fox5's lindsay watts is working this one ton lindsay. >>reporter: shawn and tony sprint customers should definitely know that this is still ongoing right now. i was just talking to firefighters here chevy chase who say this issue has meant someone has had to man the phones at the station instead of relying on 911 dispatchers. throughout the day this has been a major problem and tonight some sprint customers are furious with the way the company has handled it but it took hours and hours for them to put out an alert. it started last night with an underground transformer fire on 18th and l streets. sprint says this is what impacted cell service today. causing some customers to get a busy signal when they dialed out, including to 911. law enforcement took to social media to warn people. as for sprint, at around noon the company posted on facebook and twitter that there may be landline issues but said nothing abou hours went by. i.e. mailed sprint and posted to their facebook asking why there was no update and only after that, about an hour l

"fox5" lindsay watts starts us off from palmer park, lindsay. >> shawn, tony, what we heard from investigators in prince george county today is that this young rapper was basically ambushed early yesterday morning. he was at a party at his apartment complex and stepped outside with his girlfriend and that's when police say two groups of men converged on him. there may have been four to five shooters. as police are searching for the suspects we spoke to swipey's mother today. she is hourp mourning him along with others from the dmv that new and loved this young man for his music♪ >> he graduated couple lady and graduated from high school in 16 and took all his money and to make songs and do his stuff. from christmas nonallowance to everything. he's a good boy. he don't want to he was on the vehicle of being the next hot artest out of d.c. and labels calling it is sad. >> all he did was go to school and do his music. >> it really hit home for he it was hard to do that story this morning. you're talking about a guy that really came up the ranks through wpgc started with dmv spotlight and went to

in rockville, lindsay watts, "fox5 local news". >> all right. let's take a turn to weather and take a live look outside. beautiful evening this evening it's a bit hot out there and squen joins us now. squen we were talking earlier about the pools closing down and in a couple months we are talking about snow instead. >> everybody tell matt don't say that word. >> i'm from floor i would like the heat any day. >> are you a cold person. >> i'm from canada believe it or not i don't like the cold. i like the heat but not the cold. >> that's important. >> telling people snow. >> that's owls always fun. >> we don't have show in the forecast but #unwanted house guest we know what that s. humidity. right? >> sneaking back in. yes, that's right, i do one of the ones i throw out s. low 90s all three parents and we broke a record or tied a record at dulles and not so today and it's still a hot one and temperatures should really be only in the upper 80s. well, a far cry from that and humidity a little bit of a break today. that is going to soon change however

lindsay watts was on top of the story.y. there was some thought that theh water would not even be back on tonight. >>reporter: that on was thes thought here today at this apartment billion dollar angina these houses stretching down the block. they were left bone dry and ind the heat and humidity. last night into day. luckily the water did come on around 6:30 tonight.to the pipe that burst was under ground here. partunde of the reason why it tk so long to restore the water was because there was a huge water on top of it. they had to call the d.c. waterr company to take down the tree and then drill down to get to the pipe.e. go on last night, today. thats minnesota avenue were shut hundred and people were watchinh this from their homes wonderingg when am i going to have water again.aga we was very inconvenienced. we couldn't wash dishes.s. we were thinking when we wake up it would be on and it's not objection to the form they actually told my daughter thatah it might not be on until monday. we have water and we were drinking t

lindsay watts is life at the headquarters in reston with everything you need to know. >>reporter: we are expectingeci there will be more earthquakes. we don't know when and how large. we could get one tomorrow. it could be a thousand yearsrs before we get another one. you just don't know. you do need to be ready. this is video from inside the washington monument five years ago. imagine being at the top when tp the shaking started. people obviously rushing to get outside. you may remember that after this, the monument was shutdown for three years and we've continued to see sporadic closures like one is happeningen right now. issues with the elevator means the monument is closed throughcs the especially of this month. they now believe the effects of the earthquake had a greater impact on the elevator system than they originally believed.ie while we were out at the monument weal about what they would do if thef were caught in a quake today. >> i would go in a door frame or something like that.. > that's what i've alwaysve a heard, too, go to a door frame. i know there are

"fox5" lindsay watts was first to report the cause today. shee joins us live with the latest information, lindsey d. c dispatcher inside this building where saturday night a worker inadvertently took down the 911 service for an hour and a half. he was trying to turn off an alarm for a water leak when obviously he made a major mistake what's more though this reveal that backup plan that should have kicked in didn't work in emergency seconds matter and people calling 9 late saturday to sunday could not get through we did not have major ings dense thuring this time. .> >> we later found out it was human error on part of maintenance contractor. >> was he not trained or paying attention why would he not dot right thing. >> there's a large investigation going on into exactly how it happened and what training the individual had to be trained to be here and receive clearance to get into the room. >> even with the worker's mistake 911 calls shoe have been auto matt engly rerouted to the backup center expecting that everyone in the room jumped into th

fox's lindsay watts has beenas following this alarminglar situation. lindsay, wees the latest.sa >>reporter: not only,y custome, but even a law enforcementnfor source i spoke to today says sprint seems to be not only ignoring, but even denying such a serious safety problem. throughout the day and right now sprint users around our region trying to call 911 to report a e fire or some other kind of emergency keep getting a busy signal. tonight sprint is finally acknowledging there is a problem, but it took hours andur some prompting. it started last night with an underground transformer fire on 18th and l streets. sprint says this is what impacted cell service today. causing some customers to get a out, including to 911.o law enforcement took to social media to warn people. w >> as for sprint they posted on facebook that there might be landline issues, but saidut nothing about wireless or 911 calls. hours went by. i asked why there was no updatet only after that about an hour later did sprint finally send an alert adding customer safety ane security is a t

"fox5" lindsay watts is live at police headquarters with more on that story. lindsay. >> sarah, laura, investigators here are saying this young man was ambushed early yesterday morning. there was a party going on at the apartment complex where they lived and he stepped outside with his girlfriend and that's when police say two groups of men and there may have been four to five begunmen. as police try to track down the suspects, we talked to swipey's mother today. she's mourning for her son along with so many all around the dmv who knew and loved him for his music. >> he graduated cum lade graduated from high school at 16. he took all his money to make songs and do his stuff. from christmas money to allowance to everything. he's a good boy. he didn't want to hurt nobody. >> you don't love me no more♪ hi to kick in the door♪ >> he was really on the verge of being the next hot outside of d.c.. labels calling. it's like it's sad. >> all he did was go to school and do his mu >>♪ it really hit home for me. it was hard to dot story this morning. you're talking about a

to make matters worse this also police and fire.fire lindsay watts has been coveringn this story.th she is life in the district with more. lindsay. >>reporter: tone initial as yon know,it this is not the first te we have been talking about 9 # t issues in the dmv this summer. last month montgomery countyth m system went down and then earlier this month sprint was having issues with its servicets and it prevented customers from calling out. so this does really make youyou think about how reliable is 911 when you could have issues with your own personal phone or thero could be a system outage like we saw over the weekend.he since then we have been askingig d.c. officials what they are doing to make sure somethingu like this doesn't happen again. for one they are now staffing two 911 dispatch centers. this center right here near howard university is typically not staffed with coaltars. it's only used as a backup center, but for now there are dispatchers inside around thee clock. as we mentioned, when that main 911 dispatch center went down over the weekend, the center at video, calls were

fox5's lindsay watts with more. >>reporter: the 7/eleven has/ee been closed for much of the and what we have been seeingeen tonight is people who saw the crime tape here earlier comingal back to find out what happened. this parking lot has been filleb in the hours that we've been out here. there are a lot of regularegu customers who are devastatedevas that this clerk was shot and killed. 31 year old tyler oh wall a had only moved here from nigeria air few months ago, but this wasas clearly a man who made a reel impact on the people he met only briefly. i'm just thankful to know that i knew who he was and that god had given me the gift that he will come across my path because heea was such a genuine, kind person. > such heart felt words from a woman who only knew odd wall idw from seeing him as she got her r coffee every morning. she was one of those who saw this crime scene earlier today.d it was just before dawn when police say a man tried to rob t the store here on brandywine road and ended up killing odd wall i w

need your help to identify a it happened this morning in a store in clinton.nton here's fox5's lindsay watts wits the very latest. lindsay. >>reporter: gym and lauren we've learned that it was a clerk at this 7/eleven who was murdered by a robber h this h morning. police have cleared out of here but the store is still closed. you can see the parking lot isis blocked off by crime tape. what happened inside those doors is especially devastating to this community because this is i the kind of store where people know the employees. in the sort time we've been outt here i've talked to severaleral people who were familiar with the 31 year old man who was killed here this morning. i also talked with a clerk at the gas station next door. he was in tears when i was first speaking to him. he says heknows it could haveld been his store. i don't know what to do. i'm weeping in my heart much it's sad.it's the guy had a family. you know what i'm saying. their family for a couple a hundred dollars, they're not the going to get too ever out of it. it's a 7/eleven. it's not like they're robbing a bank or not

and "fox5" lindsay watts is live with more on this problem and a closer look at the damage. say. >> matt, luckily the trooper was not inside the car at the time of the crash and he was out with the driver who he had initially pulled over. you can see this damage where the alleged drunk driver slammed into the side of this car and took out the back tire and this is not the only squad car on the lotam exact same way. >> reporter: you make contact with someone you don't know what is in the vehicle and harm it can do you as well and we have to worry about on coming traffic as well and you don't know whether you could be struck. >> possibility of scenes like this are a concern for all first responders and especially maryland state patrol after what happened lately. this dui crash early saturday on i 270. >> thank god our super was not inside the vehicle he would have been injured. >> two days before sky fox was overhead after montgomery police car was hit during an investigation and trooper responded and that car was hit, too, luckily no serious injuries. >> and yet again a state

. >> fox5 lindsay watts with the latest. lindsay? >> reporter: tropical smoothie here closed for the night, the chairs are stacked, the doors are locked but even earlier when it was open it was very quiet out here. the owner of this franchise location tells me that his business has been cut in half. ever since the virginia department of health announced frozen strawberries from egypt, used at this location, and others around our region, will likely linked to outbreak of hepatitis-a. that was a week ago, it was on august 19th, the health department put out that alert. but listen now to when the ceo of tropical smoothie said he found out about this. >> on august 5th the us about a potential link between frozen strawberries from egypt. we voluntarily and immediately removed all of those strawberries from all of our cafes. >> and that two weeks that went by is specially important, because after you have been exposed to hepatitis-a, you have about 14 days to get a vaccine, and potentially keep yourself from getting sick. so i asked the he

live in southeast lindsay watts. fox local news looking for a driver that hit and killed an eld already i pedestrian in rest inand investigators released a description of a car of interest in this case. and "fox5" anjali hemphill joins us from the scene with details on this anjali how horrible. >> reporter: it s. it s we are learning that the victim in this case a 76-year-old woman only lived a couple hundred feet from where she was hit and killed at the busy intersection and it always stop intersection off north shore drive and now 24 hours and police still have no suspect in this case but a driver they want to talk to that was seen on surveillance taken by this nearby gas station at the time of the accident. we can't show it to you now. a look in the screen on the foreground are the pumps and back of screen is north shore drive with cars driving by in. it you can see at one point a black sedan pulling out of the parking -- shopping september area cross the street and that's the car of interest that police are looki

lindsay watts has more from that 911 call and the shocking statement from the baby's mother in court. >> my name is kareem brown. i am calling for my girlfriends. >> okay. >> oh, give it mouth to mouth. >> the man on the line seems frantic. >> the baby is six months. let me do it. >> is it male or female? >> female. >> she is not awake? >> yes, she is still breathing. >> investigators say kareem bryant's concern for his girlfriend's babe. >> i yes, i think she caught a seizure. >> oh, you think she had a seizure? >> his confusion about what happened is all an act. violent past offender high on synthetic marijuana when he shook the child when his girlfriends was in the shower. >> this case again leaves us speechless in a lot of ways. but it has to be domestic, parents, all parents, must do better job of protecting children. >> the state's attorney general for prince georges county announced bryant will spent 12 years in prison after taking a plea deal. she says the baby's mother spoke at the sentencing. her as shocking as this horrific crime. >> she wanted to thank him. she wanted to r

fox5's lindsay watts joins uss now.now.clear how these guys can be sanctioned.d >> reporter: lauren and jim, anm what exact system going to too them? could they be banned froo the 2020 olympics? could ryann lochte and banned from competine indefinitely? these are thingsg that could happen. hpen. the exact words from the head of the u.s.o. c were, furtherurer action is but he didn't say what it mightt be. this weekend we're also hearingi more from lochte.rom lote for the first time he wept one t brazilian tv to apologize.. >> i take full responsibilityibt and i just want the people off brazil to know how truly sorry i am, because i'm embarrassed.raed i'm embarrassed for myself, foro my family and for my country. um, it was -- i was highly inn n tock indicated and it was, i'm human. i made is mistake.ta >> reporter: lochte saying notin only was he drunk when then incident went down in rio butiot also when he first talked abouta it when he said in a tv interview that he and the otherh swimmers were held up and robbeb in rio. r

lindsay watts. new at 11, police looking forkig the person who shot and killed an off duty firefighter. the firefighter was with a family member. he was taken to the hospital foh treatment and is expected to survive. the shooter was on a plague ande white motor vehicle.ite they want to hear from you ifu you happened to witness that happened. > tear t imac cullive at it again. he will announce monday he has restored the voting rights of 13,000 felons.s. just last month the state supreme court they struck downsu his standing order to. they later ruled that mchughive over stepped his authority when he took the action instead ofted making it on a case-by-casese basis. he is doing that restoring the voting rights one at a time. time to take a life look outside right now not a mad day and it turned into a meet ionize evening as well. tomorrow a different day.y. we're keeping a very close eyese on what could be some strongong storms for our area.a. here's a look at this cold front that's going to be a weat

fox5's lindsay watts is live in arlington with the very latest, lindsey? >> sean, even before the chairs were stacked, light turned off here at this tropical smoothie cafe, it was quiet here today. the owner of this franchise says his business has been slice in the half. ever since the virginia department of health announced that frozen strawberries from egypt used here and other tropical smoothie locations around our area were likely to blame for outbreak of hepatitis-a. that alert came out a week ago, on august 19th. but, listen to when the ceo hearsays he first found out about it. >> on august 5th, the virginia department of health contacted us about potential link between hepatitis-a cases and frozen strawberries from egypt. we voluntarily and removed all of the strawberries from all by from august 5th to august 19th, is specially important, because once expose today hep-a you have 14 days to get a vaccine, and help keep yourself from getting sick. so i asked the department of health why the delay. and what they're saying is that when they contacted th

matters worse this also impacted commission by policey o and fire.and > this is being covered by lindsay watts and she's life in the district with more today. >>reporter: this is not thet first time we have been talkingn about 9 # # issues in the dmv this summer. you may remember last month montgomery countyr system's wens down and then earlier this month sprint was having trouble with its service preventing customers from calling for help.p. so it does make you think about how reliable is could be technical issues withes your phone or with the system overall like what we saw this weekend. we have been asking district officials what they are doing now to make sure nothing likee this ever happens again.hap and for one they are now staffing two 911 distich centers. this center near howard university is not typically staffed with dispatchers and used only as a backup center. but for now there are call takes inside this building around theb clock. as we evenings innedui ar when e main 911 center went down on sat, this center that you're looking at in the video calls were not rerouted to the backup

fox5's lindsay watts visited the us geological services today in reston and has everything you need to know. >>reporter: we are expecting there will be more just don't know when and wee don't know how large. we could get one tomorrow. it could be a thousand years before we get another one.ne. we just don't know. > you do need to be ready and you never know just where you might be. this is video from inside thehe washington monument five years ago. imagine being at the top when te the shaking started. people obviously rushing to get outside. you may remember that afterfte this, the monument was shutdown for three years and we've continued to see sporadic closures like one is happening right now, issues with thehe elevator means the monument iss closed through the end of this month. the national park service told me today they now believe the effects of the earthquake had a greater impact on the elevator system than they originally believed. while we were out at the monument we talked to peopleo about what they would do if thef were caught in a quake today. i would go in like a door fram

outside for secondors and that's when he was shot andt killed.ll his producer spoke to our fox5's lindsay wattst night and and told her that swipey had a lot of ambition hadn't worked andke performed with big names in the business.business. >> he just was a genius when itt came to putting lyrics togethert and sometimes when he used to d it i be like where did he get that from? and it was like juss was a god gift thing from him.. but he was humble. >> reporter: your reactionea when you found out what happened ?? >> my stomach balled up in a knot. i envision for him to beonor h successful torque get his get h parents and them from out of the poverty, also, he wan fireman.re so i asked him, he said i really wanted to be fireman and i just took on rapping another skill. l >> reporter: now investigators don't believe the three t homicides that took place in the county over the weekend are are connected.nn but if you have any information you are urged to call police. live in prince george's countyy this morning anjali hemly hillil fox5 local news. >> police in prince george's county are looking for t

fox5 lindsey watts is live at the us gee logical survey. everything you need to know, hey, lindsay. >> reporter: hey, laura, sarah, well, something i learned today is that the earthquake here five years ago was felt by more people than any earthquake in us history. and we have a visual here. courtesy of usgs. take a look at this huge area impacted, stretching out to the midwest, and just for comparison, take a look at this similar size in california. you can see felt by significantly fewer people. and until that is because the rocks out west are better able to absorb energy. the question now, could this happen again? we asked an expert here. >> an active size. we are expecting there would be more earthquakes. we just don't know when and we don't know how large. we could get one tomorrow. it could be a thousand years before we get another one. we just don't know. >> reporter: so you have to be ready, and of course you never know just where you might be. you are looking at video from inside the washington monument five years ago. just imagine being at the top when the shaking started