>> ♪ >> this is fox5 news morning. >> today on fox5 news morning crash investigation. two d.c. bike patrol officers injured, one critically when a man driving a pickup truck plows into them in adams morgan. >> comey testimony. the former head of the fbi paints a picture of a troubled white house as he reveals what he knew about russian involvement in american elections. >> looking live outside. the warm air returns in full today. get ready for it. it's going to be gorgeous. good morning to you. thank you for joining us. i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. today is friday june 9th. caitlin roth talking about the roads, mike thomas talking about the weather. >> good morning. pretty nice day coming up with lots of sunshine, temperature headed to the 80's this afternoon. hey caitlin. >> hey, m

roads. crash clearing but still causing delays on the inner loop in virginia plus a closure on 210 in maryland that's still out there. details still ahead. maureen. >> thank you both of you. 5 o'clock right now. starting with developing news out of adams morgan. two police officers and a dpw traffic patrol aide struck during a hit-and-run. >> this morning the suspected driver is in custody and we confirmed that a weapon was in the trunk of the vehicle. melanie alnwick live from the scene with the latest. mel. >> reporter: hey, guys, they've already removed the pickup truck but there's still some debris here on the road. but i also want you to look -- eugene come down here. you can see the orange lines. this is the path that the truck took basically before it crashed into that large truck there and it's also the path here where the officers were struck. now, if you turned around here, eugene, you can see where the police car

just where the mcdonald's is, that's where the two bike officers were and the traffic control officer. that's where they were standing, apparently just back there, there was a car that was stopped and then a metrobus behind it. the white pickup truck apparently was behind that stoppage area, there was a police officer on a bike in front of the car and we are told by sources that the white pickup truck then decided for some reason to careen -- to like speed around the metrobus and the car and that is how they ended up striking the officer, possibly dragging one of them. we talked to some witnesses on the scene. also want to show you some video here of the fbi that was on the scene late last night. we've asked d.c. police chief peter newsham if terrorism could be involved in this. he's basically said that's something that needs to be looked at, they're not confirming any motive at this point. we also talked to some witnesses on the scene hoop said everything happened very,

very fast. >> you know, screaming and then followed by a.m. tire squealing sound and then i saw a white truck just spedding, you know, at a very high speed towards my direction and then i saw it struck right into the -- what appears to be a dumpster truck. >> reporter: and then again here you see that dumpster truck. we also want to show you some video. a lot of people here 9 o'clock on a thursday night in adams morgan is a really busy time. lots of people around, a lot of mobile phones as well. we got individual grow a eyewitness with a pretty high vantage point where you can see the driver of that pickup truck being taken out, taken away and witnesses also told us they saw the passenger bail out of the window of his side of the vehicle and basically saying he doesn't know what happened, that the driver just went crazy all of a sudden. also, a little bit of news on the officers this morning. we can

the officers, the one who is in very critical condition is out of surgery. it looks like things at this point are stable but he's still in critical condition. the other two who were injured are recovering, serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. the driver and the passenger of the white pickup truck remain under arrest. live in adams morgan, i'm melanie alnwick, fox5 local news. >> all right, mel, thank you for that. 5:04 is the time. former fbi director james comey accusing president trump and his staff of lying about why he was fired. that was just one of his revelations made during the testimony yesterday. he also revealed details of a private oval office meeting in which the president said he hoped investigators would go easy on mike flynn. that was the national security adviser who had resigned just the day before that meeting amid allegations he misled the vice president about contact he had with a russian government official. >> i took it as a direction. i mean, he's the president of the united states with me alone saying i hope

took it as this is what he wants me to do. >> comey also admitted that he passed along information to a friend he knew would leak it to the press in order to provoke the justice department to appoint special counsel. >> house republicans approved legislation which seeks to dismantle banking regulations. financial choice act is meant to replace the dodd frank wall street reform act. the new legislation includes less stringent liquidities requirements for banks the elimination of bank bans on risky investments, the weakening of the consumer financial protection bureau and the repeal of a requirement that financial advisers helping clients with retirement accounts act in the client's best interest. critics say it goes too far. >> the number of alcohol and drug related deaths in maryland last year was the largest ever recorded in the state. yesterday officials said over 2000 people died because of overdoses in 2016. it is an increase of 66 percent from the previous year. heroin

use surged among all age and racial groups. >> time is 5:05. the transit agency board voted to get behind the general manager's funding plan. regional deliberations heat up over establishing a dedicated funding source for the transit system but not everybody is on board with this. there was one dissenting vote from the board member from prince george's county. in april, paul wiedefeld called on state and local lawmakers to provide $500 million every year for metro's long term maintenance while opening some future services to revitalization. >> ♪ >> 5:06 is the time. mike thomas checking in with you for our forecast. what's on tap. >> yeah, little cool temperatures to start the morning here but as we work our way into the afternoon lots of sunshine and we'll kind of quickly warm it up this afternoon as we transition from what was a springlike last couple days to a summer-like weekend ahead h60 degrees your current number in d.c., gaithersburg cool

baltimore as well. good morning, leonardtown, 54 for you. fredericksburg 55 degrees at this hour. satellite and radar showing maybe actually one or two light sprinkles west of town but that's about all that's going on and those will not last long. we should have a good amount of sunshine later on today. 84 degrees your daytime high this afternoon, a few passing clouds from time to time. temperatures will be on the rise, though, no the just today but tomorrow up near 90 and then mid 90's coming our way as we start next week. full details on that upcoming forecast in just a couple of minutes. all right, that's the weather. over to caitlin now for traffic. >> on-time traffic brought to you by toyota. visit buy a toyota.com for special offers. >> 5:07 right now on this friday morning. a crash site behind me on the inner loop in virginia approaching falls church. this is right before route 50 where we had an overturned vehicle although emergency crews have been scene for the past half hour and have been clearing pretty quickly. you can see traffic squeezing by on the left most lane although it does look like the other three lanes are

however, the express lanes are now free and opened. earlier they were cleared so you can get around it but delays are building on the inner loop approaching route 50. route 50 by the way that's the on-ramp on the right most hand side of your screen, that is still fine. you can get from route 50 onto the beltway. so, that is in the clearing stages but we do have delays as we go to maps building on the inner loop approaching route 50. they're already out there, they continue to build back to annandale. southern maryland we've been following this closure all morning 210 northbound and southbound closed at palmer road. this is due to a crash and so you're going to have to follow local detours to get around this from fort washington headed up towards oxon hill you'll encounter in closure on 210. try to use some alternates around that. that's a look at traffic. more coming up at 5:15p maureen. >> all right indicate tin. coming up, a murder indictment handed down in a deadly [inaudible] >> u.s. men's soccer team scores two goals to automatically qualify for the next world cup. >> heading to break. let's take a live loo

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>> ♪ 5:13. let's take a look at the stories we're following for you today, friday june 9th. several people are in the hospital including two police officers and a dpw traffic patrol aide after an apparent hit-and-run in adams morgan. two people have been arrested including the driver. d.c. police chief peter newsham says police found weapons inside the car. they are investigating the incident. >> former fbi director james comey accusing president trump and his staff of lying about why he was fired one of many revelations made yesterday. comey revealed details of a private oval office meeting in which the president said he hoped investigators would go easy on mike flynn. the national security adviser had resigned the day before amid allegations he misled the vice president about contact he had with a russian government official. >> jurors in the bill cosby sex assault trial got to hear from the entertainer even though he wasn't on the stand. a detective

interview with police in 2005 a year after prosecutors say he assaulted andrea constand. in it cosby claims their relationship were you both social and romantic. he did admit to giving constand one and a half benadryl tablets to "relax her." >> the victim in roman polanski's 40-year-old. samantha geimer is tired of the case and wants polanski to be allowed to come back to the united states. he's been a fugitive since he fled to france in 19 on the east of sentencing for having unlawful sex with a minor. polanski is now 83 years old. >> 5:15 on this friday morning. mike thomas looking outside now looking beautiful 60 degrees already. >> not a bad start at all. >> no. >> traffic's moving so all good signs so far on a friday morning here in the d.c. region. hey, we got a pretty good day coming up later on t

temperatures headed into the 80's later on this afternoon. today's actually the first day where you're going to start to notice temperatures are going to be on the rise again not just today but through the weekend heading for what will be our hottest stretch of weather so far this year. temperatures right now, though, pleasantly cool outside. 60 here in washington but 52 in gaithersburg, 54 dulles, 55 for frederick. 52 in martinsburg, 55 at winchester as well as fredericksburg. leonardtown 54 degrees as we start our day. one little lone area of showery drizzle kind of out there around the front royal area. small area falling apart a bit and not expected to make it close to d.c. but be aware of that as you're making up this morning around front royal. other than that it's pretty quiet around the region. one area avenue cloud cover came through early this morning and then whose arm is that? tucker barnes everybody. all right, again, it's pretty quiet out here. temperatures later on today, 84 here in washington, 82 manassas as well as dulles and quantico. how about that weekend? high pressure will that sink tou

coming into the picture, in fact right around 90 trees 90 degreesand saturday well up r it. mid 90's expected. ocean city maryland forecast not 90's for them but warm enough, 83 on saturday afternoon, sunday 86 degrees. lots of sunshine. it will be a beautiful weekend for the beach but those water temperatures still chilly, only in the mid 60's. fox5 accuweather 7-day forecast, 84 today. then 90's take over. 90 on saturday, 94 sunday. 96 on monday and tuesday. that heat index on monday and tuesday expected to be above 100 degrees. all right, that's a check of the forecast. caitlin is walking in now with a check of traffic. >> i'm going to miss mornings like this, mike, next week and then for the rest of the summer probably. so comfortable out there right now. still following this inner loop crash in virginia approaching route 50 arlington boulevard. originally we had all the express lanes closed. they have since reopened but just the left lane of regular traffic squeezing by. and the three other lanes are blocked on the right hand sized your screen that you can see right

50 on-ramp getting on as well. approaching falls church you've got heavy delays at least back to the little river turnpike at this point. to our maps we go. we've got some other slowdowns, just checking some drive times for you this morning. so far so good on 66, prince william parkway to the capital beltway your normal 20 minutes. delay free on 95 in virginia dale steel to the beltway. on 395 from the beltway to the 14th street bridge once you get inside the beltway through arlington, 10 minutes on that stretch and in virginia 123 to the 14th street bridge you're looking at nine minutes there. so, no problems on these interstates in virginia. again watch out for the inner loop in falls church approaching route 50, you got heavy delays there. that's a look at traffic. maureen, back to you. >> okay, thank you, caitlin. 5:18 is the time. let's take a look at the stories you're engaging with the most this morning on and social media with our rea real news tracker. >> social went wild when that senator john mccain started asking him questions. he spent most of the time asking

investigation into hillary clinton's use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state but his questions were kind of confusing. comey himself even said that he was confused. mccain said lack of sleep caused him to mess up his line of questioning. he said he stayed up late the night before to watch the arizona diamondbacks play. >> now to the healthcare debate. senate republican leaders are now considering keeping parts of obamacare that they had threatened to kill. many say they are in favor of keeping guaranteed protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. >> the cdc released a new report that lace out the risk for zika related birth defects for each trimester of pregnancy. researchers found that during the first trimester nearly one in 12 women who had zika had a baby or fetus with zika related birth defects. infections in the second trimester 5 percent were affected and in the third trimester 4 percent. >> japan allowed

the 83 has expressed his wish to abdicate citing his old age an health. >> and finally once a playmate always a playmate because playboy asked seven models in their 40's, 50's and 60's to strip down recreate their sexy cover. hugh hefner's son keep chief creative officer asked his mom kimberly to be part of the photo series on mother's day and she accepted. >> i looked at the covers. they're actually pretty cool. >> really. >> yeah, a lot of ladies look very similar, you know. >> have never even seen a playboy magazine. >> coming up on fox5 news morning, 1500 jobs in the tech -- crickets indeed. 1500 jobs in the tech industry are coming to northern virginia. >> if you're going to cuba and you want to sleep in luxury there's a new place for to you lay your head at night. >> heading to break with a live look across the d.c. region, it is 5:20, 60 degrees

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>> welcome back. 5:23. double recall involving automaker hyundai. the first one covers santa fe and santa fe sport suv's from 2013 through 2017. there are problems with the hood latches. the second recall covers some genesis and sonata models from 2015 through 2016 and some of those vehicles are having problems with their parking brake lights. the total recall impacts nearly 600,000 vehicles in the united states. >> yahoo shareholders approved the company's sale to verizon. verizon is preparing to combine yahoo and aol planning also to down size the companies by 15 percent which about 2100 jobs will be cut as a result of the the final vote comes about a year after the acquisition was first announced. the deal is

on tuesday. and if you are looking for work amazon is bringing new jobs to northern virginia. amazon web services plans to open a new campus in herndon. the expansion is expected to create up to 1500 jobs. virginia competed against texas and washington state for this project. >> the new fortune 500 list is out. this year's list includes a lot of familiar names. for the fifth year in a row wal-mart took the top spot with $486 billion in revenue. berkshire hathaway came in second followed by apple exxon mobil on mckiss son. they rounded out the top five. in total fortune 500 companies represent two-thirds of the u.s. gdp. >> cuba unveiling its first luxury hotel. it occupies the top floors of a shopping mall some features include a rooftop infiniti pool, a spa with a steam room and sauna and rooms they start at $360. beautiful. >> ♪ >> all right, mike thomas in, good morning to you. tell us about our z

forecast and beyond. >> zip trip looks fantastic and then this weekend looks great to get into one of those infiniti pools because it's going to be hot, it's going to be sunny. definitely get the sunscreen ready. you'll need it this weekend if you're heading outside because u.v. index will be very high. 60 degrees as you start your day in washington on this friday morning. winds starting to come out of the south. that means warmer air will be on the way as we head into the afternoon hours today. satellite and radar showing clouds moved through overnight. they're starting to clear the region. we'll have lots of sunshine today with just a few passing clouds from time to time. here's your planner. by 11 o'clock hour, we're in wen by the 2 o'clock hour we cross into the 80's. and then by 5 o'clock, still lots of sun, 83 degrees. highs today right around 84 here in the district. lower 80's for most of the rest of the region so again a beautiful kind of friday in store here and we get hot for the weekend. we'll have full details on how long the heat sticks around coming up in just a few minutes. that's a check of your weather. caitlin roth is back with traffic this morning. hey, caitlin. >> ma

morning. inner loop crash in virginia approaching falls church at route 50. not impacting route 50. however very heavy delays behind that crash which involved a flipped vehicle. better look at the scene right now. emergency crews have been out there for some time right now. there's the vehicle that's flipped onto its side taking up the three right most lanes. level squeezing by. express lanes are opened and as we go to maps, there have been some heavy delays as a result of that backup. now, we've also just got a crash that came in on the outer loop in maryland. right lane blocked at baltimore-washington parkway. so that is no doubt going to continue to build some delays right there. also following this all morning, in maryland, route 210 indian head highway, you've got a closure still out there at palmer road northbound and southbound due to an earlier crash with police investigating the scene so that remains closed. follow local detours around there. checking 270 out of frederick county light volume that will take you down to the beltway. not seeing

into the district 295 southbound you're still at this moment free and clear from route 50 to pennsylvania avenue. that's a look at traffic. more weather and traffic at 5:35. maureen and wisdom. >> 5:26 is the time. 5:27 is the time right now. coming up on fox5 news morning metro's board throws it support behind the transit agency's general manager. >> you have less than 24 hours for your chance at winning half a billion dollars. >> we're going to break right now. live look outside 5:27, 60 degrees. back in a moment. >> ♪ >> ♪♪

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we're going to start with mike thomas. >> good weather today. more sunshine. temperatures in the 80's today. 90 tomorrow and then all up from there. we're going t going to let you w about the heat that's coming up in a few minutes. caitlin. >> crash on the outer loop near the baltimore-washington parkway in maryland and still following a crash on the inner loop in virginia. left lane squeezing by approaching route 50. delays building there. so we'll have all the details coming up. maureen. >> thank you caitlin. this morning one of the officers struck by a truck in adams morgan last night is now out of surgery but we're told he is still in critical condition. the other victims a d.c. officer an department of public works official suffered serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. we spoke to one witness who fifty twdescribed that chaotic d wild scene. >> screaming followed by a tire squealing sound and then i saw a white truck just speeding, you know, at a very high speed towards my direction and then i saw it struck

appears to be a dumpster truck. >> police say gun was recovered from the striking vehicle, the suspected driver is in police custody along with the passenger who was in the truck. >> two suspects are in custody in connection with a stabbing spree in silver spring. skyfox flew over the scene near a bus stop in the 8600 block of piney branch road. now the two teens suffered nonlife-threatening injuries. no word on the condition of the other victims. >> ♪ >> no tweets, no statements, nothing so far from president donald trump directly after former fbi director james comey's testimony. >> but he is getting his message out in other ways. fox5's annie yu joins us now to explain. annie. >> reporter: that's right, wisdom and maureen, president trump staying off his phone and letting his personal attorney do all the talking as former fbi director james comey told his side of the story before the senate intelligence committee. and hours of testimony james comey under oath accuses the president and his staff of lying about the

his firing less than a month ago. comey also revealed his deep distrust for the president saying he kept memos of their conversations a move he said he did not do with other prior presidents or other top justice department officials. he told the committee president trump himself personally under investigation in the fbi russia probe and went on record about a private oval office meeting in which the president told comey that he "hoped investigators would go easy on former national security adviser michael flynn." president trump's personal lawyer marc kasowitz responded. >> has confirmed publically what he repeatedly told president trump privately, was not under investigation as part of any probe into russian interference. the president never in form or substance directed or suggested that mr. comey stop

investigating anyone including the president never suggested that mr. comey "let flynn go." >> reporter: while there was no smoking gun senators kept asking comey why he didn't push back during his nine meetings and phone calls with the president. this of course was the first time we've heard james comey take questions under oat about his firing. month more to come on this. >> house republicans have approved legislation which seeks to dismantle banking regulations put into place after the financial crisis. now, the financial choice act is meant to replace the dodd frank wall street reform act. the new legislation includes less stringent liquidities requirements for bank, elimination of bank bans on risky investments, weakening of the consumer financial protection bureau and the repeal of a requirement that financial advisers helping clients with retirement accounts act in the client's best interests. critics say it goes too far. the house bill is not

to survive in the senate where lawmakers are considering a smaller scale bill. >> the number of alcohol and drug related deaths in maryland last year was the largest ever recorded in the state. yesterday officials said over 2,000 people died because of over doses in 2016. it is an increase of 66 percent from the previous year. heroin and prescription opioid use surged among all age and racial groups. >> $435 million, can you afford to turn that down. >> oh that's how much saturday's powerball drawing is worth right now. the value of the jackpot is only expected to rise as more people buy tickets. the winner will have the option of taking 30 annual payments or a one time cash pay outworth approximately $273 million. >> i'll take that. it's finally here. it's zip trip day starting at 6 o'clock this morning we'll be in georgetown in northwest d.c. come on out. come on out to georgetown this friday june 9th from 6:00 to 11:00. the fox5 team will be there. it's me, tucker and the caitlin and kevin. tucker

in fact he's going to particular things off at 6:00. head out, come say hello. we would love to see you. >> party time in georgetown. >> whoop whoop. >> all right. mike thomas when they head out jackets, no jackets. >> jackets to start. >> jackets to start. >> after it's sunny for an hour you'll be fine. >> okay. >> it will kind of quickly rise through the 70's, sunshine and then 90's this weekend. >> nothing wrong with in. >> get the ac ready. storm tracker radar showing you what is left of one little small shower that's just south of front royal. again, it's falling apart really quickly but maybe a sprinkle or two out that way. nothing here locally around the d.c. metro area. temperature 60 degrees outside right now. dulles 54. bwi 52. we got a heat wave coming up, though. check out these numbers. 84 today. 90 tomorrow and then into the mid 90's we go. 94 sunday. 96 both monday and if uesday where the heat index is expected to cross 100 degrees. all right, that's a check of the forecast. caitlin is back this morning with traffic. >> sounds great, mike, can't waitor

no, heat lovers, that's a good one. for me i'll be hiding in my icebox aka air conditioned apartment as long as i can. friday morning commute you don't need the air conditioning. windows opened, top down beautiful comfortable morning. couple crash sites on the inner loop in virginia, outer loop here in maryland, which is where we'll begin. an outer loop crash right lane blocked at the baltimore-washington parkway here in maryland and we've got delays building on the outer loop all the way back to lanham there. moderate delays but that will that continue to pick up as long as that crash site remains active and it is an overturned vehicle so that could be awhile. closed to palmer road 210 northbound-southbound due to a crash activity looks like those delays are easing a bit. maybe that has reopened. finally 270 southbound light you're good from fredericko- county through montgomery county all the way to the spur at this moment. that's a look at traffic. more weather and traffic at 5:45. wisdom. >> coming up on fox5 news morning, researchers say a brain scan could help detect autism in newborns. >> and everything in moderation. eating too much dairy could have dire consequen

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>> ♪ >> beautiful. >> talking about the sunrise or the music. >> or me. >> or you. either way, you can't go wrong either way. >> it's friday. we're all winning today. >> yeah. got a zip trip coming up, it's friday. amazing. >> yeah. >> weather is nice. >> good beat. >> good beat. >> hand clapping toe tapping music. >> good way to start the day. >> yeah, i like it. >> ♪ >> i'm feeling it, too. >> wisdom, something tells me you're not feeling it. >> no, i'm feeling it. i'm just enjoying watching you and your performance as i do often this time of morning. what? >> i sense some sarcasm. >> no, no, i'm being legit, mike, 100 percent real. >> a

morning enjoy it. kind of one more cool morning here and then we're on the rise for the next several days. 60 degrees your current number in washington, pittsburgh 56, beckley west virginia 51. richmond 57 degrees. high pressure swinging down to our south will start to push warm air in our direction later on this afternoon. there's satellite and radar. again pretty quiet. we had one shower out towards front royal that's quickly kind of falling apart and you see the gorgeous sunrise we showed you in the live shot. things are starting off on a good note here and by 11 o'clock this afternoon, temps into the middle 70's. by 2 o'clock, we're up to 80 degrees and by 5 o'clock, temperatures kind of peaking right around 83, 84 degrees later today. all right, what's up for the weekend? high pressure starting to work its way southward. even more so. that's going to pull up even more heat. we'll be right around that 90-degree mark saturday afternoon. pie the time we get to sunday, this sets up off the coastline call it a bermuda high position. that means a lot of heat starts coming up from the south. we start to get into a little bit of humidity as well. 90's for everybody by the time we get to sunday afternoon. great day for the pool on saturday. sunshi

by 2 o'clock 86 with humidity not too bad, so definitely a day to get out and enjoy. by 5 o'clock 89 just a few clouds so again if you're headed to the pools this weekend -- last weekend wasn't the best for it. this weekend much better weekend for it. again, u.v. index rather high so definitely get out and get the sunscreen on before you head out to the pool this weekend as well as the beach. beach looks good. saturday 83 down in ocean city, 86 on sunday. water seven still cool at 65 degrees. fox5 accuweather 7-day forecast showing you will the heat wave headed our way. tomorrow again, 90 here in d.c., 80's for most of the suburbs, though. by sunday 90's for everybody, 94 in washington. we're talking pote potentially record highs monday and tuesday with humidity back in full force. going to feel like a hundred degrees plus a chance of thunderstorms as we head into wednesday and thursday. caitlin ready for that heat wave. >> record high party next week, right. >> beach party. >> beach party, pool

it's friday. aall right, it has been a busy friday morning on the roads so far. skyfox over the scene of what is a closure on route 210 in maryland. we've been talking about this all morning long. obviously you don't see many cars because this part of 210 at palmer road is closed in both directions. police have been on the scene of this crash site that from what i can tell has been mostly cleared away although there is an investigation ongoing and it looks like it will be closed until further notice. we'll continue to have skyfox overhead. but if you are coming out of fort washington in southern prince george's county, maybe headed to oxon hill, headed to the beltway, you cannot access 210 so follow the local detours around there or if you know a better alternate to get you to the beltway because you cannot use two then either direction. i guess that's the same thing to be said as we go to cameras for coming in the other direction. all right, cameras still inner loop in virginia at falls church following this crash site with an overturned vehicle and a dump truck which seems to be trying to clear out all the debris from the overturned vehicle. a really messy scene blocking the

although looks to me right there that w have two lanes moving by on the left side so maybe two lanes of traffic squeezing by but very heavy delays as a result of this on the inner loop approaching route 50 right around falls church you've got delays that are probably all the way back to the little river turnpike at this point. it's been a busy morning and will that continue on the outer loop in maryland. another crash that also involves an overturned vehicle. and you've got delays on the inner loop here in maryland from the baltimore-washington parkway where the crash is. looks like all the way back to route 50, very heavy traffic there. there's that inner loop crash and you've got delays on the inner loop in virginia there almost all the way back down through annandale so very heavy. and following that closure again at 210 you can see that will right there in southern prince george's county checking 270 if you're coming out of montgomery county or frederick county through montgomery county, you've got light volume 70 all the way to the spur so that's one spot where we're doing okay here early this morning. all right, that's a look at traffic. wisdom, back over to you. >> thank you, caitlin. 5:49 is the time right now. the state of virginia trying to eliminate its backlog

virginia attorney general mark her ring announced a plan to announce more than 1200 untested rape kits collected between 2014 and 2016. the $3.4 million project will allow the state to analyze about 2,000 kits. a new state law will ensure the massive backlog of rape kits does not happen again. >> a group of gay republicans in north carolina claim they were banned from participating in this year's gay pride parade because they are trump supporters. brian talbert says he sent an application to enter a float in this year's parade but he says charlotte pride sent him an e-mail denying his application. that e-mail said in part charlotte pride reserves the right to decline organizations that talbert says he plans to file a discrimination lawsuit. >> police in pennsylvania trying to figure out what led a super market employee to go on a shooting rampage. 24-year-old randy stair shot and killed three coworkers and then killed

he pulled two guns from a duffle bag and started shooting. investigators say he fired nearly 60 shots. >> investigators in georgia looking into what may have led a church charter bus carrying students to overturn after colliding with another car. one person is dead. dozens others injured. it happened on a four-lane highway outside of atlanta. the bus is from mount zion baptist church in huntsville alabama. the church was taking members from the student ministry to the atlanta airport. >> ♪ >> time now is 5:51. let's take a look at the stories you're engaging with the most this morning on social media with our realtime news tracker. >> first up with what's hot on the web. the fda is asking drugmaker to take its opioid pain medications off the market. this is the first time the agency has made this type of request because people are abusing the drug. the fda days the benefits of the drug may no longer outweigh the risks. >> the u.s. lags behind in mobile internet speed according to a new study. new report revealed that the nation ranks 28th in the world. the uk has

internet speed followed by germany. >> taylor swift is returning her music to the streaming services including spotify. swift pulled her music from all streaming services in 2014 saying sites like spotify do not fairly compensate artists. some on social media are questioning the timing of this decision because many claim that taylor swift is trying to steal katy perry's thunder. per perry's new album was leased today. >> godfather has been named the greatest movie of all time. readers of empire magazine compiled that list. >> and a ring thought to be costume jewelry sold for about $1 million in an auction this week. the ring was purchased for $13 back in 19 -- in the 1980's. the owner got it appraised and learned it was actually a 26 karat diamond valued at about $800,000. >> amazing. take a look at this. a woman walking down the street while texting falls ina sidewalk opened door. she

napped new jersey. she was pulled out by firefighters and taken to the hospital. officials say the access door was opened because of a repair of gas lines in the area. she's actually in pretty bad condition. so, not ending well there but again, falling through an open door while she was texting. cautionary tale to everyone out there. goodness gracious. hate to see that. >> all right, well be careful if you're following britney spears on instagram. hackers got into her account and planted malware. experts say they're trying to get fans to download plug ins through comments on her page. if you download it, they can watch everything you do on your computer. >> a pair of u.s. senators are asking the south by southwest festival to leave austin as a protest against texas' new sanctuary cities law. in a letter to the ceo of south by southwest senators robert mendez of new jersey called it one of the most extreme anti-immigrant measures to day. it requires law enforcement to

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an album cover. 5:55 almost. 10 more seconds to go. mike thomas what's up with our weather today. >> beautiful day on tap. going to be gorgeous. little cool to start but this afternoon we're really warming it up. high pressure is traveling through the midwest down to our south. once it gets south of us it's going to start to push in some of this heat and we'll be up into the 80's later this afternoon. good news. doesn't come with humidity just yet. not really until we get to monday and tuesday will you start to notice humidity kicking up along with temperatures as well. 50 to 60 out there before school for the kids. so a little cool, maybe light jacket one more time here to start the day. then after school, 78 to 85, shorts and t-shirt weather and lots of sunshine coming our way. fox5 accuweather 7-day forecast, it is the hottest seven-day forecast we've had to put together so far this year. 90 tomorrow. not too humid, either. sunday 94. then here comes the heat and humidity in full force. monday 96. that could be a record. tuesday 96. that could be a record as well. we'll start to break the heat either wednesday or thursday with a l

thunderstorm activity in the picture but again just kind of a very sweaty summer-like pattern starting up as we head into the course of this weekend. all right, that's enough of me. we got tucker coming up live from georgetown zip trip in the 6 o'clock hour but we'll get to traffic with caitlin roth. hey, caitlin. >> thank you. good morning mike. i'll be out there as well starting about 9:30 a.m. down in georgetown. come t out to northwest d.c. join the fox5 group. skyfox is over -- i believe we're not still over 210 in maryland. carlos what are we looking at? it is still 210 excuse me. it looks like traffic is starting to reopen or at least they're showing the detour to get around this closure at 210 in maryland indian head highway closed at palmer road but you can see that the detour is at least allowing traffic to get by the scene. there's the police car still blocking the accident cleanup which has been in the cleanup stages for awhile which should open shortly. accessing palmer road is the we'll have a full updat

coming up at 6:00 a.m. fox5 news morning will be right back after this. >> ♪ >> ♪♪

>> ♪ >> this is fox5 news morning. >> right now at 6:00 we continue to follow that breaking news from overnight in the district. two police officers and a city worker run down by a pickup truck in adams morgan. one of those officers

for his life. now the search for a motive. >> also breaking right now, a serious crash on indian head highway in maryland. this is near palmer road. all lanes are currently blocked. >> and we're told this involved two vehicles, six people taken to the hospital. good morning to you, i'm allison seymour. >> and i'm wisdom martin in for steve chenevey. we're going get right to caitlin roth with the very latest on the accident we were talking about. >> good morning, wisdom and allison. 210 just reopening literally as you were speaking. it always happens like that. as we take a look at skyfox here's 210 in southern maryland, there's palmer road the intersection in which traffic is now allowed to move on the northbound side of 210 right now so it looks like the crash has been cleared. traffic is now moving freely after a significant delay on the northbound side of 210 at palmer road. this is in the oxon hill area. so o-it looks like we're still waiting on the southbound side to reopen as we go up another intersection you can still see there are police vehicles blockin access to 210 there. but at least everything is moving on one side and i suspect that the southbound side should reopen shortly.