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suzanne kennedy is following it all in the newsroom. police believe steve stephens could be armed and state manhunt is underway right now. take a good look at this picture. this is the man police say killed a senior citizen, then uploaded it to facebook. stephens blaming the murder on his girlfriend. police have identified the victim as 74 year old robert godwin senior. that video was on the social media site for three hours before it was removed. police believe stephens has fled the state--possibly in a newer model white ford fusion. facebook issued a statement calling the crime horrific. coming up at 530 the personal message being issued this morning for that alleged cleveland killer. at the live desk...sk back to you. right now. vice president mike pence visiting the demilitarized zone between north and south korea. his trip comes just a short time after an attempted missile launch by north korea failed. the vice president says the era of strategic patience is over with north korea and the u-s has grown impatient with their unwilling

suzanne kennedy is live with more. a heads up for people who live and work near the washington navy yard. navy security forces will be holding an active shooter exercise today. the drill will lock down' the navy yard and temporarily close the area to both cars and pedestrians. the drill comes nearly four years after the mass shooting at the navy yard. twelve people were killed and eight others injured when a government before being shot by police. right now.. we're keeping a close eye on a hospital in texas - where former president george h.w. bush was admitted last night. it's being called a precaution due to a mild case of pneumonia, which he was also diagnosed with in january. the 92-year-old is said to be resting and in good spirits. metro's red line re-open right now with normal service after major delays lastnight. this was the scene during rush hour at metro center. you can see hundreds of people - packing the platform. the cause of the problem - an arching stud bolt at gallery place which led to single tracking

suzanne kennedy... what are you working on? we're tracking rain on the radar. temperatures dropping overnight wednesday. the wet weather on the way - and when those warmer temperatures will return. good morning washington. toss to eileen - cloudy & cool today - warm & humid tomorrow - cooler/unsettled weekend (rainy sunday) today: mostly cloudy & cooler. isolated showers. highs: 60-64 winds: sse 5 mph tonight: mostly cloudy with patchy fog. isolated showers, especially nw. lows: 52-58 winds: s 5 mph thursday: partly sunny. warm and humid. isolated pm thunderstorm. highs: 80-85 winds: s 5 mph

suzanne kennedy is live. suzanne: we want to show you the situation, you can take a look behind me and see independence avenue is closed in front of the rayburn house office building. that tree is an american now and lost a large branch this morning and struck a man. we want to tell you that this is what happened. take a listen and they look. two more giant branches peeled away from the trunk of the tree and came crashing down on independence avenue and new jersey avenue southeast. they moved us back a few minutes before that happened. at 9:15, mpd and capitol pulled a man out from underneath the tree and was transported to the hospital in critical condition. we have been trying to find out who that person is that we have been hearing from people that it may be an employee, a male employee of the architect of the capitol, the folks who take care of the ground. it is unclear which hospital he was transported to but we know they were having a difficult time getting him out from under the tree. they have not done

suzanne kennedy is live in sterling.. suzanne?rape in broad from paint branch high school in montgomery county.. and it happened at a time when students would have been heading home! police say a 32-year-old woman was walking along castle boulevard wednesday, when antonio devon kamara approached her. they say he pushed her into the woods, raped and robbed her, and threatened to kill her if she screamed. police arrested kamara shortly afterward. he's being held without bond on charges of rape, kidnapping, assault, and robbery. new overnight - an ohio man under arrest, accused of attempting to join isis. and this morning we're learning he was stopped here in our area by officials months ago.. sam sweeney is at the live desk. this morning - 26-year-old "laith waleed alebbini" is in federal custody. he was arrested wednesday ni attempting to fly to jordan or turkey then cross into syria. alebbini was first arrested back in january trying to get into the turkish embassy here in d-c. according to court documents he told officials quote

suzanne kennedy is live at metro headquarters with what he's asking for.. suzanne? local leaders are reacting to the this morning. virgniia senator tim kaine said in part "paul wiedefeld has started to turn the troubled ship that is metro, and his logical proposal for a long-term funding plan is worthy of careful consideration," kaine said. congressman gerry connolly said in part "this is a strong business plan proposed by metro general manager wiedefeld that will require big sacrifices by jurisdictions and labor. a tough sell but some necessary d as suzanne mentioned - we will be speaking with metro general manager paul wiedefeld later this morning. don't miss that live interview coming up at eight o'clock when we switch over to newschannel 8. it's an issue on a lot of minds: improving health care for our veterans. now - president trump has signed a new law... to help with that. it allows veterans to get medical care from private doctors... until there's a long-term plan, to help them get around the v-a. this comes after alarming warnings about poor conditions at d

in sterling, suzanne kennedy. >> a tropical or as he maker -- a traffic alert, saturday night cruise will shut down a lane of southbound i-95 at navassa creek bridge in dale city, just south of potomac mills. while that goes on, express lanes pointing south. normally they would switch to northbound on saturday afternoon which could cause serious delays in both directions, saturday .ight and all day sunday lanes will reopen on monday at 6:00 a.m. business as usual in the metro on the rails this morning after hundreds of metro workers threatened to have a sickout. our transportation reporter has the details. >> friday morning metro commute for buses and trains looks like a typical morning at the the and a metro sta this comes after metro says hundreds of workers had called out sick, saying they were not going to show up for work today. the largest union says there was never a plan sickout and metro officials received 500 west you have the day off. that requests to have a day off messages rise between the union and management. local 689 will continue protests against the metro new absen

now -the airline is taking action, by making changes suzanne kennedy is live at dulles airport with what's being done to make sure this doesn't happen again.. taking action in response to the united incident. a pair of senators have introduced a bill to stop airlines from removing a passenger once he or she has boarded. that's provided they don't pose a threat. the bill also allows unlimited compensation for airlines to offer because of overbooking. marc train service is reported to be back to normalthis morning.. after a major problem. overheated brakes triggered a small fi evacuation. it happened on train 883 on the brunswick line. the train left union station around 7:25 last night, headed to brunswick. when the train reached silver spring, a witness saw smoke and fire. passengers were evacuated. extinguishers were used to put out the fire. the train sat at the silver spring station for nearly two hours, before passengers were finally allowed back on. this morning- wizards fans have something to celebrate! the wiz- back at the phone booth last night- to regain their lead in their series

suzanne kennedy is live along route 1 with the latest in this developing story.e capitals find themselves with the wall after losing game three of their opening round playoff series against toronto. the caps jumped out to an early 3-1 lead in the second period.. but toronto answered with two goals to close out the period..and they would force yet another overtime. the third of this series already. bozak scores the game ender for toronto. they win 4 to 3. maple leafs take a 2-1 series lead, game 4 is tommorrow night in toronto a fox nearly ruined a special easter egg hunt for one family in fairfax county. micah jeffrey carefully placed plastic eggs with chocolate treats around his yard saturday night so his kids could hunt for them easter morning.. but a fox was caught on camera sniffing them out in the middle of the night and he swiped 30 of them from the yard. he left only a few partially chewed eggs behind. but needless to say the family still enjoyd sweettooth. at the white house - the trumps hosted their first easter egg roll. thousands of kids got to pose fo

autria: suzanne kennedy has all the details. suzanne?ne: good morning to you, you can see this is a busy highway. right behind lanes to two lanes and this is a portion that could be impacted. this map shows a three mile stretch from neighbor road to the highway that is proposed for the changes. $214 million will be spent to widen the roadway. this map shows how the improvements with stretch to the side streets off the busy court or. 200 residential and business properties could be taken in order to make way for the super street, creating a lane for rapid transit buses from huntington and they are hoping to have that in place by 2028. if you're interested in learning more about the proposal, and this may be the first opportunity for business and residential homeowners to find out if they could be impacted, a meeting will be held tonight at old mount vernon road from 6:30 to 8:30 this evening. theing will happen with proposed plan until the federal highway administration. according live fairfax suzanne larry: a fog nearly ruined one specia

suzanne kennedy is working down the latest.like just a plain old bottle of water, but what students are doing is adding prescription medication to it in order to get high. xanax is the prescription drug used to treat anxiety and depression and in a case here in loudoun at riverbend middle school, the students shared a drink containing the drug. after school officials found that what happened on friday, teens were checked out by the school nurse and were determined to be ok. they were then sent home from school with few hours later, the same day, potomac falls. two students who have been acting strangely were found to have drinks containing the drug. now trying toe determine what students knew about what they were drinking and how they got the medication, whether they purchased it or obtained it from their parent's medicine cabinet. as of right now, no criminal charges have been filed. developing now, and uproar over police body cam footage, showing unarmed michigan teenagers at gunpoint. this happened last month. grand rapids p

kennedy has more. suzanneauthorities are trying to figure out how the students prescription medication and whether or not any charges will be filed. takenities say they were xanax and mixing it in water bottles and then drinking the to geton in order friday from river bend middle and sterling. and examined by the nurse, determined to be okay. and sent home with a parent. sheriff department is saying there was an incident a few atrs later down the road potomac falls high school. two students acting strangely day. sent home for the this parent of a high school aged student is concerned. scary.s because we is all have the medicine cabinet. september -- worrisome that they spread it around. don't drink anything that you is.t know what it it is worrisome that they brought it to school. live in loudoun what to dodon't know with your leftover prescriptions. the county is partnering to hold a drug buy back event this saturday at the public safety center. in sterl abc7 news. metro.ring a dispute over the agency's polic