this is fox a 5 local news at 10 right now at fourth of july holiday weekend is upon us, that means barbequeses, block parties and lots of fireworks.irew but will severe weather threateh your plans, find out coming up. plus a teenager boy, propositioned and held on a let row train.rain sharing the details only with fox5. the national air and space

museum is celebrating its 40th birthday with a big bank. bi life music, new exhibits, star gazing and more. get this, they're partying all night. we've got your party pass, fox5 local news at 10 starts right now. and we thank you for joining us, i'm tony perkins and i'm sarah sip once in for shawn. sh if you are like am americans yoi may be getting out of town this weekend which also means you're dealing with the inevitable holiday travel rush. let's take a look at sky fox for drivers that are heading eastbound. it hasn't led up a the lot. lot i have to say it is better than what it was earlier. where it seems like traffic was worse. storms didn't stop people goingo east for the holiday weekend. bad weather was the cause ofcaus some problems at the marylandarl statehouse earlier today. take a look, a lightening rod at the top of the building

struck by lightning. the strike activated the fire protection system sprinklers. firefighters were sent out tout the billing, but thankfully there was not a fire. no one was hurt. meantime it is now time to get a look at the weekend forecast.foe that was wild weather.eath incredible video. tony mentioned that's whathat lightning rods are to for.for. it did it's eye job. it is continuing this hourou because we have storms still firing. nothing severe.eve a severe storm watch was pullini down a couple of hours ago. still do have a couple of storms in here. and and returned al county hitdl the hardest. pretty much a big swamp of heavy rain across anne arrundel countn here this hour. nothingne severe, just mostly heavy rains

george's county. heading down a little further south around the clinton, maryland area.area and stretching down to friendly. i wonder how the people are inn friendly. i'm sure they're friendly in friendly, maryland. the frontal boundary has stalled out and as long as that remains in our neck of the woods thereos is still a chance of storms. let's get right to it. here is futurecast for the weekend. as we head through the overnight things clear out. we have gorgeous sunshine.rgeo if you have any outdoor plans for your saturday, no problemsrl at all.. saturday a few more clouds with the exception of areas wellarea south towards richmond and maybe a storm or two popping over the mountains.s. monies unfortunately a different story. we get a little bit of energy. and then right now it looks like possibly some heavy rain scooting in as we head into thei afternoon hours.

this will need to be hammeredmee out. the details will need to bee hammered out in the next few hours. lady liberty is still going to stand tall.ll. monies the best chance for rain all weekend. we'll continue to bring you details on that day as we we continue to go through the nexth few days here. let's check on the weather. sarah ander tony, back over tov you. thank you, mike.ike. heat exhaustion, illegal fireworks and drunk drivers are just some of the problems law enforcement and fire crews wills have to deal with this holiday weekend. of course security is also concern. d.c. police say although there are no known terrorist threats for our area officers will bee working around the clock to keep your and your loved ones safe. the call from isis for more attacks from the west is being taken into account.to security planning for the fourth of july, there has been some small changes, but we have a pretty security plan

fourth of july with ourur partners, so it's nothing significant and nothing that should, you know, change the ability for people to come heree and feel save and still celebrate. the heads if you plan on celebrating in d.c., surge two of metro's safe track program continues through the weekend. however, metro plans to suspend its track work on monday, the fourth and normal service will resume by 2:00 p.m. knew at 10, a three year oldyear girl is recovering after her grandfather's dog attacked her.. this happened late this afternoon in frederick, maryland, officials tell us the girl was walking with herher grandmother to a neighbor's house. that's when the family's german shepherd jump the fence and attacked girl. she flown to johns hopkins. she is expected to be okay. now to a fox5 exclusive. detectives in the district are combing through surveillanceth video from metroro after a teene boy was held against his whilens

this p happened on a green willl metro train after a teen who said he is gay refused to perform a sexual act. teisha lewis joins us life with the story. >>reporter: this story comes ahead the holiday weekend. the teenage boy was able to escape. he got onto the train just twoin stops before at the congresscong heights station, saturday in an empty seat next to the suspect. now, that suspect report edly asked this teenage boy to perform a sexual act in exchange for $10. when the teen refused and tried to get up and sit in another seat, the man then apparently grabbed his arm, pulled him down and held him in place. eventually the 17 year old was able to break free to safety. this all reportedly went down this morning between the hours of 8:00 and 8:30.: the victim says he was on his way to a summer job. he called his boss who then followed a police report.repo we're not identifying rick time

because he is underage andhe i because of the disturbing nature of the crime. this may happen again.gain i feel people should know whatu is going on on the metro. people don't realize what's happening with the metro. so it doesn't ever happen to anyone on the metro.yo it is likely there is surveillance video of the attack. am of thes an newer green lineie trains actually have surveillance cameras on board. metro says once they are able to identify the suspect they willil release the surveillance image to the public. right now that suspect is facing simple assault and also enticing a minor.ino teisha lewis, fox5 local news. new at 0, we are learning a former d.c. teacher was arrested in

45 year old allen wake coleman is charged with first degree child secretariesual abuse.buse the case stems from events that happened about 10 years ago. he was a teacher here in d.c..c. coleman was arrested inn gainesville back in may, but has since been release by a federall court. investigators are asking theskin public to come forward if theyhy know of any illicit activity coleman may have committed while in gainesville. we're he new details about a trooper shooting that led to the death of a maryland man. police say raymond hudson of greensboro, maryland lead troopers on a trace chase after they determined he was driving a stolen pickup and was wanted for several burglaries in hudson and maryland. when he got out troopers thoughr he wasoo waiving a handgun att them. they told him to drop it. when he refused, they shot him. it turns out that hudson waswas holding a cigarette lighter that looks like a g

new video shows a pedestrian being hit and killed by a police crewser back in april. this is footage from the police crewser's in car video camera. police say the officer was driving down fuller street onste april 2 when he hit and killed 27 year old jeffrey aglare. since aglare did not have the right-of-way there was no way for the police crewser to avoid the collision. no charges were filed. now to a story you saw first on fox5. police in prince george's countn are investigating an armed robbery atce a patient care center. take a good look at this surveillance video on your screen right here.here you can see three masked gunmen steel carts of prescriptionn drugs, load them into an uv and then take off.en t it happened around 3. 30 on malry drive in lanham. no one was hurt, but anyone wita information is asked to call t prince george's county police. you may remember the movie a night at the museum. it's happening for re

district tonight. ton hey, lauren. >>reporter: hey there. for the very first time the national air and space museum iu open overnight. there are plenty of people taking advantage of this. this is d.c.'s 40th birthdayirth and coming up we are going tooig have a little bit of a surprise for star trek fans. > that is a pretty good crowd. especially enjoy it.t. a vietnam veteran comes face too face with death but he was saved thanks in part by a complete stranger. the story coming up after the break. break.

looking at. this is an interactive wall andl folks are walking out here ableh to touch this. it's brand new.w. pardon us, coming through. dick cartridge waiting over here me. people can actually use this, sink it up with our phones. this is all part of our digital go flight appearance. discover exciting artifacts and then sink them to the go flight app on their phone and create their own tour of the mewsed up. so very cool. that's another brand new thing.. this is particularly excitingitn for star trek fans. there is the star trek enterprise. am i saying that right? starship enterprise from star trek. i'm not the biggest trek i fan, but there are plenty of them here. along with this all of the episodes from 160 we also have a

very special guest right hereght this would be the son of sock, so adam see morph. so wonderful to have you here. what are the fans saying. they're saying they can't believe the enterprise has been restored. they can't believe i'm here.re. james' son is here.e. it's just an incredible, for us all to be terrible. this is it air space

i got the right hand. thank you so much. no event filler. thank you so. this is one of so much to see and do here. events going on all night. the museum will stay open during regular business hours and then fourth of july weekend, independent day is the busiest weekend. a lot of people here walking through here at 10:00 at night. that'st an s hf the10 latest. > i love it. i love it p. it's a way to reach out to people, people are responding. it's very cool. thank you, lauren. i would like to see some of the other museums come up with somew reason to do it. trek 's unite, new york's see, air and space museum is gettingg a new star trek exhibit can.n. that's very cool. it's called star trek, the academy experience. the display is set to open nextt

fans will be treated to an interactive experience that allows them to step into thehe role of a star complete academy cadet. also on hand actor george portray to portrayed thertra character in the original series. essentially i hope when they go through this exhibit that they will be inspired to test themselves to become what they really passionately love. as they say at graduation ceremonies and this is a graduation season.so the exhibit will run from july 9 through october 31. here's another cool story.no this isth really something elsea vietnam veteran visiting theit district for the holiday suffered a near fatal stroke. his family says if it wasn't fot some amazing doctors and somed o complete strangers he may not have survived. s enjoy every day like

last day and enjoy it. every day like it's your last day because it could be. with his family by his side 70 year old joe gentleman keen oh is feeling lucky the day after he suffered a stroke. he is in town visiting family at the fourth of july and he wass working on his computer at his son's home when he started having trouble speaking.eaki luckily his family jumped into action and called 911.lled his wife credits an amazingazin response by the ems to respondsp quickly and rushing him to the hospital where two doctors removed a blockage from his neck and brain.an this is the third time in his life he's come close to death. a few years ago he survivedved cancer and then back in 1967 during the vietnam war he waswa aboard the uss for stall and he was help of that crew that helped put out a huge fire onre that ship that killed 143 men.

his doctors here at george at washington university hospitalpa center say it's an honor. it's incredibly symbolic, onlic, this day, on a day that we're recognizing our vet and we'rean recognizing this country's independent to be able to have the great outcome for someone who has done so much for this country and his children who have been involved in the armedm forces to do so much for this country, to do something for them in return is incredibly meaningful.me very fortunately. i'm a lucky, lucky guy. martino also wants to thank ak complete stranger who says jumped into the middle of a crowded intersection to block traffic so joe's ambulance canun get through. joe is expected to be release from the hospital tomorrow. at george washington universityr hospital, fox5 local news.s. > he's been through a lot. he's a survivor. i wish him a speedy recovery.

still to come on fox5 at 10, a wild and mat on the loose at busch gardens.rden the latest, an arrangatanganga escaped which forced an evacuation. an attorney meeting caused an uproar and how it all tied into hillary clinton's e-mail scandal

> we continue to following developing news outs of bangladesh tonight.ight moments ago gun shots andots explosions were heard as security forces moved into bangladesh stand off. armed attackers are holding as many as 20 hostages at his cafe at the capital. authorities say the attackers stormed the cafe killing twoe police officers

least 40 others. according to thefi islamic newss agency isis has claimed responsibility for that attack.a well, the political uproar continues tonight over the meeting between attorney general loretta lynch and former president bill clinton. fox's catherine heritage hase more on what we learned about the attorney general's meetingtg and the investigation intoigat hecht's e-mails. >>reporter: the attorney general will not block charges if that's the recommendation of career prosecutors and fbi agents. i will be accepting their recommendation. and during a previously arranged talk, lynch say it was always her plan but decided to go public after a backlash with an airport meeting with billl clinton last monday.last it was a chance meeting wherere they talked about grandchildren and golf it has created an out cry because bill clinton is a epo tension witness in the fbi

probe. fox first reported in january,ju the investigation has moved beyond hecht's e-mail practices to corruption.corr the investigation dates back to the at least april 2015 and under attorney general eric holder much earlier than previously reported. they are acting independently. the arizona reporter who uncovered the meeting to a billow riley that bill clinton seemed to work in great detail.e they speak for 30 minutes privately. the fbi there on the tar instructing everybody around, no photo, no pictures, no cellphones.ce do you regret not telling the former president of the united states to leave the premises? >> the issue is how does itt impact the work that i do and the work that the department of justice does? i certainly wouldn't do it again. president obama's first campaign event with his former secretaryf of state days away the whit

i think the president feelseels strongly that that's a decision that she should make withoutld regard to his opinion.is this morning, the fbi director answered questions. a well placed fbi source saidai agents are livid and what appears to be more political interference in the criminalrimi investigation. lynch would not address the timetable as the moderator tried to end on a lighter note.te. what didn't eric holder tell you about this job? what's the onee thing you wish he had told you? where the lock on the plain door was. a law enforcement said lynch's''s statement did not diffuse the situation but made it real toxic because there is real anger and frustration among the fbi who has lost faith in the whether it house.se. > a chaotic scene

florida after an arrangatang escaped its cage at busch gardens. this marks the second time ini just weeks an arrangatangrran escaped at the park. several people posted pictures on twitter before the theme park was completely evacuated. the arrangatang was eventuallyna tank lied and placed back in its cage. thankfully no one was hurt during this. still ahead if you're hitting the road this weekend bracee yourself for holiday traffic.id just look at the traffic the peoplen count ired while leaving earlier this week. that's right, that's the bay bridge. the reason why so am people are electing to leave the state today. the anacostia river, details of a plan coming up next at 10.

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green line.e. teisha lewis has more. teisha. >>reporter: that's right, surveillance cameras may have captured a sus peck who asked a 17 year old boy to perform a sexual act. the boy does tell us he is a gay teen. he says the incident happenedcie this morning sometime between 8:00 and 8:30 and a green line train somewhere between the be congress heights station and here in navy yard where he washe able to escape. we have more details coming up.n a former d.c. teacher and tennis coach arrested in gainesville, florida for first degree child sexual abuse. 45 year old alan wayne coleman abused a child 10 years agoears while he was teaching in d.c. right now it's not clear if there are any other victims.icti and the great escape is underway. thousands of people hit the roads tonight leaving the d.c..c area for the fourth of july holiday. this is a look at the massive traffic backup as sky fox foundf on the bay bridge earlier thishs evening. mike thomas will join us withs yo

forecast in just about 15 minutes. the anacostia river is widelyis considered one of the most polluted rivers in the nation. t just this week the anacostiacost watershed gave it an f on the on reporter card on the river. the river should be well on its way to being swimmable by the middle of next decade thanks to a huge tunneling project now going on throughout the city. fox5's paul wagner has the story >>reporter: this is one filthy river, one of the filth yes in the nation. in it's ' report card issued this week, the anacostia watershed society gave it an f for toxic, trash and waterate runoff involve. it's nothing new.ng it has been a dumping ground for decades, but that's about toab change and in a big way. d.c. water is investing bills of dollars to build a series off tunnels around the

will take the combined sewageomi and put it in its proper place. we have a requirement to capture the sewage through this tunnel system, this orange line and l blue line. those are tunnels underneath the anacostia river and all the way down to blue plains to get thiss complete by march 23, 2018. m > the tunnels are larger than a metro tunnel and are 100 feetet underground. at this site on the banks of the anacostia near rfk stadium a huge boring mache nicknamed nanny has already made it to the 11th street bridge and on its way to another tunnel alreadyy completed. go ahead lie down. as nanny moves along, the clay she's digging is place odd a conveyor belt which is then deposited at a bottom of the shaft which is

a giant crane and eventually removed from the site. to the left of rfk stadium, d.c. water is building a tunnel along northwest where there's been flooding for decades. we've installed a pupil p p station on this redline or the first street tunnel and it will be acting like a large underground storage, when the storm cell passes, it will filll up the tunnel and then we'll pump into the existing system. according to d.c. water, 2 bill gallons of combined or rawin storageed flows into the river more than 80 times a year. by the time the project is completed in the next decade it should be reduced to two. all this work in this general area will capture sewage that's currently going to the cost yeah. we still need to billed our tunnel, but we dramatically

going into the river. although the watershed society gave the river an f, overall it says the river improving. paul wagner, fox5 local news. > metro is now showcasing ahowc special art display to honor an american university graduate killed autonomy california debtd station. the images you see here are photographs taken by kevin sutherland. he was killed on a metro train last july 4.ul all who knew him say he was talented photographer who enjoyed taking pictures of d.c. landmarks. he was actually travelling to the national mall to capture images of the fireworks when hen was killed.ill that's beautiful. it include images of union station, the washington,ashi monument and the us capital. those are great photos.hoto >> they are. still to come on fox5 news at 10. she is the will bill done makini her 19th appearance at the allll england club.en so what happened to con

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>> bill cosby's lawyers are taking aim at the accuser in his criminal sexual assault case. >> they are asking the judge to refund the money he paid her to settle her lawsuit a decade ago. she violated the confidentiality agreement by speaking to please. she claims they are trying to harass their client. he drugged and molested her in 2004, he is due back in court next week 82 we are learning nee details about the man killed while traveling in a self driving

the accident. the car crashed into a tractor trailer. did not see a tractor trailer coming into its path anh therefore did not break. bre this is the first known traffic death involving a self driving car.r. >> this is is a situation where the car is on auto pilot. givev you a false sense of security it does a good job taking over the driving. >> the driver of that car was joshua brown. records show brown had a history offer speeding. he was issued eight speeding ticket over six years includings one in virginia. but so far there's no indication that speed was a factor in this crash. coming up tonight at 11 the u.s. attorney jen roll opens upp about the controversy surrounder conversation with bill colon ton 8282 sayonara plain design could change that. it's a july 4th holiday tradition find

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>> it is 4th of july weekend the holiday travel rushes under way. triple a says a recordd number of people will be driving and air travel is expected to increase from last year. foxs laura angle reports.ng >> reporter: if you are heading out ofar town this weekend you e not alone. a record number of americans o expected to travel during the holiday. they estimate 36 million people will be hitting the roads taking advantage of the lowest gases prices since 2005. travelers starting friday not worried about. >> we usually do drive. dri we go to places where we cane drive instead of flying. >> i love driving.iv it's going to be a nice smooth right. >> reporter: more than thre

million expected to fly. fly that's 2.2% increase over last year. experts say istanbul attack hasn't disaccident occur ratched. >> a nine% decrease in the could have of ticket to go there a lot of americans are taking advantage of that. >> reporter: travelers expect stepped up t security across the country.coun but airport operator say they'll do their best to keep wait time to a minimum. most satisfy lesser are remaining vigilant not letting the threat affect their plan. into e. low gas prices might not be mig around for long.ng. several states are planning to o put plans into place to race the gas tax as early as this weekend.d. in rich field new jersey

angle fox news.an >> we got fireworks starting. warning has gone into effect mike thomas has the latest on that. surprising most of the region is quiet here at night.ig we had the storm move across dc a couple hour.uple h outside it is is relatively calm. the storm that popped up over us moved to the east that has gotten strong enough to initiate a warning out. look at all the lightening withn this storm. let's zoom in. nearly 200 cloud to ground it lightening strikes the last 15 minutes. if you happen to be crossing the bay bridge april within the next half hour it should be quite the lightening show. warning till 11:30 p.m. southern portions, northern portions of calvert county little bit ofe prince george's county. geo you are pretty much

clear. had a lot of damage in northern portions of ann arundel county earlier tonight from storms as of 5:46 trees down along some of the roads several trees down rather large trees with gusts g upwards of 40 miles an hourn being reported. hail reports too in fact pictures in this is from bowie,e maryland earlier today dime to quarter size hail. thank you for sending that in. also on the lighter side of things rainbow in stafford,taff virginia, thank you sarah kelly for sending that in on twitter. how about a nice ending herendin beautiful sunset over washington d.c. this was from ian. gorgeous end. now, the front that's going too help clear out all the heat and humidity coming through thehr maryland pan handle. the line of showers you see that. maybe isolated shower or two. storms over our area stabilizedi

won't rule out the shower. not expecting nor more in the way of severe weather. eight reagan, 88 dulles, very v summer like day out there today. temperatures around the region, rain cool in spots. gaithersburg 70 degrees. 76 here in washington. manas 72, quantico 75. the humidity it's still there the cold front is still off to the north and west. wes once that gets through it will clear out humidity. h we will usher in dryer air for the weekend. 70 industry dewpoint here inn washington. very humid air. 68 quantico. q 70 man is masses. i -- manassas. man tonight we are up near oppressive. tomorrow afternoon back in the v very pleasant here for washington dc lots of sunshinels saturday s high pressure iss moving in from the west. dryer air out of north and west maybe a slider

lots of sunshine. any outdoor plans tomorrow youns are just fine here in washington. things start to change on sunday. we'll have a front approach from the south. has as that happens we'll seeee clouds, a mix of clouds and a sunday we should stay dry herey in dc. monday as different story. probably starts dry here in washington. as an area of low pressure intonto our neck of the woods by the time we get into the latter half of the day and toward firework time we can be the only, potentially heavy rain andnd thunderstorms around here. still need to work out details on the 4th of julyly. we'll keep you up to date withae that. here we are at the a beaches 82 degrees otn saturday. lots of sunday -- you are looking pretty good monday that's that's the concern overnight low, spotty, we'll clear it out

for a beautiful saturday afternoon.af 83 degrees lots of sunshine much humidity out there. here's a look at 7-day forecast. for the fourth of the july 82 degrees with again not looking l too good at this . we'll. continue to monitor that and adjust the forecast. tuesday you're. h -- tuesday 84. thursday 90 degrees. friday into degrees.nto that's a check of the forecast of the sarah over to you. >> every 4th of july weekend baseball takes center stage. this sunday they will be givinge back to the military. for the first time a regular season professional sporting event is taking place on an active military base. atlanta braves hosting at fort bragg in north carolina. a ballpark was built at fort bragg this weekend military base is hosting dozens of activities for kids, baseball players andle servic

more than 50 thousand active duty soldier serve on thehe military post. thanks to mlb and uus government many will get to see the marlins against the braves.t th >> talked to a few guys this went all the way up to congress to get it approved, secretary of the army, everybody had to be ey involved in the process. today bobby, although he hat not suited up in a major league game since 2001 new york nets n still cut him a check on july first. how is that possible. in 2000 they owed him money they didn't want him on the roster a deal was negotiated to pay him eight% annual interest the firsf payment starting in 2011. payments will continue until 2035 when he is 72 years old. that's quite the retirement

package. >> today 36 year old 15 news williams had her second patch s point when the rains would come to suspend r play. check out her reaction total disbelief, no not now one pointo she has to leave the court she can't he believe it. she would return and win. younger sister serena top seed d also won in three sets. >> we'll be right back.

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>> get ready for the billingdy show. we are just days awgay from the big july 4th celebration acrossn the dmv the biggest display will be right here in tc the fireworw show will kickoff at 9:09. show will last 17 minutes.. dc fireworks are not the only game in time. light the sky around fairfax fai high school. gaithersburg is trying a new venue it will be at bohrer park. we have a complete list in our region there are lots of them go to fox5dc.com for more information. fox 5 local news at 11 starts right now. >> this is fox 5 local

11. >> right now at 11, the holiday weekend is here. from your fireworks forecast toc the security on the national mall. fox 5 has you covered. plus a fox 5 exclusive hearh from the victim of a bazaar sexual assault on metros green line into zoo into annual burger eating contest in dc how many mn did the winner eat.at news starts right now. >> holiday weekend is here. this as live look. this is a live look at traffic f heading east on the bay bridge. you see traffic is still heavy it's moving. mov look you see lightening as well. >> mother nature fireworks i'm tony perkins. >> i'm sarah simmons in for shawn. we saw storms rollhr