This is fox5 local news at 10. Right now at 10 a frightening situation for people across our region. For hours their calls to 911 wouldnt work. Well break down what happened and if it can happen again. Agai a stunning announcement from the districts veteran police chief cathy lanier. I think i definitely bring something to the table. The chief scores a job withob the nfl. Th when is she out . Who will replace her and who is in chargn of finding her successor . The answers that will impact thehe future of the districts policee force. Fo plus, three people charged with running a sex trafficking ring t in maryland. Investigators say they recruited teens online with promises of modeling. How police busted them. Right now on fox5 news at 10. Customers across the region have had trouble calling 911. 911 as you can imagine its createda all kinds of problems. Thanks for joining us im shawn yancy and im tony perkins. Its been going on for most ofof the day, sprint customers are getting a busy s
View from our tower cam this morning. Patchy ice on sidewalks. Watch out for that on the sleet and icing. A little bit of snow in the afternoon. A greater chance for accumulating snow coming in on thursday. Look at the drive time forecast coming up at 6 11. Speaking of driving this morning. We have a breaking backup. Big backup now southbound bw parkway as you approach the beltway. Chopper 4 over the scene now. Take a look at this. All the headlights headed southbound. We have a four mile back up from a crash that cleared out of the way. The delays remain. We pushed it out on the nbc washington app and tweeting as well. A mess. Take 95 as alternate. Brunswick signal problems on almost all the lines this morning. Running up to 10 minutes behind. A warning there. New crash that popped up 295 northbound at bedding road and one down south at four seasons drive. Just got a report of that accident. Wide look at things overall. No major problems into town and out of town. You can see the bw p
Nargiza Muzhapaer, a Fairfax County seventh-grader, has reached the semifinals of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, while three other Northern Virginia spellers were eliminated in Wednesday s quarterfinals. Muzhapaer attends Pinnacle Academy.