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WTTG Fox 5 Morning News 6 April 29, 2016

He was sentenced after briefft trial. The north hasnt released anytl more details about what kim isti exactly accused of doing. D kims sentencing comes weekstego after a u. S. College student was convicted of engaging ing antistate activities during ati visit there. He was sentenced to 15 years15 y in prison. Also developing overnight the search for a missing mis sevenyearold in marylandn man jaquan hall was last seen inn in the 3400 block of parkway pkw terrace in suitland wearingand n blue jeans an blue top. Ea police say he was withns his his 26yearold uncle michaelicha clark jr. And they may bejr. Headed to montgomery county. Gome now, if you see jaquan or Michael Please call police immediately. Atel today we are expected toxpte learn more about the cybermo bullying probe related to treheo death of Fairfax County cou firefighter nicole mittendorf. Mittendorf killed herselfder earlier this month after allegedly suffering months of online and Workplace Bullying by by coworkers. Funeral services for mittendorf were held yesterdayte at 1 oclock today, fairfaxai county fire chief richardic bowers is scheduled to releaseso new information about the cyber can chief bowers is alsolso expected to address steps to prevent suicides among rank and file firefighters. File it has been a rough montha m for metro riders especially ife you use the red line. In there have been more than aar dozen incidents in april alongio the red line and all thosellh problems have led to today, a massive repair blitz from metro. Melanie alnwick is live outside the tenleytown stationoo to let us know how this is how i going to affect you today andt o into the week, right, mel . Ht, reporter thats right, guys. Remember when general managerag Paul Wiedefeld first came on c board metro he back inmetro ban november. He said that it was no longert going to bewa business as usual. Weve seen him take decisive t action before and this is yetis another example of that. The announcement that this repair blitz was happening really at the same time that t he was addressing the metro board it began yesterday atte 10 00 a. M. And continued toed 3 00 p. M. And that is what is w were going to see throughout the weekend. Nd. Really having a lot of troublei and now it is finally getting gi some much needed intensive care. Re during this maintenance blitzai workers are going to cleannt tunnels expect power cables powb and remove debris and mud all aa of this because of water infiltration corroding thedi t electrical lines on the trackscs and causing other problems. The gm says when the underground stations wereun built the tunnels werente sealed and now the wattuer leakt have taken their toll and the t gm says it is going to getheto t worse if it is not addressed. So, with the net effect it t means that from van ness toheo Medical Center we are going to see single tracking. Racking. Happened yesterday. Pp will also go on today from todao 10 00 a. M. To 3 00 p. M. Andnd then picking back up again atp n 8 00 p. M. Until closing. Closing that is going to continue ctinue through the weekend. The station impacted the mostct on this are going to be bethesda Friendship Heights and here at tenleytown whereeyww that single tracking israckg expected to cause some crowding on the platforms,ng perhaps some confusion as well l so people need to Pay Attention to those signs andig know w getting on. Back to you guys. Uuys. Thanks for the head up mel. Dm appreciate it. Ec this morning a baltimoreal television station is back on ik air after a story came right cam to them in a way they nevery expected. You see yesterday a manee y walked into the station andd threatened to detonate a bomb. Fox5s annie yu live ine i studio with details. This was bizarre and scary at st the same time. Reporter a very scary situation for the fox 45 news5 n crew. This morning were learningng w more. The 25yearold man who threatened to blow up theed station and shot by police issh recovering in the hospital. This incident began aron undun 1 oclock thursday. Ock police say this howard countywau man alex brizzi walked intoked n the fox 45 baltimore newsmore n station wearing an animal costume a surgical mask and was strapped with what policeit thought was an explosivean expve device. Device police say he then made then demands before threatening toeae detonate a bomb. Te a bb. The suspicious device turnedene out to be chocolate bars wiredae together and the security andhes guard working at the time says s he quickly alerted the newshe room and evacuated theated the building and for 40 minutes heth tried to keep that suspectpe calm. Parking lot the suspects carpec was up in flames and eventually brizzi did walk wa out. Ou after a long standoff cityoff Police Officers fired at leastdl three shots and were able too take him into custody. Im as investigators search too learn more about the suspect his family is speaking out. G my son said he had aad revelation from god and jesus as that he he gave me thehe message that the world isat thei going to end june the third thei and i need to get this message to people. My wife the other day went d w down to his room when he hade hd left for a little while and wle said he was working withng wit something with wires, you know. And we just werent able toble connect the dots. He dot the suspects father saysat the family has a history of of mental illness. Ill he says it runs back to the fathers own sister and thehe suspects mother. He believes his son may suffer s from a mental situation butuatib right now the family is justisus fo recovery and then trying thetr decide what to do next. Bizarre story but its a super sad story, too. , my heart breaks for those forho parents of that boy. Thanks annie. Ann all right, its friday. Yes. Its springtime. It yes. So that means fox5 isthat rocking it out. Ro thats right. That lets lighten the mood heretoo and get down to Tucker Barnesare because hes dealing with thehhe weather and the muddy crows. Dyro gary said it earlier. Earlier this is a muddy crows perfect combination. Gentlemen, holly, happy birthday. Thank you. Let me start by saying thear weather conditions could notns c be more ideal down here for aor great concert. T concert were looking at a nice breezeeb ouster north. Just a little bit of cloudtle bu cover and just a couplest a cou showers to kind of clean theinde park here as we get ready fordy a great morning. Ning yeah, the muddy crows areuddy c going to be down here. H theyre segment up as were ent speak. Lots of energy down here andown were going to have a goodve a g time no matter what. O maer w its friday morning and its all systems go. A lot of people ou and its going to be a lot ofe t fun between now and 11 oclock l this morning. Lets get right to the weatherte forecast give you the latestu tt and let you know that were looking at some chilly cll conditions. Co 49 now in washington, 48 outn, o in annapolis. Apolis. North and west youre lookingsty at mid 40s to start your day. D definitely jacket here earlyly as our winds are out of the out north and east and were andre looking at a few showersew showe across the area. Across the are satellite and radar just aite couple sprinkles out there. Oute these wont last as were looking at cloud cover. Oud heres the bottom line on yourr friday forecast. Forecast. Cloud cover cool conditionscooli and drizzle continue todaye t with a chance of a few moreew m showers this afternoon as well so were just not going to getn much improvement in thent i overall pattern but as far as aa coming down to the muddy crows concert down here i think mostwn of your morning should be jus hs kind of cloudy with just ah j little bit of drizzle. Of drizz all right, quick look atook at todays forecast. Day were looking at daytime lies de in the upper 50s to about 60 a0 with clouds and a little bititte of drizzle. D all right. Im going to be here alle morning long. G l erin is going to join me an me little later this morning. Orning erin its already getting set up. Its going to be to be to be to awesome. How is traffic looking. Icooki i expect you to get thexp Party Started for us t ill see you in the 9 oclock 9 hour. We expect a great crowd. C we had love for to you stop bytb and say hi and enjoy some music. If youre heading out the doorhd this is a look 270 southboundthd in montgomery county. M as you make your way down fromor frederick youre going hit h that delay at 109 and then the once you pass by this area in i clarksburg things looking good g as you make your way towardsow the spur we had an earlier ear crash by democracy boulevard. Oud that cleared out of the way. Ared so, things looking good there. He northbound traffic light as well. Lets switch it over rightitch now. This is the inner loop wherelooe traffic is heavy as usual as u picking up as you head towards r alexandria. Alex as you make your way pastayp five, though, were gettingh, wt reports of a tire in theire in t roadway. Roadway. So you can see just a littlean j bit of an issue there. T this is out by branch avenue. Au getting reports of a stalledll vehicle as well. Vecle so well let you know if that starts to cause any majoro ca slowdowns this morning. Wn a looks now at our maps. S alden road south of fairfax faif county parkway a crash withrash wires down. That could definitely show you o down out in fairfax. Frfax issues southbound lanesthbod l blocked. Ked. Avoid south capitol street outpe by atlantic street. Tic s metro is on time right now but again, red line trackck improvement this weekend couldee cause delays. Back to you. Yo all right. 6 09 is the time. Te. A hat trick by t. J. Oshie o sealed the deal. He scored his thirdcores th consecutive goal in overtime and the caps won fourthree. Oure 33 beat the penguins. Pgu oshie entered the game withe w just one goal in 36 careerr post season games and even though Braden Holtby gave up gau three goals he turned back 42 shots. S. Game two stays in washingtonasho tomorrow night at the verizon vz center. Nt some harsh words withinit the gop party. Former House Speaker johnakej boehner has to say about onebout of the republican president ialla candidates. That story coming up next. Ly. The Obama Administration condemning the airstrikes. Airre josh earnest says thearne continued violation of theon of ceasefire is having a negative e effect on political talks toalks end the civil. Former cable news guest who claimed to be a cia officer is set to plead guilty to federalel criminal charges today. Od Wayne Simmons was charged lasts year in federal court inn alexandria with fraud andaud d making false statements to theto government. Go prosecutors say simmonsuts say claimed cia pursuing security clearances and in seeking work as a defense contractor. Cont meantime Lance Armstrong isi asking a judge to end a to lawsuit against him by thet himt u. S. Government. Governmen the government wants toants recover millions of dollars insi sponsorship money the u. S. The S Postal Service paid toai armstrongs team from 1998 through 2004. Ugh. Armstrong confessed in 2013 ton3 doping to win the Tour De France seven times. T he claims that the postal pos service made an agreement with w the team he rode on and was not a part of the agreement. Agr a war of words within the gop. Former House Speaker john boehner lashed out at president ial hopeful ted cruzal during a speech this week at hec stanford university. Nirsit he compared him to the devilhe and thats not all. I have never worked with a more miserab bleep . applause . applause . Over my dead body would he be president. Resident. Cruz hit back while cz hi stumping in indiana he said he i boehner was letting his inner n trump come out. John boehner and his remarks describe donald trumpsc as his texting and golfing buddy. If you like what john boehner, N Nancy Pelosi and harry reidry rd have Donald Trump Trump is your guy. G crews also says that he haded never worked with boehner whooer stepped down as speaker laster fall. Ll. Meanwhile hillary clintonwhl is blasting donald trump onld tn his comments about her playingep the womens card to get whereet she is saying if she were ashe e man she wouldnt get 5 percenter of the vote. Of the thats what trump said. Mp s now in a series of tweets shef s asked what card is trumps t playing and is also using theo statement to raise some moneyomm for her campaign. Cpaig shes encouraging people toging make a donation so they canan get their woman card. D. Meanwhile bernie sandersernr capa than 200 employees accordingmplc to his campaign manager. Anag the decision comes after sanders lost four out of five o east coast states during theng primaries tuesday. T this morning Vice President mn joe biden is in rome to talk tk about cancer research. R hes at a vatican conferencefe thats going on today. N today he is highlighting the Obama Administrations Moon Shot Initiative which aims to makes e therapies available to moreie patients and accelerate cancersc research and improve cancer prevention. Ev coming up what officials in a maryland are doing today to tody ease concerns over the zika t virus. Lets go ahead and take ao live look outside as we heade h to break on this fridays fri morning. Little chilly out there,there, folks. Fo 48 degrees right now. Its damp as well. s damas w were going talk weather andea of course traffic on the 5sn s coming up next. It is friday, it is i rainy, it is cool but itt doesnt mean we dont know areto you threw have a good time ongom fox5. Lets go to Tucker Barnes. Tot hes down at Farragut Squareragu park and the muddy crows are cre going to be down thereg be shortly. Ort hey, Tucker Barnes. Bar hey, wisdom. Sd you know what, i heard about your singing last week. T im going to have a danceoff do later. You got to come down. Toome i want you coming down heredown doing some dancing with me me later today. Later to i got this whole knee thingnh tucker. I cant do any knee backee b and shoulder. An i realize you got some injuries. In after your big basketball season. Seas yeah. Lets get going here. We got the muddy crows cro yeah, were getting old. Ng o we got the muddy crows showingro up here in the next couple hours. Were setting up for it. Going to be a great concert. On were going to be out hereut until 11 oclock this morning. L please come down and say hi. A h i know erin is going to come toc down in a couple hours. E well get the friday partydaar started early and off. A o never mind the light rainmind showers or cool conditions. C once we get movinoog were going to warm it rht get to the temperatures andemras see whats happening out here. You know, its not ideal im iai not going to lie. Oie 49 degrees in washington. Hiton. 48 in annapolis. Nnapis. And in leonardtown. Nato but its not terrible, either. It got cloud cover and a little lit bit of light shower andof l sprinkle activity across theiv area and were going to keepp that in the forecast for yourt friday. Frid so no sunshine today, sorry about that as were just stuckek in the same pattern weve beenvb stuck in for the last coupleast of days. All right, theres a quickherea look at forecast. Forecas 59 your daytime high. Ig those winds stay out of the t east and the north and east at about five to 10 with clouds wis and drizzle an few passingpassig showers. Lets talk about the weekendbo forecast. Not looking great. Look in fact, as we get intot int saturday and sunday, heresy, h the good news. We are going to be warmer withh daytime highs in the mid toheid upper 60s but we do have ao few showers around both saturday and sunday with the w possibility of maybe ait thunderstorm by sundayders afternoon. So, unfortunately thattuna unsettled pattern continuesd pti for a few more days. Upper 50s to about 60 today. 6d all right. Rig im down at farragut come down and join me. E. The muddy crows will be herero soonly well have a big he a Concert Series to end the week for our friday. For our f should be a great morning. Mni thats the latest. At lets do traffic with erin. E things are flowing smoothly s out here but im impresseded with the volume of traffic outef here early. Yeah, theres a lot ofhere traffic early usually on on fridays especially with the espc rain. You know how d. C. S theress trs always something going on. Som right now you can see trafficee is picking up. U this is 95 northbound by newington. Newing just a steady flow of trafficra towards the springfield interchange. Well take a look at our maps. Ap south of that points we alsols have delays through dale city. I. Theres a transformer issue. Ssue south capitol street closed southbound between atlantic street and chesapeake sosa please use caution as you headaa out in southeast this morning. I fairfax we have a crash withsh w some downed wires. Wir alden road south of fairfax frfx county parkway. County parkway. As you head out in marylandd the biggest delay on theelay one inbound side is southboundbo 270, 80 to 109, sluggish commute, average speeded checking in a 35 miles per hour. H stopandgo traffic. Go traff Prince Georges County innerges loop branch avenue to wilsonav bridge looking good. Loo we have reports on the inner loop of a disabled blocking the shoulder by branch avenue. E. Little extra caution. Cau five slows. Ve 301 heavy. No alerts from metro which ishi good news but this weekend weeke theres a lot of track work scheduled. Check in with me on twitter att erin fox5 d. C. On how those adjustments could act your weekend commute on metro. D co holly. Sounds good. S thanks. Ks 6 19. 6 and the fight against zika is i coming to maryland. Today at 3 oclock governor govr larry hogan will be holding allb press conference to talk about various state initiatives initiv against zika. Agt in montgomery county, countyery executives will hold a meetingee to discuss the threat from the r mosquitos, what the county is tu doing to combat the virus andird what residents can do to do t protect themselves and theirnd r families as mosquitos begin to emerge for the summer. Sme hundreds of mothers andnd their babies will make their way to capitol hill today tool participate in a nationwideatnw nursein event a campaign toamig bring aware breastfeeding in public tonublic end public breastfeedingeeding discrimination. 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