crashed in leonardtown, maryland. one of the crew members was tape by medevac to a local hospital. however u.s. army spokesperson will not describe those injuries. the other crew members are okay. we should also tell you we have multiple reports opt ground here now that one of the people was deceased killed in this crash in leonard up to maryland and still waiting for official confirmations in united states army on that scene. now as to the people here when this happened it was something they say they will never forget. listen to joe carter who was across the street and later joy shrub a reporter from the baynot.com and filed one of earliest interest vet reports in immediate after math of the crash. >> and then probably step minutes go by and another helicopter and they flew a guy out. of course, we turned the scanner o

everything happening. >> when did you hear on the scanner. >> they were awk about there was one guy still trapped in the helicopter. they were trying to -- had like a jigsaw or whatever it was called the tool to get it on. >> trying to get him out. >> trying to get him out. >> and then after probably another ten minutes you know tons of cop cars and helicopters. >> and they exacted all crew members from the aircraft. i arrived on scene when the second medevac helicopter was leaving the area. >> what was the activity around the chopper when you were there. >> first responders on scene of course assessing the investigation. and i did see what looked like a piece of payload from the care craft sitting 200 yards away from the wreckage site. >> all right. back live here now. you see the st. mary sheriff's department now has a roadblock in pce

breton bay. the u.s. army is now in operational command of the scene. we can tell you we have scene half a dozen helicopters in the air today. now, we're told that this helicopter wept down on the third hole. that is right over that ridge ever trees. however, when we arrived on the scene we can tell you we saw recovery teams the length and breath of this golf course out to 14 hole picking up what appeared to be pieces of fuselage and pieces of this helicopter. as to a cause or what led to the events of this crash we're simply not able to report that yet. we're awaiting a news briefing at some point this evening from the united states army u.s. military district of washington. and for now live in leonardtown, st. mary county, tom fitzgerald,

>> all right. thank you. meanwhile, two men walking a loan in columbia heights say they were attacked and knocked unconscious. their sell is she phone cause taken as well. and "fox5" paul wagner live tonight in columbia heights with the story on this one, paul. >> jim, sarah, we've been out all day and talked to a number of people. that was their bigist concern these attacks came without warning and knocking these two men unconscious. first attack taking place high at place northwest right next to a soccer stadium that belongs to bell and lincoln and just to give you perspective it's right behind the target on 14 street if you know where that s the 57-year-old manziel he was on cellphone when suddenly attacked from behind. that was saturday in the afternoon. the very next day also in the afternoon the second attack took place. rights over there where you're looking now in an alley

high at place. >> anthony figueroa and hung neugen are recovering from the beatings they took saturday and sunday average. figueroa says five men beat him as he walked back to the store he runs on park road northwest. and in hung's case four men attacked him on high at place saturday afternoon. translated for uncle inside the restaurant they run on park road. >> after he saw the four african americans his hand was on his left and he felt pup. from somewhere and he felt -- and when we woke up -- >> tommy

his uncle was picked on because he's small. figueroa tells a similar story the assault taking place in the afternoon as he walked into the alley from high at place. our interview translated by a step daughters nancy rivera. >> so he said that after that he saw they were sitting down and he was walking towards the back part of our house when all of a sudden they stood up and walked towards him and they ganged up on him and hit him yeah so they threw him to the floor. >> all five men hit him. >> all five. >> yeah all five. >> hit you in the face. >> yes. >> he feels unsafer in the neighborhood. as for mr. nuygen. >> this incident is surprised him he couldn't think -- >> now of all the people we've spoken to out here today including those folks who were

this might have something to do with the knockout game. you may have heard about it where groups of young people come up and hammer somebody in the face knocking them to the ground trying to harm them. there's no evidence so far that is what's taking place here in columbia heights. we reached out to d.c. police. we asked for some kind of comment. they said these cases are under investigation but they have no further comment. and we have no information at this point as to whether or not there's any video. there is cameras in the neighborhood. some on a few buildings we've seen. but at this point we're not sure there is video. mr. nyugen nephew thinks there's video and maybe the police will be able to release that. again, that's the concern here. both of these attacks are taking place in the afternoon on a busy street. live in columbia heights, paul wagner, "fox5 local news". >> a man who barricaded h himself inside his virginia home with two young children is now in police custody. police say the man was taken

the situation began. it all start around 8:00 last night inside a home near call pep erin londonarie road in the for the hunt air area. they were force todz use a ataser on the man when he barricade himself. and two children ages four and eight were inside at the time and they are now safe. and a young boy who lives nearby says he was surprised to see this all unfolded in his neighborhood. >> big robot came out and it looked like a robot used to differ use bombs and eventually they mash. ed through the house and they gotta hold of the man. >> and i never knew this could happen. thought it was a nice neighborhood. now there's going to be much more people on watch for if this could happen again. >> police say the man inside the home was experiencing some sort of mental crisis. fortunately no ones

>> we're fairfax county tonight where police need help to find a man wanted in connection with a sex assault that happened in springfield. this is surveillance. the ma'am they're looking for it happened in the 7,000 block of commerce street on march 30 of 2016 this is old case. but, we're still looking for suspect here. police say the suspect grabbed a woman, pulled her into a storage container and robbed and sexually assaulted her. and police came back to the area today to pass out flyers and search for clues, of course in situations like t this, if you have any information give police a c call. >> and a time-honored tradition carried on at the national zoo today for moore than a century the due celebrated easter monday. in the past it's been traditional for african-american families to visit the zoo on this day and people of all races and ethnic groups enjoying activities. the zoo held an easter egg hunt and special animal demonstrations and live entertainment. security was extra tight because of the past and violence broke out because of easter monday celebration. >> all right, well, for those

who went out today we could say not necessarily the best compared to the last couple days we saw around these parts. >> we got spoiled. caitlin roth -- sue palka. >> you can -- confuse me more caitlin any time you made my day. >> i could understand if she was not in the studio, sue is right there. >> or -- >> sue, good to see you. >> thanks, sar 56, jim, good to see you too. you're busy with the news of the day so i can certainly understand that. i've got updates, too, wea weather-wise. it has been a bit of a rainy, cloudy day and it's starting to clear up very nicely and i think the evening will be pretty pleasant. we have a few showers down to the south and those showers came through today. and well, probably between about 10 and 2:00 they've continued to push on away. we're starting to see the sun pop up out. where the sun popped out north and weekend temperatures are finally rising after yesterday's 89 degrees. this probably feels kind of cool to you. the surprise will make a difference here this evening and weaver actually seen the

so far at 5:00. 68 degrees. a big difference from yesterday. that's for sure. martinsburg, hagerstown, couple better land where you've been sunnier longer and temperatures have gotten into the low 70s. 72 westminster and we have upper 60s down so the south. boy what a change in temperatures. yesterday was it too hot for you very interesting hot easter. now we're 19 do 20 cooler thanks to showers and clouds that have been coming on through. again the evening planner i think temperatures will be really pleasant going forward and we're pretty much zone with the rain and it's 7:00, we keep that temperature close to where it is now at 68. by 9:00, 65 degrees and by 11:00, of 1. but this will be a little bit of a cool evening. now, tomorrow, sunny and seasonable. back into the mrentscy of sunshine variety but temperatures stay close to 70 or 72. and that's truly a bargain. that is for sure. next couple of days looking very nice. but clouds will be back with us on wednesday and we'll have more on what you can expect wednesday and what the next chance of rain

later. sarah, jim, back to you. >> thanks, sue. >> coming up a massive manhunt intensifies for the so-called facebook live killer. >> and early in this investigation we had contact with him direct contact with our detectives. think tried to convince him to turn himself in and of course that has not happened. >> police are now offering in hopes of offering the man accused of killing a man at random and posting it online and why the family will get over 20,000 from fundraising efforts they told people not to contribute to. >> prince's documents unsealed months after his death. new information is being revealed about a possible precipitation scam that involved the singer and, doctor. >> oh, my god this is not funny. >> and we'll tell what you police teamed one a man to give his girl friend a scare in a fake drug bust. back after this paio

passion pass >> this story developing tonight the desperate search underway for a man suspected of shoolting another man and posting a video of the killing to facebook. >> police in ohio are expanding search for the suspect, steve steve epz and urging people across the midwest to be on the look youtd. matt fin has more. >> and a massive manhunt underway in cleveland. police are looking for steve steve cheneveyens the man

steve stevens and he murder a man and posted the slaughter on facebook. >> if he doesn't turn himself in we'll find him. we won't stop until he's in custody sdmrt video was quickly removed and live stream of the steven practicinging about other murders he allegedly committed. police are looking for other victims. but they say godwin is theed on murder linked to stevens at this time. >> there's a lot of confusion and what we want to encourage people to do is not make up things as they go along. >> godwin was targeted randomly ambushing him as he blamed the murder on his girl prescribed. family members are in shock. >> he's a good guy. i'm not just saying that for these cameras. but i'm telling the truth. this man right here was a good man. >> the manhunt now extend todd stur oupdin

authorities are asking the public to keep a lookout for stevens who they consider armed and extremely dangerous. in the meantime police have stepped up the presence in the neighborhood where the shooting took place. >> get him because it's a lot of kids right here. kids have easter egg hunts getting eggs we had to bring all the kids on the street in because they say he on our street. >> joy lane the former girlfriend of the suspect mentions in the video release aid statement overnight expressing her prayers to the victim's formally. she says the stevens she knows is "kind and loving" please think stevens may have run out of state. he was last seen driveing a white ford fusion. >> and more news tonight the killing of a cleveland man, of course, that same man in that video upload to facebook and one of his facebook post he mentioned fraternity omega phipsi and they had no idea he was capable of committing such a crime. >> what in the world could have happed

become so undone. >> nobody woke up this morning expecting to hear news of this and their lives will never be the same. steve's life will never be the same. >> my emotions ranged all the over the place. i was so heartbroken for the family and thalt that man who did nothing to earning slaughtered there on the side -- city street. >> now a man in feign exset up a good fund me page that raised 29,000. go fund me vetted the campaign and it's working to make sure the money goes to godwin's family this hand all the time unfortunately or is not the case. but in the hours after the death more than two dozen fake go fund me accounts popped up and in statement on twitter godwin's daughter asked for fraudulent account to stop. he leaves behind ten children and 14 grand kids. nearly one year after passing new details about the death of prince. >> new documents reveal a

>> new documents reveal a dr. -prescribed medication to the white music legend under a different name. court documents unsealed today suggest prince was struggling with addiction to precipitation on yats and he was found dead last april. investigators found several aspirin bottles filled with strike doe din and percocet. a doctor prescribed drugs under a different name as we mentioned. his long-time friend kirk johnson. autopsy results showed prings died from accidental drug overdose. so far no one was charged with his death. staying closer to home two men from anne arrundel county are behind bars accused of districting a variety of dr drugs. detectives confiscated 5,000 grams of marijuana and more than 500 grams of cocaine and lsd, heroin and other street drugs. combined the drugs have street value of more than $150,000. matthewville and -- are facing a host of charges. e'

done prom proposals over the years. not like this though. >> some police officers in georgia helped a teenager pull off quite a scare in a unique prom proposal. definitely unique. all caught on dashcam video. >> anything in the trunk belong to you or all his, any personal property. >> my wallet. >> tell what you hang you here just one second all right? >> a peach tree city police officer pulled this couple over on suspicion of drug possession. after searching truck he found a ziploc bag with unknown substance questioned the man and girlfriend about the bag and placed the man in handcuffs. the officer continued to ask the girlfriend if the bag was hers and then finally shows her a prom proposal inside the bag. this is a little over the top. >> give me a break. give me a break. >> despite scared by the whole thing the girlfriend said yes. i'm surprised police played along -- is that ina l o

along -- is that even ina loued or legal? >> ail go on the record now. i'm not afan of promposala sar after will you go to the prom with me yes we go to the prom. i'm used to that one. >> it's out of control. >> yes. >> okay. >> new procedures. united eric lines issuing guidelines of another force red moovl. >> what it means for crews and passenger and how it could get rid of over booked flights. >> and delta found out how to capitalize on united's fai failure. and how you can get 10,000 on over booked flights. >> if you got a story idea for us police contact us number 20289530 0 or email us wttg.com.

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recycle child's old car seat. starting today shoppers can drop off a car seat at the local store. in exchange they receive a coupon for 20% off a new one. it's to be sure they have the right seat for their child and dispose of all car seats in environmentally friendly way. the program returns through the end of may. >> good idea. >> coming up at 5:30, ronica we know there's a easter egg roll today. that's all that's going on at the white house what's going on. >> jim, sarah, it's not all that that's going on. president's taxes, north ko korea, music is pumping and the egg roll is still happening and kids are having a tun of fun you cannot deny it. after the break more serious news. >> wow, madness at the white house all those kids. lot of fun, though. >> meanwhile super star ball reap amidstry copeland in the district today and we speak with her about the joys of dance and healthy living coming up coming up

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>> we now know identity of a inmate found daud dead. she was found unresponsive after 9 a.m. sunday morning. there were no signs of trauma and woman was alone at the time of her death. he was only in jail since wednesday. medical examiner is serve performing an autopsy to determine the exact cause of death. >> in the district the police are releasing the identity of a man shot and killed over the weekend. the-year-old david norway wood sunday in 6 0 block of c street northeast. the suspect is on the loose and there's

>> and what sparked a gas fire temple hills 45e7b,000 block of 28th avenue. fire officials say a gas smear ignited creating a gas fire inside the building. fortunately president dints were able to get out and no one was hurt. >> a pennsylvania man behind bars trying to solicit sext with a minor online. sheriff deputies caught bradley sellers in a spring. deputies first identified him as a possible suspect and engaging in a conversation on line. they posed as your age girl and arrange todd meet sellers when he showed up to the designated place he was arrested. as president trump approaches hivrt first 100 days in office his actions on world stage seemingly are capturing more attention than domestic agenda. the president military strike on syria and tough talk on north korea overshadowed the priorities

>> ronica cleary is taking a look at the response in north korea. and more on top political headlines. but, again you don't have a spoon in your hand. you're not chasing wooden eggs out there today. >> jim, sarah, that music is distracting but we'll try to -- >> there's many people here. >> it's so couted here there's people all over. you feel the energy of the white house easter egg roll. more serious news woor inside the brief house if you missed it north korea had unsuccessful missile launch. what if the missile launch was successful. what if north korea attempts something more serious. does the trump administration have a red line if you will. i mean you criticized president obama so much for drawing that red lie and syria. it came up today do you have a red line whp it comes to north korea. trump administration says no. >> drawing

close to the investigate and you won't see him telegraphing to how he responds to any other military situation going forward. that's something he believes is not served well in the past. we did this with mosul and talk about what the action will be months in advance and it really gives the intended recipient of action a heads up to what is going on chbl i don't think you see the president drawing red lines in the stand but the action he took in syria shows that when appropriate, this president will take decisive action. >> and well there you have it keeping cards explosion to the investigate. but earlier today president trump retweeted a poll. this is the poll the president regularly points to seemingly liking results. it shows him with 50% approval rating and 50% disapproval rating. the poll tracks the pres president's approval daily. this is first time we've seen the president approval

50s in nearly a month and timely let's take a look at what also happened over the weekend. these protests. they happened all over the country. people protesting the fact that we still have not seen the president's tax returns except for the one that we did see that was leaked to the press. and but april 15 was tax day and april 18 official day this year. now the president over a year ago relied on fact saying that his taxes were under audit and saying that once that audit is complete he will release them. it's been offer a year. which does beg the question when will that audit be complete. the irs good take a stand where they do not comment on specific or individual audit or tax proceedings. so at 5@630 our political show we will take a deeper look and show you more of what the press secretary had to say about this issue in light of tax day. and we got a poll on twitter. make sure you weigh in. do you even care about this? we want to hear from you. reporting

house with live music going on behind me. ronica cleary, "fox5 local news". >> today is first day on the bench for newest supreme court justice. neil gorsuch joining rest of supreme court for three cases most important one on wednesday. separation of sure church and state. outcome could make it easier to use state funding to pay for private religous schools in many states. >> on the high court to concerns about the envir environment. president trump's proposed budget would make deep cuts at the environmental protection action and under the proposal federal funds to support the chesapeake bay program is eliminated and money to maintain and i restore the health of the bay would be severely cut. maryland senator ben cardon says cust funds would be devr stating and short sightd we're not going to pass the president budget. but, we don't even want the president budget to be used as yardstick for what we do in the united states congress. plus it is so detrimental not just chesapeake

many environmental issues. >> cardon says if the feds make keep cuts to the bay program the states may have to find funding elsewhere to keep it going. cardinal remains confy death the proposal will be rejectsd president and first lady welcoming tens of thousands of people as you saw at the white house today. and there's tons of people out there for 139th easter egg hunt. >> that gives us perspective how big it s annual tradition live music, obstacle course us and story telling. ronnie mccray capturing sites and sounds from the south lawn. >> welcome to the 13 easter egg roll. >> this is first time that my husband and i hosting this wonderful tradition. >> it's pretty amazing being on the lawn of the white ho house. >> i hope you have a great time with many activities. >> this will be a great day for families and kids here not just in the local area but throughout the country. >> i've seen those kids and they're highlyly, highlyly

that i can tell you. >> it's a great day. >> i got a sticker. >> we decorated cookies and did the easter reg roll and easter egg hunt. >> beautiful memory. beautiful memory for them. >> thank you nor joining us on behalf of the president and beautiful fun and days ahead 6 us and happy easter. >> i think you could put the politics owe side for a se second. it's about the kids. they were having a good time and that's what malters sign day like this. >> i was glad see we had some fairly accident weather it was not too bad. not a complete washout or anything. >> coming up it was a great day for runers in boston today. highlights from the boston marathon. >> who won the singer between chris brown and capitals that's a thing that happened and i'll have the answer coming up in sports, hi, sue. >> hello, jim, sarah, for those that

et cetera to the easter egg roll got the better weather. we deposit have a lot of rain it inded up tenth of an inch. allergy sufferers say thank for a any rain we can get. tree pollen over the weekend and today in high range. some of the highest counts we've seen so far this string. little rain washes that out and numbers should belower tomorrow. molds glasses and weeds on the low side. when is the chance for any showers. we'll talk about that in the 7 day forecast coming up

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woman capture this year's boston marathon. jafre became the first tenian ton pull the title pulled away from gayland rupp with two miles to go. finished from hopkinston to boston. on the women's side kenya captured title her first time in boston. finished 2:21: 52 and american jordan hassay finished 3rd. >> they were talking a lot about the weather there today though. it was a little too humid and warm for the luners today. >> they really hate that. they would rather cold than too warm. >>. >> and low at mid 50s pretty good. >> how warm did it get up there. >> i'm going to have to check maybe they were in the warm sector. the rain that came through our area dropped us from 70s to 60s. they could have used that in boston. clearly dbts get to them yet. i'll double check that temperatures. meanwhile

about runing a marathon. >> i would not either. >> think that's 23.6 miles you start in a straight line and all the way across the state of massachusetts. >> crazy. >> my head is off to them that's amazing fooets and i'm working on trying to complete the old 5 ks. >> i hear you. >> my goodness. what an interesting day we had. we have a little mid-morning rain. that cooled temperatures out antesun is back out again and temperatures responding. it's a beautiful evening. trend going forward this evening is rain done. skies will clear out. unfortunately it was not very much rain but just enough to wash the pollen out and continue to green up the grass. we will be on the cool if not chilly side tonight with temperatures in the suburbs likely headed for the 40s and tomorrow looks like a great day. fully sunny day with maybe a few high thin clouds passing through from time to time and tomorrow night clouds come back in and wednesday will be a cloudy day with a few showers around. not a

it will probably be another day to pick up tenth to quarter inch of rain if we're lucky. stormtracker showing showers now and little more substantial south of interstate 54 moving from west to east and crossing 95 and more heavy rain we need every drop of rain we can get. even if it comes eerlingt monday. drought continuesment fortunately severe part of the drought is over for us and we continue to be in yellow areas abnormally dry and moderate drought much of the d.c. area continues. we need more rain and a little more on wednesday and beneficial soaking coming

and tomorrow though high pressure on to have of us. beautiful day. nice breeze out of the north. and and easter sunday just a little too hot for you. you're like tomorrow in the low 70s. now we're cooler with the clouds and few showers in here on wednesday. we'll probably only top out in the 60s. i wanted to show you eyes today because all these occurred between 8 and the in the morning. 68 for d.c. overnight temperature we may drop to 53 degrees. that's kind of cool. you can see there will be a lot of other places mainly in the 40s. kids back to school today. most of them after easter break app i think montgomery county is back tomorrow. your pickup temperature at the bus stop ranges from 48 to 53 on chilly side and after school mild. 68 to 72. close

year. we wrap it up with "fox5" accuweather 7-day forecast. going from 72 tomorrow to cooler 67 on wednesday because of the clouds and showers. and while we may see another shower on thursday look at that we'll jump right back up to 80. maybe even an isolated rumble of thunder. friday, 72 degrees. partly sunny. saturday so far keep it dry. >> sunday we think looks like rain showers may come in maybe beneficial sock egg and notice it does affect temperatures. we fall back to mid 60s for saturday, sunday and monday. we'll keep an eye on timing for the weekend rain. that's 7 day. jim, sarah back to you. >> thank you, sue. >> up next why chris brown verizon center show being rescheduled. >> and secret to -- and comes down to timing

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leaves picks up 7:00. for both teams it's a chance to perhaps win one in regulation this time because the first two games ended up in over time with split results. caps taking the ice tonight without perhaps karl alzner reporting he missed morning skate today and he's game time decision tonight. double over time for levers. next two games in toronto. game five set on friday and brings us to chris brown singer set to play verizon center friday. caps prevail in hockey. verizon center announcing brown show is rescheduled sunday just two days later. tickets for friday's show will be honored surprised and if you were thinking of going there's minutetive tickets available for that one missing the hockey game is no excuse. all this keeps crew at vir izod center busy. did you see this this is cool m. over the weekend we saw what it takes to transform the case from b

of course you have to roll up the turf tore washington valor arena football team and throwing a concert into the mix means a busy week. as for wizards game one win against the hawks in convincing fashion and all amped up. john wall led the way 327 points in front of hometown crowd. definitely team efforts for wizards. john wall and marquice morris contributesing. home crowd on wednesday. getting in will not break the bank. we checked wizard site. ticket master with entire rose of seats for 24 a seat. caps pricier. single seats for game five. it will be on friday in the same section for 89. team sites have tickets. you may pay a little more if you go to third party sites. remember when you check tickets prices always, always figure in the fees. those always add up too. >> look $20 tickets and convenience some charge to print the tickets at hom

>> there you have it. >> all right. >> let's say a look at what is going on in the health watch now. does making people wait a little longer for vending machine snack influence them to choose a helmier alternative. >> nope. >> well let's either way let's watch this experiment. here's more. >> buy a less healthy snack. >> millions use developeding machines for daily snack and for rush medical center brad applehantz it's reer is: he is obesity researchers. over the last year an a half he's trying to figure out if making people wait just a little longer for their junk food snacks might influence them to buy a healthier alternative. >> humans have a strong preference for immediate gratification. when you have to weight forking this is makes it less desirable. we wants todz see if we could use the principles to nudge people to healthier option. >> developeding machines

perfect for this three machines were set up to collect data. and in that data that was downloaded and analyzes on a weekly basis. >> a clock and small video screened warned customers they would have to wait additional 25 seconds if they wentz for junk foods. all unhealthy snacks were near top and would fall into a platform to delay delivery. >> snack falls and trips light sensor and starts timer and after the dray the snacks will drop. >> applehantz found delay gratification steered people to healthier options offering discount in price along with delays seemed to work best. >> it's hard to nudge people in general. but once you implement time delays and maybe combine it with pricing manipulations you can have a pretty meaning full and consistent effect. >> appleheinz homes findings can

for example like fast food settings. for that research, sorry we'll all have to wait a little longer. >> how long before someone starts banging and shaking the machine to get their vending item. let's turn to this company in uk may try to save your pearly white with new cup of coffee. it looks like bottled water than cup of coffee. transparent caffeinated drink takes long a strong cold brew coffee and they use coffee beans but are keeping the process they use to make the drink top secret. and right now, clear coffee is available and in the uk and 7:50 for two bottles. >> and look at it. that's weird sdmrxt there's a reason crystal pepsi wentz away the first time. >> exactly. >> it was not good. >> up next super star ballerina missy copeland got in today.

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>> missy copyland made it nearly two years ago becoming fist african-american woman to become promoted to principle dancer in the company's 75 year history. 34-year-old says she wants to on more doors for african americans and encouraging dance companies to reach out to minoritys. copeland appeared at the national press club this morning. >> my strength

after cap nernz in general are told they don't have the right bodies for generations and generations and you don't have the right skin color. i think just addressing these issues it's making these professional companies wake up and realize that the world is looking at them. >> copeland is out with new health and fitness book called ballerina body, dancing and eating your way to liener strong erin more grace full you. erin como sat down today and they talked before a bunch of different issues. check that interview out tomorrow on good day d.c. i would not say it's a good stretch like the bar classes bur barre, barre 3. when you talk about increased popularity like missy copeland it's people that swear by that kind of workout it's a great time to work the book. >> you find muscles you never knew you had before. just saying. it happened to me. >> we'll rundown the latest political stories for you 6:30 and

>> 6:00 starts right now. this is "fox5 local news" at 6. >> my god. this is scariest thing in my life. >> developing now a military aircraft drops out of the sky on to a local golf course. >> someone's brother, father, you have no idea. it's the worst feeling ever. >> witnesses saw the chopper go down. we're live with teeth coverage. >> and then a "fox5" excl exclusive. >> a disabled ride on passenger attacked by the bus driver news at 6 starts rights now. >> two weeks of a military plane going down another mlitary aircraft crashes in you're region. thank you for being us with tonight i'm top tone. >> i'm shawn yancy. >> here's what we know now. military helicopter crashed in leonardtown near the

golf course. one is dead aunt other two are hurt. they're travel from for the bellvar in virginia. marina let's start with you and the latest. we're not getting the -- they're the lead agency in the investigation. and that crash landed at the breton bay golf course is david. these pictures are coming from southern maryland news net you see the large portion of the wreckage there on the golf course. now out of for the belvar again we're learning one crew membered in the black hawk is dead. two other remaining crew members aboard that chopper were air lifted to baltimore shock trauma one serious condition and the other in critical condition now for the belvar telling people this was part of routine training