this is fox 5 local news at 10:00. right now at 10:00,s a 911 system melt-down in the district. for more than an hour, callers were unable to reach the emergency dispatch center. and tonight, fox 5 has learned officer radios went down too. leaving those officers on the streets cut off from communication. could it happen again? >> and disturbing threatening e-mails into students at virginia tech. how the school is reacting. more cases of hepatitis are surfacing in our area after a popular smoothie chain was linked to the illness, fox 5 news at 10:00 starts now. welcome, apparently from what we're being tolding all it took was the flip of a switch and the entire 911 system shutdown in the district. i'm tony perkins. >> i'm shawn yancy. early saturday, a maintenance worker

the system. he was trying to turn off an alarm indicating a water leak in the building but flip to do the wrong switch >> we begin with sarah simmons, we understand that the 911 backup plan also did not work. >> reporter: startling when you hear that, tony and shawn, for a minute i want to give you a comparison. this is command central for us at the station, this is what keeps us on air. if this goes down our news will go off the air, this is our life line. this weekend, this city's life line went down for an hour and a half, 911 calls were not getting through. the it was not working. let's take a look at the timeline of what happened here. at 11:35 p.m. saturday, 911 went out. we understand that 11:39. the backup center also was

at midnight. public was notified and there were alternative numbers given out to anyone who needed to call 911. by 12:25 in the morning, a limited number of 911 calls were able to get through. it wasn't until 1:15 a.m. that all of 911 was restored. how could this happen? multiple features to a system that are down. right now, the city officials don't seem to have an answer for thi this. >> late saturday night, the worse possible scenario for emergency services in the district. the 911 system completely shutdown, dc home land security and emergency management agency says a maintenance contractor accidently hit an emergency shut-off switch. how could something like this happen? >> there's a large investigation going on into exactly how it happened, and what training the individual had. he had to be trained to be here. and he had to receive the

>> the mistake is huge but the district still has a backup center where 911 calls should reroute to in case of a failure. in that event, every dispatcher in the 911 call center has to physically move across down to the backup center near howard university. that is a 20-minute drive away. >> we now have on a bigger problem than rolling to a backup center. >> reporter: city officials including the mayor don't have much to offer in terms of answers >> we have certainly asked people to let us know we reached out to major hospital and and the like. >> what's unclear is why this knocked out police and fire dispatch radios, dc homeland security are saying that didn't happen. however be tony, police officers out there are telling a different story. >>

>> it's a big mystery. we're going to continue our teach coverage. marina marraco is live at the office of unified communication in southeast with new details on what happened when the outage occurred. >> reporter: it was roughly two hours of sheer confusion, panic and overall frustration from the first responders who you could hear in these radio transmissions to speaking and waiting for a response from ouc here in southeast and virtually speaking to themselves. take a look at this official timeline once again. as we assisted through those radio transmission recordings, it is obvious that problems were starting nearly 20 minutes before dc officials say the outage happened at 11:35 because as we assisted through those radio transmissions at about 11:15, you can hear officers medics and firefighters start calling for radio checks and never hearing back from dispatch.

roughly ten minutes before the residents are made aware of that this outage that you start hearing that panic behind the scenes of the city's emergency response. >> dispatch is on the everything is shutdown. city-wide, nothing is working the radio came on, the phones are out. everything is blacked out up appear for communication. >> officer safety then roll call >> we have all officers give a role call. they come over the air. one unit at a time. >> whoever is calling communication, the system is down. >> i understand, we're trying to to put medic 27 back in service. do you want us to stay out of service? use a land line, larry. i can't. the phones are out. tried calling by phone. >> computers are down, radios c

we're making a move up to mcmillon's at this time. phones are down. lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. >> reporter: mayor bowser said she was unaware of this time period 11:35 to 1:15 sunday morning of any serious emergency. we found several incidents including a domestic violence assault that took place roughly 12:30 in the morning. and we want to show you this call log from one of the witnesses who called for help during that domestic situation. neighbors tried calling 911 to no avail. unaware that the outage had happened. you see the call log. first happened at 9:00. the victim was in and out of consciousness after being hit in the head several time with a hammer. here's the call from first responders. once they arrive on the scene

initial call for help went unanswered. >> it's an assault. do we have an incident number for this incident? >> negative, sir. >> reporter: ouc confirming this is the first time in their history they believe human error caused a complete outage at their headquarters as well as at their backup facility. live tonight in southeast, marina marraco fox 5 local news. >> before we let you go. of we saw, you reported that the mayor said she was not aware of any emergencies happening during that time frame. did you perceive there is a sense of urgency from the mayor's office and about how serious it really is. >> reporter: frankly, tony it seemed like a lot he have questions were posed at the mayor and the mayor did not seem to have any answers at least not today. one of the biggest concerns is many can

capitol. if there were to have some sort of nefarious act of terrorist situation and all of the workers that work here in sweet headquarters then need to drive all the way northwest near howard university at the other side of the river. if something like this were to happen to the backup facility you can imagine in terms of logistics, what a terrible situation that would be and clearly after what happened over the weekend, an hour and 40 minutes, it proved that the city right now is not prepared for is a situation like that. >> certainly seems to be flaws. marina marraco reporting. thank you, marina. happening right now, a driver is in pretty bad shape after a tree fell on a moving danger. this happened around 8:00 this evening on beach drive. a police officer responded to the scene, we're told about 30 people jumped in to help pull the tree off the car and get the driver out. that driver was taken to

hospital and is in critical condition. virginia tech police are investigating aged dozens of people received an e-mail threatening violence on campus. according to the washington post, a campus newspaper reported messages came from several giebel accounts and contained this message. i'm here to inform in the next couple days, i will break into the campus and kill as many people as i can until police arrive. apparently people at other schools received the same threat. school remains open. the university is not cancelled classes. fairfax police tonight are looking for the driver who caused a deadly hit-and-run accident in rest ton, 76-year-old was crossing north shore drive when the car hit her sunday afternoon. police want to talk with the driver who may have witness that day crash. that driver was driving a nissan ultima. neighbors say this type of accident was bound to happen. >> it didn't surprise me the way people drive around here. the

we frequently hear crashes. go to get fresh air and there's a little market over there too. probably went get some milk or something >> this is the car police are looking for a nissan ultima with tinted windows and silver trim. contact fair and accurate county police. dc police are searching for three people connected to a deadly shooting in southeast. someone shot and killed a man at 2:00 p.m. in obtain in a vi at a terrace. they got away in a gold chevy impala. dc police need your help identifying a suspect in connection with an arm burglary in southeast. it happened yesterday on the 1200 block of massachusetts avenue. he woke up to an unknown man in his house. the suspect took off with some of the oh victim's property. investigators believe it

targeted attack. there is currently a $1,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. fox 5 is in prince george's county where police are still searching for a killer. it happened j oplin street. he had been shot and died several hours later. officers are canvassing the neighborhood and passing out flyers with a sketch on the man they're looking for. if you have information about this case, you're asked to call police. we've an update on a story you first heard on fox 5. the problems with the head start program in prince george's county. today kicked off the first day of school for the program. we're learning a denver based group will run it. community development institute will oversee the early child education program on an interim basis until a permanent agency is picked. the county lost it's $6 million

evidence of child abuse and poor teacher training. the program has received an interim grant to keep going. >> we want parents to be assured who are dropping their kids off, their young people off to our headstart program in one, they're children will be safe, two, the program is there. we're not going to lose the resources. it's not going to be a disruption in the programming. >> more than 900 children are enrolled. he says the county will look at what happened and make necessary changes to insure the problems that occurred never happen again. on the news at 10:00 continues, the hepatitis a linked to a smoothie chain in our area is growing. it's the largest fishing to tournament of its kind in the world. took place in ocean city last month. but did something fishy happen with the winner? he took home a prize of more than

the reason why the prize catch is going to court. . long wait for metro trains may soon get a little more bearable. the transit agency is launching a 45-day public wifi pilot program at six metro rail stations. those stations are metro center, gallery place, plaza, union station, judiciary square and the archive station. they plan to install wifi. michael jackson would have been 58 today. we'll be right back. 911 down for more than an hou hour. >>

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for the short term, you have to get ready for all another warm one. 94 we hit is the 21 it's day this month we've been at or above 99, we are going to make it 22 and news flash we're going to make it 23 we think. but it's not too bad. we're seeing temperatures generally in the upper 70's to low 80's. it was a little bit on the humid side. we've had more sultry days than we had today, due points have been climbing a little bit. as mentioned two more days at or about 90, we know a lot of kids went back to school. there's going to be another warm day at the afternoon busstop for sure. our area of high pressure is kind of keeping tropical weather out. definitely keeping us warm, we'll be back in the 80's and low 90's again tomorrow. i'm not expecting thunderstorms. of you're not going to he did into to pack that umbrella along with the second day of lunch for kids. if you did go back day, we want to say welcome

65 and 75 with a will the sunshine, after school, we're thinking 86 two 90. closer to 90 degrees, a warm day. here's a quick look at temperatures. upper 80s to near 90's, not quite as as sizzling. we'll show you the seven-day forecast which includes your labor day. developing we have an update on that hepatitis a outbreak. 40 people contracted to the disease, they all say they drank smoothies. the state health department linked the outbreak to frozen strawberries imported innee. investigators say it appears that some people were exposed to the disease as early as may.

on at the white marl open at ocean city? it's the largest bill fish tournament in the world and the buzzer up for grabs was a record $4.4 million. fox 5 jennifer davis joins us live, though the tournament wrapped up, there's questions as to whether the winner lied about his big catch >> it was a big catch, a big payout and a big controversy. winner reel in a 76 pound white marl. in order to get the money, he had to pass a lie detector test. tournament officials say he failed it twice and so did everybody else on his boat. now this case is headed to court. the white marlin open drew more than 300 boats to ocean city mid-august. one of them was phillip heasley. on day two, the name he will of's florida man caught the only

the tournament. a 76 and a half pound, it was a big winner. of winning him an interview. >> how was the fight with the fish >> it was great. gave us a good fight. >> about how long? >> no idea. >> ten minutes? >> before collecting his to $2.8 million prize, he had to pass a polygraph test and officials say it did not go swimmingly. brian russell who reeled in a smaller prize winning fish said the rules are very clear. >> i guess if you want to try to skirt the rules you could, there's a lie detector test you have to pass. >> everybody knows that? >> everybody knows that. everyone knows the rules >> in court documents filed friday, tournament officials say he failed not one but two polygraph test as did everyone else

had us answers appeared deceptive when he was asked whether he fished within the allotted time and reeled his catch in without assistance. they turned it over to the court and will let a judge decide if he earned it fair and square. >> i hope for his sake it's a legitimate fish but if they did -- i don't want to say cheat but bending the rules i think it's good that organization is taking the right steps >> we reached out to him and his attorney but we did not get back. he and his crew followed all the rules and they will be cleared, he says when all the facts are known. if so, the this money will be his, if not, the several other winners including the man we spoke to will get to split this. >> it's mild. they missed two polygraphs, not him but everybody on the boat. >> what's at question here is the time period during

possibly fishing >> they were allowed to start at a certain time. question is did you start on time or did you come upon a school of fish and get excited and start early and had to reel it in on your own? they said the questions didn't go in his favor >> the rules are the rules. he says he can't pass the polygraph. pass the money on. >> hearing date not set. >> big fish though. >> no idea there was that much money involved. big controversy is swirling around san francisco's frierner kaepernick. he says he protesting the racial oppression in america. we're looking at his decision from a historical perspective and the impact it's having. fox 5 entertainment reporter kevin mccarthy

loss of a legend, gene wilder passed away at the age of 83. we'll take a look back at his accomplishment and his illustrious career.

hollywood is mournings the loss of gene wilder. he passed away at 83. >> it wasn't until today that we learned wilder had been suffering from alzheimer's. jim lokay and kevin mccarthy sat down to discuss. >> the first inclination was to pull up a picture of willie wonka to tell people he passed away. this was a guy with an astounding film career >> i'm watching social media and i see the passing and everyone is mentioning willie

the iconic role but the sign of a great actor is someone that can transcend that role. when i watched him in blazing sad else and young frankenstein, i saw a different person on that screen. i never saw willie wonka. if you can shed that iconic role and become someone else. you are truly great and talented. >> 45 years since it came out. it's astounding. when you think about the moves movies that he made with mel brooks, it came back to a chance meeting he had with medical broncos when he was a stage actor >> he did a production with his soon to be wife and that connection became a partnership and they became amazing coworkers. gene wilder co wrote young for that reason ken stein and standard in blading

how about his career with richard pryor? the last film gene wilder ever did was a movie called another you. in 1991. a feature film he did. he did do tv work he won an emmy in 2003 for will and grace but with richard pryor four times. he done great work. >> gill da was his third wife. they did a couple movies in the 80's >> he was a great director. of he was great actor obviously on screen but directed a movie called the woman in red, haunted honey moon. these are movies he made with gilda radnor really changed his life, he got very much involved in cancer awareness >> speaking of illness, brings us to how gene wilder passed

away. we did not know he was suffering from a debilitating illness >> his nephew released an official statement with the passing. he actually passed away due to complications of alzheimer's which no one knew. he was only 83, which is still >> it's young these days >> and statement itself said the decision to wait until this time to disclose his condition wasn't vanity but month so that the countless young children that would smile or call out to him would not have to be then exposed to adult referencing illness or trouble and causing daylight to travel to worry disappointment and confusion and this statement brought me to tears, he simply couldn't bear the idea of one less smile in the world. couldn'ti couldn'ting. if you haven't seen blazing saddles, the producers young fr

them. they were all classics. >> i will watch them now. we'll be right back.

. this is fox 5 local news at 10:00. it was hot today and i believe it's still humid. let's check in with sue and find out what we can expect when we wake up >> there's a little bit of drier air in some northern suburbs, from dc on south, humid. bottom line, not quite as hot as today, maybe a touch of humidity. how about the seven-day forecast? we want to show you we have two more days at 90 or little bit above like we have on tuesday and wednesday. but by thursday, with a frontal boundary approaching that's our one chance for rain in this forecast. could be a couple of scattered thunderstorms thursday. that begins the process dropping our temperatures from 86 on thursday t

we'll be zip tripping to silver springs, saturday, sunday, monday into labor day, looks absolutely delightful. night nice and sunny,s dry, what about the tropical weather? two tropical depressions. i'll show you where those will be tracking coming up in a few minutes. tony, shawn, back to you we're having a fox 5 unfiltered conversation about san francisco 49er quarterback collin kaepernick is defending his decision to sit down during the playing of the national anthem during a football game last friday night. >> kaepernick says the anthem and the american flag represent a country that still allow racial oppression. howard university associate prospective dr. greg carr is here. >> the pleasure is mine >> let's start with collin kaepernick. what he did, you know, where does this stand? he's not the first athlet

something like this, a lot of people were saying this is totally unamerican for him to do this. then we saw a whole other range of people said good for him. >> we saw secretary say today, you may not agree but this is one of the principles this country is founded on. he's certainly not the first. these things go in generational way, if we go to the late 60's, early 70, we see tommy smith and john carlos at the olympics but in the early 70s in his biographer, jackie robinson said i don't sing the anthem and i don't salute the flag. i'm a black man in a white country. it's in the context of the plaque power movement. you see jim brown and had us colleague meeting with mohammed ally. of in that photograph with jim brown and billus

jimmy. a loot of people don't know the the ucla wrote a letter opposing the vietnam war. >> the image you were talking about. for folks who are not familiar with what happened here. explain that. what happened. mohammed ally who just recently passed away resisted the draft. he said i'm not going to be drafted into vietnam. of course, he was then stripped of his title. and jim brown, at that time, arguably most powerful professional athlete in the country said i want to talk to him, explain to me your reasons. and bull russell, there's no big bigger nba

it would be like labron james, brother let's meet with you. >> we seen what the fall-out is for collin kaepernick. >> i believe the stakes were much higher then. america were at war, body bags were coming back. what you see is a risk. we come today, this man is a millionaire collin kaepernick. he's making dozens of millions of dollars. people are saying how could you persecuted when you're a millionaire? people don't realized between jim brown's era and kaepernick. you have chris jackson who prosecuted in many ways the first iraqi war under george wbush. he was and nba player. you have carlos puerto rican. he says i'm not coming out for god bless america because you're bombing in my home country. there's a lot of fall-out to be sure. but a lot is around military

action. >> let me ask you about that. we heard the coach of the washington redskins say our team just spent time with the military. i believe there's no greater thing than to honor those who have served the country and some

voiced our decent in this country to things that are unfair. it reveals this country is very much a work in progress and some people will not be rational >> we got social media now, and it seems to influence the level of discussion and whether or not it stays on an intellectual level or deinvolvesly into name calling. what we've seen is a lot of that. harsh negative, go to another country if you don't want to live here. is the rack different back muhummad ally took his stance >> no, it's just a lot louder with social media. so this whole go back to africa or another country they were saying that during that period. we have a lot more outlets now. i don't think it's different,

look at jack johnson. he moved to mexico. why don't you move to mexico, the boxer, and here we are in 2016, people still asking president obama to pardon jack johnson. this isn't a new story it's just a new it ration of american sga. >> keeping up with the jones' could be keeping many people up at night. four in ten people think their less financially secure than most friends and some parents seem to be spending and on their children to impress others, 15 percent think buying items with a brand name will help their kids be popular. all that shopping may be why we're seeing consumer spending rising the fourth straight

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came on and the pilot decided to land. of they checked out chopper to make sure it was safe and then he flew it back to joint base andrews without a problem. coming up at 11:00. starting school after labor day. >> that used to be the standard, now summer vacation is ending earlier in many jurisdictions. >> the debate over transgender rest rooms in one school district could be headed to the supreme court. the detail as the 11:00.

. welcome back, august looks like it wants to go out on a hot note as it has done so much this month with our string of days up and over 90. late week

the holiday weekend looking dry. we don't have to worry about the tropical systems. we are keeping a close eye on them. if you are having travel plans. it might take you to the outer banks, you'll want to see what we're tracking. first thing is first. we're going to drop to 72. a little bit humid, although less humid to be north where we had a week frontal boundary. tomorrow maybe we shave a few degrees off of 94, getting up to 90 with upper 80's in the northern suburbs. lots of sunshine. a pleasant day and humidity not out of control. here's where went temperatures will top out tomorrow, near 90, upper 80's in the suburbs, 86 for leonard town, 89 as we look down towards quantico. this is tropical depression numberly. about

hatteras and another tropical depression right here off the west coast of havana. we also have a hurricane out there. category 2 with winds of 105 miles an hour. we're not talking too much about hurricane gas ton because it's going to move up through the north central atlantic. this is tropical depression 8. this may get a name tomorrow and it could be irmine, or ian. this is the other one we're watching, tropical depression 9. of wind of 35 miles an hour, in particular the one closer to the outer banks is a slow movie. this is showing you some of the wave heights. we a tropical storm warming up for most on the outer banks, i expect the tropical storm conditions to develop tomorrow afternoon but it will not be a big hit. one to three inches, they will have to watch the waves. this is a

name. wind of 40 and starts moving away quickly but there will be rip current to deal with at the outer banks. watch this one, it could get the name, who knows if it will develop before the other one, looks like the new track just come in on that and it continues as a tropical storm crossing the florida peninsula thursday. that might just graze the outer banks. florida is definitely going to have to keep an eye on that. that's what we're watching in the tropics, the upper air pattern is going to bring it cooler air, more comfortable. and the timing could not be better for labor day. if you didn't see this let me show you again and by the way we're zip tripping to silver springs on friday, we're going to give away a car too. join them for that. and stick around for the fantastic weather that is about to roll into town. of the only chance of rain right now, it has been a

dry and these tropical systems are not going to be affecting us. that's a good things, tropical moisture can be overwhelming but boy does it look nice as we head to labor day. are you ready? i don't want it to be labor day yet but i'll take the weather. comings and going today from redskins park. >> the capitols got one of the rings he also wanted. jim lokay has sports from the other side of the break.

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take a look. ryan stuart. we hardly knew you. less than a week after the redskins traded he's going back to boston. back to new england. meantime collin jenkins should add dep and. one-year deal. he will face all three of his former teamsh

the g men, packers. >> alex now a married man, eight confirmed he and his bride were married in a small private ceremony with the caption this is happiness and by the way for keeping track, his inlaws,. i just wanted to get my russian out. columbine high school in a foot race for the ball. i say nothing more. here's the problem, he was called off side, no goal. >> he can't be behind. you can't be what? something like that? you can't be behind him to kick it in >> he may have injured himself a little bit. watch right at the end. >> looking for a little tweak here. >> it was amazing but

>> sorry. >> putting on his highlight reel. >> there you go. ? >> he's going to have a ship builder, he's a ship builder. i don't know, what do you do? >> we'll be right back with more russian.

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11:00. right now at 11:00, a massive 911 outage in the district. what officials say went wrong and what police radio transmissions reveal about what happened. >> plus the feds shutdown funding for the multi-million dollar headstart program in prince george's county. but the program was up and running today. details on the new plan. this big boat fight on the chop tack river. these two men were brothers fox 5 local news at 11:00 starts now. the entire 911 system shutdown in dc by a the flip a of a switch. a maintenance worker turned off the sy