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your living someplace else. hundreds of metro officials called into an hours' long face-to-face meeting today with gm paul whether it feld. tom fitzgerald is more on whaton happened today. >>reporter: hey, tom.ey, good evening, you know, none of the 650 metro managers that were called in today were handed any ping slips, but they were handed this. this pamphlet called safety trumps service.e it is gm paul wet field spelled out policy about what he expectc from them from this day forward when it comes to safe time it s says here in black and white, phrases like they didn't tell me or we've always done it thathat way.wa that is now out from here on in the flyer says that doesn't fly. however, while they talked about this behind
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was over none of these managers wanted to talk to us.s. everybody worried about their jobs at all? they're laughing.r how did it go. >> it went great. > what was going on. >> you have to talk to them. anybody want to tell us whats they thought of it? any thoughts nobody is talking. all about 650 metro managers were called to the strat more concert haul in rockville forn the first of its safety meetinga in metro's 4046 year history. these what paul whether it feldd told fox5 they're at-will employees. that means he could fire them.h. today we got another look atook these problems. this was the video fromrom transinterest objection to thee forms showed what appeared to be a parking. metro did have single tracking alertsea
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orange line in that area due too what was described at the timeim as unscheduled track repairs. rp back at that meeting while am oa those metro managers didn't wann to talk as you saw there, metroe gm did want to talk. he says he told each and everyone of them that metro's old days of thinking are over. and that was the keys runninguni and deal with the maintenanceai later. when i was over the gm didn'tdin hesitate when we asked him if hh meant that firings for poor performance could take place.ke >> we had that conversation. they know where i'm coming fromm and i've laid out very specifically the types of things i'm expecting and if they can manage to that level and fine. if they can't, then it's probably a good thing. while all of this was going on today there was work from the us secretary of transportationrans anthony fox. he seriously considered lastonsi week ordering metro to shutdown after that arcing
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fed center southwest.ou if metro doesn't follow the orders in friday's federal transit authority he may revisis and order p metro to shutdown.hd we are life at gross inner station. tom fitzgerald, fox5 local news. why are you doing this the video you just saw there prepared byy the justice department isnt i sending a message to parents and teenagers about the extreme dangers of section torsion. it is a growing online problem world wild. they are warning students to be on guard after two separate incidents of sex torsions have happened there. matt ackland is life near campus with more on what happened to these two students. matt, it is just disturbing. >>reporter: hi, ladies i had never heard
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this morning as well. you're right, a lot of studentsf here on p campus are talking about this. this is a time of graduation. a time when the students arere heading home for the summer break and we're hearing thathat they're talking about this not only person, but also on social media. let's get you to video and we're we'll tell you what the suspect said. they enticed them to do sex acts in front of their web cap razz. the suspects recorded it all and then they said they would release the video if they did di not pay $5,000. they are not uncommon and haveav been directly linked too organized crime.d police are not saying if the victims in the suspect connected through any particular website or apps. authorities say the it's an international problem and it'sit about making money for the criminals. we spoke to several students onn campus today who were alerted about this by universityvers officials. take a listen. i think it
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definitely creepy much it's kins of a scary thing.ca we had the issues a couple months ago with the tendernder sexual assaults and personal apps. tried to be very careful onlinef and everything like that. my thoughts were how do you get yourself in that situation because i don't really thinkhink it's a situation you should getu yourself into in the first place. the fact that someone did thatid to you is a bad thing, but for o you to get yourself there in the first place is a problem in the first place. all right. so we did try to contact university officials and get a little more information on how the suspects and the victims met, what was going on there. they could only give us limitedi information. this is a sex crime, so there'sr only limited information. but they will say that the best way to avoid this is obvious. don't do this in front of a web cam, this kind of activity.ivit but if you do and if someone tries to get money from you doou not pay that money authoritiess say. instead they say call
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away. life in fairfax county, george mason university, matt ackland,l fox5 local news. > now to prince george's countn where a granced jury has indictd three brothers accused of attacking a police station in landover. the attack on the district three station las march led to theçth death of jacai colson. the state's attorney reacted too the indictments today. the three brothers are now facing dozens of charges. also they say the unprovokednpro task was a senseless act. this caused tremendous hurt. there are just from the officers who were involved that day whoho were outside to their familiesie certainly the family of officer colson, his parents, his mothere recently celebrated portfolio's damon without -- i'm sorry, sunday without her son.ut h this really has caused quite a about it of harm.m. > also brooks says michael ford and his brothers are accused of attempted murder and if if
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convicted could be sentenced to life in prison. officers jacai colson responded to the attack on the police station. he was wearing street clothest and was accidentally shot and killed by one of his fellowllow officers who attempted to stop the shooting. fairfax county are on the hunt for this car that was seen in newly release surveillance video. take a look here.ook they say it is wanted ina connection with a series of tire and rim threat lefts. this video was taken last monthh in the 12,000 block of shadow oak lane. police believe it is a 2011 to 2015 ford explorer and since february there have been 10 tires and wheels stolen from gmc or chevy model vehicle also in herndon, shanahan till i, vienna. they occurred between the hourso of two and 4:30 a. to maryland now where a judge will nowill decide the fate of one of the six baltimore police officersofi charged in the death of f
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gray. officer near oh waived his right to a jury by jury. the trial is expected to begino on thursday. he is facing assault, reckless endangerment stemming from gray's death while in police custody.cu ahead in tonight's health watch, the food and drug administration reevaluating itself he's ' definition of healthy.heal how the new terms couldoul eventually change how a range og foods are marketed. and a mom shares the tragicragi reason she is taking what are considered controversial by soml and extreme measures to teachtec her six-month old baby to swim. plus, whoops, the photographerho sets up his photographer and then it was for the moment tomoe catch this building demolition only to have his shot ruined at the last minute. we'll tell you a little bit morl about this one. sue. hey, laura and sarah, i don't want you to faint or anything, but just a few minutes ago i thought i saw sunshine. but it's already gone am much it's still cloudy and america
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in tonight's health watch new research is calling into ca question the safety of swaddinga infants. researchers found the risk for sudden infant death syndrome increased with swadding if i infants were placed on their the stomachs or sides. the likelihood of sids were low for babies who were swad led and then placed on their backs. swadding is safer in infants who are placed on their backs, but as babies get older and could ad possibly move onto their stomachs or sides on their own parents do need to reassess the practice of swad ling.ing they tell you somethingyo different all the time. ti >> right, they do. back to sleep has been the campaign. i swad led all three of mine ani even when they could get onto their side and it worked for myr kids. > you're doing well. we >> well, this is also causing some controversy among parents. whether it's okay to teach your infant son or daughter how to to swim even if they appear to struggle in the water. so some of you may find is
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bit troubling to much what. this six-month old is into the e water. she monies helping the girl, buu she isç learning to swim on her own. it teaches babies as young as yo six months old how to safe themselves as young as six si months old. her son accidentally drownedy three years ago when he was just two and a half years old.half you can see the reason behind it for her. >> absolutely. we were talking about it before. it's been around for a long time. >> it has. they offer the courses here. i think they're near georgetown. i have friends who hive done this course with their infants. the babies are able to do it. i. they're supervised.d. it's hard to watch. wa i would have a hard time watching my baby do it.o but it's survival. sur it's good to teach that young before they get the fear of thef water like i did and didn't learn to swim until i was in in college. i'm just saying. >>
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choice. the fda is planning to reevaluate its definition of of healthy. the agency currently alous use of the term on packaging onlyg when products meet certain nutritional criteria. last year, the fda told the maker of kind fruit and nut barn that its products should not bet called healthy because of their saturated fat levels. the decision was reversed when kind asked the fda to reevaluate the definition noting that the h fat in its bars comes from nutsu the move could mean big changesn in how all food is marketed. just like organic foods canoods spoil faster your all natural free beauty products have a short life. a knew survey finds one in five women are keeping their makeup around past the recommended expiration date.rati i never seen it on my makeup. the old makeup is a breeding ground for bacteria that could h make you sick.
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here's what experts recommend. on the mascara that should be replaced after>d three months. foundation should be replaced once a year. yea >> it takes that long to get through it. >> that's right. lipstick often needs to bee relaced once a year. eye liner expires three to six months and blurb and bronzer br lasts for two years. as for your makeup brushes you r should watch those at least once a week. > oh, my gosh. >> i think it's been years for r me. i hadn't say it. > me, too. to >> experts say clean brushes make products last longer and will make your makeup look better. sue palka, we're guilty. i can't even imagine, no one no wants to see our petri dishes. >> absolutely not. > we'll really make those petre dishes go crazy. cra we continue to learn. the 5 is always good for our fantastic news tips.
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sarah and laura, more of thehe same. it's cloudy and even though the thermometer says 65 it feels kind of damp out here. you can really feel the moisture and a little bit of a chill in the air. rain wise we've had a little bit of rain this morning. we have had not a particularly wet day even though it has it really looked like it wanted toa rain. most of the rain tonight has ha pushed up to our north and east and what's left is just some cloudy conditions every once in a while a thinning of the cloude for a about it of milky sunshinl coming on through, but not a lot. as we look at radar in motion, look back toward west virginia and kentucky, a about it more rain starting to queue up and wd think later tonight, i'm talkinl 10:00 or so we may still another round of showers begin to.s be did. in the short term we want you to be prepared for america i mayay madness to continue.dn i lovees that.i i think we're going to have another day in which we have aae lot of clouds and maybe some showers to dodge here and theree including even a little bit of early morning fog which we'reich going to be
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closely. temperature right now kind of af wide range, 64 here in the the district, but 57 in gaithersburg down to 56 in hagerstown and about 61-degrees in fredericksburg. so forecast tonight more of that north and northeast breezy. it's a very stable air mass so o we don't see thunderstorms butos we see clouds. we should see some showers developing and not much has changed because that frontal boundary is still stalled to out involvement if you're headed oud to the ball gameed tonight, ton detroit is still in game and gam nats are going to be throwing that first pitch out at 7:05. temperatures should be about 62-degrees. we expect it to be dry, likely dry even as we get into the later in incorporation with a temperature of 60. of by the time the game wraps up roughly 10:00 we could see someo showers start to push in from the west. we're going to keep the showerse later tonight. the high tree pollen count, po grasses were in the moderate mo level. weeds and mold on the low side. a little bit of rain would go ao long way to wash that out. it'su just a
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expecting tonight,re but maybe u that will help to diminish thath count just a about it. a a a couple of warmer days relatively speaking also in our seven day forecast. caitlyn will be sharing thatarin with you in just a few minutes.i we'll have much more to tell you in just a about it. > straight ahe, an exclusivee sit down with vice-president joe biden. six months into his cancer moon shot how close the vp says we are to a cure. the emotion allot interviewotio coming up. a man in a colorado prison says he is principles' son. and rob kardashian's fiance has already made plans to make money off of her future name. we're going to tell you now. and rhiana i will pay yourour college tuition, if you work, work, work.ork i can never forget the words too that song. song.
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the first paternity claimrs againstt princes' estate, a man named karlin williams claims the singer is his father and that he is prince's sole surviving air. he is currently serving time in prison on gun possession charges. the court handling prince's estates expected paternity charges would be filed. they taken a blood sample takenn from prince against people expecting to be his as. apparently they're lining up.p. if he doesn't have a will, i would think more people would be lining up. rob kardashian's
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introducing more than one kardashian to the world. black china whose reel name is angela renee white filed legalgl docks laying claim to the name angela renee concerned of kardashian. they are fielding 7 figure offers for their own reality tvv show. that's going to be a roller coaster. if all you do is work, work,work work on your studiesry and a could help cover that cost. she he she set up through klehr a foundation.ndat it is amounts ranging from 5,000 to $50,000. the application process is open until june 10. in a statementry anna calledca being able to give the gift ofit an education an honor. this is a no brainer that a
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musical about a founding fathern should come to the nation's capital and it is finallyfina happening. very exciting. creating a lot of buzz. hamilton is coming to thehe kennedy center. but not until the 2017,-2018 season so you can safe your pennies for those tickets. it won the pulser price for drama and 16 tony awards.on it is the story of alexanderlexa hamilton one of our founding o fathers who was a top advisor to george washington and served as the cunt first treasurer. the dates have not been announced. we'll be sure to tell you when they are announced.anno > i'll get them when the tickets go much cheaper. > up ahead, vice-president joe biden talking to me about whether he regrets not running for president. how close are we
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cancer. > president obama making a visit to here ischemia a. birth control cheaper for both men and women.ome an app to detect marina maraccoe tech.cttech i didn't realize there were marina maracco techs. a photo bomb demolishes a photographer's chance at aat perfect picture.t all that coming up at fox5 news at 5. .
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contraception equity act. ronica cleary is life inin annapolis with the news of this breakthrough. >>reporter: hi, laura and sarah. governor larry hogan signed 196 laws into action.ctio one in particular that is gaining attention, the contraceptive equity act. planned parenthood hosted a press conference.pr they invited those who introduced the bill, those whoos wrote testimony in support ofimn the bill to speak about andnd celebrate the passage of thisof bill today. this is going to be actually aca first in the nation bill.ill. it puts maryland in the forefront of access to contraception. it continues maryland's role asd a leader in women's healthcareet access and i'm ' incredibly proud that we were able to get this done. now, the bill is touted as the most comprehensive expansion off private insurance coverage off contraception in the country. planned parenthood
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key components of the bill for birth control and the elimination of could he paymente for vasectomies for men. i asked govern larry hogan about signing a bill of this type wite such support from democrats at a host press conference he hosted. regarding the contraceptive equity act, chris van holland speaking, in this very decisives political world we're in today, did you have any doubts aboutabu signing that and do you have any worry about it having any effect on you as a politician in thehe future. >>reporter: no, i don't know't anything about the planned parent press conference. we thought it was the right decision to make.ake we signed 196 bills today and that was one of them. i decided it was a bill worthorh signing. it didn't have anything to doto with whatever they were demonstrating about today.ay. you heard
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was not airwhat of the press conference in regards to this bill that would put maryland at the forefront of contraceptive access in the country.oun i did reach out to plannedlann parenthood about larry hogan's participation or lack thereof. they say he was not invited. they did take time to applaud the fact that he signed this bill. so what do you think about governor hogan's willingness too sign a bill so openly touted by a group like panned parenthood. you can find me by ronica cleary. reporting life in annapolis forr fox5 local news i'm ronica cleary. > it has been a little bit more six months since joe biden announced he would not go afterr the democratic nomination forth presidency.pr the cancer moon shot has beenas his quest.hi i saturday down for an exclusivl interview with thein vice-president and i asked him whether he regrets that
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decision. how close are we now to a cure for cancer. we also talked about his son bow who died a year ago this month. while i will not be a candidate, october 21 last fall when joe biden announced he would not run for president he made a promise. i believe we need a moon shot is this country to cure cancer. it's personal. personal indeed.eed. it hadn't been even been fiveive months since he lost his son toh brain cancer.br heai said he would push over the next 15 months in office to tryy to silence the disease for oncer and for all. all if i could be anything, i would want to be the president thathat ended cancer because it's possible. i ask you, do you regret for not running for president.r >> as you know, i had planned on running, but also we had like ae lot of families, the miss fortune of having a son who was diagnosed with a death seen
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particular type of cancer that he had.d. at the time when i really had td make a decision to cut or stay in i just -- the family wasn'tan ready and i wasn't ready. > what he was ready to do was pour himself into everythingver about what killed his child so he might help others. the vice-president has been a rigorous schedule meeting withei leading researchers and doctors to demise think phi cancer. what he found is many of the industries best and brightest haven't been working together. i really believe with the breaking down silos, breakingrea down the unwillingness to share data, we can do in five years what otherwise would take ten years. we're on the cusp of some major breakthroughs. the anniversary of bowe's da]ho' is coming up. is he ever present on your mindd as you work toward finding a cure. >> he's always on my
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i've not kidding when i say always. my screen safer, my phone. i now have beau's picture withi my grandson so i force myself to look at it every day. to try to get me to deal with it publicly. a better man might be able to do it better than i have been, but beau was my soul. > may 30, marks one year since be awl's death. the biden family will come together at the end of the month as the delaware national guard will name the facility afterafte major beau biden. they're wonderful things, but also at the moment, i'm justu sorry to make this so personal.s > no. it's okay. but anyway, look, bad things happen to a lot of people without the kind of help i'vei'e got. it's all good. and we're sticking together as a family and you know about that.
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always there. the vice-president told me thath one of the things he add myers so much about cancer survivor, domestic survive or any survivoe is how they can show up on an anniversary and speak abouty making changes and that's what he's trying to do with the cancer moon the shot and what he he intends to do throughoutough this -- the rest of his term.tem what he has after that planned he hasn't said exactly what he'll do. he has told friends that he hast no plans to retire in the traditional sense.sens >> i can imagine not.. will he start a foundation? will he start a cancer institute in delaware? will he be ae special envoy if a futureutu administration calls him up, that all has yet to be seen. i think there's a future for joe biden. what that is we don't know
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his fight against cancer willill not stop. him saying that beau is his soul that is very heart felt. president obama meantime will become the first sitting american president to visit here ischemia a japan. the united states dropped an atomic bomb on the city during the days of world war ii killing 140,000 people.ple. a second bomb was dropped on the city of knock saki. the president will visit thevisi site with japan's prime minster. president obama congratulated a teamco that he should know welly now, you connecticut women's basketball, the raining ncaa clamp pes were at the whitethe 4÷ championships.ch they've been quite friendly with eaench other, shall i say. > very fun at the white house. another trip to the white
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we're used to this. another day. no big deal. a big honor for them, though. they're still dominant. i'm surprised one of the obamama girls hasn't decided i'm going to u connecticut.conn you know who made a lot of money today, strasburg. # $75 million to play baseballae for the next six years. >> not bad. n > he was already doing prey pretty l well.et this was kind of unique in a way, the idea of throwing $200 million for a pitcher, theh one with a surgery repaired by online problemmic arm cyst haven't usually what happenshapp during the season. suddenly davely johnson, remember him, and mike rizzo's controversial decision to shut strasburg down in 2012 is abouts a distinct
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signing the deal to keep him put. it something that happened ha slowly and over time, but therer was, you know, a lot of situations, you know, in the past that i think looking back on it they took great care ofof me. not just as the pitcher, but as a person.er > we got a team to run and wead try and do it as economically ec successfully as we can.can. we're certainly not afraid toafa throw around money.nd we've shown it on multiple occasions. we're very fare and we're within market value on just aboutus everything we do. > not afraid to throw aroundund money. not afraid to test the waters.we just exactly 13 hyundais ago hy when donald trump long beforeore his white house aspirations. when strasburg leave the team
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for another team will the natste shut him down for good. two years before bryce harper hit free agency he was there today. he is the same agent who told reporters hic. after last night's outburst he was ejected.ject dance i espinosa struck out, but harper yelled something. he went back on to the fieldld after the win.in. that is a no no. major league baseball is looking into possible punishment. here is bryce after the game. i was pretty upset. let them hear what i have to say. let them hear it again. so what. what did you say after the game. >> a couple choose words.oose > do you think you're going to get find. >> if i do, i do.
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i'll pay it. he has the money. > or he can ask steven strasburg for the money. we're just a little two hours away from the pub dropping in pittsburgh in the earnarn conference semi finals. after looking great over theer weekend it really a chance tohac control its own destiny. it's in their hands. they're the ones that are going to step on the ice. my job is to get the rightth people on the ice at the right times. they know what to to get done. we hope they're driving the bus. that's really where the strengte of the group is when they're driving the bus.bus. > if the caps wint)ájugame)áj seven will be thursday. game time will be 7:15. right here at verizon. > do or die. they can do it. thanks. > still ahead here at 5, youou don't have to worry if your punctuation isn't quite p. the s relt
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your grammar mistakes get a pass from most people, except my father. >> by the way, those texts fromt your mom are sometimes tough tog understand perhaps.nd > now there's a way to decodee what she really means. caitlyn, mine are like a formal e-mail. dear caitlyn. love mom. it's very sweat. i wouldn't want her to change. h a life look outside right now,rh you can't really tell, but we have had some peaks of sunshine, but also some rain.me what a can somer. we also have more rain in thethe forecast for later tonight in the next if you days. i will show you that coming up, but first 64-degrees, temperatures remain blow norm l al as our string of cloudy andld cool days continue. we'll have a look at that coming right up after this. is.
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> a few of d.c.'s furnish yes residents got a new home today muaych the national zoo opened p its new red panda habitat. it looks like red pandas dues a and as a are enjoying their new digs.di it includes four indoor air-conditioning with plenty of space to climb and a viewing area for everyone. i they are beautiful.utif they look like a cross between a fox and a raccoon. remember when rusty the panda got out. hopefully they won't get out here. > quite the scandal.he you could tell, you know, it's kind of overcast.rcas they're probably enjoying this weather, all of their fur on them. > kate line, i'm not enjoying this weather.th i know it's made a two-second
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we need a fur ourselves. not that we'd be wearing it. the temperatures are conducive for a layer, a coat or two. i agree with star action i saw t that earlier the clip of a panda and i said is that a large raccoon. they kind of look like it. he kind of do.do but they are so cute.ute. so something else to enjoy at our wonderful national zoo. it's been tough to be outside to do much. all week long, all last weekweek because we continue our pattern of rainy days, day 13 in a row was yesterday, of measurable precipitation. so far today we only had a trace at reagan national. clouds stick around through wednesday. there are some showers in the forecast for tomorrow less than today, but we have another round of rain tonight so it's not over yet.ye there are some dry days in theth future. there are, i many proper is. they're probably not until thenl end of the seven day forecast. we still got a
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how am rain days have we had.ha. 13 in a row at reagan nationaleg and dulles as of yesterday. one more than that at bwi national. we've already broken the recordo for measurable days of precipitation. today since we only had a trace, officially that doesn't count.cn with more rain coming in at 10, 11:00 tonight it's not over. storm tractor radar has beenas very quiet since the rain thatht moved through this morning. you see some showers up toward philadelphia. there are more showers behind what moved through earlier today. so despite the nice dry breakdr this afternoon, look the at thiç wet weather out by cincinnatiinc and the ohio valley.ley. that will arrive later thiser evening and bring us some rain.. it doesn't look like it will bring us any severe weather. cloudy cool off the ocean.cean the chilly wedge of air all across the northeast.ross in can pennsylvania, if you're o seeing sunshine like boston offt towards our n
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70-degrees and clearly warmerarm numbers just towards ours involvement it's really the mid atlantic that has been he soen h socked in with this pattern. by 10, 11:00 p.m. some light rain through moving our area. wednesday is not rain free, throw. our model as another round at on point in the afternoon and those clouds are not going anywhereoig through wednesday night and intn thursday. that drizzle is persist ten. the one thing that will change by friday is it will get warmer. temperatures will make it into the 770s as the warm front pushes through our north. with a cold front coming througu the rain chances aren't going anywhere. we could have some stormyrmy weather some friday afternoon f and friday evening. this is our best chance for severe thunderstorms.th your forecast again for tonighto 55-degrees overnight, clouds and rain moving in probably any time after 9:00. patchy fog is possible as that rain moves out towards dawn.
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the rain. 66-degrees, cloudy skies. the chance of showers at any time, the jacket, the umbrella, the rain gear you need it still. the warming temperatures, 73 onp thursday with at least someso brighter spots during the day. i think even though we haveave showers late in the day saturday we get some sunshine which helph us get to 77. there are some afternoon showers after a nice start.tart by sunday it finally looks really good, a little bit cooler 68-degrees, but finally trying out. maybe you can finally get out and mow the lawn.lawn showers possible again by p nexi tuesday. that's a look at your seven day forecast. we'll send it back into studio a with laura and sarah. sar > let's head over to tony andty sean with what's coming up nextp at fox5 local news at 6. hi, guys, do you guys know people. >> excuse me.xc do you know people who areho always checking their smartmart phones. >> i'm a busy man. ahead at 6 tonit
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to break down the results of a new study about the way we use w our devices like tony perkins could be changing our brain.brai also ahead at 6, more changes for the popular kind nutrition bars. last year they told the companyp to move the word "health write"from the package.acka we'll tell you what thehe government did to get company did to get the government to change itself' ' mind. they did not return any fat. have you ever hard the word sexd torsion. it happened to two george mason students. how you can protect yourself.ous it's all high antidepressant tonight at 6.
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question actually. here's the thing. if you have less than perfect punctuation in texas and e-mails, apparently you don't have to worry. most people aren't judging you by your bad grammar. most people don't mind if you yo use improper grammar. only 12 percent of people say sy grammar mistakes in a text bother them a lot, 12 percent. the expectations are a little higher when you're talking about e-mail with 2 # percent of p peopleer saying mistakes in an e-mail bother them a lot.ot. i would agree with that, absolutely. e-mail needs toç be -- especia- if it's like a business e-mail, please. >> text i can forgive a little more especially with the auto correct. > that is so annoying.nnoy meantime when it comes to texting the mom sends you and what she means are sometimes two totally different things. th a new app promise to make sense of those texts that your momom can't decipher on your own. >> i lo
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texted me aunt cheryl upstairs buffalo dougherty a.hert mom, i got the job, confetti horn. mom, boob boob pineapple horn surprise face surprise face. > what was that. so this all started out as a a joke by the mystery hour, a latt talk show in missouri. what if we made the app, the mom text decoder app is now is available in google play. >> that's hilarious. my mom is good at texting, so is don't need to worry about her. my mom doesn't text at all so io would like you to actually leary to text, t if you could, pleasel > that's very funny. > pick up the phone and call. thanks for watching the 5. fox5 local news at 6
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> this is fox5 local news at 6. strong words from top transportation leaders after a series of malfunctions on metro. it's good to have you with us this evening, i'm tony perkins' and i'm shawn yancm y much the s transportation secretary is now threatening to shutdown metro pd if the agency doesn't fix ongoing safety issues. the blunt warning comes metro'se general manager had his own words for several metros of on shape up or ship out. he held the first of its kind safety summit. tom fitzgerald is life at thet grove metro station with more details on that. >>reporter: good evening, they didn't exactly hand out any pinp slips to all these managers today, but they did hand out this, this one-page pamphletamp called safety trumps service.rvc this basically spells out
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gm paul wiedefeld man afess toes to these managers moving forwara about what is and what is not expected out of them.hem. phrases that are now banned from metro manager's vocabulary include they didn't tell me. and that's the way we've always done it around here. the flyer says that doesn't fly with metro anymore. we want you to take a look at some video we received today. this was another reminder of thn stakes that are up for resolution in this system. this is video on rail transit ops tweeter feed sos a thirdhir rail at the courthouse station. they had single tracking alertsr on the orange line in that areat due to what was described at the time as unscheduled track repairs. in all 650 metro managers were called to stand before the metrr gm at the strat more concert haul in rockville for a first of its kind safety meeting in
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