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Good morning. I'm Jacqueline matter. It is four a.m. On this friday, september four. Thanks for starting your morning with us right here on Fox five and streaming on Fox local. Here's what's happening today. Tens of thousands of people waking up in the dark this morning after wild storms rolled through overnight. We're live with the cleanup plus our weather team tracking the chances for more storms later today. Plus the searches on this morning for a man accused of raping women at local massage spas where police stand and tracking him down. And a new juvenile curfew zone in northwest D. C. goes into effect tonight. The area is impacted ahead of the Labor Day holiday weekend and how long it will last. Fox five mornings at four a.m. starts right now. Good morning. Thanks for joining us on this friday before we head into the holiday weekend. A lot of people wondering, hopefully those storms don't continue to roll in into the weekend. But overnight, a lot of people seeing severely impacted by these storms. Jacqueline, that's really just the main case, right? A lot of those storms really just popped up at one of the worst parts of the night, right? So a lot of people trying to get the bed, things like that. So it was causing quite a lot of disruption out there. And normally we don't usually see that, uh, that strength of storm or level of severity, right? Um, usually we lose a lot of the daytime heating, but because of how humid and just hot the day was, well, that left us with a lot of energy. So we'll talk more about exactly what's going on with the rest of today and what we can expect in terms of temperatures. But just understand it's another hot day. And yes, we still have thunderstorms in the forecast. I'll break all of that down here in just a couple of minutes over to you. All right, Caesar. Thank you. Speaking of those strong storms that swept across the area last night, there are a lot of trees down across our region this morning. In fact, there's also 10,000 of 10s of thousands of residents that are waking up without power this morning as well are mentally awake, getting a look out on the roads this morning and joins us live with more. How's it looking out there, Mel? I gotta tell you, it is not looking great. So we are right now here on the GW Parkway, and I'm gonna switch the camera over here so that you can see what drivers are going to be encountering this morning. Um, and we've seen far too many vehicles traveling fast here. You can just kind of see here back over the lights there from the police officer. Look at this tree. Now, this is a tree that has come down all the way across from the other side, the northbound side of the GW Parkway here into the southbound lanes. And this is just one of two trees down here on the GW Parkway. There's another one a little further up. And so if you are driving this, first of all, the northbound lanes are closed. The southbound lanes are open. But please be very, very careful as you are driving around here, because it is not going to be a great situation for you. We also saw similar situations like this on Canal Road as well. And as you mentioned, let me just give you a rundown right now of the power outages in the area as well. So Dominion, Virginia, currently reporting 63,900 people without power. Pepco's got 15,000 out in D. C. 32,000 out in Prince George's County and just a couple 100 in Montgomery County. Also, B. G. E. Anne Arundel County's got about 4000 in Prince George's County. A little more than 3300. So definitely this is a very big situation. It's got a lot of things that the power companies are going to have to encounter. And as I mentioned, a number of issues there. We've got some video as well that we're going to show you that you can see here. Now this is in D. C. This is on Eighth Street, where you can see that tree has come down on top of that roof. We've got Prince George's County, a roof collapse in Kettering as well. And then we also had some people calling us from Anne Arundel County, Franklin Manor. They had a structure collapse as well. Look at this video sent into us by a viewer, and you can just just imagine the terror here. You've got these major storms coming down, and then you have just your roof and everything inside those rooms collapsing. We know in one case, a young boy had to be rescued. Now he is expected to be okay, but this is just some of what people are dealing with. Now let's go back out live now to our of we're gonna turn it once again to the forward facing camera. You can see here is the other tree down here on the GW Parkway. And again, we're just seeing tree debris leaves everything around the area. What we're gonna do right now is we're heading down toward the Alexandria section of Fairfax County. We understand there was at least one high water rescue there down near the Slater's Lane. We know Alexandria tends to flood a lot, but these are this is more of that flash flooding issue. And there's a number of areas around Inova Alexandria Hospital that have no power right now. So that is the situation this morning. We'll keep going around the area and you know what we find and certainly keep you updated on Pepco's restoration efforts. Jacqueline. All right, Mel. Thank you. And as a reminder, as we saw in her live shot there, there are down trees across the region, including on some of those major roadways. So take it easy and take it slow if you are headed out this morning. Well, a shooting investigation is underway in Prince George's County this morning after a child was shot and critically injured. It happened at a home in the 300 block of Tayside Way in Landover around eight o'clock last night. Police have not said how old that victim is and says the circumstances of the shooting are still unclear. As soon as we do learn more will, of course, bring you those details happening today. A preliminary hearing for a man accused of carrying out a shooting that injured a two year old boy. It happened in Northeast D. C. Back in July, court documents say Casanova Lamos was involved in an argument at Benning Court's apartments. The boy's mother claims that he opened fire before she could close the door. A bullet grazed the side of her son's head. All right, let's get you outside as well this morning out towards Frederick, Maryland and trying to see if it's you can pretty much we all saw storm storms in some form or fashion last night. So Jacqueline, yes. So Frederick saw them a little before the rest of this area did. So it kind of went from that northwest to southeast direction and it continues actually to push out towards the east. So if we look at radar satellite and radar at the moment, you can you can see still that giant cluster of storms. That was what caused all that commotion last night, right? All the lightning, the strong winds as well as also the heavy rain that produced, of course, the the flooding that we had Melanie talking about, of course. But one thing I want to point out is that we do have another little area that we're just keeping an eye on, not necessarily expecting to see this go severe, but still some occasional extra rain is expected, of course, maybe a gusty breeze or two out of these storms. So, of course, could still potentially just put a little bit of a slowdown on our day. But we are still relatively warm out there. Temperatures mostly in those mid to low seventies for a lot of us. And this is going to give us that very warm base to work off of as we say, see yet another hot and humid day on tap. So we're expecting to see quite a lot of that warmth really building back in towards the afternoon hours and sticking with us as we head into the evening and overnight time frame. We're going to continue to time out exactly what future cast is showing here on the potential for another round of storms towards the afternoon and evening time frame coming up in just a couple of minutes. Jacqueline. All right, Caesar. Thank you. Taking a look at traffic this morning. This is what Melanie mentioned earlier is some high standing water in both directions at Benning Road. So this is a long 2 95 heading north and southbound this morning. It is possible, but use some caution if you were heading through that area this morning, some minor delays heading southbound. Just keep in mind across this region this morning, a lot of people waking up with down trees down power lines. So just take it slow as you are headed out for your morning commute. Well, jurors will return for a seventh day of deliberations in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial. It comes after jurors were unable to reach a verdict yesterday and were sent home. The jury sent the judge a note saying one juror was not following the instructions on reasonable doubt. Clancy's defense attorney asking the judge to remove that juror, but the judge refused. Instead, he reminded the jury of the law and sent them back to continue deliberating. Clancy, of course, accused of strangling her three Children in 2023. Her lawyers argue she suffered from postpartum psychosis, but prosecutors say it was pre meditated today. A Silver Spring dentist faces a pretrial hearing this morning following his arrest for several sexual offenses. Detectives charged Dr Maya Samaya after a patient reportedly said that he sexually assaulted her on two separate occasions during procedures when no hygienist was present. Investigators reveal Samaya was previously placed on probation by the state dental board in 2018. Because of that prior report, police believe there could be more victims out there in Spotsylvania. Search is underway for a man accused of raping women at local massage spas. Police believe 30 year old Caesar Mario Torres Juarez of Spotsylvania is responsible for several sexual assaults at massage therapy businesses on Plank Road. He's wanted on multiple felony charges, including rape and strangulation. According to investigators, Juarez is also accused of raping another employee at a different spa on the same road. This past Monday, police say they have not been able to find him. It's unlikely that this person walked into these two different massage parlors and committed these assaults. He's been charged with and hasn't done any other crimes. So that gives law enforcement a lot of places that they can search. They'll talk to the other massage parlors. They'll even see if he may have scouted out the two that he may have committed these crimes in. Authorities asking any victims of unreported assaults to come forward. Investigators believe Juarez may be in south Boston, Virginia. Starting tonight, a new juvenile curfew zone will go into effect and last through the Labor Day weekend. Take a look here at the area of the Northwest D. C. D. C. Police activating that curfew zone around the U Street corridor and Banneker Recreation Center. This will affect people under the age of 18 from eight p.m. Tonight to 11 p.m. On Monday, the citywide juvenile curfew also remains in effect. Still to come this morning, a concert canceled last night after a man was crushed by a tour bus at Wolf Trap National Park. The latest on that investigation plus reaction from fans and after 35 years, Dollywood saying farewell to its bald eagles. The reason why when we return plus teaser Caesar. Well, Jacqueline, right now we continue to look at some of these rain showers over towards parts of western Pennsylvania. What is that exactly mean for us throughout the rest of today? Well, I'll have that answer in just a few moments.