie yu live at bradbury heights elementary in capitol heights where that teacher worked. annie, good morning. >> reporter: hey, good morning to you, wisdom and erin. yes, the suspect did work here at bradbury heights. he was also a local coach. so, clearly this person came in close contact with a lot of children so maryland state police are putting the warning your child may have come in contact with this person, to give them a call. meanwhile i want to show you who we're talking about. this is 34-year-old christopher speights of capitol heights maryland. he's a long time sub here at bradbury heights elementary testimony he also served as a youth basketball coach for south county sports academy. police arrested him thursday morning at his capitol heights home where he lives with his mother and he's now facing child pornography charges. inside speights' home investigators say they seized his iphone ipad and computer that was linked to a drop box account that police say spurred this five month long investigation. on the digital cloud, the maryland state police computer crimes unit say they found numerous child pornography videos and the descriptions of these videos are too graphic to share with you all but investigators believe the children in those videos were as young as seven years old o prince george's county public schools are on spring break but in statement they told that you say they are aware of the arrest and that he will no longer s district and they are fully cooperating with police in this investigation. again, speights faced with serious charges, child pornography charges and police tell us more could be coming can. that's the latest. annie yu fox5 local news isn't that metro hosting a lunchtime information session for college students today. it's an information session where they can learn more about metro's new university pass program commonly known as u pass. it gives full time college attendees unlimited metrobus and metro rail access so they can travel to and from campus internships jobs and activities. that's this afternoon where you can go to this session from 12:00 to 2:00 at metro's headquarters. if you live in maryland and you need to do business at the mva you better do it today or july to wait until monday. all maryland motor vehicle administration locations will be closed tomorrow. that includes all inspection stations. they're closing for statewide computer upgrades. the agency says this will allow locations to better se you also won't be able to conduct web or self service kiosk transactions tomorrow through noon on sunday. >> hm. >> so keep that in mind. >> hopeful that will help speed things up because we've all spent that times at the motor vehicle. >> i usually do all my stuff online. hopefully the upgrade makes it a little better. >> so when you show outpatient hopefully you have a smoother experience. >> an nfl lineman found by police wandering in a field wearing nothing more than a t-shirt. >> and a 73-year-old model is featured in a new sexy lingerie ad from calvin kline. >> we're going break with a live look outside across the dmv. the time right now is 4:50, the temperature 64 degrees. now we heard cuba gooding sr. in the last break, everybody plays the fool. what is this? i don't know this one so i'll just be quiet. >> but you were doing so good as deejay. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ stronger is blasting her tumors... without risking her bones. it's training her good cells... stronger is less pain... new hope... more fight. it's doing everything in your power... and everything in ours. stronger, is changing even faster than they do. because we don't just want your kids to grow up. we want them to grow up stronger. >> ♪ >> welcome back. time right now. >> i'm sleeping. i got you on video. video. >> 4:53 is the time right now. this is new video that shows a violent confrontation that landed a sonoma county sheriff's deputy on the wrong side of the law. he recorded his encounter with deputies last september. they were overheard by nei deputy scott thorn went on to beat the man with a baton. thorn was fired and is now on trial for felony assault. >> the man convicted of killing former new orleans saints defensive lineman will smith has been sentenced. cardale hayes will that spend 25 years behind bars for the shooting death of smith. he was also punished for the shooting of smith's wife racquel s orleans last april injuring a road rage incident. we're told both men jumped out of the their vehicles ready for a fight. the defense plans to appeal the conviction as well as the sentence. >> nfl player is under investigation at a hospital this morning on wednesday police found him wandering in a field wearing nothing but a t-shirt. when police approached he told police to shoot him. this happened near the scene of a two car collision and police say he had apparently left his car there and climbed over the guardrail and onto a farmer's field. >> how about this story? this just goes to show you age, it's only a number. calvin klein's newest underwear model is 73-year-old lauren hut ton. now, she's the model and actress known for her gap toothed smile. she's one of several women featured in a new plaque and white ad. in it the models strip down to just their calvin klein underwear. car enthusiasts get revved up give away. you can win one of eight one day tickets to unity thunder car club's car show. >> all right. >> go ahead. >> i have good news. i was excited about the cars. you know i like cars. >> you wanted me to show you all about the cars its running april 28th through the 30th. >> it's a prize with a retail value of $80. enter between now and 11:59 p.m. for a chance to win. one winner selected by random drawing on april 24th. all entrants must be 18 or older. complete rules and online entry are available at fox5d.c.com/contests. >> i think wisdom martin is going to try to win those tickets. >> i need me some fancy cars in my life although if i had a fancy car i couldn't drop the top last night because it was -- the weather was bad. >> it was a mess and pretty scary. i hate the sound of thunder. >> you do? >> yes. >> is that a movie. i think that's a movie. >> maybe a song. >> i don't know. could be a love song. >> well, unfortunately erin get your comfort because you might lead it later today with another round of thunderstorms possible as we head into the evening hours but before then we'll have some breaks of sunshine and some warm temperatures around the region. kids at the bus stop warm start, 57 to 66. humid as well. could be a couple showers especially north of the city and after school kind of same deal as yesterday, 76 to 86 degrees. we'll watch for a few thunderstorms rumbling through this afternoon. fox5 accuweather 7-day forecast, 84 degrees your daytime high today. weekend indoor plans, you'll, fine. outdoor plans, maybe not so fine. 65 degrees on saturday, showers throughout the day. sunday could start with a steady rain tapering off to showers in the afternoon but cooler air sticking around kind of after today. all right, that's a check of the forecast. back to erin for traffic. >> thank you mike. i guess i'll have to find some indoor activities for sunday morning. taking a look at traffic right now we have a crash right now closing maryland 212 in both directions between adelphi road and metzerott. be prepared for that one. we have storm damage in that area as well so we're going to keep you as well as the storm damage. use caution as you head out this morning. watch for problems on those secondaries. downed trees things of that of nature. give it a few extra moments to get around safely. as we take a look at the beltway, you're in good shape, 95 route one as well as baltimore-washington parkway in good shape. we'll take a look at your virginia commute next. if you have any questions at erin fox5 d.c. on twitter. >> 4:57 is the time. coming up a fight over specialized medicine brewing between three 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