thanks for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm holly morris. it is friday august 4th. >> it's the lady show. caitlin roth doing weather and traffic. good morning to you. >> good morning to you both ladies. it is going to be a very nice morning for a zip trip or wherever you're headed. thunderstorms in the forecast yet again. weekend looks

. >> good morning to you thank you for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> today is wednesday, august 9. it's also first day of school for students in culpeper county, virginia. >> already? >> already. >> time to go back to school and get the learning process going. we should have school year around. that's a conversation for another day. airport erin watching roads and michael thomas watching skies. >> those poor, poor kids we're sorry guides. >> beautiful day. sunshine. temperatures mid 80s. >> wednesday morning we have a closure in southeast because of police investigation. we'll gel to that and wisdom i believe strongly in summer vacation. >> okay, 4:30 is the time. president trump's 'singn vacation interrupted by a hey stakes nuclear threat from north korea. he didn't hold back in his stern message. >> law makers in responding to the presidential remarks. melanie alnwick ha melanie alnwick has the latest. >> reporter: lawmakers on capitol hill are back in home states. certainly this is very much at the top of their mind. we had senator chuck shumer of new york call the president's w

. >> good morning to you thank you for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm wisdom martin. >> today is tuesday, august 22. it's first day of school for clark county virginia. >> back to school weather that is caitlin roth's department. she has that detail. erin como has details on the roads. caitlin. >> one of those afternoons it will be tough to be outdoors. it's close. high temperatures in mid 90s with high dew points making it humid. reminder it is still august and still in summer here. it can be brutal. hot and humid. like yesterday, temperatures even higher, 95 in washington and low to mid 90s just about everywhere with humidity it will feel like 100 plus. so if you work outdoors and if you have to be outdoors for extended period of time take brakes in the shade that helps and a lot of water. >> 7 day forecast shows welcomedry leaf. we are talking major welcomed release in 7 day forecast. thunderstorms arrive late, late tonight and may liping to early wednesday morning. that keeps temperatures at bay. 85 and maybe humid. effects of cooler drier air thursday. 82. low humidity. that

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i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. caitlin roth talking about what's happening on the roads but we're going start this morning with mike thomas with the same forecast that he had yesterday. does describe today pretty well here we're going to have same kind of heat, same kind of humidity and then same kind of thunderstorms popping up in the afternoon. here's futurecast. decent amount of sunshine through the morning hours. into the afternoon you can see right along the i-95, i know it's zoomed out a bit, they're starting to pop thunderstorms again. that's kind of been the corridor where they've been fired up, kind of where the bay breeze has been able to meet some of that in in tomorrow sunny and bright. in the afternoon we once again see some thunderstorms popping up. here's your two day forecast o up to 92 degrees with storms in the afternoon. same kind of deal tomorrow. maybe a little bit more sunshine, high of 91. how about that weekend preview. oh, looks pretty good. after a couple of a.m. showers and i do mean just

i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. today is thursday august 17th. our team is in place. erin como talking about traffic, caitlin roth talking about weather. good morning. >> good morning to you both. off to another warm start. there's a li but not nearly as dense as yesterday. warm front coming in though has sparked some showers towards our south. with that warm front coming in it will get a little warmer. 78 degrees outside right now. very humid and there's those showers from a line -- you can draw from about dale city down to montrose, virginia and it is propagating eastward crossing into portions of charles county so waldorf la plata chesapeake beach you'll see showers this morning. the rest of usological wait until the afternoon. a couple unsettled days. that's a check of your forecast. now let's take a look at the roads. >> 4:47. use your low beam if you encounter fog. we have the inner loop construction over the legion bridge blocking two lanes. rubberneck delay on the outer loop on inner loop seeing a slow down from 267 dulles toll road. southern mad nice and quie

good morning to you thank you very much for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm wisdom martin. >> it's friday, august 18. >> we have a tea this friday. we're going to see -- >> we're teasing them, through go. >> one half of the team. >> caitlin roth is here to talk about weather. erin como will do traffic. you're talking weather favorite. >> caitlin they're not making you do traffic and weather are they? >> maybe erin did a half our to start her weekend. no she'll come up in a moment. heat advisory expected 11 a.m. severe thunderstorms expected this afternoon. all out ahead of a georgous weekend. that's on the other side. details coming up. >>> all right we want to bring you now up to date on breaking news we've been following at 5 a.m. here. the top stories and we'll start with breaking news from overnight a controversial statue no longer sits outside the maryland state house. >> "fox5" bob barnard is live in annapolis with more on the story. bob. >> wisdom, maureen, roger t tawny statue had a prominent place outside the state house east front of capitol facing it stood for 1 45 years

i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. today is monday august 14th, the first day of school for manassas park and for some students in the district as well. >> all right. mike thomas has got your weather headline, erin como has got your traffic headline. mike thomas w what should the kiddos expect. >> the kiddos should expect cloudy skies but not too much in the way of rain. they may see a couple showers by the time they get to after school and evening hours tonight. man, summer is coming to an end as more and more school systems start up in virginia. a mix of clouds and some sunshine out there. any sun quickly fades away as we head into the early afternoon. some showers starting to pop out to the west. that's where they'll be heaviest today. if you live west of i-81 that's where you can see some heavier shower activity. d.c., 95 corridor it would be lighter and very spotty if it comes across. there we were at 10:00 p.m. tonight. you see the spotty scattered nature of the showers. mostly cloudy skies, passing shower possib

first good morning to you i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm allison seymour. >> on way to gaithersburg. >> welcome to "fox5 news morning" happy to be with you this friday. breaking news from annapolis a controversial start utaken down and hauled out overnight. >> stat statue no longer stands out the maryland state house. bob barnard is live in annapolis now with the latest, bob. >> maureen, steve, good morning to you this statue stood here outside the east front o for 1 45 years and right now here's what's left green basically fly wood surrounding mavl pedestal he stood on all these years since 1872. video from 2:00 this morning the statue was driven away on the back of a flatbed truck. crews using crane and straps and lifted the statue off the pedestal. just before 2:00 in the morning. there were about a dozen or so people here watching and this statue will be taken to storage at least initially we'll see what happens whether it end up at mu steam or this point. where it stood since 1872 and statue was of roger b.b. taney. he wrod the dread scott decision that upheld slavery and denied african am

. >> thank you nor joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> today is wednesday, august 23. >> gary mcgrady in with us today with look at forecast. erin como she's checking out the roads hey headline. >> couple showers out this morning should not be a big issue for the morning commute that's always good and listen we're trending nice, nice, nice it looks like great weekend we'll talk about that coming up. >> i like the sound of weekend forecast on wednesday. hey we have beltway construction we'll get you around that. >> sounds good thank to you both of you. 5:01. >> caught on developing use overnight. tense standoff between police and protesters reaching a boiling point. thousands of demonstrator marching outside where the president was speaking peaceful throughout the day and those protests took a okay anotheric turn when they starting hurling rocks and bottles at officers. they had to use pepper spray and tier gas to disperse them. >> thousands of protesters ban together outside and inside president trump set a combative tone aat campaign style rally and addressed plans for imgraetion and po

good morning to you thank you for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm wisdom martin. >> today is wednesday, august 9. culpeper county, virginia. >> man, michael thomas talking about back to school weather for culpeper country kids and erin como has eyes on the road and mike what's the headline this morning. >> couldn't ask for a better day for back to school. sorry kids, georgous day today. comfortably cool. >> quiet in culpeper now and we have a police investigation in the district. we'll see how that is impacting your commute in southeast next. >>> and if you're getting up with us now 5:01 top story from breaking news paris france several soldiers rundown suburb of paris and what is believed to be a deliberate attack. six solders hurt two seriously when the drive of a vehicle hit them two hours ago. the manhunt is underway for the driver and the vehicle and no word whether the driver has terrorist ties. soldier hurt are part of force created in wake of several extremist attacks in france in 2015. >>> north korea best not make any more threats states. they will be met with fire and fury l

i'm maureen umeh >> i'm wisdom martin, today is wednesday, august 16th, first day of school for students in fauquier. >>> let's talk about the weather with caitlin roth. you got to help us. let's start with you, caitlin. >>> what you see is what you get with the live electronic dense fog advisory in effect for the whole area, i'll have the forecast and erin will have a look at the roads. >>> downed wires on darnstown road and we'll starting to see how bright that is. >> the whole teamworking for you. >>> let's bring you up to speed on breaking news out of baltimore, in the cover of night, the city removed at least two confederate statues. >>> several cities accelerated removal of the monuments in the wake of the deadly white nationalist rallily angelie hemphill is live in baltimore with the latest. >> reporter: good morning, guy, baltimore. we're here in why man park where the 2nd of two confederate statues were removed. it's a little dark but way down there on the street, that is a bronze statue that shows confederate robert e lee and stone wall jackson riding on horseback taken down in

i'm wisdom martin. >> and i'm maureen umeh. today is thursday august 17. >> erin como is watching the roads, caitlin roth talking weather. good morning. >> good morning maureen and wisdom. another warm start. we got of town. we're all under the risk for showers later this afternoon. details later. erin. >> volume increasing on inbound routes towards the district. orange line delays. a look at metro as we continue. >> thank you both. we'll check in with in you just a few. first now let's check on the stories you're just waking up with now at 5:31. we'll start with the latest out of charlottesville. thousands march in a candlelight vigil last night at the university of virginia. they peacefully moved throughout the campus before ending at the steps of the university's rotunda. the dean said the 5,000 that marched last night far outnumbered the crowd of white supremacists who rallied in the same area last week. >> they tried to kill my child to shut her up. well, guess what? you just magnified her. >> that's the mother of heather

maureen umeh joins us with the latest. >> good morning. we are getting a look at some of the first images coming in of that accident. happened as the ship was heading to port. right now the navy is using helicopters and the coast guard to search for those missing sailors. the collision of the u.s.s. john s. mccain guided missile destroyer and the mc tappinger a merchant vessel from liberia. happened monday in the strait of malacca. five soldiers were injured, four taken to a hospital. the olynyk is said to be destroyer is still said to be determined. >> the ship sustained a hole, a garb at the mid ship and the ship was taking in water. >> reporter: president trump asked to comment on the situation after arriving back at the white house. the commander-in-chief also tweeted thoughts and prayers are with our u.s. navy sailors aboard u.s.s. john s. mccain where search and rescue efforts are under way. the ship is named after senator john mccain's father and grandfather both navy admirals. senator mccain tweeted cindy and i are keeping america'

i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. today is thursday, august 10th. it is also the first day of school for students in rappahannock county and winchester city. >> wow, okay. mike thomas talking about our weather for this back to school day for some students t erin como is look, at the roads. mike, what's the headline. >> hey, guys, today a lot like yesterday for most of us. could pop a shower out to the west but here in d.c. just a few more clouds around, highs in the mid 80's. hey, erin. >> pretty pleasant thursday morning commute so far. we'll take a look at those metro rails see if they're shaping up as nicely as the roads next. >> let's get you caught up. tensions escalate as north korea indicates it's getting closer to an attack on gaum. >> the regime put out new statement responding to president trump's threat to bring fire and fury on the nation. fox5's melanie alnwick live outside the white house with the latest on that. good morning, mel. >> reporter: good and though he's not in the white house president trump's words are certainly raising te

. >> thank you nor joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> today is wednesday, august 23. >> gary mcgrady in with us today with look at forecast. erin como she's checking out the roads hey

i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. it's the first day of school for manassas park and for some students in the district. >> mike thomas is talking about your back to school forecast and back to work forecast as well. erin como has got her eye on the roads. hey, good morning, mike. >> hey, good morning maureen. we have cloudy skies in store for today, less sunshine than yesterday ans y hit or miss shower. we'll time it out for the you coming up. hey erin. >> roads are super quiet around the d. we'll take a look at metro and green line delays as we continue. >> thank you miss como, thank you mr. thomas. at 5:01 we'll take you to charlottesville virginia the latest there. the suspect accused of driving his car into a crowd of protesters on saturday is due to face a judge this morning. 20-year-old james fields jr. is facing second degree murder charges. authorities say he rammed his car into a large crowd of people who had gathered in charlottesville to rally against a white nationalist group. the incident killed 32-year-o

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. >> good morning to you, thank you for joining us, i'll maureen umeh and i'm wisdom martin. today is august 15, first day of schools for q. p morning, the head liep is clouds and showers are back toghts, a lot like they were yesterday afternoon for most the around the region. that's going to be a morning and first half of the day event today and then maybe later on this morning we'll break out into a little bit of sunshine. here's your forecast tuesday at eight:30 in the morning. have some showers rolling through front royal. they move across the district during the lunchtime hours. through at least the early afternoon we have to be on guard in d.c. there we are at 4:00 you'll see clouds get on a little bit. a baseball game tonight looks good. eighty-two today, clouds and showers. tomorrow sunshine is back but so is the heat, 90-degrees. that's weather, erin is back with weather. four:47 starting you off with a live look, 66 already some congestion building by southerly rode r. a little bit of a slow role william parkway through that point at southerly road. give yourself so

i'm maureen umeh. >> it is august 24th. it is also the first day of school in loudoun county at 4:45. >> gary mcgrady is here, erin como is here. let's start talking about the weather. >> well, maureen is still here so that means that she didn't buy her lottery ticket in massachusetts. >> i'm telling you. one day my ship will come in. >> pretty good today. we do have some clouds on each side of the day today. a little bit this morning. i think a little bit later on this evening. maybe some showers happening overnight tonight. let's show you the satellite and radar together. all the rain is off shore. the front is down there but we have a little bit of moisture collecting coming up i-95. that will greet us in the form of clouds early this morning as we get out and get going but again we're all dry so we won't have to worry about anything falling from the sky this morning that would further compound the morning commute. 72 in town now. lolower 60's north and west. they have clear skies up there. close to 59 in martinsburg. i

. >>> good morning to you, thank you for joining us, i'm maureen umeh >> i'm wisdom martin >> wednesday, august 16th, first day of school for students in fauquier county. virginia is rolling. >> all these kids back to school. what are they facing they say head back? we got your weather headline with caitlin roth and your traffic headline with erin. >>> good morning to you both. about back to school already. it's just shocking mid-august back to school. the weather out there, warm, and it's also thick, we got a dense fog advisory in i want you to until 9:00 a.m. the only exception eastern shore extreme south maryland, the rest of us is dense outside there. this forecast for today, we're going to start off cloudy were dense fog in spots, lit take awhile to slowly burn out. dense fog over by about 9:00 a.m. it will take until about lunch for sunshine, it will be warm and humid, 89 with the high temperature, yesterday, what was so humid, was that, not overly hot. high temperatures in the low 80's. we're back to where we should be, 87 for tomorrow, thursday, plenty of sunshine a chance of th

i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm holly morris. it is thursday, august 3rd. >> all right. mike thomas is talking about our near perfect weather. caitlin roth has her eyes on the road. what's the headline today. >> guys, the key word there was near perfect because we have to watch out for a couple thunderstorms later this afternoon. but generally you're right, a nice summer day temperatures around the low >> i can kind of time my dinner break to those thunderstorms that are occurring daily now. helps me know it's time to go water. we have one overnight crash we're following on the outer loop right now. otherwise some areas of construction. i'll give you the full rundown coming up. holly and maureen. >> 5:01 is the time. let's get to breaking news on several overnight fires in the district. three house fires within a matter of hours stretch crews across the city. >> right now we are told that one firefighter is fighting for his life after a mishap at one of those scenes. at another scene, two d.c. police officers are being credited for saving lives. fox5's melanie alnwick li

. >> good morning to you thank you for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm wisdom martin. >> today is wednesday, august 2. there you go. there they are. ready to work. caityln roth, michael thomas talking traffic and weather. good morning to you both. >> good morning to you as well. today, weather-wise a lot like yesterday in terms of storms maybe popping up in the afternoon and another hot and humid one coming your way today. it will feel like august 2 should. let's get to it. 11:30 a.m. lunch time hour. heat builds into the afte afternoon. showers and thunderstorms much like yesterday. what pops up may not move too fast. we'll have to keep our eye on that and flash flooding concerns and nothing majors. whatever we have will fade away. again tor lower 90s both days. 9 both days and answer khav showers and storms. let's get a check of the forecast and back with traffic this morning. hey, caityln. >> mike, big story continuing to follow route 10 prince george koptsy indian head highway shut down due to fatal accident involving motorcyclist shortly after midnight tonight. you cannot acc

i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm wisdom martin. back to school. >> back to school already. back to our weather forecast with mike thomas who has got the headlines, erin como is keeping her eyes on the road. mike what is today holding. >> a pretty good day, a lot like yesterday. starting off nice and cool and suburbs and this afternoon most of us will feature a good amount of sunshine with temps in the mid 80's. the one exception is to the west. at 11:00 a.m. everybody dry and feeling pleasant but watching clouds roll into the west. you'll see a little bit of patchy green on there. little chance of a shower out to the mountains to the west. at 7:30 a little bit of green on the extreme left-hand side of your screen there. here in d.c. it will just be clouds kind of on the increase but for the most part it's going to be a dry day and a very beautiful afternoon. that's a check of the weather forecast. erin is back with traffic. hey, erin. >> 4:47 right now. aside from some utility work that we're tracking on baltimore avenue, just outside is the beltway, we are -- maryland we'r

i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm wisdom martin. today is monday august 21st 2017, also the first day of school for d.c. public schools. >> caitlin roth has your back to school forecast, erin como has your back to school road conditions. caitlin let's start with you and the headline. >> good morning to you maureen and wisdom. back to school is going to be hot. we have another warm one ahead and thunderstorms are in the forecast later this afternoon affecting recess after school time and of course that thing we've been talking about, the total solar eclipse. 76 degrees outside right now. feels a little more humid. we are outlooked for a marginal risk of thunderstorms later this afternoon. probably any time after 2 o'clock. pop-up storms not widespread but some could be strong and obviously limit your visibility out there. high temperatures in the low 90's. that's a quick look at your forecast. more comi coming up at 4:55. erin. >> a crash involving a overturned vehicle it's inside the beltway clara barton parkway impacted in both dir

i'll there be, steve will be there and maureen umeh will be there as well we'll have a graft. saturday and sunday temperatures into the 70s for a high. absolutely gorgeous weekend. that's a check of the weather. steve and allison i'll send it back to you. >> thank you very much. well fox is looking to make a new child star with its open call to find the new raffle fee. it's for the live production of a christmas story. nationwide casting call is under way to find the lead character. you can submit your child digitally until tuesday. maya rudolph has been played to play raffle fee's mom it airs december 17th. >> with crazy weather we've had yesterday d.c. area no stranger to flash floods. that makes new book for kids extremely timely it's called freddie the frog caster. and the flash flood. it's the latest in the freddie series from janice dean who's the senior meteorologist at fox news channel and janice joins us this morning from new york. we love it. good morning to you. >> aww thank you steve and allison much it's wonderful to be your program this morning thank you for prom

. >> good morning to you thank four joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm holly morris. >> tuesday, august 22. this is also the first day of school for clark county, virginia. >> all right. good luck at school this year. caitlin roth is looking at weather and erin and is looking at roads. caitlin what's the headline. >> maureen, holly, hot for today. not feeling like back to school weather. te but cooler days aheads in the 7 day forecast. that's coming up, erin. >> all metro rail lines on time. problem 95 lorton look at that next. >> if you're just getting up with us we're following several breaking news stories right now. first bwi marshall airport where a&b security checkpoints are closed because of security investigation. bwi awarning some early morning flights may ab infect the about this and again security investigation closing two checkpoints at bwi this could impact flights this morning. please check with airline before headed out. >> breaking overnight 33 people treated for injuries they suffered during a train crash at a station in suburban philadelphia. around 12:15 this morning

good morning to you thank you for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm holly morris. >> i 1 believe it or not. >> michael thomas talking about weather and caitlin roth looking at traffic. mike, what's the headline. >> august first will feel like august first. temperatures to low 90s. nothing extreme. low tutty. >> not supposed to have too much traffic in august. quiet month around here. off season. as we take a look at major not too many problems just construction to begin tuesday. i'll have a full update coming up. >> sounds good both of you thank you. right now the time is 5:01 and new this morning public reports say initial statement by donald trump jr. explaining meeting with the russian lawyer last year was actually written by president trump himself. ard coming to the "washington post" the president dictated this statement with characterized meeting as fo focusing on russian adoptions not campaign issues and subsubsequent statements ak knowledgeed meeting was really about information on then candidate hillary clinton. according to the report advisor his characterization of the me

. >> good morning to you thank you for join is us i'm maureen umeh. >> it's august 2. >> we're looking at michael thomas talking about weather. my goodness, caitlin roth the traffic issues are bad this morning. >> another hot and humid day today. chance of popup shower or storm. highs today in low 0 osz. hi, caityln. >> following a fatal accident involveing a motorcycle on indian headway way. northbound 210 shut down palmer road. i'll have your work arounds coming right up. >> thank you, we'll check back in a few. >> yet another crashing for the indian hoy way maryland. autopsyy, good morning. >> good morning, maureen, holly, well this area indian head highway certainly is a row way that drivers have to be extra vigilant. this is an area that we've en multiple fatal crashes and according to aaa there were four motorcyclists killed along indian head highway since 2014 to 2017 over the last three years we're talking about four motorcyclists killed. if you look behind me here straight back there this is the median area. if you look closer to the median that's where we can see the motorcyc

our steve chenevey, our maureen umeh and mike thomas, too. good morning. >> hey, good morning to you. we are aboard the fredericksburg express. [cheers and applause] >> zip trip rolling into fredericksburg virginia. [cheers and applause] >>> we've got a very excited -- [cheers and applause] >>> steve, can you believe this. >> what a great way to make an entrance, right. >> look at this. >> this is fantastic. >> this crowd came out bright traveling as far as applause] >> what's up, fredericksburg? [cheers and applause] >> there we go, there we go. >> yes. oh, my goodness, this is so exciting. [cheers and applause] >>> fredericksburg virginia, woo! oh, man, what can you say? oh, my gosh. >> fredericksburg represent today. >> we love that. >> if i didn't know better i would think this was some sort of a fair or something but they came out for our zip trip, they're excited, we're excited. mike thomas you got things pumping for us. >> yeah, yeah, fredericksburg is great. >> it's exhausting and it's only 7 o'clock. [cheers and applause] >> what's a

i'm maureen umeh. >> i'm steve chenevey. >> great to be here. >> if you are waking up with this us this morning it's a live look outside at the capitol dome. muggy start to the day. 78 already and getting hotter. woo. all right. >> keeping an eye on storms too. >> weather and traffic, caitlin and erin are standing by caitlin you're up first. >> busy friday hea into effect 11 a.m. feeling 100 to 105 later this afternoon and threat of severe weather. coming up in my forecast. erin. >> 7:00 and we're not seeing bad delays on 66 eastbound disabled vehicle by 50 looking at rest of commute in maryland and metro as we continue with the next look at traffic. >> thank you both. 7:0 1st time breaking news annapolis. controversial statue taken down and hauled away over overnight. >> maryland residents waking up to find that statue no longer stands outside of maryland state house. bob barnard is live in annapolis right in front of where the statue stood until a few hours ago. bob. >> steve, good morning to you. nearly a century and a ha

. >> wisdom martin, maureen umeh, good morning. >> here all morning. so this morning, are we talking a downpour or some string sprinkles here and there. >> some sprinkles also here and there. nothing like what we had say saturday afternoon. >> this is what i do every day. >> i see. i digress. >> here's what you need, give me a forecast for this afternoon. >> why? >> because you have basketball present and i'm going to make them go >> suicide on the lawn. i need to know how much water i'm going to need for them, rain or not this afternoon? >> water is for winners. >> let's get you to the forecast >> there may be some water coming down from the sky. >> they can drink that. >> satellite and radar. satellite and radar showing some light rain showers coming across the district. look off to the west, you see a little more steadier rain through harrison bugger. a couple of patches of rain going to come through later on this morning and maybe linger into the early afternoon hours. we might get some light day sun, but not too much of it. reagan at 75, bwi73, hu

i'm maureen umeh caitlin roth, kevin mccarthy and paul wharton. holly has the morning off. steve starting his weekend a little early we'll keep it down for you here in the loft. >> paul you got to teach me -- >> the dab. >> i just did a normal wave. >> i didn't even do anything. >> both of you bringing it this morning. >> jazz up my entrance. >> it is friday. >> i agree. tone 03:00. head back out to gaithersburg in just a few minutes. first caitlin has check on what's making headlines this morning. caitlin. >> thank you kevin. it's been very busy friday morning and we begin with breaking news from prince george's county. fox5 was the first to bring you. a large police presence that you'll see in this live picture right here in a clinton, maryland, neighbor. for what officials say right now is a death investigation. this is on-going at a home in the 6400 block of brook jane drive. that's not far from brandywine road if you're familiar witness clinton area. several streets in the neighborhood are sealed off and k9 dogs are patrolling that area. as soon as we get more informat

maureen umeh jones us with the latest. >> reporter: the president was blaming many sides for the violence in charlottesville. one woman was killed and dozens more hurt after a man plowed his car into a crowd of counter protesters. on monday, in a carefully worded address, the president denounced the white supremacist and called racism evil. but then yesterday, the president was back to blaming both sides. >> protesters are riled up against over donald trump's remark on charlottesville. large crowds gathered outside trump tower tuesday to voice anger with the commander in chief. many were already upset he didn't condemn white supremacist groups. in the immediate aftermath. he did acknowledge them in hit latest press conference but critics believe he equated the actions of the white national groups with the people protesting them. >> i think there's blame on both sides. you look at both sides. i think there's blame on both sides. and i have doubt about it. >> i watched the press conference, and said get your shoes on we're leaving and we came down >> protesters accused the president of givi

. >> maureen umeh joins us in studio. >> christopher cant well is the white nationalist accused of pepper spraying someone a day before the deadly protest. he calls it self-defense. now he's facing felony charges. one of the organizers and participants of the charlottesville rallies is now behind bars. chris cant well turned himself in to virginia police wednesday. charged with two counts of illegal use of tear gas and one count of malicious

. >> tucker barnes, maureen umeh and annie yu join us live. good morning, crew. >> ♪ >> hey, good morning to you. >> hey. >> hey, hey. [cheers and applause] >> wow. >> village at leesburg. oh, my goodness. bright and early this morning we already got a crowd. this is an amazing place to be, so beautiful lots of shops, places to eat, people live right here. >> it's funny to see them pop their heads out and say good morning to us but this area is like that small hometown feel. >> absolutely. >> but close enough to the city where you can enjoy the best of both worlds and i'm excited to see village at leesburg. 60 boutiques and restaurants. a wonderful place to dine and hang out. >> and don't forget shop, too, indeed. just over 30 miles from d.c. so if you're thinking about coming out this way we'll show you why you should definitely come out this way throughout this morning as trip at -- here in le leesburg village at leesburg. >> our expectation is very high today. [applause] >> my goodness. listen, we are having terrific weather here today. i

thanks for joining us i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm holly morris. it is friday august 4th. >> it's the lady show. caitlin roth doing weather and traffic. good morning to you. >> good morning to you both ladies. it is going to be a very nice morning for a zip trip or wherever you're headed. thunderstorms in the forecast yet again. weekend looks forecast and a check of your roads. >> hardest working woman this morning. 5 o'clock is the time right now. if you're just getting up let's catch you up on top stories. d.c. police searching for several gunmen who opened fire on a group of people in northeast last night t1 person was killed, three others were injured in the shooting which happened outside an exxon station in the 3400 block of 18th street northeast. the scene is just a block away from john burroughs elementary school. investigators have not said if they know who they're looking for any motive in the case. >> rookie d.c. firefighter remains in critical condition. a ladder truck hit dane smothers jr. as he was responding to a house fire in northe

i'm maureen umeh in for allison seymour. >> and i'm steve chenevey welcome to fox5 news morning. breaking at 6 o'clock this morning an incredibly busy night for d.c. firefighters. crews responding to several house fires and a deadly crash with a fire. >> these scenes stretched across northeast and northwest d.c. at one scene a firefighter is critically injured. at another d.c. police officers risk their lives to safe others. >> melanie alnwick on top of it all. she joins us from washington hospital center in northwest. mel. >> reporter: good morning, guys. and 28-year-old dane smothers jr. is a probationary firefighter. we're told he just got out of surgery a little while ago but he will probably have serious trauma to his upper body and a very, very long road to recovery. now, he was riding on engine three overnight last night and into this morning when they got a call for a two-alarm fire in a row house in the 800 block of f street northwest. as smothers dismounted the vehicle, he was getting ready to connect some of the hoses, truck seven, a ladder truck, came onto the scene a

. >> maureen umeh joins us in studio. >> christopher cant well is the white nationalist accused of pepper spraying someone a day before the deadly protest. he calls it self-defense. now he's facing felony charges. one of the organizers and participants of the charlottesville rallies is now behind bars. chris cant well turned himself in to virginia police wednesday. charged with two counts of illegal use of tear gas and one count of malicious injury. cant well insists he pepper sprayed counterprotesters in didefense. he was featured a documentary about extremist groups he walked about wanting to create a white state and trying to make himself more violent. cant well posted a youtube video crying over his outstanding warrants. >> i don't think it's wise for me to be, you know, going -- going anywhere. we have done everything in our power. we have used every peaceful and -- and lawful means by which to redress our grievances. >> reporter: meanwhile in charlottesville, the debate over confederate statues sparked by the rally reaches a new level. city officials have covered monuments of robert

for details, let's send it back out to maureen umeh. >>> hey, maureen guys, yes i am, g morning to you again. we're we are with our hometown team and tomorrow townhome the he have green lacrosse club and these are the fellas we've got coaches, we've got the owner. let me give you introductions. chris about czar the owner. thiss and this is choppy. choppy known as jason burke also the coach. lt's start with you. you are the owner of this wonderful club. why lacrosse? >> well, we wanted to bring kind of a new program to the area. three years ago we decided we were going to have a developmental program focus on skills, development a lot of new kids that want to get into the game of lacrosse and we provide them a venue for that. but we also have very elite players as well. but we wanted to open it up to kind of everybody in the community that wanted to get into lacrosse. >> boys and girls. >> we started out with boys and girls. right now we're just a boys club. >> you're doing amazing things as you said. this is elite club by the way elite because they've got wonderful coaches like you two

so someone out there there are naked pictures of maureen umeh out in the universe? >> body, it is a beautiful thing. let's move on. >> seriously. >> ya, something you haven't seen before? make body but a celebrity and you take a naked photo, i mean, let me tell you, if i had lindsey vaughn's body i would naked all day. >> would you? >> really. >> if you were an athlete in the best physical shape of your life. >> and everybody just hacking your pictures? >> i would walk into the loft naked. >> and they sell your pictures for a thousand dollars a picture? >> it is okay, cut me in on this. >> exactly. >> exactly. >> cut me another deal. >> there go. >> don't profit off of me. >> freak out over neckedness. >> jay-z talking about his 2014 elevator incident with his sister-in-law, salage. >> after the 2014 met gala video actually kicking while sister "tmz" leaked the video. headlines made. jay-z said before and after the unfortunate incident, what they called it, they're cool. he says she's like a sister. he'll protect her. he made those comments when he was doing a segme

it is 9:00 sorry one on this wednesday, august 9th i'm maureen umeh, alongside allison seymour and steve schenn 15 the wisdom martin. holly is off. >> d.c. hospital was ordered to stop baby deliveries and prenatal care. what does it mean for patients in the region? we'll get an update on that story coming up many. >> all right. we're going to talk about the weather at some point this morning because parts of the region feeling like fall early this morning. waking up to temperatures in the 50s. get that in the 50s. >> you did. >> on the ground, yes. >> like ten brown leaves. really? >> um-hmm. >> summer is over for at least one part of the region. meanwhile culpeper county schools back in session this morning. back in session. school is back in culpeper county. tucker barnes will be back with a check of the forecast coming up in just a few minutes. we were talking about it earlier glad to see the kids back in school. it seems too early for me. >> yeah. >> not unless they're getting out of school the first week of may. >> a month before labor day. >> almost. >> my nieces down south are alr

i'm maureen umeh in for allison seymour. >> and i'm steve chenevey. >> if you're just waking inthis morning here's a live look outside. right now things extremely clear and beautiful. man, but maybe some changes for the solar eclipse. >> not liking what i'm seeing on the horizon tucker as far as seeing that sun. good morning. >> yeah, let's be clear. we're partly sunny right now and we're going to be partly sunny this afternoon so we'll just keep our fingers crossed that things work out timing wise but we have a chance for thunderstorms later today. all the details on the weather coming up. erin. >> we have driving tips for you while traveling during the solar eclipse today but right now for your morning commute southbound baltimore parkway one lane gets by a crash at 197. big delays there. we'll get you those work around with your full look at traffic. back to you. >> let's get to the news right now. we'll start with breaking news coming out of france. at least one woman killed after a car rammed into two bus stops. happened about two hours ago in the port s city of marseilles. the driver

. >> maureen umeh kevin mccarthy and tucker barnes already having a a whole lot of fun. >> yay! >> good morning. >> whoo-hoo! [cheers and applause] >> good morning from beautiful culpeper, virginia. oh, my goodness, this place is just fantastic. well worth the drive from d.c. the hospitality insane. >> i've already had an entire cinnamon roll to myself and it was the best cinnamon roll i've had in my life. deli sandwiches. the hospitality is culpeper is amazing. i can't believe how many people turned out so early this morning to say hello its, what, about an hour, 15 from d.c. >> yeah. >> about. it's well worth the drive. you cannot beat this. we are in a very good place for a zip trip. we'll you all about culpeper, the beautiful things you can do, the beautiful things you can see. >> the crowd is a great sign we have so many great viewers in culpeper. thanks for coming out so early in the 6:00 a.m. hour. [cheers and applause] >> so awesome. >> we are going to share much more of culpeper with you with our five must stops as well as introduce you to some of the hometown heroes. i

maureen umeh joins us in studio with more. >> it looks like teeth of rivals and and new chief of staff. >> and putting a strategy together. >> like retired marine he has del kelly has already established chain of command. even ivanka trump and jared kushner must get to him to go through the president. anthony scaramucci will report to no one. kelly's first move was to recommend piering scaramucci after explicatives filled grant to new yorker. >> he felt that anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that position and didn't want to burden general kelly. >> truex. supporters are hoping kelly can improve relations with congress marked by hand hand add text to push senators into health care. >> i don't want to talk about tweeting or anything else. i want donald trump to lead the republican party to take money and power out of washington when it comes to obamacare. >> now the controversy for kelly to handle the post reporting it was president trump himself that gek date statement i'm meeting with russian lawyer during the campaign. this could draw more unwanted attention for co

. >> ♪ >> i'm maureen umeh along allison seymour and wisdom martin. holly has the morning off. we'll check in with steve chenevey down in charlottesville in just a moment. >> first though let's get down to steve chef chenevey in fact. the latest in charlottesville. the suspect accused of driving his car into a peaceful crowd of protprotesters on saturday due e in court right now. 20-year-old james fields, jr., facing second degree murder charges. he rammed his car into large crowd of people who gathered in charlottesville to rally against a white national group. >> the incident killed 32-year-old heather heyer and left others protests took place on sunday from new york to seattle to right here in the district. people converged to did you why the violence in virginia. >> steve is live outside the district court in charlottesville with the latest g morning, steve. >> reporter: good morning, guys. we moved up the hill a couple of blocks from we were earlier showing you the memorials that were growing for heather heyer and those were injured when that vehicle struck into that group

so maureen umeh joins us in studio with more. i put it in air quotes because that's the big operative word,. >> i can't wait to hear what the haters are hating on today. >> i want to you weigh in as well at home. it sparks controversy. here's the deal. serena is due sometime in september, you kno her first child with her fee an same interview in question with australian magazine stellar williams was asked how she feels giving birth will change her and she responded "i have so much respect for so many women for giving birth. i'm about to be a real woman now, you know. it's going to be something incredibly impressive to go through quote those of course had swift backlash online. they thought she equated real woman with having a baby. here some of the tweets she received. what a ridiculous comment. i am not less of a woman because i don't have children. giving birth doesn't give you strength. it gives you stretch marks and a baby. you're showing the world that having money doesn't make you smart. this person tweeted, serena williams

the wait is almost over for maureen umeh and all the taylor swift fans out there. [ laughter ] >> oh, my gosh. >> because the pop star is set to release new music tonight. >> swift posted announcement her social media pages yesterday. no word on what that first single will be. while the album doesn't come out until notify, swift also teased fans with a first look at the cover. it's called reputation and it shows the singer in black and white covered in news >> but it looks like every word is taylor or swift. >> oh really. >> the headlines you need to know, steve. >> i don't know if there were hidden messages in the news print. >> i'm sure they're trying to decipher them as we speak. the singer song writer posted a new individual 83 to her page the third and final in her snake series. like we told you yesterday fans suspect the singer is trying to reclaim the snake emoji which became away for people to troll her after her her feuds with calvin harris and came kardashian. internet shoes point to the title of the album and the cover as proof the singer is calling attention to all the med

wisdom martin, holly morris, maureen umeh and steve chenevey. >> also ahead this morning, kids are heading back to school as you know that means less time to check devices coming up later, we're talking about some of the apps you need to know to keep your chi children safe. >>> all right first up at 9:00 o'clock dramatic scene in the moments after the president's campaign style rally in phoenix. what star the peaceful protests turned unruly when demonstrators ran into people supporting the area. police did make a few arrests. nobody was injured. minute speech he covered a wide range of topics. >> it was eventful to say the leave. the president mostly focused on his domestic agenda last night. he talk about immigration, border security and also spent time bashing the media while defending his remarks on charlottesville. >> a guy just got shot. >> violent end to protest. anti trump activists out in the streets of phoenix some throwing bottles and rock at police who tried to disperse the crowds. and these protests had gone on for hours. >> we are sick and tired of him. he needs to straight ti

umeh joins us with the latest >> good morning the president was heavily criticized saturday for blaming quote many sides for the violence in charlottesville. one woman killed, dozens more hurt after a man plowed his car into a crowd of counter protesters on monday in a carefully worded address, the president denounced the white supremacists and called racism evil but then yesterday, the president was back to blaming both sides. >> does anybody an infrastructure >> president trump hoped to talk about infrastructure and had a prop ready to drive home a point. but he was almost immediately questioned about weekend violence in charlottesville, virginia. and he reverted back to his original stance. >> what about the alt left that came charging as you say the alt right. do they have any semblance of guilt >> the statement was denounced by critics on the left but divided some on the right >> what trump did today was a moral disgrace >> we have to be honest about the evil of racism and also honest about the evil of a far left that is trying to tear down both history and intimidate free speech i