erin: right.y: let's see if i have anything else to tell you about -- erin: you have -- gary: oh, yeah, you will like this story. one of the things i try to explain in the book is i try to explain that in addition to everything else, lincoln had remarkable human qualities. we know that from so many things we read and obviously he just had a way of -- he knew how to deal with people and part of that was learning how to deal with people who were not like him. o this man at schuler -- altschuler is a bavarian jew who imgrates in the late 1840's, decides he wants -- wants to be a photographer and he hears in 1857 that abraham lincoln, the famous lawyer, is coming to town so m -- when lincoln shows up, atschuler has walk he and to say, mr. lincoln, i would like to you come ofe to my shop so i can take a tick -- picture of you." now, lincoln didn't know this man at all. i imagine he spoke with an accent. if all you have in those days were these few pictures that might appear in a press or some place, th

erin has the roads. a, erin. >> beautiful right now flood watchs in effect 8:30 northwestern section of district and constantly keeping an eye on roads. safe track problem areas you need avoid surge five as melanie mentioned kicks in today and single tracking east falls church to boston and orange trains running every 18 minute and boston to new carlton ease the con investigateon and silver trains every 18 minutes after the rush hour at 10 system wide every train 20 minutes. plan for crowded platforms and trains you may want to consider metro bus or fairfax connector as alternate to get around. we'll keep an eye on this. it's the first day as folks ajust to the new pattern. any questions get me on twitte twitter. and tree down in the road avenue northbound beach road and as angelie mentioned flooding. back to you. wisdom and holly. >> redskins fans honor chief z. >> and twitter cracks down after the battle of racist tweets. >> as go outside. live look across the region. time 4:39, 70 degrees. back in a m

erin? >> all right. erin mclaughlin, thank you very much, on the ground in munich.an todd is out front. brian, you got a chance to speak to witnesses to this horrific attack. one woman was actually inside the mcdonald's when the shooting began. what did she tell you? >> erin, this woman who we only want to call loretta. that's her first name. we want to caller this that for her safety. she saw the man in the mall. she was only a couple of inches away when she came out and his back was turned to her or she might be dead right now. her 8-year-old son saw the man load his gun inside the bathroom and he then came out and started firing on children. she also gave an account on what the man said. >> i hear this allah akbar. allah akbar. i know this because i am muslim, too. i hear this, and i only crying, screaming and take my children and go out. >> does that mean this man is an islamic terrorist? maybe not. there was a verbal exchange with the man who matches the description of the shooter. it captures an intense conversation which ends in gun fire. in that conversation

erin?thanks very much. >>> new this morning wilmington police are investigating three shootings that happened within hours of one another. latest gunfire broke out on the 400 block of east 12th street right across from the howard career center late last night. police were in the area investigating an earlier shooting. the 27 year-old victim is in critical condition, no arrests have been made. >>> three hours earlier, officers were fragged down to help a 26 year-old shooting victim. police say two men ambush him at his front door on west third street. victim was struck once in the back of the leg and is stable. twenty-nine suspects fled on foot. >>> the attacks in dallas will undoubted increase concern over protest that will take place during the democratic national convention in philadelphia later this month. this map released yesterday shows impacted areas of south philadelphia surrounding the sports complex. road closures start saturday, the 23rd from packer avenue down to the navy yard.

erin: good stuff. the nationals enjoyed a much-needed day off today after the monster 18-inning loss saturday to the pirates. the nationals will welcome the dodgers to town tomorrow. lopez is scheduled to make his big-league debut. on theoles taking yankees, in new york. there has been a lot of talk being interested in acquiring yankees closer aroldis chapman. easy to see why. shatters the bat to end the game. we will keep you posted on all of these trade rumors. on alln draw matches three courts from the citi open will be broadcast on the tennis channel, so check your provider for full coverage all week long. you may want to do that, because i steve was telling us come it will be so hot. just a inside, craig up the ac. steve:. erin: i will, too. -- steve: i will be there thursday see again. you hear that? that's the sound of our summer sale firing up its engines with fares as low as $69 dollars one-way. so get ready to take off... because sale prices as low as these don't happen every day! book your l

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erin? >> thank you very much. out front now, evan perez. it's a shocking story here, i think that is horrifying the nation. what are you hearing about what the motive might be? obviously, one of the stories that we're hearing is possibly that this shooter could have lured police in making a fake 911 call. what more do you know? >> that's right, erin. that's one of the scenarios that's still being explored by law enforcement. it's really a remarkable thing to think that these law enforcement officers were responding to a 911 call that appears -- and it's not clear whether or not that was a trap, essentially, something that was done specifically to lure these officers into a confrontation with this suspect. we know that we've seen this type of thing in the last few weeks even, just around the time of the dallas shooting, one incident that was overlooked was an incident outside of knoxville in eastern tennessee in which a suspect did exactly that. he started shooting, and he wanted to lure pol

stays nice n today, erin. don't know how it will.il >> that's right, gary, 4:36 4 right now and if you're waking k up and trying to get out thehe do in aspen hill georgiaeo avenue between connecticut conct avenue and belfry road dealing with a crash involving an overturned car.ar watch for slowdowns as youow head out there.head o if you're takuting metro servicr gearing up at 5:00.aring right now no reported delaysel except for safe track surge three. today is the last day of surge three. th no rail service betweenrvice twe national airport and braddock road. you know the drill for theow blue and yellow lines. tnd yell you'll need to take thatliake th shuttle service that's thas available or carpool or choose an alternate. starting tomorrow safe trackw sa surge four begins and that will last through the 18th,e 18t another seven days.r sen d no train service on the blue onu and yellow line betweenen national airport and pentagon city. ci trains outside of the shutdownn station will run approximatelyxe every 12

any questions@erin fox d.c.witter. . >> university of maryland police are investigate three different robbyes on the college park campus and in each case the suspect showed a weapon and robberies heard near queen and all and tidings hall the suspect was wearing plaque clothing and black hat. no one was hurt and no arrests were made. >> barack obama is scheduled to meet with liters for preparing trust between law enforcement and american public coming after the death of two at the happened of police as well as daemz of five officers in dallas. >> meanwhile funeral services for three of the officers killed last thur in dallas scheduled later today. yesterday, president obama was in dallas to hon are the five police officers killed last week. vice-president joe biden and george w. bush all spoke delivering similar messages americans must bridge differences and stay united stand united as one country and they must support the police as well. >> the pain we feel may not soon pass. but my faith tells me they did not d

erin o'hearn joins us and developing right now. >> train trouble.epta riders could be in for a rough morning commute. the rail service has pulled a third of its regional rail cars out of service. >> unfortunately the morning commute will also be a wet one, plus accuweather is tracking rain and our next heat wave of the summer. the "action news" team, though, is getting you ready for this first day of septa's limited regional rail service. as news reporters annie mccormick and katherine so scott are on the platforms talking to passengers, matt pelman is in for karen keeping us posted on any changes. >> as matt said it is also a rainy commute so let's turn to meteorologist, david murphy and find out the story. >> yeah, news all over the place this morning and part of it is on radar. take a look. storm tracker6 double scan shows heavy downpours moving through south jersey and more coming out of baltimore heading into delaware and south jersey later this morning. and even in places where it isn't rain anything mohr we might still have leftover ponding a

t erin como is here. erin, it's friday.t'sda we made it. gary, fridayt,a morning. taking a look at your commuter c at 4:55 overnight road work in maryland, 202 southbound, it's from 704 to brightseat road.tser you definitely want to use atelu little bit of caution there asfe you make your way inbound inouni maryland traffic looking goodoog and outbound on your way totbouo bwi for an early flight movingov along just fine on 95 northbound and baltimore-washington parkway northbound. next we'll take a look at 270 where a stall did clear 270 car north at the beltway.he beltway traffic moving along fine in all lanes and the southbound side coming from shady groveha to the spur speeds exactlyhe s what they should be so noat theu problems there.re. we're quiet on the inner loop and outer loop by the americanhi legion bridge and all the areaa bridges flowing freely. fre safe track surge continues tra blue and yellow line a.m. closer look at that next. ndback to you maureen and lu mad wisdom. >> coming up on fox newsup on xe morning the nationals tr

any questions@erin fox d.c. on twitter. >> the fallout from the breakfast boat reaches out. >> a man decides to change his employer and make new money and move to >> imagine people getting mad about that. >> live look outside across the dmv. 4:37, coming up on 4:38 now is the time. 75 degrees. back >> time now 4:40 let's look at stories we're engaging with in social xwleed with realtime and news tracker and fallout from the breakfast vote falls out posting balkin leaders from sum knit paris is found members and new members and candidate and markets worldwide are bracing for another rough week. outgoing prime minister is expected to brief the house of commons on plans to stabilize the community. >> political dustup over a tweet. hillary clinton calling recent twitter post by donald trump disturbing and the tweet shows picture of of money with six pointed star on top and star reads most corrupt candidate ever. most are outraged saying the star looks similar to the star of david. yesterday trump down played the con

bit that's a quick check of the erin como has got the roads. g e hey, erin. e happy friday to you.to you. >> my goodness, you, too, too mike.mi. 4:35. we'll start you off with a look at safe track surge five.ra this is the second morningd rnin that our commute will be affected.affected. single tracking between easten falls church and ballston. balls vienna to ballston trainsin running every 18 minutes oninuts the orange line.erang silver line 18 maintenance.nt ballston to new carrolton additional trains will run but b anticipate crowded conditions. n as of 10 o'clock in thek in evening system wide every every train will run about every 20 2 minutes. you can always take metrobus or fairfax connector if you con want to try to get around that, maybe carpool. m any questions for planningornnin your commute at erin fox5 d.c. . on twitter.er. at 5:00 a.m. we have no otherth reported delays for metro but we'll let you know if that changes.chges. 395 from the beltway to the 14th street bridge quiet.ui 66 you don't hit any delays if l manassas all the way throughll t

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erin: i'm erin hawksworth with sports. a basketball legend calls it quits.are the redskins and kirk cousins getting any closer to a new deal? 6:00" continues. >> maureen: a classic video game from years ago taking the smart phone industry by storm. pokÉmon go app is popular and encouraging gamers to be more active. as mike carter-conneen reports a warning goes along with that. >> call it pokÉmon. mike: in days, pokÉmon go downloads skyrocketed. >> it's for the reminiscent about spect of it. the -- aspect of it. we remember it from the childhood. mike: the augmented reality game encouraging players to wander the real world. >> take a fantasy world and overlaps it on top of the existing world. mike: with the sudden popularity of the app police are getting more reports of trespassing and suspicious activity. in the st. louis area four teens used the app to lure victims to location and rob them at gun point. in virginia, sheriff deputies found players on business, church and government properties late at night when the >> people have to learn. you can't text and

here's erin como. what's so funny behind meehin erin. >> nothing.re laughing back there.la >> maureen and annieug wereie w mildly taunting you. nothing crazy.ra >> i can imagine.ma >> eyes in the back of mys the head. i have three kids.eid >> traffic in frederickffic ifrd looking pretty good.lo we have a crashok on 15 near n point of rocks just north of j the potomac overlook lane area a so give y can at a time on 15.can a tim aside from that you're still quiet on 70 and 270. and 270 same story on all your majors.aj in maryland if you haven't an early morning flight to catch bw northbound quiet.dui things in virginia same story.to green across-the-board.e-bod. 95 northbound through stafford r trd then that trend continuesha through dale city as you crossou the occoquan.ccoquan. not seeing any problems by quantico and 66 real from rea gainsville through manassas in h centreville are you looking really if right now.ow station closures now keep inp mind this all concludes safeclud track surge two on the third. taking a break not for the f the fourth an

here's erin como on thison monday morning.ay how is it looking out there erin. >> 5:36. inbound from d virginia. 95 northbound you can see an se sea of brake lights right now r from dale city as you cross youo the occoquan.cc we're just dealing withith congestion. no crashes reported but as youoe can see because traffic is soffs heavy you need to factor incto extra time to get past 123 past3 this morning. this m ones you do hit the beltway, dt traffic is still looking goodoo across the wilson bridge ong the inner loop.oo outer loop also flowing freelow as you make your way pastinake r branch avenue.ch ave south of this .95 northbound noh jams up 630 to 610. t we'll switch it over from ourito cameras and show you our maps om right now.. tracking a crash out in fairfax.fair police at location route one one and mount vernon memo highway jeff todd way. w caution there as you make youray way inbound. ind we'll give you more traffice updates take a look at your a ly maryland drive next.ve nex back to you. y >> coming up on fox5 news n morning the midatlantic regioneg is home t

erin: i'm erin hawksworth with sports.he wizards try their luck in vegas while price -- bryce harper says tonight's all-star game is more im maureen: the arlington county board will soon vote on a request from the department of defense. the pentagon wants to install equipment around the country to record information about explosions. the data would be used to help terror attack. >> if you put a series of these chemical or explosive detectors around the county, and you get more than one or two hits you ought to be able to predict the direction of the bad weapon or the chemical is going in. maureen: if approved it would be classified and exempt from freedom of information act. similar equipment is already in place for new york city. pack your patience. we heard that used how to describe how to approach airport security waits. but now the phrase applies to getting to the airport. metro's latest safetrack surge shut down trains between reagan national and crystal city. that manes bus bridges for the next week. northern virgini

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erin? >> out front now, clay jenkins, chief executive, director of homeland security and emergency management there as well. thank you very much. i appreciate it, clay. i know -- let me start with some of the new information. we know that johnson had a journal, that he had been writing things down, perhaps planning in there. is there anything more you can tell us about that? >> this is the crime of opportunity for him. he was looking for a greater amount of mayhem where he could put more ieds out and build those bombs. so, we're not fortunate because we've had a great loss of life, but it could have been worse. >> when you talk about the ieds, the police chief obviously saying a bomb tech who looked at the stockpile in his home said he knew what he was doing and the quote was, this wasn't some novice. you heard our reporter saying he wouldn't have had training to do this sort of thing in the military. do you know how he learned all of this? did he have any help? >> well, we're looking at th

erin: right. he was ambitious, and he could be a little bit of a sycophant, but he was an intelligent man. and as some know, throughout the course of the war, there was an ongoing discussion of whether or not we should try negotiate a peace with the south and bring the bloodshed to an end, or whether there should be unconditional victory. and as some people who study lincoln know, this is something that seemed he dabbled with this , and every time the opportunity , came to negotiate, he would eventually back away from it. but apparently, i can't tell the whole story, because i, we'll get to only a small area if i get too involved in every story, but he, zacharie, actually arranges for a meeting with the brains of the south, judah p. benjamin. and although we have always known that there was a desire for these two people to meet, there was never any concrete evidence, any documentary evidence that the two had actually met and discussed the peace plan, a peace plan. erin: right. gary: and you're loo

erin como is keeping an eye on that. >> 4:56 gary taking a look at traffic. all green on drive into the district from virginia now. problem free on 28, 66 east from gaingainville through mannasas and west false church. fredericksburg and stafford dale city as you pass occoquan and as you make your way to beltway same story, 270. 50 inbound from annapolis. if you happen to have an early morning flight. traffic bwi, reagan national and dulles. >> construction same story 4 east out of water street. that's approaching 301. et we'll let you know when the overnight roadwork zones clear. gearing up as 5 first morning russia infected by safe track. that slows you down if you head to nationalir need to know about yellow and blue line with weather and track, wisdom and holly. >> thank you very much erin como. coming up. a number of french lawmakers say last year attacks in paris could have been preventd one of the oldest bridges in our region received much needed funding to help with restoration. >> and before we head to break a quick look at today's stock futures. "fo

>> reporter: no mention, erin.you only were here at this event where president obama and secretary clinton were, you wouldn't have even known that this announcement came by fbi director comey, but at the same time this trust gap that we're seeing, this email controversy in part has caused, polls showing many voters don't think hillary clinton is trustworthy. that's one of the big reasons that the president was here vouching for her character. he took on donald trump. he essentially said that donald trump was lying. he didn't use his name, but it was so clear who he was talking about and he implored north carolinians to value hillary clinton's experience and her steady temperament. >> we like new things, and i benefited from that culture, let's face it. when i came on the scene in '08, everybody said well, he's new. they don't say that now because i'm not. but sometimes we take somebody who has been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. sometimes we act as if never having done someth

erin como is in witouh hey erin.hey, gary.>> h i'm walking to the studio, 4:46 because we have breakingebr news. a person hit by a car suitui lands parkway on the outboundth side right now is shut down at first sterling avenue. we do know an adult male hit mae by a car, some injuries injur involved in this crash.volved ih it is under investigation. this morning if you're tryingreg head towards the beltway fromelm suitland parkway your best beteb detour and take pennsylvanialvan avenue. that will save you some timeve s this morning but again, some, se breaking news right now allow a outbound lanes on suitland les parkway at first sterlingt avenue shut down in thehe southeast section of the the district. a man hit by a car. overnight road work on theork oe inner loop at little river turnpike. caution as you make your way y through there. the we'll keep you updated on that breaking news. n >> disturbing allegations against a woman in northeastorth d.c. >> police say she lured iceur cream into her home and thenome sexual

erin como, of course we like to call her erin commute she's in with us. >> we're dealing with a lot ofing news this morning, gary, really rough start to tuesday morning. i tried to get us ahead to thursday. i'm sorry about that. road closure in buoy earlier truck fire right now just smoking all the flames under control and fire department still on location closing 3 southbound between annapolis road and forest drive. best bet to get around that exit 450 davidsonville road to r50. if you wake newspaper buoy smoke and emergency wapders in that area. avoid lee. high stand baep baen up pound let him more traffic in a mu moments. >> recently released figure suggest maryland is dealing with exploding heroin epidemic. >> eleanor holmes norriton continues her push for gun regulations. >> as we head to break on this tuesday, we'll take a live look outside yeah you can see t you can feel it. it's hazy, hot and humid. that's going to be the terms forever the rest of the week. we'll talk more about it when we come back. 5:27 now. "fox5 news morning" is what you're watching this tuesday. >> straigh

any questions at erin fox5 fox d.c. on twitter.n t.e'll take a look at metro m safe track surge four kicking se in at 5:00 a.m. when serviceer starts next. back to you.back t >> coming up on fox news morning rising tensions withonsi russia as a buildup of troopsro in eastern europe is announce announced >> santos the ceo of rock nation reacs milestone on youtube.onn y >> a live look outside acrosscrs the region.theg time right now is 4:37. 4:3 coming up in four, three, two -- 4:38. 4 back with more news, information, weather and traffic after the break. and we just couldn't say thno to that face.ns then we wanted more of that local flavor so betty says... oh yeah, that's betty. you're going to want to do this alligator thing. and betty didn't lead us wrong. a little later we passed some dancing. and who doesn't like dancing? especially when it's followed by fireworks everyone's nola is different. follow yours