"fox5" melanie alnwick is live with the latest details.nd it's almost mel as if the story could not get even more sadder than already was. >> absolutely. and i think the feel that a lot of people are expressing is that even with that sobering news of how officer jacai colson die today doesn't make his death any less tragic and in some ways perhaps more so. details we're learning. prince george county police say 22-year-old michael ford up tended to commit sued cop. his brothers actually videotape aid last will and testament and then drove michael to barlow road and continued to record on their cellphones as michael began his barrage outside of the district iii station. police say he fired repeatedly at cars, and buildings, and reloaded and started again. and neighbors were terrified. >> he put his hand in his coat and i said oh, my god he's going to you know shoot or something. so i came back in and then i looked out here and i was looking out the window and i heard gunshot like pow, pow, pow, pow. and i said oh, my god they're shooting at

. >> crews used that time to timet make emergency inspections and repairs.s let's get thrive melanies alnwickho is live with the latest.st good morning mel. >> reporter: good morning.orte we just witnessed it a few minutes ago, literally secondsec ago when the station managertati came in, came down the escalator and opened up the gates there and the first customers since what wouldha that be, tuesday, are makingak their way into the station. so, it was an inconveniencenve but it looks like everythingve is back on track and what we w learned yesterday at thisrd press conference is really rea that ther they were given credee to why general manager paulaul wiedefeld did make the right call.ll they found defects on theouec tracks in some cases soes s serious that shouldn't have been runningt ee over those tracks at all.s a all take a look at some of thesome o video that they showed at the press conference yesterday. yese there were 600 jumper cablesumps that needed to be inspected. ine these are the lines that covereh parts of the third rail.hi r they connect the electricalri power there.wer and

and that's where we find fox5's melanie alnwick with the latest now. melanie, good morning. steve and allison.evd al yeah, quite a mystery here in he what is technically the place p son nec

melanie alnwick joins us live from oak nonfairfax with more on the story. mel there's a lot at stake here even though we have not heard a lot of buzz about virginia. >> well, right, and definitely a big deal here in fairfax county. one of the schools -- one of the school systems that closed for the day. fairfax, loudoun, prince william and stafford county all closing for soup ers tuesday. some of it for security concerns. others because they predict perhaps a larger turnout than though generally primaries see lower than election itself. virginia is on primary meaning anyone can come to the poling plays to their poling place and then after they walk in the door they can say whether they wish to choose a republican ballot or ballot for the democrat candidates. polls on 6:00 in the morning and there's 49 delegates for reps up for grabs and 95 democrat delegates up for grabs in virginia and both parties award them proportionately. all candidates made recent stops here in virginia. hillary clinton rallied george mason university yesterday and donald trump rally

i want to go to melanie alnwick bethesda groversner metro station at the red line. good morning. >> good morning, bob, yes, so i would say he venture to say there's fewer people here now at the grovener station than on that one metro bus you were on. i guess people did get the message about this unpress departmented shut down. this is the kind of action if you remember, metro gm paul wheatfeld wrote eyeleter to metro riders talking about hard truths and in that he kind of signaled that he would not hesitate to take really tough, hard based on what inspectors learned after monday's track fire he felt this was necessar necessary. earlier this morning we saw inspectors at the grovener station tag a look at those power cables. this is issue that the ntsb identified last year after it completed its investigation into the la afonte plaza deadly smoke incident there that killed carol glover and sent dozens to the hospital they said there was system wide program with power connectors there was inspection after that and then after monday's incidents on mcpherson square where

shot and killed in what'sofd in' being called an ambush attack. >> fox5's melanie alnwick isni k livece opoli headquarters with the veryrs wt latest. good morning, mel.ning, >> reporter: good morning,ter: guys. yeah, and barlowe road here shut down still quite ate distance away from policefrom pe icadquarters and that districtnr three station where we're toldrl the ambush happened rightht outside the front doors.rs. that district three station istn kind of attached to policeo poli headquarters divided really ry only by what we call sort of a a sal port area where normally noa they bring suspects in foror questioning there.here chief hank stawinski said thisdi was an unprovoked attack andttkd that officer colson was able to police officers from thefrhe county gathered outside princede george's hospital center topita honor officer colson.so they joined hands and said sai prayers as the night darkened.n. 28-year-old jacai colson hadolso been on the force for four fr years.year he was an undercover narcotics i detective and we're told wase ls not in uniform sunday.uny. the ambush began ar

"fox5" melanie alnwick is live in fairfax with details. mel. >> good morning.e university police say there is no immediate threat to the community and that all the bom bomb-making materials were collected as evidence. still students told us they are concerned they deposit learn about this potential hazardous situation from the campus itself. they learned about it from the news. and "fox5" learned about it from a tip. it was 8:45 in the evening march 16 officers from the george mason university department got calls flames were shooting out of flames of a window jefferson hall dorm. when police confronted residents of room 105 they found leafy green substance and next day police returned with with search warrant and discovered a tool box with match books. shaved match heads, morter and possess till and hiteer fluid and hand sanitizer and candles and pvc pipe. the bomb squad was called in to offer advice as well. they later advised campus police materls opinion were being used to manufacturer fire bombs or make explosive materials. >> i have not seen much of cops

. >> that's where we find fox5's melanie alnwick thisie a morning.hat's the latest mel.atme >> reporter: good morning.ter: yeah, so looks like we're probably not going to get a g lot of information from the school parents. >>> d.c. police did tell us that they are investigatingtigag this alleged rape and theyand ty told us that it did happen on o the sidwell friends campusmpus involving two students said to i be in their upper teens, aeens male and a female.emal they say that the boy and girl here had a prior sexualexual relationship but the report but does not say where on campus cam this is alleged to have happened. this is wednesday on the 16th 1 of march and it was reportedepte close to 11:00 p.m. in the evening but says that they say thehat th say incident began so we don'te dont know how long this assault alleged to -- had gone on foror but it looks like the beginning of this event was w right around 2:30 in the afternoon and i just looked upku on the school web site. generally on wednesdays schoolco dismisses at 3:15.at 3:1 so, if, indeed, sch

. >> fox5's melanie alnwick iss ml live on the scene with thethe very latest in this story. lanie, what can you tell me?l >> reporter: good morning. goo i can tell you that those two victims were rushed to thehe hospital.spital initially thought that they were going to be in critical condition. they were conscious and e breathing. good news is that it turns out t that they were just minorust mio bullet injuries.bu they're going to be okay.ing to sounds like it was quite a was e scene out here last night. nig. not only around the apartmentmet building here, also apparently y there are some cars in the carst back as well that -- that also were hit by gunfire. so, somewhat of a gun battle here. we're still trying to pieceyingc togeer as to what happened. hpe this was at just a little littl after almost 1 o'clock this thi morning so it was 12:53 thishi morning. also want to let you know that w it is just across the street from kip public charter schoolte as well. not sure how long the scene ishi going to be here.e h a lot of times as we've told you in the past when thingshi happe

and that's where we find fox5's melanie alnwick with the latest now. melanie, good morning.or >> reporter: good morning,ood steve and allison.evd al yeah, quite a mystery here in he what is technically the place p son nec it's south of fort belvoir a very small enclave of homes.es very unusual that something seti like this would happen here.n h you see where the brighthe brigh lights are.ligh there's a home on the lefts home side of the road here, this isei river drive, and it borders the potomac itself and that is i where police say they received a 911 call from someone insidem a residence there about thehe man who was found deceased inead the backyard. bacar now, police used thehe terminology trauma to theolog upper body but we also know k that they heard gun shots and ad people in the area reported ror gun shots and so we can only o draw conclusions that perhaps that trauma to the upper bodytop was indeed a gunshot wound.ou the man was taken out of here in an ambulance. he was pronounced dead at the hospital.spal neighbors tells they believes that he is elderly probably i

marlbor melanie alnwick joins us lives with the very latest. mel. >> reporter: good morning.te and initially this funeral was going to be private but prince i george's county police saye they had so much support fromupt the public that the family andiy the police department decidedt d that it would be appropriatepppr to have it opened to the community and to the public in general.genel. now, there was a large turnoutuo yesterday at the funeral homealm when the first viewing began. contingents to honor the fallen detectiveetc and comfort his colleagues and family. 28-year-old jacai colson col jumped into action almost two weeks ago when a man started randomly shooting at cars,ars, people and district three officers. out of uniform and not wearing body armor tragically colsonllyl was killed by a fellowlo officer's bullet. bulle colson's father spoke about spoo his son yesterday outside the te funeral home. h >> this is a hero inside here. r ever since he was born, neverer any trouble to us.uble t u he was the kind of kid and young man that any pa

fox5's melanie alnwick joinsln i us live with details on thishi story. good morning, mel.l. what's t >> reporter: hey, good tr: h morning, wisdom. yeah, so paul wiedefeld lab on o the job now for 90 days and 90 a he's really had a chance tolly kind of figure out what is w wrong with the system, what needs to be fixed so last night he laid out in writingri his plan, his path forward forwf metro and it does includelu improving safety and security, improving reliability and getting metro's financial fan house in order.. now, wiedefeld says that reliability is the number oneum issue for riders.s. on time performance fell to 85 percent and many riders hadid it even worse if they ended up d on a car with a mechanical prob problem. probl planned and unscheduled trackeda work. safety also a concern. wiedefeld maintains crime ond metrmao is lower nan most n m communities but recognize thatni is riders are in his words w alarmed by recent assaults andsa says that they deserve more active policing. pic finance also part of the plan.sp revenue is slowing down and increasing. there will

def live in palmer park, i'm par i melanie alnwick, fox5 localocal news. >> as you can imagine reactionacs pouring in about thisou incident on our faceboorik pagep donny wrote just awful. se thank you officer colson for for making pg county safer. saf i'll be praying for yourng f family, your brothers andth sisters in blue and everyone evn else that will miss you. >>> denise wilkins said he wasa cleaning up the streetsng up putting his life on the linelinh to make pg a safer place, a true warrior we salute you. >> latest tragedy comes twoomest weeks since another shootinger t in our area targeted law enforcement. last month ashley guindon wasgun shot and killed on her very v first day on the job. j she was laid to rest in herid hometown in massachusetts last week. crystal hamilton the wife of wif the suspected shooter was alsoew killed. two other officers werer officee injured in the shooting,hootin jessie hempen and david mccune. both are still recovering.ecovin officer hempen was releasedse from the hospital last week. ♪ ♪ >> checking our other stopthertp stories this morning, eightng,

melanie alnwick. senator cruz won idahohiary cliy win in mississippi. both clinton and trump sugges suggestinged they are ready to end the primary battle and focus on each other. >> if i get to go against hillary polls are showing i will beat here and some of the polls have me beating her easily. >> sooner i can become the knowledge he the more i can turn our attention to the reps. >> well the candidates now have sights set on next tuesday's primaries including florida and ohio both winner take all states. >> happening today. the trial of codefendants in thece believe renaldoas on the the incint on cain first degree murder. >> maryland congressman chris van holland will number annapolis to testify on gun safety legislation. it would prohibit deadly weapons on college campuses and it's being considered with the general assembly and prevent emwith on the terrorist watch list from purchasing firearms and requiring bill of those found guilty to turn in their guns. an important bill will be introduced maryland state out in annapolis. house bill 1396 to expan

and that's where we find fox5's melanie alnwick this morning. melanie, what is latest withes this story? s >> reporter: we don't have a lot of details here. very little information to go go on from d.c. police. pol all we can tell you is that it this was reported close tod c 11:00 p.m. on wednesday and it was alleged to have happenede he right around 2:30 or sometime ot after 2:30 on wednesdayed afternoon.n. so, i'm not sure exactly whatctw time school dismisses.diis and we also don't know what's w really unclear is where on thehe school property this happened. e but police do sa two teenagers, a male an female, both in their upperir u teens and apparently d.c.tl d police according to what is inni the police report say they had d a prior sexual relationshipatnsp and that is pretty much it. not a whole lot of otherolt of details in terms of what may have led to this or perhaps what happened afterwards.er but again, we can tell youl y that police are investigatingnvs it. no arrests have been made.ade. now, we were not able yet to t contact, though

b melanie alnwick is en route to t the scene. as she gets therets she'll update us on the us information as it becomes available.ble >> ♪ >> all right, meantime we are waking up to 70 degrees, gary. >> you can say balmy.ay b >> i still wear a jacket, jac though.th >> you did? >> i did. >> you know what, it's it's habitual at this point because b you don't ever in your mind md think on march whatever it is,s, it's 11th, right. >> uh-huh. >> that you can just walk outu of your house at 3 o'clock incao the morning. the mo >> and you don't need a you't jacket. >> and you won't need a won jacket. >> you're right. >> just in case the just temperatures drop about 20 degrees i may need it.egreese >> you never know.>> youer k >> in our line of work youfor never really know where you'rehe going to end up so.nd u >> you know something.wet >> are they flying to you fly alaska today. alaska today. >> you never know.>> youer news happens everywhere. >> maureen basically saying have your bags packed. that's good for everybody.dy 70 degrees here

t melanie alnwick is livhee ine in spring fields, virginia, with wt the latest. this is a convoluted story, stoy mel. >> reporter: it is. ror and we're trying just kind off pull the threads together and we're getting a clearer picture of what was going on.oi first off residents reportepor that overnight they were keptre awake by the sound of helicopters search dogs and a even police commands overe commr loudspeakers so quite a scenequ out here on tray lee woodse woo court in springfield,ingfield, virginia. so what we hear from fairfaxairf county police is, yes,is y officers were serving a warrant in the area around 10 o'clock last night and willas those officers were comingt down the street, therers wereree two other vehicles coming inomin the opposite direction.econ one of the vehicles struck theut police cruiser.ru police got out. o they detained the people ineople both of those vehicles.les. one of the cars only had a a solo driver. dri that driver was detained.ned. the other car had a driver and another occupant in it, twocupa men, and when police detainedne

f live in palmer park, i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. anie, thank you.k y. >>> meantime, eight firefightert are in the hospital this morning after battling a townhouse firee in montgomery county overnight.g and this was in germantown. that fire so intense that thehe entire home collapsed.olps the firefighters are expected t be okay much that's got news.t'w the the extent of damage at that seep has dislaed 18 people tucker barnes back now with an h itdate on ht if it's been raining fo that's a suation. auati >> all rht.li. >> the temperatures haveratu hav dropped. cool and soggy.og that's the word of the day gay g soggy. not steamy, soggy.. >> yeah. >> when you put those two tse together it sounds like aunds la situation.siation. >> steamy and soggy.d soy the low clouds and the drizzle z will continue here for our day today. to cool temperatures, 50 inn washington.wash 45 in frederick. 47 this morning in baltimore.ale there's your rain showers yoain activity.tivity moving through overnight.hroughn we're left with cloud cover andd drizzle a

melanie alnwick has been has covering that as spec of it. lanie, we know the metroknow e system shut down in brussels and we've seen bob just showed us aa dulles end hasn'ted securityd st there. more police presence, somepreses bigger weaponry that was beingai used. any changes that you've noticedv so far on metro? >> reporter: yeah, a bigig noticeable change for sure.fo s not something that you normally see that fairfax county policeyc officer stationed here in front of the entrance to the vienna metro station.on we know that there is going tor be a around metro lots and platformsf and the stations in general today.da metro transit police saying,e sn though, they want to be veryt tr very clear with folks that t there's no known specific or o credible threat to metro at this time. they will be using additional k9 sweeps, additional patrols starting as a precaution. saying they're closely close monitoring the events in i brussels along with federaleder partners and so they really wana to let people know again therehe is no reason that they sha

coming out the much prince george's county many fire crews on the scene of an apartment fire.ma >> melanie alnwicknowe live with the latest now.. melanie, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.d m so good news here is that nobody was injured in this but definitely a dramatic seep thata people awoke to this morning.isr many of them smelling fire.ng smelling smoke, and jumping into action.on you can see what is left here. firefighters starting to cleangc up the scene here it looks likek for the most part. p i don't see any more hot spots o here and looks like they'll take the hoses down in just a minuten people actually had to bectuall rescued off of some of thesehe balconies but a lot of residents jumped into actio many many calls to 911 right about 6:30, 6:45 this morning. g and then we want to talk to aal couple folks here who actuallyy jumped into action and also als caught it on video. first, tell me you said you s smelled it and then what did yo do? >> i smell it first, you know,u because i was on my balcony, you know, and then iran over there.e i went in the building. bui i got the fire ext

fox5's melanie alnwick is nearsn there in the mason neck area.>> reporter: good morning, steve and allison.d alison a lot of this information not confirmed by police. they will only tell us that thit is a death investigation at this t.int. and that the man was found inou the backyard with trauma to thee upper body. but, they did also say that t there were other 911 calls, notn just the one that came from thee house at 103 this morning but other 911 calls from people inpi the area reporting the sound of gunshots. one person told me he heard what sounded like about four gunshott and then a pause and then another four to five gunshots this morning.ning so fairfax county police cameicc out here. they cordoned off the area, and they began an area wide canvassa and search. searc here's what fairfax county cnty police told us this morning. >> we had helicopter and k9s ans we rated the area just making sure that -- s locate anyone possibly was was involved with the incident. >> reporter: so the man was taken to the hospital.l. again, police telling us th

area. >> we'll try to get back our o melanie alnwick is there is the covering the story.ring t we'll fine out how h many people may have come here,h you know, you typically hear hr from departments around the region, around the we've seen various -- you can -u tell from the uniforms and the t vehicles the different d departments who are there.ntwho some of them but also a lot of o times you get officers and members of law enforcement fromf all over the country that willtl come out for an unfortunatenfora moment like this but it's all il paying honor and respect to a a member of law enforcement whocet lost their life in the line of duty.du >> viewing is about to nine ato 9:00 o'clock at that church in glenn arden, maryland.d it will go till 11:00 and then e the funeral for officer jacai colson will commence atmmce a 11:00 this morning.:00 stay with us.st we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ fios is not cable. we're wired differently. in the last 10 years our competitors have received a few awards. but we've received a few more, including jd power who ranked us h

m our melanie alnwick is lives liv there with details aboutls a today's service.el, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, g steve and allison. you know, a lot of people have talked a bit about this thi friendly fire and i don'tn' think it makes jacai colson'solo death any less tragic and inn some ways perhaps even more so s much we know it's been a very vy difficult two weeks for theks fe prince george's county policee' department. initially the funeral was going to be private but there te has been so much show of support from the community commy that the police the family decided that it tha would be appropriate to openope the funeral and another aer viewing today to the public. pu. there will be a second viewingdi this morning here from 9:00 to 11:00 at the first baptist bap church of glenarden.en >>> the funeral begins atins 11:00.11 there was a large turnout turno yesterday at the funeral home h where the first viewing began. contingent of police officers from across the region arrivediv to honor the fallen detective di and comfort his colleagues andie fami

fug i'm melanie alnwick, fox5, fox local news.ew >> mel thanks. we'll continue to followue breaking news coming out ofmingf montgomery county this morningyh where police are investigatinges a single car crash that crat happened in rockville lastt night on muncaster mill road and emery lane after 11:30.1:30 no word on the injuries at this point, though. >> also developing overnight,op ain homicide investigation aftea a man was found dead inside a mercedes benz along i-295 near r benning road in northeast.th this happened around 9:00 lastst night. police say it appears theears t victim was shot. sho the search for a motive and a suspect continues at thisue t hour.hour >> three dozen people homelessos this morning after fire rippedir through their apartmenth complex this in marlo heights.t. barnabas road last night.oad the roof collapsed.of c now the good newsol here, nobodb was hurt.s hurt. but again, all those peopleple displaced. still no word on a cause.se >>> a chief judge for the u.s. s district court in d.c. d. retiring now amid a sex scandal.

melanie alnwick went to the scene in 1600 block landover road and police are no longer there.there were reports of two again police officers are no longer on the scene. . >> and a suspect was charged in baeming death of woman killed in double stabbing yesterday morning. daniel west of oxon hill is charged with 1st and second degree murder. west admitted his involvement in the death of 23-year-old santa la zama of landover. she was stobd in her apartment and pronounced dead at the scene. at woman was taken to the hospital. west and zamba were involved in a romantic relationship. >> two volunteer fight fighters are back on the job in stafford county. they were placed on leave after they use aid fire truck to take a little girl owe the hospital instead of waiting on blaps. officials say they broke polic policy. a public out cry followed and yesterday they were placed back on the job. >> we don't get compensated for what we do. so the good outcome is basically what we like to hear. so, when a story likes this happens an a child comes out well, that's our fam appreciate that. it fe

melanie alnwick is live with the light. good morning. >> good morning, steve, alliso allison. once again we see a black draped police car, flowers on the hood. it's a site that no one should get used to. and there are still so many questions surrounding officer jacai colson's death. some of those the particulars about how he died. we are learning the why may be far more elusive and police tell us that 22-year-old michael ford intended to commit suicide by cop on sunday. his brothers malik age 21 and elijah age 18 videotaped a last will and testament and drove mike teal barlow road where they continued to record on their cell phones as michael began barrage outside the district iii station and police say he fired repeatedly at cars and building and reloaded and started again. neighbors told "fox5" they were terrified. >> so he kept yelling come out and confront me i'm ready for you i'm ready for you. he reached and put his hand in his coat and i said oh, my god he's going to shoot or something. so i came back in and then i looked out here. and i was looking out the window and t

polls in virginia literally on up one minute ago melanie alnwick nel oakton high school mel, good morning. >> good morning, steve, allison, just as you said a few minutes ago is when the parking lot here started to see a little more traffic. people coming in for that early voting and also to set up for voters. schools in fairfax county and prince william country and loudoun county and spotsylvania county all closed today. fairfax county board of elections does expect pretty large turnout for this super tuesday. and now, virginia is on primary which means that voters here can come into their poling place and ask for i'mer a republican or a democrat ballo ballot. and they do not have to sign that gop loyalty pledge that first had been talked about near virginia in order to vote republican. and there are 49 rendell gats up for grabs and 95 delegate grabs up in virginia and virginia is seen as a big prize here because it's a pretty good indicator of how things may go in the rest of the nation. and and wins here strategically important and all candidates made recent stops in virginia. hillary

let's go to "fox5" melanie alnwick live at the belgium embassy with more there, mel. the flags are lowered here and a small memorial is growing under the plaque polls. throughout the day people that watched the terror on tv were moved to make the gesture and journey here to northwest d.c. a small gesture, d.c. of candles, and bouquets. homeland secretary jay johnson. >> expressing my cone dollences to the bell yum people and their ambassadors here. it's a scene repeated in brussels and outside the stock exchange and they remembered belgiums as they came together to mourn and believe in a better world. now belgium ambassadors johansson verbeke is grateful for condolences and his people will not give into fear. sgle meantime, mop ument as cross the globe were illuminat illuminated in colors of the belgium flag from the eiffel tower and empire state building and capital wheel at the national harbor. >> dulles international airport remains on heighten add lert following the brussels terrorist attack. >> we find bob barnard live he this morning. i know it's early there, bo

welcome back to "fox5 news morning" let's head toe melanie alnwick. mel is in fairfax with more details. melanie, good morning. >> good morning, yes, so we came here to the mets row station because we talked a lot on the news this morning about the attacks at the airport and we should say at this point explosions at brussels but again there was also the explosion opt belgium metro and it happened 9:45 in the morning. brussels time a very busy time as anyone who commutes by subway knows and belgium reporting ten people dead on board those subway trains and looking at social media i'm seeing tweets of mangled subway car and also tweets showing smoke coming out of the metro stationary and also video that people have tweeted out on social media of several subway cars being he vacit yad in the dark in tunnels underground and smoke. that's for any metro commuter just a nightmare scenario for them. want todd let you know that there is no information at this point that there's any kind of threat against any of the transit systems in and around washington d.c.

live in grossner i'm melanie alnwick fox local news. >> still ahead a lot of other news to get to as well. police cruiser stole innocent district overnight and crews on the scene of a fire in prince william county. >> hillary clinton and donald trump waking up big winners and fallout already being felt this morning. 6:11 we'll be right the bigger the burrito, the bigger the fun. dunkin's new grandde burrito -- a breakfast burrito packed with big southwest flavor. go grande with veggie or sausage today. america runs on dunkin'. >> developing overnight a pursuit with u.s. park place 1:00 this morning police were conducting a traffic check who stopped a man's car that meld of mrnl mrj and before they could speak with him he sped off striking two officers with the mirror of his car and officers chase the that man who crashed his vehicle and ran and then stole unmarked police cruiser and crashed again and fled on foot again. police recovered vehicle and the man got away. also developing this morning the red cross headed to scene of t

live in palmer park, i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local locl news. news. >> all right, melanie thanklanie you. >>> well, the community is understandably shaken and outraged over this brazen attack. attack. >> this morning we're learningge a little more about the two suspects in custody.n custy. fox5's bob barnard is liverd in prince george's county withoe that part of the story. bob, good morning.rnin >> reporter: hey, allison, wisdom, good morning to you.o 13 and a half hours later, the e two suspects have still not been identified by princey ce george's county police. cy we believe one of them, thehe shooter, the killer, is stillti here being treated at prince atr george's hospital center. hos as you mentioned he wased he was wounded in the ambush attack.mbt the other was arrested a short time later at a popeyes not far from the police headquarters in the district in iii substation.s now, a woman who came here toero our crew here that it was her h two nephews, two brothers who are the suspects.uspes. the washington post is confirming that and naming

live at grovener i'm melanie alnwick. "fox5 local news". >> mel, thanks, bob barnard is commuting throughout the district and got an early start as well. >> he was on the bus with other commuters an now he stopped off on pennsylvania avenue in southeast. good morning. . >> good morning we're on capitol hill inbound pennsylvania passing eastern market area slow and steady and not atroshious. it's kind of rally compacting now. it has not been very thick about now so the going has not been that rough maybe as not as rough as people and it doesn't mean people represent home or arrived in early. >>> if you were to arrive here this is what would you see. escalators are running at the bottom the gates are closed and locked at eastern market station. you mentioned we were on i bus. i wants to show you from earlier we got and i bus 5:15 nailer road and road that to foggy would thele. there was free parking an plenty of parking at the nay lor road station and the gus got crowd as we snaked our way southeast no form east d.c.. the p

our melanie alnwick is live frof the cuban embassy with more.ore.i can say you wereou live in havana this morning.ning i think you would -- you'd beo b excellent on location overseasna doing that. good morning. >> reporter: i would love that, yeah.,ea let's see if we can dial that u for the next time, right? because there may be next timesm that is the hope that state visits between united states an cuba will become an ordinary oin thing.th it is so extraordinary right now it hasn't happened as you said in 90 years. yrs president obama and his family m touched down on a rainy sunday afternoon in havana.. late in the afternoon yesterday. president obama, his wife, his daughters and touching down there in havana late in the afternoon.on they did a little bit of tourinu around in the old city of havanv then went to private dinner. president went to the u.s.. embassy, brand new u.s. embassy and embassy employees broughtlob members of their family to seeye the president and his family fam there when he spoke presidentkei obama said that this is reallysr

live in oakton i'm melanie alnwick, "fox5 local news". >> all right. mel, thaving you very much. >> sunshine out tlut this morning. >> beautiful sun advise. gorgeous day. low 60s for ytime high. first. >> it is chilly early bring a jacket as you head out the doo door. 32 dulles and 20s and call puper this morning, fredericksburg the area. with expected daytime temperatures step above formal by afternoon. at site and radar is not featuring much in the way of cloudyness and have a few in pennsylvania and we should remain generally sunny today. we'll have a few more clouds this afternoon with next cold front which will get in tonigh tonight. we'll have rain showers tomorrow morning's commute. we're have winter weather on our beautiful tuesday. 62 this afternoon and peesy. >> tuck, thank you. get a look at the road this morning. >> 7:307 updated information for you. finger board road 80 shut down in both directions bark mills road. deadly tractor-trailer crash and earlier father cleanup underway. 270 also delayed southbound from 85 to truck scales and 16 m

driving around seeing what the conditions are like on the road we've got melanie alnwick who is downouth. sou >> she's in saint mary'sint county and annie is headed todeo prince william county, two areas both of whom theirf whom h public school are on two hour delays.lays >> we have delays trickling inay now. i haven't been able to payay attention. >> trickle is a good word. i >> that's about right. >> in terms of where we ares this morning, most of the snow is moving out ooff d.c.t of.c now, we're kind of right onht the extreme western edge of edgo that. there's radar to show youradatos where and we're still gettingeti the heavier snow, if you will,il and this is pretty good moderate snow still falling fli down through saint mary's s mar county, so melan will get down here before it's all moved out. o so, you can see it's breaking bk up out to the winter weather advisories haveer been dropped back out to the ak west. there's calvert right there, are little bit of that.t. and extreme charles county cou comes way down here so it's it' still southern sections thattish of county getting

the other was taken to then t hospital withith nonlife-threatening injuries.in melanie alnwick is on her waygk there. ther we'll get the latest her whenese she arrives on >> in a final farewell today t for prince william countyliam c officer ashley guindon in her hometown of springfield, massachusetts.ahusetts. guindon was slot to death dea while responding to a domestic m dispute in woodbridge. it was her first day on the d job. a service was held for herld foh here locally last week. well, today her family and famid friends in massachusetts willetw gather for a funeral and a and burial again in her hometown.ow >>> and locally here bloode blo drive is being held in honornor of officer guindon and the other two prince williamli officers injured in thatt domestic incident. ien it is at inova fairfaxax hospital from 10:30 to 6:30. 6:3 >> growing support for twort foo virginia firefightersia firefigt suspended after the departmentep said they broke policy byicy driving a little girl in needtte of hope to the hospital inta i their fire truck.ruck. a stafford county emt is leading the cha

live in springfield, i'm i melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. news >> thanks mel. >>> let's head overseas to o brussels for the latestsels developments in tuesday's terror attack. this mornienng news outlets inn belgium and france reporting a second attacker.. that man was captured on surveillance camera carrying a n large bag alongside a suicideci bomber identified yesterday. it's not clear if this second te suspect was s on the run or r was killed in the attack. att >>> the urgent search> continues for the man you justr saw in white. w in that picture from the that pr brussels airport.br the man in the tan coat withhe c the hat on. the airport will remain closed o until at least saturday. sat we are learning that two that to americans a brother and sistera were at the airport when the bombs went off and are stillre s missing. miss secretary of state john kerry arrives in brussels tomorrow to formally express condolences of the unitedf the i states. >> ♪ prince george's countyprin detective jacai colson. c it is at borgwardt funeral home in bel

fox5's melanie alnwick joins us live from outside the cubanub embassy in d.c.l.orning, mel. yeah, there was so muchaso m jubilation here remember that last summer when the cuban flag was raised over the cuban b embassy here on 16th street str for the first time in 50 years 0 i should say.ay it's been quite some time. now this morning in havana hav president obama and his family yesterday, they were greetedered with cheers, also with some s pretty tight security there as well. president obama and his family bringing some sunshineshine diplomacy on a very rainy afternoon to the havana airport.airport. the island nation just about a 90 miles off the coast of coa florida has been a flash point p between the united states andta what was then the soviet uniont in the early 1960's, the cubanhe missile crisis brought theil world closere to nuclear war wr than at any time ever before or since. sin the obamas toured havana later surrounded by embassy staffastaf and their families.d thm the president said reopening sae the door to cuba is beneficialsf to both nations.. >>

th police there investigating anti al researched rape at sidwell friends school.fr >> melanie alnwick joins us joi now with the latest. melanie.la >> reportermel.apologize clearle technical issues with thesu sound there. wese will get wil melanie alnwick's report shortly. >> we'll get back to mel as bac soon as we can get that issue i figured ut ravens quarterback tray walkal intercritical can conditioncal after a motorcycle accident. acd this happened last night aboutia 8 o'clock. actually happened in miami. walker was riding a dirt bikea e no lights on it and struck an sc z now the ravens officialffic twitter feed tweeted this picture saying our thoughts are with trey and his family.am walker was a fourth round fourtd draft pick by the ravens in i 2015 and just getting his career started. started >> prince george's county police officer killed during aek shootout will be remembered at a memorial service next week a viewing for detective jacai j colson will be held onbe hel thursday in beltsville.n bel then a memorial service onemvi friday in upper marlboro. mlb colson's body will tr

we'll check in with melanie alnwick live at a poling place already this morning we'll get an update from her in five minutes. >> i'm holly morris alongside wisdom martin and maureen umeh. >> we thank you four joining thus tuesday morning. >> today, friend and family will say good guy to pr

i'm melanie alnwick, "fox5 local news". >> in the meantime accused shootner prince george county double homicide has taken his own life. kevin republican ooldz died fromself assaulting her and she's the one th paid his this happened 10:00 last night. witnesses say it looked like a ring of fire. officials say it took 60 firefighters over two hours to bring the five acre fire under control. and if you can take a look at that picture there that's amazing. no homes were danaged. word whoonpa ny michigan hilly clinton she did win big mississippi. sanders support is getting stronger and looking forward tore next tuesday's primaries. particular day, ohio and illinois. as for delegates a lot of states are winner take all. tonight, sanders and clinton will face off in debate at miami-dade college in florida. >> on the republican side donald trump moving closer to general election now and won big in michigan, mississippi and hawaii and ted cruz came in second in the states and won the i'd owe primary. . >> we're closing the gap in state after state after state after state. we know that just a few

no response so far.so f live in northwest, melanie man alnwick, back to you. >> who is going on in athletic area.area. disturbing.urbi >>> all right. more on that as the detailsdetal become available as melanie hase been doing all morning long. >>> ken 10:27.> 1 coming up next tyler perry willw join us live. he's producing this weekend's's epic tv music event the bag. he gives us a preview straightth ahead as the number one good day at 10a continues.oinu ♪ ♪ we need women in congress. if we want to be heard, it was the women who forced republicans to include women's health and contraceptive coverage in the affordable care act. in congress, i'll fight for pay equity, family leave and tougher gun safety laws. and, as an environmentalist, i'll work combat climate change. i know as a journalist and as a senior executive in business that when women are at the table, we get things done. i'm kathleen mathews and i approve this message. ♪ it's an epp pink tv musicalical event this palm sunday and itdai will happen right here on fox5.f e' live musical that tells the 2,

live at grossner i'm melanie alnwick, "fox5 local news". >> getting an update on the weather with gary mcgrady. >> thanks a lot. good thing it's quiet weathe weather-wise. we won't have to add any weather into the mix. just to show you satellite this morning. it's clear out there. so the only thing -- only little concern this morning may be a little fog. i'm keeping one that to see if spots get reduced visibility. don't worry about it now. kids ha ground fog in the morning commute, okay? otherwise skies clear and it looks like we have good amounts of sunshine today and that's going to warm things up. we start off this morning it looks like we should start off sunny okay? temperature 51. look how warm it is lunchtime. 67. later today we'll go lower to mid 70s to be a few showers between 4 and 7:00 today and there could be a rumble of thundner some of that as well. it shouldn't be a big deal. hopefully it won't be a lot. that will cause a problem for the evening commute and we get the morning commute in dry and hopefully not dealing with much later this afternoon. on the bright spot it's

live in fairfax i'm melanie alnwick. "fox5 local news". >> and overseas we're just getting news now our producers letting us know where metro attacks there this is different than parentp with metro attacks 15 are dead, 5 5 injured at this time. we'll of course keep you up to date on those horrible numbers coming in from overseas. >> as mel mentioned some pictures online are just suitly horrific to look at this morning. still no definitive link between paris bomb erin fwhapd brussels today. we know that man was arrested in belgium. belgium police saying and authorities saying they were expecting or at least aware that something like this could happen for several weeks now latest coverage coming up still ahead much more coverage for terror attacks in brussels. >> we'll be right back. >> breaking news all morning out of brussels belgium where coordinate add tacks have killed tens of people and sadly it's ever evolving and many people hurt this happened at the airport in brussels and several metro stops. >> mets row pushing

live at foggy bottom, melanie alnwick fox5 local news. >> melanie, thank you., thk yo >> also in thethe u.s. districtistrc court retiring but a mid is sex scandal.scanl. >> utah woman is seeing the d.c. federal judge richard w.hard w roberts. the woman says the judge sexually assaulted her more than three decades ago when she was teenager.er lawyers for the judge say thatat he will challenge the womans allegations in court. judge roberts notified the white house of his retirement plans yesterday.er he says he's stepping away fromf the bench for an unspecifiedpeci medical issue. issue >>> happening today, the the president supreme court nomineen merrick garland is expected toeo visit capitol hill and spookl ho with democratic senators.at garland is one of the chiefhi judge of the federal appealsal a court in d.c.. some republican senators willorl also meet with garland today buy they maintain that he will notin get a confirmation hearing.eang senate majority mitch mcconnelln spoke to garland by phone and ad said the senate won't even't consider a nominee while w president obama is in

fox5's melanie alnwick joins usu live with the latest.t. lanie, good morning. >> reporter: hey, goodey morning, and yeah, for the lastl hour we have seen solemn procession of color guard from f so many different lawfe enforcement agencies as far away as new york to come here andere stand and pay their respects in this solemn line not too longool ago we had the casket carryingg jacai colson the hearse coming here with its motorcyclecle procession as well. w quite the honor. it appears we're staning by at a this point. we believe for members of jacaii o memorial service, the secondhe n viewing i should say will get underway.un that is scheduled for 9:00 to 11:00 this morning. mni as we've been talking about it,t it's open to the public.. initially, family was not goingg to have this funeral as a public funeral but after they said receiving so many positivey posv messages of support from the community they decided to go tog ahead and open it to the publicb the funeral begins at 11:00. 1 shout last until about 12:30. 1 and people have said so mu

ir our melanie alnwick is headeds e to the scene.e'll have an updid it on the ot story at the top of the hour.ou >> ♪ >> happening today, a viewing t will be held for fallen princeln george's county police officeryo jacai colson.ol he was killed earlier thiss month when he was hit by friendly fire. friends and family invited to t the funeral home in beltsvillets maryland from 2:00 to 9:00 9:00 this evening. >>> bikers from several states gathered in greenbelt lastgreenl night to remember officerember colson. the group rode to the stationroe where they held a prayer l.gil. organizers say the motorcyclehey community wanted to paynted tribute to those who help top t keep them safe. saf >> we came down here to do to this event because of these of t officer who lost his life in lif th know that the bike community c and the community itself, we care about our police officersff especially when they die in the the line of duty. d >> funeral services forsor officer colson will be held atla first baptist church of glenarden tomorrow. >> ♪ >> d

that is the latest.at is e latet i'm melanie alnwick fox5 local5c news.>> there have been five ambush style killings of policee llingo officers in the united states sn far this year. >> fox5' ronica cleary spoke with craig floyd the chairman.i. ceo of the national lawnal enforcement memorial fund aboutt the state of law enforcement inw america today.oday >> over the last two years, 21 2 officers were shot and killed in ambush style attacks most of war memorials and others theys have a fixed period in timen tim where people died and they don'd have to add new names.ewam we do unfortunately.tuate some day i'm afraid these wallsw may very well be phil. be p i always say, you know who is kw the most visible, the mosthe mos vulnerable symbol of governmentr it's the police officer iner in uniform. unif this year we've identified fivef law enforcement fatalitiest taly officers killed by gunfire who are also killed in ambush styley attacks.. if those numbers hold up at that rate for the rest of this year, it's the most officers killed in ambush style attacks that

melanie alnwick live with the l very latest developments for uso now.t getting some s information from the state'te' attorney's office regardingegarg michael fords two brothers whots also stand charged with multiple counts of conspiracy, and attempted first degree murder.ue we did find out that the twowo brothers and michael drove d together in red honda here out in front of the district three station and apparently they camc to the building in the car.ldinn that is when they recorded michael on the control phoneol p saying what he intended to do t and how he wanted to engageag police in some sort of aorof shootout.tout. apparently, when th michael actually headed to the wrong building and his twond h t brothers malik and elijahli directed him back to theack t district three police station sn and then they pigged their carhc for easy get away recording onng their cell phones the entirent time.ti we know we've heard from witne witnesses saying they heardd michael in the middle of the street there shouting to theg to police officers to come out,ut saying

one woman killed in a double iau stabbing early this morning.ng >> fox5's melanie alnwick iswi on the scene with what we know k so far. f mel, good morning. >> reporter: good morning,orte steve and allison.e and all and again, it is still a very active crime sceneri s investigation here.ion ere. we're at the overland garden g apartments and you can seemes an here the police vehicle andicle the forensic services vanervicea and it's a little bit harder to see now as the sun has comeam up but we've seen there in those three windows that arear sort of above the mainn entrance door, that's where we've seen the majority of police activity.ice appears to be a stairwell area, the sort of center halltea area before people go into their individual apartments. coming back down a little further, also there's a garageae door that is open as well that we saw police kind of -- o-- showing some interest in butt ib we don't know exactly why or o how that may be connected. conne it was 2:55 this morning. mning we're told police came here for a call of what they saidhey was cutting and then when they ar