heading to the airpo issues right now on the baltimore washington parkway or 95. you look good getting to dulles on the toll road. heading inbound gw parkway, up to speed, too. that's a look at traffic. back to you! happening now-- preparations going on all over the region, as we brace for several days of dangerously high temperatures. we could actually see record-breaking highs in the coming days. john gonzalez is live in silver spring with more.. meanwhile-- the office of the city administrator is agencies, as it prepares to activate the emergency plan. residents are being urged to plan ahead for the escalating temperatures by drinking plenty of water, checking on elderly neighbors and friends, and remaining in shaded and air-conditioned places as much as possible. cooling centers will be opened across the district and multiple community pools and spray parks will offer extended hours. and people are not the only ones in danger when the temperatures go up. the s-p-c-a also advising pet owners to keep a close eye on them during this hot weather. now if your dog d

report in the district and heading to the airports, the toll road, 95 in maryland and the baltimore washington parkway look good. that's a look at traffic, back to you. developing now in baton rouge. police releasing new details about the ambush on several police officers. investigators now calling this a targeted assassination on law enforcement, and are looking into the shooter's possible links to black separatist groups. emily schmidt has more. happening now in germany-- police investigating a possible terror attack on a jummy olabanji has more on the attack, and the deadly ending. police say 17 year old afghan migrant, armed with an axe and a knife, attacked train passenger in south german last night. and newschannel 8... and we'll live-stream all the events on our website. and every night at seven, on newschannel 8.. an hour-long special with analysis of the convention so far. it's . wrong and embarrassed. controversial police video-- drawing harsh criticism from within the department. what the police chief says his officers should have done.. coming up. and enjoy these pre-dawn temperatu

there aren't any issues right now on the baltimore washington parkway or 95. you look good getting to dulles on the toll road. heading inbound gw parkway, up to speed, too. that's a look at traffic. back to you! the cap is on the republican national convention. a wild the party's nomination ....as his family beamed on the convention floor. a presidential candidate at one point considered a joke, now one step closer to ramos reports from cleveland. supers: donald trump / (r) presidential nominee kathleen burgin / trump supporter stephanie ramos / abc news cleveland source: vote2016fripkg (downloaded) trump's win has some republican's across the country kaine - is leading a group of nine people believed to be potential running mates for hillary clinton. five, are on that list of speakers so far. four senators and a governor. three cabinet members and retired navy admiral james stavridis are not on that list -- yet. more names will be released soon. clinton is expected to name her running mate today or saturday in florida. we caught up with senator kaine yesterda

in maryland, i-95 towards baltimore at or above the posted speed limit along with the baltimore washington parkway. i-270 a clear ride heading down from frederick towards e up next on good morning washington -- new documents uncovered on the florida nightclub gunman. details on omar mateen's claims of being taunted by his co-workers. and an outpouring of support for a virginia teen - injured in an explosion in central park. omar mateen was repeatedly taunted for being muslim while working as a security guard. mateen claimed he was regulary called deragotoary names for being muslim by deputies and others at the saint lucie courthouse where he worked as a contract guard. according to records, in response to the taunting, he told co-workers he had ties to the boston marathon bombing suspects and the fort food shooter. mateen killed 49 month before being killed by police. new details in the deadly ambush of three police officers in louisiana. images from security cameras show gavin long at various times during sunday's gunbattle.. an exchange that took the lives of baton rouge officers montrel

on the baltimore-washington parkway, southbound, good morning, maryland. you are slowing.almost back toward the beltway. no good. back to you. >>> a d.c. man is facing charges this morning after police say he took photos up a woman's skirt at the courthouse metro station. officers arrested 34-year-old mario revelo yesterday after. surveillance video shows him confronting revelo after she saw him point his cell phone up her dress. he can seen trying to smash his cell phone on the ground. >> we believe there may be additional victims. victim, police call the arlington county police department so we can investigate. >> even if the man's phone is broken, they can try to recover whatever evidence may still be on it. >>> time right now is 5:55. she was one of the best. today, tennessee is giving pat summitt a big heart felt good-bye. there is a celebration of her life at thompson arena tonight. more than any other division one basketball team, any other team, summitt was 64 years old when she died last month. tennessee says it has 19,000 seats available at the thompson boling ar

baltimore washington parkway has been interesting.oth directions there had been a crash southbound. guess what. . >>> a big day ahead in the republican national convention, it is the final day of the gathering and tonight we expect donald trump to address the crowd and formally accept his party's nomination for proets. we will show you the head line you might see on your front porch this morning. the gop is the new york daily news called it civil war. reaction on social media. one manmade a meme based on the words of mike pence. the secretary of the status quo. the image making the round this morning is actually this imagine here. that's what we're seeing about this somewhat awkward moment between donald trump and his new vp pick. the presidential nominees are reacting on twitter as well. donald trump himself said wow, ted cruz got booed off the stage. didn't honor the pledge. i saw his speech two hours early but let him speak anyway. no big deal. hillary clinton used cruz's own word. they tweeted vote your conscious and put her weit

crash on baltimore-washington parkway southbound between 202 and 50.byni on the right shoulder. because of that, delays back to four tent i'd exit there to'd avoid that area.hat aa. of that jamming up from 202 on2 in. in. we have you covered.ed we'll take a look at metro m safe track surge four as weurge continue.co keep it to fox5 news morning.nig back with the six can clock s hour in just a few. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> this is fox5 news morning.nig >> straight ahead at 6:00 as a martered democratic nationalatio committee employee ismittmplo remembered, police continue toti canvas his northwest d.c. neighborhood for clues. clu >> also a question as you getuey ready to hit the door thisthis morning, head out.d out when you're behind the wheel are you a calm driver or arer ae you an angry driver? newew study finds road rage is onragei the rise.the we'll break it down in a live report. >> calm until someone --- weather and traffic on the 5'sr at 6:05. 6 good morning to you, i'm i'm allison seymour. seyur. >> and i'm steve chenevey. welcome to fox5 news morning.nig

. >> rights now a crash delays back to 100 baltimore washington parkway southbound between 175 and 32 as you make your way down it's blocking both shoulders left and right. and you hit that slow down. i would say if you head baltimore to washington this morning 95 southbound is a much better bet. we'll keep you posted on that crash. right now this crash in frederick cleared. 270 south 85 and 8 traffic residual delays leading towards urban ato truck scales that earlier crush team. speeds dipping under 10 miles an hour despite all lanes reopened. dealing with a downed tree we have a lot view of that location right now you can see a truck out there and earlier police activity and traffic is not getting by. use glen road as alternate to get through that. back to the maps now. fairfax country parkway southbound between braddock road and fairfax. 66 quiet. dpreen on the map as you make your way through fairfax this morning as you head to virginia. typical congestion across all the major. 9 a5 northbound passing through stafford and 66 eastbound past 234 and 28 slow to must braddock road and

take a look at this solid red line on the baltimore-washington parkway.t is due to some activity near route 198. in the next 10 minutes, we will talk about the best way to get to baltimore this morning. autria: thank you. it is 6:33 this morning. the goal of the republican national convention this week has been to unite the party behind donald trump. wednesday night was a true test of that. larry: we heard two very different speeches from his running mate and from his former primary rival. entrance to the division on the convention floor, the third day of the rnc was nothing if not dramatic. while it was mike pence who officially accepted the vice presidential nomination and a kiss on the cheek from his running mate, it was the lack of endorsement by ted cruz that would define the day, if not the entire convention. don't stay home in november. stand and speak and vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the constitution. dayoliticos spent the wondering will he or won't he en

take a look at the tracker six live it's quiet and we have cluster storms developing by baltimore, washingtonnd a little blip that blossomed there on state landing on new castle and kent county heading over the delaware river toward the bay side and parts of new jersey, no lightning with it but kind of one little area that decided to kind of just bubble up here this evening. most of us it's crystal clear and comfortable and many have gone out to check out that full buck moon. this is from sky six in atlantic city, a pretty beautiful shot there and again get out and enjoy the next let's just say 18-24 hours. as we look at the numbers philadelphia 77 degrees right now, 72 for allen town as well as trenton, 75 reddening and warm in wilmington and the shore and long beach island of 74 to atlantic city airport and 69 cape may, 71 degrees. looking at satellite to the north and west earlier this evening we had cumulus clouds that developed and quickly fell apart and a little cluster to our south and west that blossomed near baltimore washington and lightning most of it missing us to the south and sc

baltimore washington parkway, southbound, before route 32.body has been put over to the right shoulder. causing a bit of a slowdown. only the left lanes getting by. back to you. >>> jack. breaking news on metro right now where we are hearing reports of smoke in the tunnel at the pentagon city stop. >> here you can see fire crews on the scene. this is a live picture right now. molette grown is there as well gatheng information. ri life's sharing a meal. and a kitchen with room for everyone. spend $4000 or more on a new kitchen and get 15% back at the ikea kitchen event. life's sharing a meal. and a kitchen with room for everyone. spend $4000 or more on a new kitchen and get 15% back at the ikea kitchen event. >>> we're following breaking news right now at the pentagon city station. the first day it's opened, smoke has filled the tunnel. molette green is live with more information. what's going on? >> reporter: good morning. yes. we have three fire trucks here on the scene at the pentagon city station. what happened is 20 minutes ago we saw a r

here from baltimore washington international airport. >> reporter: they call it clear and the idea is to use these machines to get you to the head of the security line as quick as possible. they see a future with no boarding pass, id, all you would need is your fingerprint and your bags. >> please inter your eyes. >> reporter: this is the latest way to beat the airport security line. >> so, press both thumbs on that black pad. >> reporter: it's a private company using biometric authentication. and then leave that passenger around the long line of people waiting to have their id's checked by the tsa and right to screening. >> the stress, anxiety, hassle is a meaningful experience upgrade. >> reporter: ceo becker. >> it's not different of what atm machines or easy pass. >> reporter: clear is different from tsa precheck which allows prescreened passengers to go through an expedited screening. but most use full services. how much time do you think it saves you on a busy day? >> 30 plus minutes. >> reporter: 30 minutes? the time savings come at a cost. $179 a year for clear and $85 for fiv

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chopper 4 was flying on the baltimore washington parkway an accident is northbound out of 197.nt is contained there. we've got a rubber necking delay southbound. you can see the flashing lights. back to you. [ no audio ] >>> we'll get to the desk later on. happening today, we're expecting a verdict in the trial against baltimore police officer brian rice. he's one of officers charged in the death of freddie gray. he faces man slaughter, recommendle endangerment and misconduct charges. his bench trial ended thursday. >>> a proposal to increase the minimum wage may move forward today in montgomery county. the county's health and human services committee will meet for a second time on this bill. it proposes increasing the minimum wage to $11.50 per hour by 2017. they will discuss the proposal later on today. >>> 4 things to know before you head out the door this morning. the republican national convention is about to start in cleveland. news 4 tom sherwood and chris lawrence are there. look for their live updates this afternoon starting on news 4 at 4. >>> a third american victim

and we're even watching another area of right around baltimore and washington. i think that's going to be moving in to delaware here soon. so that is fairly heavy rain. as for south jersey and delaware, we have a flood advisory this morning up to an inch or more has already fallen. we're seeing precipitation rates and heavy rain currently around an inch and a half an hour. some street flooding, creek flooding. never drive through flooded roadways. you always want to turn around. i'll show you the timing of the rain and the rest of the commute. let's get a check of the roadways. >> we're starting on the garden state park pai. a lot of traveling perhaps. coming home from the shore. wet roads here. this is right around the summer's point. you can see delays because. that with our camera lens, we know that is the roads are wet and slippery. the on and off ramps are wet and slippery as well. we're checking in with mass trans transit. the regional rail service is on a modified schedule. we want to provide alternate service options for you. norristown and a.m. service

baltimore-washington parkway, a left lane blocked, tying us up to interstate 95. jummy, back in to you. angela, thankht, you. we want to cover your vote and your future. the new drama at the republican national convention. this time, it was not just attacks on hillary clinton but also texas senator ted cruz. duringwd thick with boos his speech as he announced today he is not ready to endorse donald trump. it comes ahead of a big moment for the republican party. and donald trump tonight will accept his party's nomination for the presidency. stephanie ramos is in cleveland with the latest. stephanie: today, ted cruz, who once was donald trump's toughest challenger for the nomination, told the delegation why he did not endorse trump. sen. cr became personal. i'm not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife. stephanie: he is not budging. cruz's speech overshadowing everything, as trump told "cbs news" this morning. tookl started when cruz the stage on night three, upstaging vp nominee mike pence. sen. cruz: stand and speak and vote your conscience. 70: tha

a slow spot approaching the baltimore-washington parkway. elsewhere, a live look at the beltway through alexandria. smooth sailing. no issues to report for you on the capital beltway. did have an earlier problem there. heading into the district, heads up, north capitol street gassman until 6:00 this evening. we will send it back to you in the studio. larry: a brand-new look at the kennedy goingne out to prince george's county and making surprising lines. is the roadway we love to hate. the capital beltway. now a new study is out about traffic volumes. and the mid-atlantic and highly association studied the road. the study is a bit of a mixed bag when it comes to cars on the road. no matter what the study says, the roadway continues to be faced with frustration. >> miserable. evene rush-hour time and not the rush-hour time, it's kind of bad. i was that something could be done to make it better. >> one final bit of good news, in montgomery county, traffic decreased as seven hours, 10 interchanges. >> covering metro, good news for travelers, mo

and montgomery county, lehigh valley but bulk of the rain just to the south and west near baltimore washington area we are moving in cecil county maryland and northeast maryland, perryville getting into steady rain. give it until 7:00 we will see heavier showers start to build in. this will impact some fire works festivities across the region later tonight. most of the this weekend staying dry. so, overall not a bad holiday weekend. flash flood watch in effect kicking off at midnight tonight for majority of the region exception with the lehigh valley and poconos. this zone has best shot to see locally heavy showers, maybe a few thunderstorms rolling in mainly after midnight tonight. here's set up, scattered showers maybe a thunderstorm with the heavier rain arriving between 3:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. tuesday morning. the general amounts half inch to over an inch but if you are stuck under a heavier shower you could get a quick inch of rainfall leading to localized flooding. head up slow travel overnight into early tomorrow morning. to temperature wise, much cool tore day with the cloud around hig

baltimore washington parkwaye just passed 100 delays backwa tk murse nursery road right now ano becauseyonen is diverting at 100 big 100 webw delays from 97 to the baltimoree washington parkway. i would avoid this area if you're heading out from baltimore towards the districtss keep it to 95 southbound just bb prepared for normal morning congestion there. 66 east we have westbound policp activity near the car rest area and eastbound delays from princp williawill parkway to fairfax cy parkway.way. passed lehigh way on the way one eastbound side.ea that's just because of jusbeca congestion as we move our camerm shoulder westbound side is quie by the car rest area. a but again you're up against than blocking the shoulder.hoder. and we'll have more traffic inei just a few minutes. finut steve and allison.dllison >> still come we're in the in te second day of phase four of safetrack if you're following'rf along on your score card.ar phase four. >> yeah. >> day two. >> got it. >> there's still major headachea for riders we'll tell was youl w need to know. >> first though president barack obam

the operator of that jet ski was taken to baltimore washington medical center with non-life-threatenings. police retriev and will use it to try to determine what exactly caused the explosion there. be out on the water or whatever else you do. the nats played a good game. josh: and the rain held off for the majority of the middle part of today. the showers don't last too much longer this evening, i think just a couple hours and then tomorrow is when the heavier rain shows up. the timing is not the best, but let's get right to it. 70 degrees, where most of us are hanging out. a bit muggier today. us forit's very cool for this time of year. your average high for the beginning of july right around 88 degrees. a big difference for you. these light showers pushing their way across the area. a break right there as we get more of west virginia. we look out into indiana, in two parts of illinois. that is the heavy rain closer to the low pressure sy let's zoom in closer and talk about who has the showers right now. they are thin out with that closer view as well. some light rain around winchester

. >> more than 24 hours later people are still racing about first lady michelle baltimore washington's speech last night here at the wells fargo sent. she talked about our responsibility to the nation's children and voiced her belief that hillary clinton should be our next president. people were so revved up by her speech they started seeing if she'll make her own run for the oval office on twitter live wrote i would vote for noughts so fast if she ran and ruth tweeted not the jump the gun but flotus for president in 2024 what an amazing speech what a stellar first lady. >> and tomorrow dnc the theme is working together scheduled speakers touch on gun control and veterans issue headliners are vice-president joe biden and president barack obama. >> we want to you share your dnc experiences with us. use the hash tag fox 29dnc on all your posts we might use them on air. p we've been using quite a few of them actually. so many pictures all across town. it's been fantastic. >> it has been. >> right her as well. >> what a day two here at the wells fargo center for the dnc. >> knot nothing

now, we have to tell you about an active investigation after a landscaper was struck on the baltimore-washington parkway during rush-hour. news chopper 7 flew lawnmower at the time. he now has life-threatening injuries. a northbound section of the parkway in riverdale was shut down for several hours, triggering backups. the police are trying to determine the circumstances leading to the crash. it is not known where the more was at the time of the accident. developing now, a police captain in kansas city killed in the line of duty, shot while responding to her reported disturbance. several people jumped out of a car and shots were fired. two people are in custody and the police are searching for other suspects. hundreds on hand to say goodbye to a fallen officer in dallas, officer michael krol laid to rest this morning for funeral arrangements are set for two of the three officers killed in baton rouge sunday. the three officers were shot to death sunday in what is being called a targeted assassination. alison: the first of s designed to improve trust and communication between montgomery county p

notice, baltimore, washington, in the upper 80s shall everybody else feeling like the 70s, and again this is temperature, we get off to hot start in the morning, 7:30, feels like it is in the mid 70s many areas, and by 12:30 you can see already feeling like we're in the mid 90s, and 6:00 temperature also mid 90s, to near 100. now, if we get heat advisory it will be because the combination of temperatures, and humidity make it feel closer to 105. so far that hasn't happened. what about cooling thunderstorm tomorrow? well, our future cast is suggesting there could be one, two late tonight, i think that wobble vagues based mainly, then few scattered around tomorrow. but not a lot unfortunately, to cool us off. your seven day forecast, we do have little bit of break though for you, as we look at the weekends, now, saturday still hot. we have to -- don't have thunderstorm in the forecast there, but 88 degrees out to feel pretty good sunday, we've got less humid conditions, expected on sunday so should feel a lot better monday, tuesday, wednesday, right back it, upper 80s to near 9o so we

baltimore-washington parkway southbound between 202 and 50 that crash just cleared but bsht look at cll these residua traffic had previously beensly b getting by just on the right jtn shoulder even though all lanes l are opened are you backed upack solid from 410.10. hoping this will ease soon.se s 50 inside the beltway jammeday as well.as w keep it to your secondaries or o pick an alternate. we'll take a look at metro and o surge four next.sue four back to you allison and steve.ne >> metro speaking of investigating another possiblens red signal violation yesterday d morning at the reagan nationaleo airport station.ai metro said the yellow linein train stopped just beyond a signal at the of the platform.m. the train operator has beenraton removed from service much this comes a week after a trainfter a operator ignored a red signal and almost caused a collision.oi >>> the anticipation is building. donald trump hours away fromym announcing his running mate. should be within 24 hours.ours hillary clinton could be topping a few hints for her for pick today. the latest from the campaign ca

i would say keeping it to it baltimore-washington parkwaye- on the northbound side a much better betw. southbound baltimore-washington parkway just a little bit of stop-and-go traffic by powder mill road as usual bectrause ofo congestion. taking a look at the outerhe o loop right now, to get 5 milesel it's going to take you 16 minutes. minu 11 minutes delay from 95 to georgia avenue. that is because of congestion as you head towards silveruslver spring.spring no crashes to report. just a lot of folks trying to ot get towards that area.t rds inside the beltway river road cabin john clara barton some stop-and-go traffic.op-and in the district ninth street northeast at brentwood parkwayop crash scene closing down thatne intersection. 295 inbound remains slow slo eastern to pennsylvania.ylvania. and then 50 just a little bite of stop-and-go traffic newp- york avenue inbound as youane bn pass bladensburg.lade that's your traffic.our tr. allison and steve.and teve >> want to get to a story s first on fox5.5. new rules for accommodatingommog transgender students inn fairfax public schools.x

baltimore-washington parkwayin northbound however is quiet if you're headed towards bwi.oward. 95 northboundvirginia it is yellow andw red across-the-board.e-bo we've hit at 5:48 this morningni that's when all the congestiongt pops up because people arebeca heading to work. 95 north passing 610 in in stafford red zone.ed z matches my dress.matcs my speeds drop below 10 miles per hour. north of that point as youint make your way out in dale cityac we have more congestion.io as we take a city to 123 as you cross the occoquan you'll need seven needn minutes to get through that g t area. ar should only take you four so so you're dealing with about abo three minute delay. del i think i did the math m correctly there. back to you guys. guy >> governonorth korea launchingi missile. they say the missile testissilet simulates pre-emptive strikes sr against south korea. kor. the photos came out a week w after south korea and the u.s. s chose a site to deploy an antimissile system to counter the threat from north korea.ore. >> a secret poll at the uniteded nations on the dozen candidates trying to sece

calvertton and watch for residual delays as you head to bwi this morning you may want to keep to baltimore washington parkway. faeing a look surge four starting this morning no trains between national airport and pentagon city. because of that keep in mind shuttle service replacing rail service between braddock and pentagon city and pentagon city, crystal city and national airport and shuttle buses to national airport are for airport customers only and blue and yellow lines every twelve minutes out of the segment shut down 12 to 15 minute train service and give yourself extra time to adjust to chains any changes @erinfoxdc back to you. >> coming up the man that recorded death of alton sterling was arrested and repeatedly harassed by police. >> and one of the best decides to retire after 19 years on the court. >> and as we head to break right now a live look outside the region again time is 4:35. temperatures 74 degrees we're back with more news after twith smoothing care. new whole blends by garnier. smoothing haircare. enriched with coconut oil & cocoa butter extracts.