melanie alnwick joins us live from oakton high school from month more. good morning, l >> we picked oakton high school as central to fairfax country. schools in fairfax are closed as well as stafford and prince william and loudoun county as well. now, virginia is on primary which means that voters when they come here can choose which parties primary they wish to vote in. and polls on at 6:00 this morning. there are 49 rendell gats and 95 democrat delegates up for grabs in virginia and both parties do award them for a proportionately. virginia is seen as indicator of how voting goes in the rest of the nation it's surprise swing state and wins here are strategically important. all candidates made recent stops in virginia. hillary clinton rallied at george mason university yesterday and virginia governor ter ter has been campaigning for her around the state and donald trump rally in roanoke made news for unruliness involving protesters, photographer and secret servic service. now here in virginia voters will need to be driver's license, work i.d.. any form

polls in virginia literally on up one minute ago melanie alnwick nel oakton high school mel, good morning. >> good morning, steve, allison, just as you said a few minutes ago is when the parking lot here started to see a little more traffic. people coming in for that early voting and also to set up for voters. schools in fairfax county and prince william country and loudoun county and spotsylvania county all closed today. fairfax county board of elections does expect pretty large turnout for this super tuesday. and now, virginia is on primary which means that voters here can come into their poling place and ask for i'mer a republican or a democrat ballo ballot. and they do not have to sign that gop loyalty pledge that first had been talked about near virginia in order to vote republican. and there are 49 rendell gats up for grabs and 95 delegate grabs up in virginia and virginia is seen as a big prize here because it's a pretty good indicator of how things may go in the rest of the nation. and and wins here strategically important and all candidates made recent stops in virginia. hillary

one of several recent reports coming from a neighborhood two black bears were also seen crossing oakton road wednesday morning. police say don't panic if you see bears. whitney says she and her husband didn't. >> i wasn't too nervous because i think that they probably would be more scared of us if we ran out there. but certainly wanted to keep our distance. >> that is the best advice from police. keep a rful distance if you do see bears and remove anything from your yard they might view as food to try and keep them away. >> we need to clean up the mess and kind of get rid of the bird seed, but i think once they learn there's nothing here, apparently they probably won't come back. th'l >> reporter: in vienna, jennifer davis, fox 5 local news. >> be careful. >>> coming up, have you told a lie recently? a new survey has revealed the ten most common white lies and you may be surprised at how many you've used. >> it's almost the time to say cheers to the weekend! >> he's going to be showing us how to make carmine's elephant punch. >>> i'm not going to ask you this again. i know you don't tak

earlier this week, two small black bears were seen crossing oakton road. police are warning neighbors to keep a safe distance. they may look really cute, but keep a safe distance rescued from this five acre brush fire in germantown. just as they realized the fire was getting out of control, their next door neighbor a sheriff's deputy was mark of making his way to the door to get them out. >> we just saw all this smoke and then we heard -- we came to this door. >> i was just concerned about my neighbors. >> the couple is doing fine this morning. firefighters were able to put out the fire before it caused major damage to their home. and a similar scene is thn boyd maryland close to little seneca lake. >>> you can head down to the tidal basin this weekend to see the start of the cherry blossom festival. a couple of us here have already been down there and it is amazing. >> meagan fitzgerald at the tidal basin this morning with what is happening this weekend. >> reporter: yes, full bloom indeed and there is a lot planned as mentioned, it is the kif festival. w

. >>> major damage to a large home in the oakton county of fairfax county.moke and flames and more firefighters had to be called in. >>> major dollars going into cancer research. tell but the push by vice prident joe biden today esin but jamie raskin is the only democrat for congress who's authored landmark progressive laws -- marriage equality, equal pay for women, green maryland act, assault weapons ban, and more. >>> nice sunshine out there. if only it hadn't been so windy and the wind is knocking all the cherry blossoms off the trees, amelia. >> unfortunately it is, and we're going to be breezy to windy through sunday, so you're going to be noticing the winds over the next few days. probably not the best idea to put the patio furniture out for the first time this year it will be blowing around. much as the flag is down at union station this evening, you can see it flapping in the wind there. we start to see the winds diminish in about an hour, around 7:30 to 8:00 as the sun goes down. not a cloud in

. >>> sky 9 was over the scene in oakton as firefighters tried to put out flames over this large residence. they discovered the flames in the garage and spread into the house. crews manned long ladders as they fought the fire through the roof. nobody was injured. nobody was at home. >>> day 2 of the compute are attack which crippled two of the biggest computer systems. mallware attacked the system and getting basics like e-mail may take longer to some patients reported canceled appointments and delays when staff tried to write down information on paper >> they got everything on paper, doctors, nurses, staff. it's been a huge inconvenience. >> medstar said tonight that the patients' permanent information was not compromised and parrot safety was not threatened. an fbi source says that the aiming si is investigating the incident as a possible ransomware attack. at least two other systems in the united states have been forced to pay money to redwayne their data. >>> new from the presidential campaign trail. donald trump is defending the actions of his campaign manager, cory lewandowski now ch

crews had a tough time batting a house fire in oakton. windy conditions spanned the flames.you can see the thick white most. the fire spread from outside and then quickly spread to the garage and the at particular. the cause of the fire is undernr investigation. things are back to normal tonight after a shooting at the us cap l toll yesterday. the capital visitors' center reopened today, a day after police say a man pulled out a gun at the center security check point.po sources tell fox5 the weapon wan actually a pellet gun. today there were several suspicion package scarce whichhh proved to be false alarms and security remained high.ne i wasd a little concerned aboutn coming down because we're here from ohio, but you know, you you have to just do what you do. because this is going on becausa there's nothing that you can you really do about it. the suspect, larry dawson wasaws shot by police. he remains in the hospital.. dawson is charged with assault with a deadly weapon and assaulting an officer while armed officials say more charges could be filed. > i mean this from the

there is also a watch party at the campaign office in oakton.secret service is investigating an incident on the campaign trail in virginia. a photographer at a donald trump rally says a secret service agent c ground, after he stepped out of the designated media area. chris morris says he was 18 inches outside of the media pen when the agent grabbed him, sparking the altercation. time magazine says trump is the only presidential candidate who forces media to stay in a pen area- with secret service agents enforcing it. the man accused of killing 2 college students- expected to enter plea agreements this week. jesse matthew will likely accept deals for the murder of hannah graham and morgan harrington. he's already serving life in prison for sex assault and attempted murder in a separate case. matthew may have faced the death penalty in the murder of hannah graham. the pleas will be announced wednesday. it's xx and we're just getting started. today is the day. it's super tuesday and voters are almost ready to head to the polls. we'll break down all

leon: this is from news chopper 7 and crews are battling a fire in oakton. it's on wind song drive if you know the area. no report of injuries from the scene. the early indications is it started outside the home and then spread. alison: now to the capitol. life returns to normal around the capitol. we are learning more today about the man police say entered the visitor with the b.b. gun and was shot by the police. we are digging into that man. larry dawson's past. and we are live with what he found. >> being at the capitol today felt like a regular day. you wouldn't know yesterday that this place was on lockdown. hi had a mission and was on a mission. to raise the minimum wage. larry dawson charged with assault of a deadly weapon. of a police officer while armed. the 66-year-old was shot and taken to the hospital. we in stable but critical condition. according to his web community church where we found the video. he says he is taking a journey to washington, d.c., to push for $15 minimum wage. he then asked for help with the credit card donation. >> the serg

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of several recent reports coming from a residential neighborhood and other areas around the vienna-oakton area. two black bears were also seen wednesday morning and there was a sighting of a bear and cub on wednesday as well. don't panic if you see bears. whitney says she and her husband didn't. >> i wasn't too nervous because i think they would be more scared of us if we ran out there. but certainly wanted to keep our distance. >> that is the best advice from police. keep a respectful distance if you do see bears and remove anything from your yard they might view as food to try keep them away. >> we need to clean up the mess and get rid of bird seed. but i think once they learn there's nothing here apparently they won't come back. >> in vienna, jennifer davis, fox 5 local news. >> don't want to cross paths with a mom ma grizzly out there. >> respectable distance. >> exactly. >> so we've enjoyed what we've had, but you're saying a little bit of change? >> a little bit of change. unfortunately it's happening over the holiday weekend but it's not all bad. don't get too discouraged. let's ta

home in oakton, virginia.oakt you can see the smoke bill owing. this fire are the stayed on theo outside of this house and then it went into the garage and then into the attic. good thing for them no one was home at the time. the fire has now been contained. more than two dozen people do touring inside the washington monument got quite a scare this afternoon. they got stuck for a while afteh the elevator stopped working once again. fox5's teisha lewis is life at the monument grounds with more on this. teisha, what do they have toave say. >>reporter: what we can say is that this has happened several times in ease event years, the elevator malfunking at the washington monument. thankfully in this case there are no injuries to report, butut tens moments for 19 people, visitors and one park ranger. there were nearly two dozen tw people stranded at the top at the observation level when the elevator went down. do everyone was safely evacuated.vu the national park service says it remains a mystery why the elevator stopped working about b halfway up, but

most recent was a black bear and cub earlier this week, two small black bears were seen crossing oakton road. police are warning fabe neighb ka keep a safe dance. >>> if you have plans to head down to the cherry blossom festival, you might need a jacket, but what about the umbrella some amelia segal has that and four things to know about the forecast at 5:31. but jamie raskin is the only democrat for congress who's authored landmark progressive laws -- marriage equality, equal pay for women, green maryland act, assault weapons ban, and more. raskin: i'm jamie raskin, and i approve this message. >>> good morning. i'm aaron gilchrist. >> and i'm erika gonzalez in for eun yang. a few sprinkles out there today. >> and it's only going to be very light in nature. scattered light rain mainly during the morning hours. as we look to the weekend, chilly saturday as well as sunday morning. but we will be dry for the holiday weekend. more rain is possible on monday. here is the latest on the cherry blossoms. peak bloom is now. we will be breez

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live in oakton i'm melanie alnwick, "fox5 local news". >> all right. mel, thaving you very much. >> sunshine out tlut this morning. >> beautiful sun advise. gorgeous day. low 60s for ytime high. first. >> it is chilly early bring a jacket as you head out the doo door. 32 dulles and 20s and call puper this morning, fredericksburg the area. with expected daytime temperatures step above formal by afternoon. at site and radar is not featuring much in the way of cloudyness and have a few in pennsylvania and we should remain generally sunny today. we'll have a few more clouds this afternoon with next cold front which will get in tonigh tonight. we'll have rain showers tomorrow morning's commute. we're have winter weather on our beautiful tuesday. 62 this afternoon and peesy. >> tuck, thank you. get a look at the road this morning. >> 7:307 updated information for you. finger board road 80 shut down in both directions bark mills road. deadly tractor-trailer crash and earlier father cleanup underway. 270 also delayed southbound from 85 to truck scales and 16 m