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he first started working at wort the school back in november of 2014 as a paid teach's assistant.ant. then he moved into a volunteerte role in september 2015.015. investigators estimate he wasstw making videos since at least early 2015. 2 a victim's uncle found a photo o on the child's known lateno january this year. y the lawsuit states he met witht the principal aboutst it on february 4th but was told tothuw come back the next day. day that wasn't immediate enough so the uncle called police and car a way was arrested therr next day. ne now the principal is ons o administrative leave.ea a meeting as we mentioned wased supposed to happen tonight toont discuss standards for schoolorco volunteers at the schoolt thecho board's headquarters.d's hequar that's where fox5's alexandra limon is there live. alex the board just canceledt cn that meeting in the past hour. >> reporter: the newest theew information we have is thate is there are 12 victims that'ss tt' according to prince george's ge' county police. they just increased that
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number to 12 children thatrenha they say were victimized by that employee of judge sylvania woods elementary school. he is facing charges for child c sexual abuse and child porn and again the victims weree students at that school.atch now, there is a meeting meeti scheduled for 6:30 tonight athtt the school so that parents can meet with police as well as school officials and even a member of the fbi, aer o representative may be there toet meet with those parents. now, yesterday we learneday we about a civil lawsuit that was t filed on behalf of one of the young victims in thistims in th disturbing case. that lawsuit states that theres could be as mthany as 30 victimc and prince george's countyince g police are saying they've gotten 25 calls with tips about this case. cas today we spoke to a veryer concerned parent who wasd planning on attending that tha meeting as well as to the
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district.. >> i was in shock 'cause wen see him every daysh coming back and forth.th he walks a group of kids to a go school and from school. a fro >> what do you want to address tonight? just security.y. i just want to know what their plans are for security. surit i want to know what they're ty' planning to do to keep the keept school secure.ec things like this shouldn'thodn slip through the cracks. thera >> reporter: now again thatter: meeting for parents isg scheduled for 6:30 p.m. and is i opened to any member of theber community who wants to attend. now, at 6:00 p.m. there was was supposed to be a school board meeting to discuss the discu t volunteer policy and review itt perhaps update it in light of these very disturbing dtu allegations but that meetingee has now been canceled becausecee the school board members want b to attend thoae meeting withting parents so now they will be there instead. instead. reporting live in prince in in george's county, alexandra limon, fox5 local news. news. >> it will be a long night for t members of the d.c. council.
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scheduled to testify tonight on a major issue.ss. the future of the proposedropo paid time off act is at hand.an under the proposed legislationea those who work in d.c. would be able to take up to 16 weeksow paid time off for the birth of h a child a medical issue or to or care for a sick relative. relatv that's more time off than tn anywhere else in the country. cy the plan would impose a 1 percent tax on employers to ee pay for the program. fox5's matt ackland is live is v at the wilson building withldint more. . pretty hot topic, matt.tt >> reporter: yes, erin, e you're right, it is going tos g be a long night tonight. tonig this is the witness list. it's seven pages, 136 people.6 l we want to take you liveou live inside the council room rightht now. let's show you exactly what'sxas going on. go still several council members up on the dais and if you cannda see now, the room is packed.ac let's tell you a little bit you about what's going on.n. you mentioned sarah earlierar this will provide 16 weeks of leave but so far that's nots not set
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the chairman has said recently c he's looking at possiblyossibl reducing that to 12 weeks now.ew what is also still being discussed is how much employers will have to pay. on the table right now is i 1 percent for each employee,ye basically 1 percent of an o employee's salary the employer s is going to have toal pay butay chairman middleton told me notd long ago the purpose of this ofi meeting is to figure out theisoi numbers, to make sure they work.wo he says once again nothing isotg set in stone. sto earlier this week i had ak i chance to talk to mayor bowser. she voiced her concerns abouterc the cost of the program sayingas she wanted to make sure that t leave is provided but also that businesses and theinesand e district government can handle l the costes.e co >> bottom line for us is we recognize that families,ilie especially parents who are welcoming a child need leaved but we also need to make sure
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that it is financiallyancial sufficient, the cfo made it really clear that the amountmo of money that is brought inro i has to equal the amount of o money that is going out.oi >> reporter: all right.orter: ag once again as you could see, s it was packed inside.ns a lot of people here in thein t hallways. there's also an overflow room downstairs.downst a lot of women have beenof w coming and bringing theirgheir children. we met one lady who works in in fairfax county, she's a a schoolteacher and she has s h great benefits but she sayshe s she wanted to come here to t support those who don't have doh up great benefits. benef once again the hit, you can'tan get on because it's probably pbl going last until 2 o'clock o this morning, it stopped twoppet days ago. da people got on the list to l testify so they're bringing ing pizzas at 8 o'clock tonighton and the chairman told me he'll e be here throughout the entire meeting.in it would last well into thell io morning hours.rning hours live at the wills building,ui matt ackland, fox5 local news.an >> new tonight the suspected spe drunk driver accused ofused of hitting and killing montgomeryoy
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leotta has turned himself in. luis rulusco was indicted onicto several charges including manslaughter.ug last december officer leotta leo was working a holiday taskolid force traffic stop and wasfic sd returning to his cruiser whenisn he was hit by another vehicle.ee the 24-year-old died a weekold w later from his injuries.ies. metro officials admitfficia human error was to blame for aor red light running incidentininc near the smithsonian station s last week. last wee that error left two trainss facing each other on the sameam track.trk. now, that information wasas revealed today at a metro meeting and now the federal transit administration isatn examining the incident. incen the agency says metro has had hh a consistent and serious problem with red signal running.nn meantime metro also discusseddis a serious issue facing theacing transit agency, less ridership.dersp. weekday ridership fellday rirshi 6 percent compared with last wit fiscal year and weekendee ridership is
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>> tonight a big plan tola expand i-66 and add tolls is tos running into some traffic with drivers. after nine months ofs of negotiations, plans to widen a a four-mile part of interstatentet 66 inside the beltway buteltw while the governor says the deal will ease congestion ongesn the grid locked highwayid l arlington county lawmakers are raising questions about the impact of the project.roje and drivers are raisings e ra questions about the impact on i their wallets. fox5's tom fitzgerald livezgeral on i-66 in arlington with more. more. hey fitz. >> reporter: hey, sarah. this project is essentially is y the result of a deal betweenet the democratic governor terrynoe mcauliffe and the republican reb controlled legislature. if the legislature went alongt g with mcauliffe's plan to raisen tolls, then the administration would speed up its plans tonso widen i-66 which as you knowno is often jammed with cars butt tonight it is drivers who areho saying that they feel jammed jae by these tolls and are questioning loudly the logic l
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that they currently use for free. >> absolutely not i don't wanty to pay a toll on 66.no that's outrageous. outrage why would i what happened tod >> depends on how much o if it is like new york tolls, 18, $15,. >> how are working people are wp going to use it? it's ridiculous.diculous. it's become the -- you know, it's for the lexus freeway. fre >> reporter: well, virginia vgii says the tolls are expected to generate $18 million in $18illi revenue and the wider lanesanes will add about 40,000bout 4 commuters onto the road butut the state will be using this dynamic tolling system withyste e-z pass.e-z that is going to mean that thehe tolls would go up or downr d depending on the time of day d or how crowded i-66 is. the numbers are important too.oa there will be changes to thechae hov lanes.v lanes. rush hour restrictions will belb extended an hour and a half in the evening rushes and while
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reverse commuters will not be tolled hov retirements will be tightened up to threeo thre occupants by 2020 in order to travel those lanes for free. speaking to fox5 the arlington county board chair libby garvey said she's concernedai thatd speeding up the wideningw of i-66 is only going make traffic worse in the short term and that that long term supporters in richmond shouldonu have looked at other alternatives. >> there's going to be a loto bo of disruption for our community. we think that if really goodoo effort was done on bus trafficra transit and improving transitra they could find that we didn't need to do the actual physicallc widening and that would behat ud better for everyone.veon >> reporter: ultimately whatha arlington county is encouragedne by though is that richmond hashd given them the authority touthot decide for themself how those t toll funds are going to beng used here in northerned here inn virginia. live in arlington tonight, tom m fitzgerald, fox5 local
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>> we are learning a breaka br through -- about a breakh --ut through discovery that couldou change how we think about the universe. this is big. >> really big.>>eall >> researchers say they haverc been able tohe confirm one off albert einstein's importantinst ideas described in his theory hy of relativity, that is that existence of gravitationalvitaon weight. >> scientists say these wavesthe are created when two black t b holes collide and researchers say they detected the waveses last september and since then have checked and rechecked their findings to make sure s they are correct.orre >> wow. >> there's more to come onon this and it's very fascinatingai and it's something that's creating a lot of buzz in theuzt science industry, n-that fieldid but i know sue has a few f things to say about this.o >> are you an expert onsa it,n i sue? can you tell mecan yo everything there is to knowng t about the theory of relativity. >> i have been googling as fast as i can. i think in a nutshell whatt this does is it proves that t black holes exist and ifk holes einstein was right on that heexg may
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other theories and he thes an predicted that in 1916 but you t can't see a black hole, you holy can't use a telescope and hee felt there were gravitationalti waves so they built detectors do and now we have proof thatoof there are gravitational waveses which means there are blackre aa holes and it's astonishingonisng research and you can hear whataa it sounds like if we can'tf can pull that up later i'll put itut on facebook so you can hear y cn it. almost sounds like an ultrasound. >> oh, cool. >> really neat stuff, isn't it?t >> uh-huh. >> yes, it almost makes us pay more attention to that than say the possibility of some tilm snow next week. >> okay, now we're listening. li >> we're listening.isteng. >> even einstein would say what did you say? actually we w need to start with anotheran thing and that is it's mightyt'i cold out there, guys., g i know, that's from the duh d department but it's going togont get colder.olde it's 28 degrees now.ees n we're going to head to theead te teens tonight.teens tonight we've had quite a bit of windf i chill today and i'm callingng your attention to some oftionsof these snow showers that aret are coming off the lakes because beu
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colder air comes in with a bigig blast of wind and maybe somebe s snow showers and with it being this cold, every single flakeinl we get from any snow showersw se tomorrow afternoon and evening e will stick and we want you toant be aware of that.ha while we'll probably get ridet of some of these strongere ofses winds in the short term, them, winds will be back, snowac s showers may come across they co mountains and we could havewe cu slick spots on bridges anddg a overpasses tomorrow night soorro plan your travel accordingly.org we don't want anybody hitting ht any icy spots and being stuck. u as a matter of fact mayor bowser has already directedirec her snow team to go into a full deployment because of of these snow showers as we remember from that wednesdayedne before the big blizzard that'st' sometimes all it takes.akes. again wind chill is our short or term problem.term p only feels like 5 degrees in in hagerstown, 17 in d.c. d.c we've got a cold evening ahead as these are the actual air temperatures. not the wind chills.the winds will get better late
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tonight.toni we'll still have wind chill tovo deal with tomorrow but probably not feeling as bad asad it has today and last thing iin want to show you is our futurecast. just picking up on are few ofewf those snow showers betweenhowert about 6:00 and 8:00 tomorrow tor night so heads up becauseause while not everybody sees it,st, where you do see it it could c get slippery in a hurry so we want you to be ahead of it. of i hey, if you don't have to beto out when i mean those arewh coming through maybe you canbeoc avoid it.avd it. overnight we head for the hea teens and i'll have much moreavh on your seven-day forecast. yes, we'll talk about theal possibility of a messy mondayesn and tuesday, snow, rain, all of the above, they're stilly' s possibly in our forecast andorec we'll talk about that a bitt a b later. sarah. >> it is winter. >> uh-huh. >> after all that of.ft >> finally.er new tonight zika concerns ce are growing.rong >> health officials announcefici the first confirmed case nowd ce in maryland. >> and smoking with kids ins the car could cost you. ct y we're going to tell you how y h much and how soon this new law n could go into effect. >> plus, out of shape middle mid aged men may have a
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brain. we'll tell you about that autha little bit later
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>> zika virus is now ina vi maryland and the health a department is saying that the person who contracted thendyiace disease traveled to a country cu where the virus is more
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widespread. d.c. and virginia also haveal hv had confirmed cases of zeka. meantime on capitol hill theil t director for the centers for disease control testified before a senate subcommittee. dr. tom frieden urged the t panel to approve nearlyea $2 billion in emergencyon funding to help protect p pregnant women from the virus. r there is concern zika mayika ma cause birth defects. friedan says so far cdc hasdc shipped more than 60,000 zika virus test kits for pregnant prn women to health departments all are round the country.ount worries that the disease could t be transmitted by sexualhe contact is also raising fears. in brazil health authoritieses are urging people to abstaintain from sex even kissing. >> think twice about smoking aug cigarette in the car.he car if a new proposal is passed pas into law.aw members of the statehouse haveeh given preliminary approval tovao a bill that would make ite i illegal to smoke in a carraway a child under the age of eight.. drivers could not be pulled ple over
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children but may receive a $100 fine if they are caught smoking once they're pulled over. opponents of the bill day it's simply an intrusive measure bysb state government.er >> we asked you what youyowhat thought on our fox5 twittertt page about this.pabout this. 80 percent of you say it's as health matter. while 20 percent think it's acei violation of privacy.io pri >> yeah, it's going to be oneon of those that's tough to enforce, of course, you know,ouu if you roll down the window win and they came up and it smellstl like smoke, they don't see youou smoking -- yeah.--ea >> one person said on twitter ot to me, you know, just becausese it's unhealthy doesn't mean it n should be illegal.. >> perhaps we should just j outlaw cigarettes.et that might make it a little litl bit easier or tobacco.obacco >> very controversial.troversia. >> do you exercise regularly? ul a new study shows if you don't n your brain could be affected c as you get older.ouou gld >> researchers looked at more m than 1500 people over a 20-year period for this andr tha when they were around 40 years old, they took part in a in treadmill test and they did so again two decades later alongero
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mri and results sound that t people with below average fitness in the first test had smaller brain volume compared to those who exercised regularly. researchers show you thresearchs show you should be exercisingg early in life. coming up a key reasonn young people don't support d hillary clinton. well, because they don't have daughters.ers. >> that's an interesting idea.e. we're going to tell you abouttot a new theory called thelehe daughter effect. e >> and guys who go to churchhurh they could be happier on o valentine's day. we'll explain ahead.expln ah >> plus the capitals are theca best team in thepi nhl, the warriors the best n nba.. how do the two top teams topeams compare. jim lokay here to break thatak a down coming up.
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>> ♪ >> the wnba has a new the w president.nb her name, lisa borders.orders she previously served as president of the atlantic city council and currently a a company today cola executive.cu. borders is the fourth person for to serve as president of thes ed league.leag the wnba celebrating its 20th0t anniversary season this year. >> amazing that they've hadheve staying power.ow you figure it really got theyot ball rolling so to speak when rebecca lobo was having thatg t good run at uconn.tco good to see it's continuing. >> good luck to her.o her. >> speaking of basketball. >> we got a little basketball,ab little hockey. hoc we'll mix them around bothlyd bl we'll talk about a team from your end of the country going gg out to thwe
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if you follow basketball youas can't help but admire theirth golden state warriors.or they won 28 games before their streak was snapped in december. de there is a team that'shat' dominating their league justguej as much as the warriors andor they are right here, we'ree, wre talking about the capitals. tonight the caps go for their fe the 40th win of the season seasn against the wild in minnesota.is this would be the fastest faste they've ever made it to 40.0. back in 2010 when they won the president's trophy they hity the big four-zero in their 58th game.th game. they're on a record pace inord e the nba undefeated at home and they're 48 and four start is the best ever as they try tor ar hit the unbreakable nba effortfr of 72 wins set by the bulls. thl here's how the two teams stackes up here. home records.ho take a look.keook. the caps they are 24 and two. to golden state is 24 and zero.ero. on the road give it to goldent n state 24 and five compared to
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19-five-two.-fivo. not too much disparity when you figure you got ties. g if you make the ties wins very r close.close. talking about california,alif golden state really wasn't always the hot ticket in town.n. >> no, but it is now. >> they definitely want -- you y talk about the caps being aap hot ticket, too and you lookou l at just tickets from herem h compared to other cities i wasie down in florida last week, saw w a hockey game down there, paid like 25 bucks. >> i usually don't think of hockey when i'm down inn florida. >> i had absolutely nothingbsolo do. that or play spots.y s last night heard criesea c across the news room. tony perkins asking who is i that down at the lakers cavsakes game. it was d'angelo russell.ngelousl you'll see it.you' see where he's covering h himself. yeah, no th not
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lebron james --am - >> there it is head on.n. >> yeah.>> >> russell was down face firstrs for a couple of minutes. minutes he was able to return to theto t game but by the way he did winin a thousand dollars on america's funniest home videos. he really didn't.id >> how is he today? >> that's rough. >> yeah. >> did you cringe a bit watching that yourself.ou >> little bit. he shook it off and went back in the game.he gam all is well.l >> shake it off. >> after 28 years the white 2yer house posts a sign that somea s are saying was long overdue.verd >> tonight the city ofonight tht cleveland is apologizing to the family of tamara rice forrie sending them a bill they sayl t should have been flagged.eeag >> you might want to think inhtw the box this valentine's dayntin when it comes to buying buy flowers.owe new idea that is springing upngu we'll tell you about. >> ♪ >> black friday blac
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>> this is fox5 local news at 5:00.. >> seven years have now goneow g by since pamela butlerle vanished from her northwestth home under suspicious suspi circumstances. her body has never been foundd and there's never been ann arrest. >> now the family ofst theamily government computer specialist is on the verge of declaring her legally dead.he fox5's paul wagner joins usr joi live tonight with the story. sty paul. >> reporter: sarah and laura derek butler will tell youlell within days of his sister's appearance in february of 2009 a he knew in his heart hiseart sister was dead. pam he says would never havewoue vanished on her own andn own although some of the familyhe have held out hope pam was still alive somewhere, theyom have come toew the conclusionclo she is gone and will never n come home.come h but that's not all. derek butler believes someone s killed his sister and he wantsde to know why. seven years have gone by since derek butler arrived at his sister's
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street west and found aetest settling and deeply troubling t z. the doors were locked the drr alarm was off and the house was a mess not nearly the way te pam had kept it. >> i never thought that pam t would just walk away. i always felt like it was foulif play there. >> reporter: and here's why. pam butler had a sophisticatedic surveillance system installedane in her house and after she went missing the family wentnt through every minute of it. o she was seen on tape enteringnt the house two days before bef valentine's day and was never seen leaving. >> all we ever saw was the ups s man come into her house to deliver things, the mailman them would come and her ex-boyfriend.-boy nobody else ever, ever came up to her front door or even went around her house. h nobody ever even came into theeo yard other than those threeee people. >> reporter: the surveillance system showedm swe pam's ex-boyfriend coming andien going from the
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hours and for several days. >> it seemed very suspiciousseem because he constantly keptep coming and going, coming and co going. >> reporter: in 2009, about three months after pamfter disappeared, derek butler took r us inside the house and showed d us something the family found fn odd. >> we came in. this blind was raised up. why was that odd? o >> she would never take the blinds up.inds she would lower them from the t top down so that you couldn'tatu see inside house.e >> reporter: it's also theepor only side of the house that houa was not under videoideo surveillance.eillan. derek butler suspects that'ss t how his sister's body wasod carried out of the house.he at the time of her time er disappearance fox5 spoke more se than once with her ex-boyfriend who told us hend wl had no idea what had happenedadh to her.to h he said they had broken up andru he was only removing his belongings from the house. fromo police questioned him severald times but he was neveras nev charged. with no arrest seven years later, the family still wants answers but also wants to move on.
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that we haven't heard from pam in seven years. we really feel like she's not n with us so we at the point the p right now we going to declareec her dead shortly after thefter prayer vigil. >> reporter: the house on the he fourth street has been resoldres now. looking little like it dide i seven years ago. now on saturday afternoon the butlers will join family and friends in front of the house fo on fourth street where theyrth will remember a woman who today would be 54 years old yeas and after the family declarescl her legally dead they'll holdd a church memorial service,ervi something they have neverin done. paul wagner, fox5 local news.ew >> that's a sad story. >> horrible. >> new tonight, a program inin fairfax county is pushing for mental health treatment instead of jail time.std >> yeah, this is called the t diversion first program and it has police officers takee nonviolent offenders to a crisis response center. cenr. of 265 mental healthealt investigations last month byns t fairfax county
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40 percent involved peoplenvolve being taken to the new crisis c center along with the facility l recruits and officers are officr being trained on crisis cri intervention. >> from the virginia sheriff's f association perspective and our legislative committeeom we're asking for not moreot jails to be built but more mental health facilities be hea bullet. across the united states andnite especially in the commonwealthli the average populations of many of the facilities has gone down.ow >> the diversion first programii was partially inspired by they e death of natasha mckenna whoen died last year after being hit with a stun gun four times. >> the mayor of cleveland is apologizing to the family ofhe m tamir rice. yesterday a document appeared on line that showed the city was suing to recover the cost te of rice's medical treatmental t after he was s
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the amount was $500. earlier today the city withdrew the claim and mayor frank jackson apologized tologie rice's family during a newss conference.eren >> if you visit the whiteit thew house any time soon you'll notice a new sign outside the gate. the signs say warning, weapons prohibited. it cites the federal code thatal says no firearms or dangerousane weapons are allowed on the white house grounds.sero u.s.a. today reports the signshs were posted last month near the guard shacks whereshacks w visitors have to enter butnter some are wondering why that wy t took so long.ok so lon a law passed in 1988 requireduid that the signs be posted. >> voters, they have a lot ofhe factors influencing theircing t decision in the upcoming upcom presidential election butal ect could having a daughtera daughtr instead of a son be enough to swing your vote? it's been i dubbed the daughter effect byhed some people. >> fox5's political reporterepor ronica cleary is here tos he explain what this all meansin and ho ww some believe it's pars of being a parent and having ata daughter that could possibly make a
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>> reporter: it's veryr:t' interesting.inre >> really interesting. really ig >> reporter: we're lookingorter' at in relation to one t candidate, we're looking at itwi in referencte to hillary clinton n new hampshire'samhi recent primary exit pollst pol showed that only 16 percent of voters from the ages of 18 toe a 29 supported hillary clinton, where 83 percent supportedup bernie sanders.iede in iowa numbers were veryry similar.simi why is clinton struggling toglio connect with young voters? vot one princeton professor herofesr tweeted out a theory. now, he suggested that perhaps hillary clinton is not doingis g well with young voters because u they haven't yet had the fortune of having a today. now let's take a look at this at graph here. you can see that these redat t d lines, they represent peoplerept who have at least one daughter.ug the blue lines they representre people who only have sons --on excuse me parents, we're onlye , looking at parents.g a you can see that if we're we' looking at people who support hillary those red lines, those, people with at least one daughter, they support hilla
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across-the-board. now, another professor spoke about this as well.ab he's aou professor of the university -- at theiv university of california ina irvine and he called this idea i the daughter effect.ect. he noted the effect of havingfav a daughter on support for hillary clinton, it's clion somewhere between eight and 20 percentage points. pnt why does the daughter effectes t happen? i spoke with paul hochmeier licensed marriage and family therapist about theha idea. >> i think that the thing tt tht we're seeing is this disconnect between parents whoan understand what it takes, the challenges that are involved iol with being a woman in our in society as opposed to parents pn who don't have that personal per intimate connection with thathat experience. >> reporter: so, i wouldepter: love to talk with you about abo this idea of the daughterter effect. do you think that it really r
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you think it affects hillary? i let's talk about it on my on facebook and twitter pages. you can find me at ronicat cleary.clea back to you ladies. >> i think it makes you more open minded to it if you do do have daughters.augh you know, it's just somethingt that you, you know -- it's just an idea you don't think t would be too far fetched is a better way to say it.tter w >> i think you want to open the opportunity for yourr daughters, open that glass that ceiling a little bit wider,er, too.too. >> yeah. >> but i think women are so thi hard on women, too.en t >> yes, yes., yes >> it's such a game changer. cha >> so much on the physicality, too. we are hard on each other not ec personally here but -- >> yeah, yeah.h, >> yikes. >> hey, by the way, are you looking --ok >> i'm looking at the sun. not that i'm not listening youty to lovely ladies but it keeps catching my eye. my eye >> it's gorgeous.or >> sunset. >> wow, aren't we so fortunate to see that. it's a cold day but nice to be able to observe it from the ifre comfort of the studio whicht of feels like the north pole alsooa but that's all right.hat'all rig hey, we're getting cold andol tomorrow night at this time we have something we have to
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watch. it's a little bit of snowt of sn shower activity that could be just enough to cause somenoug problems. >> oh, boy. o >>h, yeah. >> okay. >> we've heard that before. hea >> i know. and the wednesday night beforeef our big blizzard we had a bzz clipper come through.omhr this isn't a clipper. >> the dreaded clip per.he d >> i know. but it might in some areas put s down a coating to half inchalf c and it's going to be so darne sn cold tomorrow everything that falls will stick unless unles there's a treatesd surface soce watch your bridges overpasses tomorrow night.toow n you've been warned and we'll continue to hammer there home tm but that sunset is gorgeoussor tonight even though it is very cold but dry as we go through gr the overnight hours. h so, that's what i was talking tl about with the friday evening ee commute potentially being a bnga concern. let me just show that you our futurecast does see a coupleseeu of these snow showers comingse i through. clearly not everybody is goingn to get that. t i would certainly be watching if you live north and west ofnow d.c. to make sure that doesn'tut become an issue for you and bog you down as you're trying're to get your weekend started tomorrow. but speaking of the week, the coldest air of the winter isof t coming in for th
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we're still continuing to watch monday, tuesday for theay potential for some messy days,ey maybe a combination of snownow and rain is the way it's the looking right now and it's not s looking like a repeat of the blizzard.. high temperatures today, only the 30 at reagan dulles and bwi in the 20's. the it's going to be a very coldbe c weekend as well and we willill see likely see these temperatures being hard to to reach over the course of sunday.su. 28 degrees is where our degrees temperature is right nwhow.e isn 23 for frederick, 21 forck, 21 f hagerstown. get down to quantico and it's i' about 31 degrees.1 de pretty much no one at thene freezing mark and we continuee t to have strong wind gustsstr making it very uncomfortablencoo to be out.e out. out of the northwest and again a this will be the case tomorrowbs as our frontal boundary, the arctic leading edge of the arctic air coming throughoming r tomorrow night will also will create some gusty winds. gusts to 29 at quantico meansnta it feels like 20 there, 17 in, the district, feels like fivels in hagerstown and nine as wee a get up toward the frederick area.ar i think winds will get better overnight but we'll still drop d
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this will be colder than last night. 18 for the district, 13 for gaithersburg and frederick, 18d for annapolis and 18 for leonardtown.leon association the temperaturen th trend, average is 46 now.46 now. it's going to be sometime next m week before we can get back to t that. as a matter of fact, we'llte really struggle even to get into the mid 30's nowug onn president's day with thet's with coldest days being saturdays and sunday as this frontals thil boundary comes through againry c with that chance of snow showers tomorrow evening thatnit could create some slick spots s and then temperatures only inpe the teens and 20's as we head we on into the holiday weekend. wee we'll show you that holiday weekend right here and then i a want to jump ahead and talkad ad about our storm system becausetc sunday for valentine's day 25ay5 and very cold with the pocket te of some snow showers on mondaynm with a temperature of 35. so, what about those snow showers right now? we wouldrigh say it looks like we could seeik some light snow developing devep monday and then it will possibly mix with or change toeo some snow on tuesday with a temperature of 40 and we'vend w got to tell you that weouha continue to watch for the possibility at least
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slight risk as seen by theas seb national weather service thatvie we have accumulating snow hereee and maybe a little bettere bet chance where you see that you sa moderate risk so those are two e things we're going to bere g watching as it looks likeks l things will be getting busy for us especially as we trackera colder air and again thehe possibility of a messy mix isix what we're thinking right nowg t monday and tuesday but even bute the possibility of some of s accumulation, too. as we get closer to ther to weekend we'll try to give youve some idea of what we're what we expecting in terms of that butet right now the system that sysm h would produce it is still waysll out in the pacific ocean so we n have lots more watching to do. n that's your seven day. sarah, lauer remarks back toerks you. >> thanks very much, sue.uc >> still ahead at 5:00 could ala visit to church improve yourrovu marriage? the new studies suggest worship may make mene happier in their relationship. o >> you can send flowers foror your valentine's day thatay t lasts almost as long as youralmo love life. l the secret to longer lasting l flower arrangements. aan >> some people's
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don't last that long. l not sure here. is your valentine actually a bad romance. how people are calling aboutlina the bad valentine's on socialn media. we'll be right back.l >> ♪
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>> ♪ >> shawn and tony. >> putting us in the mood. m maybe it's just me.s st i don't know. >> okay. >> whew. >> we're speaking of valentine's day here.s dayer one thing that could keep your man happy this valentine'sle day, apparently make him go too church.chur. yes, a just said that. t a new study finds men who regularly attend religiousigio services are happier in the relationships than those whothae don't.do >> i get that. >> men are still happier evenere if their partners don't go to church with them.ch so, honey, you're on your
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however, women who head toead church without their partnerir r are more likely to be miserable about their relationship. >> totally get there. i mean i totally get -- you feel more m fulfilled. feel more of a fulfilled person. i think that's what it is.at wha not everybody gets it right on valentine's day butut how do you spot a badad valentine? well, social media is helping sum it all up withth the hashtag bad valentine fivetv words. i check out some of the some of responses today. wait, you don't have netflix? x okay.ok. got you a gym membership.emrshi >> oh. oh. >> no, how about this one am i bought i was vacuum.asa >> so sweet. >> here's another one.nother on. will you do i guess. [laughter][laughte >> love you and footballll equally. get out of my house.ou and we ran out of wine.in that's the worst offense ever.v. >> worst. >> don't ever run out of wineute
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you, it's me. >> oh, geez.ee >> come on. >> all right. let's head over to tony and shawn for a>>r look at what'ss next on fox5 local news at ns 6:00 hey, guys.ey, you're not a bad valentine.altie >> thank you. y >> i don't believe in i d valentine's day. >> i know you don't. >> you're a hater now.tew. >> it should be all year round u you should show your love forr o each other.ea oth >> that's exactly right. >> i agree with you.ee people who celebrate it,tet, that's your business, i justus j don't. don't. that's all i'm day. d >> but she'll take the sexyhe'l lingerie from her husband. h >> he won't give to it me on ite valentine's day.ine'ay. it will be another day because b he knows better.noet >> where are you going? goi >> i was going get out of there conversation.sa. [laughter]ghr] >> you're a smart man.an >> we're going stay with the valentine's theme.he a recent survey took a closer co look at office romance. >> wow. w. >> yeah. we always hear they're a bad idea. idea wait until you hear theea t results of this survey.is s it may help you decide whetheret dating your coworkers is worth r it or not.
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>> you may want to think you inside the box so to to speak te when ordering valentine's day flowers.ower >> seven alexandria the ceo of rose le fleur is showing offshon her unique creations. creat they're in a box, flowers a box. >> they're stunning. >> this is your idea. >> well, it's not originallyhiso my idea.t
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floral house design and theyy weren't available at the timeval around last year when i was looking -- when i found themg and i decided to-- bring them to d.c. and i did the researchhe r for about a year and started sta in the fall.he fal >> how do you keep them fresh t inside the box? >> they stay fresh with a treated foam and i include an antiseptic so that it doesn't mold or anything. any when your roses don't last alas long time it's because ofs beus bacteria.bact >> how long do they last. >> 10 to 12 is the most. >> so, our producer was sayingrs she received some and actually a i saw them, they were the wer absolutely stunning and she a put them in the freezer and frez they lasted really long. >> with hers, what happensit when they dry, because thereh 't no bacteria they dry beautifully so they don't roton like the ones you would findu in just water.
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so tell us about each of these a different ones. like the gold ones obviouslyes those are -- you coloredre those. >> so, yeah, they're coloredre d with a floral spray. f so, you can dress up a lot oft roses and make it really unique and you can do other do colors like black and blue. i created an ombre style. s >> this is a heart. hea >> we can do something thatcan says i love you simply. s you can do any color.o any col you can use large roses. ros >> how can you order. you o >> i have a web site it's shop rose le fleur do com.ur do com. you can look at everything on the web site and call me at (312)371-5121 or e-mail me at shop do the rose le fleur at g t mail.com. >> what is the cutoff foroff valentine's day to get your order in.r >> tomorrow friday at 12:00 p.m. that is the cutoff.the toff. >> beautiful. >> thank you for being here.ou >> thank you for having me.ou >> coming up, a
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>> gone are the days where youth would just simply ask someonee m to go to prom.o to p >> not that simple any more. m now teens are coming up withpit more and more elaborate waysra w to ask including one teen inee i michigan who asked a specialpe needs student to be her date.ert take a look. >> ask you to prom. p [cheers and applause] >> she asked her friend ben fri davis to the big dance duringin a high school pep rally last week and after he said yes theet teen pulled out a red rose ros from his wheelchair.hech they became good friends in 2014 when nguyen volunteeredol with the program to supportup special needs students. sde the two will
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which takes place on friday may 13. the kids are pulling out allng o the stops. >> i think it's good. thi >> all the stops. a >> all right. all rht. >> fun. >> fun. >> thanks for joining us tonight at 5:00.:00. >> fox5 local news at 6:00 starts right now. n >> this is fox5 local news at 6:00. >> fallout from the child pornography scandal involvingnv a prince george's countyounty elementary school continueschoon tonight.ni thank you for joininggh us i'm i tony perkins.ki. >> i'm shawn yancy. s every day we are learning newrnw disturbing details in the casete against dionte carraway.rawa the volunteer school aide isaide accused of making videos ofideo children engaged in sex acts.nea on wednesday we got a better aet idea of the time line of events after one of the of the victims' families filed a lawsuit. last thursday one of the alleged victims' uncles wentcl w to sylvania woods elementarylemt school and spoke with the principal about his concernsce about the suspect dionte carraway. according to the uncle the principal told him to circle back in a few days buta w da instead, he went to police.e. on friday, police arrested
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carraway.aw. then on monday, officers heldicd a news conference to inform to r the public about the case.bout c they revealed that as many asany 11 children were involved innvve the pornographic videos thateost carraway allegedly filmed at fie the school. on tuesday, school officialsl oc sent home a letter informinginfg parents about what was going on. then wednesday one of the alleged victims' families fam filed a lawsuit and for theanfor first time prince george's county school leaders spoke publically about the case.he cas they also announced thehe school's principal had been b placed on administrative leave. fox5's alexandra limon has limoh been following the case. she joins us now with the latest information.ormaon alex. >> reporter: and that isr: a ths some troubling new information, prince george'siorc county police saying there are now 12 victims, 12 children12 ce who were allegedly abused by this school employee.mp take a look at his photo. pho he is 22-year-old dionte carraway and he was a teacher's aide at judge sylvania woods element

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