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challenge at a congressional hearing today about improving metro safety and reliability on the transit system. news in with breaking fairfax county, arrest and a weekend robbery, shooting, and carjacking, now in custody, we learned there are two suspects, both in police custody, we are live in fairfax where we just heard from police. franklinr-old william and 26-year-old jasminder sethi both from waldorf were arrested but not in fairfax county, franklin arrested at his home in waldorf and jasminder sethi arrested at newark airport in new jersey, unclear where he may be attempting to go but they credit fbi, prince george's county police, u.s. customs and border protection and the new york-new jersey port authority for assisting. the arrest come after saturday's brazen
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at dubai jewelers on the 7000 block of brookfield plaza in a busy shopping plaza. an officer on routine patrol responded to the call, challenged the suspects who they say was armed with a handgun, the suspect opened fire and the officer fired back, during the exchange, a bystander was shot with non-life-threatening injuries. driving through the area. they believe that round came from the suspect. they say the suspect took off in a getaway car, the car crashed, then they carjacked another vehicle and today the police chief spoke about the importance of these arrest. collects this is a huge -- >>, this is a huge arrest, we had to violent evil felons. they shot at a police officer, the injured a community member. this is huge. we have taken two
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violent individuals off the street and will bring them to justice. with anyroutine officer involved shooting, the department looking into the actions of the officer but today the chief calls him a hero, commending him for his actions on saturday. a criminal investigation is ongoing, the chief not ruling out the possibility of additional suspects given how get awayct was able to on saturday afternoon, felony warrants have been obtained charging franklin with robbery and use of a firearm in commission of a felony, jasminder sethi charged with a robbery, oath men waiting extradition, fairfax county police they their investigation continues and anyone with information is urged to contact them. jummy: thank you for that report. metro's general manager in the hot seat, a live look at a house hearing, eleanor holmes norton on yours green -- on your screen, think
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massive metro overhaul. we have the details. >> metro general manager paul wiedefeld testified before the house transportation subcommittee on highways and was onethis morning, he of six people to go before the congressional panel, others included john delaney and jerry conley and steny hoyer who represent jurisdiction served by metro, congress voice concerns over a left of safety culture at metro and they wanted to know what is being done to change the system. paul wiedefeld outline how he found the agency when he arrived. >> a lack of accountability on the management, the front-line people, and a lack of strong management systems put in place. a lack of sustainable, predictable funding source for the system. >>'s testimony came on a day when there were two insulator
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issues making for a consultative and the late morning rush-hour on the red line. he is hoping the safe track program which kicks off next month, will go a long way to make the system safer and more reliable. on capitol hill, suzanne kennedy. jummy: this hearing comes as two other arcing incidents caused major delays on the red line this morning, the first at 5:30 at the medical center station and the second incident just before 7:00 this morning at the woodley park metro station. both cost trains to singletrack, all cleared up around 9:00 this morning. fairfax county leaders are laying out their relief plan for the safe track repairs, john gonzalez joins us live with how they will help you get around for the upcoming track work. john: good afternoon. the transit agency sees about 700,000 riders day and it affects all many different
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county, is very concerned with the impact that this safe track plan will have. in a rare occurrence, metro officials have come out west to the county and our meeting with local leaders in the county today. the first maintenance plan will greatly affect the orange, blue comments over lines as early as june 4. 13 straight days of single tracking between falls church and boston. fairfax is working on a mitigation plan. extra buses, urging and preparing people to use slug lines and computer logs, the chairman says even biking to work should be an option. >> supplemental buses we can provide. also communication, communication, can medication, providing people with information about transportation alternatives. that peo
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consider. trying to add more trains but even it has more they say, fairfax county agrees with metro's plan, they just need to find good options and they need to find an quick. back to you. jummy: in virginia, terry mcauliffe in alexandria amid new information about a federal probe. investigators looking into campaign contributions, our northern virginia bureau chief is live, what is the governor saying about this investigation? jeff: he says he's done nothing wrong. we are outside the probation and parole officer -- office where he is at a prescheduled event, he gave a press conference a half hour ago about this investigation, he says he has done nothing w
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into campaign contributions from a businessman who is a chinese national and a u.s. citizen. gave $120,000 to the 2013 campaign at inauguration for governor terry mcauliffe, mr. mcauliffe says he does not believe he has ever met the businessman from china, he says his attorneys that did this in rate -- individual and there is nothing illegal that took place. governor mcauliffe says he is not met with justice department officials but says he would speak with them as the investigation goes forward. the governor says he has nothing to hide. it was ancauliffe: issue about a donor in 2007, he had a green card and he was fêted by the campaign and this gentleman was entitled to give money to the campaign. jeff:
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the office, not sure if the governor will walk out any moment that headed to another event in fairfax county, a prescheduled event. sources inside the justice department say that this investigation is just that, far from a guarantee that any indictment or charges will follow. this investigation active, one question the governor -- we are answerre, you have our to questions, anything else you want to say to our viewers? governor mcauliffe: nothing to say. jeff: nothing wrong you have done? governor mcauliffe: absolutely not. he is done nothing wrong as he's about to head to an event in fairfax county, one more question, whether or not he believes this investigation will negatively impact the presidential campaign of hillary clinton. governor mcauliffe is a big supporter and confidant for secretary of state hillary clinton.
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will in any way negatively impact her campaign because he sayse has done nothing wrong, as you just heard. jummy: great work, thank you. the forecast, a live look outside at the capital, a beautiful day. the sunshine is out and we are warming up. doug hill is here with the forecast. doug: 77 degrees at the lot high school in laurel. 77 is our average high, getting back where we should be. delightful, a few high clouds, plenty of sunshine, most areas will region afternoon high of the 80 degree mark, very mild through the early afternoon. after work come evening, dinner outside, whatever you have planned, maybe mowing the grass now that it is drying up, spectacular. high pressure stretching out along the appellations into north georgia in this entire area of high pressure will shift to the east the next couple of days
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turn southerly and southwesterly, that will keep the warm temperatures in our area, it will slowly hike up the committee the levels and late in the afternoon, thursday and friday, scattered showers and thunderstorms a possibility. first pitch 77 degrees at the park, sunny skies, tomorrow, mostly sunny, no rain, dry and warm, a high of 84. we will check of the holiday weekend forecast in a few minutes. jummy: i cannot wait to see that one. a check of the roadways, jamie sullivan joins us. lot to worry about, not seeing any big issues but i want to run through what you need to know if you travel on the gw parkway, the possible single enclosures happening until 2:30 this afternoon, midday work and they have this each day through friday. through washington, d.c., not a terrible right, the heaviest going approaching the 11th virginia,dge, in mostly green, lung the cap
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the springfield interchange, no slowing, in montgomery county, really nice on 270 near father hurley boulevard, heading north from the area of bethesda, rockville, quite right. gorgeous outside -- a quiet ride. gorgeous outside. jummy: coming up at noon, a spike in violence at metro trains, the surprising numbers and the new information on the two most recent incidents. conflicting reports, what egyptian officials are now saying about what could've caused egyptair flight 804 two crash. bill cosby back in a courtroom, what the judge is deciding today in the case.
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jummy: we are back, police investigating two disturbing crimes on metro, last like him a violent robbery on the green line, that comes after we learned of a woman raped on the red line. sam sweeney is uncovering new details. sam: the most recent violent thee happened behind me at metro station, a bloody robbery left one person injured on the green line train late last night. this incident happened hours after we found out about an alleged rape on a red line train that happened back in april i'm about metro never told the public. a woman says she fell asleep around 10:00 in the morning on a glenmont bound train, she woke up to a man with a knife, prosecutors say he brought her to the back of the train car and sexually assaulted her four minutes. threatened herhe life if she
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is the suspect, one of my police for exposing himself days before the incident and has an expensive -- extensive criminal history, all of this news comes after metro's crime numbers continues to climb, a 10% increase year over year in crime. metro riders we spoke with say police are doing the best they can. >> crime is heavy in the area in general. whether it they are here or not, they cannot be everywhere, they are responsive but you cannot prevent anything. >> i had an incident on the train and they took care of it and found the guy. my trunk was broken into and they took care of it and found my stuff. sam: police acted quickly in the list rate case, taking the suspect in custody quickly after, he is now in jail on no bond. jummy: new information on the investigation into the crash of egypt air 804, egyptian officials denying a
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naming the initial examination of human remains from the crash point to an explosion on board. the associated press quoting an anonymous member of the investigative team for that of egypt'sthe head forensic authority causes an unfounded assumption. >> i would suggest that what he is drawing his conclusions on was suggest the opposite, a high-speed water impact, these kinds of forensics require real professionals and it is a very specialized discipline. very careful about what we are hearing from anybody, we need to stick to the facts. jummy: teams searching for the planes fuselage and white boxes but the race to find them intensifies every day because the batteries on them will only last about another three weeks or so. the top tsa official removed from his job on the controversy over long lines, the head of security operations was given $90,000 in bonuses despite issues with tsa
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attracted questions from congress, the house oversight committee says he was removed over a removed -- after an earlier hearing about mismanagement -- the tsa not commenting. bill cosby in a suburban billet of your courtroom for a pretrial hearing on sexual assault charges, the judge will determine if there is enough evidence for cosby to stand trial, a former employee at his alma mater, temple university, says the comedian assaulted her at his home back in 2004, dozens of women have accused bill cosby of drugging and sexually assaulting them, if this case goes to trial and he is convicted, he faces up to 10 years behind bars. speaking to reporters in the anon, president obama criticized the country's human rights record, the president says the key to economic development is increased freedom, the president where he met with young entrepreneurs, the president heading to jap
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, ae to talk to the forecast few minutes ago we saw kidd o'shea in his shorts and t-shirt. heading to ocean city for good morning washington tomorrow, you told them they would have good weather. days butat for a few into the weekend, it will start going downhill and may go downhill precipitously by sunday and monday. jummy: no, doug. doug: just the messenger. a live look outside from a new camera at the higher regency. beautiful, sunshine, warm temperatures, upper-70's. no surprises, tree pollen in the high range, grass is low, weeds passing, mold spores, high-ranking, really in the high range. that is what you get when it is so rainy for so long, things would dry out over the next couple of days, the day temperatures, terrific, upper-70's everywhere, 79 in fred
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74 at annapolis and 77 in literature. -- fredericksburg. give you an idea of what will happen and what is likely to happen next, especially to the weekend, a large area of high pressure is providing sunshine up and down the east coast, widespread. it will be with us for several days, initially mild but through the next couple of days, it will turn warmer as high pressure goes offshore. the change in the arrows, a more southerly wind. thursday evening, the combination of sunshine and more moisture will yield scattered showers and thunderstorms, through the late afternoon or evening, partly sunny until then, mid-80's, friday, pretty much the same story, on friday night and saturday, computer model say an area of low pressure develops in the western atlantic and the computer model suggests we moved to the north
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beach is fine, saturday, find, plenty of sunshine. outer banks, rain could move in by saturday night. starts comingnd off the atlantic ocean and the ocean temperature, a poor habit 50's to low-60's, very cool at the beaches. cool at the beaches to memorial day with scattered showers, friday and saturday, the best times at the beach. plenty warm, upper-80's come afternoon showers and storms friday and saturday, dry sunday, metro, chances of showers and storms monday and tuesday but at the beaches, a much higher probability, we will deal with showers on sunday and monday, cooler temperatures. highs only in the 70 degree range. jummy: get to the beach a few days early so they can get to the beach. breaking news in los angeles, the fbi and a bomb squad are assessing a bomb threat situation after the tsa informed lax
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