Umeh. Here we go. If youre not going to claim the, i shall. Im here all week, yall. In for hold daal. Hello everybody. Okay. So coming up this morning, fox5 is spreading some Holiday Cheer with acts of just random kindness this morning. I love it. It is money monday erin and tucker getting ready to hit the road right now theyre heading out the door. They are going to surprise some of our fox5 viewers and look its monday monday. So were not playing around. You can do the math and figure out whats going on. No opinions that say fox5 on us. This time. We have those. We got some some. Okay. While you were gone. Erin and tucker will drop you off somewhere. Okay, all right. Youll bet the opinion. Lets get serious and get to breaking news out of new york city. If you and that hear earlier this morning 90 minutes ago there was an explosion at midtown manhattan about block from times square outside of Port Authority in one of the subway tunnels in port auth authority. We are told that not only
Channing street. Caution there. We have a red line delay. A full look at traffic next. Back to you. 7 oclock is our time right now. Developing overnight the power is back on at the worlds Busiest Airport. But now thousands are backed up after being stranded and delayed in atlanta. All right in the thick of Christmas Travel of course and fox5s Melanie Alnwick is live at Reagan National airport with how these major delays are affecting us locally. Mel. Reporter hey, good morning, and, yes, it is definitely affecting us locally. We had a number of passengers who told us that they came here to the airport yesterday, their flight was canceled they were rebooked on flights for this morning. They got here this morning and those flights were canceled and thats why weve seen such big backups here at the terminal and also at the at the check in counter as people are trying to figure out where are they going, how can they get there and when can they get there, all of this because of that power ou
Bomb cyclone. Well talk more about that coming up. Lets get right to the radar. Snow continues across the area. Not terribly heavy up and down the i95 corridor but it is coming down, it is sticking and it will be with us for a few more hours. I will give you all the details on how much snow weve seen and how much more we can expect and what we can look forward to later today. Ill give you a hint. Lots of wind and lots of cold coming up in just a couple minutes but you can see that live radar, our storm our snow continues across the area. It will be with us for a few more hours. Erin im going to toss to you. I take it most everybody is kind of waiting it out or allison and steve . We are trying. The situation with the schools have been changing throughout the morning a lot of schools going from delayed earlier this morning or overnight to closed now. They are all scrolling at the bottom of your screen throughout the morning show. Lets get you caught up on the major systems closed or del
O and n. There where you see sort of mid block there and thats what we believe this incident ended and we can see still several evidence markers on the alley and people talking again right to end by souchbd gun shots that they brought their children and family members to the back parts of their houses not sure in anyone was in danger. We we know d. C. Police rebond reised to gun shots and found adult male 30 years old described in and out of conscious ntion suffering from gun shot this rear shouldner back area that at point that man was rushed to the hospital and was pronounced dead at the hospital and shes now active Homicide Investigation though d. C. Police have not been able to give us any information in terms of a suspect and theres still and we see them taking photographs there doing evidence collection. We hope to get some information as far as suspect information and we can tell you in this three block area steve, allison, no homicides according to npd crime data in the last ye
Prince George County alone 1700 features requested off teachers requested off. Live in upper marboro with more, mel, good morning. Good morning, guys, the School System wants to be clear that this was a decision not because of the protests but literally they had no choice. They were taking a stand on the movement itself. Prince George County by far the largest School System to be affected by this call out. The message was sent through e male a. M. Posted on School Web Site 7 30 last night which is not a lot of time for parents try to figure something out for the 127,000 students who now do not have a classroom to go to today. Now, letter from super intend enter dr. Kevin maxwell apologized for inconvenience noting callout was action urged by organizers of the womens march on washington. As you me 1700 teachers and also 30 of transportation staff requested that personal leave day. Maxwell said absences compromised School System ability to transport students and provide safe productive l