Though to bring people together. President elect trump is now planning a thank you tour of the states that he won on election day. That would come we are told after the thanksgiving holiday. Nancy pelosi all by flamed james comey for Hillary Clintons loss. Tonight pelosi has a fight of her own to remain the democratic leader in the house. Ohio senator tim ryan said he will for House Minority leader. Some threaten to move in a different direction after Hillary Clinton was upset by trump. He served as a top intelligence official during three administrations and today the director of national intelligence, james topper resigned. The 75yearolds a announcements is not a surprise. Donald trump is inaugurated. President obama stressed solidarity at a press conference over seas. Mr. Obama and german chancellor merkel hope to extend sanctions on russia for the military intervention in ukraine which expire around the same time that president elect trump takes the office. My hope is that the pres
Way, you need to find another route tonight. Fire and rescue says it is wrapping up the on Site Investigation in to the Silver Spring apartment explosion today. The atfs report should be out in a few days. Ntsb is opening an investigation. Today marks one full week since the blast at the Flower Branch apartments, 7 bodies recovered. We dont know who they are and if there could be more victims. The other big question lingering is what is going to happen to the kids that dont have a place to live when School Starts back in less than two weeks. Pta and volunteers are collecting supplies. Stephanie ramirez joins us live. Sounds like they could use a lot of help. Reporter a lot of educators and volunteers concerned about this, they want to make august 29th a welcome day as possible. Kids lost belongings, a lot of students may have lost a friend and 9 year old david was a rising second grader, one of the 7 missing people in the deadly apartment explosion and fire a week ago today. Allyson is
This is fox 5 local news at 10 00. Right now at 10 00, a fifth body pulled from the rubble at the scene of an apartment explosion in Silver Springs. Are the buildings Still Standing safe . Details on gas line testing in the area. Running red lights. An investigation uncovered metro rails Alarming Number of red line violations. Whats being done to stop it. And keep you safe. Plus, some powerful storms blew through the area, knocking over trees. Are we at risk for more as the heat wave continues . Fox 5 news at 10 00 starts right now. We do begin with the heavy rain thats been pouring down across parts of the dc region. Im tony perkins im shawn yancy. The storms are creating problems in maryland. Trees fell over several areas including here near the olney town street. We want to standing by. Reporter tony and shawn, were going to have to keep rain in the forecast little bit longer, i dont have severe storms at 10 00, but a lot of rain pounding down, and of course, the evening storms, whi
The third incident the report states a 5yearold girl at landingly Park Elementary School was left unattended 75 minutes after visiting the nurse and walked home alone. The report says theyre noti done in time. In the press conference, Prince Georges County said their goal is to provide uninterrupted access to the Head Start Program to families and county. They say it will start as planned monday, august 29th. However, no word yet where their funding will come from and guys we also spoke to a parent of a fouryearold at landingly mccore mic elementary school. She asked us to blur her face, she says shes not surprised federal funding was pulled. Her son experienced a similar instance of to he teachers humiliating him as a form of disciplining him. My son, they didnt give him permission to go to the bathroom. He had a problem changed him. So what they did is they they everybody was laughing at him until i come back Prince Georges County has 30 days from monday to appeal the termination. Th
Some rain blew through the area late this afternoon, heavy at times. Meteorologist josh knight has a look at your stormwatch forecast. Are we done with the rain . Done, there ist one isolated shower pushing across the area and it did just move through laurel. Temperature down to 77 degrees per it for a lot of us, the rain did help us to cool off. Its now left with this muggy, steamy air in place. Try in laurel as we get over towards route 1. Showers continued to push off towards the southeast. Ultimately those light showers moving towards annapolis. Most of us are done behind the rain we had this afternoon. This is that lined the pushes across the area. For most of us, it was relatively light. That all fired up as it got further over to the southeast. Down cover slow to break behind this. The cold front still working its way through the sh watch as the clouds break and temperatures drop. Right now it feels like we are more in the 1980s 80s. If youre getting out there, get the dog out f