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out. we saw the response, and turned on the scanner and learned what was happening, and we came over here to the hospital they had a decontamination tenth set up outside the emergency room. now, it took a couple of hours to determine the substance in the package was common household chemical. but at this point, it is still under investigation as to why that package even went to that house. >> here's what hospital official had to say just little while ago. >> we know that the condition of the patients did not get any worse, they're being treated, and they've been treated we know the nurse that stayed with them and treated them did not have any problems, any issues of the as they stated there is a secondary confirmation going for the chemical. so, meantime, we will keep that portion. evident d closed once we find out guaranteed we can do the appropriate cleaning. but hospi
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seeing patients. >> two men in a home on military road opened the package, immediately felt sick. they got into a vehicle, and went to the hospita's emergency room, where they complains of respiratory problems, and burns. because they brought the pack and with them, there was full hazmat emergency response. a decontamination tent was set up outside the emergency room, and the two patients went through a decontamination process. according to officials, they were the only ones. with the substance of the package unknown for some time, firefighters were outfitted with hazmat suits, before working with the two men. now, while this was going on, patients who showed up at the hospital were diverted to other facilities. now, the frederick city police, is conducting this investigation. they're trying to determine if there was some kind of nef arias reason for that package to show up at that house, here's lieutenant
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inning ton with his explanation how they're handling it. >> at this point we're going do further interviews with them to try to determine if there is any criminal at this, and also get more understanding whatever they believed happened to them. so that interview still has to take place. but we will continue with this investigation. >> has been part of biomedical veer. for ma many, many years, they're familiar with, that we know those two men did not have anything to do with the military. they happened to liver on military road, which is right near the entrance to the fort. >> we're live in frederick, paul wagner, fox5 local news. >> bananas with newses around them found at moment recall locations on cam pulls yesterday, in response, hundreds of student turned out today for a rail. au school officials first
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meeting only for students? tom fitzgerald live in northwest tonight, and tom, that meeting seems to only have made student even angrier. >> reporter: well, that's correct, sarah, this is what the student wanted. they wanted answers, and they wanted action. and they'll tell you, they not hear nearly enough of either from their school officials today. many of the students in attendance say that the administration here has spent far too much time, and closed door meetings, and issuing statements, rather, they say, then talking forcefully and publicly about what many african-american students on this campus now see as a hate crime. case in point, this meeting that was held on campus today, a meeting which students say simply recapped fact that many here already know, and didn't talk enough about what american university intends to do from here. >> i'm definitely not. i think we already new what the problem was. they just -- just really wanted to hear specific
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administration was going to do to address the actual problem at hand. and what was going to happen after the investigation. so, i think just wanting that kind of information would have given us pies of minds, which we just didn't receive. >> reporter: well, that noon town hall meeting was for student only. but many walked out before it was even over. but record public safety is leading the investigation into the racial incident. the current president of american university, neil kerwin, both spoke during that meeting. now, leaving the meeting, several hundred student marched over to the registrar's office. why? well, they demanded withdrawal forms, threatening to leave american university, asked student fent changes are not made here. it is unclear if any students actually withdrew from american university today. that emotional give and take, which followed, came when some administrators went into the crowd of students, and tried to assure them that their concerns were being heard. now, the media was
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the campus property by campus police, students tell us they're not going anywhere. they'll not be silenced and they're demand ago more racially differs student body. and faculty here at american university. >> in my opinion, they really did address more of the same, which is kind of just talking around the issue instead of addressing a they -- >> you weren't satisfied? >> no, which is why we all left. >> now, just in last few moments, we learned that the american university police department is in the process of getting together some security video, which they hope will assist in their investigation. we spoke with the university president off camera today. trying to allow his police department to conduct this investigation on their own terms. the public safety director tells us he has been in contact today with the fbi in regard to this probe. live in northwest tonight. tom fit gerald,
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news. >> ♪ ♪ >> this time of the year, last thing you want is a grin. feeling they can take things that don't belong to them. >> need to get a job and work for things like i do. >> she could have stole answer gift that was for a child that a parent saved and saved and saved for that couldn't afford to get something else. >> work hard for your money, work hard for anything you buy, you don't expect someone to just run up and take it. >> so many times, surveillance video catching people walking up and taking packages in front of homes. >> this time it is packages, but flowers, we're talking about, matt ackland live just off eighth street in northeast with more on what this new crime is that's springing up. hey, matt? >> this has a lot of people shaking their heads tonight. >> this yard right here, it had been re-landscaped recently, a lot of new flowers, spent a lot of money and in the middle of the night somebody came here
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out flowers including 14 geraniums, you can see, they've been replaced. also, just about a block away, if you follow me over here, down this block, it happened again, but this time, the owners had a camera shooting through their front window. they caught it all on video. take a look. >> not on this front porch, any more there is video taken early saturday morning, yep, there goes the first flower box, and few seconds later, the seconds one is carried off. >> i think it is ridiculous, flour boxes? flower boxes? it is terrible. >> robin sterling says her husband had just planted the boxes out front when someone decided they wanted them too. so, the couple put this video on youtube. and included sounds effect. >> we've had issues with things like package theft in this
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not the flowers until this year. >> so, it turns out that this really isn't all that odd. i was talking to several people today, and they say that it happens quite a bit in the spring time. now, what they wanted with these flowers, we don't know. but a few people told me today that as it gets closer to mothers day, sometimes people will go up and steel flowers so they can take them to mom on mothers day. so that's the very latest& here. apparently it happens quite a bit. if you see these flowers, let authorities know. live near eighth street in northeast, matt ackland, fox5 local news. >> all right, matt, thanks. just -- >> they're expensive, though, you know? >> some of those are. >> still, for the malace factor. >> i don't know. anyway, coming up a surprising admission. >> the former police offers here shot a south carolina motorist pleads guilty five months after a jury dead-locked on murder charge. >> then, a police department in
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about what happened the night a 15 year old was shot and killed by an officer. after seeing video emerges, it is painting a different picture here. >> the last couple of weeks, i had to call them on numerous occasions. >> city leaders casting their vote for uc police chief. how they say it has been working so far. hey, sue? >> hi, jim, what a change in 24 hours. beautiful day, gorgeous sky out there. although i will say, it is a little bit breezy. those breezes are going to hang with us for a few more hours, temperatures get little cooler. i'll let you know when the next change every weather when fox5 news at 5:00 comes right back. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪
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>> we'll talk timing tomorrow on fox5 news morning.
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>> former south carolina police officers pleaded guilty to the shooting death of unarmed black man. cell phone video joes michael shooting walter scott as he was running away from him during traffic stop in 2015. pleaded guilty to using excessive force to deprive scott of civil rights. under the plea deal federal and state officials will not pursue any more charges against slager. he still faces potential life sentence. prosecutors are recommending 20 years. we send our prayers over to the family. >> heart are heavy in springs test as, town mourning the loss of 15 year old jordan edwards who was shot and killed by a police
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over the weekends. edwards died after a dallas area officer fired shots into a car. the police department is facing criticism today for allegedly changing its story about what happened. initially police reported edwards was driving aggressively after he left a party saturday night and tried to back into an officer. that's when the officer opened fire. well, video has since come out of the incident, and police are now giving a different account. they say the car was driving forward away from officers, not reversing toward them. jordan's friends are understandably upset. >> cool young black man, just young man, everybody loved, and a great, great football player. real good. he was straight a's, never got in trouble never did nothing bad, everybody like him. >> dallas police officer investigating the shooting, and now on administrative leave, has not been charged or arrested. >> to lown
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the long time suspect in a string of stabbings seven years ago has now confessed to a cold case murder least berg. >> the victim in the crime also stabbed to the confessed serial killer now serving life sentence in michigan. here's fox5 bob barnard. >> brought me peace, you know, it brought me peace, and closure. what i've been looking for, for the last eight years. >> it was a murder eight years ago, that destroyed the peace and tranquility of this apartment community in leesburg, man stabbed to death inside his home here on adams drive by his neighbor just across the way. a gruesome murder, that remained unsolved, until today. >> it just really hurt me. because him and jamie, stood outside, and talked, and laughed, and helped each other in the yard. >> then 44 years old, landscaper, father and grandfather. stabbed to death inside his home on march
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>> lowden county, and leesburg police say they finally got their prime suspect to confess, two weeks ago, and based on the statements that he did provide detectives, we are confident that he is responsible for the murder of jamie lane. >> serving live sentence in a michigan prison convicted of murder by knife, for a five person killing spree in flint michigan, the year after jamie lane's murder. >> i know jamie's smiling down on us today and i know finally resting in peace. >> police, prosecutors say in order to get the confession, they had to agree not to prosecute him for the murder here. they say that's okay, because he's already serving that life sentence in michigan, and they didn't want to take the risk of bringing him here. >> del an allen said she and her family are satisfied, knowing, he'll never walk the streets again. >> i'm
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say the confessed killer didn't offer any excuse for the leesburg murder. >> he just made references to facts that really don't support anything, a lot of paranoia, a lot of confusion, maybe about relationships that existed, you know, voices and things like that, there was just a lot of gibberish, really. >> no real sense as to why he killed his neighbor? >> no, none at all. >> did he express any remorse? >> did he express remorse, did he ask we relay that to the lane family, as well. >> in leesburg, virginia, bob barnard, fox5 local news. all right, taking it outside now on a beautiful, beautiful tuesday afternoon. this is like perfect weather for me. >> you like this? >> this is it. >> what do you like? >> low humidity, mid 70s, the way it should always be. >> i think we can agree with that, however, sue, there is always however
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>> still little breezy, the pollen is out of control this year. is it just me? >> , no it is. >> i'm tracking it all through the house, and you can kind of make a big ball out of it, so much around. but i will agree, czar, a these are the kind of days we don't get enough of in d.c., right? upper 70s, mid to upper 70s, and seeing really just that nice dry air, especially compared to the tropical humidity we had yesterday. >> look out toward martinsburg, winchester, 70, annapolis, nice and moist, and wonderful, 77 degrees, nice there, right there near the bay, and manassas at 78, fredericksburg, 79. so nice warm air, all around the region, and we look off to the north and west, to find it a bit cooler, pittsburgh at 62, detroit, 49, and chicago, at 49 degrees. >> we had the 70s today, beautiful day, for sure. i will say, though, gusts have been quite noticeable, part of
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windy, we have got big upper level storm system here creating lots of west wind, and you don't have to go too far north into pennsylvania, to run into a lot of cloud cover, and couple of showers across northern pennsylvania, up into new york state, but dry weather is in the forecast for us, until sometime thursday evening. those wind gusts should settle down little later still out of the west at 25 miles an hour, frederick to 30, hagerstown to 36. martinsburg, 32, allergy sufferers keep the meds handy, tree pollen should start to diminish in the next ten days or so. little rain will help but not tonight. 7:00 temperature around the low 70s, by 9:00, 67. by 11:00, 64. just sneak peak at what's ahead for tomorrow. cooler day, but equally as sunny, little less windy, temperatures ought to top out upper 60s tomorrow. so definitely couple of really great days in the future, little more rain coming before the ends of the week. we will talk about the timing for that coming up a little bit later, jim, sarah, back to you. >> we are hoping down comes the rain and wash
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out. we'll see what happens. >> you may remember these controversial youtube parent? well, now they've lost custody of two of their kids. next, we hear from the children's biological mother about the lawyer who helped get the kids back. >> and in montgomery county they're rolling out new policy for buying alcohol. thousand could make you feel younger, than you actually look. >> and if you have a story today give us a call at fox5: (202)895-3000. or e-mail to fox5 tips at wttg.com. we're back after this. >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪
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of his kids. >> giving custody of nine year old cody and 12 year old emma to their biological mother, rose hall. she petition dollars the court last week to gain custody of the two children. they were featured in a number of popular youtube videos, put together by martin, and his step wife. those videos show the parents ranking their children, but the pranks were considered so cruel, that some believe they were abusive. so a judge granted hall emergency custody of her two kids. >> emma and cody with me, i have an emergency custody. they're doing good. they're getting back to their playful selves. >> earlier today we talked to hall's attorney, who says the daddy of five videos speak for themselves. >> while the images that depict cody getting a bloody nose, which is bad enough, the images that depict emma getting slapped so hard she collapsed in a
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cries inconsolably, while those are bad, i think the psychological damage and abuse that's going on in those videos is clear for anybody to see. it is going to be a long time de-programming these kids from what was going on. i think that was what convinced the judge to do it. >> mike martin and rose hall will be back in court on friday for another hearing on their ongoing custody dispute. meantime the frederick county sheriff ace office along with state authorities has been investigating martin's family. as for the other three children in martin's care, they're heather martin's children from a previous relationship. >> secretary of education betsy de haves sent to liver the commencement so much at historically black university, not everyone is happy about it. we will tell you why the school's president is standing behind that decision. ronica. >> reporter: jim, the headlines broke over the weekends that the government would not shutdown. and that the tru
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this is fox5 local news at five starting off right here we've got some breaking newses we want to show you. if your commute is taking you on 485 the outer loop between georgia avenue and connecticut avenue. we have an over turned vehicle. this is live pictures from sky fox. not quite sure how this accident happened. we're not getting any worked on injuries. one lane blocked there on 485, the outer loop. t
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keep that in mind if you're heading into that direction. there are new images tonight of a man who may have vandalized four memorials at the national mall. the man apparently scribbled several lines in text in permanent marker on the link con memorial, the world were two and the d.c. war memorial. pretty clear picture. anne arrundel county police arrested a man for indecent exposure to a chiel child. a 46 year old man is accused of exposing himself to a nine year old girl. it happened at the walmart in glenn bernie, the little girl reported the incident to her mother. they stopped the man. floyd is charged with indecent expose yumplet a family in upper marlboro looking for a new place to stay after a fire caused significant damage to their home. flames broke out at their house on gauge drive. one person was inside the home. they made it out
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george's county says the fire was accidental but still caused about $125,000 in damage. >> congress could vote as early as tomorrow on a bunkette bill to keep the government funded through the end of september. house and senate negotiators reached the deal over the weekend. during talks last weekend we heard funding to build the comings al wall was not in the spending program. today they said there is money set aside for the wall. fox5's political reporter ronica cleary has more. >>reporter: these are of the first pictures that the trump administration release today of what they say parts of the wall will look like along our southern border with mexico. this is an unexpected twist after so much was said about the fact that border wall funding was not included in the 2017 budget negotiations to avoid a government shutdown. but today, the room was electric as the director of the office of management and budget nick muscle vein i took to the
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in that press briefing room. he not only shared news of the wall, but called this budget a victory for the president. now, all this in light of the fact that the president tweeted this morning that what our country needs now is a good shutdown to fix this mess. but director muscle vein i said that the people who really want the shutdown this time around were the democrats. what they really didn't get is this and this is what they wanted. they wanted a shutdown. we know that. they were desperate to make this administration look like we couldn't function like we couldn't govern. that's why we think they're growing about their success about they covered up a deal by president trump and president trump did a tremendous job. well, mul vein i then went onto show images of bored are and explained that understood ifing for the new wall was actually included in this bill, this 2017 negotiation. further clarification explained that the funding is for porti
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replacement wall and the funding of levies, but the administration believes that this is a win for border security and just the beginning of building that wall along our southern border with mexico. take a listen to muscle vein i explain more about the details of the funding in the 207 budget. there are several hundreds of millions of us for us to replace cyclone fencing with 20-foot high steel wall. the several hundreds of millions of dollars for us to build levy walls. some of the most vulnerable areas that we have are places along rivers where we desperately need protection against the southern border. we are building this now. there is money in this deal to build several hundreds of millions of dollars of this to replace this that's what we got in this deal and that's what the democrats don't want you to know. now, you'll notice you can actually see this behind you. that's the replacement wall they're talking about. you can see
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wall. director mul vein i explained according to dhs this type of wall structure is safer than one of concrete that you can't see through. we're going to take you ever take on all of this at 5@6:30. you can see the pictures on my facebook and twitter page. >> back to you. >> airline customer service put under the microscope today on capital hill. the ceo of united airlines was grilled by the house transportation and infrastructure committee. it comes after a passenger was recently drag off a united flight. i'm personally sorry for the fact that my immediate response and the response of our airline was inadequate to that moment. no customer, no individual should ever be treated the way mr. a was ever and we understand that. i also we need to do a better job of solving problems in the moment and making travel easier and smoother for our customers when
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>> officials from alaska, american and southwest airlines also testified during today's hearing. southwest says starting next week they will no longer over book flights. meantime speaking of flying if you're making some up ser vacation plans there is a new travel alert out warning people not to go to europe. the state department cited a in ted threat of terror specifically mentioning france, russia, sweden and the uk. us citizens could be targeted by is is militants with little or no warning. they might also focus on popular tourist areas:officialses in montgomery county are roling out a new policy for buying alcohol. starting july 1ic liquor store employees will card anyone buying boost no matter how old they look. county officials say the new rule which protect employees from subjective carding. the previous process was
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23450u sham was named the head of d.c. police department. they confirmed newsham in a 12 to one vote. the 28 year old veteran of the police department successes chief lanier. newsham has been interim chief since then. he was nominated for the top job in february. rhode island was one council members who said he had reservations about newsham about came around to say he was someone that he can work with. he's been nothing but responsive and that's what we need. i can see that he has the heart to do this work. >> mayor bowser release a statement about the new chief calling him a respected leader who understands the value of of working with the community and promises to make mpd work better for residents in every ward. this is what winning looks like. >> president trump right
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congratulating the air force falcons for winning this year's commander in chief trophy. the air force academy football team defeated both army and navy during the top of the search. the falcons had ten wins and only three losses, a tree achievement and they played tough, tough teams. >> not only that, but finished very strong. you ended the season with six straight victories, including a win in the arizona ball. which is a big deal. >> this is the 20th time air force has won that trophy and the team has won it in four of the last seven years. she is the daughter of the president and unpaid advisor to the white house and a successful businesswoman in her own rights, now ivanka trump has a new book called women who work rewriting the rules for can s. she says she wanted to pass along what she has learned to other women. since her father has become president she has advocated for women's rights in
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plans to donate part of the money to her charitable fund. >> american university relesion new surveillance video after that racist incident that targeted a sorority on campus. and the president of a historically black university is standing behind his decision to invite betsy devos to speak at the commencement ceremony despite a petition to change his choice. >> we lost the humidity from yesterday and wow did it feel nice. the cold front made it a little breezy at 78-degrees outside. the wind will subside but it will remain breezy tomorrow arve. a little l cooler, too. temperatures take a hit. that will last through the workweek. i'll have the details coming up when fox5 news returns right after this.
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>> i want to take you back on the story out of american university. they have just release new surveillance video showing a person of interest in a racist incident targeting a sorority on campus. let's take a look at the video if we can. police need your help identifying this person walking from the quad to the south side shuttle stop. police believe this person left those what in s with nooses around them at multiple places yesterday. they were referring to the known black sorority. the american was wearing all black and may have worn a hat or a mask. if& you know something there is a $1,000 reward to any information leading toen a arrest. >> across the country it is graduation season and we'll be seeing lot of well known and not so well known people delivering commencement
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feun cook man university in daytona beach boulevard. betsy devos is slated to speak at the historically black school. it's not sitting well with thousands of students who signed the petition to withdraw her name. she has a horrible record impacting blacks and minorities university president, though, is standing by the choice. i would like to reassure all of our sporters that we're looking to build a bridge for a mutually beneficial relationship with secretary devos. >> the graduation ceremony will take place on may 10. now to an exciting exhibit that is opening at the national museum of african-american history and cull your t. the exhibit foe tours dozens of photographs and port trait of well known african-american and photographs of events that chronical african-american history. >> photograp
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the eye, isn't it and it's about who is behind the camera. that empathy a photographer for the photography that's also knowns as the subject. for the subject, look at pictures of people of color by photographers of color. they're often different. there's a kind of sense of recognizing that humanity. the more than a picture exhibit opened to the public this friday and will remain open through the fall. >> all right. in a few minutes we're going to go outside. we're going to see gary because he's enjoying the sun. >> he usually is. he's sent out on the greatest assignments on the greatest weather days. we'll check in and see what he's up to, but for now i'll tell you from my dark window inside the studio it's really awesome out there. you see the camera shaking a little bit as we look a across the potomac and it has been a us day, sunshine, we gained more and more sun. we felt ery
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yesterday's storm system cleared out. it actually got close to 80-degrees in many spots of the area so warmer than it feels thanks to the gusty west wind. the winds will seub side a little bit. not as gusty as we got past sunset. temperatures take a hit tomorrow. we're probably only going to get into the 60s so blow normal for once clouds increased on thursday out ahead of our next system. thursday looks like it will be painly dry. it does look wet for friday and possibly lasting into the weekend as another very slow moving storm system starts to approach the mid atlantic. right now absolutely gorgeous. seventy-nine d.c., 75 frederick really nice temperatures across the mountains, too, right around 70-degrees. the wind has been intense. a wind advisory just about to expire with gusts over 40 miles an hour through the afternoon. 36-mile an hour wind gusts being registered at reagan national. we
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whipping around the back side. shattered rain showers from western pennsylvania, all the way up into upstate new york. once this kicks owrkts the wind will subside. but it is a perfect night for baseball. so it is a sunny mild start to the nats. first pitch at seven:05 p.m. this evening. cooler, though, once you get into the later evening. once the sun silts ' need the jacket the game starts in about an hour, but by the time things wrap up it will be in the 60s. surface set up for tomorrow, another great, sunny bright one like i said, it will be a little bit cooler with temperatures blow normal for early may. we'll probably get into the mid 60s, dry and mild. and while it will be breezy i don't think it will be as gusty as it was today. forty-five in gates but, 43 in frederick, 46 in dulles is what you're waking up to tomorrow morning. if we
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the 70s today, take it down to 60s. low 60s for the mountains, mid 60s annapolis and leonardtown. i want to get back to the storm system. this is how it's going to impact us as we head into the workweek. most of thursday is cloudy, clouds out ahead of the warm front. it will before it showers by thursday evening. overnight as we get into the warm sector of the storm here. we'll get rain heavy at times and i think friday morning looks to be the real wet period we'll have a chance for the wet rain. wrap around shower chances into the weekend. sixty-eight and breezy for tomorrow. 730 and not bad on thursday, but clouds will increase and we will get the chance of some showers. seven day forecast does show rain with possibly some thunder. temperatures are in the 70s. can't rule out a thunderstorm. it looks like a cool weekend. very different from this last even. last saturday was 91 for a high temperature. sixty-six
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with some early showers and it still looks cool as we head h early next week. but we've got the sunshine then. thank you, caitlyn. the capitols get a big win, but will a player get a suspension forgiving sidney a concussion. did i hear you guys talking about me earlier? were you kind of jealous about what i'm doing out here? >> just a little bit. i'm in crystal city. are you still listening? i know what this flower is. this is a dal yeah. it smells good. if it were smell a vision you'd know what i'm smelling right now we're at fresh farm and it's just loads of fun and look at all this fresh produce. this is right in the middle of crystal city. we're coming back. we're going to show you some stuff here, talk about it and where you can find other little pockets of this just about every day throughout the
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my name is jenny doan i'm a quilter and i'm a mother and i'm a grandmother. 2008 was when all the markets crashed, we lost our retirement. hamilton was losing hope and my husband and i were losing hope. my sister and i we challenged ourselves to help figure out a way to help them. our kids bought us a quilt machine. it was very humble beginnings. we were just this cute little shop, just like everybody else. one day al came in and asked me if i wanted to do tutorials and i was like "sure honey what's a tutorial?" i had not a clue. hi everybody i'm jenny from the missouri star quilt company. youtube gave us the opportunity to really differentiate, we got to a 1,000 subscribers year one and now we're at 300,000 subscribers. we started carrying all the fabrics that mom would use in the tutorials. now we're the world's largest provider of pre-cut quilting fabric. in the beginning we were just shipping 10 orders a day. now we ship 5,000 orders a day.
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ss in hamilton kinda sparked things. we've got 14 quilt shops in town, three restaurants, a little hotel, we had over 100,000 people come to hamilton last year. we love jenny. my whole life i've always wanted to own a business. none of that would have been possible without missouri star quilt company. all i have to do is open my door and bake my goods and missouri star does the rest. youtube has enabled my family and i to bring hope to the town and to the people who live here.
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>> some breaking news we want to take you to tyson's koarn, a portion of fairfax county where you can see a large tree has come down. what you may have difficulty seeing right there is there was actually a car underneath of this tree. the tree split in half, fell on top of it. we understand that fairfax county fire was able to rescue a woman who was inside that vehicle. it's unclear about her injuries, if she's injured at this point. we're still trying to get that information, but this is lincoln way in tyson's corner where a tree has split in half, fell onto a car. again, rescue crews have rescued a woman from there we'll continue to follow this. hours after the capitols over time thrieler in pittsburgh we learned that mats nice
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not face any more punishment afternoon his brutal hit against cross bit. it happened very quickly, with you you see on the replay what happened. although the sequence of events is still up for discussion we know that nice kin was handed game misconduct and he says there was no ill intent against his former teammate. cross bisuffered a concussion and will not play in game four tomorrow. >> washington dropped game one 123 to # # # after the celtics staged an epic back. and speaking of boston and this may be for much less, much more unsafery reasons unfortunately the red sox finding themselves in the position of apologizing to baltimore oral slugger jones after what they called a few ignorant fans got out of hand at fence way. some were chanting racial slurs.
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peanuts to him in. jones taking the high road that people need to take to those epithets to degrade another human being. >> we talked about this before. a beautiful day out there, a lot of sunshine, good breeze, a good chance to go out and get about. itself spring-like weather we don't normally get too often. it's bringing it back. we have farmers markets that are opening up across the area. fox5 a's gary mcgrady live at one of those. gary, i live in virginia not too far from there. i had no idea there was one there in crystal city. >> we were just trying to get to costco and we made the wrong turn and we ended up at this great place. i was trying to replenish jim's swedish fish. he hases a bag this big. come here, ming and. meaghan is with fresh farm. this isn't the only
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location. >> yes, we actually have 17 around the dmv area. >> we're a nonprofit. you're open every day? a. we don't have it on monday and fridays. but hopefully every other day you'll be able to find us somewhere. there's so many people down here. how many different vendors are here. >> this market averages about 15 vendors. we have dairy, different types of meet including buffalo, pizza, non organic, pretty much everything you could be looking for. i'm amazed of how much variety. what's awesome is it's the actual farms that are growing it that are bringing it so you get to talk to the farmer and ask them about their growing practices, what they brought for market and what will be coming into season next. do you require everyone to give free samples. >> no, but highly suggested so i could have some as well. how are sales. >> sales are going pretty well today, thank you.
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>> how many different visits of tomatoes are you selling. >> today we can introduce you to our hair loom tomatoes. >> today we have five different visits of heir loom, there's not that many on the table anymore. we had it all filled. it's all empty. we selling the lot. today the most popular is brandywine. >> that's what i just took a by the of. >> they're sweat and juice i. you go to the fm. org. this is a great apple, too, by the way. i'm going to toss it to break. stick around we'll be back for more.
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turtles stopped by great falls for an unforgettable day of action and warning. he talked to the kids about exercise, eating healthy and following their drems. the students think the best part of the day was watching them perform their tricks. kids, do not try it at home. >> thanks for being with us at fox5. fox5 at six starts right now. >> caught on video, you've seen it so many times packages being stolen off of front steps of homes, well, now thieves are going after something else. i'll have that story coming up. not just black students and minority students, but all students on the campus are standing together. shock and outrage, what's being done after another incident on the campus of a local university. plus, this family
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this controversial video surfaced. >> fox5 news at six starts now. q. and we're staying on top of a developing story. a hazardous material emergency shutdown part of frederick memorial hospital today. thanks for joining us, i'm tony perkins and i'm shawn yancy. sky fox flew over the scene this afternoon. two men arrived at the hospital and they complained they got sick after opening a package in a house near forth destrict. paul wagner is live with the very latest. paul, how are the folks and do we know what happened? reporter rear we're getting there, shawn. we know that the chemical substance is a common household chemical, but as to why it arrived at the house, that's still under investigation. we happened to be in downtown frederick at the time the call went out. we were here for another story and by the time we got here to the hospital a decontamination tenth had already been sent up by the

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