Wilson building northwest with the details. Hey, mel. Jim, allison. The consequences here of lead exposure are serious were talking about reduced iq. Attention deficit conduct disorders all these acontributed to low to moderate levels of lead exposure and thats why d. C. Wants to adopt these tough new standards all this after a new study about the the American Academy of pediatrics. That study shows theres no safe level of lead in a childs body and all sources of exposure shoulding eliminated that prompted proposal to limit lead in drinking watt to no more than 1 part per billion. U. S. Epa standard is 15 parts per billion that requires action and that was the standard that d. C. Schools used in previous around of lead tes testing. Tests last school year revealed elevated lead levels, the at a they are to up stall filters and retest the water. Those not able to fixed will be taken out. It included city remember centers that fund elevated levels in 6 of water sources including 35 Drinki
Teachers can now plan to arrive two ours late. In injury injury, fairfax, arlington, loudoun, Prince William Country Schools cruise closed today. Heres more now. Happen han ak schools closed and mannasas city and Colonial Beach scoolz all closed and alexandria city and false church city and mannasas part city schools also now closed. Walk each county schools, Central Offices for dpcs on time and three hour delay for federal employees. Right now, not good. Heres the deal, walk like a beping win you you have to do the sure ofle and sidewalks are better and which were above 23 12 much of the area and well surge near 50. Virginia quarter inch germantown almost third an inch ice accumulation. Unfortunately we have a lot of ice across the area and now we have a flood watch just went into effect 6 a. M. Flood watch ill show you radar in a second. We have serious rain on the horizon out to the west and were concerned with a nomination of snow and ice and heavy. 40 it was 32 last hour and big s
Old. But, they will not confirm yet if it is person who was shown to us yesterday and captured on Surveillance Video at metro that they put out to the media as a person of interest. We do not know if that photo from yesterday and the person arrested for this murder are indeed the same certainly police told us they knew who they were looking for and it did not take long to make an arrest in the case and the violence here and the issues here with teenagers is really what brought out so Many Community activists and city leaders and theyre also pressing metro for better safety. Sources close to the investigation confirm that through metro surveillance they were able to see there was some kind of altercation between two young men on the escalators at the dean wood metro and the stabbing was fast and witnesses say 15yearold john roof us evans the third that went by johnny was struck twice in the neck around 11 a. M. And bled to death. Police sources confirm evan was on his way to court heari
Traffic on the 5s at 7 0 5. Good Tuesday Morning everybody imal mall. Im steve chenevey. Welcome to fox5 news morning temperatures in the 20s in many areas this morning. Boy were they heating it upen the extort. That incredible finish from National Championship game. Villanova kris jenkins sorry about that well try get that shot set up for you. Nailed a three pointer second left in the game. Gonzaga High School Graduate. Thats ryan passing to jenkins and jenkins with the three and he graduated from gonzaga in the district. Bob barnard is there at the cool this morning. Well have a live report from him in a couple minutes. All right. Now to a ditching story here at home fairfax country. Stabbing near a mow till along route 1 talking about Virginia Lodge motel south of beltway. Investigators say one person was stabbed 12 30 this morning and they have minor injuries and police are looking for a suspect. Developing overnight police chase started in maryland and ended in d. C. With carjacki
So far. The Broward County Sheriffs Office received at least 23 calls related to nikolas cruz and his family. In 2016 a deputy was told directly that cruz was threatening to shoot up his school. The one he shot up. And had taken photographs of himself with firearms. That information was forwarded to deputy Scott Peterson. That name sounds familiar, that is the exact Security Guard at Stoneman Douglas high school who hid outside during the shooting and refused to go inside as 17 people were murdered. Apparently doing nothing was a habit of petersons. President trump weighed in on him today on his way to cpac. Watch. When it came time to go in there and do something, he didnt have the courage or something happened but he certainly did a poor job. There is no question about that. He was there for five minutes, for five minutes. That was during the entire shooting. He heard it right at the beginning. So he certainly did a poor job. But thats the case where somebody was outside. Theyre trai