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completed.complete what exactly happened here. h let's take you to video just vid for a moment here. the mayor walls, he startedta his political career early inar life here. he. we're told at 29 he served asses a council member, a vice mayoric and then as mayor. we're told council and vicee mayor met together to grieve and to also make plans to honor mayor walls. wal >> mayor walls was electedalls t when he was 29 years old, one o of the youngest mayors in thers entire country and he just hadu a birthday saturday. saturda just turned 39 on saturday. sur. you know, he's well liked,, well received, city liked him. m he's a two term mayor.ay he just got elected in may to a second term so he will be sorely missed and he was was smart. he knew government.ovnment. he knew how to run the business of government. gover >> reporter: so, police have hae cleared the scene but youd the u might have noticed in thatat video they were here earlier today. the chief of police saidaid
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side the home but he said that h is standard operating procedure.proc he would not tell us exactly t what they might have foundhav fu inside the home but he said he there were no signs of foul of o play.pl once again, the body was taken t under police escort to baltimore for an autopsy. autop autopsy results should be known in the near future. the live in district heights, mattat ackland fox5 local news. ns. >> tonight still facing theht threat of a shutdown by thehe u.s. transportation secretary sy metro has a new safety sheriffhe in town and he's making big promises about getting the troubled transit agency backgena on track.on t >> after four days on the job patrick lavin says he knows what to do because he's done d it before having helped rebuild new york city's subwaysy after 9/11.11 fox5's tom fitzgerald a livee at metro headquarters tonight tg with more.ore fitz.fi >> reporter: we're learningr: w the impact of all thishi activity the last 48 hours.ou that big threat from thehreat fr secretary of transportation isni leading now to some big
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changes in metro's safe track program. consider this. they had only planned to shuthut down the section from easternte market to minnesota avenue in august. after that sta directiveirti yesterday it appears that that is not only going to be moved b up but it will be moved up a lot faster to next month, 16ont6 days that line could be shut down after the fta ordered o emergency urgent repairs onntai that section and two others. now, onto this metro meetingee today. the general manager of metro, paul wiedefeld, today saidday s that he made a mistake by noty being closer in contact with the federal transit administration.ad the reason they had to come out yesterday and rework thehedt smart track rebuilding program o and they want areas focused on three places: the red, blueed b and orange and silver line. l all that work has to be done be first before the rest of theof e smart track program was shut down -- with shutdowns andtd
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stepping into all of this o t mess, well, that would be metro's new chief safety safet officer patrick lavin. l he said that pretty eye opening direct things about metro's problem and pointed andi out that metro's issues aresss not nearly as bad as a lot oft people think they are. he says he saw even worse in woe new york city back in the 80's. he says metro has the talentalen to do this job but just isn't getting the time to do the job b because the trains are already running.runnin bottom line, he says he has confidence he can help fix he ca what's broken at metro. metro >> when i started the job inn 1983, we were in such a stateta of disrepair that we were wer derailing a main line train tran every 28 days.s. so, you could imagine what ithat would take to turn a system syse like that around which we did, wmata is very good at telling t you what happened.pened. we need to work on the why and it doesn't give you any value al to place -- to have a blame
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is dent fight resources youresoo need, commit to getting thosethe resources, implement effective i programs and that's how you turn the tide. >> reporter: it is no understatement to point thatpoi the tide patrick lavin is l swimming against right now is strong. metro revenues are down 6 percent. ridership is down 5 percentn 5er and consider this. out of 445 critical action act plans that were ordered to beret done by metro, we were tolderol today only eight have beenn completed.mp now, these changes the fta the wants could make some big changes on which sections of metro gets shut down and d slowed down first.sled down all of this will be finalized fd we're told on monday.onda ear we're live at metro headquarters tonight tom tom fitzgerald fox5 local news. new. >> montgomery county publicer schoolsy adopting a new gradin system that's raising some eyebrows.ro it averages student grades g
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from both semesters and then ant rounds up. >> fox5's alexandria limon axand is live in bethesda with ah closer look at whether thisthert system actually gives students t easy a's. alex it has a lot of peoplee talking. >> reporter: it does.ep when you look at this new gradoring system it raiseoos som questions like is it actuallyctl helping students or will itill hurt them in the long run? is it going to adequately prepare them for college and honestly, are we just coddling kids toog s much nowadays.ad first montgomery county public schools got rid of final o f exams. now they're introducing a newinr grading system for high schools.hool starting next school year, this chart demonstrates howontes two different quarterly gradeslg will add up to a total t semester grade. and there's some interestingntes math involved. >> so, four is an a, three is, s a b and so if you get an a in your first marking period, a b a i
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period, that averages to a seven, divided by two, threewoth and a half, round it up and then you have an a. have an a >> reporter: in real life in i college life doesn't round up'tu for you. y do you think that this is justss giving students an easy a.. >> the current model we wereere using claw a downward trendnwd r system where it would averagera down was not really working for our students and oursnd community. >> reporter: of course, thee, te school district defends the changes.an lesley hinkston is the motherot of a high school student attude chevy chase high and a a professor of sociology atocioloy georgetown university.niversit she served on the facultyed board of admissions in the i t past. >> i would think that teachershr would be able to take advantage of the fact that,t, okay, we no longer have thisr hs final exam, you know,am, hopefully, you know, they'llhe make those quarter assessmentssn a little bit more rigorous butro yeah i think it's ant' a opportunity for more authentic assessment and i think that iff teachers take advantage ofange
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to better prepare students fornt college. >> reporter: and what aboutnd wt the risk of grade inflation orfr the possibility of an unfair advantage during the admissions process?ro >> and i think that admissions can be a little savvier thanha people give them credit for.di r >> reporter: now i alsoow i als asked that mom and professor pfs if she thinks we just coddlet cd kids too much nowadays and shend says honestly yes, in sportsnpo everybody gets a trophy, nobody loses.oses some schools, like montgomerymot county schools, don't give f's anymore. but she says in the case of this new grading system,yste specifically she doesn't think t it's doing that.ng reporting live in bethesda, bete alexandria limon, fox5 local news. news. >> ♪ >> such an interestingntes conversation.co >> yeah. all right, let's take a live's t look outside now.ow 65 degrees out there and sue palka's got the latest on theest weather for us right now.ow. hey, sue, we had like to seeo some sunshine at som
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>> you know what, sarah i sah brought out my lucky charm.uckyc >> you did? you >> i don't need them but iut i think that if i bring themring maybe something will changel c and actually you probably will l need your sunglasses before weee get through this weekend andkend so that's some good news.d new one thing we have not done not today, though, i'm happy to to tell you is that we have note nt added on to our streak of days d with measurable rain. m so far we have not had anyad measurable rain at the airporthr even though it kind of looks like it want to from time to time. before i left home today i sawho some sunshine north and west of d.c. so hopefully that's ahaa good sign. we do know that we have a warm m front that will be on the move o and on radar, there are stillti a few showers, not close toot ce the district right now but a but lot of clouds right here andnd at least enough thinning ofthnig the clouds that we've beent we'v able to get our temperature upra a little bit higher than itrha was yesterday.terday what we've been watching are a a few showers that are movingtre m closer to the interstate 81e corridor and also down to our o south. if you watch these in motionnot again, you'll notice that theyhy tend to be weakening as theyy continue to move east intoas int
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these have been losing along a little bit of their sizzle.iz you saw yellow earlier.arli. now it's just mostly green. gre i'm not sure if that's going goi to hold up but maybe you get a m sprinkle out of it.rinkle o temperature-wise we're happye-wi to see that it's getting a bitgt more comfortable closer too average at 66 degrees now at the top of the hour and frederick because you've had sunshine or at least some sunshine, 72 degrees up there. e most of the rest of us in thes n mid and upper 60's and wes and w continue to see all the warmth e all around us but the east e winds continuing to lock us insi just a little bit longer asr as we've got a warm front thatronta will be on the move but it i hasn't moved yet.et 80 in raleigh.eigh. so, tonight, we'll be watchingig again another cloudy night, n maybe some patchy drizzle. dzz we definitely expect fog at little bit later tonight buter b that warm front that you saw y down to our south, that'sth, at going try to power through theou area tomorrow and it will getro our temperatures up.ra it will also gituve us a chancec for a thunderstorm. overnight and through thisghhi evening, i don't think you're i going to have to worry too wry much about the umbrellas.mbll there could be a little bit of
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temperature of 67 at 6a 7 o'clock. so, we thin we'll still go up gu another degree or two. two by 9 o'clock the fog starting sn to show up again, 65 degrees.5 e fog may still be around and rather thick at 11 o'clock with a temperature of 64. so, we wrap it up with your y headline. some storms, then sun on friday. . so, i'm really hoping i canini use my lucky charm again charm tomorrow but we do know thatnowa any storm might be capable of producing some significantigfi rain which we've had plenty of this first half of may.ofay we've got drier sunnier days sud though on the way.though i'll have that seven-day have tn forecast for you a little bit ab later.late laura, sarah, back to you. >> you know sue, i wore my iore annie dress as i recall 14 orec4 15 days ago. a. >> wow. >> the sun will come out sun tomorrow dress and i thinkowss that was the start of the bad luck.. >> uh-oh. >> so i-will not wear that for t awhile. hile [laughter] >> all right, thanks, sue. coming up a firefighter iser found guilty in response to a choking child. >> we have new information tonight in the case of a d.c.. firefighter charged withed w neglect of duty. ronica. w
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about that meeting between speaker paul ryan and donaldndon trump and you probably thinky t it was his most important imp meeting of the day.meet not so. we'll tell you who he says wassw just a little more importante than the donald.on >> and transgender restroom resr controversy even a pizza placeep is weighing in.n. the sign one shop in virginiaira posted outside their restaurant. >> ♪
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>> ♪ >> we are following breaking news tonight in the district.ht police are on the scene of a deadly shooting in southeast. i >> it happened just inag short time ago along the 3700 block of eli place.of pla fox5's marina marraco is live at the scene she joins us s with the latest. what's happening? happe >> reporter: right now thiste is a homicide investigation.gatn chief lanier is on the scenehe as well.as we are expecting a media mia briefing but you can see how c s far away from the crime scenerom they're keeping us right now, n roughly two blocks away.y. around here there's the can kimball elementary school, there is the national hughesnals baseball academy as well.camy a all in the surroundings butng right now we have no idea what exactly transpired that led tott this homicide. homicid this would be the 42nd2nd homicide in the district for in this year.thr. that's four above the count abot from last year and you'll and yu remember that
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started in the month of may last year.last yea we are still waiting foraiti f details hoping for chief f c lanier to come down here whoe has now been on the scene now for over an hour.foover as soon as we get a briefingn a we'll bring brthat back to you guys. >> ♪ >> when it comes to money, the donald speaks. s >> a small protest on capitol o hill today where a closed door meeting between republicanca presidential frontrunnerro donald trump and house speakerpe paul ryan took place.ce >> ronica cleary is here witha y details from their meeting andnd what's next for the two. hey, ronica. ron >> hey, ladies.>> well, you may recall last week speaker paul ryan said that hea was "just not ready to supportop donald trump as the gop t presidential nominee."ominee." donald trump soon respondedoo with a statement saying thatayit he's "not ready to support speaker ryan's agenda."a." the two met today in an effort e to unify the party behind theehe presumptive nominee.pres after the meeting ended i
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hosted by the speaker where he e took questions about the meeting. >> it's no secret that donaldnad trump and i have had our i he ha differences.differ we talked about those differences today. that's common knowledge. the question is what is itis whi that we need to do to unifyo the republican party and allbliy strains of conservative wingsrvs in the party. we had a very good and encouraging productive produ conversation on just thousandtin do that. i was very encouraged with what i heard from donald trump t today. to i do believe that we are now planting the seeds to get ourselves unified to bridge bri the gaps and differences.nces >> now, while the speakere speak repeatedly called the meeting encouraging he also explained the process to unify the party is were 31 can't be completed cm in just a 45 minute meeting.ti. he also wolf not confirm not con whether or not he'll endorse e donald trump. also commenting on the meetingig donald trump via twitter.rump va he tweeted great day in d.c. d with speaker ryan and a republican leadership.eade things working out
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#trump 2016. now, many agree that unifying is essential for theenl republicans to be successfulucce in november. novem paul ryan tweeted about a a meeting he felt was a little a e more important than the one he n had this morning with donaldis i trump. he tweeted my most importantnt meeting of the day he's shaking hands with fifth graders from sander bartholomew catholic school inm bethesda.da. back to you ladies. >> very cute. i love that.ve tt. >> a virginia beach pizza shop s is making a statement aboutme a the controversial topic of transgender bathrooms. >> their statement for all totae see was posted on a signn outside their restaurant andt the sign read we have a men's mn room, we have a ladies' room. ro if this confuses you we cane help.lp. a viewer of wtkr in virginiavirg beach alerted the station totaot the sign and news staff sought s comment from the owner but the b owner refused to comment onnt camera.ra however, he did say that hed sat doesn't take positions on his signs
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talking. the sign has since been takenee down and replaced with this sign, now seemingly touching tou on the gender pay gap issue.ssue it reads, doing our part to shrink the gender gap. we under pay guys, too.. >> oh, funny. oh, that's funny. f >> the point is to get people g talking. >> right. well, they did.>>we >> and bring attention to hillsi pizza place.pizz >> exactly.>> now we're talking about it.tat. all right, coming up transition regret. r >> new claims tonight that caitlyn jenner is debating canag becoming a plan onc man once aga we'll talk about that one again on the other side. >> ♪ >> and photoshop fail. megan treanor rereleases a newsa video after her first one was digitally altered.
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>> ♪ >> well, left lane low. this story is raising al, lot ol eyebrows. a report out today says s caitlyn jenner is apparentlypptl not so happy being a woman and may detransition in the nextitie couple of years and go back to being bruce jenner.ne that's according to biographer p ian hal perrin.al perri he's written a book about the kardashian family and claims he's having a hard timeg a ha tm adjusting to being a woman. while she's happy she has been e able to open up thepen up t conversation about transgender o issues she is having second thoughts.
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called the report nonsenset noen saying it's just simply not true. >> ♪ >> megan trainer rereleased an n unaltered version of her videoev me too. the grammy winner yanked --and hold on a second.ec the grammy winner yanked the yae original video hours after it dropped after discovering herver waist had been adjusted digitally in the video. v >> she posted a video on on snapchat telling her fans thataa she's sick of it, over it andnd done with being photo shoppedho to look thinner than sheook thns actually is. i >> good treanor. >> i agree.gr treanor has been outspoken osp about body acceptance and shee n took the fact that her body herb has been altered veryery seriously. she isn't the only celebrity taking a stance against these photoshop
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>> this route eighty fiveight seems to b -- outrage seems to a thing. zendaya slammed a magazine maz after the magazine made her a victim of photoshop. she posted the before andefore after pictures in a side by side comparison with the the caption, i stand for honest and pure self love so i tookelf it upon myself to release thehe real picture on the right sideis and i love it. the magazine received her message loud and clear andar and removed the pictures. pture >> and here is a jaw-dropping photoshop fail.hop rumor willis claims thatllis cls vanity fair photographers photoshoped her jaw line tod make it look very different.ifft rumor took extreme offense tomet the altered photo and commented saying, whether orsa not they realize it, this is ayi form of bullying whichg ic iological not stan
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>> they're totally changing their appearance.their appear >> let's take a look at thisak one. there's kerry washington andnd the skin altering scandal shendl had with ad week magazine.aze. the star shows lighter colored skin and her face appears toer have been digitally altered.. washington was gracious aboutou addressing her concerns butng h was very clear about her aut stance on the issue.ance o in an instagram post p washington first thanked the magazine for showcasing her so s prominently but then went on thn to say she was taken aback bybay the cover and wrote it felt it f strange to look at a pictureto l of myself that is so different from what i look like when iiken look in the mirror.he mirror. >> one actress taking a strongtr stand against unrealisticnreali beauty retouching is thiss woman kate winslet. win in addition to speaking out publicly against the practice pa winslet has include add no retouching clause in here ier modeling contract with cosmetic giant l'oreal. lre as winslet put in it a recentn t interview "we have a responsibility to the youngertyn
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generation of women thatra of includes telling the truth the h about who we are.ab that is how we can help raiseai strong women.ro good for her.er. >> well said.aid. she's exactly right and shend has been very outspoken aboutoko that in the past too, as well. l >> she has. h i think west pioneers of thatee was jamie lee curtis who said ws this is me, don't change mee and went so far as to not wear makeup and did that whole did thing, too, but i applaud ipp these women. >> i do, too.oo now we really know what it'ss about. ou >> yeah, reality.eah, >> well, with social media weh l can all take part in this new photoshoping phenomenon but these are few celebrities whoeb think it is best to be seen as you are, flaws and all. and a there you go. coming up second policecondp officer trial tied to thetrial o death of freddie gray.ra new details about a policy updated two weeks before theth arrest of freddie gray.eddi gra >> smithsonian speaking outpeakg tonight about a claim thatim they wanted to display the gun g used to kill trayvon martin. mai >> and we have
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we want to go to a press conference.nfence that eli place shooting. shootin let's listen in. >> on the side of -- i guess it's adjacent to some of the apartment complexes.es >> was he found detective at the scene or was he taken to w the hospital. >hospital. >> thanke you. >> we're here if you have more.
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>> when a call came in about aa child choking onca grapes. gpe >> fox5 has learned lieutenant t guy valentine who isguy conditionally retired has beenrn found guilty of at least oneeast of the charges filed againstedga him in connection with the
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march 2015 incident.h5 in >> fox5's paul wagner joins j us now with the story.ry paul. >> reporter: laura and sarah sources familiar with theiar decision made by an internaln il review trial board say d.c. fire lieutenant guy valentineen lab found guilty on at least ata one of the charges filedharges l against him. but when we asked the firee department today whatoday what discipline he may be facing we f were told it's a personnelnnel matter and the department depart wouldn't comment.dn't comment a confusing response given thenn fact fox5 was permitted to sites in on the trial, a first in fsti the history of the firehe department and listen to then evidence but now we're beingre i told we have no right to learn l the outcome. lyte guy valentine was a noo should. his attorney handled his didis he first as his attorney looked on.n. questa lost his son in 2015 in when the toddler choked onke grapes being fed to him by his b nanny. it was early in morning andorni
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warren street just three jus blocks from the tenleytown tleyt fire station.ta but when the call went out thelt firefighters inside neveride ner responded. in part because of a 911 dispatch glitch and a fire a f lieutenant who according to investigators heard the call thl go out for the choking childhoki but failed to take the call. according to a report filed inoe the case, when lieutenant guyen valentine was asked if he hade s a responsibility to take theaket call and possibly save theve the life of an 18 month old childld he said, not if i'm not dispatched.disp the report goes on to say, lieutenant valentine by hisnant own admission did not know the address of 4246 warren streett northwest was three blocks thr b away from his firehouse and lieutenant valentine knew there were problems with there p tablet system that could havecod caused his unit not to be be dispatched.disp a report that infuriated thed t child's father jose questaue when we talked to him in february. >> i
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know i think of him every single day because he couldse h have saved my son. just doing his job. >> reporter: today mr. questa's attorney confirmstr the child board's verdict butdit said they're seeking moreeeking information. >> we understand there's beenrs a finding of guilty as well.tael the reaction that we have, myav client have and i have as their lawyers, is that that's good news. we don't know the charges yet to when he's been found guilty. gu we're interested in knowinginte that, of course, and we expecte also that he's going to be found to be fined to thethe fullest extent under the law. tl in fact we think the law is inadequate. >> reporter: under the law a firefighter who retires whilewhr under investigation is considered conditionallyered retired and if found guilty oflf the charges, can be fined up to $5,000. fire department's response toeso our request for information isoi troubling for the simple factmpl we were allowed to sit in and listen to the evidence but nowew we're not allowed to learn the l verdict ticket
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punished if at all.ed if at a we he did reach out to out valentine's attorney but sos far we have not heard back.e t e paul wagner, fox5 local news.aln >> in baltimore today, the second police officer trial polr tied to the death of freddiee hf gray is now under way. it's a bench trial, no jury,o and this afternoon edward ear bailey took the stand as the state's sixth witness in theitnt trial of officer edward nero. fox5's bob bannar barnard has te story. story. >> reporter: without theepor need to seat a jury this trial t got under way right away herewa in baltimore today. the 30 yield police officer yie sai30-year-old officer saidnothe courthouse. he faces charges for his role in the arrest and subsequent death of freddie gray.h in his opening statement thent prosecutor said nero's conductuc on april 12th, 2015 was not was that of a reasonable police
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officer. nero was one of three officers on bicycles who arrested the 25-year-old gray whileray patrolling a high crimetrol neighborhood in west baltimore. prosecutors say the arrest was unjustified and that officer o nero failed to keep gray safe. f they say a baltimore police plic policy updated just two weeks we earlier requires officers to put seat belts on everybody detained by police, that it was no longer left to the officer's discretion.isetion. in his opening statement, state, nero's attorney called whatttora happened to freddie gray anra unfortunate incident, that hisha client acted properly at the act time of theed arrest, says nero never saw that e-mailr sa detailing the new policy. p nero claims gray was thrashing s about when he was loaded intooa the police wagon and that it ant was up to the van's driver, dri not the arresting officers, to apply the seat belt. bel outside the courthouse ahoe handful of protestors demanding justice. the case also being watched closely by
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>> if law enforcement officersmt are not able to make an arrestrt under these circumstances, irc can tell you it's going have a a paralyzing effect on how law enforcement conducts -- dodus their jobs.eir >> reporter: judge barry williams will decide officer nero's guilt or innocence. he's a former u.s. justice department official who investigated allegations ofionsf police misconduct. mcond this trial is expected to last o five days. d the verdict next week will be closely watched. watch in baltimore, bob barnard, fox5 local news. news. >> the manslaughter trial of of baltimore police officerce off william porter ended with ait hung jury last degrees. deg his retrial and the trials ofrif the four other officers os charged in the case isin thee scheduled for later this year. y >> george zimmerman was forcedar to find a new auction web site on which to sell the gun the supposedly used to killd to k trayvon martin after his first r choice turned him down.oice that's according to aat statement poste'sd by gun b broker. zimmerman says the pistol washel returned to him by the u.s.o m y justice d
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was acquitted in martin's shooting death. d in the auction listing aucts zimmerman rationalized sellingds the gun because of strongtr interest from collectors including the smithsonian innian d.c. now, the smithsonian releasedanl a statement denying thoseying claims saying "we have neverav n expressed interest inintere in collecting george zimmerman's zm firearm and have no plans to t ever collect or display it in i any museums." meu up ahead can talking ontking your phone too much reallyh re give you cancer? c >> what a new study is revealing about the risksin associated with radiation.ed jim. >> hey, lauer remarks you knowl that max scherzer guy isr guy is pretty good. did you see what he did last night? did you see how he'sdi celebrating. we'll tell you how you can get g in on some of the action. a >> i'm sure he's glad they'redh' not doing the clock late syruper thing. we've been on a streak in thein weather department. nobody likes this streak.is stra measurable rain.meas 15 consecutive days in a row. so far we have not made it 16ade days. so, do we get a break and will l we need those s
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head into the weekend? we'll? w give you an idea of what you should expect. eec fox5 local news at 5:0 5:00 wil be right back right back >> ♪
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>> ♪ >> jim. >> remember that last day ofha high school when you have to go in and clean out your locker. >> it was the best day ever. >> you say goodbye to a ll yourll friends and move on to then tohe next big challenge.. they did that today unfortunately. >> crying crocodile tears.dile . >> i think there was a lot of -- they're still stunned ay' little bit as to whatre happle bened.pp >> right, right.>> >> unfortunately life goes on and at least we had some goodd g news last night with max wh scherzer which we'll show you wo some of the celebrations.elebti really in a perfect world theld capitals would have completedldp
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we would be gearing up forg fo game seven against theme s penguins tonight but a perfecter world this is not. n today the post-mortem for a disappointing year of highsing h and lows.ig they haven't made it past thet second round since 1988.ce 1 they ran away with the nhl nhl regular season boasting thestine best record in the league byd ia 11 points but theygu failed oncn again make it to the t conference finals. fran complies record 56 winsie for the caps. in the end for what? ths e he season could only be summed up in that one way.at one >> it was a failure. failure i don't -- i'm not going tooing beat around the bush. the bus i came here to try and help this team win and i didn't do it. it. >> you can draw other stuffan from it or whateve dr and use ie to your advantage next time, t whatever you want to say but, b um, you know, you lose a gameose its a failure. flure you lose, you're out of theout f playoffs a failure, it's no --o there's no consolation prizes here.
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first round, second round, rou third round, it doesn'tund,t d matter. your goal is to win the cup. c >> well descend day off forday the nats and max scherzerze still basking in the glow ofgl last night's 20 strikeout winou against the tigers. tig scherzer joining elite company roger clemens randy johnson rans and kerry wood.kerry woo he was the last to accomplish a it. he did it as a rookie strike out 20 astros on may six,, 1998. it was a complete game one ge on hitter. they called him kid k back ink i the day. d last night woods called scherzer filthy.il were come to the club. #filthy. scherzer responded thanks man.nn i loved watch you have game as a kid. k dreaming of doing the same.intha crazy to me we now share thatrea z woods is only seven yearsea older than scherzer but who's's countering.ng to commemorate scherzer's 20k day the team will be selling
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something, shirt at the team store starting tomorrow, strikeouts are sexy. are s your voice. i like that one there.here 20 strikeouts.20 strik wow. all right. another pitcher getting major attention -- [laughter] doing things pitchersg aren't supposed toth do. do. going yard in last night's winhs against the dodgers.odge pitchers hit homers on rares indications but he did it twice.ic also they were his first hitsstt on the season and by the wayby e he also won the game on theamon mound and after the game he g said he never hit two homers twh in a game even back in little league. now look at the hair becauseecau six-six and nordic locks heks h has everybody the name thor. na. here he is in times square s dressed as thor. tho there he was posing for posing pictures with all the creepy mascots. we have good news for mets fans. fans. he's opted not to join the marvel universe but willut wil return to the mets.he mets. >> has a backup plan.
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>> he does. he is intimidating in person i r but obviously a lot of fansf f getting a chance to run intoo him. fun little way to celebraterate there. >> good thing he didn't join the nudies. >> he did meet the nakedd meet cowboy and the naked cowboyow had no idea who he was but w there you go.th i think more people know whow cinder guard is as opposed topps the naked cowboy.th >> talking about a naked aak cowboy right now sue palka. suea >> it's 5 o'clock, sue.lo, su >> why not talk about theabou t naked cowboy. >> you would be surprised how many people know about thew ou naked cowboy.na now, i'm going to avoid thatt whole section. s >> keep your clothes on, jim. j >> that's right.>> ts rig i like the looks of there are,ea though. he looked fantastic and thatntsc was quite a feat you're right, jim, some smashing home runs hon there by him.ere him hey, we would like to end the et streak that we have been on here,e scherzer got his 20k his strikeout.st we've had a streak of rainyk ofy days. we have not picked up any rain i today, so maybe the streak iseai going to end for u
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that's not to say we aren't a going have any more rain thisth month. in fact, first half of fridayda we're going to have a little a e bit more rain back in here but b that will count for a new new streak we might get startedtaed because we also expect not just milder temperatures but ar few storms to be rumblteingbe rg around our area on saturday. sur i don't think they last allt in day but a few of them could be strong maybe even severe. sunday looks to be our firstirst completely rain free dayee d around the region.ou it will also be a little bit lit cooler and just a bit breezyre as well. wel so, we still have a few spots that are seeing rain tonighteeit but not a lot. we had been watching moistureoit out towards winchester comingte across interstate 81 as i put ip in it motion. m it's really fizzling out and o a our usual hot spot down to the o south that has produced ad a little bit of rain as well down towards theowar the charlottesville area.lle area. that will bypass us. will ss u so, while we may get a littleit bit of drizzle maybe a few f sprinkles out of thisf t weakening batch coming out ofinf the west i think for most of the night we'll probably beroba rain free. now, there will be anotherre wio problem we have to watch for aor bit later tonight just like weik
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did last night and that is thehe development of some thick fogth after about seven or 8 o'clock. notice it's a little warmer,a lr too, right? and if you livee north and west of the city,e ci, even here in the district, youin may have seen a t few peeks of clouds.clou you may have had a little bit ha of full break of sunshine s which is why you see frederick i getting up to 72 degrees rightit now.now. 66 here in d.c. d 64 in winchester but here in in northwest we're still more more clouds than sun but down toow the south, raleigh is 80, pittsburgh to the west is 73. i we are surrounded by warm air and tomorrow more warm air isir going to push into our region r and it will come from this red t line here.line h that's a warm front that'sarm fn going to come on through andhroa there will be a second front, a cool front that will comee through tomorrow afternoon.mo borrttom line we'll get into the 70's tomorrow, well into thew, w 70's but we'll also have some rain to dodge and that rain may begin early.ma to and night we're thinkinge'rei we'll get through the rest of of this night without anything anyg other than maybe drizzle and may fog but watch the timer. we'll take you forward toorwa t tomorrow morning and by 7:00 b7: a.m. we're starting to see to showers showing up t
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hagerstown.gers all of those will begin to bin move toward our area so friday i lunch might be a little bitmi wet in a few spots. spo this is good timing because b it's coming through earlyugh enough that we won't see a lot s of thunderstorms but a rumble ar of thunder can't be ruled out. . by 5 o'clock, wow, it looks it o like happy hour should be love l physical you're goingic downtown. i think it's going to be dry so we'll start with clouds andid rain and clear it out pretty p quickly for a real nice finalei for our friday afternoon anderna evening. as we get into saturday byy noon more showers are more e beginning to approach. aro they could cook up into some stronger thunderstorms butst those also move away pretty prey quickly so that aftert aft 5 o'clock or 6 o'clock we should be in pretty goodoo shape.ap bottom line as we led into the weekend saturday starts drytarts finishes with someith thunderstorms.th they move through prettyhrou pre quickly and on sunday we arey we going to be seeing a cooler cle but drier bay with a little a le bit of a breeze.re we wrap it up with the fox5 f seven-day forecast. a couple days there are going to be pretty warm or ae pr little cooler on sunday but iyui want you to notice no rain onnoi sunday. we don't have any rain in the forecast for monday. monday. maybe we get two days out
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it. tuesday a shower possible and we're a little bit unsettledet into the first part of nextt one week as well so we're note' quite done with this pattern pat yet but at least some bright spots, some dry spots and some warming temperatures on theperau way. laura, sarah back to you. >> i'll just take five minutesta of sunshine at this point. [laughter]gh >> we're not beggars. bgars beggars can't be choosers.ho we'll take what we can get.we cg let's head over to shaun. sa >> hello there good to see there you. >> there comes a time when all e businesses raise their prices. i and the district of columbia's i no exception here.o ex only this price hike, well, itei may make you mad. parking meter rates are goingrae up nearly 300 percent. pce we'll break it down for yout dou tonight at 6:00. >> then, it is prom season. it that's the time when high school students get dressed upde for the big evening dance butnta one local high school held their prom today. in the middle of the day. we'll explain why their day the prom was so important.mpornt >> also ahead at 6:00, the:00, t
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maryland mayor.maryland may he was only 39 years old. o what led to his death and whyndw detectives were on the scene at his house today. tod it's all ahead tonight at 6:00.
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>> a in you sued dee debunkinguu the myth that your smartphone could increase your rt isk of brain cancer. the university of sidney ran asn 30 year study with 34,00034 people diagnosed with the wit disease. di they compared them againstinst cell phone usage data since 1987 and researchers say they st found no increase in brain cancer cases as cell phone p usage increased.ncased. researchers believe the riseers in brain cancer rates is due d to improved diagnostic procedures. >> hm. well, you might be able tobl cash in on some of your old apple products.rodu thousands of dollars a special i edition u2 ipod hit the the market in 2004 for $349. f
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$90,000 on ebay.bay. and a first generation ipod classic sold for 20 grand. g if you want a big payday forr your apple gadget there is a catch. it still has to be in its original factory sealed box which you more than likelyyou don't have at this point at is unless you were anticipatingat this. >> all right. after three years justinthre timberlake is back with yeth another smash hit. he released his latest songest from the upcoming a.m. 98dg a.m film troll.lm >> here at fox5 we thought we f would get in owen the action and we played our own video foreo f can't stop the feeling. fli check it out. >> ♪ >> our own kevin mccarthyur o who continues to get the bestest assignments in town sat down with timberlake at the cannest s film fti
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>> new tonight at 6:00 the mysterious death of a prince a c george's county politician.. meet the metro czar. cza his direct orders, make metro mt fixes or else.xe e this might strike a nervee n with some drivers.with s the latest o d
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increase the rate on parkingki meters. me the news at 6:00 starts right now. now. >> it is good to have you withvt us tonight.onht i'm shawn yancy.hawn yan >> i'm tony perkins. perki we have breaking news just nowsw coming into the news room.nto ts there are reports that thehe main gate of joint basee joi andrews is currently on lockdown. >> now it happened around justdj around 5 o'clock this evening.ve there was some sort oft o security incident that was reported at the visitor control center. we're tcoold emergencyt responders are currently onrentn the scene. right now we are working tore wt get more information.mation. again the main gate locked atoct joint base andrews.joint ba we wilsel bring you moreou more information as it becomes available. >> in other news this evening, e the mayor of district heights,t, maryland, was found deadnd, inside his home today.od james walls is the youngest yngs person in the city's historysiso to hold that position anditn tonight there are questionsns surrounding his death. fox5's matt ackland startstart us off tonight live from the scene. matt. >> reporter: hi, tony, this is a sad one.i, thise mayor was just 39 yearsea old. i talked to the police chiefe ci
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that an emergency call from cl r this house behind me, theseehin mayor's house, came in right around noontime and then personnel raced on the sceneece but they were unable to reviveov the mayor. th at this point, it's just being called a death investigation.tii they need to learn more about it. it detectives were here earlierar today and then the body underodu police escort was taken too baltimore for an autopsy. autopy let's get you the video righte r now. tony, you mentioned some of the mayor 's history. mayor walls started his careersi early at the age of 29 where w he served first as a councilncil mayor then as vice mayor andmayo then as mayor. as. we're told the council today t along with the vice mayor mete a near city hall. h they gathered to grieve and also to make plans to honor h mayor walls. take a listen.is >> mayor walls was elected ele when he was 29 years old one o of the youngest mayors in therse entire country and he just had a a birthday saturday.rt sat he just tur

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