Morning firefighters still on the scene of a huge fire in college park. This was the scene for hours monday. Flames and thick smoke visible for miles, as a multimillion dollar construction project burned. Tom roussey has more. Meanwhile a man arrested for flyi near that fire police say Trevon Miller flew his private drone right into the direct path of a police helicopter. They had to take special action to prevent a crash. Miller is charged with interfering with a Police Response and reckless endangerment. Breaking overnight a fire turns into a death investigation. Sam sweeney is at the live desk. Larry as we come on the air this morning, we are learning that the Prince William county homicide unit is now involved in this case. It started as an Apartment Fire on sherbroooke circle in woodbridge. Thats just off of old bridge road. When firefigters made their way inside the adult man unconcious on the floor. He was pronounced dead shortly later. All of this unfolded just after 1130 last
Another cool, breezy, rainy day transition day wednesday summerlike warmth by the weekend 1st 90 degree day possible today cloudy, cool, and breezy. Rain likely. Highs 5961 winds ne 1015 mph tonight scattered showers. Lows 5457 winds n 5 mph tuesday clouds early, late day sunshine. Warmer. Highs 7579 winds nw to se 5 mph developing now a multimillion construction project in college park goes up in flames. The blaze grew to 5 alarms monday and firefighters are still on the scene 20 hours later John Gonzalez is live in college park. What is going on john. Meanwhile a man is facing charges this drone in restricted airspace near that fire police say Trevon Miller flew his private drone right into the direct path of a police helicopter. They had to take special action to prevent a crash. Miller is charged with interfering with a Police Response and reckless endangerment. Breaking overnight hospital after a car slams into their cruiser. Dc police tell us the officers were pulled over on 295
Might have significant delays. Pockets of moderate rain right in here late morning until about lunchtime today and off and often periods of light to moderate rain. It will be known as a rainy day today. Temperatures also wont be moving a whole lot. Lets go over to sheena for that. Similar to yesterday with our temperatures. Dont expect a warmup today. Its going to be mostly in the upper 50s through the afternoon and some areas right around 60. Currently if youre about to walk outside, 56 degrees in the district, 52 dulles, 52 leesburg. Fredericksburg at 55. Temperatures cooler there, mid 40s. Heres what the numbers look like today. Aside from the rain that chuck showed you, thats going to help to keep the temperatures down. Again, by about 9 00 a. M. , still looking at the mid 50s. By noon, upper 50s. Well be topping out around 60 degrees. You see the temperatures not really rising but wait until well talk more about that. Lets check the roads on this wet morning. The rain not going to
Sickout. He has more on whats behind all of this and how it will impact you. Thats right, wendy. Metro and its Largest Union are locked in a heated and contentious contract dispute, thats where all of this is coming from. Metro workers have been telling their supervisors theyre not coming into work on friday. That is what our sources are telling us. An email has been going around telling supervisors theyre going to have to staff up and be ready to work 12hour shifts this entire weekend, just in case metro front line workers, like train operators and Bus Operators dont show up. What does that mean . Really, it comes down to the nasty blood that is just going on now between metro and its Largest Union, as these contract disputes go out. A spokesperson for metro said there have been an unusually high number of absentee requests for this weekend. Thats why they are taking this action. A says he doesnt believe a sickout will happen, but its a tactic that they are using to try to get the gen
Went wrong. Another fox 5 exclusive. The parents who made controversial Youtube Videos pranking their kids call in a Crisis Communications firm for help. We realized that we have made terrible parenting decisions and we just want to make things right. How had the family is dealing with the fallout from their video five alarm fire forced seniors from their home and shut down classes in college park. The smoke was real. Smell like tar. Were live as firefighters continue their work. Plus how a drone almost interfered with their efforts to put out the fire. The news at 10 00 starts right now. We begin with the first of two fox 5 exclusies. A swat team busts into a familys home and detains everyone there all because of a case of mistaken im tony perkins im shawn yancy. Before officers discovered the mistake he ended up hurt and his mother had to be taken to the hospital the victim is speaking only to fox 5 Lindsey Watts joins us with the story. Lindsey, the big question, how could this happ