he was exposed to the substances we'll show you the white trucktc that he was driving. it's still parked over there on the national mall between thirdd you can see that the door is open. police tell me he had a bucket of some kind of substance withih him in that truck and that ishat now being tested.es we'll get you to some video of this suspect. police say he was cooperating with him and his intention wasn't to threaten anybody. he was just apparently are concerned about being exposed to what he thought was and traction. he said he was in contact with the substance when he was a rural farm in virginia. obviously this h is all very strange. we did ask police about this man's mental state, whether he was under the influence of anything, but no comment on than for now.ow. here's what us park police is saying. just to be clear there is nos threat to the public from this man. he is not threatening us in any way. currently we have robots drivino up to the truck and verifying

substance there to be concernedc with. but at this stage we just don't know the answers. still a lot of questions here. back here life, police tell us l that the man and every officer who came into contact with him has to be decontaminated before they can leave this scene.scen that's just as a precaution. a as you can see, the situation is causing just a mess for traffic just in time for rush hour. police say that roads here around the national mall will be shutdown for at least a few more hours. we're life in northwest, lindsay watts, fox5 local news. > d.c. police say detectives are investigating a connection between two murders thatders happened just hours apart inin southeast.so a man was shot dead just before 1:00 p.m. yesterday in an alley off of benning road. less than three hours later aate woman was kill as she walkedwa toward her front door on 49th street just a few blocks away. a murder some think was carried out to send a message. fox5's paul wagner joins us life from the scene tonight with the story.

>>reporter: when tracey cooper walked up the front stepsro yesterday afternoon she likelye had no idea what was coming. as many as six bullets fired in what may have been revenge for the murder of trayvon cummingsui just a few hours earlier. a few can d.c. police believe it may also be connected to a double murder that occurred oncu this block just a year ago. the flowers being taken to the front door of tracey cooper's home are being delivered by aby long time friend, a man who didd not want his face shown or name used, but told us he thinks thik wass a murder with a message carried out to punish someone else. whoever went in there, if theyif couldn't get him they would gett somebody else. she's collateral damage in an ongoing fight somewhere. >> yeah, she and it

it. she and it see it coming an ambush in a war that has now recorded 20 homicides this year compared to gestate last year.yr since last night friends on social media have been posting rest in piece messages forte son cummings that include this photo. when he was shot yesterdayhot afternoon cummings was on his knees firing at someone else. after he was shot someone picked up the gun that dropped from his hand and took off much the shooting attracted a large crowd to the bang could he shopping center across benning road where wave after wave of friends and family arrived after hearing the news. some collapsed in tears. others had to be held back from running across the street. it's terrible. the cooper and cummings murdersm were two of five victims shot within four hours in the city which then brought the mayor and the police chief across the river. and although the violence may be shocking, the chief says overall violent crime is down. last year this

overall crime reduction.im they had a 16 percent reduction in violent crime and they'rehey' already down in vial ingredientl crime 3 percent this h year.this it's a little bit of a continuation of what we saw in certain areas last year and tha the overall guns are down. > chief lanier was so concerned with what happened hereapp yesterday she ordered reinforcements in from otherro district for a higher policeigh presence. and we've seen a very high police presence here in the sixe district since we got hereere earlier today.toda there's a police car sitting here in front of the house, onee of them that's been in thishis neighborhood for the last seriai hours, d.c. police are now looking into a possible connection b between two murdero that took place on this blockhis over here, the 4900 block of b street last august.ust. that's when johnson and jamesnd were involved in what police saw the it was a gun battle in which police say they killed each other.ot they're

everything that's happened heroin tracey cooper andnd cummings. paul wagner, fox5 local news. > now to an emotional gathering in rockville this afternoon. funeral services were held for a silver springs woman killed nearly two weeks ago during that shooting spree in montgomery county. claw dina mar remember a was a killed when she was shot on may 6. police say suspected gunman eulalio tordil attempted to car jack me lean a. ' was immigrated to the unitedgt states decades ago and raised her two children here. family and friends say she was a kind, gentle and hard working woman. she was a hard working woman. she's very press servant and she always, always love every single patient she had. she always care about every

pennsylvania lien a was one ofne four people shot that day.. malcolm winfield was alsoo killed. the other victims are stilltill recovering from their woundsr tonight. we're going to fairfax county cu where police are trying to find two teenagers who have been missing for nearly a week. 13 year old lima and 14 year old rudy to sedan oh were last seen on wednesday. police believe the pair ran away from their homes and took a cab to a truck stop in jessup, maryland. today friends and family are at that truck stop handing outandi flyers hoping someone can track the teens down. > people tell percent werell p running high at the wilson building today over plans too shutdown d.c.'s largest home shelter by opening smaller councils across the city.city under the new plan, some shelter locations would beç changed. the city would buy or use eminent domain to acquire properties and the

from the counts chairman says that it would safe taxpayers $165 million. but it's not a plan the mayor's office supports and two reporters heard her let the council chairman have it. h matt ackland is lifeav at the wilson billing with more on this one. >>reporter: first of all we should athat all leaders arere very passionate about this issue. they have one goal in mind and that is closing d.c. general justs as soon as possible. the way to do it, many of themhm disagree. this conversation that you'reaty talking about, boy, it is theis talk of the wilson building. two reporters were in the presse room and apparently right outside the press room in the hallway near the chairman's office there was a conversatione between the mayor and the chairman. it got quite heated. i want to show you a tweet. this was given by a wamuamu reporter who heard the conversation and then asked thee chairman to confirm it.

according to the wamu reporterep and a washington times reportero also there, mayor bowser calledd chairman mendelson an expletive liar. going onto say it can't close by 2018. they were talking about the shelter. just a few minutes ago we talkee to mayor bowser about this and we also talked to chairman mendelson. take a listen to the mayor first. believe me, i've heard worse anh it whats a private conversation. > well, what i can say to the chairman and i'll convey too everybody that the council iss going to make its own plan whicl they voted on today. but they have to tell the people the truth and you can't tell people that we can close d.c. general in 2018. some of your thoughts on that? >> i think i'll only say thiss and that's that the mayor was upset over some of the legs before the council. > do you appreciate

of language. >> i think i'll just leave it at that. > now, it's important tell you that the chairman believes justa the opposite ofn the mayor. he believes that his plan can be implemented right away and that they can close d.c. general dowo by 2018.by 2 you heard the mayor say no, it would take her plan.n. how do they meet in the middle? well, that's still the question. they do want to get d.c. genera. closed down, but this new plannw it adjusts the mayor's plan. some of the shelters will be ine place. some of them have been changed. we should tell you by the wayy this is not the first time thatt we've heard leaders get pretty upset at each other here at the wilson building.ldin often you would hear mayor onbarrier and former mayor bear and david catania, they wouldy often get into riffs and sometimes that would take placed in public, in front of the cameras. both of them said, listen, we're passionate about these issues.

sometimes we fight a little bit. life at the wilson building, matt ackland, fox5 local news. > coming up, social media, how one candidate's porn searches turned up on his facebook post. ronica. we've got a story for you about a muslim american who backs donald trump. while the d.c. lawyer says thaty the donald trump, he's got his vote. 9/11 victims to sue said yeah arabia. a local man who lost his wifewie that fatal day explains what this legislation could mean. and olympic officials may bar 31 the lease from the olympics after testing positive. we're going to tell you whatyou they tested positive for.or. i've just decided to embrace the gray so i'm going with my grayry winter dress and i'm excited too show off my umbrella. maybe this is the way we need to proceed this may which has beene so soggy, gray and rainy.

umbrellas away? we'll let you know when fox5 local news comes right back.

this just in right now, a grandd jury has indicted two specialwo police officers in the death off a patient at medicine star washington hospital need. clifton montgomery and charles a brown are charged

manslaughter in the death of james mack braid. he got into a skull with the officers while trying to leave the officer still in his gown. the medical examiner says he broke died from a broken neck caused by brunt force trauma. > social media is helping change the landscape of some campaigns, but if you're notot careful social media can also trigger a backlash. case in point. mike web is a republican running as an understood in virginia's eighth congressional district.t. well, he posted a screen grab of a google post ons facebook. except there's one problem.blem the screen grab showed some of web's previous browser searches and they included some porn sites.si web's post went viral and it got about 200,000 hits.000 not exactly the publicity webpul was looking for. a little embracing, i'm sure. > washington d.c. bas

immigration and trial lawyer, a muslim american immigrant. he convinced his wife ande friends to vote for his favorito candidate and it's probably notb who you would expect. no wash is a donald trump supporter and fox5's reporterrer ronica cleary saturday down with no wash to discuss his support for republican nominee trump.omn she joins us now with more. >>reporter: no mash loves politics more than practicingor law. he's passionate about donaldbout trump.tr i saturday down with him for an in-depth look al his support for the candidate as a number line american immigrant.mmig i judge him based on what he actually says. he is simply the most reasonable candidate that we have going for us right now. no wash believes trump is the most reasonable candidate inda raisin it was trump's views onvw foreign policy that made him most passionate about thehe candidates. the fact that he came outame opposed to the war, which ich thought was a disaster, i

really got my attention because among republicans saying thosehe words are absolutely tab boo. but even with the passionate belief in trump's foreign policy, no wash is a number line american. to be sunnetting or problematicl does your family -- i say this s with reference. do they think you're crazy tocrz vote for donald trump? has anyone said that to you of a muslim background? >> yeah. i have had that said. > no ash defenses his supportee for the presumptive nominee because he feels that donald f trump's words and policies have been distorted by the media.ia. so i had him read some of the donald trump's statement on preventing muslim immigrationli brma december 7, 2015. >> representatives can figurentt out what's going on.on when i first heard this, i

didn't think he was sayingas anything that all the other candidates were not saying.sayi so obviously i've become desensitized to people sayingyig negative things about muslimusli because i've been hearing it for like 15 years.li i just want to figure this out. i just want to figure out do weo have a problem or not? no washh further explained that he believes donald trump has said things he might not always belief in order to win the republican primary raise. he saw there was a terrorist attack in loss angels. he figured out people were scared, people were pissed and either someone told him or he figured out on his own that making this statement would geto him a lot of publicity and willd get him a lot of favor with w people who are scared. so is he right, no. on this part, no. the danger of it, of what he said, it will amplify or enhance a hostile perception of muslims when

that. but i still think this is the policy he the united states for the last 15 years.ears > research to care, that's the council on islamic relations.ela care's communications director said any american is free to supportive any candidate they'd' like. however, they feel he's nothe event arive of the muslimslim community. care completed a survey of muslim voters and found 7 and a7 half percent of those supported support donald trump and 52 percent hillary clinton. he suspects support from the muslim community might actually be higher for donald trump. > back to you.. >> tonight, fox news is making kelly sits down in an exclusive interview with donald trump. it's kelly's first sit down interview with the republicanubi nominee. a war of words began from kelly antrum p stemming from the

debate. trump talks as being bullied as well as his attacks throughouttt theac campaign. you can catch the full interest and more on meaghan kelly presents. let's take a look on the outside, 55-degrees. another chillry, rainy days. we've had so am of these. it's getting way too repetitive. i had to wear my yellow because i needed something a little bitl bright to make me feel like there's some sun.me >> i think that is a great idea. my coping mechanism is i'm he embraceing l gray today. i'm in dark colors, too. i thought -- maybe we should atu least have an umbrella contest. i really love mine because it's mow anyway themed.them this guy was walking by and i said, stop, i want to see your umbrella. he said he's a long sufferingg s caps man.ca

the team and your umbrella looks great.gr i just put a picture up on facebook. thanks for popping by and letting us see your umbrella. show us your umbrella on facebook. we will need it top.d at the moment we just have the latest of rain and drizzle left in northwestç washington. the last dregs passing through. clouds and drizzle l as we go forward. the showers again mostly east oe the bay at this point but you'rt still getting some rain down inw southern maryland and the umbrellas are still getting a workout. our current temperature 55. that is 2 # degrees blow averagw for this time of year. and now we're up to 3.6 inches.i of rainfall, 3.21 is the total we had in march and april. so only three of 17 days haveave been completely dry here

so that's why our coping mechanisms are getting a workout today. for tonight we still have this boundary down to the south thatt has stalled areas of lowas pressure will continue to rideut along it. while for the evening we'll only have clouds, drizzle or showerse there will be a little bit moreb that comes into the picture early tomorrow. so wednesday will still be a little bit on the wet side. in the meantime, it is chilly out here.ou i tried to go without the coat, but my hands were freezing after the first 10 minutes and 55-degrees is our temperature, well blow average. average is 76 for this time of year. we're really getting a break-in that air-conditionerville.r- and your car icos getting washew for free. maybe this is a good thing.hing i'll starting to convince myself. all right, 7:00 a couple ofcoup showers still around, 54-degrees. by 9:00 we're back to drizzle and 53. and by 11:00 also drizzly. last stop our headline for tomorrow will look worse than it will actually be.

wiper wednesday.edne i don't think the wipers will be going all day. we may even break for a little bit of clearing. i promise you there's somesome better days on the seven dayhe forecast.fo we'll talk about that a littleau bit later.ate back into the warm and bright studio. > get in here, sue. laura is bringing in the sunshine today. trying. coming up today in tonight's health h watch.ch. a random condition you may have. am people say they developed it out of the blue as an adult. when it comes to staying healtht as you get older, age may be just a number. what are the most important risk factors for wellness. we are introducing you to a man with an extraordinary skill. he can recall everything, yes, everything that he has done forr the past 15 years. .

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frequently recognized. if asthma symptoms can go untreated it can impact lung function. the most importantç risk factos to live longer are loneliness,, depression and most recently breaking a bone. those three factors are a person's risk of dying.ying the healthest older americansole are obese. they had fewer dioceses, better mobility and better psychological health. > that's really interesting. >> obesity isn't always what it -- we don't promote it, but, -- i wonder if it's more in moderation, too.on, how obese are you? a high school athlete in new jersey is breaking barriers, becoming the first high school tennis playern in the state who is in a wheelchair. he isn't competing against other wheelchair athletes, nate medical nick is so good he madee the school'smúy varsity team.

him to maneuver quickly on the court without tipping over. look at him. >> that's really aspiring.spir kids may feel like they can't do it. yes, you can. > coming up tonight, humanerror blamed for last year's deadly amtrak crash outside philadelphia. what investigators now say distracted the train's engineer. this, 50 years after the 9/11 attacks here at the pentagon victim's families say they have taken a major step forward todaw in getting to the truth of whatt happened. we'll have a life report comingi up. first send it over to gym lowym kay. what do you got. >> bryce harper had the day off yesterday, so how did he spendpd it before a three-game series against the mets? we'll telle'l you exactly what he did in sports.

this is fox5 local news at 5. during the attacks on 9/11, 188 victims were killed between american airlines flight 77 andl the pentagon itself. tonight the families of nearly 3,009/# 1 victims have scored a major victory in their fight to force the saudi government to release information about the attacks. the uss has passed a bill allowing the victims to sue sue saudi arabia.rabi >>reporter: good evening, family members we spoke today td say 15 years later this is a major victory in what they say is a fight to finally get to the bottom of what happened on and before 9/11./11 now, the white house has loudlyl hinted that they would veto this bill

president's desk. still senate republicans and some democrats teamed up today to pass legislation that wouldao for the first time give 9/11 1 # victims families the right tohe sue the government of saudi arabia. so what's behind all of this, for years many family members and us officials have said thath saudi arabia has not told not everything it knows about possible connections between the 9/11 highjackers and the saudi government. it is believe that informationh isat contained in the 28 pages f the 9/11 commission report thath has been classified the us government. this bill now gives 9/11 families the right to sue for any role that any part of the saudi government may have played in the attacks. one of the victims that was killed here vqs from the glover family. we were talking this afternoon with ira ham scott,

one of the people that was killed in this building, janet scott. he says that he is part of a class action lawsuit that has ta been held up by all of this and finally today this action by thy senate gives he and other famila members hope that they can push on. it is important to the family members because it's going to bring a tremendous closure for all of us by bringing out what actually happened, what actually happened prior to and right after the 9/11 attacks. and you don't think we know whaw actually happened? >> i don't think so. > we should you that we did reach out to the embassy of saudi arabia today. an official told us they would e get back with us with a comment on today's senate action. act however, we still have not heard back are if them. subscribe's government has said that economic action could be taken on this part if this billi were ever signed int

we're life at the pentagon tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5, local news. > new tonight we're learning more about last year's amtrak derailment that killed ate kil people in philadelphia. the amtrak engineer involved made a standard humanerror. the 12-month informationnfor revealed the engineer may have been distracted about radio chatter about an emergency em situation involving another train. the train was traveling from d.c. from new york at twice thei speed limit.sp it would have been prevented byy positive train con role which is technology that would havelogy stopped the train. t all upon recognizing the train's dangerous speed.da new tonight, 31 the lease could be banned from this year's olympic games after they were caught dope. they opened disciplinary proceedings against the athletes, but is not identifying them yet.

ten years to allow for retesting with improved techniques. the 2008 samples were recently retested under this policy and o the national olympic committees of the athletes who tested positive are expected to be notified in the coming days.ays. that's big news. i was just tweeting about that. that's why that was there.her it's okay, gym. gy they actually talk aboutbout charging the athletes for air-conditioning in reno and ren they backed off that idea. it seems like after so chicago and now rio there's a lot of lot problems with the olympic games. and then a lot of the athletes are talking about zika. zik that's another issue.noth to that extent major baseball canceled a couple games they ga were playing in puerto ricoico because members were concerned about zika. it is real. the nats have a g couple big games coming up in new york. no one has the worse of times tm like last season like daniel murphy. it helped the royals

world series, but tonight he's back in queens with the nats. nt let's take you back toack october 3. it was the last time max converser took the mound at citi field. what did he do? there was the s no hitter. he no hit the pirates earlier in the year. this is his first start sinceinc last year's 20 strike out master piece at home.piec there will be one major ma difference, though, in the dugouts in the smoke less le tobacco is banned from new yorkn cityed stadiums from the majors down to little league parks. par we haven't heard any reaction from the nats, but backers say y it's all about the players' health. there are bans in san franciscoc la and chicago. there is a similar ordinance in the works with can d.c. council. they just introduced that one last month.ont we'll keep you posted on that. the nats did have yesterday on and just like evyb

do, bryce harper made an appearance on the tonight show. falon likes to make his guests do a little extra work, along with andy sam beard which you y can see harper had to play a game of catch phrase and i'd rather haveyy on my team. cam fire, what do you need at a camp fire. >> an animal. it's a doing. a beaver. boom

> his brother said it on twitter as well. wel here's my defense. really am good at monday objection to the form reply. for maybe bryce is really good at it. i'm modest.odes maybe he got nervous and didn'tn really realize it.t. > what does he care? >> he's a millionaire. > right. he doesn't need to play a game a on falon. > i like when he says you wrap it around trophies and stuff. as if we have a bunch of those t hanging around. > me and my zero emmys nomination. > if you think you've seen se every trick in the book as a a parent, well, think again. wait until you hear how crafty little girl tried to find out ou what presence she was gettingwas for her birthday. a national test determines who is more technology in engineering boys or girls. >> we're interesting you to a

man with an extraordinary skill. he can recall everything, yes, everything that he has done forth past 15 years. > caitlyn. i like that story about bryce br harp he. i mean,s he's smart, too. outside right now, nothing to like about this. th it's been a washout with more rain moving in through tonight and into tomorrow. tom the soggy pattern doesn't wantn' to quit as the month of mayay continues to role on with this unseasonably cool and showery weather. we've have a look at your seven day forecast after the break when fox5 local news returns right after this.

> can you remember what you r were doing say march 2, 2007? how about what you had for luncr two weeks ago? when, imagine being able to pull up those memories as if they happenedappe yesterday.yest they're only about a few dozen people identified as having the ability to do that. it's a condition called highly

memory. when nema industry say paints he says it's like placing downlaci layers of memories.memo because i remember things inn such an impactful way and that translates into the text terse t in the art. v say is one of about 50 people in the world with a condition as highly superior ability tobili recall specific details of auto biographical events.vent a lot of people may just remember flash frames, still. whereas for me it's as if it's filmed with not just the images but the sites, the sounds, the feelings. when i go back in my memory i remember everything from when i woke up to what i wore to what i ate. am of us have a hard time remembering what he had for dinner last night.di we asked him what he had for dinner last tuesday.t >> last tuesday i had tuna tartar at policy bar.

but he says that's normal. it can sometimes take him a week to remember a memory, but when he goes back he goes right back to the sensory effect of that moment. i remembered it as if i was there. seesaw was accepted at a study at uc irv vine seven years ago led by scientific james miguel.u the people remain deeply interested in understanding what we believe is the most importanp ability that we have and that's memory. dr. miguel and his team areel a looking into how the brains of people from h sam differ fromiff the rest of the population. one part of the brain is much larger in people with h sam,am, something that could help solve the mysteries of certain brain disorders like alzheimer's.alzh we're still in the process of getting a little bit of this information and that information, and so on.rmat we don't have an answer to the basis of it yet. ye

is associated with obsessive compulsive behaviors and for and most people it starts earlier in life. v say however, traces hisis superior memory back to december 15, 2000. that actually happens to be thee day i met my first girlfriend. others started noticing how heoh would remember a certain event. a friend referred v say to the uc irv vine study and when a defining happened when the researchers asked him what happened august 8, 2008. he immediately remembered that was when michael phelps won his eighth gold medal. >> i use my art as a way to channel the feelings in not only a positive creative way, butay, quite often a therapeutic way as well. the one draw back, forgetting ig a luxury i don't have. > a luxury he doesn't have? some things he would rather forget. i did

dates, give him dates, but he hh said that it would take too lono for him to remember those things. >> okay. > because for him h it's more like retrieving memories is like rolling back a vs.s. i'm sure, too, as he experiencee it, not necessarily as somebody else experienced it maybe. it's like roling back a vhs. it doesn't take a split secondpt for himç to recall those memories. it's roling back that take. it does take him a while. it is very interesting. l he equated it to 9/11. we all remember where we were at 9/11. every day for him is like that 9/11. like you said, he wishes could forget some things.e i thought that was interesting. > let ' check in with caitlyn now and get the latest on our weather out there which it seems like we've seen sun that hashat tried to come out, not quite, though.th it's still 55 and chilly out

there.ere. >> i can't even remember theemem weather i talked about the dayay before. it's very hard. even when i try to think abouthk the weekend before, i'm like was it nice, was it not. the difference in this pattern that we're in, chances it was a lousy day because we've had so am of them.hem. yesterday was the exception.s i was really nice and sunny, but the showers returned this morning. clouds and showers are again ina the forecast for tomorrow. sun looks to return late in the day on thursday.y on that could be a 50/50 day. the weather returns pretty quickly for the weekend. bring the showers across the mid atlantic, but there's another t piece of rain back in the ohiooo valley which is going to swingto through for tomorrow. getting a better look of things across the dmv.mv. what was pretty steady light to moderate rain all day is now ending. it's still damp and drizzling out there. across the bay on to the earn shore just south of annapolis so cambridge over into southern

delaware they are see seeingee some showers move through.thro it's not going to be dry. even if we don't have a lot of falling rain out it will remain drizzly. temperatures are in the fifties. it's so cool with this rain.s all across the northeast we're seeing that. this cool pattern with high temperatures only in the 50s and 60 todays. we are actually mainly just cloudy and kind of damp throughh tonight. 8:00 a.m. more showers rollbackr in and you still need the umbrella tomorrow. tom although i don't think it's as much of a wash involvement as we heard towards thursday morning we originally thought it would be a bright sunny day. into the afternoon we need some improve.im we need the high pressure system to quickly move in. friday looks great. hopefully those temperatures tho responding to the sunshine. we should at least be back into the 60s and 70sings but guess what, still blow normal.rmal this looks like a pretty lengthy than would, all day saturday 64. it could even be colder tha

68 with some showers on sunday. so showers lasting through the weekend. your forecast for tonight, 52-degrees, for tomorrow clouds and showers around most of theo day and 60-degrees for that high interpret. we spend most of the day in the 50s. seven day forecast brightening up late in the day on thursday. friday is the best for sure. 72 and sun number. the it's almost like we went from fourur days a week to five and a half days a week of dreariness. by next wednesday, thursday, i think we turn a page. > good. we should start to dry out and the temperatures may even be hitting 80-degrees. > we need to not only turn then page, but close the book on allo a of this weather. it seems like we just kept going and going. > let's turn over to tony and shawn. >> i'm with you, sarah. don't mention 80 unless you mean it. i mean it, whether it's going tn happen or not is still

grabs. > it will eventually happen. > maybe july, august. thank you much. > well, jesus did it and nownd some entrepreneurs claim they have worked a miracle, too, by turning water into wine.ine. wow, ahead at 6, what does itdos taste like and what else goes into making this miracle drink. also coming up tonight, moreight concerns about the zika virus is our area.area we'll update you on the latest cases in d.c., maryland and virginia. plus what congress is doing to keep us all safe? do you think this is art. a maryland's college provocative piece is raising eyebrows.ebro we'll explain the message that she's hoping to send to the world. joining us for those stories and more tonight at 6.

> there are far fewer womenre than men in science and an technology jobs, but girls seemi ready to chan

some new test results show eighth grade girls are not justo keeping up now, they are outperforming boys in technology and engineering ability tests. 45 percent of girls scoredred proficient in the federally administered exam. only 42 percent of boys achieved that same leaf. results did show a huge gap in student achievement based onon socioeconomic status, a the pennsylvania earn also seen in other standardized testing. > a little l girl's attempt to out smart her parents with a letter didn't quite work. check out the letter she wrotere as dad.ad. it says dear wife, what did youd get lilly for a surprise again? i forgot. please reply here. love dawn. somehow mom saw through theroug clever trick and kept theept surprise a secret. perhaps it was the handwriting that gave it away. that's cute. cu very innovative. > you got to watch her when she grows up. thanks for joining us, fox5

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this is fox5 local news at 6. right now at 6, scare on the national mall. a man is arrested after claiming he had anthrax. plus, it's terrible. d.c. residents, actavisss and leaders searching for answers after a waive of gun violence across the city. a daughter that was about tout turn four months old and a son on the way. a grieving mother wants to uncover the truth after her son's death is classified as a suicide.su the news starts now.ow. >

us, i'm tony perkins and i'm shawn yancy. we begin tonight with some tense moments on the national mall.nal a man drove his truck to the area and claimed he had been exposed to anthrax.hrax the scene was very chaotic andnd since parts of third and fourtht streets areh closed rush hour ir a mess. fox5's lindsay watts is life on the scene tonight with more. lindsay. >>reporter: tony and shawn, streets are still shutdown right now. even no police say there is nos indication that the man is actually exposed to anthrax oror that he intended to threatenhr anyone. still a very active scene outut here. can see all of those emergencyth vehicleos also, hazmat crews are here. there's an ambulance.e's and then we can also show you the man's white truck. it's still parked there in theh middle of the mall between thire and fourth streets and you can also see a police robot there that investigators have beenee using to search that vehicle. we have some new video to show you now. we watched as theç suspect was taken into a decontamination tenth and then a hose was us