sex from under age girls and boys. melanie alnwick is live in fairfax with what 35er79s need to know. good morning. well, steve, allison. investigators tell us the most frightening things about the stings is how easy it is to go online and find these sexual predators and dho say boys and girls are equally targeted. these are rests were result of three day sting operation involving fairfax country police and as well as detectives from the loudoun county sheriff office and the fbi. police said they did not want top give us too much information about specific tactics but they told us in these operations they are active on social media sites, chat rooms and other sites they pose as minors. investigators don t have to be online for long. if a child out there, hey, what s going on. just a general statement. next things you know the prat a conversation and will within a matter of moments start to send sexual explicit images and ask for those images in return. and in all, aets
yesterday s rain would appreciate a pocketful of sunshine. let s get right to our meteorologist to tell us about that. i m going to have the mother of all forecasts. oh. oh hey. twitter feed. yeah, it s going to be a beautiful day. right now few clouds closing in from the west, you can see the sun right now spreading across the nation s capitol. starting off calm and partly cloudy. although we are getting a few sprinkles to our north and west, those are tracking into montgomery county now, but they ll be gone over the next half hour. temperatures in the 40s. quite a chill in the air. reagan national at 47 degrees. for the d.c. bike ride by 8:00, partly cloudy, still in the mid-50s, getting mild by 10:00 a.m. into the mid-60s, then noontime, the low 70s, and during the afternoon with the bright sunshine, we ought to hit the upper 70s. look at even hotter weather on the way over the next ten days, that s in a few minutes. thank you an hour responding to unusual ca
days. that s in just a few minutes. tom, we ll stick around. while you were sleeping, dozens of firefighters worked to put out the flames from a fire in springfield. but location of this fire, it s about location. it s very unusual. news 4 s derek ward joins us now live from the scene with details, hi darin. reporter: good morning, how are you? well of course this is something you don t necessarily see every day. a fire at a fire house. that s exactly what happened here at station 26. we re a carolina place just off of the road in fairfax county. and you see what they believe is the cause of this fire. yeah, it was a serious fire. it actually went to two alarms. take a look, this is a scene shortly after it was reported. you can see that piece of equipment where the fire is believed to have started is pretty much that s going to be central to the investigation as to how this all got under way. but we are told that even with all of this adversity here with a fire at th
but it was some kind of scaffolding collapse. the man was some kind of metal worker, but a lot of details will come out once osha investigators get on the site. thank you. there have been other construction accidents at that same museum site. in july of 2013 cranes were used to pull a worker from a 60- foot deep hole. it is a busy day for our emergency workers across the area. crews are scouring the potomac river searching for a swimmer last seen floating downstream. ellison barber is at that scene now with the latest from potomac, maryland. ellison? reporter: when we put up here, the first thing i heard was a park police helicopter flying in the air. we don t hear that anymore because most of the crews have left the scene because the sun is starting to set. they ll be back at sunrise looking for this person, but this was a very active search that involved multiple agencies, montgomery fire and rescue, montgomery county and fairfax police and the u.s. park police lookin
she hopes young girls today can learn from her story. there s nothing that s not possible with hard work. your attitude and hard work will get you wherever you want to go and a lot of young people don t have that confidence, especially if they have that background. reporter: she s had a tumultuous relationship with many of her officers and while the chairman of the d.c. police union thanked her for that service, the treasurer blasted her on social media today saying in a statement, lanier should be ashamed that she s leaving the department in such disarray. 994 officers have fled in just 2 1/2 years and morale has never been worse . you can t be the boss and do a job of 5,000 employees and think that there is going to be somebody that is not happy. i have a bunch of people that say thank you and a bunch of people that say why are you doing this? reporter: we ve been headquarters and people walking by and people are asking if she s going to coach the redskins and, no,