This is fox right now at 10, a Baltimore Television station became the news when a man dressed in a panda costume threatened to blow the station up. He was nodding his head no. Fox5 was there for the dramatic standoff that ended in gunfire. Tough love or abuse. A Northern Virginia father is facing charges after this videov of him becoming his son onis social media. What he told fox5. Plus rat infestations are overre running parts of the district. Now the city is finally takingy action to rid us of the rodentsr fox5 local news at 10 starts now. We thank you for joining us, im tony perkins and im shawnhawn yancy. A Baltimore Television station is back on the air tonight after a story came right to them in a way they never expected. Take a look, this man walked into the station, made demands and then a bomb. Weve now confirmed the identity of the man at the center of todays bizarre events. His name is alex breezy. Marina maracco is life at his h house where atm agents are continuing to search his elk ridge home. Marina. Reporter tony, you can see the agents gathering just behint me. Theyve just executed that t search want and have enteredre alex breezys parents home in elk ridge, maryland and atf agents believe thats where the suspect lives as well. Ves i want to show you the scene because it is very much active. They are looking at something that will give them some sort of motive or explosions or guns that he my have had in the home. Sources say this 25 year old mao had no criminal history. Theyre recovering evidence, bue since this afternoon wernoo understand from sources that they were watching his every move at the news station. And then a robot was able to w make its way to the and find the car that was burning in flames and trace the maryland plates back to this home and thats how they located the suspects house. Now they saturday on this house pretty much all afternoon until the suspects father arrived ono the scene here. According to sources, the father has been fully cooperative this entire afternoon. Erno now, the suspects facebook s page, a telltale sign of what was to come today. E you can see the surgical mask hes wearing in his profile picture, the very same mask hes believed to have worn today. Its being described basically b as a panda outfit onsituate. A flash drive in under that, a surgical mask covering his face. At first site appeared to be an explosive. Those devices were actuallyy Chocolate Candy bars wrapped in aluminum foil with wiring connecting each of them. This 25 year old Howard County man walked into the station in baltimore and made ia clear what he wanted. The guy said he had something worse than a panama papers. He said he had huge scoop that we needed to run. He definitely said im not afraid to die. Afra i want to get my message across. I have a bomb strapped to my chest. For 40 minutes they tried to tri keep the suspect calm. Out in stations parking lot, l the suspects car up in flames in what police was arson. Eventually he walked out, buickb Forward Police commands. Rwar they were in pretty quickk succession, boom, boom, boom. Three Baltimore Police officerso fired at least three shots and a finally were able to take him into custody. At this point the suspect remains in a Baltimore Area hospital in serious, but ta condition. No word if hes cooperating. However, we know from sources s that his family has been fully cooperative with theco investigation and were expecting charges any minute now. Life tonight from elk ridge, maryland, fox5 local news. If you were outside, you know it was a soggy day out there and you may to keep your umbrellasas handy because sue says were in for more Rainy Weather tomorrow. In in fact, it could last through the weekend. Nd. Were getting our share of rain. Thats right, shawn. We were running dry for a couple months there but were starting to make it up. Many places picking up just over a half an inch. Let me show you radar because the first batch has moved on through and this is actually aly line of thunderstorms in West Virginia virginia that as we pulled through weakened out to some reign. So it will help eliminate brushh fires down the road as we get stocked up a little bit. A l there are still some storms pushing through centralhi virginia right you nowng. Y it looks like everything is winding down in West Virginia. They were under a severe thunderstorm watch until 1, but that just got canceled. Look at the direction of the wind. Its right out of the on east e and northeast. Feeling like early march. Kind of miserable out there to be perfectly honest with a lot of mist and drizzle when you werent getting the steadier reign. It is down to 40degrees. Its also going to be cool. Visibilities are dropping. Es a down to a mile and a half in martinsburg. Not so bad in the district, but patchy fog will be around laterr tonight. So expect more of the same tomorrow. There will be off and on light l showers through the day. Day. No thunder expected. A look at the weekend, i wouldn say its not the best weekendekn weve had. H it does look like saturday willw be cloudier and a little bitdi dryermenert the rain showers wos come through mainly in the evening and the bulk of the rain on sunday would be in the first half of the day tapering off toa showers later. One other thing i want about sunday there will be a warm front that is trying tong come through. Come sometimes this is a hard pattern to get rid of. Weve got to honker down for a couple of more days of off and on showers, mist, drizzle and fog. G. Everything everyone lochs ineryo d. C. In p a. Speak for yourself, sue palka. For the gardeners. There you go, thank you. Tonight we are learning new details about princes death. Law enforcement Officials Sayias the singer may have died from af drug overdose. O they found prescription painkillers when they foundy f prince at his paisely park a home in minute annapolis. He died one week ago. W autopsy results are not expected for another three to four weeks. Were learning new details about a deadly standing in montgomery county. Mont the victim maria bunk a was 20 weeks pregnant. They charged her fiance with heh murder. Officers were calledc to an apartment on houston avenue in tacom they found her suffering from s several stab wounds. S. Her throat was slashed. The baby she was caringying did not survive. S we talked with one resident who did not want to be identified. She tells us her neighborhood is normally are quiet. We never have this kind of thing. This is my first time i hear that. Police are still investigating this case. In the meantime innages a is being held on 5 million bond. In Prince William county no word of woman missing for a week. W friends are concerned about her safety. Safe she was last seen leaving a cvs store on touch stone. Her family found her reporting two days later. Her car was found near her car. People are asking anyone withne information about lopez whereabouts to contact on the elevated lead levels found in dozen d. C. Public schools. Simon Elementary School today in an effort to help parents and students see the led testingin process. In the meantime the district t General Services are testing the water sources of all d. C. Public schools. Officially say nearly 100 students have tested negativeiv for led so far. There is no crisis. In fact, we did in an abundancee in caution, we did provide testing at the one school where they did not tag out or put the tag on a water source. And the water source had tested high and they turned it back on. And so the testing that we dida to the children there, no child tested high. School Officials Say new protocols will assure test for led are conducted on every source of water and that tainted sources are turned off. Coming up tonight, its a ton story youre going to want to to so. The controversialto punish a lol father gave his son for skippi school. All day went bikes he didnt h call. So now its discipline time. D and thisis is the discipline. The father posted this video of him boxing his son on social media. Tonight hes facing charges. Were go to tell you what the dad told fox5 about his actions coming up next. A popular snap chat app is at is the center of a lawsuit after a young woman chased her car. The apps link to the accident next at 10. You know what to do here. A Prince William county fatherty is in trouble with the law aftew he posted this video of himself becoming with his teenage son. Ea the father says he was teaching his son discipline and how tod h defense himself at the samehe s time. The question is is it tough discipline or is it abuse . It depends on who you ask. Sarah simmons is following the f story and she is here with its gone viral. Plenty of people have seen it and plenty of people have an opinion about it. Take you digs he was told himself to turn himself in to the Prince William shear after after he posted this video. He says they are a boxing family and its no ones place to judge how he takes care of his business in his house. The law is not on his side. Sid we want to warn you, the video may be disturbing for some to watch that hurt, didnt it. This is video posted to a a facebook by a father known as take you digs. Ou he says hes disciplining his h 17 year old son in class. Disciplining for not followingni myng directs, secondly teaching him how to defense himself. Tai digs then shows himself. He says theyre a boxing familyf in the vi scolding his son about his behaviorc while throwing punch. Stop acting stupid. You know what to do here. You want to play around with school. They dont have to come get the work, do they . A psychologist we talked with called the video disturbing. Hes beating his child. Its not really teaching him a lesson, except the lesson is humiliation. Hes a boy a you solve your problems by fighting out with your fist and then no other place can you do that, in your job or in school. Sch second of all, its not making m the boy feel good about himself. Its humiliation. After the boxing ends, tai digs focuses the camera on his sons bloody face. Im sorry. Whats wrong with you, boy . Again fox5 talked with the father by phone and he says that he just busted his sons lip ana gave him a bloody nose, but nothing longlasting. He also says hes being charged with Domestic Assault and battery. He also says if given the chance his son would not want him to be punished. Tony . Snap chat is being suedg over its speed filter which lets you document how fast youre driving at the time of when are making a video. Last september 18 year old crystal mage recorded hearseorde while she was going over 100 Miles Per Hour before she struck another car. The teen even continued to use t snap chat after the crash taking photos of her injuries as you see here writing, quote, lucky to be alive. The lawsuit claims snap chat should have been aware of the t danger caused by the feed filter and did nothing to remove or change it. Chan a series of metro malfunctions have bee over the next few weeks and now a masstive repair blitz is underway on the redline. This is a look where today crews started cleaning tunnels and inspecting power cables and booths much the work is being done from the van necessary tosr the Medical Center stations. The goal is to stop the water leaks and the rusting and corroding of electrical lines on the tracks. Looking at all the cables, c booths and just cables in general, track, anything withck the third rail itself leaks. Basically we patched the leaks,l but as you know its a losing battle out there. Until you get in and redo it, i you cant control it. In order to complete the work, w metro says there will be major delays starting tonight and throughout the weekend. Virginia may soon vote on whether right to work laws should be added to the state constitution. The national right to workht t foundation is hoping to add the measure to the ballot this november. 26 states currently have righty to work laws. Forced or required to join a labor union. Critics called the move desperate. This is really about not trusting future generations wito their own decisions about what o kind of labor market and what kind of virginia they want to wn be. Thats what the critics mightcs say. The fact is no right to work lal has been over turned where wed havent gotten it back immediately well, the economicoc policy says an estimated 55 percent of Young Workers view unions as favorable. The strike against verizon isga now in its third week. The company says it is a victim t of sabotage, but doesnt know if the striking workers are to blame. Some of its equipment was damaged in new jersey, n pennsylvania and in new york and its had an effect on service in those areas as well. Some 36,000 verizon workers walked off the job at a contract dispute. They are fighting for pay raisin against jobs. Theres much more to come at 10. Teisha. Reporter reporter buckle your seat sa belts. This next story is about to take off for a big surprise for a soldier returning from an oversees deployment. A local Boy Scout Troops big camping trip could be in jeopardy because someone stole all their gear. Ge stick around well hes be right back. I can see all obstacles in my new at 10, fox5 is in Loudon County tonight where a Dulles Air Force based pilot surprised his son who returning home from a redeployment in question tacki the solder had no idea his dad would be flying the plane. Fox5s teisha lewis joins us with the story. Reporter what a everybody was in on it from the crew to the passengers and of course the airline. It all went off without a hitchh of course cameras were rolling and passengers were posting to social media. Weve seen so am of these surprise reunion videos, but this one tops the list. Youve seen them before. Instant tier jerkers. Showing surprise reunions between soldiers and loved ones. This was no exception on board b on board this military flight. Apparently this video has made a lot of people cry. It made me cry. Fox5 local news caught up with surprised his son whos was was returning home after a ninemonth deployment. United was chattered to do a a military charter. Tary i happened to see it and was able to pick it up and so my wife and i kept that a surprise. We wanted to surprise him on his return home. His eyes opened up like saucers. He was extremely surprised. S we just embraced and hugged. The two just couldnt stop crying and hugging. When i was hugging him i did say, welcome home, i love you. And kissed him on the cheek and we just hugged for a few minutes captain lobes lives in gainesville, virginia. This Youtube Video showing the two reuniting has nearly 200,00a views and counting. Its nice that something touches our hearts and we and caring human beings. A surprise reunion happened in frankfurt, germany at the beginning of the flight. First lieutenant lobes was stationed in key wait. He never had an opportunity quite like this. It just makes me smile. Smi its one of those incredibleble things. I love it. E it its the feel good story of the week. A lot of people ask what do youu do when you get back after being deployed for nine months. First lieutenant lobes is enjoying a bates ball game is what im told. Thank you. Hank coming up will farrell was was castellani to play president Ronald Reagan in an upcomingg union. Were going to tell you why reagans family is trying to try stop this film from going into production. One local Boy Scout Troop is in the trenches after someone stols their supplies for an upcoming trip. These stories and much more ahead at z1yorz this is fox5 local newsc at 10. Were back now with a look at tonights top headlines. We begin tonight with marinaight maracco life in baltimore. Marina . Reporter yeah, atm agents a just finished searching the home of 25 year old alex breezy, the suspect that police say walked into fox 45 in Baltimore Andre threatened the station with explosives. He was wearing a panda onis and a flotation device filled with i chocolate bars. He was shot by police and is expected to survive. A Prince William county father is in trouble with the law after he posted a video of himself boxing his 17 year old son. The father who calls himself tai digs on facebook say says he was teaching him son how to defensew himself at the same time. He was told to turn himself the sheriff and he is facing charges. Today they held a walk through at simon Elementary School. I was an effort to help parents and students see the led testing process. Nearly 100 students have tested negative for led so far. It has been a year now since the death of freddie gray and the te right osteomyelitis that sweptmy through a sectioeln of baltimor. Feet end state law enforcementte are still investigating the riots. A number of businesses were vandalized and burned to the ground. Even though police have made hav several arrests they are still looking for the people responsible, including an arsonn at the cvs, an arson at a pawn shop on pratt street. A rite aid. And an arson at a Senior Center on chester street. Police ever offering up to 10,000 for information thatin leads to an arrest in these cases. Also in baltimore, police areal stillti defensing yesterdays shooting of a 13 year old boy by who was carrying out what turned out to be a bibi gun. Walking down the street when they ordered him to drop the gun. They shot him once in the leg t and in the shoulder. He is expected to be okay. His mother told them she knew her son left the house with the gun. This next story may have you saying who would do such a thing. The boy scouts were planning on taking over a trip to West Virginia but that may have to be canceled because they have no gear. Trailer that is used to store over 10,000 in equipment is missing. Matt ackland has more. Reporter the scout master says this happened betweend b monday and tuesday here in this Church Parking lot. Arki the trailer was parked right over here in this space. I was backed u