school bus. now, this year, just yesterday, a four-year-old student was dropped off right here all alone. it's a very serious violation of policy that's even more concerning because the prince george's county public school district said they address these problems last year. >> cars were honking at my child. she could have been hit. thank could god for a good samaritan who saw her >> memories of your child first day of school include bright backpacks, photos and big smiles. but for crystal lawson and simone todd, the memory that stands out the most is the feeling of panic. >> i looked in the bus, my child was not there. >> reporter: the four-year-old boarded her bus for first day of prekindergarten at her assigned a stop. however, that afternoon, she didn't get off there. in this parking lot steps away from her home is where four-year-old

was supposed to be dropped off. instead she got dropped off here. which she started to across alone to get home. her mom ran find her here. she says she's just glad her little girl is ok. >> even though she was wearing this id tag with her address. >> i was crossing the street. >> what did the cars do? >> they beeped. >> they beeped their horns at you? did somebody come and help you? who came and helped you >> a boy. >> reporter: prek and kindergarten students are supposed to be handed off to a parent and because of the serious violation of policy, the principal of princeton elementary school rode the bus with smart phone on day two and while she feels the principal has been helpful, simone's mom says the transportation office is dodging her questions. the way the bus driver allegedly at fault tried to dodge our cameras >> i haven't heard anything from what

going to be nothing done. but that's not going to be the case. of i'm going to go to take care of this. this is not the last they heard of me. >> reporter: the prince george's county public school district declined to comment on camera but they did send us a written statement explaining that their bus drivers under go frequent training for how to pick up and drop off prekindergarten and kindergarten students. in fact, last training took place on august 12th, and then on august 18th, there was a test run, a pilot program at any called it, where bus drivers actually practiced dropping off and picking up these very young students. still though, this happened. district says they are investigating, and that bus driver could face disciplinary action. depending on the outcome of their investigation. reporting live in suitland alexandra limon fox 5 local news >> you talk about the training but in our school district with my kids, they have

bus. other students who are watching out for this to see if there are parents there picking up. do you know if there are patrols on these busses as well? >> reporter: i never actually heard of that, but considering that neither the mom north school district nor the principal we talked to dropped that off, doesn't sound like that's the case in this school district >> do you know what kind of disciplinary action he could face? >> reporter: no. in fact, we did ask, but the school district was very nonspecific. in fact, that mom said she was told by the bus driver's foreman yesterday that they didn't think he would face disciplinary actions. but today, the school district is saying differently. they're saying he could. >> alexandra limon, thank you. we deal with this every year. we get this figured out? hopefully this does not happen again. a frightening day at an alexandria beauty supply shop when an arm man forced three people into

a 7-year-old girl and he was after money >> police are looking for the man, matt ackland spoke to store owner who showed video of the entire incident. matt, what did you see. >> reporter: that store owner doesn't want to be on camera. she doesn't want to be identified but boy does she have a story to tell. she was here yesterday morning along with another adult employee, and that employee 7-year-old girl. well, that is when a man wearing a mask came through that front door right there. he had a gun, he pointed it at the store owner's head, we want you to listen in her words what happened after that. take a listen. >> right here like this. like this. my god, like this, you know, i go like this, i go, my god. my god. >> she say anybody here, other than you two. so and he take downstairs. he take the money out of there. i'm opening there. he

money there, i say go ahead and look in it. and i didn't have anymore money there. he said put it in everything in there. i put all the money in there >> he say he want this one, this one open too. i say once i don't have a key. i say, you can take your key if you want, it's fine. so he grabbing me here. right there. now he's going to go to come to come here. he said put everything in there. so i put everything in there. i say you can't have everything. i said don't you hurt us. >> were you scared? >> at the time, i didn't scare, i didn't do nothing. i just wanted to see everybody safe. as long as he take the money, whatever he wants, have him that and leave us alone, that's all i want.

bathroom. nothing. of nothing. he take everything. nothing there. and i close the store, you see in there? yanked it open and pointed at me. i was here, they were back there. i was afraid that's i got scared but i stayed firm. i say what do you want? that's all i said. he is you can call police, ten minutes after he leave. >> reporter: fortunately, she is doing ok. so is the other employee in that 7-year-old girl, as you heard her talk about, she said that she was in that bathroom and the time when she really got concerned is when he pointed the gun right at her face had in the bathroom and told her not to leave for at least ten minutes. she said that she waited in that bathroom for 15 to 20 minutes. just to be on the safe side. take a look at these pictures. talked to fairfax county police about 15 minutes ago. they say they're still looking

yesterday. right around 11:00, 10 to 11:00, if there is something about these pictures that you recognize, if you know something about this crime, authorities here in fairfax county would like to hear from you. live in fairfax county, matt ackland, fox 5 local unless you. ♪ new tonight, a monument tall problem for one of dc's biggest attractions, elevator problems are forcing the washington monument to now stay closed until next month. fox 5 tom fitzgerald is live on the national mall. tom, these problems have been persistent for months. >> reporter: seems like we're talking about about this al the time. here's the deal. the washington monument, the national park service said today, the elevator inside that big thing, well, you said at the end of its life. and what does that mean? well, they had originally planned to close it down for ten days. they got in there, they looked at it. what they

like, they're going to have to keep the monument elevator closed the rest of this month. it will not open up until beginning of september. take a look. remember, they don't have a lot of options here. this is a 555 foot monument. and there is only one elevator inside of it bringing all those tourists up and down all day long throughout the year. so what are they doing? well, they're cleaning stairwells, they're cleaning out cables. they're looking at the lighting in the stairways and they're also now going to have to come up with a long-term plan to replace and mod modnize this elevator. all that work for the earthquake five years ago, that really didn't work on the elevator. the elevator now is at the end of its life. they had a briefing on capitol hill in the offices of dc delicates. hear's what they said. theyne

have to be done, what they didn't know was that it was going to have to be done so soon. with these repeated outages, these repeated instances of people being stuck in it, they're now calling this an emergency repair situation, one they knew was coming but didn't have to expect was going to be needed so soon. >> we were anticipating we would have to do this. i think it's all become that much more urgent because we've had unexpected closures in the past couple weeks. which have -- have impacted our service to the public. >> reporter: a big make it is. of this is hitting right in the middle of the end of the summer tourist season here. here's the timeline that we're looking at right now. yes, they're going to close the monument through september. but they've got to come up with a plan. they've got to come up with the funding and they going to to come up with

this new system. they're going to reopen at some point in september and get to work on all of this other stuff, once they get that plan, once they get the funding, once they get the contractor, when they finally get to the point probably some time next year, they're going to shut this monument down up to nine months to finally and hopefully put to rest these elevator problems. live at the national mall, tom fitzgerald fox 5 local news >> we've seen enough of them. to had thank you. a developing story out of central italy tonight, a powerful earthquake killed at least 120 people in a cluster of smallwood mountain villages in the marsh region, dramatic video shows victim being pulled to safety after a 6.2 magnitude quake. they raced to dig out the woman trapped under a collapsed home. scenes like this are

across central italy. east of tuscany. crews continue to look for trapped people under the homes on her structures in at the rubble. >> we are living through this tragedy and only hoping there will be the fewest number of victim possible and we have courage to move on. >> the white house says president obama called italy's prime minister to offer the us government's help as they respond to the crisis. of. developing overseas, at least one person is dead and 18 others wounded after militants attacked the american university of afghanistan. officials say security forces are still combing the campus searching for the attackers. witnesses say they heard gunshots and then a blast near the campus in kabul. professors and student barricaded themselves inside class rams, it comes two weeks after two university staffs were kidnapped from the school. their whereabouts still unknown

allergy outrage, prices have sky rocketed >> we're learning about the pay raise the company's ceo gave herself. wait until you hear how much. mcdonald's is recalling 29 million fitness trackers it put in their happy meals, the complaints they received from parents after seeing what it did do their kids' skin. close call a restaurant employee nearly taken out by a tree. what he was doing when it came crashing down. sue >> that's always so scary. in isn't it not scary is our current weather, it is beautiful out here, we got a little bit of cloud cover, a light breeze, a little warmer day, a touch more humid, still really comfortable on wednesday afternoon, if you haven't heard, things are about to heat up in a big hurry. we'll have a first look at your forecast, fox 5 local news at 5:00 is coming right back.

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. parents of children with food allergies, this story is for you. >> you may have heard the cost of your child's life saving epipen is skyrocketing. law makerers are calling on congress and asking the federal trade committing to get involved. it's used by millions to things

bites, mi land pharmaceutical company recently hiked their price from 100 to $600. experts say price surge is because thermometer genetic equivalent's changes to high deductible insurance plans are also to blame and me and consumers are paying much higher out of cost. as the price of the medication has sky rocketed so has the a salaries at mi land, heather bresh, compensation we didn't from 2.4 million in 2007 to nearly $19 million last year. that makes me so angry. of >> she really needs to have that big of a pay boost? i'm sorry. i'm jeviust doesn't it? meanwhile, nearly a week after pulling them from their happy meals, mcdonald's is officially

recalling 29 million fitness trackers. >> activity bands and they look a lot like ones adults might wear and were available in the u.s. and canada but they're reportedly giving kids burns and rashes. the fast food giant says it knows of at least 70 complaints of skin irritation, if your child has fitness tracker, you can take it back to mcdonald's for a free replacement toy. meanwhile, if you take cream in your coffee, you're soon going to have to have a new option, starting september 6, the coffee chain is adding almond milk to it's lineup of nondairy creamers, you can already get soy and coconut milk. of it got more than 96,000 requests to offer this milk. instead of using one of the brands off the shelf, star bucks it's making its own version, it will add 60 cents. you got to pay for it. >> i think i've seen all the milk in some of the

behind the counter, we were getting so much requests, we need to get them in here. >> a few did offer it for awhile, but they've slowly been adding it in, i guess now all of them will. i always ask. >> what was need to safer this slowly >> boy people are savoring. we've been noticing a lot of people in a really good mood because it is so nice. you can probably come out with a hot latte, not just the ice coffee, temperatures pretty comfortable in the 80's, although it is warmer than it is yesterday laura and sarah, a touch more humid, still very pleasant and quite a contrast. team heat will be coming back to finish the month. so it's not quite done with us just yet let's check out temperatures right now so you can see we're at pretty much our high point for the day at 86 degrees, it might have been a

sensible up towards westminster. it's reading 90, but that's one of the higher spots. most places in the mid 80's today. and as we look at our due points, they did come up a little bit. the past few days, we noticed comfortable due points in the 50's, that is so pleasant. when it starts to get into the mid 60's to near 70 as it is now. you might need to before you spend a lot of time outside is make sure you have those allergy medications handy. i know i've had to take a couple of things today because not only is rag weed coming in on the high side now, we still have a little grass pollen around and mold is very high. a lot of people are complaining about allergies and some congestion and head pain and that might be the reason's the rest of this evening, delightful. by 9:00 partly cloudy and 78, by 11:0075, guess what'ba

tomorrow? here's your headline, the 90's are backing low 90's went easily and hotter than that as we head to friday. we'll talk more about that with the seven-day forecast and we'll get you updated on the tropics too, lots to see there and maybe something to keep an eye on more closely. we'll have all of that coming up a bit later. laura, sarah, back to you. it was a very close call for a bar employee trying to save a patio umbrella during a storm in northwest dc. this was taken last wednesday at the pub and the people. bar patrons rushed outside to see if the guy was ok. of luckily he was. he was just fine. the bar's management says after the incident they told employees that umbrellas are not worth risking your life over. opting outside of the beverage of allegiance? one family's outrage after getting a pledge permission slip. do you think it's still valuable in

we'll have your answers next. and what the instagram filter you choose for your photos may reveal about your mental health. how one real estate agent says he is cashing in on disgruntled voters. back after this.

pledge of leakage engines to the flag of the united states of america. the pledge of allegiance is a common ritual among students and teachers at schools. in florida, one man is so mad over getting a permission slip for his knees to opt out, she came home that gives parents an to excuse their child from he refusing to cite it

the option includes not to put their hand over their hart. the little girly mother wrote this is the dumbest thing i ever saw. follows florida law that students have the right not to participate in recreating the pledge. >> it's not required that they say the pledge of allegiance, although do you have have to recognize some kind of allegiance to patriotic. >> my kids say the pledge of allegiance every day. we put this out to the viewers. >> i mean, here's the thing, we wanted a to know what our viewers thought. in the twitter poll, do you think the pledge of allegiance is

61% said absolutely. 39% said not really. it surprises me >> this is our country >> you should be proud. >> i think it's the god claws, and that has trouble with a lot of people causing trouble. but, i -- i think it's really wonderful. >> gets people pretty heated up. four sexual assaults and robbery suspects caught on camera. >> pleas need your help identifying these men still on the loose after the violent crime, and clinton controversy, hey ronica, still talking about him >> we are, if you fail a little bit overwhelmed by all of the headlines, even just this week, i'm going to break them down for you after the break. >> reporter: no matter where you standing a lot of people aren't a fan of roger goodell, but did he back up those comments calling him horrible today at practice? you'll be surprised or maybe not.

to you about the clinton foundation, that was an a p report that came out that has a lot of people talking. we're going to give you the campaign's response, and then tell you about a separate story related to clinton's private e-mail server. first the a p released a report: it does involve the clintons foundation and has a lot of people using the words pay to play. the associated press reviewed state department calendars and found that more than half of the people from private interests, this means that they did not include federal employees or foreign government representatives. so those individuals who met with or have phone conversations scheduled with secretary clinton more than half of them also contributed in some way to the clinton foundation. now, even though this story did not involve e-mails, you definitely heard the term e-mails thrown around related to the clinton foundation

reports using e-mails to also draw conclusions of potential pay to play. now, a clinton spokesperson, let's take you to number two, obviously, wanted to respond to this report. they've said that the a p's analysis relied on flawed data. gave a distorted portrayal of her schedule. it went on to say that the data does not account for more than half of her tenure at secretary, and it omits more than 1700 meetings she took with world leader, let alone countless others that she took with other us government officials while serving as secretary of state. now, statement is much longer than that. i have the full statement on my ronica clear facebook and twitter pages. finally the third headline, this is one related to that use of hillary clinton's private e-mail server from when she was secretary of state. you may recall,s fbi director james comey announced back in july that in

indicted for her use of a private e-mail server, 30,000 of clinton e-mails from that private server have already been released, but there are 15,000 more that have not. this week, there was another headline where a federal judge ordered an accelerated release of those remaining e-mailses, and the expected timeline for that start of that release, is october. just before election day. we're hoping that helped you out just a little bit. back to you. >> sure did. thanks ronica. new questions over donald trump's campaign spending, a new report shows the gop nominee's campaign spent more than $55,000 in donations buying copies of his own book. the books were purchased at barnes and noble for full retail price. campaign experts say they could be illegal. at issue whether the campaign fun emptied donor money into trump pockets. they say they were given out at la

convention. >> this billboard creating a lot of buzz on line, take a look. it appeals to u.s. residents threatening to move to canada if their candidate fails to win the presidency. real estate agent says the signs are generating business, he's getting an extra 200 calls a week from around the world and his website traffic jumped from 30,000 to 150,000 hits per month. in case you're wondering. he's an equal opportunity realtor, he'll sell the homes to both conservatives and little bit relays. >> >> clearly, it's, working for -- it's effective. >> everybody talks about that, seems every election >> i'm going to move to canada. >> we're actually going to see at this time happen either way this time. >> i think so. >> all ri

let's talk about we mentioned this yesterday, a dog in a suit's horrible, just horrible, that's how joshua norman described roger goodell, not a fan. we told you about that yesterday, this came from a espn interview where he called goodell horrible and likened him to a dog in a suit in an espn interview but by the way has no problem with his new team's name. of course, they're paying him $50 million. naturally we were hoping to talk with him today at practice. he wasn't talking today. of no to dice there. meehan at practice, jay gruden was keeping it short and sweet. we know, as they ran through drills that josh doctson was still out of practice with the nagging foot injury. same with jay mi son crowder and matt jones. when the team takes on the bills friday, we have learned many players who sat last week will play at least a half. by the way, about 17 days until the redskins open up at home against the steelers.

thank you. start training if you do -- i'm quoting frozen, i'm sorry. i know that you're not a fan. i'm fan, the knew football team is holding open try-outs on october 8, not uncommon, $100 at the door, problem is right now, they haven't figure you did out where this was going to happen yet. we'll keep you posted. have you ever stood at the baggage car sell at the airport because your bag look bikes about a dozen others. there's team great britain, each athletes got a standard issue bag when they left. it did you no good, when you say, mine is the red one. i'm assuming they figured it out by now. >> hopefully there's a little identification on there. >> maybe little. never a good reason to cover up hair like bryce harper except when it's for a good cause, harper unveiling

children's charity harper's hero's going through the leukemia and lymphoma society. he wanted the hat he could see celebrities wearing, cost about $27, it will be available starting today. we have seen harper kid bringing to the ballpark. that is how you make baseball fun again. >> i want to see a little kid follow their dream and do anything possible to make that dream come true. i mean, i can't think, you know, the nationals for making this happen and hopefully everybody can look at it and see harper's hero's are a great thing. >> we want it to be successful for him and the cause and everything that surrounds it. it's a great under taking, we appreciate bryce for everything he's done. >> nice hat but a much better cause. katie ledecky throwing out the first pitch tonight. isn't that great >> it's her second me

it. >> third. she's an old pro >> she did quite well the last couple times. much better than i did. >> i didn't get to see that one. >> we were going to do side by side comparisons when you said it and when i did it. >> you mentioned harper hero's andlls. we want to tell you about the light night walks coming up this fall, three evening walks, beautiful inspiring events, you've heard us talk about them before, we wanted a to give you the dates for this year's events, october 1st, october 8 happens in rockville and october 15th at freedom plaza, for information on how to form a team and get involved, you can go to l t n light the nights, back/nca fox 5 is the proud media sponsor, sarah simmons is the mc and holy morris will mcin rockville and i am proud to

serve as your honorary chair of all three walks and i will be mcing on october 15th. of they're wonderful family events, come out, bring your dog, your family, the just a really wonderful way to give back and to raise money for leukemia lymphoma society and very worthy cause. of >> for sure. coming up, twitter may be changing the way we mourn death. and using this instagram filter could mean you're actually depressed. plus addiction affairs, and a happily ever after. h olly morris is in the podcast booth. another beautiful afternoon behind me right now, a few high clouds filling in and that will set temperatures comfortable. 86, partly sunny, still low humidity and a nice south wind but that comfort level going down as the heat and humidity

warm seven-day forecast in the weekend, coming up next when fox 5 returns after this.

. social media is changing the way people mourn. according to new research, social media sites have made the act of grieving a more public activity. researchers found that twitter in particular is leading the way. they found twitter users acknowledge posts about death whether or not they knew the person personally. facebook posts tended to be more personal and involved people who knew the person who died. twitter users were also more likely to linc the death to social issues such as mental illness or suicide. your instagram filter may reveal more than you realize about your mental health. according to researchers from harvard, photos with decreased brightness, saturation and crave hugh are all

depression, researchers found depressed users were most likely to crews the inc. well filter because it converts images to black and white. molest popular for normal, quote, normal instagram users was mill len sea because it lightens photos >> you mean it's not just an artistic filter. >> i choose filters based on the photo. >> it's kind of cute, old time looking with the black and white. >> give it a little antique look. >> in case you nullity hadn't heard, sarah frazier is still has the keycard, it's part of a new podcast series lets us talk about life and work in way we might not on tv and this week sarah is getting holly's story. take a listen.

>> like you said your first husband was the weather man but the crazy part is you caught him cheating with someone that worked here >> we're going to go to call this addiction affairs, and the happily ever after that can result from it. >> i love it. >> but i will -- i will say this too. let me preface all of this by saying, it takes two people to get married, it takes two people to get divorced. it's never 100 percent one person's fault. right? so there's parts that i played in this clearly in order for my marriage to not work out. i don't not only that. and i understand that. and therapy helps me with that. >> it is true, it takes two people to get married and divorced. you can download the podcast series for free. search fox 5 dc under

we have the whole series posted on our web page >> i love holly and hats off to her for putting it out there >> you can bin ge listen to the whole thing. >> fox5dc.com and fox 5 facebook page. let's take a live look on a beautiful wednesday afternoon and still quite a nice evening. these nice summer nights seem to be so rare, this so rare, this season in washington, low humidity, gentle breeze. after the beautiful live looking one more pleasant night with temperatures falling back into the 60's before the heat and humidity return tomorrow. storm risks still remain pretty low, however, as we get into next week, i think we have a better chance of rain, weekend

say, friday when the heat looks to be the highest. outside, beautiful evening, 44, baltimore, 84 -- 44 would be beautiful for some -- 84 here in baltimore, 86 in washington. 82s gaithersburg, we'll fall into the 70's after dark and some of you falling into the 60's before dawn. satellite and radar quiet. you see some of those high clouds moving in today. that's out ahead of a cold front bringing severe showers and storms across indiana. in fact, multiple reports of tornado touchdowns across central indiana, this severe weather line is moving eastward but not going to reach us. we'll stay storm-free for tonight. in fact, high pressure remains in place for one more evening, so that clear skies, those cooler temperatures are in place, there is leaving edge of this straight line severe weather event moving in western pennsylvania by early tomorrow morning, again, no the impacting our area, however, the cold front will start to show its hand as it creeps

us, usually gets the warmer temperatures out ahead, and that's what we'll begin to see tomorrow, back into the 90's, same for friday, spotty storms confined to the mountains, better chance we night see an isolated thunderstorm friday, even that does not look very widespread. let's check the tropics too, because earlier this morning, the hurricane hunters were out in the caribbean and investigating 99 l. what's 99 l. it means it's a tropical system, a low pressure system not yet strong enough to reach depression status or therefore storm status, and eventually under hurricane status. but they still go out and investigate if it's going to develop any time soon and it is to move west ward and with highest wind speeds of 63 miles an hour, it is not there yet. sustained wind speeds much lower, here's aware we stand across the atlantic and caribbean, gastone still wind at 70 miles an hour, that hurricane -- tropical storm not going to be

we're watching 99 l. will it develop into a tropical storm as it crosses the caribbean and heads towards south florida or will it be impacting the u.s. namely south florida and into the golf coast and carolinas, long way to go, but sunday, monday not far away. we'll be watching that. lot of ground to cover before i reaches south florida. forecast again for tonight, back home here, 70, mostly cheer skies and comfortable temperatures. for tomorrow, if we were in mid 80's today, you'll notice it's a little bit toastier, 92, sun mixed with clouds. there's the high heat friday, 97 very hot, less humid as cold front crosses on saturday. the weekend is nice. it's just still pretty warm with highs in low 90's, looks like we're staying in the 90's, no sign of a cool-down yet as we enter the last week august beginning next week. fox 5 on the fly is up next, stay with us, we'll be right back.

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. this is fox 5 local news at 6:00. a massive earthquake in central italy. hundreds dead and rescue efforts continuing around the clock. a violent gas station robbery caught on video. do you recognize this man? and a mother is outraged after she says her four-year-old was put on the wrong school bus. the news at 6:00 starts right now. > . good to have you with us >> i'm shuns >> i'm tony perkins. dramatic video shows a victim being pull to safety after last night's powerful earthquake. search's rescue crews raced to dig out a woman underneath the rubble of

the same story played out, fox correspondent reports from italy. >> reporter: gas and devastation in italy. a magnitude 6 earthquake striking as many people were sleeping around 3:36 wednesday morning, the quake leveling homes and entire towns in stall italy. 80 miles northeast of home several mountain villages were hit hardest. rescue crews have been able to pull victims out alive but they're in a race against time to find more survivors. >> >> we're trying to help pull out as many people as possible from the rubble. unfortunately 90 percent we pull out are dead. but some make it out. that's why we're here. >> emergency workers say it's hard to estimate how many may be missing since the region sees a huge influx of summer residents and vacationing tourists. president obama and secretary kerry have been