They dont think it would beuld done by tonight. The federal grant would go a w long way in funding the the quarter billion dollar project. Projt. There have been warnings there e if the bridge does not undergond the much needed repairs, it could close to vehicles asehless soon as 2021. 2 our other big story this stot morning tense moments during a congressional hearing on capitol hill. Tol hi metro officials tellingffic lawmakers that the only way to fix operational issues is withsw more money. On that didnt go over well. L. Fox5s Melanie Alnwick is alncki live at the lenfant metrot met station with more now. Mel, good morning. Reporter good morning. R and so the point that metro met Board Chairman jack evans wasjaa trying to make is that metro m is an century source for the federal government. Therefore, metro board b believes that the feds should fd kick in as much money as d. C. C maryland and virginia do foro f maintenance and repairs to thept system. But some members of the House Oversight committee saytt congress has been giving metroni he plenty of money and it isnd i still a at the sub account hearing, heai metro leadership testified that all of the safety defectsyt identified in last months oneday shutdown have been b repaired but decades ofecad deferred maintenance have leftat the system with much more work o to do. Do. Some of the repairs going backk many, many years and its and i going to take they say more money. Money. Board chairman jack evans says congress should pay p 300 million a year into a dedicated fund or be left l having a substandard mediocreedr Transit System for washington,n, d. C. D. But Republican Leadership onlica the House Oversight committee ct did a little shutdown of their own. N. I ask whats wmatas unlick quit dated balance in open o grants coming from the federali government as of the 18th of march. Its 783 million. 3 llio its not like they dont have the money. On last year in 2015 they had 4 they had the money available. Le what they had is incompetence. Om reporter now, virginia representative jerry conleyy said that that and some reallyt somewhat of a myth saying thatyi that money from congress isess set aside to pay for those new 7,000 series rail cars. Those are capitolcapito improvements. That is not money for operations or maintenance ornc those sorts of things. Soof t also, Metro Management metemenme privately with the local congressional delegations froml d. C. , maryland and virginia. De they also wantednd to address ad some of their concerns aboutr ce safety on metro. Tro. General manager Paul Wiedefeld e did tell a direct question qst from senator barbara mikulskisk did dell her that there are currently uniformed policey officersun and ununiformed ununi Police Officers currently riding the rails. T live at lenfant mraz is thatrat correct im Melanie Alnwick. M back to you. Coming up in the 7 oclock 7o hour this morning were goingmon to continue our discussion on metros hearing. Hring the congressman you just hearduh in melanies report will join w well chat with him a little lil later this morning. Late a check of the morningsin other top stories now. N the hunter is on for a man whosa sexually assaulted a womaned a n after she left a Shopping Mall l in Prince Georges County. Nc police say thee suspect walkedd right up to the woman at thethee beltway plaza mall on greenbelt in greenbelt i should say on monday andnda started talking to her. The two parted ways but thenpard police say that same m want sa approached her again when shenhe walked across breeze wood bree o drive to an apartment complex. P. Then he allegedly pulled out a o knife threatened her took heren into the woods and thenhe woo ad sexually assaulted her. Atlanta braves outfielderutfl Hector Olivera placed on placedn league by Major League Baseball following his arrest. The 31yearold now facing aard misdemeanor charge for assaultgf and battery. And tter olivera back in his hometownomew of miami but had been in townint for a four game series witheriei the nationals. Natio that wraps up this afternoon. A. Caught on camera in theght district a robbery inside ansid hotel in northwest. Or this happened on rhode island il half near 15th street justear before 11 00 on tuesday night. Ig three followed a plan t man to his rom then robbed him at gunpoint. Gu. To the campaign trail. The Donald Trumps public feudublic with fox news host megyn kelly k may be over. Or. The two met to quote unquotete clear the air. Megan called and she wanted to come up. She came up to trump to youer. Or we had a very good very go conversation. Ersati we met for about an hour just the two of us hadnt awo o chance to clear the air. Air. Mr. Trump and i discussed thesst possibility of an interview. Ntvi and i hope we will have newse n to announce on that soon. Oon. Still looks like there willos be a contested conventiononveio though on the republican side. En senator ted cruz believesz hell have more delegates than trump and Ohio Governor kasichrc banking on winning delegates deg in cleveland this summer. Summe Hillary Clinton and bernieclinta sanders will debatnde tonight in brooklyn before the new yorkoree primary next tuesday. 6 05 on a thursday morning. Yi whats up, tuck . Uc great big good morning. Or little cool. Little cool. Ittl going to be warm, you know, pleasant afternoon, sunshine, ss low 60s later today. Od no rain for the next several days. Yesterday we made it to vain. Ta tomorrow will be warmer. Ar still on track for a beautifulef weekend. En lets get to the numbers. T to yes, jacket weather off to the west where this frost advisory is, freeze advisory is, placesle like culpeper, manassas 30ansas0 this morning, dulles andllesnd frederick 32 so it is chilly isc out there. 40 in annapolis. Apol look at leonardtown, 32 in leonardtown as well. So, were nice and chill tohi start your day. Art your day jacket here for the nextr the nx couple hours and much like l yesterday give eight littleght e times it will warm up. It should be a beautiful afternoon. Look at your satellite and radar. B nice and quiet out there. A few showers in tennessee andse down into North Carolina butolit thats really our closest cse system with any merit. Merit High Pressure keeps thingskeepsg nice and dry. Ni were in for more another delightful afternoonft with winds out of theth w northeast at five to 10. 63 your daytime high. H. Erin is doing randoman yelling because you mentioned mi tennessee. She has a spot in her heart h for nashville. Nashville. Ive only done a little de time in tennessee. Me in tenn im eager to get back and bk a check it out. Ut erin good morning. Ri thank you. Im so unaware of my surroundings that i clear fredlf across the studio. Right now traffic unfortunately flog to cleary fl about. 6 07. 6 look at this mess on 66 m o eastbound. We have a crash approachingppac 29. Traffic is really heavy back to 234. To im going to get out of the way. The crash is blocking thecking t right shoulder but all laneses are opened. Opened. Im worried one the tow truckowu gets there the lane will bee wi blocked again and delays willeli be worse. Wse from manassas throughs t centreville give yourself yoursf extra time. Te. Aside from that 95 on thet on northbound side also backs upo k this morning from dale city tona woodbridge. Id. Typical slow moving traffic as you make your way look at all of those brake lights. Ights. No crashes to report there. Es just as you get to t the t springfield interchange it is i slow as usual. As u lets take a look at ouma good news for metro no longeron single tracking on the redonhe r line. Delays still linger in bothoth directions between van ness and Dupont Circle so just be prepared for. For. That all other metro rails are s on time this morning. Is a few crashes in ourhesn neighborhoods right now. Hborhood river road as t the intersectiot of goldsboro road in bethesda be and then moving over to a lookk in Silver Spring colesville road at Georgia Avenue. Ave aside from that as you headas yu out in frederick 270 southbound from 85 to the t truck scales typical slowal slo traffic. Do you open up through ope gaithersburg but then you hitouh some more stopandgo traffica towards the spur. Th beltway traffic is picking up pg as well. Its that time of morningning where you want to leave ayou little early to make surear youre not late forly work. Wor it is friday eve after all. Back to you guys. Uys. Erin thanks. 6 08. Talking about the nationalnal cathedral. Ed today experts begin a seconds ac phase of repairs thereafterte 2011 earthquake that damagedhatm part of the historic building. Ud the second stage will cost about 2 million. T 2 repairs will be focused on the exterior of the building. Bld experts say the restoration could take over a decade,keve though, and will eventuallyvell cost complete. Le coming up next sarah palinsal is in town to debate climate change. More thon after the break. N what a historic nigafht in the nba. Th two west coast teams getting a i lot of attention this morning. Oi were back with details in just 30 seconds. We are back now at 6 today marks two years since boko haram militants kidnappedia more than 270 girls from a boarding school in nigeria. Iger the kidnapping triggered theer Global Social media campaignl me bring back our girls. Ls still many of them remain remai missing but this week hopeeek h they are still alive. Ve the Islamic Group released a video showing 15 girls who identified themselves as beingm abducted from that school. Atcho. The parents of at least threeeae of the girls confirmed their identity. Identi this is the first footage oft eo the girls since may of 2014. 201 hundreds of parents plan topla t hold a march in the nigerian nir capitol today to demand they dm government does more to findind and get their daughters. Ters. Here in the district lawmakers a on capitol hill will discuss hil the efforts to finds the girlser and to defeat boko haram. Ko h. We he will also get an update ud on the students who escaped. Esp in the fight against isis i president obama says his administration has madeasade progress against the terrorgaint group. He made those remarks to cia headquarters. He sis while isis still has the ability to inflict horrific violence we have the momentum. Next week the president plansprn to talk more about isis with w gulf leaders in saudia arabia. A. Socalled affluenza teenza t isnt getting out of jail any time soon. Ethan couch was sentenced to set two years in prison. S in pri a judge ordered him to serve ser orns the four people that he killedal in a 2013 car crash. Now, initially couch was was sentenced to probation when he w was still considered a minorider but he violated his probationti last year and was laterer captured in mexico. Mex couch turned 19 on monday. Mon sarah palin in thesara nations capitol today for a a Panel Discussion endorsing an anticlimate change film. Fil the documentary is called is cal climate hustle. Climathustle. In the past the former alaskan a governor dismissed climate models that predict continuedt c loss of sea ice as unreliableell and unproven. The film will appear on appear capitol hill today and then the will be shown nationwide onon may second. A flight to staples center. Thousands of fans family former players celebrities all a clearing kobe bryant on as hents stepped onto the court for theou last time. St what did he do . He took h too almost every shot for the lakers. He scored 60 points pullingul his team past the jazz for theth win. Whats funny, the thing that had me cracking up a allupl night long was the fact there tc i go through 20 years off everybody screaming to passo pas the ball and the last nighttight theyre like dont pass it. [laughter] took 50 shots from the50 f field. Thats the most in a game ine 25 years. Yrs kobe spent all 20 seasons withnh the lakers, the most any nbaba player spent with the same withs team. Played on five championship teams and is the lakers all the time leading scorer. Sre you know its a big flightih for the nba when the president re tweets about it. Tw thats the warriors stephorep curry who also made history last night becoming the firsthef player to make 400 3pointersoir in a season by knocking down dow 10 from long range. R he ended the season with 402. 4 the team has their 73rd win win the season one more thann Michael Jordans chicago chi bulls. Good night in the nba. Unfortunately neither games started until 10 30 lastunti night. So you didnt watch all ofath them. Them no, no. No,o. Okay. Oka it is 6 13 right now. Rht n still ahead two historic hri president ial vehicles going onee display in d. C. D very cool. Ery cool. Also well take a live look outside right now. Ht now speaking of vehicles. Ehicles. Theres a bunch of them getting on the wilson bridge. Erin and tucker will have your traffic. Its 6 13. Want to dance today. I dont want to do thet t weather. Is that all right, steve. Do it. Wari beautiful look at theeaut capitol. Sun is getting up. Eventually in the mid to upper 60s. Lets start with the bus stopwit forecast. Everybody is back to schoolis b this morning and just like and yesterday morning very, very vev chilly out there particularlytil north and west where much ofre the area is right around the freezing mark. Fr so a jacket early. Ear definitely some coldly some col the sunshine and a very v pleasant afternoon. Aer just even a few degrees warmerae than yesterday with daytimeayti highs 60 or better for just for about everybody. Bo i think well be 63, maybe m 64 degrees here in washington wi later today. All right, here are your coole c temperatures and again, heree at Reagan National were relatively mild at 43 but look o at all of your low 30s north0t and west. Frederick 30 degrees. 30 degree. Manassas 30. 32 dulles. 32 dulles. 34 in fredericksburg. Urg. 32 this morning inorning i leonardtown. Leonardtown. Close to the bay annapolis is 40 degrees so cool start to s the day. O clear s kies overnight and its allowing a lot of that heat a from yesterday to escape. Ay to c theres your satellite andyo sat radar. Rada very quiet conditions, i mean m very quiet conditions. Ondion wow, yesterday was absolutely gorgeous and well do the sameme thing again today. Look how quiet the weather this is a great time of year. Ea weather pattern nice and quiet. Have a little bit of rainf shower activity along the northern gulf and weve gotd High Pressure to our north andto thats going the keep thingsoihe nice and quiet around here for the time being. Bei lets talk about the weekend. Boe High Pressure will get to ourur south and well get a a southerly and southst mean around here . That means 70s and perhaps a few 80s, allison. Liso yes. Wow. Take you back to the 80s, yes. Summer, summer, summertime byrte monday and tuesday with anh a upper 70s and 80s expected. Theres im already losinglrl it because ive got not muchot m to talk about. Bo. 63 today. 63 dont forget about fox5 rocks5 tomorrow. 64 and theres your weekendr forecast. Fo sunday 72. 78 monday. Again, close to 80 for parts p of the area by monday afternoon. Ternoon. My job is fun. My lets see if erins job is funs this morning with traffic. Ni wit my job is busy. Busy. I want to help you get around ao those trouble spots. E trouble sp this is a look 66 eastbound in virginia. Vi a crash blocking the shoulderde by 29. 29. Delays are extending past 234 p right now. Now. As side from that lets take a a look at skyfox. Theyre over a crash ine ov montgomery county. Go pretty big scene here at the s h intersection of colesville ando georgia. Traffic is getting by to the bye right but a big cleanup there. E one of the vehicles in thes in t intersection sideways. Police are out therece inve get through that intersection as you make your way out again a colesville at georgia thiseorgit morning in montgomery county. Mg a look back at our maps. M a person hit by a car in dale id city down in virginia. Dale boulevard eastbound atastbt cloverdale road an accident rd n scene and investigation. Tition and in addition to that look too at the red on our map as you you make your way between daleenal city and woodbridge. Big slowdowns and as you get closer to the springfieldprinie interchange you slow down mor more. In stafford typical slow roll. Lr same story in maryland. Aran out in frederick 270 south 85 sh to the truck scales slowcales sl Traffic Building there andding then you start to get some of s those stopandgo trafficopa through gaithersburg and rockville this morning. Aside from that river road we havee a t crash at goldsboro rr in bethesda as well. Ase no longer single tracking forra metro on the red line been van a ness and dupont but just give yourself extra time. Ra you may hit some residualua metro delays so theres a lookk at that there. Er Everything Else on time. Ng elsot metrobus looking good. Ng goo keep in mind 50 on the inbound b way from Columbia Park in p towards kenilworth. Back to you. Ou thousands of verizonds ver workers walked offer the jobob after failing to off the job after failing to reach aai new labor agreement. Ame strikes happening all across acs the United States including in maryland and virginia. Senator Bernie Sanders cheeredre on Striking Verizon workers. Or he told those workers at aorrs picket line in brooklyn that t theyre displaying courage byspa standing up to verizon. Iz happening this morning, two, Historic Vehicles will go on on display right here inre i washington. Theres one of them. Tm. President tafts 1909 white 190i steam car very First Official of white house automobile andse that right there is president reagans 1962 jeep. 96 the cj6. Cj6 its awesome. Some theyll arrive at the nationalve mall in a a couple hours. Ou. Tafts car will play on display