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It could cost EV drivers more to charge their cars than in a Northern Virginia county. A live report on the increase that leaders are proposing. A shocking death at an amusement park in Georgia. Now several coasters across the country are closed out of caution. What we're learning this morning as police investigate. The club tennis team at the University of Maryland now suspended. Reaction from students and community members over the alarming allegations of racism. And a warm and sunny day expected. Enjoy it while you can because rain is coming back. Tucker's tracking your forecast and has what you need to know. Your news at 6 starts now. Good morning to you. It's 6 o'clock. Thank you for joining us and starting your day here on Fox 5 and streaming on Fox Local. Yeah, glad to have you here with us on this Tuesday. And my goodness, yesterday warmed up so nicely. It was beautiful to get out and finally enjoy some of that weather. Just in time for Monday, the sun came back out. Just in time for it to come back. That's exactly what I was going to say. Right. Low 80s later today. We will be even warmer than yesterday. Really, honestly, going to be a warm afternoon after a pleasant start here. We're looking at numbers in the upper 50s to start your morning at 6 a.m. real quick. We are 59 degrees in Washington. Look at Dulles at 52. So pleasant out there, but a nice warm afternoon, plenty of sunshine. We've got high pressure in the south. We will be in the low 80s. I'll have plenty more on the forecast. What to expect. A big up and down, big rollercoaster week of temperatures here. More in just a moment. Annie Mae? All right. Thanks for taking a look here Tuesday morning. commute overview, this is what it looks like. Seeing, for the most part, kind of clear numbers. Looking in Maryland, 270, that's the Beltway, as well as Maryland 5. Looking at all of your numbers there, no incidents to report right now. So we'll keep you updated in the next five minutes. Back to you. Thanks, Annie Mae. We start this hour with this Fox 5 News alert. Three aerial drones hit two ships in the Black Sea off the coast of Bulgaria overnight. Those attacks causing one of the vessels to sink, leading to an emergency rescue mission. Rescuers evacuated all 15 crew members from the Maltese-flagged ship. Five were treated for minor injuries. No Americans were on board at the time. Bulgarian authorities are still investigating who was responsible for the attacks. However, the Bulgarian prime minister says he believes Russia is to blame. In a statement on X, the Ukrainian foreign minister also blames Russia. Closer to home, D.C. firefighters will return to the scene of a deadly house fire today in Northwest. 75-year-old Colin Nuisan was killed in Sunday morning's fire on Geranium Street. Six other people, including children, were hurt. The cause is under investigation. Today, firefighters will be going door-to-door, offering people fire safety and prevention information. One man died, two others in the hospital after an apparent overdose near the Wheaton Metro Station. Montgomery County Police say the man died in a hospital. Fox 5 was at the scene and spoke with a witness. No, I saw at least two individuals being taken away in two separate ambulances. One seemed to be kind of aware and coherent. The other one, I think, was in more serious condition. No word on their conditions of the two surviving people. Court resumes this morning in the Naresh Bhat trial. He's the Manassas Park man accused of killing his wife, Mamta Khafli Bhat. The first week of testimony featured people who knew Mamta, including friends and family. Witnesses claim the two were dealing with relationship issues ahead of Mamta's disappearance. She has not been seen in more than two years. The trial is expected to last several more weeks. Our Stephanie Ramirez, she will be in the courtroom. We will check in with her in our next hour. Coverage of today's developments will also be online at fox5dc.com and on our Fox Local app. Well, charging your electric vehicle could soon come with a bigger bill in Arlington. Yeah, the county considering a 72% increase at its public charging ports. Our Maureen Umeh live in Arlington with the latest details. Maureen? That's right. So we're at the county library. You can see their ports behind me. Very popular, even at this time of morning, rather. You can see these cars right here trying to get charged. I spoke with one man this morning who was actually charging his car right now. He didn't want to go on camera, but he says that even though this price increase might be happening, he was shocked to hear it, by the way. He says that these ports are still a really good deal. The best one going, really, if you consider the price here. Again, he didn't want to go on camera, but he told me knowing when and where to charge can make a big difference in exactly what you pay when you have an EV. He says a full charge at some private stations can cost $60 or more, but those chargers are often faster. At Arlington County-owned stations, drivers currently pay about 17 cents per kilowatt hour. The proposal would raise that to 30 cents, which is an increase of roughly 72 percent at 51 public charging ports. County staff says that the increase would help cover rising electricity costs and the cost of the chargers. They say the new rate would match government-owned stations in Fairfax and Prince William counties, while remaining below most commercial rates in the region. The proposal also includes a break for overnight users. Right now, drivers pay an extra $3 an hour starting 15 minutes after their charging session ends. The county would stop charging that extra fee between 10 p.m. and 7 a.m. Another occasional EV driver told us that he wants a clear explanation of the higher charging rate. If they're transparent with the pricing about why the increase and what the justification is, I think I would be okay with it. I'd obviously prefer it to be lower, but at the same time, I still think, you know, I appreciate Arlington County providing this infrastructure here, and I hope they continue to expand the infrastructure. And if the increase in costs allows them to continue to expand the infrastructure, I'm okay with that. So the increase has not been voted on yet. That's probably going to happen on Saturday. But if county officials do want more discussion on this, they're going to move it to October 20th. So that is just a proposal on the table right now to increase charging rates here by 72 percent. Of course, we'll be watching what happens with this and bringing you those details. Back to you. All right, 6:05 this morning. Let's get you outside, live look over D.C. on this Tuesday. And looking nice out there. Yeah, this is the outside we like. Yes, to get out there and to enjoy, Tucker. It's going to be a nice day. Yeah, I mean, it's almost going to feel like a summer afternoon. Here we come to the low 80s later today, and we should be looking at lots of sunshine. So, yeah, beautiful day. Tomorrow it's going to be near record heat for a day, and then we'll cool it down by Thursday. And we've got a real shot of cool air for the weekend. So, again, roller coaster rides of temperatures this week. But we should be dry today. Very warm out there and plenty of sunshine to look forward to. Just mentioned the temperatures in the Comfortable Department at 6 a.m. as we are well into fall now, several weeks in here. 59 degrees in Washington, 52 in Dulles, and clear skies being reported across the area, 58 at BWI Marshall. Satellite as quiet as can be, and high pressure off to our south will deliver a nice afternoon, in fact, a beautiful afternoon. Temperatures will be about 10 degrees above average, however, later today. And if you enjoyed yesterday, today will be even warmer, as mentioned, with temperatures in the low 80s, and then we'll be in the mid to upper 80s, if you can believe it, for the day tomorrow. But quiet afternoon otherwise and plenty of sunshine to look forward to. Just feeling a little more like late summer than early fall out there by afternoon. South wind at 5 to 10 miles an hour will pump in that warmer air. All right, am I going to do any shout-outs, Fox Local, anything? No, let's go straight to traffic. Let's see what's going on. Oh, yeah. We'll take a look here in Mountain 50. This is New York Avenue. Should be about 13 minutes traveling between Kenilworth Avenue and the 3rd Street Tunnel. So looking pretty normal there as we're now kind of at the 6 o'clock hour. 395 traveling northbound. Shouldn't see too much just yet as you're headed over the 14th Street Bridge from the Beltway. 10 miles is right now around 10 minutes. 33 Quantico towards the Beltway looking normal, 26 miles there. You can see Prince William Parkway camera as well as the mixing bowl. But 95 northbound total. Drive time there for your main lane should be pretty good. Gainesville towards the Beltway is clear, 21 minutes for 21 miles. 66 traveling eastbound. Again, that's your main lane this morning. Marissa? All right, Annie Mae, thank you. at 6.07. Six Flags is temporarily closing nine coasters across its parks after a rider died on the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags over Georgia yesterday. Video from our sister station, Fox 5 Atlanta shows riders stranded on the hyper coaster following the ride's evacuation. Witnesses reported a man fell from his seat mid-ride into a wooded area below. Several others were hurt. I just see somebody fly out and just fly into the woods. I broke down because we were just on there. You go to ride roller coasters to get the adrenaline rush, but you always expect to get back. Detectives are trying to determine how the rider became unsecured. Six Flags says it's closed similar attractions across its parks out of an abundance of caution. I believe nine coasters total have been closed. Turning now to the latest in the investigation on the campus of the University of Maryland. The school says it is indefinitely suspending its club tennis team over allegations that it distributed racist promotional material for an upcoming tennis tournament. The imagery allegedly contained graphic images of the Ku Klux Klan targeting black people. The racist material was reported to other university tennis clubs in the region like Howard University before that fall tournament happened at College Park. I mean like I understand at our age like people like to joke around but they just have to understand that there's a line and there's a boundary so we just can't cross that it's not a joke it's something serious and we just all have to understand that now UMD's club tennis team has since dropped out of the tournament there the school says team leaders have taken responsibility and apologized by email to the invited teams however black students on campus say more must be done to address the emotional impact Meantime, the Clarksburg High School girls flag football team cleared to play now a game today after being benched following a huge fight last week. That fight took place after a game at Poolsville High School on Thursday night. Both schools sent out a joint statement about the incident, saying disrespectful behavior involving students and adults escalated in the parking lot. The letter says a physical fight resulted in one adult being taken to the hospital and the police happened to be called to the scene. A key meeting on several proposed data centers in Stafford County has been delayed. A public hearing will now be held November 18th regarding the Forest Lane Sims Farm Sisson North and Sisson South projects. It was originally set for tomorrow. The county says the delay will give them more time to review the proposals. Many Stafford residents have expressed concerns over the proposed location, saying they are too close to neighborhoods. Well, the safety of e-scooters in the spotlight this morning following the death of a D.C. official. We'll take a look at a recent report showing how many injuries happen each and every year. And a team that was last in the World Series more than 40 years ago was inching closer to returning to the Fall Classic. Plus, an overtime thriller and a gridiron highlights from the MLB and the NFL last night. Milwaukee Brewers now just two wins away from reaching their second ever World Series. They beat the Dodgers in game two of the NLCS last night, 7-4. William Contreras hit a tying home run, an RBI single to secure the win. Four Brewers' relievers retired the final 15 batters in order, stretching their postseason bullpen dominance. The series now shifting to L.A. for game three tomorrow at the Brewers. The Brewers take a two-games-to-none lead. Meantime, over in the American League, the Cleveland Guardians staying hot and now up one game against the Tampa Bay Rays. Last night's game was tied up heading into the eighth inning. That's when Nathaniel Lowe hit a two-run single to give Cleveland a lead and would not give up. But Rays manager Kevin Cash said that there was a silver lining in all of it, that it has been a while since the team lost, and that it gives the players a chance to respond. Game two of that series tonight from Tropicana Field. To the gridiron now, where Buffalo Bills QB Josh Allen made NFL history during the Rams game. He's the first quarterback in NFL history to record a rushing touchdown in each of his team's first five games of a season. He's also the fourth quarterback in NFL history to achieve 100 wins in his first nine seasons, joining Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady, and Russell Wilson. Allen led the Buffalo Bills to a 37-34 overtime win. All right, coming up on 615 momentarily, a look at our weather and traffic on the 5's live look out towards Loudoun Station this morning. And, Tucker, I feel like today's game plan is layers, right? Because it is a little cooler out there this morning as you head out the door, but we are going to warm up throughout the day. It is. It's cool out at this hour, but it's going to be a very warm afternoon. By late afternoon, we should be.