d.c. department of health all traveled outside of the u.s. the central or south america. the first case discovered in 2015 and the other two discovered in 2016. there have been two confirmed cases in virginia as well. i could lead to birth defects in pregnant women. c.d.c. issued traveled a vies are for 28 territories warning pregnant women to avoid travel in areas if possible. the d.c. department of health says they are working with the c.d.c to monitor and to track cases here. reaction tonight from the people here in the nation's capital. >> if it were an area that was maybe more underdeveloped i might be more fearful. >> it's a shame. >> the d.c. department of health says you need to know there is no immediate health threat for people here if you have not traveled outside of here. there is no vaccine or immediate treatment for people who contract zika. but there are things if you are traveling to do to prepare yourself. make sure you have this. make sure you have long sleeves on while y

d.c. area is under a winter weather advisory. we have team coverage covering the morning commute. one good thing i'm seeing tonight is temperatures are still in the 40s. unlike that clipper that came through a couple of weeks ago when it was so terribly cold and everything stuck, we're going to see the snow that begins to develop later tonight initially melting. thanks to the temperatures that are still in thete 40s across te region. even so the timing is rush and we think this could have a moderate effect on your morningy commute tomorrow.co here's the bottom line. l we're going to see some rain showers that are currently in the eastern suburbs start to mit with and change to snow overnight. there could be up to a coating, maybe an inch for d.c. it looks like the wenter chancet of seeing a small accumulation is going to be east of 95 and ad closer to the chesapeake bay. by it also looks like it's picking up a little bit ofki speed and this all should be done by by around the sun comes up.

. >> d.c. mayor muriel bowser sent out a statement saying byny noon today the district planst to deploy more than 200 plows.nw those crews will be b pretreating bridges highwaysesiy and residential streets with stt salt. mayor bowser says plows will w remain in place until the t threat of the storm is gone. >> get updates throughout the day on fox5d.c.com and the t fox5 d.c. weather app.. weher >> the denver broncos did win w the super bowl, yes, but i, don't think we're going to talk about that right now. abo we're going to get to a little l bit of local news starting in st the district. this morning police are stille l investigating a violent crashsh that happened near nationals nao park. three he people were taken to tn the hospital. h it started with the driver whove was trying to get away fromm police.po at least one car was completely mangled.lete the bumper was found wrappedra around a light post at a -- was found wrapped around ad light post at a nearby nea intersection. one victim was

t d.c. marina marraco fox 5. >>thank you the other big storyg a lot of people talking aboutki this one the weather. >> the snow how much are we a going to get. all eyes on the forecast for the next 24 to 48 hours. that is when the next round of o snow will move into our area. a we want to get into mike thomas. >>> joins lauren, we are watching more snow that s word being mention add round dmv once again. this will not, this is not going to be what we had in january. we're talking about a lighter snow, however, the timing of tim that snow is going to bee crucial. that's going to lead to bigger impact because that could come through during the morning rusht hour on tuesday. here's what you canheou expect. we're giving this a moderate mod impact on our little scale hear. again, more because of timing tm and less so because of amount. it will not be a big snowfall for the d.c. area. we're going one to three inchesh here in washington with emphasis on that un one inch as opposednh to three. more

the goal is to close d.c. d.c general by the fall of 2017. the flint water crisis has caught the nation's attention. that includes the second grader from prince william county. he is doing his part to affectft the children affected by itt floweries flint.fl after hearing about the water crisis he called the school inn flint to ask how he could help.h they told him, well, we have enough drinking water, but there's no way for us to wash his hands. with the help of his classmates erased more than $900 to buy hand sanitizer much that's enough for dozens of cases for students and for teachers in flint. > we raised up higher than our goal. we wanted to go 500, but we got 550, i think. he took an idea and ran with it and i just wanted to support hih in any way that i could and encourage him to just follow his dreams. he had something and he can do it. > how wonderful.ow w we're going to have much more oo this incredible story and that incredible young man coming up tonight on fox5 local news at at 10. it was a special day for one wounded warrior. th

d.c. one of the patients is a pregnant woman. what public health officials are doing to prevent future infections in our own background. plus, the irs computer glitch that could impact anyone who recently tried to file their tax returns online. fox5 a local news at 11 starts right now. thanks for joining us tonight, i'm shawn yancy and i'm tony perkins. many of us don't even want to think about snow after the recent police area, but there's another clipper moving our way tomorrow. right now, much much of the d.c. area is under a winter weather advisory. we have team coverage covering the morning commute. one good thing i'm seeing tonight is temperatures are still in the 40s. unlike that clipper that came through a couple of weeks ago when it was so terribly cold and everything stuck, we're going to see the snow that begins to develop later tonight initially melting. thanks to the temperatures that are still in the 40s across the region. even so the timing is rush and we think this could ha

"fox5" d.c. on facebook and twitter and the "fox5" d.c. weather app. >> and melanie's shot shows you how different it can be in relatively close distance you know what i'm saying. >> she's right on the northern edge this little heavier snow band we're talking about. couple of things of note with melanie's report there. a grassy area accumulating. roadways not so much. >> that's good that's the perfect snow. >> i understand. keep in mind they're right at 32 up there. so we'll have places that come down to 32. maybe a little below that all right? >> also coming in anne arrundel schools now on two hour delay as well. >> i think that is what will happen. frederick i don't know this for a fwhakt does frek frederick say. >> i don't think we heard from them yet. >> i think they should probably cancel. because they're going to get more up there and they'll deal with it obviously i'll tell them what to do an a lot of two hour delays around. there clarksburg and purple there that's september ral northern montgomery koptsy up to southern parts of fre

d.c. council will hold a performance oversight hearing from fire and emergency medical department. city is trying to improve the medical response system. earlier this week mayor muirial bowser office announce aid deal with private ambulance company and will provide help with low priority calls. >> this morning d.c. family is demanding answers after the death of their be loved dog. on monday their dog le kai was electrocuted. live in northwest with the details. for anyone if you're not a dog ow >> absolutely. it is indeed, heartbreaking and the family is very heartbroken over this as you can imagine. and they're demanding for answers. this is the apartment complex here. the vaness apartments in d.c. the owners of le okay skyler and pam kelly believe she was electrocuted on the property here. this is a public sidewalk where a lot of dog owners do not walk dogs they walk them on the other side beyond this building right here on property. and if you take a look at their dog le okay, 8 years ol

d.c. police say they have arrested two people for a ip back in 1991. 44-year-old michael green of northeast d.c. and 45-year-old benito valdez are charged with first-degree murder. police say the three victims were shot execution-style. they were found dead in a park at 18th street and franklin streets northeast. nearly 25 years ago. we caught up with the sister of one of those victims today. >> we are very relieved and very hopeful that we will -- that the system will get a conviction and the perpetrators will be removed from society and could never hurt anybody else again. >> reporter: police believe the murders were likely drug- related. there were 482 homicides in the city back in 1981. making it one of the deadliest years on record. >> reporter: police are investigating a shooting that happened today at a montgomery county hotel. a man was found with wounds to both of his legs at a travel lodge motel. police say the victim told them he was the attempted robbery. he also said a second

d.c. family and housekeeper. darin win faces felony charges including murder, kidnapping and arson. last may win broke into the northwest home of savis and amy savapolis. she accused of stealing 40,000 and setting the house on fire. win is expected to appear in court later this week. >> d.c. mayor muirial bow ser taking heat over her plan to build eight more homeless shelters around the city. they voiced their opinion northwest. "fox5" marina morocco is there with t >> this meeting taking place in vannecessary. standing rome north that home at the senior citizen learning communicate tee mad at the de they say was made under the table. they say there was a process they have knowledge of and mayor refusing to say which site she ruled out and mayor refusing to say why she picked the sites she did, eight total sites and d.c. general largest homeless shelter in the district will close by 20 18. now mayor becauseer inside the senior citizen community fielding agrees residents. many of who, again

d.c. residents, including a pregnant woman are diagnosed with the zika virus. they do see their healthcare provider, so we constantly monday their situation and make sure that their health is fine. d.c. department of health, senior deputy director angelo tool walker says in all three cases the d.c. residents traveled abroad to zika infected regions. they reportedly contracted the virus there before returning to the district. what we really try to tell people who is at the highest risk and that is going to be pregnant women. there are some special precautions we can take with that group. we want them to see their healthcare provider if they've had recent travel to an infected area just so they can be monitored. > one case was diagnosed in may. one male, one female, both of

d.c. utility regulators struck down controversial $6.8 billion proposal to merge the city electric supplier with exelon. leon: the deal is not exactly dead. it's still very much alive. d.c. bureau chief sam ford on the story and is live with the new conditions set by the public service commission. tell us about it. sam: leon, maureen, i would call it tweaking. more oversight and more putting things ou so for a lot of people it seems that the supporters are happy, the opponents are not. >> the chair votes yes, the motion is carried. sam: the cheering on the yes vote rejecting the pepco-exelon merger came too soon. minutes later the board held another vote saying if pepco-exelon agreed to change certain provisions that the board didn't like in two weeks the deal would be approved automatically. that passed. to the ire of deal opponents. >> we have a well functioning financially stable company that does distribution. now we are going to tie ourselves to the ma mom money-lose -- mammoth, money

they usually are coming in, not from the d.c. area, usually usu coming in from maryland or virginia they and they needhe spaces to park.y nearly 300 people were at saturday afternoon's meeting. cyclists say protected bike bik lanes keep people save and even safe lives. you can also look at the publicb investment where it's much cheaper to get people to move by bike than it is by car. worshipers feel parking iss already hard to come by. by. our church is 158 years old. o that was 19 -- i'm sorry, 1858. that's five years before slavery ended. we're a very historic church. we've been in this this neighborhood almost since we've' been in existence. they are making a pitch that bike lanes will help ease traffic, are more ecofriendly m andor safer. we're looking at how to build protected bike lanes because b they provide better safety and make better delineation betweenb where drivers are and bikers are. there are a fifth option of dog nothing. that option doesn't sit well with many people.y a big part of the problem here is that these

. >> d.c. city council vote add no mussly to approve a bill that include a proposal to pay residents a stipend not to commit crime. "fox5" megan live from the wilson building with more. good morning, megan. >> hey, good morning, guys, good morning to all of you. you know that old addage crime doesn't pay well that just might not be true. this is aimed as reducing violent crimes in the city that saw a 54% increase in homicides just last year and take a look at this. this is how this all breaks down. this is aimed at around 200 designated at risk d.c. residents to not commit crimes. it would be a yearly stipend that could be around 9,000 based on similar program that translates to 5 million over 4 years and now the mayor has not fully committed to funding this bill yet and if she does not they would have to find through new taxes or cutting funding of other programs. this is modeled after a similar program in richmond, california. leaders there say they have seen a significant drop in crime. no w

d.c. so much people just don't know and today is a tutorial where we are going to educate and inform people about the do's and don't. joining us is inspector spirits president and owner of d.c. conceal and carry. and brian buckfelt who is a private investigators with the buckfelt group. what are the laws to carry and own guns? >> fire must be registered. on top of that, you have to have a concealed carry permit to bear arms outside of your home or place of business. >> armstrong: what are the things you can do if you have those permits of the concealed home? permit. you need to go get training. once you get training, therefore you need to know situational awareness and the laws for self-defense. >> armstrong: brian how are the laws different in virginia and maryland. >> virginia has open carry for citizens of virginia as well as non citizens. they do have a concealed carry, you can register the firearm and get your concealed carry permit. the laws are in the district. >> d.c. doesn't have

d.c. general was d.c.'s largest family shelter and last year the council voted in support of mayor bowser's plan. . >> a group of mom's made d.c. for handling of flint water crisis. mother from mish mesh and missouri will speak at the national press club 10 this morning addressing a failure to act. they call the epa response to crisis a serious threat to public health and flint michigan is reeling from ongoing led and toxic chemical crisis in drinking water. >> coming up next update on where the show -- snow is fal falling and how long it will stake around. >> that's not good. >> no. >> let's do that. >> and reminder before we take to you the break if you have a news tip share with us by calling or you can email our tips to "fox5" tips at wttg.com. tips to "fox5" tips at wttg.com. back in a moment >> good morning, welcome back. a mix fell through most of the night and transition in the city and even points south and east. good news is temperatures at least you're in town remain above freezing and that's hol

the next steps in shutting down d.c.'s largest homeless shelter. the d.c. council voted to close down d.c. general. the plan is to replace it with small, short-term housing facilities throughout the city. the council will discuss the next steps in that plan tomorrow. abc 7.th us here at we will continue to follow the story and keep you updated. is on your side with health matters. president obama is asking congress for emergency funding to help fight the zika virus. he wants more than $1.8 billion to prevent the virus from spreading in the u.s. the mood -- the money would be used for mosquito control and vaccines. the cdc says 50 americans have returned from traveling abroad infected with the zika virus. leon: coming up on thursday on abc 7, we spent nearly one third of our lives in bed. think about the quality of the mattress you are sleeping on in that time. foundl show you what we when we took a close look inside one. we were shocked what we found in this mattress test. do not miss it. alison: we are minutes away from the new hampshire primary. precincts

d.c. law the tenants have the right to band together and buy the building, but they say the developer is asking too much for the 302-unit building. >>> virginia could be on its way now to becoming the first state to regulate and formally allow those football sites. lawmakers in the general assembly just passed a bill that would require the sites to register with the commonwealth's agricultural department. it would ban anyone under 18 from playing, and it would require a $50,000 registration fee from fantasy site operators. the bill now heads to governor mcauliffe. in a statement to news4 draft king says 1.2 million virginians play fantasy sports every year. both nbc sports and nbc 4's parent company comcast have invested in fan duel. >>> i'm jason pugh here in vieira, florida. it's been a busy offseason for bryce harper. he was named national league mvp. we saw him out at super bowl 50 and the daytona 500 this past sunday. today on the first sit bryce down and talk to him about how hectic

since we are expecting some rain first, d.c. tells me -- d.c. department of transportation says their snow trucks will be out and about with a wait for the rain to stop before actually treating the roads. in northeast d.c., inside a salt dome, molette green, news4. >>> just in, the white house wants emergency funding to fight the zika virus. the administration now asking congress for almost $2 billion to take on the disease in the u.s. and other countries. now, the money would be split between several health agencies, they say. agencies that are working on everything from vaccines to prevention to care for low-income pregnant women. we're working right now on getting reaction. we're going to bring you more as we get it. barbara? >> thank you, and to the district now. it may have been a police chase that contributed to this crash right in front of nets park. police are looking into that. a car slammed into two vehicles yesterday afternoon on south capitol street in southeast d.c. one of the drivers involved is in critical condition this morning.

d.c. metro area and surrounding areas up until midnight tuesday. the showers, they're trying to get organized right now. you can see some of the snow is well back to the west but that's going to start again. i think our first chance of seeing any rain showers right around 7:00, 8:00, and then the mix conditions. here are the roads impacted early tuesday morning, 70, 270, 695, 495, even out 66 we'll see this line drop down to the south as the day unfolds tomorrow. doug has more on that and the amounts of how much snow we're going to see around here in just a few. >> thanks, veronica. >>> it sure wasn't the cruise they were hoping for. passenger aboard royal caribbean's "anthem of the seas" are headed back to port. the ship turned around and is going back to new jersey after rough going in the atlantic. it hit bad weather off the carolina coast. people were stuck in their cabins as the ship was tossed back and forth. their belongings flying around the cabin. the passengers were going to the

well, northwest d.c. has 3 major hubs of prostitution-- near florida avenue; off logan circle; and mcpherson square, where the victims were found. probably works in or around capitol hill. prentiss: well, i'll go back out on the street in the morning and see if any of these women know someone who fits that description. hotch: good. it's late. let's go hom um, shouldn't we get word out to the papers? not yet. well, it's not too late to make the morning edition. i said no. hey! [uses speed dial] [cellphone ringing] soup and sandwich and clean and real, and feeling good, sort of. and 500 calories or less. the clean pairings menu. food as it should be. [coughing] hey, pal. you gotta cough this winter? may i suggest... or soft love. milder flavored honey halls with real honey. tough love. cheers. oh! there's no reason to cry over spilled cabernet. all you need is some persil proclean. oh! thank you! don't thank me. thank the detergent. [laughs] i'm serious. thank it. persil proclean. vanilla yogurt. blueberrie

yep, streetcars now back in d.c.. along h street northeast, adam tuss, news 4. >> a now free to ride. >>> when you go, may make a big difference in how much you pay. disney is rolling out seasonal prices for single day tickets at their orlando and anaheim theme parks. they are putting out a calendar to help tell people which days are considered value, regular, or peak days, which, of course, will cost the most. >>> some of the top wheelchair basketball teams in the country tipped off today in prince georges county. med star sponsored the sixth annual kpl wheelchair basketball invitational tournament in fort washington. many of the athletes in the tournament are military veterans or victims of violent crimes. >>> top honors for the boonsboro high school cheerleaders. they won first place to become national champions. next they set their sights on the u.s. finals in may. congratulations to them. >> well, would have been a great day to get out, maybe play some sport. absolutely beautiful, temperatures in the 40s. we shou

. -- or if d.c.'s mayor gets her way. mayor bmuriel bowser is championing a bill. many medical experts say aeds bring people back from the dead giving step by step instructions on how to place electrodes on to an unconscious patient and delivering shocks only if they're needed. it's what saved alexander when cpr didn't work after he collapsed at his gym. >> just physical manipulation wasn't sufficient. and the aed, defib rillatordefi brought me back to life. >> you can hear more about his story tonightn and 6:00. the iteam has spent the last month checking out more than 100 aeds located throughout the area. they will show you the big problems they found that could be the difference between life and death. >>> after the break, the benefits of low gas prices as low as 99 cents. st >>> we will stay windy in the afternoon, but at least we'll have partly to mostly sunny skies. but when you factor in the winds, this is what it will feel like. 5:00, only feeling about 17 degrees. typically in time of year we

why there's now a fight over preparations for the d.c. primary. >> but first, sexual transmission of the zika virus appear doctors first thought. and the cases here in the u.s. are expanding. you're watching news4 at 5:0 you like being picture perfect. ♪ you should want your banking to be too. stop into td bank and we'll help set you up with picture perfect banking. new customers, open a checking and savings account and you can get a polaroid cube+ video camera on the spot. >>> here at the live desk, following breaking news in the alexandria area, fairfax county, where police have just launched a homicide investigation. before 3:00, a man was found ins the skyline apartment complex on seminary road. a security guard found a man lying in a hallway. it looks as if someone shot him. news4's megan fitzgerald is on the way to the scene to get more information and will have a live report coming up at 6:00. >>> man who prosecutors say ordered a hit on his uncle from behind

>>hank >>> d.c. police need your helpep finding one of the meng e of suspected of shooting into ainta barbershop in southeast.ea anthony chambers is accused of being one of three masked mene a who fired into the shop the s hitting a man and his 14 monthon old son. police already arrested two oftf the alleged gunmen.un this morning they need youreed y help finding chambers.mb they say he is considereds consd armed and dangerous.d d da the father and son who were w w shot are expected to be okay. >> campus police at thece university of maryland in maryl college park are investigatingri a case of indecent exposure inse the school's library. library police say a man exposed eosed himself wednesday night on the e seventh floor of the library. la a student called police.ol officers searched but didn't sea find the man. they're asking anyone with information about the case to give them a call. cal >>> this morning d.c. police m are looking for teensor accusedc of assaulting a former marine.ar the whole inci

d.c. homicide detectives need help to find williams and fast. there is a d.c. spear your court warrant out -- superior court warrant out for the 23-year-old's arrest. he shot and killed a 39-year-old man in september of last year in the 3200 block of 28th street in southeast. >> the community can hemp put them behind bars and ensure the community is safer. >> he is 5'9", weighs 150 pounds. 23, brown eyes and black hair wanted for first degree murder. police want him off the wall of justice and put him behind bars. homicide detectives have been looking for him for four months. if you can help call the police. we'll see you next week. i'm jennifer donelan. alison: coming up at 5:00 -- >> i wish you were here. get a kick out of it. he is a big part of it. >> inspired by loss. the emotional story of a local high school coach honored by the nfl. >> but first, targeting the care-givers. what you need to know about a scam preying on babies a alison: one of the popular ways to connect to babysitter and nannies is care.com. but con artist are using the sites to cheat ca

in northwest d.c., diane cho, abc7 news. leon: tonight, zika fears hit the d.c. area. the new cases here including a pregnant woman. a family says a final goodbye to nicole lovell as new details emerge about the girl and the suspects. what is that in the water? two parks closed as a strange substance is spotted in the potomac river. announcer: from abc7 news, this is a breaking news alert. alison: that breaking news is out of waldorf tonight where police are investigating a shooting involving one of their own. kevin lewis live on the scene with the latest. kevin, what can you tell us? kevin: hi, alison. police just opened the roadway here and cleared the scene. in the last 60 seconds, i can show you where the suspect was shot and fell to the ground. if yo see right where the white car with the blinker is passing right now, that is where the suspect fell in grass. news chopper 7 was overhead just after 2:00 when this shooting occurred. according to charles county sheriff office what happened was there was an on duty k9 officer that saw an adult male trying to open the d

there are about 400 d.c. police officers who are equipped with body cameras in support of the d.c. pilot police program currently under way. just last month, mayor mario bowser signed a measure approving 2800 officers being outfitted with body cameras by the end of the year. live in the district, i'm mola lenghi for wusa 9 >> mola, thank you. >>> all that snow a week ago, a welcome site for this man, how he shovelled up a way to help refugees settle in our area. >>> and find out what happens when a florida woman chases down a speeding cop and pulls him over. you can't predict the market. but through good times and bad... ...at t. rowe price... ...we've helped our investors stay confident for over 75 years. call us or your advisor. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. may not always be clear. but at t. rowe price, we can help guide your retirement savings. so wherever your retirement journey takes you, we can help you reach your goals. call us or your advisor t. rowe price. invest with confidence. >>> two virginia tech engineering stuns who face the judge now in connection with a

alison: d.c. police are asking for your help to find individuals who were involved in a fight at a local restaurant. take a look at this. this happened in 1600 block of lamont street in northwest. surveillance video shows a suspect approaching a victim and then suddenly attacks him. that is when another suspect threw a chair at the victim. so then a massive fight breaks out. three more chairs are thrown. if you know anything about this, anyone involved, contact the police. leon: anheuser-busch taking departure from the normal line of the super bowl ads and turning to helen mirren to help them out. check it out. >> if you drive drunk, you simply put are a short-sighted utterly useless, oxygen wasting human portion of pollution. darwin award deserving selfish coward. if your brain was donated to science, science would return it. so stop it. leon: she reminds me of one of my old coaches. the video is a one-minute shot of the 70-year-old actress throwing out unique insults for those driving drunk. the

michelle: at home, former d.c. mayor vincent gray is returning to politics. >> i have spent my life working to serve people. this is an opportunity to continue the public service. michelle: gray announced he will seek to unseat ward seven councilmember yvette alexander. gray left off the last year after losing a re-election bid. his term as mayor was haunted by a federal investigation into his campaign. that investigation yielded several convictions but no criminal charges against gray himself. well, frustration is mounting in the eighth street corridor over the streetcar program. so far, $200 million has been spent and 100 of the drivers ticketed. and towed for a line that hasn't even opened yet. d.c. bureau chief sam fords can city leaders for an update. sam: for more than two years the riderless streetcars have been testing up and down the two-mile track on eighth and benning road northeast. when will they start running for passengers? >> they will be running when they pass safety approvals. [laughter] >> while

today the d.c. council approved a 3% pay raise for kayia henderson it brings her base salary to $292,000. slightly higher than d.c. police chief kathy lenier. performance bonuses could add another 15%. council member says they hope retain chancellor henderson when her contract officially expires next year. >>> we turn to weather now. the rain is gone but there's still concern about possible refreezing on our roadways. doug has the latest. >> i think we're going to see it tonight. we still have a couple of areas that have snow on them. back to the west that saw six to eight inches of snow yesterday. the storm system that came through here brought the very heavy rain today. we did see flooding as a result. that's allowing us to cool overnight. there's another storm system moving our way. this one will track to our south. bring us cloud cover tonight. temperatures will still get below the freezing mark. we'll talk more about it and talk about the next storm chance after the warm air this week, talk abo

next school year d.c. public students could go to school longer or year round. >> muirial bower and okay khan son will come here 11:00 this morning top announce the extended year program for several more schools it's happening now at the raymond education campus up in ward four northwest washington pet worth area standard 180 days and now at raymond education campus they're going extra ten days this year and extra ten days of school extra two weeks and next year they go ten more beyond that an extra 20 days and 200 days in classes next year for raymond education campus and later today finding out other schools will be added to the program. which schools are they high high schools raymond education campus pre k through eighth grade what the school system is saying they wanted to avoid or help prevent the summer slide which is kid you know well lose some of the momentum that they've learned during the previous school year during the summer. the goal is to avoid that and diminish achievement gap that some str

former d.c. mayor vincent gray who lost his re-election bid amidst an investigation into his campaign is returning to politics. d.c. bureau chief sam ford joins us on the phone. sam, just what are the mayor's plans? sam: well, as we understand it here, maureen, the former mayor gray is about to re-enter the political fray. we have learned he will appear on a radio show tomorrow and announce he is running for the d.c. council in the 2016 election. there are two democratic parties incumbents he could challenge. annette alexander of ward seven or at-large incumbent vincent orange. it seems the alexander challenge is easier citywide. gray was defeated in the april 2014 democratic primary by mayor muriel bowser who went on to become elected mayor. gray was under a legal cloud for alleged corruption by his 2010 campaign and the number of accusations by the former u.s. attorney ron mac hin who found a number of gray's associates who pleaded guilty. in december new attorney channing phillips said no char

moving to d.c. the detectives need help to find lawrence jennings who is wanted for credit card fraud in multiple jurisdictions. in arlington county, police want stephen thompson to turn himself in, in a domestic violence case. the same for julio who is wanted for assault a family member. the spotlight is on stephen thompson. arlington county police tell "7 on your side" he has an active warrant out for his arrest. may 11, 2015, police say thompson broke in his then-girlfriend apparent and salted her while e -- assaulted her while she was holding her child. he has a tattoo on the neck that says latoya. >> for the safety of her and the child in this case we want him in custody. >> thompson is 34, 5'9", 210 pounds, black hair and brown eyes wanted for playry and assault -- burglary and assault and battery. police want to put him behind bars. >> if you have information, call the arlington county police. see you next week with the fighting back wall of justice. i'm jennifer donelan. leon: breaking news

with d.c.'s homicide rate --rocketing to 162 last year the idea of paying people not to commit crimes -- it is a different approach to stemming violent crime. >> that's not how it worked when i grew up. the package would allow at risk youth to be paid a stipend to keep a clean record. you have to look at all angles of this. councilmember believes the idea would work and points to a program in richmond, california, were homicides drop 77% in seven years. >> if there are stipulations involved to be part of a program , maybe it might work. there are not now stipend amounts, but the california program paid participants $9,000 per year to complete training and stay out of trouble. >> it's weird and dumb. richard: he is not a fan of the idea. >> d.c. has better places to spend their money. that is silly. >> somebody can get an education, contribute to their community, but those are more positive. richard: mcduffie not available to comment about the idea, but he issued a statement that said in part, "o

d.c. streetcars rumblearse life. we're live with the details. >>> good morning, welcome to, fox5 news morning saturday.g s i'm annie yu. >> and i'm caitlin roth.in r good morning to you. y and look at the beautiful viewue behind us right here.e. live look outside. outde gorgeous sunrise just occurredor about 10 minutes ago and those t days are getting longer andonged brighter. it is beautiful outside.ti >> it really is. >> and it is chilly, though. tug it's really cold.yol look at these temperatures right now. 28 in washington, 21 in 21 manassas and 19 in culpeper.pe 22 in fredericksburg and 25 inn leonardtow really chilly yesterday withay w that wind that was prettyre relentless.rele the good news is we won't haveov the wind today. but even at this early morning calm we have wind chill values lower than the temperatures.emp. feels like it's in the teens i to low 20's here in 2s here washington. satellite and radar let's showda you what's outside.'s ode nothing but sunshine here.ineer clou

so just south of d.c. in this area will stay south of d.c. as it tracks to the east. some enhancement around quantico. the bright white. same thing really start to fly and come down, the intensity pick up over the next few minutes along maryland 6 as well. once the wave passes, i think that's it for us this evening. our next chance of getting something falling throughout the air, could see flurries on saturday and then again we're into seeing a little bit come our way late monday, early tuesday. the emphasis really is on the cold. and for thursday and friday, that cold comes with wind. it's just going to be absolutely brutal out there. then come this weekend, dangerously low windchill temperatures. we take it all the way up into the red. it will be a hypothermia type of weekend. you step outside for a few minutes, you really need to have all of your skin covered. for early tomorrow morning, subfreezing temperatures. 21 in frederick. even around areas like fredericksburg, 24 for an early morning temperature. it is going to be mighty cold. you will want to cover up as m

by about midnight, d.c. should be right around that 32 degree mark and we will continue to come up from there and that's why this next swath of moisture will just be plain rain. some of the sheltered valleys could still see a little bit of frozen precipitation by early tomorrow morning. we'll check that out in a minute. here on future cast, first let's look at the temperatures. we're at 29 right now. again, we're on our way to that freezing mark by midnight. by 9:00 a.m. we should be in the mid-40s, believe it or not. and then we'll continue to move up from there into the low to mid-50s, but heavy rain for the morning commute. it will start to taper off by the early afternoon. and then out of here, just wet by 4:00 p.m. here is a look at the radar. spotty, freezing rain. you saw some pictures from burke. this is how it will be. we could get a tenth of an inch. through. it stretches down to the gulf coast, into mississippi and alabama where they have already had tornadoes being report approximated tonight, sl

d.c. police officer and church pastor finds out his punish chment today for sexuly darrell best pled guilty. best was the head pastor of a church in southeast washington. he's accused of abusing a 16-year-old girl inside the church and a 17-year-old girl inside d.c. police headquarters. best faces up to 18 years in prison at his sentencing this morning. >>> you you are all talk and no action. >> make america great again, we'll win, win, win. >> first of all, he's a joke artist and he's a liar. >> i weren't to talk about the economy. p. >> i know you're embarrassed, but keep swinging. swing for the fences. >>> just a brawl from the g get-go. two players dominated in the debate. for the first time senator marco rubio was on the attack challenging donald trump from the very first question. rubio hit trump over immigration, hiring practices and his palestinian/israeli conflict. but it was a discussion over health care that really got explosive. rubio pushed trump to explain his plan. p. >> her

d.c. and one of the patients is pregnant. what health officials want you to know. k the boy you see on the left is acting in his first play tonight. he has no idea he's about to get g the surprise of a lifetime.e. your news at 10 starts right now. > we begin tonight with a winter weather alert.eath some of you might be in for a messy morning commute tomorrow. thank you for joining us i'm tony perkins and i'm shawn yancy. so we're talking about rain and rai the possibility of snow and that could cause you some problems let's get right to sue palka whoalka is analyzing the latest cat. >> it is a little bit of snow at exactly the wrong time.g it looks like this is going to be rain changing over to snow about 1 in the morning and maybe m a small accumulation. your best chance of seeing that accumulation is along and east of interstate 956789 the farther west you are you may not see much more than a few flurries. let me show you the winter weather advisory. the weather service puts up a winter

now they're right on top of d.c. by 7:00 they should be just east of baltimore, east of annapolis, and east of leonardtown at least the main part of the line. the exception to that would be down to your south right around areas of southern maryland, around 301, waldorf, colonial beach. that's where the storms could hang on just a little longer i think up until maybe as 8:00 or so. we're going to be watching this very carefully. let me put the skits back on or actually the shear here, the shear we look at where we can see where some of the highest winds are with these storms. i'll take the radar off as well just for a second so we can take a closer examination of where some of the strongest winds are. now coming right through d.c. now. there you're seeing some of the purple winds there, probably now around 30 miles per hour to upwards 40 miles per hour at the very least. let me take a second here and click on this and see what that is. that's around 20-mile-per-hour winds there, so not overly strong. certainly not wha

michelle: the d.c. streetcar line on 8t tomorrow, but there are so many questions about the service, like why no service on sunday, and how will riders pay? brianne carter is on the rail line and those questions are not easy to answer eight days out. brianne: it really depends on who you're talking to about all of this. take a look at the tracks. we see they are empty. just cap moving along them. in just over a week the streetcar will be moving up and down and you will start to see people waiting here at the station. construction, testing, and delays, riders will finally be able to get on the d.c. streetcar. startger service will february 27, but will initially run every day but sunday. a spokesman for vdot tells abc7 the car will run a limited schedule for an introductory period for brianne: for the first two months you -- first few months you will be able to ride for free. what isn't clear is after the six months is up, how much it will cost to ride and what payment system it will use. spokesperson sa

eventually you see d.c. police officers with rifles on hand and that's because out here some of the broundz recovered on the scene were high caliber rifle rounds and d.c. police searched that and police wanted to be prepared in case the suspect was here. there was wovrd responsiblely a suspect ran into an area. hit nothing. so of course they were prepared in the event they diden count are a high caliber rifle and at this point four victims transported to the hospital and still awaiting word definitively on that status and consider of the 50 year old and other victims non life-threatening. for now reporting live from southeast washington d.c., marina morocco, "fox5 local news". >> there's a small measure of relever for the family of that shachb take sdiv is and-year-old daughter chloe. the who were shot and killed yesterday morning in front of for the washington home. tonight the baby's father is charged with mother nature. >> t. >> you know what, tony, it is. it's really disturbing and heartbreaking how a fa

steady rain over d.c. and heavy rain 5 prince william county and showers around this evening here we are 5:00 crossing bay with showers and sprinkles continue this evening. heavier stuff moving through in next couple hours. that's why there's flash flood to the west. we're not talking about a lot really with a couple hour of shores talking about half inch or less and again it's for conditions that exist outside. here's planning forecast for today. 55 by 11 a.m. and mostly cloudy skies and rain arrives around noon and 57 degrees temperatures fall into low 50s by 5 p.m. with leftover shower showers. so pm rain mild today cooler tomorrow and showers likely on tuesday out of a system that brings us heavy rain wednesday. possibly mixing with few snow showers west on thursday as it exits and breezy and chilly the rest of week. let's look at the 7 day forecast, annie. >> after more than a decade of planning construction and tes testing d.c. street cars are almost ready for service. megan dice live northeast with

it could be impacting a whole d.c. community, and a local food bank is trying to tackle it one vegetable at a time. >>> hey, everyone. i'm veronica johnson. welcome to "news 4 this week." things have warmed up over the last couple of days, and it's helped tremendously with melting. but as the pavement starts to resurface, we're finding a whole new issue. boom! potholes. news 4 has a look at one of the problem spots in arlington. >> reporter: well, as we get into the freeze-thaw cycle, we're not only worried about this being on the ground. now we're worried about this. the actual road coming apart with potholes. that's what's happening right here on williamsburg boulevard. with every hit -- >> it's just really loud. like the whole house is shaking. >> reporter: christina thomas and her boys are feeling it. >> it's a little bit, yeah, there you go. you can hear it. >> reporter: her house is right next to these newly formed potholes at the bottom of the hill. as the temperatures go up and down, the road gives a little bit

richard: alison, d.c. fire and the atf are investigating to figure out what happened at the clare richard parkman's on m street. d.c. fire tweeted dramatic video shortly after the fire broke out this evening after 9:30 p.m. a lot of units were out here responding to this. it now appears the fire started on the top floor of this building. they managed to get it quickly under control, but one firefighter was injured. a lot of terrified residents inside. we spoke to one as she came out of the building. >> the alarm went off, there was a lot of smoke, and we all came down. if it was not for me checking my mail box, i would not have known about the serious fire. richard: why do you say that? >> i never would have known. the bell rung, i smelled smoke and i came down the steps. i'm in a wheelchair. i cannot walk at all. thank god i made it down. richard: frightening moments. this is an assisted living facility, a lot of handicapped folks, elderly folks. the top floor window, that is where they believed the fire

. >> reporter: d.c. fire has struggled to handle more than 200,000 calls a year. 81% of th >> just talking about it. i get butterflies all over again. because of something that could have been prevented. >> and everybody there needs to scream and shout. because it could be -- it could be them. it could be you next. who knows? >> reporter: now, d.c.'s fire chief says he has no words that will bring back her son. he says there was -- [ inaudible ] >> all right. we've lost bruce there. the outgoing medical director it did tell mayor bowser that the private ambulance plan proposed by the city is like putting a band aid on a gushing artery. the fire department says it's just a philosophical way about the difference to deliver care. he said dr. saucy knew about before he hired her. >>> stuck in miserable congestion out there on i-66. virginia mcauliffe announcing the speeding up of widening. a plan to add toll lanes for single drivers will also be tagged to that deal. peggy fox will have that tonight at 6:00.

four people were shot in southeast d.c. police say two juveniles and two adults were injured at last check, their injuries are not considered life threatening. >>> in prince georges county, this woman has been arrested after police say she was involved in a drug related shooting in capital heights on saturday. 32-year-old, markenna town send has been charged with first- degree murder. you can get more on all of these stories and the latest breaking news on our wusa9 app. it is free. >>> now to campaign 2016 this morning, donald trump's plane was forced to make an emergency landing in nashville on wednesday. the republican presidential candidates boeing was flying from iowa to arkansas when it experienced some sort of engine problem. the plane was eventually given the all clear and trump was able to make it to his evening speaking events. >>> ahead of the primary elections in new hampshire, hillary clinton and bernie sanders are still voting, vying for voters attention in the granite state at a town hall last night, sanders

die >> d.c. mayor muriel bowseriese will hold community meetings mti to discuss her plan to end she wants to close the cse troubled d.c. general homelessas shelter southeast and open ope eight smaller short termhorter family shelters across thes rost city.ci. the shelters would cost aboutbo $22 million. it's about $5 million moreio than d.c. general's office.'s oc mayor bowser said thed facilities will be modern andn a safe, however. hever the meetings will be held be h between 6:30 and 8:30. 8 more information on our web site fox5d.c.com.5d the location of the meetings m are online.onlin meetings are opened to the public. >> for the very first time one r of the region's most popularop seafood items, rockfish, is onh the do not eat list in d.c..c. the department of energy and the environment put out the advisory because of the levels l of pcb's found in the fish. pcb's are compounds that were used in electrical equipment eqe before being banned in 1979.in these chemicals take a longon time to bre