more breaking news -- a building in clarksburg destroyed by fire. alison: crews rushing to contain the flames and keep them away from propane tanks. anna-lysa gayle just got to the scene. what can you tell us so far? anna-lysa: right now, firefighters are wrapping up behind me, doing the work they are doing. thankfully, nobody was inside of this building in clarksburg when it was on fire. this is a furniture finishing business in clarksburg, south of frederick road. montgomery county fire and rescue responded at about 8 p.m. with heavy fire and flames shooting through. because there were no hydrants close by, water had to be brought in. this building is the owners were here earlier assessing the damage. at this time the cause of the fire is still under investigation. 355 was closed but is expected to reopen shortly. anna-lysa gayle, abc 7 news. alison: now this just into the newsroom, road safety changes after a tragedy in southeast. a child was struck and killed by a car on his sixth birthday. ddot says it is evaluating changes on the road. you can

from the earlier bail out traffic 270 southbound still very sluggish through clarksburg.th your 8:00 o'clock hour. ♪ ♪♪ well it's a perfect nespresso morning here, george. hold on a second. mmm. ♪ ♪ [mel torme sings "comin' home baby"] hey there. want a lift? ♪ ♪ where are we going? no don't tell me. let me guess. ♪ ♪ have a nice ride. ♪ ♪ how far would you go i brought you nespresso. nespresso. what else? >> this is fox5 news morning. >>> good morning. i'm allison seymour. >> i'm steve chenevey. thanks so much for joining us this morning. >>> 8:00 a.m. on monday, may eighth. here's what's on the fox5 news morning menu. >> reaction pouring in after a bombshell in the rockville high school rape case. charges against two immigrant teens dropped. coming up defense attorney representing one of young men joins us live. >>> fresh off of his big emmy win dr. oz is on the show today and he's fired up about one of his favorite snack foo under attack. we're talking about the war against nuts. >> what? >> are they healthy or not? >> hmm. all right. we'll find out. plus you m

two drano bombs were found along the clarksburg heights trail a couple of weeks ago. fortunately, the bombs didn't go off. but the fact that they were placed there has residents concerned. police say the bombs consisted of water, drain cleaner, and aluminum foil placed in a plastic bottle. gas build-up can cause the bottle to swell and explode.. spraying a caustic solution on anyone nearby. police say if you see touch it. and be sure to contact authorities. a powerful explosion destroys a street in ukraine-- and it's all caught on camera. come over to your tv and take a look at this! it shows a street in kiev, where a water pipe burst underground. the force of the explosion caused the street to explode. fortunately, no one was driving there at the time. nearby cars and buildings were damaged. but no one was hurt. we are approaching the end of the academic year and many schools have traditional send-offs for their seniors. well this one-- got a little messy. check it out. seniors at a high school in chandler, arizona have a seniors at a high school in chandler, arizona

a 20 minute ride to respond, that right from clarksburg for clear to the shoulder.the big story today is safetrack surge 15 with five orange line stations cold -- closed. how is it impacting your commute? john: this will be a big one and it is lasting the entire month. take a look, this area is usually very busy at the turnstile. the signs are up, letting folks know that this station is now closed and all the action is out here, free shuttle buses. that's high you get around this mess, orange line closed from new carrollton to study -- to stadium-armory until june 15. meaning that for the next month, five stations are off-limits. new carrollton, deanwood, minnesota avenue. on the other side, coming from virginia, orange line trains will operate every six to eight minutes from vienna. if you take the silver line between stadium-armory, you are going to wait 12 minutes, double the wait time. veronica johnson, i'm trying to find a bright site here. at least the weather is nice if you are waiting for a bus. veronica: that's right, it will look nice and feel better. gorg

and as you said, household two of the products were found here right off of little seneca in clarksburg, maryland. the mixture, we understand, creates hydrogen gas and quite an explosion. park police confirming that these train no bombs, as they are more commonly known, were found -- but think goodness, had not been detonated. the location is just across the street from hundreds of homes and schools, including rock hill middle school here in clarksburg . the discovery was made a couple of weeks ago but now police and fire investigators in the county are reaching out to the public. this is the clark berg heights trail part of the political -- little seneca greenway. if you have seen anything suspicious in the past couple of weeks, police want to hear from you. right now this morning they don't have any arrest, suspects, or strong leads members of the naacp hate naacp demanding justice, calling for hate crime charges in the death of student. urbanski has been linked to a white supremacy group. many say that it has been a reflection of the hate crimes on the rise in the last two months. >>

right now a 12 minute delay 70 do clarksburg. things on up through mving county. volume growing quiet to georgia&things inner loop look going if you happen to have early morning flight to catch. 395 look going reagan national and dulles. quiet. wide view now things looking good 50 through covtton metro on time except for safe track. we'll have sky fox up over crash on randolph of road shortly. we'll look at that next back to you. >> metro out with a new plan to stop may have noticed couple stations in d.c. >> chaotic scene overnight at airport upset passengers getting into fights at a spirit airlines termina. so what set them off. we're back in 30 seconds my wife got me to be a devoted vegetarian... except for every ladies' night. only glad has forceflex to prevent rips, leaks, and punctures. so whatever you throw in the bag... stays in the bag. be happy, it's glad. chaos erupts over flight. nine flights because of a legal dispute. had to do with pilot veil bit. video posted to twitter spirit airlines. police had to

this is heavy rain essentially, just past clarksburg on your way to frederick. a little bit of lightning. this is a little heavier storm. maybe some hail in this to the west and this is pushing off to the north and east. moving about 30 miles per hour northeast. headed for charlestown on our storm tracker as we get into 5:20 this evening. a much better chance of storms tomorrow and we look ahead to the weekend. i think it's kind of a 50/50. we will explain. >>> now the latest on the investigation into the firing of the fbi director and alleged russian meddling into the 2016 presidential election. president trump wrapped up a joint news conference with the president of columbia. trump was asked about the appointment of his special counsel to look into the events leading to the firing of director call me and the campaigns reported ties to moscow. >> i respect the move, but the entire thing has been a witch hunt. th certainly, myself and my campaign. i can only speak for myself and the russians. i think it divides the country. i think we have a very divided country

low 60s sprinkling of upper 50s toward clarksburg and gaithersburg. it warms up pretty quickly. 9:00 we are back into the low to mid 70s. it will not be that humid tomorrow. we get into the 2:30 hour, 91 downtown. 89 in hagerstown. when we come back we'll talk about when to add thunderstorms to the forecast and air quality alert. >>> the u.s. senate takes action concerning d.c.'s metro system. >> but up next a high profile candidate takes his name out of the running to be >>> cornyn has taken himself out of the running to be the next fbi director. he was one of eight people interviewed over the weekend. federal judge garland is not interested in the job. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell recommended garland for the post. which is interesting because of senator mcconnell who refused to schedule a confirmation hearing for garland after president obama nominated him to serve on the supreme court. >>> this just in the white house is receiving a report that president donald trump asked former fbi director james comey to shut down an investigation into

it's going to take i was good hour and 20 minutes to get from clarksburg down to the spur there.crash blocks the shoulder after 50 been out there for some time and we're sluggish as you make your way from pennsylvania avenue you have up to baltimore washington parkway. northbound gw parkway crash still block the shoulder at spout run delays back to pass national airport a allow for extra time there. southbound gw parkway usual delays from 123 down to the key bridge. heavy traffic everywhere. sluggish, gray, gloomy commute. metro is on type september except for safetrack impacting the orange line but thought shuttles are available. breaking news from southern prince georges county. crews on the scene of a house fire. we're told this is in the 7700 block of surratts road in clinton, maryland. there are reports of a man in a wooded area possibly armed with a shotgun. again house fire but a man possibly armed with a shotgun nearby the home. police are on the scene investigating that and whether it may be related to the fire in fact we have just heard that police have advised firefigh

this is in clarksburg. looking a little scary. this is some hail in rockville. just under the criterion for severe weather. some hail in brooms island, great, great pictures. just keep them coming. headlines go like this. some heavy, some severe. shutting off at 8:00 or 9:00. weekend warm with some storms, but you'll be able to do some stuff. it now appears the wettest day will be saturday. temps in the 60s to start tomorrow but 71 by 11:00 and 73 by 1:00 p.m. saturday showers and storms on off all day. some storms on sunday, 85. the next seven days. me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam,aught and when survivors of the virginia tech shooting asked me to support an assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole, i took on the fight. i saw what those weapons can do as an army doctor during the gulf war. now, i'm listening carefully to donald trump, and i think he's a narcissistic maniac. whatever you call him, we're not letting him bring his hate into virginia. >>> wusa 9 game on sports with frank hanrahan. by the way, a baby on the way with a due date ri

fire rescue posted this video from clarksburg on twitter. the flames were so intense part of the roof collapsed. the fire fight was tougher because there was no hydrants route 355 as they knocked down hot spots. no injuries and no word yet on a cause. >>> tonight the parents of a montgomery county man are describing the horrific phone call they got last year, their son left inside a hot car for hours by his caregiver while they were out of the country. a good samaritan likely saved their son's life. and as magen fitzgerald reports today that caregiver found out her sentence. >> reporter: ever since brett campbell was young his parents knew there was something special about his spirit. they knew brett had a purpose in life. >> he literally is full of sunshine. he wakes up with a bright smile. he has such a wonderful easy going personality. >> reporter: he can't move much and can't talk which is why his protective parents are so devastated by what happened in august. >> we were out of town celebrating our 30th from the police. >> caregiver lef

we are seeing showers right along 270 up towards clarksburg. you notice light shower activity here. heavier rain in our fredrick area seeing heavier rain showers along 15 and 70. heads up, these are going to go right over. if you are watching us may get shower activity but that's about it. this is all rotating around the huge area of low pressure. we saw our own little area of low pressure form right on top of us. that is why we had so much rain especially in towards montgomery. watch this spin right here. you can really see it last few frames up towards portions of philadelphia area. the bigger system itself all spinning around this low. this low has to exit before we can start to clear out. it will move up to north and east tomorrow and will give us a little bit of cloud cover during the day tomorrow. expect to see those clouds. 7:00 a.m., 8:00 a.m. tomorrow clouds around the area. tomorrow afternoon cloud cover. i wouldn't be surprised to see a couple of sprinkles here. we clear out enough we may see sunshine in the afternoon. more sun we get warmer we get. high of 77. peeks of s

this happened last night around 8:00 in clarksburg the business was closed when the fire broke out and fortunately no one was hurt. no word yet how the fire started. police in but, virginia are asking for help tonight tracking down a suspect who is allegingly wanted for illegally recording women and a young girl inside a walmart among burke commons road. the suspect recorded up the dresses of a 36 year old woman and her ten year old daughter last sunday. still ahead, the father of the 18 year old girl killed in this week's time square crash speaks out about his tragic loss. my daughter came lear for a vacation and now i'm going to take her home and bury her. how he wants to remember his daughter. plus, stranded at a foreign airport. why he says his passport was canceled. and first, a fox5 a exclusive as the long police body camera footage has finally come to a close. we will report on all of that. for years, fios has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ ♪

jay: if you walk any of the miles of trails in montgomery contactf clarksburg, the police immediately if you see something suspicious. this time there are no suspects in this case. jay korff, abc 7 news. alison: a judge sentenced a woman to 40 years in prison for luring a man to his death. prosecutors say that vanessa alvarado knew that members of the ms-13 gang were waiting for a man in a wooded park. they stabbed the 18-year-old more than 150 times. the reason, he jokingly flashed a sign for a gang he did not belong to. motivation for this killing, other than this young man had the audacity to falsely flash a gang sign of a rival gang. alison: four other people have been charged in the murder, one who has pled guilty, while charges against the second or dropped. weapon two dozen people ever save request for information from the house intelligence committee as part of the russian investigation. epstein is a current employee of sinclair broadcast group, owner of the station. ,is attorney told abc news "like many others, mr. epstein has received a broad preliminary request for informat

live look 270 at 121 clarksburg road northbound. southbound you're okay. you can see the sheen on the roads. aaron? >> oh! >> oh, my page this morning. that little girl snatched by a sea lion and the hero that jumped in to save her. >>> the final curtain for ring link brothers. how they took their final bow after 100 years. >>> it's official. the popular >> whoa! >> oh, my god. >> you saw what happened with this video. come on. this made for scary moments in canada. that girl was rescued moments after a sea lion pulled her into the water by her dress. you're going to see this again and again. a marine expert said the sea lion probably wanted to eat the girl's dress. witnesses said signs said do not feed the animals. >> this is why the experts say don't feed the animals. it gives them a cue that that's what they're going to continue to look for from the humans. >>> did you see the video of the guy 2in china 1234567d isnatche panda a. >> i will pull it up. >> i'm glad she's okay. >>> the big top is coming down. & bailey brothers circus is over. >> we want yo

in fact lasting about 15, 20 minutes up towards the clarksburg area.ike it's cleared the 270 area but i'm seeing something else near leads may push into western montgomery county. this is the hail we were tracking. looks like it's diminishing now but it was affecting the olney area. you can see that that tracked right along through the olney area, put some great pictures on twitter from that. up toward frederick heavy rain around interstate 70 to hagerstown and the lightning is another big story. we've got what that big batch associated with our severe storm that is producing about 698 cloud top strikes every 30 minutes or so. all right futurecast. when is this out of here? well, this is actually a current radar looking at our big upper level storm. the worst of the storm now to about 8 o'clock and then after that, if anything is left, it's not severe, just some showers. it really cooled us offer. we -- off. we were able to get into the 70's. winchester 59 now, washington 63. you see what a little sun does. we haven't had much sun in cambridge. 73 stil

they found them in clarksburg. it had a mixture to explode that would send caustic mixture in all directions. if you see look like this, get away from it and give police a call. to build transit center is back in the county's pocket. tim legler announced -- ike leggett announced the settlement. the center opened in 2015. five years late. $50 million over-budget. the county wanted the designer to dish out $67 million. larry: grand theft cockatoo? the thieves that swiped a bird and then they flew out the door. michelle: ought on video bombers target ice scream shop. there is new information coming up at "abc7 news at 6:00". doug: another update on the tornado warning. until 6:30, thee, pir ration time of a possible tornado. no verification that it hit the ground but the indications of the doppler with a noticeable hook. in-flow notch here so a possible tornado in this area where i am pointing heading southeast. so the town involved and we have a severe thunderstorm warning in the same area. through fauquier county an

but 270 let to yet use. 4-minute ride between beltway and clarksburg. fredericksburg. that is the traffic watch. over to you. >> the sound of thunder filling the air. this marks 30 years of rolling thunder. richard reeve is joining us from the live of the center of it all. in fairfax. >> they have been revving and it is hard to hear you because of the motor noise. this is a weigh station for a lot of folks. >> that is a sound you will the goal of rolling thunder is raise awareness of the p.o.w./m.i.a. issue. most of those here are the vietnam veterans. most are drawn to the vietnam veteran memorial. memorial day weekend, rolling thunder. time and a place that veterans can call home. >> veterans enjoyriding. >> their life was wonderful. >> there is so much emotion. you can see the p.o.w./m.i.a. flags on many of the motorcycles. reporting live in fairfax, richard reeve, abc7 news. horace: memorial day weekend is a busy one for those that are paying tribute to heroes. there are major security changes that you need to know about before we go. that is at 5:30. alison: terri

they found two of these water bottles a couple of weeks ago along the clarksburg trail.they continue water, drain cleanser and aluminum foil. in maryland, a local branch of the naacp is hosting a press conference about the stabbing death of army second lieutenant richard collins the third. he was stabbed and killed just days before his graduation. the press conference will be held tonight at the county administration building in upper borrow. they've gotten dozens of firearms off the treats. authorities recovering 30 guns. police are offering a reward for any information that leads to the recovery of an illegal firearm. an update now on that ms13 murder case out of gaithersburg. today a 20 year old mother of two has been sentenced to 40 years in prison with a plea d prosecutors. vanessa al veer rod lured her teenage victim to death and then whiled. i feel very sad because my son is nt here with me. he was a great person. christian illegal dirt a grand mor l ales was 18 years old when he was savaged last sum inner a gaithersburg park, stabbed and slashed 153 times prosecu

continuing northbound from beltway to clarksburg. 37-minute ride with the lanes open. southbound 95 and v.a., haven't forgotten about you. pockets of congestio woodbridge to dale city. 22-minute ride. stafford to fredericksburg is a 50-minute commute. check in with the traffic watch 7 wazers. they also have the delays. for those from queenstown to the 404 split, definitely sitting in the heavy volume delays there. not too bad through easton but headed to cambridge, you will find more stop and go slow traffic continuing eastward on 50. that is the traffic watch. i'll be back in another half an hour with another update. you are live at the bay bridge, brad bell. what are you seeing? brad: i am seeing what you just reported. i don't know if it's because of the chilly forecast, at the beach or who knows what, the early start. look at the beautiful sight. this is the toll booth for the bay bridge. there are open lanes. you can breeze through here. you did mention that the traffic is backed up a little bit through annapolis. as we look over at the bay bridge, you can see the

us logo once you get around clarksburg. going into southern maryland and also down i-95 south.f you can stop, i probably would stop for a bit. keep your photos coming. please tell us where you are. i believe maryland. if you know this is from bunker hill. the storms went through their earlier about 3:50 in the afternoon. showers and storms tonight, some heavy, some severe. they should shut off around 8:00 or 9:00. a few late lingering showers possible. bus stop temps tomorrow, 52 to 72. nice. nice tomorrow. friday, that the lobar. still a pretty nice day tomorrow. a little more sunshine. the weekend is warm of storms but not a washout. now it appears the wettest day is going to be saturday. temperatures 80 tomorrow, 80 saturday, 85 sunday, memorial day 84. at least we are going back into the 80s. this will feel like summer as we go into the unofficial beginning of summer. tomorrow morning, low 60s to start, low 70s with sunshine by 1:00. showers and storms saturday. yellow weather alert. some afternoon storms on sunday. not a washout. 85 on sunday. monday, memorial day, also sh

if you are driving from frederick to clarksburg that is where you are running into problems.no warnings on this. we are expecting the heavier downpours to move toward the north and east. around the capital beltway no worries at all. langry park, college park, walker mill, old town alexandria or tysons it's dry now. we can't rule out chance of pop-up thunderstorms moving through this everything. the temperatures will slowly fall through the 80's. look at at the future cast. i calls for showers and the storms for the day tomorrow. in the afternoon hours the cold front moves through the area. once we get it out of the way we look for the cooler conditions for upcoming weekend. tomorrow 80's to 9 o. let's talk about the weekend forecast. lingering showers saturday morning. i don't think it will amount to temperatures should make it to lower 7 o's. lower 7 o's on sunday. but still mostly cloudy skies. the average high is 77 degrees. so after record-breaking warmth yesterday will cool things down for the upcoming weekend. michelle? michelle: thank you. we have autria godfrey with a

this one happened at around eight at a furniture refinishing busines in the clarksburg area. the flames could be seen shooting through the roof causing the building to collapse. the business was closed when the fire broke out >> the last worker had left about 5:00. again, this fire occurred at about 8:00. some storms had roled through the area earlier, so investigatorses -- no witness was in the building at the time the fire was in advanced stages by the time i was noticed. so at this point the fire is still under investigation. >> busy few hours for all the firefighters. this fire caused an estimated quarter of a million dollars in damage. >> cooler day in store after we've been dealing with some rather warm temperatures. i'm not complaining about the warm temperatures, though. >> me neither. you won't hear me complain at ul a. if i do it this summer just say matt, be quiet. because it's a long winter for me. i'm hoping that maybe we're going to have this nice sunny cool temperature. >> it's going to stay cooler. i'm going to remember you said that, matt. i complained a lot

botulism and is 16 oh boy, johnny villasenor, recovering and a sophomore at the delta high school in clarksburg just outside of sacramento. the school principal said he is making progress and that he was taking off of the ventilator and has been moved to intensive care into a regular room. >>> in tampa -- napa county the trial wraps up and one set of jurors continues to liberations today and another getting ready to hear the closing arguments. accused of killing the three- year-old daughter back in 2014, and testimony in the case has been heard simultaneously by the same judge and jurors assigned to the case when into deliberation following the closing arguments yesterday. the closing arguments in the case of warner are set today in the first vertex reach will be sealed until both verdicts are reached. >>> the jury in the bill cosby trial has been selected and costly will now go on trial for sexual assault.>> i want to thank all of the people who have come to see my shows, and whenever i appeared. thank you all. >> seven men and five women were selected to serve on a jury and bill cosby has bee

frank in clarksburg, west virginia. good morning. i live in west virginia. it's rural.t's really rural and it's really rough. most people go to school here, they leave him -- here because there's nothing anymore for them to stay. the unions here, it's an extraction stage. i don't know how they get away from that. it pays not like it did when it was a union state. your politicians tell you what they want you to believe but then there's no action on it. -- a $500ning on it million deficit. they call in extra sessions. they don't get it fixed. as far as the federal government , it's every man for himself. it's an extraction stayed. they come in and take advantage of the situation. you health care, sometimes have to drive 60 miles to get to a hospital. it's rough, it's beautiful but it's rough. we are really not looking for help. some goodike to have jobs, some training. i think that would help the youth stay here. once they get out, they are gone. haver or later you can't 70-year-old people just living in the state. inevitably they are going to pass on. they are trying to

that's what we're looking at west, but this storm is producing a lot of rain along 270, from clarksburgo rocksville. gaithersburg, over to olney. and as we move to the east, i've been tracking this storm, strengthening around savage, laurel, maryland, towards glen burnie. this one is moving southeast, into anne arundel county. heads up there, it should stay north of bowie. southern maryland, st. mary's county getting in on the action, leonardtown area. still severe thunderstorm warning for the northern neck, and some of this will clip parts of st. mary's county. so heads up there as well. the big picture, shore storms back to the west, but it's a storm system way to the north that will impact our weather tomorrow. temperature, 72 tomorrow, after 92 today. more cloud sunday. could be a shower tomorrow, but i'm not expecting much. 69 on sunday, we will get our games played this weekend. 76 on your monday with a 60% chance of showers. maybe a rumble of thunder. 77, nice weather on tuesday. and look what happens wednesday and thursday. more unsettled weather comes in, a storm system over us

two water bottle bombs made with drano were found along the clarksburg heights trail a coupe of weeksrtunately the bombs did not go off. police say the bombs consisted f water, drain cleaner and aluminm foil. it could spray a solution on anybody nearby. >> happening right now, a search for whoever pulled the trigger hitting a woman with a bullet as she walked through a parking lot in fairfax county. this happened chantilly shopping center. police say she did not seem to e targeted, but they're still trying to figure out why that traffic right after vo: at dominion, we have a long history of providing reliable energy and that'll never change. what is changing, is our name to dominion energy. it's a reflection of our commitment to energy innovation and renewable sources like solar, wind... and cleaner energy like natural gas. and we'll continue to innovate, upgrade technology, protect our environment and serve our communities. dominion energy. more than a new name, a new way of seeing energy. republican leaders are to affordable health care. i'm tom perriello and in congress i voted for

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lingering. 66 eastbound dealing with big delays. 29 same story there. 270 southbound delays top clarksburgrom 70 you can see that red zone it's already a 15 minute slowdown much things open as you get into germantown this morning. westbound seven reopened in leesburg. earlier crash at children center road that cleared out of the way. drive times starting to that slowdown on 66 eastbound again 37 minutes to get from 234 to the beltway. other than that volume is light enough that despite the conditions 95, 395 and gw parkway still moving. we have reports of a downed tree near southern avenue and addison road. metrobus on detour. metro on time except for the orange line. we'll keep you posted. back to you guys. >> erin thanks. nine minutes past the hour. let's get to a fox5 follow-up. d.c. department of transportation helping to make livingston road in southeast d.c. safer. ddot tells fox5 new sped limit and pedestrian crossing signs will be put up over the week this after six-year-old xavier lucky was struck and killed while crossing the road during a cookout celebrating his sixth birthday.

it's coming out of frederick county, now into northern sections of montgomery county, clarksburg, germantowndown 270. hopefully that stays away from ellicott city t the bigger picture will show the swirl up to the north and east. that's the upper level storm system. we're just getting some backside stuff here coming down this morning with a couple of showers here or there but we have some sunshine, too. here's the forecast for today. 63, 73 and 78. it will be breezy. winds will be out of the west at about five to 15 miles per hour. upper 70's and then we gradually warm up through the holiday weekend. here's erin como. >> 5:47, gary. looks like a little bit more of a pleasant start to the friday morning commute than all the earlier this week. right now traffic on 50 looking good in both both directions. bay bridge in both directions flowing freely. if you're heading out of town for this memorial day weekend now is not a bad time to get an early start. traffic patterns light right now. rappahannock bridge 95 on the southbound side moving along with a little bit of congestion northbound side pi

ed in clarksburg, west virginia, independent line. hi there. caller: hi. how are you this morning? host: fine, thank you. caller: i support the firing of him. i think the man -- i don't know what he was really trying to do. i really don't. but he was playing hopscotch, just hopping from one dumb, stupid thing to another. he should have been barred by obama for the way he did hillary, and then -- but other swore got up there and that her husband was sent thousands and thousands of emails, and it was a lie. it was a lie. he should have known that they've been preaching this that he sent letter to huma. he should have stopped that. he knows that. i think that's part of why he was fired. i think the real reason he was fired, he refused to investigate the reach into the white house of who let the newspapers have the information. i personally think the man should have -- everybody says why now? well, why not now? tomorrow, yesterday? it doesn't make any difference. when you're fired, you're fired. and i think he should have been fired. and the people act like he was a private detective,

he's recovering in oakland at ucf antioch children's hospital a sophomore at delta high school in clarksburg also sacramento. the principal says he's making progress. she says he was taken off of the ventilator and moved from intensive care to a regular room. >>> some people in san francisco say they do not like the city's new blended drinking water. san francisco public utilities commission is testing a new program that is adding small amounts of groundwater to the traditional source of the city's drinking water. at a hearing yesterday residents complained and some said adding groundwater is contamination. water officials say the groundwater is safe and important to diversify the water supply in case of a drought or other emergencies. >>> president trump is getting ready to take part in a special ceremony at nato headquarters in brussels, belgium. it will be marking the 9/11 commemoration and earlier today, the president met with european union leaders in brussels at the eu headquarters he's meeting the french president emmanuel macron as part of his first international trip he will be in i

but still going to cost you about 50 minutes from clarksburg to the beltway and 66 cleared the crashound delays. melanie. >> anchor: thanks. you can we'll see you in 30 minutes. now back to "good morning america." there's work to be done. it's not going to be easy but there's grit inside of you. and if you need extra motivation the grad fund at strayer university can help push you forward. because up to your last year of classes could be on us. that's right. on us. today is the day. strayer university. let's get it, america. >>> good morning, america. it's 8:00 a.m. no warning. president trump abruptly fires the head of the fbi right in the middle of the criminal investigation into ties between trump's campaign and russia. he blames comey's handling of hillary clinton's e-mail investigation. the president's team is speaking out. both democrats and republicans stunned by the decision. the fbi director taken totally by surprise. now calls for a special prosecutor and comparisons to watergate as the president prepares to nominate a new fbi director and our team breaks it down ahead. >>>

but you hit a lot of bottleneck conditions down the entire 270 southbound stretch through urbana, clarksburg let's switch it over show i was look at our maps. drive times are just terrible right now because of the rain and the visibility problems. it will take you an hour and 20 minutes, 66 eastbound from 234 to the beltway. still close to 50 minutes through dale city to the bell way 95 northbound. earlier crash bob barnard showed us 395 clear but still a 44 minute trip to the 14th street bridge from the mixing bowl, and then 123 to the 14th street bridge gw parkway southbound that short amount of road will take you 26 minutes. maryland drive times you can see an hour and ten minutes just from 109 to the beltway. still looking really nasty in college park on the outer loop. metro is on time right now except for safetrack. slowing down the orange line buses on delay because of the congestion around the district maryland virginia. back to you guys. >> erin, thanks very much. 8:19. now developments in the bill cosby sexual assault trial a jury of 12 has been seated for the june trial. that is a

joseph was from clarksburg and joined the police in 1998 and served in kingwood. in 2008, he was assigned staff officer at the academy and was then promoted to deputy director of training. joseph was a veteran of the west virginia army national guard and served in the west virginia state police for 17 years. although the loss of joseph will never heal, i know i join all west virginians in the entire law enforcement community in praying for joseph's family and friends. national police week acknowledges the service and sacrifice of our country's law enforcement officers and the safety and protection they provide our communities. madam president, i know you do, too. i go to a lot of schools and talk to these children. i want them to understand, any time you see a person in a uniform, whether it be a policeman, fireman, e.m.t., these are people willing to get in harm's way for your safety and sacrifice themselves for you. when you have a police officer willing to take a bullet for you, that's a pretty special person. they don't do it for the pay. i think we all know t