FOX 5 News at 11: November 11, 2026

And on this Veterans Day, we're getting a closer look at the push to uncover lost Civil War graves at Manassas National Battlefield Park. Fox 5 News at 11 starts now. First at 11, two explosions rocked the same D.C. home in just a few weeks. The latest blowing the door off the hinges. Tonight, the ATF is investigating the blast and whether the family inside is being targeted. Fox 5's Cindy Persing is in Northwest with the latest. We don't know what type of device was left here, who put it here or why, but we do now have surveillance video from the moment of the explosion and we have spoken now to the woman who lives here. Watch closely and listen carefully to this surveillance video. The sound of what ATF investigators believe is an explosive device detonating at the front door of a Northwest D.C. home Tuesday. Somebody put an explosive device on my door. The woman who lives at this home on Kenyon Street Northwest with her six kids did not want to show her face, but told us they were home and upstairs when they heard it. It sounded like a bomb. It shook my house. When we came down, we seen nothing but smoke and glass everywhere in my door hanger. Investigators can't say for sure if this family was targeted but did confirm it does appear that device was deliberately left at the front door. Thankfully nobody was injured. I do know right now, I don't feel safe in this home. I don't feel safe anymore. I lived here three years, I never had this problem. This the first time that I feel like my safety is being jeopardized and that I can't trust like too many people now because of, I don't know what's going on and I don't know who's doing it. She said the same thing happened three weeks ago. Another explosion in late October, one that knocked the glass out of her front window. Who could or would want to hurt her or her family? Not once, but twice, she said. She just doesn't know. Whatever it is, a bomb, firecrackers, whatever they're using, I'm not sure. But they did it the first time, they did it the second time. I don't want it to be a third time. So we're moving and that family has moved out tonight. They said they are just too scared. It is not worth the risk. We know that when the ATF came here on scene, investigators collected several pieces of evidence they've taken off site and they are processing those now. And investigators stress that this is the very beginning stages of an investigation. They said at this hour, they are actively working leads back to you. Fire and growing fear in D.C.'s L'Enfant Park. Now residents in the northwest neighborhood are demanding action. There's been a series of shootings over two years. It was just weeks ago. At least two people have been injured since early 2025. Police recovered nearly 40 shell casings after a shooting in May. I believe we need to do what Baltimore's been doing, which is to address root causes by offering a real carrot and a real stick to the vanishingly small number of people who are actually responsible for this kind of gun violence. It's a small number of people. The community knows who they are. The police know who they are. They just need to focus on those individuals rather than just trying to, like, beef up arrest numbers more generally. MPD says it's stepped up patrols, added surveillance cameras, and brought in specialized units, making dozens of arrests. Let's turn our attention to the weather here and get you outside a live look from our Fox 5 Sky cam in Rockville. Some rain showers expected for your Thursday out of some much colder temperatures. Heading into the weekend, Mike Thomas, I didn't know it could get colder. Oh, it can get colder, my friend. I know. And as they say in the land of Game of Thrones, winter is coming. So hang in there, folks. And you know what? As we work into the weekend, it's actually going to feel at times of time like winter. And if you're out in the mountains to the west, in some areas, it may even look a little bit like a winter. And we'll talk more about that coming up as we take a live look across the region tonight. Skies actually clouding up after what was a pretty pleasant afternoon here in D.C. on this Veterans Day. But a high temperature, 69 degrees, which is now nine degrees above the seasonal average. In fact, your average tomorrow drops down to 59. So even 60s will start becoming less and less common as we get deeper into this month. Morning low, 47 degrees. It really wasn't too, too bad for this time of year this morning. And in fact, tomorrow morning should be even milder than that with humidity. Cloud cover and maybe even some rain showers to greet you early tomorrow morning. Well, starting to flash down there at National Harbor, but it has paused for the evening. D.C. sitting at 55, Dulles 56, BWI Thurgood Marshall dropped several degrees this past hour. They're down to 51. And overnight, we're heading to about 50 here in town, some 40s off to the north and west. But notice, compared to the last few nights, no 30s on this map. And even some 50s to our east, like Annapolis, 57, Lone Town, 55. That is not bad for the overnight hours at all. The cloud cover out there, none of this green you see actually hitting the ground just yet. You gotta go west before you run into the system, right Actually, some pretty decent thunderstorms rumbling through portions of Kentucky tonight. Some heavy rain there. This line, though, expected to continue to sort back. of fan out as it hits the mountains to our west. And then they'll scatter out the rain showers as they cross the mountains this evening. And there'll be a little bit more hit and miss here in D.C. tomorrow. So, wave of low pressure passing across scattered showers on and off throughout the day. Though, it is not a washout. Temperatures briefly in the 60s one more time. But then here comes that cold air behind the system. But up tomorrow morning, might need the umbrella, 50 degrees, and an after school about 64. We'll talk more about what's going to happen behind this storm coming up in just a few more minutes. All right, Mike, see you in a bit. Some breaking news tonight. Police are investigating threatening social media posts targeting Alexandria City High School. We're told officers will be increasing patrols at all high school campuses tomorrow. The nature of the threats are not yet clear, but police say they are working closely with school officials to keep students safe. Anyone with information is asked to call Alexandria Police. Stay with Fox 5 for the latest. And a Fox 5 News alert tonight. Take a look at this damage in Prince George's County. Police say they're looking for the driver who crashed into the Wells Quality Dry Cleaners in Chillum, ditched the car, and ran off. It happened on Sergeant Road just after 7 p.m. As you see, quite a bit of significant damage to that building. No one was hurt. The search tonight for a hit-and-run driver who crashed through Virginia Avenue Park. And a fence there in Southeast D.C. Officers responded to the scene yesterday morning on 9th Street and discovered heavy damage along with scattered vehicle debris. Investigators believe the crash happened sometime after midnight. A tragic loss tonight in Montgomery County. A Northwest High School student died in an early morning crash. Alexia Virginia Yurita is in Gaithersburg with the story. Yeah, and Northwest High School identified the victim as 17-year-old Ethan Ramos. As you can imagine, this has been incredibly difficult for his parents, loved ones, and classmates who are struggling to process the loss of someone so young. Now take a look. This is a letter that was sent from the high school to parents tonight. It reads in part, quote, Ethan was a very loved member of Northwest High School as well as Kingsview Middle School and Great Seneca Creek Elementary School. He was an avid swimmer and a young man who engaged in. ...enriched friendships. Staff remember him as kind, thoughtful, and respectful. He was a valued friend to many, and he will be deeply missed. The crash happened early Wednesday morning in the area of Seneca Creek Trail. Montgomery County Police say officers responded to reports of a crash involving one vehicle. When they arrived, they found a damaged Jeep and the driver, believed to be Ethan Ramos, thrown from the car. Ramos was taken to the hospital with serious injuries, but later died. Tonight, Fox 5 spoke with family members. who tell us they're not ready to speak publicly. We also spoke with his swim coach at Quinst Orchard Swim Academy. The swim club Ramos was a part of. Coach Shannon tells us they canceled all practices today out of respect for the students and families grieving this loss. I'm also told by his peers that he had just turned 17 last month. They tell me he loves sports and he loved driving his Jeep. Again, this was a young boy with a life ahead of him taken too soon, and this community is mourning. loss. Back to you. At least two people dead tonight in a three-story building collapse in Brooklyn. Right now, rescue crews are searching for survivors. The collapse in Flatbush happened just after 4 p.m. Nearly a dozen people have been pulled from the rubble. Four of them are in critical condition at this hour. We've also learned that a pregnant woman was pulled out alive. Still no cause for why that building came crashing down. Officials say search and rescue operations will continue over the next few days. Developing tonight, a DC family is asking for help to find their missing 13-year-old daughter, Catherine Stoller, who goes by Ash and has a developmental disability and was last seen a week ago in Petworth. Surveillance shows the girl walking on Rock Creek Church Road near her middle school, Creative Minds International. I'm very worried. I worry that she's in danger. And we really need the community's help because we need people looking for her and reporting if they see her or know something about what's transpired over the last week. The girls' school plans to hold an event tomorrow at 4 p.m. to help in the search. Fairfax County judges have rejected more than two dozen plea deals in the past year. The cases include child abuse, domestic abduction, assault on law enforcement, and severe animal cruelty. In one case, a judge said prosecutors left out critical information. In another, it took the Commonwealth's Attorney's Office three tries to get approval in a child abuse case. The office has not responded to our request for comment. A new opponent against President Trump's arch, the Kennedys. Nine members of the storied political family joined the lawsuit aiming to stop construction of the 250-foot monument. The family claims the project would block views of thousands of veterans buried at Arlington National Cemetery, including JFK's gravesite. The temporary restraining order remains in effect for another week. I was very glad that they have weighed in. A lot of this is emotional. You know, this is the... The emotional empathy that people feel for the tens of thousands that are buried there. The Golden Arch is not a project of the United States because the people haven't passed it. And so it would be unfathomable to me that he would get away with doing that. The White House responding, calling the Kennedys family involvement unfortunate. An historic Senate flip tonight in the Deep South. Mississippi has elected its first black senator since Reconstruction in the late 1800s. Democrat Scott Cologne beat incumbent Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith with only a few thousand votes separating them. Sweeping wins for Democrats who will take control of Congress next year. One more Senate race is left to be called out of Alaska. A warning shot tonight from the White House to Democrats planning to investigate the Trump administration. The White House counsel claims efforts to intimidate Trump officials could amount to criminal conduct. This after the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee told them to lawyer up. Donald Trump is clearly hiding something. We're not going to be threatened or intimidated because we are demanding accountability and oversight. What we've seen over the past several days and even over the past several weeks are outright threats, many by elected members of Congress and some senators against anybody that's conservative and anybody that happens to be a Republican. Democrats have vowed to investigate Trump's business dealings, the Epstein case and ICE operations. When we come back here at 11, D.C. residents might see drones flying overhead tonight. But we know about the tests about to get underway. Stay with us. At Arlington National Cemetery today, a U.S. Army Sentinel reprimanded Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other guests at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The group was taking a picture at the tomb when people could be heard laughing. The Pentagon's chief spokesperson defended the soldier, saying he respectfully reminded everyone to maintain decorum. A special ceremony today at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall. From quartermasters to pilots and engineers, those who served are part of the last roughly 30,000 surviving veterans of the Second World War. This year's ceremony highlighted the importance of passing their stories on to the next generation. At this sacred spot today, we pledge to always remember, honor, and celebrate those who served a cause greater than themselves. We owe the men and women who won World War II everything. Veterans at the ceremony fought at Okinawa, Omaha Beach, and the Battle of the Bulge. This Veterans Day, an effort to find the remains of Civil War soldiers just outside Manassas National Battlefield Park. Fox 5's Josh Rosenthal is there with more on the work. The belief is that a Civil War soldier is buried right here. Now a group is working to figure out for sure. So, this is before we had dog tags in the U.S. military. So, when people fell, often the family didn't even know where they fell or where they were buried. They just never heard from them again. That is Cherie Johnston, who's the executive director of the Manassas Battlefield Trust. This is a monument to Timothy Dunklin, a Texan who, at age 16, fought for the Confederacy in in the Second Battle of Manassas during the Civil War. Dunklin died in August of 1862. His family traveled to purchase a small piece of land and build the monument, which Johnston says was unusual for the time. Now, flash forward more than 150 years, and Johnston's group is working on a major project. Their hope is to raise money to use what's called ground-penetrating radar to confirm the location of Dunklin's remains and to see if other Civil War soldiers, those who fought for both sides, may be buried nearby. Then, they completely restore Dunklin's monument and recreate the area so it becomes a public space people can visit. Johnston did say that she's gotten some questions about preserving a Confederate soldier's grave. In that time period, to Americans, your state was your country, if you think about the way the nation was at that time. And so some of the decisions to go fight, for example, for Texas, may not necessarily have been that they wanted to go fight because they wanted to. continue a practice as horrible as slavery. It may have been that they were going with their neighbors because everybody in town had signed up and enlisted, and that's what they were doing. One last thing. Johnston says that if they do uncover additional remains, Confederate soldiers would be buried in this general area. Union soldiers would be buried at Arlington National Cemetery with honors. She says that the way they can typically tell Who fought for who is the Soldier's Buttons. Guys. All right, let's turn our attention back to this forecast here on this Wednesday Night Alive. Look now from our Fox 5 Sky cam. Mike Thomas is here to tell us how we're going to end this week. Hey, Mike. We're going to end it with a little bit of rain shower activity. Unfortunately, we're also going to put an end to those pleasant 60s we've been treated to for much of this week. In fact, even today, up near 70 again in Washington. Work our way through the day tomorrow. A little bit more cloud cover. Well, a lot more cloud cover, to be honest with you. And a chance for a little bit of shower activity. Just like last week, at the end of the day, we're not expecting all that much rain to kind of pile up here in Washington. There's probably some scattered showers during the morning, a break, and then another round of scattered showers during the afternoon and evening. But some folks probably won't see much of anything as the system goes on by. Everybody will feel what comes behind it, though. That is the Rockville. Courthouse tonight, all aglow. Skies starting to cloud up, 55 degrees D.C., winds light to calm. Dewpoint now in the 50s, which tells you temperatures aren't going to drop all that much more as we head through the overnight hours tonight. Gaithersburg at 53, Leonardtown 52, Quantico, I believe they actually came up last hour at a 56, so did Dulles. Frederick sitting at 49 right now, Cumberland at 51 degrees. Now, Overnight lows with those clouds streaming in and with the storm system on the way, mostly lower 50s, some upper to middle 40s out in our western zones overnight, but it's the cloud cover and it's the additional moisture streaming in ahead of the system that's going to make tomorrow, don't necessarily want to call it mild, but certainly compared to where we have been, not quite as chilly tomorrow morning. Enjoy that while it lasts, because your daytime high is closer to those overnight lows as we start getting closer to the weekend. Storm system, there you go, and it's had some strong thunderstorms with it throughout the course of the day today. Those are starting to wind down just a little bit. Heavy rain and still some heavy storms are coming through portions of Kentucky. Once that starts to hit the mountains, though, and you'll see it here on Futurecast, that precip does start to fan out just a little bit. Really kind of dissipates there, right? And as we head into the early morning hours, just some hit and miss showers for the immediate D.C. region. That's 8.30 in the morning, not overly wet, but not completely dry here in D.C. We head into the afternoon, occasional peaks of sunshine possible right around lunchtime. And then there's that secondary batch of showers trying to rotate through as we head into the evening hours tomorrow. Then it's kind of in and out of the cloud cover. Friday doesn't look overly wet here. In fact, it barely looks wet here in Washington. With the storm system strengthening just off the New York, New Jersey coastline, we could see maybe a passing shower or two get pulled in from the north. But primarily, we're just kind of dancing in and out of the cloud cover through the day on Friday. But it will be considerably chillier. Very breezy as well. Those winds won't be feeling good as we head through Friday and Saturday here in D.C. Snowfall, yeah, some areas certainly going to see their first accumulating snow of the season. Now, not too atypical in some of these interior portions of the northeast and our mountain zones to the west where some of those deeper blues there, maybe 3 to 6, 6 to 12 inches of snow, but that would only be on the highest peaks out that way. Anyway, same kind of deal in portions of central New York there and northern Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania, some of those mountains could see a little bit of snowfall. Even northern portions of New Jersey close to New York City might get just a little bit of snow coming down. 64 degrees, your forecast high for tomorrow before temperatures collapse. Friday, just 55. We'll leave the threat of a passing shower just kind of to cover our butts there. But for the most part, it'll be a drier, leaning day. Can't promise it'll be dry in New York as your Commanders take on the Giants. Technically in East Rutherford, New Jersey, I know, but they are taking on the New York Giants. Rain showers do look decently likely right now through the course of that game. Temperature's in the 50s, so does the weather help us or hurt us? We'll find out tomorrow, and you'll find out right here on Fox 5. There's your seven-day forecast, chilly and breezy through the weekend. Another dry stretch next week, temps back near 60 by the middle of it. Kenneth? As holiday shopping ramps up, scammers are looking to cash in a new AARP survey finds 84% of American adults have been targeted by or experienced some type of fraud. Among the biggest threats, fake online shopping ads, phony package delivery alerts, and gift card scams. AARP recommends shopping directly through trusted websites, avoiding suspicious text links, and using credit cards for online purchases. The bottom line, if a holiday deal sounds too good to be true, it probably is. We'll come back, transforming a local park into a multi-million dollar sports complex. We're taking a closer look at the proposed changes next. Residents across the district may see drones flying overhead overnight. Local, state, and federal agencies are conducting an exercise to test technology that detects and tracks unauthorized drones. The FAA approved the testing. People shouldn't expect to see huge swarms of drones. DC officials tell me that at most they would see a small group of drones at a time, but more likely it would be just one. And I guess also worth noting that DC has obviously some of the most restricted airspace in the country and in the The tests are scheduled between midnight and 4 a.m. for the next two nights. A bill to legalize driverless taxis in D.C. faces a council transportation committee vote tomorrow. But several members plan to vote no over potential job losses. The plan requires wheelchair-accessible vehicles and limits fleet sizes. It also allows unionization efforts by rideshare drivers and robo-taxi maintenance workers. Potomac Interceptor repairs are forcing D.C. water to close parts of the C&O Canal in Montgomery County. Closures start Friday at the Pennyfield Lock and are expected to last more than a week. Crews are preparing about 1,700 feet of a sewage line. This is all part of D.C. water's broader repair efforts on all 54 miles of the Potomac Interceptor in the wake of that historic This is a historic sewage spill this year. The Cameron Run Regional Park in Alexandria may get a major makeover. A large indoor sports and events complex would cost $117 million. For nearly 50 years, Nova Parks has operated Cameron Run. The lease is set to end in 2028. The city says the project would include community programs. We still have two other parks in the city of Alexandria, Carlisle House and Winkler Botanical Garden, and so we'll continue to provide great services to the residents as well as the folks in the region at those two parks, as well as our other, we have 37 total parks around the region. The city's first community meeting on the project is virtual tomorrow at 6 p.m. When we return, who's more creative, adults or preschoolers? Researchers think they have the answer. We'll tell you. Stay with us. You are just...