virginia. you know, newport news area. >> right. >> you're a hometown g you grew up in northern vir virginia. >> i grew up in arlington. after i graduated from high school i went to the naval academy. when you graduate from the naval academy it's certain you'll live in norfolk or sand ago i was a salvage diver in the navy and stationed on salvage ship out of little creek and love virginia all over and it's great to come back up here for while. >> virginia is one of the great things about virginia the diversity in virginia when you look eight from geographic standpoint almost several different states in one here. i know the folks down in southern virginia give you a hard time from being from northern virginia that's very key in an election as well. if you're representing the state you want to relate people in northern virginia to get that big chunk of votes. >> absolutely. i think as everybody sitting here contemplating driving to work i'm the only candidate

that gets atage the bond between lee and the soldiers in the army of northern virginia. the scene alexander chose is corplongstreet's first gets back from tennessee. even longstreet was really glad to be back. he got a dose and thought it was not so bad in virginia after all. divisions, down to 10,000 men. they had 20,000 at gettysburg, there are 10,000 here drawn up in 2 divisions for review. this review took place in mechanicsville. not the mechanicsville in richmond, but the mechanicsville by charlottesville, the spot where longstreet would march through the wilderness on the first of may. i can see the large square gate posts marking where a broad country road led out of it halt oakwood upon an open field. in front and center of our long gray lines. in a well remembered figure of general lee at the head of his staff, he writes between the posts, and comes out upon the knoll and thunders out a salute. the general reigns his horse, head, and weay shout and raise our battle flags, and look back at him. a wave of sentiment that can only come from large crowds in full symp

the most famous historian of the army of northern virginia, wrote of alexander, he was far and away the superior of all others in this arm. he was the best confederate artilleryist. i've made that 4 times. i won't tell you again, but you can file that away. he immediately excelled in his position at he plays the guns in fredericksburg that played such a significant role during the battle of fredericksburg on december 13, 1862. he was the key person on may the third. hazel grove, they key ground that gave the confederates one of the few opportunities during the war to obtain artillery superiority in a major battle. he was in charge of the bombardment in gettysburg on july 3, 1863. he is everywhere in lee's campaign. he is in the first corp, but while half was near suffolk, alexander was with the army. he is with them all through those campaigns. he went to north georgia in september of 1863 with long street's first corp. on all of those fields he functioned as the tactical chief of artillery in james long street's first corp. walton had that position. this was a difficult situation. it m

so it came across northern virginia. it basically missed the district. although we got a little of it and then on down into charles county where it has finally fizzled out tonight. i'm happy to who he you that there's not much left. we may have to deal with a few more storms tomorrow this line of showers and a few embedded thunderstorms will be approaching our area in the form of a frontal boundary tomorrow. that means we may have to look fr a few more storms and guess what it's another hot day. we're dry at eight in the morning, 78, by noon we're hot again, high of 88 and we're looking for thunderstorms after four, 5:00 that may last into the evening. get ready for a big change for the weekend which i'll tell but in a few minutes. tony. fox5 is in the district tonight. tonight community members came together to rally around the family that lost a six year old boy. xavier lucky was hit by a car while crossing livingston road southeast last nievment he was killed. it was his six birthday. fox5 a's lauren demarco in live in southeast where a vigil was held

and the national debate over confederate symbols comes to northern virginia. will a local school named after a confederate general make a change. >> the news at ten starts now. >> ominous clouds, lightening rain, that's what we've been seeing in our skies over our area nievment i'm tony perkins and i'm shawn yancy. now, those storms knocked out power to a little more than 7,000 people in northern virginia. let's get right to sue palka to find out if the storms are behind us. >> it's still going down strong across charles county, but it is weakening a lot. believe it or not. that was one big super cell storm that affected so many areas. we tracked it for several hours and i love h this picture sent to me. it's a time lapse actually of the storm coming through dale city. this is you can see all the structure with it, the boiling clouds. a shelf cloud associated with the very strong storm. look at all a the clouds pulling up into the system and even at the end you begin to see a little l momatus cloud cover. that's pretty rare for our area. more in a moment where

today the focus on northern virginia. are there budget cuts that could be coming down the line that could actually harm some of these anti-gang programs? things like mentoring, after school programs, even sports soccer programs, that are lee lied upon in many northern virginia communities, to keep young people from joining gangs. now, as part of this effort, senator tim kaine, the democrat, former vice president, came here to alexandria today. he had a rounds tablef enforcement, educators, most importantly, people from the communities that are only not only at risk for having young people recruited from, but also, many times, winds up being the victims of these street gangs. and what they heard was this. that there needs to be a comprehensive, one, two, program, for both the federal government and local officials. that it is not enough just to talk tough about border security, and i am graduation enforcement, about you they also have to stand up and keep these kinds of programs that keeps kids out of gangs going. they hea

he admitted the presence of gangs like m-s-13 are growing in northern virginia. kaine also said steps taken in recent years to fight the problem are at risk because of immigration raids. since 2-thousand-14... there have been nine gang-related murders in fairfax county, four in prince william and three in alexandria. disney's new "pirates of the caribbean" movie is one of the most highly anticipated movies of the summer. and real pirates are taking notice. according to several reports-- computer hackers claim to have stolen the movie, and are demanding a ransom for disney. if not-- they will leak it on the internet. walt disney c-e-o is not paying the money, and is working with police to track the hackers down. "pirates of the caribbean: dead men tell no tales," is scheduled for release may 26th. there is much more ahead, at the top of the hour on good morning washington. allegations of the president sharing classified information with russia - and a strong denial from the white house. the fallout - and new reaction overnight. plus - a safetrack shutdown. the fiv

united with the army in northern virginia. the most they could have done was holt sherman at bantam grant. there -- the most they could of done was hold sherman at bay until grant got there. we can differ. again, i admire robert e. lee. up until that point. i am not trying to trash a seven icon. the north had far graver feelings as far as general goes, but my point is that human beings are inherently flawed. only god is perfect. you can admire lee up into the end. i think he made a mistake. having grown up as a poor relation. the young officer who shot beyonce's father did not want -- the officer who did not want her fiance to marry. he had this need to fight to the bitter end. god knows there are all flawed, complex human beings. on the whole, robert e. lee is incredibly admirable. lovettsville, virginia. col. peter: please just call me ralph. retired, i learned one thing -- the members do not care if you are a private or general. they just want you to cut the grass. [laughter] >> ok, well then, ralph. i always thought there

satellite and radar showing high, thin clouds, northern parings of maryland and west virginia. again unless we get to afternoon, sunshine is back in full force. will be a gorgeous spring day. which is what we should have early may. 62, 11 a.m., by 2:00, 6 5:00 this afternoon about 68. couple of clouds come across from time to time mostly sunshine this afternoon. all right that's a check of the forecast, erin como is back with a little look at traffic. >> 4:36 and rights now traffic is looking really nice outside. it's dark and quiet and no problems 295 in the district. 50 down by the hill quiet now getting out and about early and college park beltway looking good and south in virginia coming up from richmond into fredericksburg guy quiet. same story dale city. entire stretch is at speed, questions, erin fox d.c. on twitter, back to you. >> coming up, president trump and russian frump vladimir putin agreed to work together to stop the civil war. >> and enduring fans from fen way park is nothing knew. adam jones just made it national news. >> time now is we're back in a moment. e

that's in northern virginia. when they reached their destination at some point, there was a dispute about the fare. shortly after 3:00 in the morning, between 30-year-old three female passengers who questioned the fare once they arrived here on nasan drive. this was supposed to be the destination, once the passengers said they could not pay, he locked the doors and drove to a nearby business here on mapledale avenue in wood bridge, ignored repeated questions and requests for him to stop. the victims are 22, 29 and 32 years old. during the incident, one of the girls was able to get in touch with a family member. who called police. >> about ten minutes after they called the family member, they were able to to reach up into the front part of the vehicle, unlock the door and jump out of the taxi as it was moving. they actually were able to get out. when they got into a car with a family member they followed until we were able to respond. >> reporter: the neighbors describe said hi and bye to, they were surprised to h

national weather service will try to answer this morning is whether a tornado touched down in northern virginia. that same storm caused series of damage to a mobile home park in frederick county, virginia. officials say no one was hurt but power was knocked out and five or six big trees crashed down. much of the damage centered around the mobile home park outside of winchester. one neighbor told us a falling tree nearly killed him and his family. >> when the hail started, we want inside. i was trying to get everybody from the living room when about a 70 to 100-foot tree fell in our trail right on top of my head where i was standing. thank gosh it did not come through. that inspector told me i was >> a view from sky high tree services worked quickly to allow everyone to get back inside last night. if you have the nbc washington app you probably received a warning that severe weather was headed to northern virginia. make sure you have our app. you can have hour-by-hour forecasts. >>> right now, things are back to normal following a scare at orlando international airport. this is a fake gun and a

, small businessesing, are the economic engine of northern virginia, 60% of the small business owners in northern virginia were foreign born, they're here in this country, working hard but scared to death today, because policies, and they're hurting our economy and i'm not going to stand for it. i talked to the president directly >> the governor went on to say virginia would not to tolerate these actions. >> we're not going to tolerate people being harassed, i do not want to see this woman ripped apart from her family, her husband and her two children because she was driving without a license. >> that infraction he mentioned happened back in 2013. that's when ice say they picked her up. obama granted two stays of deportation. her husband has a work permit and is pursuing green card and her children are u.s. citizens. >>> former naacp chief is running for governor. after the unrest in baltimore following the death of freddie gray. the 44-year-old was the youngest person ever elected to lead the nation's largest civil rights group. he could be running in democratic primary where

that's a huge problem here in northern virginia. areer technical education, yeah, we walk away from it to the harm of a lot of students and to the harm of the economy of virginia. and wow you got a solid plan to reinvigorate the economy and a plan to have government work with business to grow have a rah as opposed to this adversarial relationship developed between private sector and the government. >> see if voters get that message and take that -- >> i'm sure they are. they're catching on right now, steve. we're really excited rider now. >> as you mentioned today is the last day to make sure you register so you can vote in the virginia primary coming up in a couple of weeks. senator thanks for joining us this morning. >> thanks, steve. appreciate it. >> also have been talk wig every candidate for governor of virginia a j here in the loft on fox5 news morning.& 7:00 arthritic. let's check in with talker barnes. >> ♪ >> steve, thanks. cloud cover, rain showers early this morning not make the commute a whole lot of fun and i definitely

peeks at northern virginia and district as well. st.rge's county in mid to late afternoon hours. scattered showers and clear out overnight. weather having low impact tomorrow. exercise, t-shirt or long sleeves if you get chilly easily. yard work, i was on facebook live earlier, people wanting to cut the grass. showers possible, damp but okay. farmer's market, breezy. ten-day forecast. 60 on monday, near 70 on wednesday and thursday but low 50s with rain in the forecast. >> i don't know about wanting to cut the grass. needing it probably. >> all the rain. >> right now keep celebrating the caps. shook up >> moved ovi to >>> all right. chris miles here from csn. >> but first go to carol with the big caps win. carol? >> reporter: winning verizon center. been two weeks a a day. we all know it was game seven for the caps, win or go home. do or die. the caps do. the stars do what they do, shine. made all the difference. sidney crosby five. looking to end the series. good start. karl haag lund finished holtby. scored first and win the series --

and this video i'm side a northern virginia super market. a local woman caught on tape insulting a muslim woman. maybe you need to get some help. the woman sees the cellphone taping her, but even that doesn't quell her rant. it's hard for our brains to be cognitive and emotional at the same time. the woman was ramped up in that moment. i'm sure later she thought oh, my god, what have i done? that person was clearly videotaping me, why didn't i stop. metro is in the midst of a budget crisis. we all know that. the transit agency plans to race some fairs, cut some service. tonight transit met in mupt. just retired washington columnist dr. grid long was there as a guest. we talked to him about the effect this new plan will have on rider. there's nothing particularly good in the metro budget for rider. it's a particularly insulting blend of service cutbacks and fair increases this year. it's not like this is the first time that's happened. it has happened before, but it basically also contributes to a decline in metro ridership and the depressing

. >> now it comes after a multi-agency sting in northern virginia led to arrest of eight men accused of sol soliciting sex from kids online. melanie alnwick is live in fairfax with what kids need to know, mel. >> well, guys, perhaps one of the most disturbing things about this story is that fairfax county police say it really is not that hard to find predators online and they say both boys and girls are equally targeted. and these arrests were the result of a three-someday operation involving fairfax country investigatetors and loudoun country investigators and the fbi. police say they don't want to get too specific about their tactics and they didn't want to tell us specifically where they wer they were active on social media sites and chat rooms and other web sites where they go online and they pose as mi minors. fairfax country police tell us the inappropriate context meaning explicit messages and images start almost as soon as investigators go online. >> this type of owe dependence is per vase every and crosses all boundaries, you know, international boundaries. doesn't know soci

fredericksburg through the northern neck of virginia where the severe thunderstorm warnings continue. give you a big screen look at things here. stands out. the lightning and the energy with the system in king george's county where severe warning is in effect along the potomac. close store the metro north and west. there are areas of the showers and the thunderstorms. we monitor those. this is the area that is running across the northern neck. across potomac to st. mary's shortly with rain and lightning. there are showers reston south of leesburg. a developing thunderstorm there. no overall watches for the area. just the idea that has the cold front comes in the area in the next few hours we will continue to have the areas of the showers and the thunderstorms. that will calm down overnight as the air turns cooler. the winds turn north. that will set the stage for a cool weekend. we have the weekend forecast and the ten-day outlook in 15 minutes. >> thank you. in tennessee, devastating floods. the water rising even this school bus was caught off-guard. all the students escaped unharmed

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we'll keep you updated on the two issues there in northern virginia. >> melissa, thank you. >>> we know commuting around our area isn't easy, but did you know leaving a few minutes earlier could get you to work earlier. we're calling this transportation week. >>> school security guard back behind bars. what he's accused of doing with a 17-year-old. >>> remember to join us for the ellen degeneres show. collin >>> my c taking public transportation it's 2 hours versus 2 knaff hours. >> trying to get from point a to b has been a nightmare. >> you heard it. this morning we are beginning a transportation week here on nbc 4 where we give you pro tips on how to improve your commute. >> here's an easy one to start with. did you ever think about leaving the house a little bit earlier? our transportation reporter adam tuss shows us it can make a huge difference. >> reporter: everybody wants an easier way to get to work. here's something to think about. what if you started your commute 10 minutes earlier? how much of an impact would that have. let's go around the region. beltway outer loop near lan

about 50 volunteers from the district, northern virginia, and west virginia came out today.ut in the area, cleaning up litter that accumulated in the areas for years. >> well, we've seen a lot of things, you know, tires, and pieces of trash that people have been throwing away for years, so, we love to find that. the more we do, the better outcome we have. >> we all end joy the work. the d.c. department of energy rein environment in the cleanup effort. >>> crews in the district trying to prevent an stench from permeating the city. they will start spraying the trees. left untreated, the fruit gives off a really bad odor. it starts in ward 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1. there are no other female trees in the other two wards. spraying starts at 9:00 p.m. until 6:00 in the morning for the next few nights weather permitted. >> smells better, the hotter it is outside. >> yeah, that's one way to put it. >> it's even worse. >> yeah. >> oh, my gosh. it's awful. >> speaking of, we have weather to talk about over the next 24 hours. >> tomorrow is a storm team 4 weather alert day. there's a line of

in fact, northern virginia, d.c. saw it yesterday and even though up to the north near baltimore where i live we didn't get any rain, we had a lot of lightning and thunder so big storm yesterday. we could do a couple more today. satellite and radar showing very quiet to start. we'll have a a lot of sunshine here for the first part of the day and it's also very warm, humid and stick keep start. 72 degrees your current number in washington. it's 70 in manassas, 71 for quantico. annapolis good morning 73 for you. 72 in leonardtown so again know jacket needed as you head out the door this morning. kind of last day of the heat 91 degrees, mostly sunny skies through the first half of the day. then we'll start to see some clouds and some thunderstorms coming into the forecast as we head through the afternoon. west wind should get us into the 90's one more time before 70's return for the weekend and they're sticking around. we don't have anymore 90's in the forecast. we'll show you that full seven day coming up in about 10 m

this type of addiction and overdose, on a dangerous rise here in northern virginia. such a search that alexandria launched a year-long investigation, concluding with a huge drug bust that seized more than 400 grams of heroin and disrupted a drug trafficking network that has pushed nearly $1 million on virginia streets. the devastating epidemic is to blame for nearly 200 fatal overdoses in northern virginia last year. >> as business leaders, when you are reviewing your health plans annually,usiness check to make sure that there are treatment services that are part of those plans. so, we all have a role to play in this. john: increase of physicians who mistreat or miss prescribe drugs to their patients. the attorney general wants better education, better enforcement, and safeguard legislation. as for the drug ring, police nabbed 11 people, arrested them, and they are currently being prosecuted here in alexandria. john gonzalez, abc seven news. lindsey: coming up on abc seven news at noon, the skies of california are blanketed with fire and smoke. find out what caused t

notice where we are seeing it, all of northern virginia under the gun. look inside the beltway coming into the beltway very heavy rain around springfield. and then in towards the district over the n we continue to see the rain moving in and wider picture showing what is coming next. we have our big storm to the west and this has to swing through before we can get out of this. commuter forecast tomorrow showers early tomorrow. expect a slow commute. a chance of storms tomorrow afternoon. i will update you on the chance of storms and what this means for the memorial holiday. >>> we are watching the race for open u.s. house seat in montana that has turned physical. a reporter is claiming that a candidate running for the job, quote, body slammed him tonight. claiming guardian reporter was being overly aggressive. first this audio, conversation recorded by the reporter and posted online. >> waiting to make a >> talk to you about that later. >> i'm sick and tired of you guys. last time you did the same thing. get the hell out of here. >> video of that alterica

there is a lot more activity to our south and west over northern virginia that will be coming through later on tonight. areas getting the heavy downpours until 7:30 this is causing ponding of water and localized street flooding so be careful as you drive tonight. right now it's cool and damp and philadelphia 63 degrees down from a high of 68 and another cool day, south jersey and delaware saw sunshine breaking into the 70s there and the poise 54 and allentown 62. satellite 6 along with action radar showing that we have waves of rain, this morning for the morning commute. the steady rain happening and a triple point low across northern virginia and this is moving through as we head through the evening hours. future tracker 6 showing the next batch currently over d.c. moving into south jersey and delaware at 7:30 with heavy downpours and winds and by 11:00 we are on the air it's lifting across the lehigh valley and north of trenton and some clouds are lingering into tomorrow morning, generally tomorrow it's a pretty nice day a nice kickoff for the holiday weekend. the low pressure is ki

. >>> a sting in northern virginia nabbed several men accused of trying to lawyer children online. what officials want parents to know so it doesn't happen to your son or daughter. >>> the fallout after video shot inside a grocery store goes viral. what a man has to say about the tense encounter. >>> and the introducing the fios gigabit connection with download speeds up to 940 megs that are 20x faster and more powerful than most people have. incredibly, it's $79.99 a month for one year. comcast charges you $89.99 for a triple play that only offers 200 mgs speeds. switch to the most powerful internet at the most revolutionary price. get fios gigabit connection for $79.99 a month and we'll give you tv, hbo for one year and multi-room dvr service for 2 years all with a 2 year agreement. so act fast. go to fiosgigabit.com >>> a taxi driver is facing charges he abducted thehis ride when they couldn't pay his charges. he was in an argument with three customers over fares when they say they couldn't pay he locked the doors and drove away from the member and they followed the taxi and she

this video i'm side a northern virginia supermarketment a local woman caught on tape insulting a woman on her religion. she sees the cellphone taping her, but even that doesn't calm her rant. the woman was ranting and very ramped up in that moment. i'm sure later she thought oh, my god, what have i done. that person was clearly de me. why didn't i stop. so if we break down that video, it's been shared just from the original source 7.6 million times in p two hours. do the simple math, roughly 106,000 times off the top of my head. s 1,306,000 viewers an hour. everybody that is pushing that content out, that is what makes a video viral. it's amazing to me that some things like that go viral and some other things -- i think people try to make some videos go viral. absolutely. you never know one why ising going to go viral. >> there are agencies who specialize who determine what goes viral and what doesn't and then companies like that pepsi ad use those same tactics know what people want to see or what >> you push the buttons and the next thing you know, you're viral. >> very interesting. >

. >> and texas may be going up in one northern virginia town. why? >> we made a mistake. >> your news starts right now. >> all right. here we go tonight. get ready for yes, sir, even more wet weather. thanks for joining us this friday night i'm shawn yancy. >> i'm tony perkins. >> there's a showers could make for stoingy saturday. gwen a few moments ago with you hear the rain on the roof coming down hard in northwest. >> radar gives you that indication and rain is moving its way up the i 95 corridor over the beltway and we're seeing pocket heavy rainfall as well with it. let's get to radar and show you the big picture, folks, because the system continues to affect us across the entire area. and few dry slots here. we have had quite a day today with storms starting earlier this morning. and tonight, once again another round of. it you can see here hev yeringt est here if you look you see bright reds and yellows and that's heavy rainfall coming through there. so far not much in the form of lightning but i'm noing not going to rule it out. we seen a iso

a dozen stores are in northern virginia and this grocery store had four big prize winners each.tery spokesperson. any stores can be lucky. >> reporter: says the stores that cash the most winning tickets often just sell more tickets than other places. he still knows lotto players are always looking for a perceived edge. they are going to see a trend whether it is part of the game or not. >> statistically when you look at the odds every ticket at every store has exactly the same probability of winning. >> if you would like to see a list of stores that sold the most winners in northern virginia go to our nbc washington app and search lucky lottery. >> i'm searching right now. >> a loaf of bread and a lottery >>. >> what is the strategy? >> there is none. >> what is the strategy for the cold tonight? >> the second guy came today and fixed it right up. it is a cool night tonight. temperatures are going to fall well below average. it is not nearly as cold as last night. we got down to 36 in dulles. that was a record. 56 degrees right now. winds out of the south at 7 miles per hour. lo

. >>> developing here at home a northern virginia community trying to come together to stand up to hate after racist flyers showed up in their naind. >> now some residents in the alexandria community reresponding with own messages of hope. >> live in del ray with more, mel. >> reporter: good mornings, guys, you can see here these messages, neighbors posted them after those raceest and citizen owe phobic flyers were taken down and messages here only positive. police say the flier that showed newspaper del ray and old town over the weekend were hateful towards muslims and african americans and tell us they're the same kind of flyers posted in college around the country including here in d.c. and maryland. we at "fox5" blurred out the name and web site dprup that created these postsers and a george town professor owe confronted them at his gym months aago. neighbors and family and friends are fightsing with messages of inclusion those good polingtsers and positive messages and say they hope people who feel the same they do, will do even more. >> make friends with minority communities that

in northern virginia, this is a great dog park, you can just let your dog run wild off the leash.pretty quiet right now, but let me tell you it will get more packed later today. temperatures may continue to follow a few more degrees, but look at this forecast, ample at 80ne, noon topping out degrees. sunny, dogs will be happy, they have a creek so that the dogs can play and they will want to do that tomorrow through friday. it will be getting hot and humid, but this is a great time of year to remind people with your pets that you are taking good care of them, lots of water. let me tell you, what a great forecast for today. i am sure that you have got plans for outside with eagle bailey? number one, make sure your dogs can swim, they are not all retrievers outer loop, branch avenue accident activity at the strike safety zone, all lanes open headed northbound from 295. clinton,coming out of getting word of a crash on 301 near shortcut road. 395, you have to ask why the goose crossed the road. to get to the other side? him, but ing for don't see it. maybe he made it successfully. we

age in northern virginia this afternoon. sue palka begins our team coverage with the very latest. we're still hanging onto some s they're not severe but they sure are persistent and long lived. they developed on what was the ghost today on the outflow boundaries by the little cold fronts that get left behind. in a way they were seated. as we look at everything in motion we were getting some good rain coming across the beltway with lit evening. we've had heavier activity just down toward mount vernon, dale city you're going to be getting on this. this moves through fairfax county and prips william county. also seeing not just the first round but likely another couple of rounds still heading in your direction as this seems to be swinging more to the southeast now and straggling behind we have one loan storm to the southwest of warrington north of remmington. that has left over showers through prince george's county have been into northern portions of anne arrundel north of annapolis. very busy for this late at night especially with the lightening showing up. \rain\reign\ should be g

. >>> covering northern virginia this morning, there is a search for a man who is accused of grabbing a woman on a bike path. the loudoun county sheriff's office said the woman was talking near tall cedars parkway and edgewater street in chantilly around noon when the man grabbed her. this is a composite sketch of the man. there's the photo. a composite sketch, police believe he was driving a silver honda sincivic. >>> these suspects are behind an armed robbery. at the st. mary's shopping center. an hour and a half later, deputies received a call that the same men robbed a. cab driver at gunpoint. if you recognize the men in the surveillance, call the sheriff's office. >>> so, what you see happening here is the transformation of an old metro railcar. the retired 4,000 series car is now being turned into a retail kiosk outside of the rose vener-strathmore metro station. this is a test for food and retail stores. >>> it's above a mystery, cicadas are emerging on an unscompepgtu unexpected schedule. do you know what cicadas are? they're really loud and ugly. no thanks. they could be taki

z2c5qz z16fz y2c5qy y16fy >> a local school board effort to rename a northern virginia high school isming under 2350eur under fire. back in 2015 a group of jeb stewart high schoolers tried to rename the school because it was named after a general and they say it was a history of racism. exmails show fairfax county school board members may have held discussions of changing name in school in secret and that would ultimately cost taxpayers 1 million they were concerned conversations would be foyable you can get this through foya they were cog distant of people looking into this this is before we requested officials plan to weigh the pros and cons. >> the free ride is over for those that work in washington and park at the national mall. staring next month paid parking only along streedz and parking lots that right now are free this includes along constitution and parking lots along the tidal basin. rates will be $2 from 7:00 in the morning until 8 p.m. and weekends and holidays include sdmrd knowing parking peters will start occurring here it's a bum are i understand why but it will mack

we are live here in northern virginia with news 4. back to you. >> great to hear that story. >>> starting tomorrow, a big parking change goes into effect in the district. it has to do with those red capped meters. for a while, anyone could park at those meters in the central business district as long as they paid. but all of that changes tomorrow. starting monday, only drivers with a disabled placard can use those spaces, that includes the areas around the capital, national mall, white house, streets as far west as george washington circle to the north. if you park there and you don't have that placard, you get a 250 buck fine. >>> caps fans riding high after beating the penguins last night. >> the caps are now down three games to two. we have a look at the big celebration. >> if you didn't know the outcome from last night's game, all you had to do was walk down here downtown and you hear the chants just like that. the capitals taking the big win and, folks, as you can see, they were all excited, rocking the red as they walked out of

breaking news now out of northern virginia where crews have just put out a fire at a town house in lorton. >> justin finch arrived on the scene. what do you see now? >> reporter: hey there, eun. good morning. no injuries to report in this fire. the hall that caught fire is behind us. 8500 block, that home is still smoking that upper level. that crime tape spans three town homes here. we understand this did reach an adjoining home. residents are going to be displaced as a result. we are hearing on scene that the people who live in the center home do not appear to have been home when the fire broke out. those two families in those two homes are likely going to be misplaced for quite a while. fairfax county fire rescue remaining here putting water on hot spots and keeping an eye on the fire for potential problems. they're continuing to put out this fire and making sure it does not flare-up. at this point we have no reports of any injuries. i'm justin finch, news 4. >> thank you, justin. >> no means no. no means no. >> reporter: more than a year afterun university students marched protesting

controversy in northern virginia. a video from trader joe's is going viral. >> angie goff is in the newsroom with a confrontation a lot of people are going to be talking about here, angie. >> this is a confrontation about religion, aaron and eun. take a listen. >> i was born here. >> obama's not in office anymore. >> well, you heard the one woman saying there's not a muslim in there anymore. the woman who recorded this claims the incident started after she let a woman wearing a head covering cut in line. it's unclear what happened before the recording and what happened afterwards. this at the trader joes in reston. the clerk who was ringing up the items. >> i saw her face. i knew she was upset. i could tell by the look in her eyes. she looked like she was tearing up a little. >> the cashier offered to carry the woman's bags to her car because he was worried the situation would escalate into the parking lot. he said both women drove away. that's the latest from the newsroom. eun, back to you. >> angie, thank you. >>> a

go to getfios.com >> the man suspected in a string of stabbings in northern virginia in 2010 has confessedded to a cold case murder in leesburg. ally as abu ella sam told police he stabbed his neighbor yaim i lane to death inside his home in 2009. >> it just really hurt me because him and jamie stood outside and talked and laughed and kept each other in the yard brought me piece and closure. it's what i've been looking for for the last eight years. >> elementary what al buy disam is already facing or already serving a life sentence for murdering five people during a murdering spree in flint michigan in order to get his confession prosecutors had to agree to not prosecute him for the murder. they are satisfied knowing he is serving a life sentence. >> you've done this before. >> i didn't do we have an update now on the maryland family that posted these controversial videos on youtube pranking their children the father temporarily lost custody of two of his children today, a judge granted the children's biological mother an emergency request for custody. fox5's teisha lewis joins u

yes, speaking of sunshine there was some it showed dawn for this northern virginia fan.tell you all about the big surprise they got when we come back. >> and how about a pizza doughnut? >> really. >> yeah. savory combo on the brainchild of jeffrey lamberty. describes the idea as something that came to him in a dream. >> looks like a bagel. >> it's mozzarella cheese tomato sauce an fine crust. he says the treat is very popular with customers. >> bring it on. narrator: "the time is always right to do what is right. ralph northam. army doctor during the gulf war. volunteer director of a pediatric hospice. progressive democrat. in the senate, he passed the smoking ban in restaurants, stopped the transvaginal ultrasound anti-choice law, and stood up to the nra. as lieutenant governor, dr. northam is fighting to expand access to affordable healthcare. ralph northam believes in making progress every day. and he won't let donald trump stop us. >> and here's a couple things you missed. fox5 exclusive updated numbers on just how many teachers and staffers being investigated for ab

more breaking news playing out in northern virginia.ou were police opening fire and shooting a teenager in manassas. john gonzalez went to the scene. john, what our police telling you? the 18-year-old who was shot by police early this morning, shot by manassas city police, remains in the hospital suffering serious injuries. it all ended here at the memorial park in manassas in prince william county just outside the city limits. you can see there is an unmarked police crewuiser. take a look at all the evidence markers that gives you an indication of how many shots were fired. then you have the black suv. that is a vehicle that was driven by this 18-year-old. it all started with reports of shots fired at around 12:40 this morning. ma them, arrived and located the vehicle they believe was connected to the shots fired. and they tried to stop the car but the 18-year-old did not stop your it was a police chase, and again, it ended inside the park. police saying that the 18-year-old did have a weapon and at least two of those officers opened f

mostly in through northern virginia and maryland. d.c., eastward, you might stay mostly dry, a few showers around d.c. so if you're going to be out this evening, with you. here comes the heaviest rain. that's the spin, bringing in all the moisture off the gulf, in the atlantic, into the region overnight and into tomorrow morning. let's time it out for you. but first, show you the temperatures. look at the temperatures here. 46, buffalo, 48 indianapolis, 63 lexington, 53 in st. louis. you think it has cool air? most of the eastern part of the nation, much cooler as a result of this storm. that's how big it is. this is just an hour away. seeing the rain around 10:00, mo mostly west of 95. and then early tomorrow morning, everybody in on the action. that's moderate to heavy rain for the morning commute. here's 6:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m., 8:00 in the morning, still dealing with the rain. you could run into big problems on the going to clear in the nchaftern. but possible showers, maybe a rumble of thunder. if we get any sun, that will help to

hen it comes to ms13 in montgomery county in the northern virginia, d.c.in this region, i know personally i was reporting on this more than a decade ago. is the problem getting better? is it get getting worse? whereo were we stand. >> i think one of things we see we had very big enforcement effort back about tepp years ago as was quite dormant but obviously was more quiet and we also see politically in central america there was more cooperation between the government and a truce between the gangs, and that since has been the governments down in central america have taken more hard line that put more pressure on the american affiliates of the gang of the increased activity and what's most alarming to myself and when i talked to my counterparts in the region and across the united states it's the number of homicides we're seeing and the brutal nature in which they're being committed. >> unfortunate until includes in montgomery county where you are. you talked about the government obviously we have heard from this administration more recently. new administrati

those of that you live in northern virginia you saw what happened yesterday.rong storms today. there we are at 3 o'clock with the heat and humidity in the afternoon. that's when will things start to bubble up and we have a chance of it remaining through the evening hours as well. hit and miss. not everybody will see them but there's at least that chance that some marginal risk of severe storms later this afternoon. your weekend looks pretty good. much cooler than today. highs tomorrow only 74 degrees but the mix of clouds and sun, more clouds than sun on sunday with a high of only 73 degrees t so again much cooler weekend coming our way after 90's today. all right, that's a check of the forecast. erin i'll send it back over to you for traffic. >> 4:47 on friday morning, mike on northbound 210 still shut down. a deadly hit-and-run at farmington road down in accokeek in prince george's county has things shut down. all new york lanes blocked now. southbound traffic is getting by. use caution on the northbound side s be prepared to detour. we'll let you know if an

northern virginia may a leader when it comes to the self-driving car revolution. >> this story got -- would you ride in a driverless car? we want you to weigh in on this on the washington flash survey. so far more than half of you say no and you don't want them on the streets either. there's still time for you to weigh in on this. go to the nbc washington facebook page. >> all week they're going sugar-free. it looks as if some folks, sugary sabotage going on behind the scenes. they came into work to find cupcakes waiting for them at their desk. who could do deed. it just kicked up a notch. >> starbucks has been celebrating spring by rolling out all kinds of new frappuccinos with every color under the sun. >> and of course they're all packed with sugar. last month it was the unicorn frappuccino that filled our gram feeds and then there was the dragon frappuccino. so this week there's something new. the pink and purple and green colored mermaid frappuccino. it's a vanilla bean base blended with freeze dried blackberries and drifld with a toasted coconut sauce. it's not on the menu but

2015 investigation by the i-team caught an admitted cigarette smuggler in the act, and that northern virginia man will spend a full year behind bars. scott macfarlane joins us to explain. >> this was a crime partly captured on video by the news4 steven chen of fredericksburg admitted buying bulk churches of tobacco at big box warehouse stores throughout northern virginia and then reselling them illegally for profit. those cigarettes were trafficked to pennsylvania and new jersey to be illegally sold again, according to federal prosecutors. in those purchases at the big box stores, tens of thousands of dollars of cigarettes at a time. prosecutors cited the news4 i-team investigation in federal court to put him in prison, and that's where he is, in morgantown, west virginia, until mid 2018. wendy? >> thank you, scott. >>> the parents of an infant found dead last christmas in the district are facing felony murder charges. police arrested them earlier today after officers found 7-week-old tiffany in the medical examiner ruled the case a homicide last month, saying the baby died from mal nutrition

you can see it's really coming into northern virginia now. here's the storm back to the west.nother storm way up here. that's bringing a frontal boundary and high pressure. that's actually a cold front bringing down much cooler air. 92 philadelphia. 56 in buffalo. that cool air will slide into our region tomorrow. 72 tomorrow, after a high of 92 today. lots of clouds, isolated showers may be possible during the day, but not expecting many. and again, i still think all of our games will get played tomorrow, your soccer softball games, if you have a game, you'll be playing tomorrow. 69 sunday, really cool, breezy. chance of a storm on monday, and cool with more shower chances in the middle of next week. we'll continue to track the storms. >> we know you will. thank you, doug. >>> flames ripped through a home in college park and the timing for one of the students who lives there couldn't be worse. >> my cord, my medals, my graduation dress also now was burned in the fire. >> that student we talked with was not at home at the time. this evening she says she's thankful to be alive