sunday murder of dnc is staffer has the bloomingdale neighborhood of northwest dc on edge. there have been no arrests and police continue to say they need more help in order to solve the crime. tonight, on the street where rich lived a vigil will be held for residents who want to grief and show their support for the rich family. fox 5 paul wagner joins us from bloomingdale neighborhood with the story. paul? >> reporter: sarah and laura, most people know bloomingdale because of the epic floods here in recent years and the damage these lovely homes. now everybody is talking about the murder and the rise in the robberies. according to dc police crime mapping website, the robberies here in sections of the bloomingdale area are up nearly 80 percent compared to the same time last year. people tell us they're terrified and want the crime wave to stop. flowers now mark the

seth rich was shot to death sunday morning. he nearly made it home when at least one gunman took his life. apparently for nothing. police have no witnesses and according to the homicide commander were going to examine recent robberies for clues. robberies that have unsettled this community just north of rhode island avenue near howard university. a major concern the chief of police was asked to address. and a wilson building news conference this week. >> we did see some robberies in that area in the past four weeks. the that was on the radar of the robbery task force, because it was a pattern in an area that we had not seen consistent robberies in before. >> reporter: according to the dc police crime mapping website, robberies in and around the bloomingdale neighborhood are up 50 to 80 percent in the last two months when compared to the same time last year. and they are carried out in a variety of different ways. for example, back on june 19th a man was walking northbound here

suspect came behind and tapped him on the shoulder. the man was then sprayed in the face with pepper spray. his eye phone was taken along with cash. then on june 24th, just after 2:00 in the morning, four people were walking up s street near first northwest when four suspects sitting here on a ledge suddenly jumped up. one pulled a gun and said give us everything you got. the victim turned over cell phone, wallets and cash. on july 6, just after midnight a woman was standing in this ali when two men approached one had a mask and a assault rifle handgun and told her they wanted her phone book before taking it a they wanted her to unlock the screen and disconnect the find my iphone ap. >> folks are upset, angry, they are terrified, and i had to leave way sentiment that folks are terrified.

when you have something like this on had put my doorstep where am i safe. >> reporter: she's president of the bloomingdale a commission and a commissioner. >> it's a terrible situation all around and at this point, folks are looking for an opportunity to kind of grief as a community but also to move on to what do would he do now? how to make ourselves more safe. >> reporter: dc police have been going block to block in recently days looking for help in solving not only the murder of seth rich but any other crime that now has this community in turmoil. that same news conference yesterday, chief lanier said the robberies in the city are down nearly 20 percent when compared to the same time last career and she defended her robbery task force and the work they're doing. seth rich lived on first street right off of w street, he was nearly home, just a block away when he was shot they don't death. tonight at 7:00, the community is going to come together here on first street and they're going to hold a

live in bloomingdale, paul gner fox 5 local news. you've been hearing a lot about it put lately poke'mon go. if you play that game you're going to want to hear this. university of maryland police plan to increased patrols after four armed robberies. >> the police chief believes they're connected to one suspect and three victims were playing poke'mon go. mat ackland joins us from the university of maryland tonight with more. matt? >> reporter: hi, sarah, the police chief here at the university of maryland spoke out today and he says he is concerned about students. he's concerned about them playing this game at night and he said tonight that at nightfall, you will see many more officers patrolling the streets around campus. of it happened right in the middle of campus. tonight, authorities are also looking at the 400 surveillance video cameras they have o

find clues. hoping to identify this person as soon as possible. >> a person put a stiff object into the victim's back and said give me your phone and took at the phone. the victim in that case was playing poke'mon go. it's important to understand that at night, if you have a phone out, and, of course, the christina will be illuminated. it's going to make you somewhat of a human fire fly. the organizer can lure victims to a location, then of course see them very easily. >> reporter: this all happened last night near queen's anne hall. police sent out an alert to students and searched the campus last night. they later found out the suspects turned off the phone. he was wearing a mask. but officials hope maybe a camera caught him here on campus before he put on that mask.

popular. in fact, today on campus, it took no time at all for us to spot someone playing it. it's terrifying and so sad. i haven't ever gone out and played it and not saw someone else playing it and it was fun and happy and people are using it is a way to exploit. >> reporter: if there is good news, it is that no one was hurt, once again, authorities are looking for the suspect, they're asking for any other information. they're working overtime. the chief says he put a lot of officers on here, he's authorized overtime, they're doing everything they can to not only protect the students from this happening again but also to solve the incidents that happen last night. once again, police will be prompting the campus at nightfall tonight. there will definitely be an added presence here. live in college park, matt ackland. >> a game to trouble so

a lit later we're going to take closer look at this, a simple explainer in case you're wondering what this game even is. a man arrested as part of an fbi terrorism investigation. appeared in federal court today on weapons charges. the fbi says he also tooled an undercover agent he planned to shoot up a military recruitment center. it's the latest in the string of arrests in northern virginia of men suspected of wanting to help isis. alexandria lamone has detail. >> reporter: this is the third arrest in the past two weeks in northern virginia that has come about as a result of an sci terrorism investigation. now, just to be clear, he is not facing terrorism charges. he's facing weapons charges. however, in federal cot today, an fbi agent testified that

made statements to undercover fbi agents saying he wanted to

2016. the fbi said that they continued to constantly minority him and then finally arrested him last week because he purchased a plane ticket to travel to minnesota. however, the fbi didn't know what his

be. so they took him into custody. of reporting live in alexandria, alexanda limon fox 5 local news. developing tonight, judge days after at shooting death of philando castile broadcast live. this video is violent and it may be hard to watch. there are three men sitting in car live strike thatting listening to music when they were apparently hit with a tl barrage of gunfire. in the video, you can hear 30 3 gunshots in a 22-second span. the men were seriously injured and police are still looking fol the shooter tonight. just amazing to me how this keeps continuing to happen. frustrating. coming up,

son breaks his silence. >> i feel that everyone can protest but i want everyone to protest the right way >> how the 15-year-old is encouraging his community to come together. a scare at six flags in f upper marlboro.ma park closed for hours after two bomb threats, details about the investigation and what was determined about those t suspicious packages found inside the park. don't freak out. folks may be seeing big explosions black smoke and a plane crash butke you're going hear why residents have nothing to worry about. sue? as of 5:00 we hit 90. it is tropically humid and that led to significant downpours where a flash flood warning gone into effect. we'll give you a first look at the forecast, let you know what you need to be looking out for anoud get ready for heat wave ea number two. it's a do

we'll be right back. htack.

. thens nominateses in upper marlboro at six inflammation. >> authorities were forced to close the park after two suspicious packages were found. first discovered inside six flags about 10:30.

was not a threat. around noon another suspicious package was found but all tests of the package were negative for hazardous substance, six flags reopened around 3:00 p.m. and are expected to close tonight at 8:00. it was like a scene out of the walking dead how a witness described seeing people passed out in the streets of brooklyn. this after more than two dozen people overdosed on synthetic pot known as k 2, more than 30 people were taken to the hospital yesterday. many seen dropping to the ground be twitching and having is seizures. fortunately, no one died. today, brooklyn'sboro president plans to hand out flyers warning about the dangerous of k 2. of course, you may really synthetic drug overdose is here in the district resulted in city leaders pushing to cut down they went after the businesses that sell it. >> you would think there may be a

south on alert here if that happened obviously in new york and brooklyn. i'm sure they're going to be watching. back here at home. if you see a small plane on fire and booeed. don't worry. prince county fire officials a film crew will be working. of they're recreating a plane crash. it will involve a six column of black smoke, and pyrotechnics. it's scheduled to last about three days. >> big heads up on that. you might be calling the, you know, the police or the -- news organizations just remember we told you that. . let's check in with sue palka and get the latest. look at the skies. of isn't it gorgeous. >> it's beautiful but my gosh, it doesn't feel like it looks the it looks like the caribbean. it does. tropically humid. enjoy your

have a ton of airplane delays going on right now. it's so humid out there that it has led to the development of slow moving downpours. and one flood warning for an run dell county. i'm going to take you to radar. you can see the green area near annapolis but look towards at the district. let's see if i can get my arrow to come on here. you're going to see green line right here. that is an out flow boundary or mini cold front coming from this maryland city storm. it could fire up a few more thunderstorms here and downpours just south and west of the city. let's see what happens with that. in the meantime, short term, the flood warning that is in effect for annapolis they had a slow moving storm about an hour just about into the bay. hopefully this won't last very long. but this is a head's up you streams and creeks will become very full. perhaps ponding of water on roadways. as we look at our estimate in the last 24 hours, we can see

county there. not too -- not right in annapolis proper but kind of in central a 3.2 inches of rain, just an estimate, we think that definitely is close to what happened. and most of that activity is now getting close to salisbury area, next down charlottesville. check out the airport delay, dulles 45 minutes, baltimore 64 and reagan national 44. you may need extra time because there's thunderstorms as you can see up toward the laguardia area causing a few delays here and there. temperatures. we'll wrap it up here. just hit 90. wait, what does it feel like to you? when you look at these heat index temperatures, feels like 97 and 101 in culpeper tomorrow is an even hotter day, we'll take you through that forecast hour by hour to check on the potential for thunderstorms and downpours as well as that heat index, which she don't should be well up into the 100s torr

laura, sarah, i'm full of good news. >> you are. >> thank you very much. see you nba. brady back in court. tom brady's latest attempt to avoid serving a four game suspension goes flat. the determination from a federal judge. the vp pick, donald trump is vetting another possible running mate. who he visited today amid vp speculation. ♪ ♪ . president barbie and vice president barbie, they're encouraging political play, how ma tell's new political theme dolls have become a landmark for the company's campaignmpany's cn

. one day after endorsing hillary clinton for president, former presidential candidate bernie sanders is visiting the district. >> he was keynote speaker at a luncheon for a national latino group. the senator spoke about immigration reform, criminal justice reform and pay equity. hillary clinton is examined to address the same tomorrow. the two came together with sanders endorsing clinton to be the democratic presidential nominee. on friday we will know who donald trump is picking. >> the announcement will be made before the gop convention coming up next week, many sources say speaker newt gingridge and indiana mike pence are the front runners. if pence chooses to run with trump, he will not be allowed to run for reelection in indiana under indiana law, a candidate is not allowed to run for vice president while running f

governor. the new presidential barbie is mega an historic pick for her running mate this year. i didn't know there was a presidential barbie, by the way. for the first time ever, barbie will have a female vp, ma tell has run presidential and candidates barbie since 1992. clearly this is news to me but this all female tick is a landmark for the campaign >> you're not still playing with barbies. >> i'm not. neither are my girls. i should actually go out and buy them this. it's obviously to give them a little girl power. here. the barbie ticket will be told in pairs and mes in a variety of skin tones and hair colors. president and vice president barbie will retail for about 25 bucks. make sure you keep it here with fox 5 for all things election. our tom fitzgerald is gogin to be in cleveland bringing us the latest from the republican national convention. >> live coverage on that begins sunday at 8:30 on fox 5 on the

coming up honoring the fallen, three of the five slain dallas police officers are mourned today by their loved ones. the ceremonial final good-byes ahead. turning the white house blue? a rare request being made by the head of the largest federal police union. what he wants president obama to do and why it's now sparking controversy on social media. hey, fits. >> reporter: montgomery county police chief got called to the white house to participate in a policing summit on monday. what he wasn't expecting was two-hour face-to-face meeting with president obama. what he said to the president and what the president said to him coming up. laura? >> thanks. first a long island flower shop is making blue ribbons in support of the police officers killed in dallas. the decorative bows are being sold for $10 at art flower and gift shop in rockville center. the shop owner says every benny is being donate

of the slain officers. they've raised more than $1600. we'll be right back. bk.

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. is this this is fox 5 local news at 5:00. friends and family gathered to say their final good-bye as three of the five officers killed last week in dallas were laid to rest. funeral services were held for dallas police senior corporal lorne aherns, michael smith and brent thompson. thompson was the first officer killed. the 43-year-old worked seven years as an officer with the dallas rapid transit au

and just a couple weeks ago, the former marine married a fellow transit officer. meanwhile friend say 48-year-old lorne aherns was always smiling. before getting into law enforcement, aherns who stood at 6-5 and 300 pounds, an officer bought a homeless man dinner and introduced him to the other officers. friend of michael smith was not the first time the 55-year-old put himself in the had line of danger to save others. back in 2009, the former us army ranger jumped in the way to save his partner. furtherance for the two other officers will take place friday and saturday. at the white house, the president held a meeting with law enforcement officials. tomorrow marks one week since the mass shooting in dallas where five police officers were murdered. >> today's meeting included civil rights and political leaders

but on monday, montgomery county police chief thompson major was part of a smaller gathering had at the white house. >> fox 5 tom fitzgerald spoke about his meeting he's live with more. tom? >> reporter: you know, it wasn't supposed to happen the way it did. when chief major was called to the white house for that monday summit, he had no idea that president obama was going to join in that meeting for its entire two-hour length. that's exactly what happened. it came in the wake of the murders of those five dallas police officers on thursday and also following an emotional weekend where chief majors says he has had conversation after conversation with his law enforcement officers in montgomery county. talks that were bother raw and blunt about the risks and responsibilities of police work in the current climate we are in. >> to say that

bad is an under statement. to say that they're warn done and demorelize is accurate. but every man and woman i spoke with finished the conversation by saying, but chief, we got to do our job. >> chief majors meeting with the president and vice president took place in the west ring. president facing increasing criticism over his approach to racial tensions between police and minority communities. the president has been accused at times of being more sympathetic to the critics of law enforcement than understanding what police officers face in doing their job. this meeting lasted two hours in which eight law enforcement officials, including the montgomery county police chief major attended. now, the chief says during that talk, the president's remarks in dallas yesterday, he says he heard the president repeat several things that were brought up in

what does that tell the chief? he says that tells him president obama was listening to them. but at one point, the president asked those officials including the chief how they felt about his approach and what concerns they had about the job the president is doing. chief major didn't pull any punches. he told the president he needed to be more sensitive about police concerns. may have been too broad at time in condemning police action before all the information is known. >> then i told him, i said, but mr. president, i said, i believe that the place that many cops have is that you, the department of justice and i'm talking about the former attorney general, had rushed to judgment on certain of these cases. that before an investigation was done was to find out the facts of exactly what happened. you were condemning the police or conflicting the police in the court of public opinion. >> reporter:hi

lot of police officers here, they say they have been overwhelmed by many messages the support they've gotten but there are exceptions to that. chief majors shared this an dot with us. at times, some officers have been told to their faces, quote, i hope what happened in dallas happens to you. it's not easy hear. we're going to face the entire interview tonight. reporting from germantown tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news. following last week's police shooting in dallas, the largest federal police union wants the white house to go blue in honor of the five officers killed. the organization says president obama has ignored their request. that controversy is now going beyond the beltway sparking controversy on social media. >> the headline in police magazine reads: white house ignored requests to illuminate white house in ue

john addler, president of the federal law enforcement officer association foundation sent the request to the white house to do the same as the governor's mansion in texas. light it up in blue. add ler wrote i respectfully ask that all elected officials drop their scripted speeches and feel the pain resinating in dallas and across the country. light a blue candle and say a silent prayer but don't insult the law enforcement community five heros made the ultimate sacrifice and it would be a tribute to their service by illuminating the white house in blue. silence from the white house on the matter prompted someone to create this fake circulating on social media. it shows the white house purple following prince's death. it was never bathed in purple. it was bathed in rainbow colors after same sex marriage in 2015 and in '13

illuminated in pink to mark breast cancer awareness month. a tweet shows what the white house did do and that was issuing a proclamation ordering flags over the white house on all public buildings and grounds and all military posts and naval stations and naval vessels to be lowered to half is to have. in response, the union foundation president issued the following statement. while we appreciate the president's proclamation to have our flags flown at half staff in honor of our heros, i respectfully request thatty demonstrate his full respect by illuminating the white house in blue. actions speak louder than scripted words and the honorable would demonstrate the president's sincere commitment to our fallen heros and their families. >> we took the matter to twitter, asking y

thought the white house should honor the federal police union's request. 62 percent of you said yes. they should. light up in blue to honor the fallen officers. 38 percent of you say no. they shouldn't. i think the problem is, if they do that for this issue, when someone else dies or -- whereas. >> where do you draw the line. >> they've always lowered the flags to half staff, you know, for, you know, death and that's kind of how they marked it where some of these other things have not been marking. >> if you believed that of the white house turning purple, but yes, it was egregious but faun that wasn't the case. powerful words from alton sterling 15-year-old son. he's talking about the rash of violence sunnied since his father was

his message was unity. >> my father was a good man. that was a sacrifice he showed everyone what has been going on in life. and it should give everyone a push that everyone should be together. not against each other. i feel that everyone is -- you can't protest, but i want everyone to protest the right way. protest peace, not gun, no the drugs, not alcohol, not violence. >> well said, young man. the u.s. justice department civil rights department is currently investigating sterling's death. an arkansas mom has powerful message. last week, tiffany stepped out of her comfort zone and approached a white police officer outside of a dproesry store. she recorded her conversation with the officer and posted it on facebook. that exchange has gone viral. here's what block wrote

facebook. she says we must start the conversation to build relationships. to break down walls. let's have the hard conversations guys, with our friends at different ethnicities, city leaders, officials, pastors in our community. tear these walls down, let's extend love. challenge yourself, move out of your comfort zone. make this trend love matters. mother of four says she thanks the officer for her service and the two talked about the daily challenges they face. she explained is her children are afraid of the police, the officer took a moment to talk to her daughter. he also gave them junior police badges. she says her goal in put posting their conversation is to encourage others to spread that love, not hate. that is a worth idea. great example, you know, and it may seem difficult. it may be as a complete stranger but like she said, go out of that comfort zone and that's the first step. >> so powfu

sterling's son to that post and these are nonleaders but they become words of leadership. these are the things that we need to hear in the wake of this horrible outbreak in our country. it's so important. this is so important to hear >> examples you need to follow. >> coming up singing group slams one of their members for using a performance as a platform to promote his political beliefs. poke mania. breaking down the five basic terms you need to know. >> poke'mon go is a no, go when driving. we're going to tell you where this sign is reminding drivers not to grab the monsters while behind the wheel. isn't that from the da file? i think i saw my first poke'mon ap player a middle aged woman and walked flight traffic.

i assumed that's what she was doing, she was completely en grossed in her phone. on the weather front we're continuing to keep an eye on what's going on in anne arundel county. i do see now that the storm that produce that day flood warning is out of there. the water will continue to rise and we do know that there were at least one road route 450 was closed for a little bit near saint steven's church. anymore downpours ahead how are we looking as we head toward the first day of our second heat wave tomorrow? we'll have the forecast coming in just a few minutes. come on back.

here's a story that won't go away. it involves tom brady. >> i work in boston for awhile. i know people have very strong feelings about this. people who lived outside of boston have very

about it but deflate gate is kind of like the energy sir bunny. it started back in 2015. the second circuit court of appeals denied his plea for a new hearing, which means unless his legal team wants to take it to the supreme court, number 12 will be out for the first four weeks. dare we remind you this started with deflated footballs. the legal proceedings don't have in touch to do with the actual act of denation but whether roger good dell. three straight home gameses against the dolphins, text is ans and bills. looks like brady's first game will be week five october 9 for cleveland browns. so cleveland will be able to see what an actual to quarterback place like. the nats are off until the second half of the baseball season. maybe by then controversy will

subside over the singing of the canadian national anthem. you heard them sing owe canada but one member got political. ♪ ♪ . >> you tend to pick up the lyrics, instead of singing with glowing hearts the true north strong and free. one member altered the words and say we're all brothers and sisters all lives matter to the great. the tenors issued a statement which read in part we're deeply sorry for the disrespected lack of judge by one member of the group acting is a loan wolf during the singing at the major

other members are shocked and embarrassed who changed the lyrics and used this platform to serve his own political views. parliament lauren geller said you know the canadian is not yours to take creative liberty with. shameful. per ara who's from boston has been suspended from the group. >> it's disrespectful. >> you consider what if somebody sang the star spangled banner and changed the lyric to fit their world view? that's what it is. . >> this weather is what it is. what are you going to do? we're in the middle of summer. taking a live look. 90 feel a heck of a lot hotter. >> not quite as hazy as it was yesterday. >> you know what? but the heat is not going anywhere. that is for sure. the humidity is really. we have rained out in a few places. one of those places is anne arundel county where

warning is still in effect. although i believe just a little bit longer because the storm moved on out. i wanted to point out this, this is a week cold front that we call an out flow boundary that came from one of the storms across maryland and that might continue to trigger a few more showers tonight. but here's why the flood warping was issued for anne arundel county and again we don't see any presip now. it has moved out. earlier our radar was estimating storm produce about three and a half inches of rain. they had a one or two roads that were closed and that was kind of a very sudden situation. let's hope it gets a little bit better. any of the storms we even see later -- i don't think there will be a lot paw i believe this next batch is going to go to to our south. they will be capable of producing heavy rain and they're slow movies. here are the headlines for tomorrow. it's all about the heat and humidity. you thought today was hot. tomorrow could be 96 degrees. and we could also pick up a few storms, one or two st

severe storms, certainly heavy downpours, we're going to stay hot through the weekend and most should be dry, although the forecast could be a little bit challenging for the weekend in terms of where frontal boundaries sets up. check out the heat tomorrow. 96, friday, 94. saturday, 92. keep it hot through tuesday of next week. we already got a hot start today at 90 at reagan and dulles 92, but bwi relative speaking at 86. steamy sought there today. humidity is high. and here is what our heat index is right now feels like 97 in the district. 100 for fredericksberg and this is what we want you to get ready for tomorrow, high temperatures in the mid 90's to upper 90's for fredericksberg, but the heat index as early as 7:30 in the morning in the mid 70's. by 12:30 feeling like a 101 in the district to maybe 102 down towards fredericksberg and keeping it steamy all

into thursday afternoon and evening. let's wrap it up with a look at your fox 5 accu weather seven-day forecast. maybe a couple of thunderstorms a few, saturday, sunday, pop-up storms possible. depends on where a frontal boundary sets up shop for the day, if it's farther south maybe we don't see quite as much. 93, tuesday a couple scattered storm and we keep july rolling even into tuesday and wednesday next week. that's it for your seven-day forecast. we are breaking down poke'mon when the news at 5:00 comes right back.

we know you're on the edge of your seats wanting to know what is poke'mon go? we asked sarah auto, one of our in persons to explain the game in basic terms. here are five simple things you need to know, i need to know about poke'mon go.

number one, navigating the poke'mon world, your custom, here say picture placed on the map on the ap. exactly where you stand in real life and the goal is to find patco man and it's a unique game. >> finding poke'mon, the goal is to find and navigate the world in real time and users use the map to find them. user can say help each other for every user, the map is universal. >> this is pitchy doing, i guess what we were testing it out today, and pitchy showed up in my work space today. this was part of your, i guess, it was just a demonstration. but pokey stops are something you need to know about,s they navigate the real world using the ap map and it shows you where the pokey stops are located, and they' a

landmarks. you collect pokey balls at these pokey stops number four. some of these stops can be like just like a mural is one i found yesterday doing the story. pokey balls are what players throw at the poke'mons that show up on your map. once the poke'mon shows up, players can tap the poke'mon. that will, that poke'mon will show up in the camera view enabling users to throw the balls at it. >> the more you capture the more point you earn, the stronger you make your poke'mon, that is basically what it is. go play. news at 6:00 starts after the break.

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6:00, an amber alert in fairfax county has been cancelled. >> a six week old baby involved has been found unharmed. we have a picture. the baby's mother and the woman last seen with the child has been arrested now. by prince george's county police. they were found a half hours ago at an apartment complex in heightsville. they were last seen in liver river turnpike in annondale. authorities realized the baby was missing when members of the fairfax department of family service came on the home monday but could not locate the baby or her mother. it is still unclear whether the mother had ties to prince george's county or where exactly they were eventually headed. friends and family are starting to gather for a vigil to remember a democratic national committee staff killed. >> shot blocks from his house, police are a