a molotov cocktail in hand. and that's when the owner said that benny tried to fight him off in order to protect the store. >> he was like hey you can't come in with that. he was like don't come in with that here. it was lit up. he said you can't bring nothing like that in here. it ended up catching benny's shirt on fire around hits stomach and armpit. >> reporter: we're told benny is still recovering in the hospital as we speak. detectives say kevon edwards now faces a long list of serious charges including attempted first and second degree murder and so far it's still unclear what was the motive behind this attack. so when the owner danny shah heard benny was the one who put his life on the line he says at first he couldn't believe it but then he said he wasn't surprised at all when he found out it was benny who was involved because that's just the type of

>> he just wants to help everybody. even down here in the neighborhood everybody knows him. he cuts the neighbor's grasses, he shovels the snow, doesn't ask them for money or anything. he's just a neighborhood friendly guy. tell you everybody around here when they find out it's benny they worry because they all know he's been a very helpful person. >> reporter: now, the owner told us he is extremely grateful for benny because he believes this situation, this tragedy in this case could have turned out much worse. now, not too long ago the mother of kevon edwards came inside the liquor store and ended up apologizing to the store owner danny who you just saw. we are going to talk with her in a little bit. she told us on the phone how devastated she is because her son, she was looking for him at the time and it wasn't until she saw the news that she found out what he had done and what had happened. so, continue with this story and keep up with us coming up at 6 o'clock on fox5 local

for now reporting live in beltsville this evening, kristen leone fox5 local news. >> new tonight we now know the name of one of two men wanted in an armed assault in the district. police are looking for 22-year-old cesar mo morales. video shows morales and another man chasing the victim last friday. fortunately the victim wasn't hurt but the suspects are still on the run. take another good look at this picture right here. this is morales. he's about 5-foot three with several visible face and neck tattoos. if you recognize him police want to hear from you. >> fox5 is in frederick county where fire investigators trying to figure out what sparked a two alarm fire this morning on south market street in frederick. skyfox over the scene this morning. everyone made it out safely. one person was treated on the scene for minor injuries. two firefighters were

for smoke inhalation. the fire damaged at least eight units in that building. again, this is hang over in frederick earlier this morning on south market street. >> ♪ >> to texas now with a new danger in the aftermath of tropical depression harvey. there were two reported explosions at a chemical plant. the plant's owners warns more explosions could follow because the facility lost power amid flooding leaving the plant withou a cooling system for the chemicals. new pictures are coming into our news room of rescue crews searching for stranded residents near a dam in southeast texas. water levels at a reservoir reached record levels. some water was released to try to ease the burden but flooding in the area could last for weeks. the sun is out once again in houston but the struggle is far from over. streets and homes are

flooded but some drivers have been able to get around by traveling on partially submerged streets. meanwhile thousands of people are without water in beaumont, texas, forcing baptist hospital to shut down and evacuate nearly 200 patients. the decision comes after the city's water pump failed due to flooding from harvey. >> dr. jessica peck is a nurse practitioner in houston. she joins us via skype. how are you doing. i know it's been a overwhelming last couple of days. >> it really has. i'm a native houstonian i'm used to hurricanes. we knew harvey was coming but nothing could have prepared us to receive a year's worth of rainfall in just three days. things are getting better a little bit but we really have a crisis in our healthcare accessibility. in the last couple of days there's been more than 50,000 calls to 911 and they just stopped responding to anything that wasn't absolutely life-threatening so waiting six to nine hours. in

houston i live in a community of about 40,000 and one third of our homes at least are flooded. and so even at the height of the storm we were all trapped in our homes and so being able to get out and access healthcare was just impossible. what i was able to do during that time was do some telemedicine and face time and social media to be able to triage patients and help them take care of themselves in their home. my uncle owns a fleet of high -- military vehicles, high water and he was able to transport some of the nurse practitioners physicians patients and nurses back and forth to the hospital so that they could access care during that time. >> the ingenuity is amazing and how you deal with this crisis down there. you know, a lot of people, dr., always talk about they want to help in some way. is there any way medically that people can volunteer or do something or perhaps doctors or nurses or people in that field from around the country could do to help out. >> absolutely they can. you know, neighbors helping

happened, sharing of medications has happened and going by boat or truck or those kinds of things to help each other access medical care. here in our clinic as you said we've opened it up to anybody that can get to us for free to be able to come and have healthcare. we saw two patients -- a patient yesterday a three month old baby that barely escaped the flood waters and came in with her parents with just the clothes on their back, no shoes, no driver's license, no credit card, no nothing. but we were able to take care of the baby. they had been turned away from two emergency rooms because of the shear need. what we need is more nurses, that's what we need. they can go to the texas board of nursing web site, that's b bon dot texas.gov. it will connect you with the red cross or other emergency organizations so that you can come and help us. many of the nurses have been at the hospital for more than seven days and many of them, their homes are flooded so they don't even have scrubs to wear back

need relief care. >> dr. jessica peck we appreciate what you're doing. we're watching all of the curry efforts from here in d.c. we appreciate what you're doing so thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> rescue and recovery efforts still under way tonight. >> let's go to allison barber live in galveston texas. allison, you're on a boat clearly right now and you have a little friend next to you. >> reporter: yeah, this is colt. we are out with a mother-daughter duo and their two dogs. this is right next to buffalo bayou which you'll remember that is where the army corps of engineer released two reservoirs, two dams where they released water into what's buffalo bayou. this is a neighborhood right by it that has experienced extreme flooding. the people that we are with now josh actually drove down from san antonio to help his mom out. they were trying to get to a friend's house to try and check on her cat and there are a lot of

able to get home. we tried to go over in the direction we're headed now so they can go check on her. we weren't able to but now even if you just looking a round though you can see some of the flooding that is still going on here. there are parts of houston that are drying outer. places like galveston where we were this morning an hour away where things aren't very bad but in houston you still have pockets like this where you can see this is a car, this is actually a car that's up a lot higher than some other cars we've seen here. some are almost completely submerged. these homes aren't just flooded or they don't just have a little bit of water inside. i mean, the flood waters covering up the garage covering their cars. this area also sarah and jim is an experts say will probably stay flooded for weeks. >> wow. that's amazing. allison as you were riding around i'm sure a lot of volunteers still out there as well as the national guard. do you get the sense that they're kind of getting a handle on the situation and really getting people to safe ground? >> reporte i

it and it seems like a big thanks goes to regular people like josh and donna who have just come down with their duck boats whatever they have and tried to help out. one of the most amazing thing is to look up see two, three, four boat go by. one pontoon boat had police out on it trying to go door to door making sure everyone was okay and getting everybody that was in this area that wanted to leave out. they say they have done that for the most part here. you see a lot of regular people dropping boats in where they can and just trying to help wherever they can. >> all right, fox's allison. >> reporter: it does seem like they're starting to get such a better handle. >> you can tell. allison barber thank you for joining us tonight. >> wow. that's crazy. >> it really is, yeah. >> moving on, race politics and reconciliation. a conversation on campus following two highly publicized killings. tisha. >> reporter: that's right and that conversation just wrapped up here at the

congressman anthony brown who is calling on colleges across the country to adopt a zero tolerance policy and hate crime and hate speech. we have more coming up. >> and a police officer caught on camera telling a woman "we only kill black people." where this happened and what the police department is now doing about it. >> and a crazy scam that tricked a local woman out of $16,000. a warning tonight from police about two suspects and their plot called the pigeon drop scheme. caitlin. >> hey there sarah. well, what's left of tropical depression harvey is moving out of the gulf coast. you see it spinning across northern portions of alabama and mississippi. and it's got its sights set on washington. when the rain arrives, how it affects your holiday weekend. that's coming up. but first a look at your forecast when fox5 news returns right after this. >> ♪ >> ♪♪

>> ♪ >> the hate fueled killing of a black soldier second lieutenant richard collins. the reaction at collins murder is often formulaic. that's not good enough.

going to end in maryland and across the country it will be because all of us take a stand not only against the hard right and hate festering on campus but to leaders who have been too content to remain silent and look the other way. >> that was congressman anthony brownback in may making a plea to lawmakers following the tragic killing of second lieutenant richard collins. >> brown was part of a conversation about hate and race that took place at the university of maryland where brown was killed. fox5 tisha lewis live in college park with that story. hi, tisha. >> reporter: hi there jim, hi sarah and that leap that plea continued tonight. the conversation wrapped up just moments ago. you can see the students here. it was a packed house we're told with at least 300 students. this discussion about race, hate bias incidents and the atmosphere here on campus comes one day after the one year anniversary of the murder of richard collins. he's a student who was killed here on campus by another student who was

member of a facebook hate group. brown is speaking to students and staff and we spoke with him just moments ago before this conversation about what he hoped to accomplish here tonight. >> i'm really pleased that they are beginning this dialogue that eventually will lead to action to root out hatred and violence on campus. >> reporter: what's transpired to prevent something like what we saw in charlottesville from happening here at umd? >> i think the -- you know, the important thing is dialogue and conversation. the challenge is this. universities and colleges, they invite, they welcome freedom of expression and speech. but when that speech and that expression is so hate filled that it can potentially cross over to violence, that's where we have to stop it. >> reporter: and brown is calling on college campuses to take a zero tolerance stance toward all hate crimes and hate speech. collins' stabbing was one of several incidents on the campus last

investigated as a potential hate crime. university police reportedly received several reports about white nationalist posters throughout the academic year. now, the university has since taken steps to address race relations on this campus starting with dialogue. >> i definitely think that the university has taken steps in terms of trying to be more dynamic in their approaches towards race but i think we have very far to go in terms of how we listen to students on campus whether those be student organizations or even, you know, things that students bring up in sga, et cetera, just thinking about how do we actually implement those things and what do they need from us as we press forward. >> race relations are pretty tough everywhere. i think it's a lot of tension we add to ourselves a lot of times. we're all the same people. we're out here trying to make the same things happen right if we want good things and sometimes i feel like we just put too much

other to rise to occasions sometimes where we need to just sometimes realize that we have internally the capability to make things okay. >> reporter: again this conversation with congressman anthony brown started at 4 o'clock and wrapped up just moments ago. i want to get some reaction from some people who were in attendance. what did you think of the conversation. >> i think it was very interesting bringing people together from different backgrounds and talk about the issues, you know, just not putting it in the back pocket. >> it's very interesting. i think it was very -- a great outcome, you know, the students were here, the staff, the faculty, people in the community coming together. i think that was a great experience for everyone involved. >> reporter: thank you for your feedback. what stood out the most to you tonight? >> well, there's clearly a need for discussion about these critical issues that are impacting us today. there's a need to begin that dialogue that will result in real

foundation. what's at the root of this -- discrimination and diversity. what is the underpinning of what happened in charlottesville? and i think that was a discussion we started today but it's not the end of the discussion. it's just the beginning. and so now we need to build upon that dialogue, more discussions on campus, how do we deal with diversity on campus, acts of racial discrimination on campus and address them head on. how to do it in our society and i think that's a discussion we began today. >> reporter: gentlemen, thank you so much. again, brown's bill will be introduced when congress returns to session next week. also a theme that was prominent at tonight's conversation, brown blames the current trump administration for the race relations and state of race across the country. tisha lewis, fox5 local news. >> all right. starting to warm b

there after we had some really pleasant days, it was nice and cool. of course, you know, a little rain maybe here and there. let's get to caitlin roth get the latest on what we can expect moving forward. hey, caitlin. >> hey, sarah, jim, felt nice outside. a summer-like afternoon. haven't had many of them lately. i'm afraid it's going to feel very cool in a hurry as we head into friday. enjoy this evening. 83 in washington, 84 in annapolis, 80 in baltimore, 82 in stevensville, 81 out at dulles, 79 in winchester so temperatures back to where they should be for late august and it hasn't been too humid and we haven't really seen any showers yet. the exception being one that popped up north of baltimore and we do still have some showers in the forecast as we go through this evening, there's another one right along i-70 from 270 over towards the baltimore beltway. that's because we have a cold front off towards our north. you can see those widely scattered showers moving through southern pennsylvania. as that drops southward could see a passing shower in d.c. overall it's a nice night. we're waiting on the approach

depression harvey. you can still see that center of circulation in central mississippi. heavy rain in memphis. they could see up to 7-inches of rain before this thing moves out. ahead of this system the bands streaming up through the carolinas, some heavy rain there. this will approach us towards the east. it will kind of combine, transfer its energy into a coastal low pressure system which is more reminiscent of the low pressure systems that we see around here. here's harvey moving at the speed of 20 miles an hour so that's pretty quick for harvey or what's left of him and by midday saturday the center of that circulation is just over southern ohio. like i said during the day saturday that's going to transfer its energy to the coast and we are going to see a period of some prolonged showers late friday night into saturday. by the way, major hurricane spinning across the atlantic. here's irma with winds sustained at 115 miles an hour. this is really far away but look at the progression of this monster storm going to become a category four hurricane some point early next

we'll be following that probably the following weekend to see if there will be any impact on the u.s. back home tonight 81 degrees with a passing shower. falling back into the 70's but overnight it's going to turn very cool. i'll have that fall-like friday forecast for you still coming up in your seven-day. jim and sarah. >> thank you caitlin. on the way -- excuse me. on the way ending the gender gap payroll. >> ronica cl cleary is working that story for us. >> reporter: the trump administration they're taking a o few steps back. one person has a lot of people surprised who supports the efforts. we're going to tell you who that is coming up. jim. >> amazon under fire. a couple suing the web site for faulty eclipse glasses they say left them with some serious injuries. coming up the news at 5:00 returns.

>> ♪ >> the obama administration put forth a plan to require businesses to report pay based on gender and race but now the trump administration says they won't enforce that requirement. >> fox5's political reporter ronica cleary live at the wh

the white house made this decision and how it could that it couldaffect your bottom line. >> reporter: hey, jim and sarah. the decision it certainly has people talking. it would basically roll back the intention of an obama era policy that would force businesses to be more transparent, to learn a little bit more about where pay disparity may exist based on race and gender and of course as i said that's got people talking but what really has people asking some questions is the fact that ivanka trump supported the decision even though she said she would champion the cause of closing the pay gap on the campaign trail. now, she did release the statement and she basically said that the obama policy was well intentioned but that it would not have the intended result and she says that she does still look forward to working to close that gap. now, let's take a look at the numbers where they came from and where they are today. now, these are

pew research. it does show an improvement over the past 35 years. they looked at the average hourly pay for both full and part-time workers. they found that in 1980, women made 64 cents for every dollar a man made. and in 2015, the gap closed to 87 cents for every dollar a man made. now, here's the thing. if you do your own research on this issue, you're going to find that it's very complicated and it's very difficult to get a straight answer. depending on where you look the numbers are going to be different. there is a debate about whether or not the gap even exists based on how those numbers are collected and what information is looked. so, to help make sense of it all, i spoke with steven horowitz of ball state university and he basically explained that this issue has made a lot more complex based on the fact that this disparity might be coming from a woman's role at home. take a listen. >> yeah, that's the complicated part here right that it is true that the fact that women are still considered to be the primary caregivers in our

means that they make different choices about their work careers tend to look for things that are more part time perhaps or that they can leave and then come back to later on without a great loss of skills and certainly that matters for the kinds of wages they can make down the road but notice that's not discrimination by employers, right, that might be about the choices women make it might be about the way we socialize men and women. i always say one of the best things that men can do if we're interested in equalizing the gender pay gap is to take on more responsibility at home for raising kids and for cleaning the house and all those other kinds of things. >> reporter: so, what's your take on the issue? do you think that the pay gap exists? do you think it's the fault of the employer or do you think it really goes back to home? and then ultimately do you think that this decision by the trump white house to reduce any efforts for more transparency from companies will help or hurt? weigh in. you know i love to hear from you. reporting live at the white house, ronica cleary, fox5 local news. >> the woman accused of throwing urine on a metro bus driver appears befor

>> matt ackland has the details on her day in court. hey, matt. >> reporter: hey, sarah, jim. yes, she was released from jail today. the judge said that he couldn't keep her here because it was a simple assault. but he is placing some orders on her. we will tell you about that after the break. >> then a police officer caught on camera making a disturbing statement to a woman he pulled over. where this incident happened and what the police department is now doing about it. >> and the fda approves an illegal party drug to treat post traumatic stress disorder. the break through scientists discovered about the street drug when we come back. >> ♪

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a look at your headlines at the half. police are looking for the gunman who shot and killed a man just two blocks from the columbia heights metro station. this happened last night in the 1400 block of harvard street northwest. the victim's name has not been released. >> a west virginia man was killed in a boating accident in garrett county on jennings randolph lake. richard larkin and his wife alice were boating when they noticed their fishing rods were about to slide overboard. when they reached to grab them the couple fell in the water and the boat overturned. alice was able to swim to shore but her husband richard never made it. >> five men charged in connection with the murder of a montgomery county teen carlos pineda is charged with accessory before the fact. four other men from three other states face first degree murder charges. the remains of the man was that found nearly two years ago in woodbridge. he had been beaten and stabbed. they had ties to ms-13. >> ♪ >> the woman accused

throwing urine in the face of a metrobus driver over the weekend is now out of jail but she was ordered to get a mental evaluation. >> this is the video from the bus. we learned today opal brown wrote an apology letter before she turned herself in. matt ackland live at d.c. superior courthouse with the latest on this. hey, matt. >> reporter: hey, jim. the judge told brown to stay away from the driver, the victim in this case and also not to ride the x2 bus line. that's the bus lynn she was on. but after she left the courtroom and then we followed her out of the courthouse, well, she didn't have much to say. take a look. what happened on that bus? would you like to apologize to the bus driver? opal brown covered her face and refused to speak to reporters as she walked out of court. she's been locked up since yesterday. the judge said he couldn't keep her becse

simple assault, a misdemeanor, not a felony charge. brown wouldn't talk but a few minutes later, her pastor did. >> well, the first thing we want to do is apologize to the operator for what should have never happened to anyone serving in public service. i think, however, this is a tragic intersection between public health issues and public transportation issues. >> reporter: the union that represents all metro drivers were also in court. members packed the courtroom and afterwards they said they were concerned that she was only restricted from the x2 line. they say she shouldn't be allowed to ride any bus or anything in the metro system. they also had a message for local lea leader when it comes o these assaults on drivers.

maryland and virginia to increase the penalties from misdemeanors to felony charges when you assault an operator. a transit worker. >> yeah, my bus broke down and as i was doing a operating procedures for securing the bus, somebody shot me with a bb gun. they say they have they have enhanced penalties but i haven't seen it in force yet. that's the third time i've been the victim of assault in the last 10 years with this company. >> reporter: by the way, the union then at the end of this court hearing gathered and said they are asking for the head of the bus operations for metro to step down. brown, she said through an attorney that she was pleading not guilty today. her next court hearing will be in september and by the way, she was ordered to undergo a mental evaluation. live in the district, matt ackland fox5 local news. >>♪

georgia police lieutenant caught on camera making a racist statement during a traffic stop. >> i just don't want to put my hands down. >> i seen way too many videos. >> but you're not black. remember, we only kill black people. >> that was cobb county lieutenant greg abbott he's on administrative leave after dashcam video caught him telling a woman if you didn't hear her, he said you're not black. if you remember we only kill black people. it happened back on july 16th but the police chief didn't get the video until last week. cobb county police chief called the statement "unacceptable." >> it's been 20 years since the death of princess diana. today people around the world are gathering to mark the anniversary of her tragic death. dozens paid tribute yesterday in paris above the traffic tunnel where

her car was being pursued by paparazzi when it crashed into a concrete pillar in the tunnel. diana's boyfriend and the driver of the car were also killed. >> coming up hate crime at a church in virginia. >> tonight the governor is stepping in. lauren demarco is working this one. hey, lauren. >> reporter: well, police search for whoever posted racist and anti-semitic signs in front of this church in dumfries, the congregation is getting a visit from senator tim kaine. we'll take a look at what he has to say. >> tropical depression still dumping rain. harvey is on the move headed to our area picking up steam though so rainfall won't be as high but through this weekend through sunday morning we could see a good one to possibly 2-inches of rain. i'll have the latest on timing, how this impacts your holiday weekend. that's coming up in your seven-day forecast right after the break. >> ♪ >> ♪♪

>> ♪ >> putting harriet tubman on the new 20-dollar bill may not be a done deal after all. in an interview with c nbc steve mnuchin declined to say if he would follow through with the obama administration plans. mnuchin said there were much more important and pressing matters and that the change is not something he's focused on. he said the major motivation for changing currency is preventing counterfeits. >> the average american spent more money on taxes than they did on food and clothing. the information comes from the bureau of labor and statistics. americans spent an average of $10,500 on state and federal taxes. they spent about 7200 on food and 1800 on clothing. the only expense higher was a

$19,000. >> that's depressing. [laughter] >> downer news. >> yeah. >> just a little bit and i feel like as we look at what's coming the next couple days the downer just keeps on going. >> pretty depressing. not only are we expecting rain to start off the holiday weekend through much of saturday but it is going to be chilly. >> yeah. >> ooh. >> temperatures barely hitting 70 degrees and with the rain it feels really cool. >> people planned months ago -- this would be a great weekend for a wedding. no. >> oh, no, raining on their parade, my gosh, yeah. can you get married on sunday? [laughter] >> a rain date for the wedding. >> really. >> if i were in that type of business i would be issuing rain dates because you can't count on anything and this saturday unfortunately we're counting on rain. sunday looks so much better and labor day itself looks absolutely beautiful. so, yeah, how about a labor day wedding if you can revisit that schedule? but as we take a live look outside right now we saw a lot of blue sky today. clouds have been filling in ahead of a cold front. that cold front will deliver

how about some alliteration for you on a thursday evening. just rolls right off the tongue. 83 degrees in d.c. right now. doesn't feel like fall yet. it's pretty warm and very comfortable though without the humidity and we haven't had too many warm afternoons this week. 80 baltimore, 84 annapolis, 84 frederick and 82 in martinsburg. a pretty nice evening although we're watching for a couple of showers north of the maryland border. you can see a couple have made their way just north of baltimore outside the beltway there, the baltimore beltway and some are drifting down from pennsylvania so i think through the evening we'll still keep a shower chance in. nothing heavy, just very light in passing. but again behind those showers behind that cold front we've got canadian high pressure building in, flow out of the north delivering not just the cool weather but also some cloud cover which is going to make it feel even cooler out there. now, combine that with some approaching rainfall. that's right, the remnants of harvey on the move pushing into our area by late on friday so i think most of the day is dry. it's cloudy and it's cool. feels nothing

weekend should. but the rain doesn't arrive until after dark . however, it is pretty much with us through saturday. you can see first off tonight a couple showers around mainly north of washington but a downpour or two is not out of the question as we go into the later evening hours, by 10, 11 o'clock some of those showers push through the d.c. metro but they're very light. into tomorrow morning, starting off with cloud cover. temperatures will be steady and the barely hitting 70 degrees. by 4 o'clock, even if we see a few peeks of sunshine out there, it will quickly be replaced with cloud cover and then the rain arrives. during the overnight hours and through saturday morning, expect waves of some showers and again steady temperatures. now, this model at least wants to put in a period of some heavy rain or at least steady rain late in the afternoon into the effect this is the low pressure system moving by. you look at that, baltimore down through d.c. 5:00 p.m. on a saturday, 95 stretch and it's pretty much just pouring. luckily that's going to move out pretty quickly and by sunday morning we should be waking up to some better

tonight 62 degrees, possibly an evening shower. otherwise it's going to turn breezy and pretty cool overnight. i know temps will only be in the 70's this evening but we quickly fall back into the low 60's by dawn. tomorrow afternoon 70 degrees cloudy with a few peeks of sunshine feeling like maybe mid to late october. normal high temperature is still 85 degrees this time of year. we're going to get there by labor day. looks a lot better second half of the weekend. lots of sunshine, feels like summer so if you're out at the beach or by the lake you're trying to do some last minute summertime activities sunday afternoon and monday definitely monday are your days. seven-day forecast just 68 and that is, yes, a chilly rain on saturday. showers to sun on sunday. next week, tuesday looks really warm but guess what, that fall feeling is back next wednesday and thursday. we're looking at temperatures only in the 70's. that's a look at your seven-day forecast. jim and sarah back to you. >> police are calling it one of the oldest schemes around. >> the crazy story of how a woman was

$16,000 by two menussing the pigeon drop scheme. >> we're live in dumfries where the congregation is getting a visit from senator tim kaine. >> ♪

>> ♪ >> virginia senator tim kaine is paying a little visit to a church in dumfries today. the church was that recently vandalized. >> there were racist and anti-semitic fliers put up on the front door. lauren demarco was there live. lauren the senator there what did he have to say today? >> reporter: jim i'm going to let you hear from the senator himself actually. we are at the greater praise temple ministries here in dumfries and as you saw, there was some really disturbing signs posted on the front door over the weekend. police are investigating. but senator tim kaine did come out today to speak with the congregation. it was pretty brief and there's not a large number of people here but

important to come out here and be talking with communities impacted by these acts of hate that we're seeing. >> i do, lauren. i think, you know -- i really believe that the number of people who have this sort of hatred that they would post fliers about nazi germany and with racial epithets on a church i believe the numbers are small. the percentages are small but i think history teaches us something, which is you can't be an innocent bystander to hatred because if you are you embolden people who are haters. we saw that in charlottesville with the horrible violent end where a woman was murdered and two state troopers both of whom i know were killed tryingig to stand up against hatred and bigotry. three messages today. first, the pastor thompson and his wife and this church they're strong, they're resilient. they -- you know, this is a faith that teaches blessed are ye if you are persecuted for

righteousness sake. we wanted to encourage law enforcement. we met with law enforcement earlier to talk about the investigation of this and what they're doing to try to determine who did it. that's so important but finally we wanted to thank many of the people here were not just members of the congregation but they're neighbors. pastors from other churches folks who have never been here but when they heard about it came to show their support and pastor thompson and his wife miss thompson say they've seen a real outpouring of support from the community and that's important too. we want to encourage that. when people are targeted others need to surround them and hold them up and thank goodness that's happening here in dumfries. >> and as you said these are small incidents but we are seeing more and more of them and of course we had this deadly white supremacist rally in charlottesville. what do we need to see from government leadership to put an end to this. >> we have to call out intolerable behavior. when something that happens that's bad it's important for

we inhabit there has to be an official statement of condemnation. there can't be a confusion about, well, both sides do things wrong. when i supremacy is wrong, naziism is wrong, references to nazi germany is wrong, targeting people because of their race or where they come from is wrong. leaders need to do that and leaders need to provide backup and support for communities that are targeted. so i was here today with delegate lou torian. bailey of the ncaa p in prince william scott, a state senator i hope others will provide support and let them know we're behind them. >> reporter: the people who are doing these things, it's disturbing to hear their points of view, i'm sorry to say. >> yeah, it is disturbing. >> reporter: is there a message that you have to someone who may be seeing these things and finding encouragement and wanting to join this sort of thing. >> i would say first don't bring it here. 90 percent of the ralliers in

this white supremacist rallies were from out of state. don't bring your hatred to or community and if you think you're going succeed you're wrong. we're not going backward in virginia, we're not going backward in dumfries we're not going backward so you're not going to be able to succeed. these people need help. they have a twisted bitter ideology and there are people who have been part of this who have left and -- because they've realized they're wrong and what they often say is it was a coworker or friend who helped them see the errors of their ways that got them on a different path. we need to condemn the indefensible. if we know people with these views we can in a friendly and loving way show them there's a better path and that that path is a path of togetherness. >> reporter: thank you so much senator kaine appreciate it. back to you all in the studio. >> ♪ >> new tonight it is one of the oldest tricks in the book but people are still falling

>> it's called the pigeon drop this is where the victim or the pigeon gives the con artist money in order to get more money. charles county dep of deputies say these two guys pulled off this kind of heist on a woman last week. >> the man on the left if you can tell make it out here in the suit and the blue hat approached the woman in a clinton grocery store. he claimed he won 80 grand from a civil lawsuit. he was unfamiliar with how banking worked in this country and offered to split the money if the victim taught him. >> that's when the other suspect acted like a stranger overhearing the conversation saying he wanted in. the accomplice went first. >> then it was the victim's turn. they went to two backs. she withdrew 7,000 from one, nine grand from the other. along the way the suspect even convinced the victim to buy three apple laptops for his nieces at a nearby store. >> they dropped the victim off her bank and gave her what appeared to be a handkerchief full of cash. she got up top deposit what

the handkerchiefs was full of shredded paper. >> a stranger approaches you and has a elaborate money to share with you it is a con. the fda approves an illegal street drug for ptsd. >> a local athlete is offering to pay all the fees if you want to adopt a local pet. we're back after this.

>> ♪ >> all right, take a look at what's trending. a major recall affecting people allergic to soy. trader joe's a recalling 3,000 pounds of its chicken breakfast sausage because it contains soy lectin. trader joe says it's possible the ingredient may trigger reactions. >> a couple in south carolina suing amazon after they say

they experienced headaches watery eyes and distorted vision after viewing the solar eclipse. amazon did recall some glasses but the couple who sued said they didn't get a notice. >> using an illegal party drug to treat posttraumatic stress disorder. the fda approved ecstasy as a break through treatment. nearly 70 percent of ptsd patients had no signs of the disease after three sessions. 23 percent of none ecstasy assisted patients had the same results. >> finally the outpouring gettofgiving in the wake of hary continues. max scherzer and his wife offered to couple all adoption fees at both rescue alliance adoption centers in d.c. the fee waiver applies to animals at the shelter. they need to make room for more than 20 cats and dogs coming from houston. they broke the news live on air and now we're seeing it's a pretty big deal. if you can

and your home do it. >> that's it for us here at f5:00. >> shawn and marina are standing by with your news at 6:00. >> right now at 6:00 the woman caught on camera throwing urine on a metrobus driver is free tonight. we're live with what a judge ordered her to do. plus, a maryland liquor store employee was badly burned after a man tossed a molotov cocktail into the store. tonight the store's owner shared just how brave his employee was before the attack. and the aftermath of harvey rescues, recovery and rebuilding. we'll have the latest from houston. the news at 6:00 starts right now. >> ♪ >> we begin tonight with the fox5 exclusive. the mother of the man accused of throwing a molotov cocktail inside a maryland liquor store is talking to fox5. >> two people burned by the flames, one of them still recovering with severe burns from that attack. fox5's kst