in fairfax county, jeff goldberg, abc7 news. horace: also developing out of montgomery county, police say 59-year-old salvador rodriguez sexually abused two girls who rode his school bus. he allegedly had inappropriate contact with the two 11-year-olds on four separate occasions. he was the driver for rockview elementary school, newport mill mental school and the albert einstein high school. they are looking into the possibility there are other victims. michelle: more than a hundred threat against jewish school and community centers in 33 states since the beginning of the year. today police arrested a man they say is behind eight of the threats in california, texas, michigan, new york. juan thompson appeared in federal court this morning on a cyber wanted to harass and vilify the ex-girlfriend. rockville j.c.c. also threat anded, holding a solidarity event when news of the arrest broke. >> we will go to synagogue. we will send our children to school. he will go to community centers and live proud, vibrant, knew wish lives -- jew

this is the area fairfax county search and rescue crews and operations will be searching again today. arough the trees you can see number of fairfax county police vehicles, including t several search and rescue squads involved in the search that started yesterday after receiving a tip that there are human remains in this very large park. i say it is a large part because we have then told by police they could take three or four days to go through the entire area. >> by only guess is it is very quiet, both neighborhoods are quite and very dark at night, if you wanted to do something bad, it is not monitored and no lights. john: this could be connected it is believed to the dangerous web recently of gang activity and missing persons cases. only 10 miles away a few weeks ago when the body of a 15-year-old was found at a park near springfield, virginia, it is believed this could be connected to that. out of police trying to figure it out. -- fairfax police tried to figure it out in what could be potentially human remains at this busy park. county, police looking for whoever broke into a ho

in fairfax county. with awareness of a likely long fight ahead. >> today it's jews. yesterday it was muslims. who will it be tomorrow? people were quick to notice that larry hogan was not at the event but he has publicly condemned all hate crimes against the jewish community. i'm live in rockaway, kevin lewis, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. from 80's on wednesday to this scene overnight. we are talking snow. falling in part of the area. it may not be done yet. old man winter is not done with us. stormwatch7's chief meteorologist doug hill has the latest. doug: old man doug not done either. i have a weather story to tell on friday afternoon. we are looking at the weather bug site at crestwood middle school in frederick. sunshine but the clouds rolling in. the edge of the snowshower getting close. the temperatures are cold. average high is 51 degrees. the average temperatures are 33 in hagerstown. 37 in frederick. 40 in washington. the skies will clear. snowshowers will diminish here quickly. we have a n

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. >>> the search for human remains in a fairfax county park will pick up again tomorrow when the sunes up. >> investigators spent the day looking for remains after police got a tip. >> news4's jackie bensen joins us live in the section of fairfax county with new details. jackie? >> reporter: jim, we don't have a lot of details about exactly what's going on here. what we do know is alarming. into the evening, fairfax county police officers continued to restrict access to homes run park at crater place in the alexandria section of the county. neighbors watched with great concern. >> this kind of activity you don't see around this neighborhood. it's a lot of family-orientated. >> reporter: detectives, along with the fbi and local law enforcement partners, spent the day on a grim search here. this white tent was set up in the wooded area. it was surrounded by crime scene tape. >> we don't even know if a crime has been committed. we're working off a tip that there may be bodies in the park. we don't know of connections with previous cases we've been investigating, but preliminarily, we be

this is in the alexandria section of fairfax county. yesterday, polic road park but did not find anything. justin finch joins us live from pair fax county with more on what led police to those parks. justin. >> well, eun, we have been tracking recent gang related arrests in two deadly missing persons cases here in northern virginia and this continued search for remains may turn up more gang ties. the focus here will be holmes run park. it does include the 6,000 block of prader place, a residential area. homicide gang and fbi investigators are among the many on this case. no word yet so far on was been found. as you mentioned, the search did include lemon road park. nothing there was found. but these park searches could be critical for police. they have been before. after all, a few years ago, the remains of two people were found in the area of holmes run park. both said to have been brutally murdered, we are told. this also comes on the heels of a several suspects were rounded up in that case. he also is set to have had gang ties. that

this one in fairfax county. responded to this mosque in falls church yesterday after an employee received a letter with prejudice language in it. investigators say the envelope had a postmark that appeared to be from another country. earlier this week, police responded to threats at an islamic education and muslim óñ in silver spring. >>> a maryland man who admitted to his part in a wild chase in prison. he led the police on a 115-mile ride before crashing >> reporter: a wild incident late at night on the gw parkway last year after he led u.s. park police in ai@hç high-speed chase crashed his car into a guardrail near 395 south on ramp there. he managed to elude police in nearby woods afterward and then stole the u.s. park police cruiser and went speeding off again and crashed it at the ramp off the 11th street bridge in d.c. he struck an officer in the process. the injuries in that case were minor. that incident happened nearly a year ago but the photos of the crime scene just released to the news4 i-team under

today, the ribbon was cut at a busy intersection in fairfax at bradrick road and oxford road in fairfaxraffic moving and keep pedestrians safe. additional turn lanes have been added. signals have been improved and the crosswalks and sidewalks it's moving significantly the question what are the traffic counts and how does it project going forward? >> during construction, crews discovered evidence civil war era. that intersection was busy one evenyok:! back then. >>> metro saysúvív this last ma safe track disruption in for the aspirin. david culver explains why. >> reporter: this next safe track surge, surge number 13, it's expected to impact both the yelx)>g!and blue lines right hee in virginia. it's going to start where we just got on. bradrick road. on the yellow line continue to huntington and on the blue line to van ud=8Ñ?sádorn street and thousands who rely on these lines to get to and from work or even to the airport. we did catch up with one rider who says she has to add another 45 minutes to her commute. >> it takes quite a bit of time waiting for the train to arriveo and when it

fairfax city's former mayor pleaded guilty. prosecutors say he used a dating website to meet men for sex in exchange for crystal meth. on august 4th he handed an undercover detective the drugs outside of a tysons hotel. silverthorn has been in court since. but the judge's decision to send him back to jail to await sentencing shocked his family and friends. he's now facing up to 40 years behind bars. we have bureau reporter david culver who's going to share what some people are saying about the judge's >>> the man who scaled the white house fence friday was back in court this afternoon. the charges against him carry up to ten years behind bars. >>> the congressional budget office is set to release a report on the new gop health care plan. republicans are already pushing back, questioning whether the agency is able to analyze the complex bill. >>> partnership has accused the obama administration of wiretapping his line during the campaign. today is the deadline for the justice department and fbi to provide any evidence to congres

it just got a little bit easier to open breweries in fairfax county. zoning rules were eased for distilleries and wineries too. bureau chief jewelry carey investmented some of the original brewers who had to set up shop the hard way before the rules were changed. >> reporter: fair winds brewery celebrated its second anniversary. this canning day means their award-winning beers can be found at the grocery store as well as the tasting room. one of just seven breweries the county. that is less than half the number in neighboring loudoun. one reason until now, the zoning regulations in fairfax county made it tough to open. >> our zoning ordinance didn't actually have breweries listed in it. so when you would go to the county and try to explain what you were doing, there was a bit of a look of confusion. >> reporter: but last week the fairfax county board approved zoning amendments designed to make it easier to open breweries, distilleries and wineries. >> i think what loudoun did, which is get behind breweries. >> reporter: a key change. before, breweries

fairfax county police asked the f.b.i. to assist with looking for remains in homes run park in alexandria. >> i wouldn't have thought of it. cheryl: we walked a path of the park that led up to the law enforcement at park lawn pool. this is the backyard for many neighbors who enjoy the treelines ands the streams. >> i'm sad. i'm sad that it is here. and that we are going through this again. >> this woman who only wants to be identified as lois lived here for 45 years. she is familiar with case from last year tied to human remains found at holmes run park and conviction of six ms-13 gang members. >> i think it happens probably at night. we don't ever see gangs of people during the park in the day. cheryl: this is a con scene. being surrounded by nature and the hustle of detectives. fairfax brought in the homicide and the gang units. their focus is now holmes run park after not being able to locate remains at lemon road park. >> i have never had any problems in this park at all. i walk here with my 6-year-old son all the time

live in fairfax, paul wagner, fox 5 local news. >>> fairfax county police have arrested aan assaulting a woman in annondale. police say that woman was assaulted inside of her apartment yesterday afternoon. and she was moving out of her apartment on john adams court. police say a man in the parking lot approached her asking if she needed help. later the same man entered her apartment through an open door and sexual assaulted her. a neighbor who heard her screaming was slightly injured after confronting the man. both women taken to the hospital with minor injuries. >>> prince george's county police need your help tonight finding the people who robbed a restaurant in suitland, take a look at this surveillance video. it happened back february 19th. two people posing as customers walked into the sylvester express on the 4800 block of silver hill road. people cash for food then pepper sprayed her in the face. while they were distracted one of the suspects reached over the counter, grabbed cash and took off. if you know anything about this robbery or recognize those folks, give police a call

>> reporter: shawn and sarah, the fairfax county police chief said the gang problem here in fairfax countyontrol. he urged parents, if they thought that their children might have any kind of gang ties to get in touch with the police. now, i'm standing in front of the yard which is about 150 yards away from where the bodies were found in homes run park late last night. what we can tell you now from a law enforcement source is that police do not believe that these bodies are linked to the two bodies that were found here in the park back in may of 2014. however, the same law enforcement source said they cannot rule out the possibility that the bodies are two missing teens with gang ties. the bodies were recovered from this hill side where a fox 5 camera thursday afternoon placing items in evidence bags. approximately a dozen law enforcement personnel were taking photographs and placing collected items in orange crates. >> it's more than likely that the recovery of the remains that we have to date in this active crime scene will be linked to another set of gang murders. >> reporter: just about

tracking snow in southern maryland, fairfax, and prince william and faquier counties. snow moves in overnight, by 11:00 p.m. and it's potentially one to two inches of snow per hour. 3:00 a.m., notice how dark the blue here. that's heavy snow falling down. and i also want to point out, this line of pink, that's a wintry mix, then rain in parts of southern maryland. this is the rain-snow line and why amount also be lower in southern maryland and up into parts of prince george's county. in the morning on tuesday, tracking snow. loudoun, frederick still just mainly rain in parts of southern maryland. snow throughout the day on tuesday. but again, the most piles up by 8:00 p.m. tuesday. southern maryland, the northern neck, 1 to 3 inches of slushy, wet snow. washington, arlington, alexandria, southern fairfax, parts of prince william county, stafford county, three to six inches of snow here. notice washington on that line between 3 to 6 and 6 to 12. i think the district sees 12 inches. montgomery, loudoun, faquier county, frederick county in maryland, sees 6 to 12 inches of

four bodies discovered ins discn fairfax county in just two years and one park. park across the country ms-13 ms13 linked possibly to satanism. we'll go straight to the top o for. >>> the fairfax county police chief joins usirfa lix ve this h >> marine corps dealing with a a major scandal.sca hundreds of marines accused of taking nude photos of theirheir female marines posting them to o a secret site online. on >> president trump accusingu president obama of spying onoba him. isspyi it just a distraction orr does the president have proof? ? more coming up in a livee report. you. youonday morning to i'm also a seems.i' >> and i'm steve chem nevey.alnv thanks for join, us this forn, morning. it's 7:00 a.m. on this monday md march sixth. >> if you're just waking upt wa this morning here's a livea li look outside.look outside. nice looking day out there. ther a little chilly is it a starty i this marcs h seventh but nouto complaints. ick ch of a quick check of barnes. good morning. >> allison, cold tgoemperaturesr very cold. most of the area below below freezing. we

. >>> fairfax county police are identifying the officer who shot a man near herndon. officer shot a man outside his home back in january. he later died. investigators say he shot his brothers and refused police orders to drop a knife he was holding. at the same time smoke was coming from that home and another man was trapped inside. >> the department is supposed to release the name of an officer involved in the shooting within ten days unless there is a threat to the officer or their family. a judge recently ruled there is no threat. the officer is a 16 year veteran of the department. he used deadly force twice in the past in 2005 and made public and determined to be a lawful use of force. >>> some neighbors in fairfax county are on edge after days of police combing the area near their homes for human remains. the fbi and fairfax county homicide detectives remain tight lipped about what possible murder or disappearance they're investigating in the park. the recent tip led them there. more than a dozen gang members were arrested for two murders in northern virginia but

and fairfax this weekend. yes, ops green. >> and buckets as well. >> they were a lot of fu see they're out and about hurting city. >> that was a slushy wet snow. >> right the snowballs were dense. >> yes very much so. >> you packed it hard it was more like rock than snowball. >> definitely any look at fluffy snow it's frozen sold id with team awrz as low as they are. >> i walked outside this morning and stepped on it and i was like. >> whoop. >> yeah. >> not good. >> watch those sidewalks. those sidewalks slick especially those not cleared yesterday. if i showed you this map it's mid-march. and we're seeing a cold air mass so far this winter. 14 buffalo and 22 in washington some suburbs in teens and in. >> winds blowing out of norman wet today and that continues to kick up as we head to the afternoon hours. 2 not a bad gust now in d.c.. it will be dusting up and over 40 later this afternoon. 30 annapolis and baltimore. 5 dulles and get back to winds. this is what it feels like if you step outside around the re

up to six inches in mid montgomery into western fairfax. up to ten-inch amounts could be in ridges along the blue ridge. southern maryland is going to escape the brunt of the tomorrow. north and west we're going to see the bulk of that coming on through. and higher amounts up near the near pennsylvania border. we also may get some strong gusts of wind during the evening hours tomorrow. they may cause some power outages. it's going to take a while to get over with this storm. >>> a programming note. our team is working for you get you through it. they'll be on the air early tomorrow starting at 4:00 a.m. >>> the man who is charged with jumping the white house fence on friday is set to be released for now. jonathan tran is the first person accused of jumping the fence since president trump took office. he appeared before a judge this afternoon. >> 26-year-old jonathan tran is northern california until the next hearing in his case. he faces a ten-year prison sentence if convicted. but there are new questions about whether the white house is se

how much they got in fairfax county. >> fairfax court. >> oh, fairfax court.mewhere between 3.5 and 4 inches of snow. that's as close as i get to fairfax cour >> exactly. >>> today's storm shut down schools and businesses. >> nothing can stop the traditional changing of the guard ceremony at arlington national cemetery. the snow here in dc may have forced a number of cancellations. i'm sure it kept thousands of people inside for the day. but i can tell you one thing, it didn't stop the changing of the guard here in arlington national cemetery and it didn't stop thousands of people from braving the elements to check it out. as the saying goes, the show must go on. that was the case at arlington national cemetery. no matter how cold it got or the amount of snow falling. the ceremony lasting no more than 10 minutes. every hour a ritual that's been around for hundreds of years. >> very professional. kind of sad. very cool. >> reporter: zach is taking it all in for the very first time. >> shows that it means a lot this country. >> he came down from massachusetts so

we you uncovered thousands of dollars in travel costs for two fairfax county employees paid for. alex case and assistant principal michelle light el were both put on leave, case resigned. county refused to say why or explain anything about this. according to travel records obtained by fox 5, case and light el got approval for three out of state trips in the fast eight months cost nearly $12,000. they released a statement that said all travel procedures were preapproval in these particular instances. by the way the travel budget for this year is $1.4 million. superintendent has now recommended cutting that by half million for the next school year. >>> new information now about the gang related murder of 15-year-old gaithersburg girl. a search warrant revealed demaris reyes was killed in retaliation for another gang related murder >> the brutality exhibited in these killings by what are basically kids. sarah simmons spoke with a psychologist who explains how young minds can become cable of murder. >> reporter: the rising gang activity in the dc area is not only troubling for police

northern prince william and fairfax.ederick county, maryland, as well as virginia seeing 6 inches to a foot of snow. some people i think will have a little over a foot of snow. this is one of the areas of low pressure that we will be tracking. another one down here. you can barely see it. they'll merge together and cause a major nor'easter that impacts not just us but new york and boston with potential blizzard conditions up there. tomorrow evening through tuesday, a storm team 4 weather alert. after that, windy and cold and we're dealing with blowing snow tuesday afternoon and wednesday. >> not good news for the >>> more on the local teams heading to the tournament. and the struggles in anaheim. sherree is up next. >>> the caps are on the road. they're not doing so hot. >> it's tough to be a cap right now. the goals and wins are not coming as easily as they were. they've lost so many games since the bye week. and they've lost their last three games, all the same score. still, the caps are the best team in the league and

that's the latest live tonight from fairfax. jim, back to you. >>> new revelations tonight about more members of the trump campaign team and their contacts with russian ambass kisly kislyak. we now know of five trump team member who members who met with the ambassador before the inauguration. the lack of full disclosure is raising reactions. >> reporter: first of all, as you know, there's nothing inherently wrong with these meetings or these contacts. but as more information comes out about people associated with the president meeting with russian operatives, now the president is pointing fingers at democrats too. attorney general jeff sessions saying little today about removing himself from trump campaign investigations and failing to mention under oath that he met russia's ambassador. >> attorney general sessions should resign. >> reporter: that's democrat chuck schumer, president trump calls him a total hypocrite, tweeting this 2003 photo of schumer with russia's president. schumer responds, in public, unlike the trump tower

and in fairfax county. a sinkhole on americaa we're told by fairfax police that is closed for an indefinite amount of time. the fire and rescue department tells me they got two, three call as minute anything from downed trees to car crashes to power lines that were also downed. there was one incident where the live power lines hit the water and burned a hole into the street. a big mess out here. reporting live in montgomery county, alexandra limon fox 5 local news. >>> developing, fairfax county police and the fbi are searching in the for bodies. police have a large section cordoned off. paul wagner joins us from fairfax with that story. paul. >> reporter: i'm on place. homes run park behind me, at the end of this cul-de-sac is a driveway that goes down to the park lawn pool that's where the mobile command post is set up tonight. you'll see a video in just a minute. a tent and some crime scene tape. that is over these trees and behind these houses over this section. it's about 200 yards away from where the

. >>> a grim search will continue today in fairfax county. local and ferls agents are looking for human remains. >> now with more on the tips that led police to this park. justin. >> eun, police are taking these tips quite seriously after a series of gang arrests here in northern virginia. and so for a second day, fairfax county police and search crews will resume their search in the specifically around the 6,000 block of crater place. the initial search involved lemon run park, but nothing was found there. the search themselves are significant because two years ago, police found remains of two people, both reported to have been bruthsly murdered and this new search comes after the arrest of several suspects in the death of a fairfax county man in january. also, his case has been linked to that 15-year-old alexandra reyes found dead in springfield, virginia, just last month. her family says she had been a target of the gang ms-13. we are told federal investigators will be with them. >> justin, thank you. >>> also in northern vi is involved in

fairfax county police were searching for human remains bury the at the park. >> they have found them. julie carey is there in holmes run park where police are now holding a news conference. that should be starting here in the next couple of minutes. so julie carey will be there for us. she's gathering information, she's going to join us live a little bit later in the show. >> yesterday in our broadcast, megan mcgrath was out there on the scene and she was showing that video of what seemed to be a tent that officers had over some piece of found. because officers have said this investigation may very well be gang related, i went ahead and shared a post, an interview from david culver on my facebook page when he interviewed the head of the northern virginia regional gang task force. because this may be gang related, i went ahead and put that up there for you. but if you'll remember, we've been following just a string of what we have seen as a lot of gang activity and bodies that have surfaced in northern virginia. believe that news conference has started we're going to go ahead and liste

by 9:00 we're now 53 downtown. 52 in fairfax. by lunchtime, really nice. 65 here. 68 in fredericksburg. you can take lunch outside tomorrow. just hang on to your napkin. it'll be windy. by 6:00 p.m., still upper 50s, low 60s. by 9:00, just a few high clouds come in. temperatures in the 50s. for tonight, clear cloudy. breezy. colder. 36 to 46. nobody is going below freezing tonight. winds out of the west-southwest at 10 to 15. on the day planner. we have 40s to start. clear skies. 60 by 11:00. 65 by 1:00. winds will be west-southwest. warm wind. but then that changes on friday. falling temps. probably a midnight temp. don't dress for that temp. i'm going to hide it. dress for the 30s and 40s. rain shower possible. boom. full sunshine. only 38 on saturday. average high is about 52 now. 40 on sunday. i'm sad about the weekend, only 47 hours long. spring forward on saturday night. we have another system monday and tuesday. we alluded to this yesterday. we'll see what happens. rain or snow possible monday night into tuesday. residual

fairfax you get the 3-6. herndon and reston, you're at the 6-10 level. if we shift this down ten miles, the city gets 3-6. if it comes back 10 miles the city gets mostly rain too. north of this we could get upwards of 10 inches or more. >> it changes hour by hour through the rest of this evening and into tomorrow morning. a lot of this going to be falling while you're asleep. it will be coming down. light snow by p.8:00 p.m. then by the time you're waking up a snow south and east of us, temperatures in the low 30s. by 11:00 tomorrow morning into the mid 30s. the key thing is that we'll be above freezing. a lot of us going to be melting as we get into the middle part of the morning. the school forecast for tuesday quite likely most school districts will be closed. we've already heard about a lot of them closing already. stay with us. we'll have all the closures as we get them. wednesday we'll likely get some delays. >> we say those school closings, that's all north and west of the city. the city may close tomorrow and places north and west. tomorrow, 37 d

arlington, fairfax county and prince william's county schools said no, not changing plan, school will go on as scheduled. however, some of the school systems tell us they're monitoring the situation. dc schools also will be open. a spokesperson said we'll some people may want to support international women's day all students and staff expected to be in school. montgomery county schools also plan to be open. >>> we you uncovered thousands of dollars in travel costs for two fairfax county employees paid for. alex case and assistant principal michelle light el were both put on leave, case resigned. county refused to say why or explain anything about this. according to travel records obtained by fox 5, case and light el got approval for three out of state trips in the fast eight months cost nearly $12,000. they released a statement that said all travel procedures were properly followed including preapproval in these particular instances. by the way the travel budget for this year is $1.4 million. superintendent has now recommended cutting that by half million for the next school year. >>>

. >>> a fairfax county police officer who shot a man near herndon has now been identified. he is officer lance guckenberger. he shot a man outside his home back in january. investigators say the man shot his brothers and refused police orders to drop a knife he was holding. at the same time, smoke was coming from the man was trapped inside. police are supposed to release the name of an officer involved in the shooting within ten days unless there is a threat to the officer or their family. a judge recently ruled there is such threat. officer guckenberger is a 16-year veteran of the department. he has used deadly force twice in the past, in 2005 and 2010. both those incidents were made public and determined to be a lawful use of force. >>> a big rally in support of federal workers today on the capitol grounds near the supreme court. >> we're not a punching bag. we're not a punching bag! >> that's virginia congressman jerry connolly leading the crowd and chanting "we're not a punching bag." the rally was sponsored by the national treasury employees union. they say they want t

# 5 south here at fairfax county parkway, still have the two ways blocked.tbound randolph road here, chopper 4 in silver spring, still have the right side blocked there. 270 is okay. top of the beltway, no major problems when we look at travel times. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car today. >>> seven students in pennsylvania had to be taken to snowstorm caused their school bus to overturn. look at that. the bus is on its side. it was carrying mostly elementary school students when it became stuck in a 4-foot ditch after sliding around a tight curve. none of the kids was seriously injured. the accident is under investigation. >>> all the way up in maine where the temperatures are in the 20s and right now more than 20 inches of snow is on the ground in some spots. the storm hammered new england. >> it created blizzard conditions and a few even died. we're live in boston now where another freezing windy morning is ahead. good morning. >> reporter: i think i'm speaking on beof the eastern united states, we would love february back. rem

. >> we sent justin finch in he picks up the team coverage live in fairfax. justin? >> reporter: good morning, pat, so far we're seeing calmer conditions out here in fairfax and what we saw earlier, light wind blowing right now and snowflakes falling, almost picturesque out here but it was a different story. let's take you to video over at the redskins training center and we saw heavy hail falling out there. this was side ways stuff flowing out there. strong winds, sending hail pellets blowing in several directions and it was a kind of hail fall that if it hit you, it did hurt. i want to take you to social media. all morning we have been asking viewers to share their weather conditions with us, however i'm told that was not actually hail out there, just kind of felt like it. as you will see in the video we're showing you know, social media video, the conditions did depend on where you live. some got hit with rain, got a rain/snow mix. we saw snow swept landscapes, snow settling on grass out there and lots of snow melting on the roads. back out live, a sure 180 from t

. >>> well, today we find out who is the top student speller in fairfax county.lose to 70 elementary and middle school champs will compete in the fairfax county spelling bee. >> no pressure. but only one can go to the nationals. as aimee cho explains, there is a unique challenge for two students trying to win that top spot. >> reporter: you don't get to be the reigning champ - >> reporter: the fairfax county spelling bee. >> the definition? >> reporter: unless you know most of the words of a dictionary. >> may i have the part of speech? >> reporter: that is almost as big as you are. >> i beat out a couple of people. not a couple people. quite a few. >> reporter: 61 to be exact. he made it to round three of the scripps national bee last year until that one darn word. >> amaryllis. it is stuck in my head. >> reporter: this year, eric is getting ready to defend his county title. >> the enemy is the dictionary and not the other people. >> reporter: a good outlook considering one of those people, well, she lives in his house. >> e-n-t -- >> reporter: meet big sister a

if you know anything about his whereabouts give police a call. >> developing in fairfax county. police and the fbi are now searching holmes run park in link ownian for human remains. officers received a tip last night there may be bodies in the area. investigators roped off a large section the park and set up a tent in the woods. tonight police have not found anything yet. but we asked them if their investigation was related to the recent murder of a 1r5-year-old girl. >> we don't know of of any keks from the believeious cases we have been investigating. however, preliminarily we do believe this may have a gang connection to. it we don't know what type of crime but the information we are receiving is there may be a gang we go hike on that side and go on the other side and kids normally outside every day when it's a nice day. so, i don't know. it's just really kind of worries me. >> i'm scared because you know i'm home all day and with the dog. but she's not going to go after anybody. i always leave the door on. >> police state search could continue for days. also in fairfax coun

poli let's get him >>> now to a story developing d in fairfax county.conty. for human t remains and theyd hy believe those remains areremain related to ongoing ganggoi violence. vice. fox5's annie yu is lie ine fairfax county now with more.o good morning, annie.a >> reporter: hey, good, good morning to you, allison.ll that's right, fairfax countyax y police along with the fbi willi be continuing that search today here in the holmes runin park area. it's actually in the lincolnialiolnia section of the county and ifof you look just beyond myyon shoulder here you can seelder they've had a very tight watch on this cul-de-sac area that leads into the park. pk. they haven't found any humanhumn remains but the search willear continue today. now, officers tell us thats they got the tip on tuesday tuey night that there could beere ulb bodies in this area and since se then, the fbi and police havecee basically saturated this neighborhood with all sorts oftf equipment and k-9 teams.9 tms. we captured much of themuch of activity yesterday.tivi you could see in this video

fairfax county, loudoun county and clark county schools in virginia had opening two hours late.chools in frederick county, maryland, on a two-hour late today. jefferson county, with west virginia, schools are closed because of the weather. also in west virginia berkeley county schools are now closed. hampshire .morgan county schools are on a two-hour delay in merrell. washington county schools are on

metro area around montgomery county, fairfax county, william county. we really do need to see some rain or snow tomorrow. we may get a little bit. showers to the north, this is rain showers. this could give us a little bit of rain or snow showers overnight tonight. the other system is a clipper, back to the west. that will come through tomorrow. what else will come through? even colder air. columbus, ohio, only 33. it's going to be cold. i've got cold in big letters tomorrow. again, snow showers overnight. tomorrow morning, not much going on. but we see the snow showers coming through time and time again around our area. not a lot of snow. let's talk about it. what to expect tomorrow from this, well, one thing not to expect, a lot. just snow showers. briefly heavy, though. little chance of accumulation. we're not talking any accumulating snowfall. i think the roads should be fine. your forecast tomorrow, 44 degrees. passing snow or rain showers, especially doo it's going to be a cold weekend. high on saturday, only 42. windchills below freezing on satu

ta was put out, tweeted out by fairfax county police. just to give you an idea. granted, this is an extreme case here, the person in this car. but it's just an example of the kind of thing that they really don't want you to do. it is a danger for people who are behind you and we have seen a problem here in recent days. maryland, by late arch, state highway folks, they said that they got about 20 complaints of ice flying into cars. in three of those incidents, the drivers were actually injured because of shattered windshield, glass getting into their eyes. maryland state police reminded people that they can write tickets if they see you and you have a lot of ice on your car. they can pull you over and write a ticket. as you head out this morning, if you haven't already done it, definitely, you'll want to clear off the top of your car. back to you guys. >>> it's 5:47. this morning, a manassas man is facinging a long list of charges snowplow. police say officers saw the plow hit a car near the intersection of centerville road and liberia avenue in manassas and take

fairfax county -- and loudoun county and frederick county maryland schools are among the school systems operating on a 2-hour delay this morning. you can find the full list of closings and delays at wjla.com. they're also scrolling at the bottom of your screen right now toss to eileen . - cold morning; watch for ice - sun today will help with melting; remaining unseasonably cool & still tomorrow night through sunday am - no sign of any big warm up today: mostly sunny. breezy & unseasonably cool. highs: 39-44 feels: teens early to 20s winds: nw 10-15 g 25 tonight: clear and cold. lows: 18-28 winds: w 5 mph friday: am sun, pm clouds. showers after 5pm. highs: 46-52 winds: s 5 mph eileen toss to johnny john toss to julie right now - preparing for his next battle. in less than two hours - he releases his first budget. overnight - we're learning new details about some deep cuts. sam sweeney is live in the newsroom to break it all down. president trump yesterday's ruling on his revised temporary tr

fairfax county police chief says they have a gang problem getting worse.he two bodies found thursday night are adding to a growing body count. >> it's more than likely the recovery of the remains that we have to date at this active crime scene will be linked to another set of gang murders. tom: the chief said that he will wait for autopsy results before publicly identifying the bodies. with gangers connections have been missing since september, but it's not clear if this is connected. is 15-year-old from gaithersburg was found dead in springfield. bodynuary, a 21-year-old's was found near the potomac and dumfries. both cases are believed to be tied to the gang ms 13. over a dozen people i been arrested, but there have been no arrests for the bodies found in the park. >> we need to bring murderers to justice. it took fairfax county police about 48 hours of searching very thick woods in the park before they found the two bodies. they say that a tip led them to the bodies, but they will need more tips to bring about justice and arrests and hopefully stop what

(pam) it happened earlier this month, in the small town of fairfax -- in marin county.s kron4's charles clifford explains -- the man is actually from the south bay. the fairfax police departments says that 54-year-old richard thomas williams, who is a "high risk" sex offender, made sexually suggestive comments to several teenage boys here in fairfax earlier this month. according to police, thomas offered the boys money and food to help him wash cars. he also said several inappropriate things which prompted one of the boys to tell his parents about the encounter, and they went to police. sot< chief christopher morin says some suggestive statement and words were made by this person. when the parent came to us we started an investigation.>thomas, who was using an alias at the time, gave one of the teenagers his phone number and the two had exchanged text messages. when police began their investigation, they took over the texting conversation and, posing as one of the boys, agreed to meet up with thomas at a movie theater.. sot

we will get 38 for fairfax, reston, dulles, and clinton is 36. 38 in columbia and even in reedville and germantown, one of the warm spots at 40 degrees. the futurecast for your afternoon, lots of sunshine and temps struggling to get up to 50. they may not get there. tonight, not as cold. low to mid-30s in most areas and that is a step in the right direction. tomorrow morning, some showers for parts of east virginia and the shenandoah valley. as it approaches dc, they may weaken. mid-to late morning, a bit of a shower threat and as the afternoon wears on, temperatures will climb in the low to mid-50s by 5:00. fredericksburg is 55 and the three day forecast, breezy with 70s here by saturday. today, mid-to upper 40s for the afternoon and in the 50s tonight. 41 degrees and back in a few minutes, we will talk about how long this will stick around. reminder that our wusa9 app is a free download. >>> to make a quick buck, some young people might turn to crime. the new program has been created to try to send young people in a different direction. wusa9 explains what community carrot is all abou