Good morning, everybody. Thank you for watching. We begin with the fight happening right now between metro and the biggest union. After metro sayings hundreds of workers fried calling out sick today. The system was still running smoothly this morning. The employees are calling for better working condition which is pay. There is a News Conference about metros sick leave policy. Justin is live where this is happening in friendship heights. Reporter and that event starts in just a few minutes. Told the union says they never back any kind of stakeout and any workers who did call out sick were following the three day sick policy now part of their union. Policy is unsafe and unfair. And one of the many conditions theyre not fighting against. Looks to be a smooth friday morning rush at the carlton station. Buses and training running early riders sense of relief as transit workers opened up. Call the concerns that workers would call out. Possibility of metro workers not coming to work in the d
Feed my baby. A virginia mother considering legal action after a confrontation over Breast Feeding at church. Tonight, shes giving new details to fox5 about what happened. And tense moments as metro workers protest in front of management. Now the question is will there be a sickout tomorrow that will affect you . Your news starts now. And we thank you for joining us, im tch and im Sarah Simmons in for shawn. Off the top teachers blowing off steam by swinging a baseball bat at a chair. Well, the idea behind the socalled smash space was apparently to let faculty members relieve some stress. But now its landed the school in who the water. Fox5s Marina Maracco is live in h kensington with the details anthrax from parents tonight. Reporter Montgomery County Public Schools say they do not approve or condone what staff was allow here to do here at this Elementary School, howrveg the principal happened at a loading dock just like this one, out of site and out of reach from students. But tonigh
Team. Workers dropped protest petitions in front of gm Paul Wiedefeld as they turned their backs and said the words who moves this city . We move this city and once they were outside you saw that human chain surrounding headquarters. All week long we have been talking about this, management bracing for a possible sickout happening today because they did receive an unusually high number of absence requests from bus and rail staff, nearly 500 applied for that absence request and they have denied all of them. So, its a bit of await and see this morning. The union tells matt ackland yesterday, our matt ackland that they do not plan to be out sick today. Metro says but just in case, they have planned accordingly. They have asked their supervisors to step in if there are any problems. So, again, await and see game this morning. Thats the very latest here from metro center northwest, annie yu fox5 local news. Annie thank you. Today marks day 99 of President Trumps time in office. Its also sup
Thank you. Two firefighters suffered minor injuries. Area firefighters were called to help to help find the fire. When you see how big it is you see why they needed the back up. Yeah. The building was known as fuse 47. According to their website, the complex features a host of upscale amenities, a pet spa, school and a keyless Smart Phone App enabled enter system. Some of the apartments were available for rent as early as july. The prices range from 1,500 a month for a one bedroom, one bathroom to 3,500 a month for three bedrooms and two bathrooms. On social media shir ri wrote shirley wrote, i seen the fire when they were trying to put it out. The smell was terrible. La tonya said they have been working so hard to build and rebuild and now this major set back. We ant do we want to see youve and comments on our wusa 9 facebook page. We have a yell loi weather a yellow weather alert on this monday evening. Howard berstein will tell us how long it will last. Reporter well have it through
People are in the water and then an individual will report may be tingling. I try to jump in and touch her and as soon as i touch her, i felt a shock run through me. I dont know thats her or something in the water or what you. This video shows how quickly an electrical current can incapacitate you. According to the Consumer Product Safety Commission only 14 electrocution deaths in a pool have en entire country. In pool safety and hot tubs and spas, its very, very rare and very sad to learn that this could happen. But and and we pulled the most recent inspections and didnt see any major violations. It turns out Electrical Inspections are not required except for when the pool was the red cross said there can be warning signs but they are not always easy to see. Certainly the pool has underwater lights, or if there are electrical outlets or anything like that nearby. Though should always be observed before someone takes off into the water. Many of us dont because of this as they risk. We