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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 ....
Phones at the station instead of relying on 911 dispatchers. Patc throughout the day this has been a major problem and tonight somt sprint customers are furious with the way the company has handled it but it took hours and hours for them to put out an alert. It started last night with an underground transformer fire on 18th and l streets. Sprint says this is what impacted cell service today. Causing some customers to get a busy signal when they dialed out, including to 911. Law enforcement took to social media to warn people. As for sprint, at around noonund the Company Posted on facebook and twitter that there may be landline issues but said nothing about wireless or 911 problems. Hours went by. I. E. Mailed sprint and posted to their facebook asking why there was no update and only after that, about an hour later did sprint finally send an alertler adding customer safety and security is a for some, it was too little too late. On ....
Match. Stunning. We begin with meteorologist chuck bell with a check on your weather headlines. Chuck, good morning. Good morning you guys and good morning everybody. Wednesday finally here. Skies are mostly clear right now. The best news i can give you is the extreme heat with temperatures near 100 degrees. That is officially over. The upper 80s and low 90s. An increasing chance for rain coming our way this afternoon. Shower chances tonight into the front part of tomorrow, optimistic about the first half of the weekend. More important than that, a cooler weather pattern coming our way. 94 for a high in downtown. 87ga gaithersburg. Rain chances increasing. Ill time those out in a few minutes. I have one crash westbound 7 just after follow Police Direction around this one. In Northwest Rock creek parkway at the kennedy center, we have traffic alternating through. Taking a lo ....
Dropped the temperature 15degrees. We will have to much what the potential. Right now were keeping a close eye on the storm in the middle burger and thats the only warn storm we have at the moment but we will certainly pass along any others we g. It continues to be another heat advise try day. We think there could not be another heat advisory tomorrow, but another round of thunderstorms. In the district, police chief cathy lanier announcing her retirement today after 26 years2 on the force and nearly tenarly years as top cop. Lanier is now taking hertaki expertise to the envelope wheree she will be senior vicepresident of security. Fox5s paul wagner life at Police Headquarters tonight with more on what the chief had to say about moving on. Paul, did you expect this todayi reporter to be honest withth you, yes. You, not today, per se, but in speaking with officers over the last several weeks and seeing her and how she was enga ....
Lindsay. Reporter shawn and tony sprint customers should definitely know that this is still ongoing right now. I was just talking to firefighters here chevy chase who say this issue has meant someone has had to man the phones at the station instead of relying on 911 dispatchers. Throughout the day this has been a major problem and tonight some sprint customers are furious with the way the company has handled it but it took hours and hours for them to put out an alert. It started last night with an underground transformer fire on 18th and l streets. Sprint says this is what impacted cell service today. Causing some customers to get a busy signal when they dialed out, including to 911. Law enforcement took to social media to warn people. As for sprint, at around noon the Company Posted on facebook and twitter that there may be landline issues but said nothing abou hours went by. I. E. Mailed sprint and posted to their facebook askin ....