for that we go to jennifer davis. she is in fair oaks, virginia. >> reporter: hi there, guys. well, it is piling up. you can take a look here and see we have a lot more snow. it's a combination of what the plows are throwing on to this area and what is falling as well. big kudos to residents. they certainly listened to the warnings, not one car on the road. this is route 50 and it is quiet. so lots of room for the plows to do their job. vdot says more than 4,000 plows are on the roads doing 12-hour shifts. they're out on the major highways, they're also in your neighborhoods trying to get ahead of the storm before things get really bad. no question the way the snow is falling now, it's combined with wind, it's bitterly cold, it's much more brutal out here. it's difficult conditions for anyone who has to work, that includes first responders. there is a police and fire station here and if you look at some video, we saw them leave earlier heading out on calls and of course the hard work that the crews are doing. we talked to one driver it is hard for them to find gas right now. a

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jennifer davis joins us with the story. >> reporter: police released images of seven people of interest in this aggravated assault. it left the store clerk with eight stitches in his head. police released more than two minutes of surveillance video taken about 8:30 in the evening on tuesday. it shows several people of interest coming and going from mike's market. at one point three of the men attempted to steal candy from the front counter. the clerk tells them to put the items back. on the video you can see him help grab a baseball bat and lock the store door. the three complied with his request and he let them leave. but he returned with others, assaulted the clerk kicking and hitting him on his head and body. we spoke with that clerk. he says he went to the hospital after the attack and needed eight stitches on his head. he still has bruises on his arms too. he says the store regularly deals with kids coming in to grab chips and candy and it is an ongoing problem. his store is not alone, this is just a latest in a string of incidents allegedly at the hands of a large group of teens.

fox5's jennifer davis iss is live at the shaw howard how university metro station with the very latestn this story. jennifer, good morning. >> reporter: good morning,ood m, wisdom. this is certainly starting toail look like a trend and a troubling one at that.one as you mentioned after yetft another violent attack on a metro train at the hands of hds teens this one happened on a train that was approaching w app this stop the shaw howardhaw hod university station. now, the mother of ao 15-year-old boy is sharing herrh story with fox5.ox5. she says her son and two ofnd to his friends were randomly rando attacked and badly beaten b while riding a metro train onngt new year's day. this is the third knownthe thd k assault on a metro train in trai recent days. d the woman says her son and twood friends were the victims of of this unexpected and unprovokedve attack by eight unknownnown teenagers. she says the train came to a stop at the howard universityrde metro station as the teens t were left battered and bleeding. they had been on their way to the mall and they ended up at children's nati

jennifer davis joins us live lie from noma-gallaudet metro m stop in northeast with the wit t late heave on the efforts.n tt >>> jenny, good morning to morng you. >> reporter: good morning tor: you guys. g ou, we're talking about threeg b known ast saults on metro trainn in recent days.ay then there was a december 21stb rush hour attack here at this ti noma station.noma stati a man had his jaw broken. bro he got a concussion after a robbery attempt.em and then of course there wasrstr the terribly sad situation sti about that american universityny recent graduate who wasduatwa stabbed to death on the trainran here.re. now, a lot of this crime is creating a lot of concernf conce among riders and so thehe guardian angels, the localheoc d.c. chapter says they've been s asked to step in tayo help. hel now, d.c. metro officials sayicy when you look at this year compared to other years, itothe has been relatively safe.y s but the d.c. guardian angels ang say they are going to step in to help with patrols to try and deter violence, to try and keep the peace. the they say they've been asked by

. >> jennifer davis is live in fairfax. she's near fair oaks. jen, you have been there for the past two days. are conditions improving, staying the same or getting worse? >> reporter: i think they're improving. my face doesn't hurt so much. i'm not getting wind blasted. we still have the snow blowing around, but it does not feel as bad as it has, even just a few hours ago. you know, when you stop and ask yourself so what have i done in the last 24 hours, i'm not sure anyone is going to have accomplished as much as this owner of this gas station. check this out single handedly the owner of the briar's oak gas station has plowed the lot and take a look. this is a pretty impressive display of his work. not to mention that he has remained open for the last 24 hours and still has gas, which is not something that a lot of gas stations around the area can say. now just on the other side of this gas station there's a police and fire station. they also have been working so very hard. we have been seeing crews head out with lights and sirens even a few ho

jennifer davis is live in fair oaks. jen, it looks like the road crews in your area have been doing a good job of trying to keep those roads cleaned off. >> reporter: they're doing a pretty amazing job. we just saw another maybe four go through and we can see pavement once again which is pretty incredible here on route 50 considering how much has fallen. but you know, no cars on the road really for the last couple of hours. very few at least. so the crews really have free reign as they come through here and it is making a difference. te are keeping up with the storm out here. it's still a really dry snow at this point. so it's not wet, it's not real heavy. it's probably easy for them to move around at this point as well so that is certainly working in their favor. the question is what's going to happen as we head past or into the early morning hours. i think that's when it gets tricky. vdot certainly concerned about that, that there are going to be times when there's white-out conditions and they may have to ask their cr

. >> let's check in with jennifer davis. you've had a great spot all not long. you've been able to see the plow trucks as they go by, we've seen ambulances get stuck, regular cars get stuck. >> i'm happy to report last live shot of the day and it stopped. another reason not to head out yet, gas is really hard to find, people tell us. a lot of stations are out and they are closed. so just one more reason on you need to stay off the roads. plow drivers tell us it is treacherous. he says he has seen plows left on the side of the road. we've seen three cars get stuck in the intersection right here at route 50 and fair ridge road in the last hour. so vdot says stay off the roads. they really need to do their work tomorrow. take a look at some photos we have. vdot did tweet a photo tonight, a fuel tanker flipped over on i-66. a reminder what can go wrong and we have some photos, one of the ambulances at station 20, just on the other side of the gas station here headed out on one of many calls today. headed right into route 50 and got stuck. it took eight very strong h

store worker but now police says they've identified several ofnt those attackers and fox5'sox5' jennifer davis live tonight with those details. >> reporter: hi there, jim a lot of talk lately about violeno incidents and assaults by groups of teens.ee police tell us today here at a headquarters they've made ahey'a break in one of those cases andd they've done it thanks to thes help of family members. mbe now take a look at some of thisi video. you can see this is the video v that mpd released last week on o friday the surveillance cameraea images showing what police described as seven people ofven interest.tere now, folks in that neighborhoodn told us these were neighborhoodo kids.ki they understood them to be aboue high school age.. now, police say they were hopine that the community could helpldl them identify these young peoplo who can be seen first trying to steal candy from mike's marketat in northeast back in december. e late december. then you can see them assaultint the clerk when he tries to stopo them.them at one point on the video youe v can see them take a baseball bal he was using

fox5's jennifer davis is live at the noma-gallaudetgallau station now with more. m good morning. >> reporter: good morning tong you guys.you g let's talk about this seriesri of incidents.of inc three known assaults oidn metroo trains in recent days. day there was a man who ended upp way concussion and a broken bro jaw after he was assaulted atsat this station on a train back b in december in an attemptedemed robbery. and then of course there wasrofe that former americanca university graduate, recent rec american university graduate who was stabbed to death on abeo train also at this station. that was back in july. obviously assaults, theselt sorts of crimes raisingof c concerns. now metro officials say overall 2015 was a pretty safets year compared to others.ompad th they also say they have about a 500 sworn officers that are patrolling the system someystese includes 91 stations butons beginning this weekends they're going to get some helpeh from the d.c. chapter of theaptt guardian angels.ng that's a nonprofit volunteerteer group of crime patrollers andats they s

like this gas station may be finally shutting down, but nonetheless, look, we can see our own jennifer davisi don't think we're going to jen yet, are we, guys, since she's there? >> she heard us mention fair oaks. >> we will come back to you in a little bit. >> jim, we got you there, since you're there. tell us, what's going on out there in fair oaks? >> all right, let's, let me show you what's happening. there is some real hard at work people here. and i have to say, as most people are home, staying warm, think of the folks who don't have that luxury, people like the owner of this gas station, and it is hard worker here, he's been shoveling, salting, the owner just came by, with a plow to make sure that people who are out and about and need gas are able to get it. there is a fire and police station just on the other side here of the briar oaks exxon station. we saw an emergency crew head out with lights and sirens, short time ago. and then we're not far from fair oaks hospital, stalked to a man, staying at one of the nurse in the surgical department, says there are 30 doctors, nurses, emt's

jennifer davis up there is snow. i see no cars behind you. it looks like they're getting the roads clear. but things not back to normal. news. the snow has stopped. there were time that's this past weekend it didn't feel like it was going to. now, the big dig. approximate whole new host of challenges. i'm standing in northern virginia. the good news is they do have major roads like this plowed. and so the most important part is for the plow. you saw the plow go by. they don't want regular cars on them yet. main roads are good. secondary roads still a mess. sidewalks. let's not talk about that. this is what's happening when the plows go by 10 feel or taller on the sidewalks. we have no item how the kids are going to walk to school. heading into the work week tomorrow. not really going to be a work week for the beginning of this week. federal government closed. state local governments closed. schools closed. they need another day to tackle some of this. the truth is we will problem probably need more into the week to tackle the problems. >> sno

fox 5's jennifer davis joins us with the story. >> police are releasing not one, but two but images of 7 people of interest in this crime. the man they attacked told me tonight he thought they appeared to be in high school. that would make this yet another violent incident in the city involving a large group of teenagers. >> police released more than two minutes of surveillance video taken about 8:30 in the evening on tuesday, december 29th. it shows 7 people of interest coming and going from mike's market. at one point police say three of the men attempted to steal candy from the front counter. the clerk tells them to put the items back. on the video you can see him grab a baseball bat and lock the store door. they returned with others and assaulted the clerk, kicking and hitting him around his head and body. we spoke with that clerk who asked us to conceal his identity. he says he went to the hospital after the attack and needed eight stitches on his head. he still has breezes on his arms too. he says the store regularly deals with kids coming in trying to grab chips and candy and th

jennifer davis at the stadium. we'll check in with her in a few minute for the pregame hype.ins don't have same luck as powerball hope fumz. no one hit all the numbers. and the jackpot is estimated to top more than a billion dollar dollars. well, it is another big week in baltimore. prosecutors plan to proceed with jury selection tomorrow in the trial of oversees ar gdson and they don't know if their key witness officer william porter will be forced to testify. helping us sort out the legal issues prosecutor and legal analyst debbie friend to our show. thank you for joining thus morning. >> good morning. >> i'm fascinated by this from what i'm reading what's been going on, there it's unprecedented. >> as far as william porter. >> it was porter. what the state should have done as far as porter they should have offered him transactional immunity full and complete which would have meant they would not have proceeded dependence this trial which is now scheduled for june 6, i believe, and he would have been able to testify freely in the case against the most serious defendant offi

jennifer davis has the story. >> i ride it every day.o i go to work and then for me i came here today by metro. >> it's been tough. my experience the red line issue the other day, i was extremely frustrated myself and there's a number of things we're going to be doing as a result of that. >> paul we'dfeld talking about personally experiencing the facts of rail problems that affect the reed line last week and new gm giving metropolitan washington council of governments an assessment of all the problems he became aware of since taking the job. he spent the month of december talking to riders and hearing their fruingt races everything from malfunctioning elevators and escalators and train and rail problems delays and public safety concern. he says employees are embarrassed the system not performing well and he feels that too. >> there's a feeling of lack of ability to do the basic service that we should be delivering. and poor communication. lack of transparency and unfortunately as mentioned earlier there's a fear out there for personal sa

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fox5's jennifer davis with moree on this story.>reporter: there has been a lot of talk lately about a string of violent incidents involving teens in the city and police tell us today they got a break-in one of those cases andd that break came from familyami members of the young suspect. you may remember the r surveillance video, mpd released it on friday. it shows seven people of interest, described by folks ini the neighborhood as high scullers. police say first the youngoung people tried to steel canned did from the market in lateate december. and then they can be seen onen this video assaulting the clerk when they tried to stop them. at one point they tried to take a baseball bat that the clerkhe was trying to protect himselfsef with and they took that, too. he required eight stitches inn his head police hoped the community would respond totot video and tell them who thehe suspects were, but in the end id was family that brought three oe the seven into the station today turning them in to be questioned. police praised that famil

. >> jennifer davis is in fairfax county. she has some images of fire trucks out there. and was actually witnessed an ambulance get stuck in the snow a little bit earlier. tell us what you've got now. >> reporter: hi, i just want you to know i'm here but i'm stepping away because i want you to see this pickup truck in the middle of the intersection here on route 50. he's been spinning his wheels there for a few minutes. i think he's finally just pulling out and getting on his way. he was stuck there for quite a while. he's the second car in the last five minutes that we've watched get stuck in this very spot. so we want people to know it is treacherous out there and i know you're probably sick and tired of hearing us say it. but clearly you can see they just fishtailed a little bit there. the roads are not ready for cars yet. they just are not ready for you and you need to give the crews some time. here comes a plow right now two plows actually. the storm seems to be just subsiding here in fairfax. we had to look under the street lights to tell there's so much snow blowi

jennifer davis was there and she joins us with the story. >> reporter: paul became the general manager november 30th. he admits he is aware of some problems firsthand and he says he has been getting an earful from others about both the individual and systemic troubles that they are dealing with on the rails. >> i ride it every day. so about to work and through meetings. i came here today by metro. it's been tough. my experience the red line issue the other day. i was extremely frustrated myself. and there's a number of things that we're going to be doing as a result of that. >> reporter: talking about personally experiencing the effects of rail problems that plagued the red line last week. the new wmata gm also given an assessment of all the problems he's become aware of since taking this job about six weeks ago. he says he spent the month of december talking with riders and hearing their frustrations from everything from malfunctioning escalators and elevators to train and rail problems, delays and public safety concerns. he says employees are embarrassed the system isn't performing w

jennifer davis live with theav latest for us this morning. u good morning,s jennifer. jni >> reporter: good morning to you guys. this is the third known assault on a metroe train inini recent days.ay once again, it involves iol teenagers as the alleged assailants and metro did not release information about thisft until we called and startedta asking questions.uestio. now, this one happened on adn train that was headed here towards the shaw howard university station.ty we know about it because the bae mother of a 15-year-old boy isos sharing the story with fox5. f she says her son and two of t o his friends were randomly ranml attacked and badly beaten bea while riding metro on newro o year's day.'s day and she says this happened atape the hands of eight teenagers tna that her son and his friends frn did not know.d no she said the train they wereinhe on came to a stop at thehe shaw-howard stop and the teens were left battered andnd bleeding. they had been on their way ton the mall and ended uonp ated u children's national medicaled center instead.ad >> three of them sai

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