sarah simmons is live with the details and rider reaction. >> reporter: i'm here in dupont circle. there's quite a bit of activity at the metro here in dupont. this is part of the general manager's new safe track plan that we have been talking about. he came up with a few weeks ago. that's going to be just the beginning. midnight closure on weekends and throughout the entire week. here's the thing. the city doesn't shut down at midnight. take a look over here. you can see we still have activity. people walking around. taxis and everything. those will be in dire need soon. jack evans spoke about the need to cut back on the metro hour. >> it's a tough one and i recognize that but we need track time. there's no if, and's or buts and we were getting 19 hours a week of repair, that doesn't work. >> reporter: people are going to have to plan ahead. that's what we were hearing from riders earlier. that these ride services like uber, lyft and all the taxis are going to have a lot of business. take a listen to what some of the others had to say about how they're going to work around the shu

fox5's sarah simmons starts us off tonight, a big night, sarah. >> yes, tony and shawn. donald trump's candidacy wasn't taken seriously for months. now he is the republican nominee not long after ted cruz announced he is suspending his campaign. cruz vowed to stay into the primary raise until june, but the delegate made it clear to the cruz camp it was time to go. trump still needs 200 delegates to formally secure the nomination, but crus' decision to secure the campaign pretty much clears the path. here's what ted cruz and donald trump had to say after the results came in. i've said that i would continue on as long as there was a viable path to victory. tonight i'm sorry to say. foreclosed. > i don't know if he likes me or if he doesn't like me, but he is one hell of a competitor. he is a tough, smart guy. (applause). and he has got an amazing future. > the republican national committee chair stated on twitter that the party needs to unite and focus on beating hillary clinton. and speaking of democratic presidential candidate bernie sanders beating clinton in the indian

sarah simmons, fox5 local news. i know that the information is slowly trickling in.did police give anymore information about drape error what they've learned about his background? >> not at this time. they're still in the early stages of the investigation and we're hoping to learn more perhaps in the next few days along with the medical examiner's report. hopefully we'll be able to learn more about him as well. > so am unanswered questions there. sarah simmons, thank you. > well, fox5 viewer sent us video of a person walking right up to his home and stealing some packages right off of his door step. juan sand develop moved into this montgomeryville age just seven monthsing ament he wanted to protect his family so he got an app for his phone called cuba. the app is attached to security camera. there you see the guy come up, grab the packages, run back to a car and pool off. here's how the app works. when someone comes close to the property he ge phone. sand develop says he was having lunch yesterday when his phone signaled him. i opened the application and i saw the g

. >> as we head to the weekend, people are starting to plan, sar sarah simmons. sarah. >> they're going to have the figure out and plan where they're going to go on friday or saturday. really think about it. it could really add up. in cost. because the metro is going to be shut down. starting at midnight. as you mentioned, a lot of people do stay out past especially in the city. it's part of the safe track plan we've heard metro talk about the general manager paul weidefeld unveiling there's going to be a lot of work. you see taxis and ubers all around. the thing is everybody knows many problems metro has had and how many issues we have had to deal with. we talked with dc councilman jack evans earlier and he spoke about the need for the cutback time. >> it's a tough one and i recognize that but we need track time. there's no, metro is a flawed system. we were getting 19 hours a week of repair, that just doesn't work. >> reporter: we spoke with metro riders a little bit earlier. it was a little bit busier. we got interesting reactions how they were going to deal wi

si sarah simmons is life where it happened. sarah, what details do you have for us tonight.porter: police won't telltl us exactly which apartmenthich building it happened in.happ as you can see behind us theretr are actually quite a few buildings up and along here. it's the 14,000 block of castle l boulevard. montgomery county police tell us the 16 year old was able to keeo her wits about her and give police a description of the suspect. let's take a now. the suspect is described as a blackmail in his early 30s, approximately five foot nine toe five feet ten and weighing about 200 pounds. he has short hair and a breed and we has last seen wearing a teal and black shirt shirt and blue jeans and booths. police say the 16 year old was trying to enter her apartment h building when the suspect askedp the victim to hold the door for him. once inside the suspect tried ti strike up a conversation. she noticed he was acting suspicionly and did the first thing that came to her mind andd she took out her cellphone and actually pretended to be in a conversation with the phone uppn to he

. >> i'm sarah simmons in for shawn. without access to metro rail during the busy holiday weekend. plan. >> reporter: tony and sarah talk about bad timing all of this o going into the holiday weekend, a friendship, he asks what is going on with metro now. construction, more of the same but you know we're all used to it i can tell you whose not used to it tourists. ♪ >> reporter: even though itthou could be anything but for tourist coming into the nationsn capital this memorial day weekend. construction on the metro railhe continues that means service adjustmentss on all six lines. >> how are people going to get around? >> reporter: we have the sameame question the family visiting from new jersey.y. metro says even though the vienna, dunn loring will beorin closed this weekends, even though there will be no orange line trains this weekends silver line will run. most likely they'll know. >> i have no idea. we know because we live here what abou lt people coming into town. >> yeah, that would have been really bad.ha >> reporter: thankfully they rented a car but for the masses who will

sarah simmons joins us with a race to the white house. >> let's start with republican side presumetive party nominee trump making a list to replace scalia. it's an presidential candidate. trump is trying to earn support of skeptical republicans. the list contains several prominent wings. trump also met with kengry kissinger in manhattan something maybey hopefuls of the past have done looking for advice on foreign policy from gop elder statesman on world affairs and this comes one day after trump said he's on to speaking with north korea dictator. >> our president gets nothing from search a conference kim young un tets prop gand ahe'll use for years. >> that may be trued based on mathematics that democratic convention in philadelphia would be a real donny brook what everyone thought the republican convenience would be. >> as trump looks ahead to november election hillary clinton is trying to do the same and her opponent won't go away. bernie sanders won the oregon main your a last night and kentucky and hillary clinton has a small lead only needing 100 delegates to seal the deal with no

. >> sarah simmons is here with the zoo's explanation. >> reporter: a large gorilla looming over a youngoy in the cincinnati so after he fell into the encloser crawled into it rather. the boy was in it for about 12 minutes panicked onlookers shouted stay wall. it appeared the gorilla was carrying for the boy but the gorilla was also seen dragginging him through the shallow moat. a lot of blame being put on the parents. a witness saw the boy fall say she heard him say he wanted to get in the water the mother was with several other children and told him no. people are outraged. change.org petitions circulation asking for the so and child protective services to hold the parents responsible. the so chose not to chatties the parents. they say it was adult and sad day for them they had no choice than to kill the gorilla believing the boy was in danger. >> what was at that time today to keep conservation and so it's a big lost. naturally we did not take the shooting lightly. but that child's life was in danger. >> reporter: here's what some of you had to say on our facebook page about this stor

sarah simmons in for shawn. >> we' i'm tony perkins what everybody wants to know how is the memorial day weekend weather going. >>> gwen tolbert is in the wet sent to get us started. >>> today was hot sticky and humid. let's take a look at the radar we did have a few storms that popped up to our far west things are finally changing. go to our maps you'll see most of that has really diminished a lot. we have a little bit of rainfall that's still wrinkling ring through to north and northwest other than that things are starting to calm down. and the temperatures right now still warm outside. 79 degrees at dull wills 76 dc. 77 south of fredericksburg 68 degrees at win chest. going to continue to be hot, sticky and humid. southerly flow continuing. so night partly cloudy skies with all the humidity. once we get into ready saturday feels like summer. sunday and monday a chance of some unsettled weather. we're going to have all those details coming up, tony. >> metro crews will be hard at work this holiday weekend making repairs. long wait times for you if you are riding the rails. fox 5 ti

. >> and i'm sarah simmons in for shawn. >> we begin with the fright ep ago tack on mannasas virginia family and police say burglars broke into their home on king george drive and bound and gagged women and children inside. the details. >>> you spoke to the neighborhood that called for help. >> that's right and that interview was very, very ey eye-opening and frightening what he says he saw. and what stood out to me is that what is notably absent from the news relief and the alert they sent the media when things like this happen census suspect description. we also don't know where the suspects are tonight and we were able to get away and that was most disturbing and the reason we don't have more information about the suspects is because these victims were probably so trauma science titioned by what happened. >> came out on the back of her deck and that door over there with three glass panels i hear somebody hitting the glass and i look down and the poor woman that lives there got duct tape on her mouth. >> that's brian mc map he called police after spotting his neighbor bound and gagg

sarah simmons joins us with more. >>reporter: meaghan kelly didn't hold back.she addressed the contentious view that played out on social media. given how hard trump responds to criticisms. kelly asked him if someone hadoo hurt him or wounded him in the past. and he said no, that's how he reacts. he calls it a counter punch. the ongoing comments made by trump over meaghan kelly were a few topics they delved into. in a recent with curst, meaghan kelly said it was difficult to and not say anything but knew it was in her better interest not to. they got into why trump responds the way he does to certain questions and criticisms. when i'm wounded i go after people hard. and i try and unwound myself.el. most kids between the ages of 6 and 16 have been bullied at some point in their lives. were you ever bullied? >> no, i wasn't.n't. but i have seen bullying and bullying doesn't have to be just as a child. i know people that are bullied when they're 55 years role.5 i don't really blame you because you're didding your thing. from my standpoint i don't have to like it.i

sarah simmons, fox5 localç new. > tonight there are questions surrounding death of the mayor of districtights, james wall. he was the youngest person in the city's history to hold the position. he just turned 39. he was found dead inside his home around noon today. investigators have not determined the cause of death. the mare's body was taken to the medical examiner's office this afternoon. his autopsy results should be release in the near future. > protestors turn out for the second and trial of a baltimore police officer charged with freddie gray's officer edward near oh was charged with multiple misdemeanor charges. a judge is hearing the casein sted of a jury. prosecutors say officer near oh failed to follow protocol by unlawfully arresting gray and then failing to buckle the seatbelt in the van. the officer claims he didn't have you ever to do with the arrest or his transport. the trial is expected to last five days. > new at 11, president obama is expected to order public schools across the nation to use transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their transgender identi

have water rescues ongoing across silver spring and montgomery county that's where we have our sarah simmons live this evening. >> reporter: flash flooding was a big issue in montgomery county. they call it for a reason because within minutes it can go up and engulf a car and within minutes it can be completely gone. that's really the case here. in newport mill road. this area did have high standing water. and was creating an issue about an hour or so ago. we're between 9:00 and 10:00 and montgomery county fire and ems public information officer did say that between 9:00 and 10:00 tonight they had more than a dozen water rescues and issues with that. he said that firefighters responded to most who were able to evacuate those. other people were able to self evacuate. so at this point, we're not hearing about any serious injuries or anything of that but you know, it is very scary which it's dark out and you come up quickly on water. you may not know how deep it is. and that was the case with a gentleman we talked to earlier who did get stuck in this water here at this intersection. he explaine

sarah simmons is here with whore on the metro repair system.orter: this is a bold plan, for sure. that explosion and fire on the t tracks at the federal center southwest station. row general manager outlined the safe plan. it will accelerate thecce maintenance on the metro system by closing the system at midnight on weekends and some sm week night track work may startk as early as 8:00 p.m. the plan speaking of paul white feld that general manager will be in studio for a life interview coming up on monday at fox5 news morning at 7:30. that's monday morning, 7:30. if you have a question that yout want to ask him tweet it to us, use the hashtag ask metro gm. to the raise for the white house and the divided republican party. this week house speaker paul ryan and presumptive party nominee donald trump exchanged some less than kind words. ryan said he is not ready to support trump.r trump says perhapsç ryan is not the right person to be house speaker. both men have agreed to meet mee next thursday and hash out their differences. the meeting will ta

sarah simmons is here with whore on the metro repair system.>reporter: this is a bold plan, for sure. that explosion and fire on the tracks at the federal center southwest station. row general manager outlined the safe plan. it will accelerate the maintenance on the metro system by closing the system at midnight on weekends and some week night track work may start as early as 8:00 p.m. the plan includes work that will require track outrages for long periods of time. but those will primarily be above ground. metro says the need to do cannot be accomplished on weekends and off times alone. the work will have a big impact on rush hour service, too. riders will have to plan ahead. shuttle buses will serve closed stations. this will be an under taking that will require coordination around the region and it will be a big inconvenience for a while. this is a massive under taking. there's no doubt about it. internally we've been talking about, it's like a military operation. there's a lot of moving parts that have to work together very well. whether it

fox5's sarah simmons starts us off tonight, a big night, sarahh >> yes, tony and shawn.idacy wasn't taken seriously f

. >> i'm sarah simmons in for shawn.night in the districs with yet another deadly shootins smooch into latest happened yesterday at an apartment complex in southeast. it brings the number of so far this year. >> 72 fox 5 paul wagner spoke to the victim's family earlier today he joins us live ins southwest now with the very latest. paul. >> reporter: tony and sarah, there has been an extraordinary amount of violence just in the 2700 block of langston place southeast one city block.ck today we learned demetriusrius stevenson is the latest victim. >> demetrius stevenson is the latest victim 2700 block to be exact. location in this city homicide needs to directions to. dir since apriecl of 2013 adam bark, antonio, marcus alston, mil sted, smith, dare continuoustinu cannon, and now demetriusus stevenson have all lost their l lives on this block. three of the murders still

sarah simmons has joined us no now. >> i think they got a few perhaps. parents who attend the elementary school are concernedch the school water source was found with lead level 600 times acceptable limitment they asked to meet with school and city officials tonight to discuss how they are revolving the problem. rite now the city is in midst of 30 day testing period for all 113 d.c. schools for lead levels and many parents wanted to know why not be safe rather than sorry and just install water filled areas cross the board. and right now, the department of general services installs filters if there's dangerous levels found. they say the focus is on testing at this time and parents also want better communication about test results and what's dobb address the problem and many wanted to know why not replace the pipes or water fountains and one parent felt he walked away with answers to his >> having filled ers in them is good preemtive measure as well as way to keep the lead out once discovered. and the number of water sources that we tested here at pain ele

. >> i'm sarah simmons in for john. henning threatened two officers with here's the story. >> sarah, this man is actually facing 21 criminal charges including attempted murder and when you order an uber and get in one, sometimes you may find yourself with, well a rude driver. what you don't expect is to be riding with a convicted fell felon. >> would you expect him to have an extensive felony record. >> jonathan hemming was until recently an uber driver for the d.c. area and also a convicted felon in ohio and florida. >> of course there's a degree of prescreening that is important part of that. but, the technology is designed to ensure that before during and after the trip, people have a way to access and get in touch and feel safe whenever they need to. >> uber won't say how long he drove for the company or if customers felt safe with him as their driver, but just last weekend the landlord's car he sometime montgomery country police say he tried killing two officers with homemade handguns capable of firing rounds and co

. >> sarah simmons, tony and shawn are on assignment we'll check i with them in a bit.n a the peoplewondering when is it going to stop. that after another day time shooting and southeast dc. >> a man rushed to the hospitali and died after being shot multiple times. paul wagner live tonight on then seen. >> reporter: jim and sarah, dc police are hoping this is not the beginning of a trend troubling trend you may recall monday five day time shootings in the span of four hours two people killed. now today here at 1:00 in thehe heart of anacostia, we're not far from martin luther king avenue in the big chair just to give you some perspective. a 24 year old man was shot to death.de dc police say by a teenager with dread logs who ran from the scene. >> as dc police were on the scene detective appeared to be focused on a sedan that ran off the road on on to the sidewalk as well as a hummer and a pile of clothes. shortly before 1:00 officer from the 7th district

fox5's sarah simmons is life with the pinch that drivers wile feel in their wallet. sarah.>>reporter: yeah, it's going to be quite the pinch there. all meters across the city are going to go up to 2.30 an hour. that ' a 30-cent increase from the h for instance, like this one this is a $2 per hour. this is outside the verizon ver center here. so i is real going to hit people hard in the wallet. other areas of the city that art more in the normal demand willil go up from 75 cents to 2.30 ass well. other cities, major cities ci including new york, chicago and places like baltimore have rates as high as $13 an hour. ddot will be adjusting the meters at the next few weeks. this at a time when metro plans to shutdown entire portions of f the system.yste that will more people back ontot the roadways. when fox5 asked the d.c. mayor about the rate increase and why, this is what she had to say. the council raised the rates for parking. that's it. that's all she had to say. she put the entire thing on theh d.c. council. co now, we did talk with some folkm around the tonight to get the

. >> frov sarah simmons live in rockville. what can you tell us? >> reporter: as you can imagine, flash flooding comes and goes within minutes. i've been talking to knows what that's like, mill road where he experience flooding. if you want to come closer. tell me, what you experienced. >> i was driving home from school. newport mill road as the light turned, i crossed over. i didn't see a lot of water. as soon as i crossed over a big wave came at me and my car shut off. >> reporter: you said you live over here. had you ever seen anything like this before? . >> no, this is actually my first time seeing water like this. >> what was going through your mind when you were experiencing that? what were you thinking. >> i was just -- i just wanted if get home because i was already so close. i was kind of frustrated that my car didn't shut off two blocks away. >> reporter: were you afraid that also, you know, it could be dangerous for yourself as well. >> i was scared maybe cars are coming down, would have not seen me with all the water in the way, might h

sarah simmons is near the campus tonight to explain the scam andd how to avoid becoming a victim.eporter: we live in front of our computers and devices. we feel save with them. wit this is how connect with them,tm specifically the younger gene of web cams. this is actually a video from the justice department and the national center for missing and exploited children.ted this is a fairly recent psa thaa came out warning about the online enticement dangers out da there. in fact, as you mentioned just recently there were two george mason university students thatdt fell pray to this.hi the suspects convinced two oftwo the students to undress in front of their web cam and then perform sex acts and thenn threatened to circulate theircu video unless they paid themhe $5,000.$5 it's not just a problem here.rol it is a worldwide program. experts say the yuper generatio feels safer online. other people get pregnant without using contraception, bur not me, i'm different. other people drive drunk and get into car accidents and are paralyzed, but not me, i'm that doesn't happen in my life becau

i'm sarah simmons and i'm marin maracco. let's accepted it straight to tony and shawn life at national harbor. >> hi, guys, we are life right now at national harbor. we're just getting started out.. i'm tony perkins. we've got a glad late. tonight was date night here ate national harbor. they just finished showingho shlepless in seattle. we're going the folks who live here, worker, here and reply here as well and some of the representatives whos represent this area. we're whying to hear from them county executive, the police chief and the fire chief. we have a few other surprises. it's our first nighttime zip trip. we're happy to be doing it, happy to be at national harbor. back to you. now to montgomery county where a flower delivery man is facing some serious charges. police say anthony reeves brokeo into a home in kensington and stole items from a house he was supposed to deliver flowers to o and investigators suspect he has done this before.efor teisha lewis is life inife kensington with more. >>reporter: we'rens the at

sarah simmons joins us now with more on this new repair plan.>reporter: the system iss experiencing problems every day. this just happened yesterday. an explosion and fire on the tracks at the federal center southwest station. metro general manager paul whether it feld outlined this and attack all these problems. it will accelerate theacce maintenance on the metro system by closing the system at midnight, on weekends and some week night track work may startw as early as 8:00 p.m. the plan also includes work thak will require track outages for long periods of time, but thosee will primarily be above ground. metro says the type of work theo need to do cannot be accomplished on weekends and ofd times alone. the work will have a bi impact on rush hour service. so riders will have to plan ahead. shuttle buses will serve closed stations and this will be an undertaken that will be a big inconvenience for a while. the goal here was not to eliminate any service because basically we have customers that do not have an option. so we wanted to maintain servi

schoo sarah simmons is here with howih this all got started. h. >> tony and shawn the program itself sponsored by the usda any school where at least 50% of0% students qualify for free or reduced price lunches ises eligible for the supper programm and that's for schools s nationwide.tionde more than just a free meal for the students.tudnt >> thank you. tha >> in some ways the garfieldar high cafeteria is home away from home for students. sd instead of gathering around then dinner table, they gather heree for a free meal.. >> thank you. >> year welcome.co >> many of our kids here don'ti have the opportunity to haveppor dinner at home.dinnerho >> it's something that they would know it's taken care ofako and they don't have to worry t w about it. >> reporter: since february feby garfield high school has beenig serving up full and wellnd w balanced meals starting at 4:000 p.m. monday through thursday.rs and activity buses take themake home at 4:30 or 5:20. 5 they qualified for the usda program because more than 50% of the students are on free or redu

the country travelers are dealing with longl lines as security check pointedt sarahy simmons is live where isl sarahstand passengers might be in for a pretty bumpy m ride this summer.r. >> yeah, it could be a little bumpy. talks with a few travel agent about what people should do if he they are heading to the airport, some no tsa supervisorp who say the problem is not justj on the tsa end but also the passenger are contributing astrt well i'll have more on that in a moment. in the meantime you probably you seen the video that's out theree places like chicago and atlanta too have massive lines, the tsaa budget was drastically cut back in 2011 by a quarter billion dollars and now they the math you see where the s problem is. even though congress is considering providing moore mo funding that doesn't alleviate the situation right now which ii why you you see some of the airports like san francisco privatizing and bringing in private security organizations to do the work. reminding people we are just a few weeks away from memorial day weekend, this does not body well for any of you traveling outer there