worked in the manassas city police department, tracking down child predators. when the police went to arrest him for sex crimes that he had coached at a local hockey team, as the police pulled in, he shot and killed himself. what he went through was completely unacceptable. i'm hoping that he gets a sense of vindication from this. leon: abc 7 reached out to the commonwealth attorney's office to respond to the lawsuit and so far we have not heard back. the teenager is requesting a trial by jury. alison: school pta president is charged with embezzling thousands. 41-year-old was indicted last week in loudoun county, the former president of the creighton corner elementary school pta, accused of and puzzling $13,000 from the organization. leon: 7 on your side with a health alert. we are nearing the unofficial start to summer, which means mosquitoes. tonight, a warning about the mosquito-borne virus zika. the cdc said thousands of people may have inadvertently carried the dangerous virus. tom roussey has what you need to know. tom: a lotta folks came out here in silv

. >>> manassas city police want you to keep an eye out for a suspicious man who made contact with a young girl. police sent us a sketch of the person of interest. let's have a look at it. they say last thursday the man approached a 9-year-old girl outside her apartment on main street. the man is in his 20s, they think. he spoke to the girl for a bit and then left in a van. the 9-year-old was not hurt. police say it's not clear what the man's intentions were but they do want to speak with him. >>> a developing story now, prince william county police are investigating a murder chesapeake drive in dumfries. kristin wright has more on the investigation. >> reporter: police spending much of the morning here at orchard landing apartments. we know one man is dead. police came out around 1:00 this morning, they found a man shot to death. we talked to a woman who lives here just a little while ago. we asked her did she hear anything or see anything. she said, well, yes, in the middle of the night police came to her door knocking and wanted to know what she saw and if she heard anything. so far no

to reveal the cause of a deadly smoke incident on the rail. >>> this is right around manassas over towards the city of fairfax. we have some hail out of the sky, so watch out. if you live around manassas just down to the south or if you're in fairfax county especially around burke or clifton, this sto moving your way.rm guess which airline added more nonstop straight-shot flights hey, d.c., than any other out of reagan national last year? here's a hint. did ya catch it? no? here's another. their colors are yellow, red, and blue, and they save you tons of green. still nothing? that's okay. just go to southwest.com for the answer. on this airline, everybody wins. sfx: clap, clap, ding >>> up here and around the city, dark clouds starting to form over us all because of this storm just down to the south. it's right now the only one in our area, but starting to see some around culpeper county. a lot of lightning around the springfield area along 395 and the beltway and then back down to the south right around this is what's called the hail core here. that's what i'm watching in manassas. very hea

there's the hail down towards dale city and manassas, we will pop some up. penny size hail 6:02 and quarter size at 6:14 and quarter size hail and then golf ball size hail at lake ridge at 6:25. it didn't fall apart and tennis to aquawan and quarter-size hail to the east. that's crazy. to the north we go. this is not as intense but also pretty good hail around rascon and north of rascon and quarter- size hail around wolf trap and tyson corner. severe thunderstorm warning and wolf trap as well. the number of hail reports kind of unusual, no, we can get severe weather in may and june. i can get that but this is impressive in terms of the hail. >> we should remind people if you don't have the wusa9 app, this is a good reason to get it for situations like this. >> yes. we will go to facebook and social media in a minute but right now severe thunderstorm warnings that you should take seriously. not tornado warnings anymore. this is a severe thunderstorm warning for the arlington district and fairfax until 8:15 and more further south to charles, calvert and prince

this includes the city of manassas. here's burke around the clifton right now it looks like it has a little bit of lightning, but also some hail out of this storm. it is moving to the north and east right along 66 here. it is going to move right through the heart of fairfax, fairfax city in the next half hour. severe thunderstorm warning for prince william and fairfax counties. >>> if you've been thinking of asking for a higher credit limit on that credit card, odds are you're going to get it. you'll also get something you may not have expected. susan hogan joins us in the studio with what she's learned. >> we're in that mind-set if we up our credit limit we'll spend more and our credit score is going to tank. as a result, many people don't bother asking. however, a recent survey by bank rate found that almost 8 in 10 credit card holders who do ask for a higher credit limit have been approved. the problem is j have actually requested it. a higher credit limit can also help your credit score. how do you do it? when you c

city and that was taken not long ago. taken at 6:52. when the storm is moving out of manassas and headed toward dale city and woodbridge and i guarantee there is hail in the storm. >> the the 80s. >> yes, it did and to stabilize the weather and we issued the yellow weather alert and it has come to pass. now we have new warnings out. this is a new severe thunderstorm warning in calvert and charles and prince georges and saint mary's. get ready prince frederick and hughesville. this is the tornado warning for la plata and also for most of charles county until 7:30 and about four minutes or so. i'm not sure if they will extend this. i don't see a lot of problem right inside the box. my hunch is if they do a tornado warning it may be further north. we will have to wait and see what is indicated in terms of doppler. we are looking at one heck of a storm in terms of hail. i have never seen together so well. taking the warnings out and zooming back in. this is your hail core in industrial park over 925 and 5. this will move due east. a little bit of a hook and not a crazy hook. there

lorton to triangle as we go out fairfax city closer to manassas, that is where we have heavier showersoming down right now. let's zoom way out. toupper-level low continues spin around basically just on top of the dmz. that creates extra lift in the atmosphere. rain in the forecast tonight and into tomorrow. 10:00 this evening, things the start to break down. by early tomorrow, this is dropped to the south. a few peaks of sunshine. by 12:00, close to lunchtime, shower start a bubble back up. and even that chance for thunderstorms. that low finally starts to move out of here heading tuesday. and that is when we are going to take all of this into the atlantic and we start off tuesday morning more sunshine, 7:00 in the morning, things are looking good. your temperatures close to 80 degrees. so we are going to continue that warming trend throughout the majority of the week. 50's this evening. showers continue. that is we head into tomorrow, we are up to about 69. warmer than it was today, thanks to a little bit of morning sunshine. showers develop around lunchtime and thunderstorms are poss

evening, about 25 minutes from now. 80 downtown. 80 in gaithersburg. 81 in silver spring and manassas and daily cityew leftover showers. all in all, a pretty nice start to the month of june. so day planner looks like this. 70 at 7:00. all of a sudden, we're 80 at 11:00. and back up to 83 at 1:00. and a couple of showers and storms are possible by the midday hour. next seven days. increasing chance on thursday and friday. near 80 thursday. low 80s on friday. back in the mid-80s on saturday. right now, i would make plans for saturday, as opposed to sunday. more storms on sunday. early morning showers on monday. temps monday and da though, holding around 80. >>> the washington nationals have a new aura. a new renewed sense of excitement at the clubhouse this season. they're rolling along. sitting a game ahead of course, atop the n.l. league standings. perhaps that bodes well for the upcoming post season. frank hanrahan has more on tonight's inside pitch. >> we are now past memorial day, obviously. and a lot of baseball experts say if a team is right near or at the top of their division, then it's proba

some of the cities ine the pathath of this stronger line to our south include manassas, burke, west springfieldhe next little while you'll probably hear that rain going on as well.as there was a tornado warning from down around the tap handic area and many reports of trees down there. not as strong in the washingtona d.c. area.area we're not done yet. futu showers after three in the morning. by 8 are you dodging more rain. it will be hit or mis. even into the noon hour, 1:00 still some scattered lighter showers or drizzle.driz not looking like a big thunderstorm day although i wano you to see on the futurecast that there is more sunshine in the sunshine endo a valley.hi you woulned have a better chance of seeing something there. it looks like the clouds will bl tough to break up over our area. it looks like we could see more showers around here on thursday and even into friday.iday over the next 24 hours i'm not thinking this is a lot of rain. maybe a tenth of an inch toinch perhaps a few places getting aet half inch of rain. i'm not sure that that frederick amount will verify.ify. as we get in

manassas. a little south of dale city. see a little heavier activity there. no lightning with it, though. this is going to move off to the east. about dale city at about 6:44. and lorton. but again, very, very light. we're looking at a yellow weather alert. tonight. showers and thunderstorms tonight. mainly west. yellow weather alert tomorrow and friday. and yes, improving slowly over the weekend. it will be okay for mom here in the afternoon. day planners, 50s to start tomorrow. maybe a sprinkle here and there. not much falls in the metro. next seven days. few morning showers on saturday. 65. and a few showers saturday night into sunday morning. cold front goes through. nice for mom in the afternoon. 74 sunday and monday. and look at this, near 80 on spending the day with my niece. that make me smile. i don't use super poligrip for hold, because my dentures fit well. before those little pieces would get in between my dentures and my gum and it was uncomfortable. even well fitting dentures let in food particles. just a few dabs of super poligrip free is clinically proven to seal out more

we are tracking some more right now just south of d.c., the bulk around manassas and fredericksburg to quantico and dale city slow moving. only 10 miles per hour. you can see another area here just around i-81, martinsburg, frederick. most of this rain is going to be wrapping up by midnight tomorrow morning. 49 to 52. we're in the 50s right now to around 60 degrees. tomorrow's high temperature already around 60 too. friday morning rush. look at this. rain chances go way up to about an 80% chance. then we flatten out without any rain or much rain at all the weekend into the early part of next week. as we give you your hourly forecast, here we are at lunchtime tomorrow. a similar day for tomorrow. you'll be able to get by with i friday. in the afternoon, there'll be some scattered showers left around. then it settle down for friday evening. if you have plans to go out, it settles down. 75 for mother's day. early showers, then some nice clearing. upper 60s at 7:00 on mothers day. not a bad sunday at all. saturday, again we start drying out too. the temperature also in the low to mid 70s. we have got a cool week

still 91 in leesburg. 90 in manassas and fredericksburg. 8 is in annapolis. 85 in the city of washington. moisture level creeping up. so it's muggy. the combination is yielding showers and storms. most of the activity west of the metro area now. for the first pitch tonight at nats park at 7:05, again cardinals, the skies are partly cloudy. 84. we can't rule out isolated shower or thunderstorm in the imbah. we are seeing on dap lar radar, we have seen in the past couple of days. most showers and storms that are along and west of 81. some a and woodstock. heavy downpour and lightning. other areas that are trying to flare up over charles county. it's not out of the question. there could be isolated shower and rumble of thunder east of the mountain. that is where most of the activity is and where most will stay. if you didn't get in the pool today, tomorrow is a great day. plenty of sunshine. 87 degrees. muggy, too. good pool weather for sunday and memorial day. the weather may not be so cooperative. if you are heading to the beach, this is what we enjoy the beach weather. 74 and sunshine. p

virginia slow through staffordod and dale city 95 northbound.y 66 is backing up through tou manassasentreville andtrid we're also dealing with slow traffic to sycamore streetto sym from seven. once you get in west fallst ll church. in addition to that marylandyl is slow on 270 south and 50nd 5 inbound.in metro is on time.n good news for you there. back to you. >> thank you erin. t you appreciate it. i >>> coming up, still ahead newhd demands for metro to makes for e repairs coming from themirom federal government.overnm >> also sports junkies join uss live.ve will bryce harper's one game suspension hold up? we're going to be right back. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> 6:30. welcome back to fox5 news morning on a thursday morning. we'll have a sunny weather andcd traffic coming up on the 5son t at 6:35. 6 if you haven't seen tucker and erin tune in. you'll know what i'm talkingng about. >>> first we go to metro.rswe gm the board will discuss newiscu n orders from the fta. f officials saroy metro mustus complete urgent repairs toent rr three critical locations lat before moving a ahead with wit safe trac

sunrise showing indeed we'll have sun, we'll have sun all day long 59 in the city baltimore 58, frederick, 55, dullos, 5, a manassas 54, nothing too bad here. pittsburgh is 52. columbus, a 3. this is what i want to show you, st. louis right now 70 degrees, that's where the heat s it is going to start moving in our direction over the next couple every days. this is future cast this morning. we're gorgeous, we're gorgeous today, sunshine, drier air is coming in on the back side of this exiting low pressure system, finally we get this out of here. it will get a kick. later on this afternoon, if we have a shower, it is going to be super isolated. i think it will be out to the west, tan may try to drift off the mountains, but we're dry, 99.9% of us dry, don't worry about t tomorrow morning again sunshine, tomorrow, sunshine, it will be temperatures will make it up to the middle 80s, as we start getting into thursday, another chance of rain, but look, by the time we get to thursday, friday, we're going to be into a summertime pattern. so you know what that means? calm down, erin, getting excited, basically have great day

city. 36 in gaithersburg. 37 in dulles. that's actually tied a record. 36 manassas. a very cold day with sunshine though. we've seen a very nice af 67 richmond. everybody in our area well below average. we should be around 75. close to ten degrees below that. look what's on the radar. nothing today. nothing tonight. we're going to see another very wet period of rain tomorrow and into the day on wednesday, so here's what you need to know. more rain coming tomorrow. not only the umbrella, but the jacket will remain. temperatures tomorrow will be five to ten degrees cooler than they are right now and it's already on the cool side. better late week. we'll talk about the forecast late thursday and friday. much better conditions and then the weekend. unfortunately, it's right back to this. much more coming up in a minute. >>> i'm jim handly with breaking news here at the live desk. a person is dead after falling nearly 200 feet from a cell phone tower in montgomery county today. chopper 4 over the scene on log house road in damascus here. the tower is on the same property treatment plan. firefighters say they

city. theou decided not to go to beach this weekend, we got a taste of summer closer to d.c. in the district, 90 frederick in leesburg, 88 manassas, and most of us are dry. rainnly place we have right now is pennsylvania, a few showers popping up along the the blue ridge, but closer to the district, blue skies pretty much all day. 6:00,rees this evening at 80 at 8:00. it is a warm and wonderful evening. the rest of the weekend, we are talking about what is now tropical storm bonnie. the latest on that, where she is going, and what it sunday and monday, memorial day, coming up. kimberly: more trouble for metro, at this hour, a fire shut down service near arlington national cemetery this afternoon. say that blues line service is suspended between rosslyn and pentagon city. reported a small fire near the train's wheels. services requested bus to transport stranded passengers. we will bring you the latest updates as soon as they are available. right now is the unofficial start of summer and it has some of us feeling the heat. live in northwest d.c., where fire crews responded to a group of people. they had some heat related emergenci

manassas. and 52 in silver spring. and 53 in bowie. by 91:00, 61 in fairfax, daily city. lunchtime, everyone is around 70.igh and midlevel clouds moving in from the southwest. but still, if you had plans for tomorrow night. you're going to be dry at least through midnight, with temperatures in the low 70s by evening. and even in the 60s by about midnight. but then look what happens. we'll advance future cast all the way to 7:30 on saturday. we go downhill in a hurry. look at the temperatures. mid-50s. rain on the way. all day affair on saturday. so day planner looks like this. let's focus on friday. that's good. temperatures start downtown. 67 by 11:00. and 72 with full sun by 1:00 p.m. there's your yellow weather alert saturday. i'ca i think 58 in may is a cold rain. and left of the showers and thunderstorms sunday. about 70. next seven days. monday, showers, storm possible. same on tuesday and wednesday. better chance on thursday. look at this. we're going back in the mid-80s by wednesday and thursday. and nats in town, starting monday. >>> while bryce harper is on a mission to make baseball fun again t

city to the capital beltway, all lanes of traffic are open. traffic is light on the northbound and southbound side. i-66 from manassaseltway traveling westbound making your way to 81, front royal and gainese

manassas. the works were created by five different classes of high school o the works are on display at city hallhrough monday. >>> a lot of us work some pretty long hours, but millions of people now qualify for getting overtime. how the new plan is sparking some debate and will it effect you? >>> facing the rumor mill. the firefighters who are still mourning a coworkers disappearance and death have a strong message for the community >> we rea.li vo: for dominion, part of delivering affordable energy includes supporting those in our community who need help. our energyshare program does just that, assisting with bill pay and providing free, energy-saving upgrades. it's more than helping customers, it's helping neighbors. ♪ stand by me >>> and as we close out the workweek, we're looking at a mainly dry finish, but rain in the forecast on saturday. coming up, i'll let you know when it moves in and when it moves out of the area. >>> and we're talking about a recall alert. the protective gear that may not be doing its job. >>> millions of folks workov overtime, but they don't get paid for it. the gove

manassas near piper lane boulevard is blocked. >>> a massive fire breaks out under an elevated train track in new york city. and now thousands of people who rely on the metro north line to get into the city are struggling to get there. katherine creag is joining us live with what commuters are facing there. katherine, good morning. >> reporter: aaron, good morning to you. a massive fire is right. an inferno, some people were calling it. it still remains a mess. the fire department of new york and then the huge pile of rubble where a garden center, a nursery, used to be. that is where the fire started. if you take a look above, the tracks and columns are blackened because this was such an intense fire. we have video of the fire. again, the fdny is on the scene here still spraying down and making sure there are no hot slowly over the tracks and metro north service has resumed, just on a limited basis only. and these are thousands of people who rely on metro north. it is a vital rail service for so many people here. the huge fire that broke out during the evening commute was so intense and so hot, giant steel

manassas. nice to the west. to the east, it's been all rain. that rain now finally exiting right around the bay bridge. tht' raining in salisbury and ocean city. this is a cold front that's trying to slide down. it's not moving very fast. a, it is helping to move this out, but, b, it is bringing in some rain. heads up around winchester. there's a storm making its way your way. same thing along i-81. we're going to continue to watch as all of this moisture moves on in. all courtesy of that tropical depression. just continues to bring that moisture up across our region. the next couple of days we're going to see the mixture of clouds, some sunshine. temperatures 70 tomorrow and a chance of showers tomorrow afternoon. most of us should stay on the dry side tomorrow. keep that umbrella handy. 82 on wednesday. another chance of showers on thursday and friday. another chance sunday. not a horrible forecast, but a little bit unsettled. just keep that umbrella handy just in case. >>> we have sports coming up. a wild finish and heartbreak for the terps. >> here's a look at what's ahead on "nightly news." >>> growing outrage and new questions for cinci

manassas, 56 in sterling and 57 in fairfax. by 9:00 a.m. we are back in the 60s. now we are 66 in fredericksburg and dale city and by lunchtime in the upper 70s everywhere. notice it's also warm in hagerstown, 76 and cumberland 77 at 1:00 and then by 6:00 we are still in the upper 70s with generally clear skies. futurecast trying to produce just a couple of spotty showers. i'm going to leave that out of the forecast. i think we have had enough showers in the forecast for a while. you can ignore it. don't plan your day around it. yes, we could have one, not a huge deal. and then tomorrow night, temps only in the 60s downtown. so early thunderstorms and showers tonight, some could be heavy, a few could be severe, then clearing and mild. low temperatures in the 50s, winds out of the northwest at about 10. on the day planner, sune look how fast it warms up. 72 at 11:00 and 77 at 1:00 p.m. so wednesday 88, rather warm, almost hot. i'll confess, i did put this out on social media, i had a fire during the preakness. it was cold. we are going to go from heat to an a.c. needed. thursday isolated storm, 88 degrees. the

manassas through throu centreville no major slowdownsls just yet.stet a look back at our maps. maps. asides from that area where areh volume is increasing you canng u see 95 coming in from dale dal cityowing. slowing. we'll keep you updated and y take a look at that maryland m drive next. back to you in the studio. >> ♪ >> coming up on fox5 newsup on s morning a local union plans to s rally today in hope of restarting contract negotiations. >> and today a number of your neighbors will start n the firsf day of dealer school.l. we're going to explain what that means coming >> meanwhile as we head to break here's a live look lk across the d.c. region.eg time now is 5:26 where it's it' 45 degrees so, yes, it is coldid out there. nonetheless let's get going onn this monday kmv.da fox news back right afterfter this. >> ♪ >> ♪ heyadded more nonstop airline straight-shot flights than any other out of reagan national last year? here's a hint. did ya catch it? no? here's another: their colors are yellow, red, and blue, and they save you tons of green. still nothing? that's okay. just go to southwest.com

heavy from manassas towardss t mount vernon so along that 66 corridor into d.c. and then the along 95 down towards dale d cityou're seeing theou're ng t heaviest of the rain.heie heavy rain this morning will mnw taper off to just some showersho this afternoon but it willfterno s our temperatures right now pretty much where they'rety going the stay in the mid to m t upper 50's. 50's. 58 in washington.ashingto here's the setup for today.oday coastal low pressure system moving in now bringing us heavy rai in.heavyai that will taper off to justo jus showers this afternoon andis a even those showers not goingrs to make it a nice day.. and i expect a lot ofi ex cancellations of any sports s games today, any outdoornyut activities we know there aree ke graduation ceremonies probablyen a wedding or two so good luckooc to everyone battling theseinghe showers. like i said the heaviest is insn the morning. it will be fairly light and some of us will get a break this afternoon. temperatures steady in theus 50's with those clouds. luckily we have some improvement starting tomorrow and the rest of the week finally starting