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trump. cruz says he was sticking to his guns and was not going to say something he did not mean. a >> and i'm tell you today that t pledge was abgated.ed. the day that was abgated wasbgat the day this became personalhisp and i said at the time and i'mnd not going to get into criticizing or attacking attac donald trump but i'll just give you this response i am not in the habit of supportingas people who attack my wife and attack my father. >> ♪ >> reporter: this was aep remaorrkable moment last night,, all day long trump supporters sr have been blasting ted cruz. paul manafort the trump t campaign manager had very had sharp words for the senator.e s we'll bring that you a littleenl bit later on.r for now we're live in cleveland, tom fitzgerald fox5ef local news. we'll send it back in to sarah s and laura.
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is preparing for what happens hp in four years from now? is nows that the thinking behind what w went on last night?went on lastt >> reporter: if that is the plan, lauer remarks he may have badly overplayed his moveds last night. sarah palin saying cruz should delete his career.ar trump people mind you are you a extremely angry at ted cruz tedc for what happened here lastwhat night. h but even your run of the mill tl republicans are angered withereh him. we are reporting tonight that cruz tried to answer the sweep e of big donors last night immediately after this took place. cruz was not allowed into theedi suite. he eventually will to leave to l this arena.. this got ugly very quickly andua it is not over yet he. he. >> fitz do you think thishink hurts the party more than it does ted cruz himself or do o you think he's isolated isola himself now and thend t republicans are moving on? >> reporter: well, here
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cleveland in this building,his n yeah, ted cruz is on an island n of his own right now.ow but if donald trump goes on too november and is defeated, aef lot of republicans are goingblia to look back on last night as as maybe the beginning of the endhe of their chances of retakingf rk the white house and ted cruznd c has his name all over thatrha right now. n >> all right.>> right tom fitzgerald for us infitzrald cleveland. we'll check in with i wash little bit. thanks.than here at home prince home prn george's county officer jamesicj sims was indicted today by a by grand jury. >> and we heard from both the state's attorney's office andato the police chief about how there allegations came to light and a how they are dealing with it. fox5's alexandria limon isim live in palmer park with more we tonight.nigh alex. >> reporter: well, we are w a told that this entire investigation came to light l because of an off duty officerir from another jurisdiction reportedly caught officer off james sims red handed.ed hand. now, he was indicted today. but he has been suspendedus
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well, now he is facing fouracino charges for visual for visual surveillance after he he reportedly upskirted fourki different women and becauseec two of those incidents allegedly happened while hened was on duty. he is also facing two charges c for misconduct in office. o now, we are told that officer james sims has been with thems prince george's county policerg' departments since 2010 and the prince george's county state's attorney's office believesey that these incidents's happened between may of 2015 and june j of this year when thatha incident was reported. now, the two incidents that t happened while the officer was on duty we are told happened hap during traffic stops.to. now, investigators wouldn't go into detail about how exactly ea that was able to happenap because they say that is allll part of the evidence in thisncet case, but we were told itt happened during traffic stopsini and they said the other two o t incidents happened whilehile officer sims was off
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at a chipotle and the other atet a sports authority.hori and that sports authoritys autho incident in bowie was actually the one that broughtro everything to light when wehe are told that a female officerff of another jurisdiction caughtdt him trying to take pictures up her skirt.ki >> she realized what officer o sims was trying to do. she confronted him then t followed him into the parking hm lot where she saw him get i into a marked county police cruiserlu and it was her complaint thatpli got the investigation started st eventually bringing it to our o office for looking at criminall charges.ar certainly from our standpoint st this is very concerning, very troubling.. officer sims is someone in a ise position of authority andnd public trust.st >> i was made aware of this onn june 1st and immediately uponteo being made aware of this i did three things i suspended thatped officer launched an internal investigation and i contactedn the state's attorney's officeanf becaus
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complaint and allegations iint d felt that criminal a chargesna a would be likely.ik >> reporter: now, that t prince george's county policeeog chief tells use' that sims hasha been suspended since june. however, he is suspended withedw pay.pa now, we are also told that he te patrolled district one, whichwhc is the hyattsville area and now that this incident hasen been made public, investigators fear there coulds be more victims so they areo ey asking anyone out there who w suspects they may have been thea one to contact the prince the p george's county police department. reporting live in palmer park, r alexandria limon, fox5 localocal news.ws >> new tonight police needhtic your help to identify a ideif suspect wanted in connection cot with a deadly shooting inhooting prince george's county.ince ge take a good look at thisk at t surveillance video right here.ce it was taken yesterday.este this is at a gas station in the 4900 block of marlboro mor pike in capitol heights. hgh police say 68-year-old alonzo jackson had just filled his fle car up when the shootinghoot happened.
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where he later died from his injuries. the suspect took off inok of in jackson's car following that shooting. the description of it is a it is 2015 black dodge charger with d.c. license plates df0113.01 , a $25,000 reward is beingeing offered for information thatorma leads to an arrest. aes >> more headache for travelers using southwest airadlines. ali one day after a massive computer glitch was firster g reported, the airline now saysln they have fixed the problem but not before over a thousand n flights were canceled anddnd hundreds more were delayed. d that's what southwest said itaii had to ground additionalddio flights to get both them and their crews in the rightig places to operate on a normall schedule. they're asking travelers torales arrive early to anticipate antic long lines. >> wow.>>w. >> lot going on today.ay amazing.ing. up ahead another a police-involved shooting.-invin this was caught on camera. > ♪ >>e
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a therapist trying to calm an autistic man in miami shot byhob police even though he wasughe lying on the ground with hishis hands in the air.s he a we'll have more on that.e o t >> and fallout over a controversial north carolinaiarh law. why the nba is moving the all-star game out ofoutf charlotte. hey, matt. >> hey, ladies, i'm live in, i'm cleveland park and over thehe next three days, well, this iss its place that you're going to' want to be. it's going to get hot, so hot that d.c. emergency officialsffa are preparing for the worst.or in fact, they are mobilizing mog some of their units over thethee next couple of days.next we'll have much more on that t coming up and sue, i know youno have the forecast. fec >> we do have a very hot h forecast especially for the f t weekend matt.d matt. today not terrible. 89 degrees at this hour. hour. that's the hottest we've beene'b all day and the humidity aid little bit in check but we but expect all of that to gooo downhill. check out some of the highut s temperatures out in the middle part of the country, wichitaic one outlay, saint louis 97.sains that's the kind of heat that t we are
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>> the district is bracing for another dangerously hot weekrend. this is the scene last weekend e when park police shut down the together 2016 prayer gathering at the national mall due too extreme heat. heat. hundreds of people werepler treated on the scene and 30 a people were taken to the hospital.hospital the question now is how will w emergency officials preparingpa for the heat blast that'ss approaching our area tomorrow. o >> it already seems so hot. so d.c. fire and ems are putting more ambulances on the streetul so they're ready to help.aneadyl fox5's matt ackland is live is at a water park in northwest nwe where officials are urging u folks to go cool off over the next few days. matt. >> reporter: hey, ladies,eyla this is the place to be. place b the can kids are enjoyingin this.th it's already heated up today but as sue will probably tell you in the next couple minutes it's going to get hotter. hot that's why district officials os especially fire and ems are preparing for the next threet days especially.specially. as you were talking about, this was the scene at the together 2016 event on thevent e national mall last
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we're told that over 500 o50 people were treated for heat related illnesses and 35llnd people had to be rushed to the hospital. remember, they had to shutohu that down because so many man people were becoming ill from io the heat.eat. meanwhile there are no huge h events on the national mallnaal this weekend but there arehere a some nats games for the next thn three days.e d each and every day. d and one that's really reall oncerning is the one ons t sunday. that's a 1 o'clock game so you know it's going to be hot hot then. today we caught up with fireh fr chief dean earlier to talk to about how the city is preparing to help peoplep peo during the heat. take a listen. >> we're going to put out five e additional units.ni there will be medic units or uns ambulances allowing us to bellgu able to address if we have additional calls because of the heat.the h >> reporter: i want you totou take a look at this.k at thi this is right outside the reeves center at 14th and uh.h. that's chief dean right there.h. last week he looked out fromut f his office and saw
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that was feeling ill, it was a w hot day.t he ran down to help. hear him describe this.cre >> i was in my office. i wasn m i saw this lady laying on theyig street and i saw somebody runeby to a car and -- and ask for a bowl of water so i just wentust back to the office grabbed our first aid kit said hey we got sg somebody down.somebo so we went out there andenout provided care until the uil ambulance got there and justust worked with her. h hands on is what the job is t all about.all all of us grew up doing d hands-on. we still like doing hands-on.ngs >> reporter: all right, back, bc out live here in cleveland cve park we should tell you over the next couple days thatay tha spray parks like this one theli pools they're going to be're opened.op it's going to be extended een hours. say your home loses power, thee, air conditioning goes outgoes throughout the city there willhl be cooling centers that areen ta opening up.enin they usually open up when it goes over 95 degrees.5 gr officials are also saying hey, h if you have an elderly person pr that's in your neighborhood gobo by knock on the door make sure s that they're doing okay. o
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to this heat but be a good neighbor and check on them on t especially over the nextly ove n couple days. d sue i know you're joining usou'n now. a lot of talk about the nats n game sunday around 1 o'clock. oc it's probably going to beng to b pretty hot, hm.ot hm. >> yeah, i think it's going to g be very hot, very humid, matt. we're thinking that as oft as o tomorrow we shoot right intoeotg the upper 90's.0' sunday could be 99 or o 100 degrees and feeling like about 105 so i know the nats t n are going to be preparing tori t keep people cool, giving -- giv allowing extra water to come to in and that's the best thing beg you can do is take frequent breaks get into somefr ac if yof can and make sure you stay hydrated.hy today is not bad though. is b look at these temperatures attus 89. that's average for this timeim of year and you may have maye noticed blue sky, the humidityum was in check but in the next 24 hours, things escalate veryav quickly and we want you to beu o smart about the amount of time t you spend outside.side loved your advice matt. m i was just thinking as matt as was reporting that the lastng tt time he reported and then his story led into me it was aboutme snow and getting people to volunteer to shove
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we pay a very close attention to the dewpoints in the heatpoin wave. when they're in the 50's as you can see north and west iee a that's not terrible bute but already we're climbing into the mid 60's here locally and so what does that mean? well,te it helps us factor in the heatt index or how it feels to youreey body and so our 89 degreesgr feels like 91. that's not terrible but it isuti going to be getting worse as wse you know. 88 is what the heat index is in manassas and tomorrow wew we really get things escalatingsc very quickly.uickly. i just wanted to show youho y where that heat is coming is co from. cincinnati is 90.ncinna the only reason detroit is 73 i is because they've had some h big thunderstorms up there up te cooling them off but check out wichita 103, 97 for saintorai louis. i find off and saint louis' l temperature the day before is usually ours the next day when w the wind is in the direction it's going to be coming. 101 for del rio. r 98 for lincoln nebraska. minneapolis 93.ea gives you an idea that the big b heat is going to be pushing inn our direction tomorrow. tomorro. just to give you an idea of of tomorrow's high
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mid and up are 90's and that's s just the beginning of what we wa think will be seven days in ae e he row of pretty intense heat.ea our third heat wave in theave month of july.mo so, we'll show you what to gettg ready for over the weekend. the records that could be challenged and potential foral f thunderstorms but they mayrstosb hold off until next week so wk s we'll give you the best ideaes e of when to expect that and tt ad hope everybody will take this seriously. by the way code orange airan a quality tomorrow too so themorr air will be going a little bitib downhill as well.l. laura, sarah, i'm just full oftl good news tonight.ewsonig you really are.eally are came back to work and we go downhill. >> staying inside the rest of ie the weekend and the trest of t the day.th day. >> indeed. >> still ahead, did protestorsrt go too far? >> hundreds of people are weighing in after black livesckl matter protestors blockedlo streets inside the district. their message for policessage op tonight after seeing thisg t unsettling video. >> plus three teams fined by b the wnba because of plain of pl black shirts they were wearing. why the league is punishings phg players for these t's.
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>> ♪ >> that is troubling video outio of miami florida. flori just moments before aust therapist was shot bmoy police,p charles kinsey was trying toin comfort an autistic manort sitting in the streets playingas with a toy. the video shows kinsey withsey i his arms in the air trying to tn explain the situation to officers. kinsey says police approached with theirli guns drawn and oneo officer shot him. h kinsey says he asked the the officer why he he shot him and according to kinsey these the officer replied i don't know.ple that officer is now ond administrative leave.
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investigating.ig now the troublinatg video v lab shared thousands of timesims and it is further igniting conversation about policeti reform and training.ndrai responding to the video on o facebook chris says i'm a chrisi police officer defender all the way.the blue lives matter but in this case the cop needs to be fired immediately.atel and a criminal investigationti to follow to find if there wasas malicious intender.. if there is to jail you goto jau just like anyone else. els if not he's obviously not cutot out for the stresses of police work and needs to find a jobob where he is not required to be armed.me lifetime ban.lifetime ban. on the other side he wrote w prayers for this man. m it takes a special person to t work with adults with specialcil needs. all law thinking about was protecting this young man.youngn i have a severely autistic sonc who wouldn't be able to comply m to officers orders. order it scares me to death. dea i can't imagine how terrifiedowt i would be daily if my children were not white.. laura is standing by with bt more on this effort to tra
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police officers to deal with wit throws on the autism spectrum. laura.la >> reporter: yeah, you can you c just tell from those reactionses there on social media sarah sarh that video obviously touchingouh a nerve with so many peopleth s but no one more than theha mother of a child with autismutm who has had an encounter with police. po and i know you have.i know joining me now is jen lynn, mom of jake and we'll meet we'le jake in just a moment.om jake has taken a specialas takes interest in how police handle h so has jen, how police handlee d people with special needsal nees especially when it comes to autism and down's syndrome because jen's son, jake, has autism. and first of all, i want toll, t get your reaction to this andhid then we'll talk about your involvement with police andice a how they handle these situations but what's yourut reaction to that video we just s saw. >> my initial reaction it wascts the first thing i saw thisawhi morning and i just wast horrified, like not again, youin know, that as a mom, you know,u, and then i read the rest ofhe r the story that the -- it's an
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needs which is my other job, i work with adults with specialci needs, so, yeah, it's heartbreaking and it's verys scarscary and it just reminds me of how much work needs to be done.do >> it speaks to the need andaks what you guys are doing. tell me about the incidentab t that prompted yours and jake's k involvement in a programro that's going on right now with w montgomery county police department.department >> well, it was a year and a half ago, it was winter and jake needed to get something out of the car and he ran out to tndhe car which was in then drive way but forgot that he didn't have clothes on winteronn so he yelled help, help, helpelh and all of my neighbors arere aware of our situation so theyh thought someone was hurt, hur someone was in danger so they all called 911.d all the police came and thate at began this whole journey journ because montgomery countyry c police were great with us andh a then in speaking with laurieh lu reyes who heads up this autismum outreach and idd departmenten s
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jake and they hit it off and and then the whole -- that's howt' w this all started.th all i mean and now it's just kind of snow ball because it's suchts a need. >> let's bring in jake andn jakn introduce him because he'se' such a big part of thisf th program.pr he's become the ambassador.asdo >> yeah. >> of the program, right.ht >> hello, mr. ambassador, howsaw are you.are >> hello chief a.m. bass tour. >> thank you.. >> excuse me, chiefxc ambassador. >> yeah. >> thank you so much for joining us jake and really allea the work that you've done withet montgomery county policegome department i know has been really rewarding for you.ou tell me how you help hel montgomery county police polic understand better how to helpoel people with autism. >> well, i teach them not to to touch me. not yell or curse.r curse that would mean not using usi inappropriate language. also being respectful, being b polite humble and kind. that's what he we wander tot we teach the police and also the important thing
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laurie has said think awesome thoughts but i also want to io talk about the help thing whenne i yelled help. >> yeah.>> y >> after that happened, i know o that happened a little bit so bs i want to tell you real quick is, i -- when that happened after we starter the autism program and after i started doing this autism out i started walking for pathfinderar for washington and you knowgton what else i have done, a i alsoo walked with the white house champion of change inan september of 2015 with officer c laurie reyes and i also met the vice president joe biden.si >> excellent. >> and the attorney general aore loretta lynch. >> amazing, you're awesome.ng, and i know that you go a yroundn with this program and you y teach other police departmentsam how to help other people --e people with autism when theyn come upon a case. >> right. how many police departments arcee benefiting from this and what kind of training goes traie into this kind of program
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>> el were, pathfinders for autism provides free training tn for all the police, all the sheriff's, fire, ems, first, fis responders basically in thers bl state of maryland.ate oaryland. >> we can help people with hel o disabilities and alsosabili important to make friends with w the police.ice. >> you're right, honey, you'reo right. so, he has been able to teach. t >> thousands of police. >> el were, maybe a thousand tus or so. >> uh-huh. >> we've been doing this for ath year now and sometimes it'ses i one speech a week but one b speech could have 60 officerss so that is a really -- it's a huge impact. it. >> it's a big deal. it's actually a big deal forl the bottom line.toine. >> i love your passion.passio >> and also the police should so never yell and you know what else, the important thing ispo wert don't -- policemen should never be putting too many too mn personal information.a when they can come to a housl e the important thing is to let -- sit right them.ht t >> sit and assess the assess the situation. >> when they come to our house u mostly they say what's your says name, what's your address orr what anything else or your you identification or yourti driver's license
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else. >> all right, well, there's so, much to learn fromwe this.hi >> lots of policemen -- the real policemen in old timesem they didn't really mean so butut really but we need to say likeak what's your name and what'sha your name and then how can --an how we can really help you.ou >> and you're helping teach other police departments thousand do this. sounds likthe miami dade mightai need your help down there.re. >> yeah.>> >> i appreciate again your passion, jake.io jake. >> yes. i am compassionate.passiona >> important lesson to pass along and if you would like toow learn more about autism safety f in law enforcement contactct officer laurie reyes. she's in charge of this program.ogra she's just as passionate abouteu this as jake. you can get ahold of her at a of her e-mail address which is laurie -- through laurie reyesr at montgomery county maryland.gov back slash life safer it is a lifesaver toifeseo have this kinds ofhave information.n. >> to talk about autism and itmt is amazing that police arece a here to help us.
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>> you're awesome. >> people that are amazing and gifted can help a lot ofa lot of people but the reason thing -- - one other thing i need to tell l you you. y >> one quick thing. >> there's no laughing. >> no laughing.>> >> to tell you something.omhi policemen should not beemen sul putting all that personal persoa information they need to sayd what's your name and that'se a s it. they need to talk very nice.ic >> thank you, jake. j you're awesome. i see why you're the ambassador.ssador. >> goodbye everybody.oo i really want to tell youdban to something. thank you very much.y much. thank you very much for talking about this. t >> i love it. >> it's so good to see you. you >> jake, you rock. roc jake rocks.jake roc all right, sarah, over to you. . >> love it. thanks, jake., jake. coming up, serious accusations against a localoc basketball coach brodie logan bl has more on that. hey, brodie.e. >> george washington men'sen basketball coach mike lonegane l delivered a historic nit championship this spring.onsh because of aipllegations fromnsf players he might not
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defend that title. that tit. detail head in sports. spos. >> how speaker paul ryanl rya sparked a firestorm on social media after posting this selfie.seie. the democratic interns on thentn hill are responding to thattoha whole thing. hey, ronica.ic >> hey, sarah. hey sarah well, you might think that thi politics are not about young y people. it's just not true. tru the stories that we've got foror you next involve politics ands interns and to tell you thatouha we've got our own fox5 internss matt and dannyly we'll haveanny' those stories after the break. >> ♪ >> ♪
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>> the trump campaign ishe t blasting texas senator tedexaset cruz after he refused toefus endorse the republican nominee.nomie. >> tonight trump will officially ac seven the ac nomination. no earlier today his campaign manager had strong words directed at cruz.ed at . fox5's tom fitzgerald isd i live in cleveland t
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fitz how angry are they at the senator. >> reporter: sarah and laura, every day we get aeet chance to ask questions of the trump campaign. campa this is day four. this was the big culminationulmn of the week.of t this question and answer was supposed to be about donald trump's speech tonight and a everything they were going to tell the american people aboutnb how trump is going to governover as president.nt. that is not what happened. hpene a lot of this today, most ofay,o it had to do with ted cruz.ruz. now for trump himself, he was here at the q arena earlierarli this afternoon he arrived at hev about 1:20 this afternoon. you see him there walking in ivanka trump right behind him. m they were here to look at the lt stage to look at the podium tom take in the perspective ofti where trump is going to beng to when he delivers this speech,pec but all eyes are now lookingking at what trump says tonight after what happened last night. ted cruz refusing to endorse enr this candidate and in effect
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breaking his pledge says trump campaign manager paul manafortar that all the gop candidatesdida had made and that last night manafort said cruz r reneged on. >> they sign pledges. thedg everybody knew about the pledges. they knew what that meant.what were obligation that put onblig them and how theyat interpretedd their obligation. senator cruz strict constitutionalist shows to not o accept the terms of thems of pledge. he was in violation not anybody else. >> reporter: throughout the campaign donald trump t had dubbed ted cruz lying cruz. c i talked to a lot of tell gates on the way out of hereut last night. lying cruz is about the nicestt thing we heard ted cruz called. about most of it is not fitit for television.elevis we'll find out what donalddonald
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tonight when he takes that stage laterwh tonight.onig we are awaiting a copy of thatfa speech but as always with w donald trump, just becausese something's written down d doesn't mean he might not go off script and say something completely unexpected.ected. we're live in cleveland clend tonight, tom fitzgerald fox5zgdf local news.s. sarah and laura we'll send itd i back to you. >> i think we can bet on thate a prettyn much, fitz.h, fitz. interesting night. night. >> thank you. >> politics young people and a social media are intersectingse more and more every day now.ay >> they sure r and fox5 political reporter ronica ronica cleary is live at old epic e grille getting an intern'sn tern perspective on the political headlines of the day. te da hey, ronica. >> reporter: hi, ladies.ter: well, something that almost a gets me so excite is theree is t hearing about young people who w are interested and excitedited about politics. pol well, we found for you a f you handful of headlines today that actually intersect with young people and politics and al we brought in our team of fox5 f interns to comment on these stories.orie we've got matt and danny here.an thanks so much for being with us at a. us >> no problem.>> no problem >> reporter: s
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that everyone is t talk about it started with the selfie thatfiet paul ryan posted with those congressional republicanpubl interns, then the democrats dem responded and the thing that a a lot of peoplt e noticed was thee difference in the diversity inei each of the selfies. so, matt how did you feel asl a an intern when you saw thatwhenw photo? >> well, i mean, it's interesting and i thinknd thi personally i'm just glad that im it j started a conversation.vero good there was a response bypony the democrats and i'm justats at glad that people are talkingople about it now because it's up to us. to open under dialogue. dgue. >> reporter: dan flee howorte about you. it as a woman of color it dir:d make me feel a littlee uncomfortable to see that tha photo but they say a picture pte tells a thousand words but itt doesn't tell all the words. wor there's always a back story. sry there's a reason for that andhad it might not necessarily bely what everybody might be thinking. i think we need to wait a little longe nr see what comes out. i am glad that like he saidaid there's a conversation that's starting now. >> reporter: absolutely.
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and i'm so glad you guys wereyow willing to participate in the i conversation and in a storysati that weon saw a little bitite bt lighter, rand paul is using ran pokemon go to recruitecit supporters and had his internsis go out and i guess set up this t pokemon go stop. s i honestly don't know much m about the game so you guys you g tell me is this an effective efi tool for politicians to engage.ge >> i'm the only one of my o my friends who is playing myself. l >> reporter: it wouldn'two work it you it's veryrk iyou effective.effective. i see people in a park runningng to one location.atio put something there it'ss effective.effective. >> reporter: tan knee.orte >> yeah, i mean, this --hi-- making sure that people -- peop even if they don't go out andnd vote afterwards, pulling ourur attention to you, letting --ettg making them know that you'reou kind of hip with the timesf hi they'll. they'll remember his name now.e. >> you're not obligated to sayos anything while you're there orlr do anything that they telly tel when you you're there.'re >> reporter: hillary cnt
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well. our last question a collegeol student at the rnc she actually found an earing thatngt looked a lot like the earing ivanka trump wore last night. she tweeted it up and said get ivanka her hearing back. i was like why doesn't that tha she just take it to the lost on found.on found. do you think you would havenk y done something similar.imil. >> i probably would have.robabll you turn it into thed lost andoa found they don't know whoey donw turned it n you post it ont twitter you might get, they'll ' know who you are, you could c have a selfie with her. her it's her chance for a little bit of fame. fam >> exactly.>> >> reporter: it's all about it' thes selfie. well, i can't thank ourur interns if you have enough for weighing in. nothing more exciting than t having young people sharear their voice in politics. thank you so much. reporting live, i'm ronica i'm n cleary with fox5 local news. back to you.. >> ronica, thanks very much. >> good to get their perspective there. there all right. >> quite a
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in sports.oi >> yes, there are. yes, ere >> transition from the game of politics to the ports.or >> exactly. >> first off breaking news today. toda earlier this year nbaisear commissioner adam silver sil threatened to move next year'ses all-star game out of charlotte l because of north carolina's newly enacted laws aimed ataime the lgbt community.gbt communi at a that threat turned intont reality. reality. now the nba just officiallyiciay announced they will removehel next year's all-star game from o charlotte with new orleansrl also a the leading can doddng dd receive the game. gam the reasoning it centered c around north carolina's houseoue bill number two, a law that tha mandates transgender peopleranse use the public restroom that tha correlates to the sex on their n birth certificate.ca. the law also omits lgbt l individuals from the state'ste antidiscrimination protections and excludes workplace discrimination lawsuits from north carolina courts.ticourts now, i wanted to get youro get r reaction on this.reac it's one of notice things a notc lot of times in sports they t threaten these things they say y they're going to make socialg action but now the nba istos actually taking action andio and they issued a statement iss actually just a few minutes m ago basically saying
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is a global game. a globa we arel inclusive of all peopleo and they don't want to be associated with those laws ine north carolina and they'rehe giving north carolina the nora chance to have the game back in 2019 if they get rid of law number two. >> i don't know, i think't it's -- you know, i think it'sni very controversial and i -- i - i'm not sure i agree with the move.ve i'm not sure i agree. i >> why is that? >> well, i don't know, i need in to look more into it but ito itb think that they -- you know, it's -- i don't know, i need to look nor into it.to i >> no worries.>> we need look more into what'soh' going on at george washingtont e as well.or gw's men's basketball coacho mike lonegan made history on m the couradt this year deliverini the first ever championship winning the nit but it lookst like the winning masked deeper issues. the washington post cited c unnamed players saying lonegan was verbally and emotionally abusive to them. them. 13 have transferred in i lonegan's five years with theeae team. the a be buse was reported toep the school's title ix
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had been handled.een handled. every one of the allegations the has come from unnamed sources and lonegan responded to the t e allegations in the post.tion he said this statement, "i will not respond to anonymous unfounded allegations.egions. these types of allegationspes have already been investigatedtd by the university and are found to be groundless.es "there are a number of numbe o things -- a couple of things i i don't even wants to he repeatano that some of the players havehev said but they said they wouldou never pa play for him again. agn they transferred to other t o schools to play.scs to there was an incident earlier this year where he was kicked out of hishe daughter's jvghr' basketball game for arguing arg with the referees in a jv high i school basketball game. gam he does have a history of o being a bit hot headed m otherd people are saying this is justtt how coaches are and you shouldud deal with it. >> that's the other thing.e othr being in sports it's like i had some coaches that were ter pretty hot headed but i mean m do you think he took it a little too far. >> some of the allegations did take it a bit far. some were directed towards the athletic director at theirecr at school his boss say
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like his boss was secretlyectl recording his players in a a sexual way. and saying this to his playersys so it's just crazy allegationsls that he said to his playerso h and the things that hethingst supposedly said but he deniesies all of this.hi >> that's what somebody wouldod probably do in that case.ha >> you would thin but we have t reached out to the presidentt to of the school for a statement. we've reechoed to the athleticti director and they have notr an issued anything or responded to us yet.et they said they're stilly' s assessing the situation and will respond when they feelnd the time is right.e ti >> more to come on that.omn t >> definitely.initel earlier this month wnba players wore shirts ins wo remembrance of men shot byhot police and the five dallas dal police officers killed in anilln attack. atta today the league fined them for them. the wnba has fined the playersls for wearing black t-shirts.rt all three teams were fined wer f $5,000 and each player wie wass fined $500.ne$500 now, the league is saying thisth is just a uniform thing. so they wore shirts thatirts t
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victims but the policeimbut officers in both incidents.en >> right.>> >> but they're saying it's i purely a uniform thing andnihi even the players said we wore adidas shirts and that is the official uniform supplier ofni the league. why are you finingfo us.in u >> seems pretty ridiculousidicou especially given the reasonivenr why they are wearing them.ring t >> exactly. >> it's not like they're going to continue to do it theo entire season. seaso >> did they make a statement elsewhere that maybe there'sbe e something else at play behindd the scenes. >> there was an incident inincii minnesota when some of then me o players wore the shirt and there were off duty police off officers had got up and left upf the arena when they saw the saw shirts. >> there's more to the stories. >> the minnesota players did pld not get fined. fined they were warned by the leagueee don't wear these again and they didn't but the other teams did wear it.t am >> but there is the history.re >> there is the history behind y it.. >> they're adding onto theing oe history and creating somethingmg even bigger than what they sethy out to do.o. >> thanks brodie.rodie. a coffee thief stealingf stg bags and bags of beans forea cash.ca not a buzz.uz >> plus the surprising
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>> all right. taking a live look outside right now. besides the traffic, thingsin are looking a little bit hazy.ba >> i'm looking at this trafficsa just mesmerized by -- i guess ie it's not that bad. b i guess this is probablypba normal traffic. tra we just probably don'tbl don't normally look at it.ally lk a >> it is rush hour.r. >> it is. >> hopefully they have the achee blasting because it's hot and getting hotter. 89 degrees out there right now and with humidity, i don't know, what is it, sue. sue >> it feels like 91.t fes li so the humidity honestly laurayl and sarah is not that bad.t it's tomorrow when we start to o escalate these things and ingani agree with you about the w traffic and i agree about air conditioning.condning thank heavens for airs forir conditioning. we would really be suffering ay lot if we didn
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we're going to get you through the weather headlines because bc beginning tomorrow it's a a quick 24 hour turn around into the third heat wave of the summer. we're leaded for mid to upperidr 90's on friday. fri it may feature a thunderstormert far to the north. that's possible in the late l day hours tomorrow and be and b lucky if you get it because itae will cool things off. off but i think very few of usf u will see that. tha the weekend is even hotter.ven serious heat wave, the the dangerous type of heat wheret combined with those very high h heat index readings we couldul be talking about it feeling like 105 to 110 this weekend. potentially the hottest air ofif the summer.the sr. certainly the hottest stretch sr we've had so far this year soea we're going to go 97 on g97 o friday. we're going for 99 on saturdayua and sunday, nine all thee l the monday. by the way 98 on monday is the ony is t best chance of seeing ain thunderstorm as well. a well. a front will come through androg it will drop that temperaturera on tuesday to 94. tuesday 92. and thursday 93 degrees.3 gree so that's what we're lookingking at. at could we be breaking recordsakis this weekends? well, this is t
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saturday the record is 102 set in 2011.in for sunday 101, set in 2010.010. monday's record from 1930 iss 100.10 here's what we're forecasting.ag we're going to be awfully awf close to breaking records. rec these are our forecast highort i temperatures. we'll see if we get there. the cloud cover will have a little t something to do with that asto well. meanwhile tonight it is veryht v warm but not unusually so foro f this time in july. average high is 89. 89. and while a lot of places are near 90 if not 89 degrees,deee again it's very noticeable escalation in all of these o the effects beginning tomorrow.omro here's what we feel. 91 degrees is the currentses i heat index, 92 for culpeper, cue 89 for martinsburg.tinsburg. we're also watching this line. l look what's coming towardsow cleveland.evel a line of thunderstorms. we call that an mcs a convective complex and we'llplew see if any of that sends somende cloud cover our way or maybeaybe even a thunderstorm during thedu day tomorrow caught up in this s frontal boundary.fronta the front should stay to ourl so north.rt that's where the bes
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will be for thunderstorms butut again mid to upper 90's is 9s i what we are headed for and wend wrap it up with your fox5 f accuweather 7-day forecast. fec we showed you the high heat h we're expecting, the intense iee heat, the dangerous heat that t he we want you to take many,any, many breaks from if you've got y to be outside.ou butsi check on your neighbors.bo keep a close eye on your petsoue that. sidewalk is hot for them as well. monday and tuesday good chancehd of storms it looks like the better chance will be onerhance monday and then things are athga little bit more reasonableon beginning wednesday andg weday thursday. but i got to tell you the outlook for the rest of july o no really big break heading inea our direction.irection we just got to take it one dayte at a time to get through the next several. laura and sarah, back to you. >> going to be one of those tho summers. all right. >> one of those summers. sum >> but it starter off so nice.ro >> i know. know. >> went got so used to it. it. >> yes. >> still ahead tonight, krispy kreme soda what and puttingti laxatives on your face. f >> that's going too far.t's goto we got those stories and more coming up next, our fox5 on the fly.
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>> ♪ >> in tonight's fox5 other fly, doughnut soda? the anti-engagement ring and tinder going group. >> first a thief who may be overcaffeinated.na serial coffee thief wanted. check out the pic.ic cops say she ripped off 3,000 o0 boxe3,000box bucks worth of cof. her target wawa stores in pennsylvania, maryland and new, jersey. they say she hit about 50 times. ti >> ♪ >> healthy people plug your y ears. you can now drink your doughnut.doughnut. krispy kreme selling doughnut dt soda. what they say the krispy kreme original blaze doughnut.ze d got to go south to get it now. n soon it should be a click away online.online please don't tell my kids. >> ♪ >> a laxative on your face? fac hold up. milk of magnesia as a
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yup, it's a beauty trend. youtube beauty guru angela angel cruise tried it says it keeps i oil away and helps set your makeup. for the record a regular reg primer does the same. >> ♪ tinder getting into> tier gi groups. the dating app large launched le tinder social. plan a night out with friends or strangers.anrs match people interested inintern what you want to to like hit a a bar or take in a concert. >> ♪ no partner? it's all? it'l right. put a ring on it anyway.way. it's about self love.ove. that's what the company says. s the pinkie rings are supposedrig to be as reminder of a o commitment to yourself. youel me time.me tim go get it. and that's your fox5 onoxon the fly. f >> i like that.ha >> i to, too. i t you know what, why not just goo ad had and wear it on the third finger.thir >> great idea. >> thanks for joining us.ni us. fox5 local news at 6:00 starts0r right after the break. break. >> ♪ ♪
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>> this is fox5 local news at 6:00. 6:00. >> talk about high trauma inhigh cleveland. tonight hours before donald trump will even take the stage a at the rnc it is good to have you with us at 6:00 i'm shawnha yancy. >> i'm jim lokay in for tonyoron perkins tonight.. a live look at the conventionion floor in cleveland ohio. fox5's tom fitzgerald hadald ha been there all weekend long. lon fitz set the stage for the big f night tonight.night tonight. >> reporter: jim, shawn itwn i doesn't get any bigger than this. this. this is what it all comes down to. to. tonight is why they do all those campaign appearances andas all those speeches.thos donald trump has a cliff to clit climb tonight. he has to erase the memories of whath
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last night with that raucoust rs meet wind gust deameeting with u trump has to turn that page and tell the american peoplen op why he thinks he should be be elected the next 45th 45t president of the unitedt states. take a look at thiofs v ideo from fro earlier today. donald trump was here in this very haul earlier thisliers afternoon. now, he was here to look overve the stage, look over thever the setup.setu now, you'll notice look atook that podium he's standing atndit right now.ri that's not the one you've beenen seeing all week inform factformt there will be a different look t to this stage than you haveou been seeing the first threeirste days of this convention.ntn. you see ivanka trump there.he she'll be introducing her father. the talk of this town tonight tg has not been about what'st's going to happen tonight butightb what happened last night. nht governor mike pence had his h h speech pretty muchyuch overshadowed by the ted cruz event.ent. today pence had a breakfasthad where he actually talked aboutdt what went on last night andht a tried to put t
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