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parents today, just released by the fbi? >> really hard to look at that video that we just saw of the mother, i talked to her today. you're right, brand new video released by the f.b.i. in for folk, shows her pulling up, then leaving the gates at the military base there. that was a little over a week ago. her parents believe she was going to work on the base. it is really hard to see inside the mini cooper she was driving, well, five days later her car found abandoned almost 12 miles away from the spot. >> please, pray for ashanti, my daughter, my baby, she my everything, please, pray for her, bring my baby home today. >> where is she? what happened? questions her parent and law enforcement are desperately trying to answer. >> we're desperate. because it is going on eight days now. >> this new video released from the fbi is what authorities believe is her car, entering and leaving joint expedicious areaas
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september 18th. family believes she was on her way into work to set up for the day at a sandwich shop inside the base. a half hour later her car was seen leaving, but we're told the video not good enough to see who is actually driving the car. her mother and father say there were no signs of trouble in fact, happy about recent promotion at work. >> excited about it. and, that was something that she shared with me every day, well, we would talk every other day. during the conversation her job would come up in there somewhere, somehow, you know, because she was excited about it. >> fast forward to this past saturday. her car was found 12 miles away from the base in a norfolk neighborhood where she didn't really know anyone. the windows were down, also her phone was found in a dumpster, not far away from where she worked. her parents say any small clue could help. >> we want people to see that
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this is real life for us. this is real life for us. this is something that we never would wish on anybody. >> by the way she attended wise high school, the fbi offering $10,000 reward, just this afternoon, this poster behind me, it was updated to a missing person's poster, the family is very active on social media. and they've established a hashtag on twitter, and instagram. bring a sean tee home. they've also set up a go fund me account to help with expenses, also to make up t-shirt, hats, any kind of thing that will help them finds ashanti in the virginia beach area. we'll stay on top of this. back to you guys. >> lockdown for two hours today, student found on campus with a load gun, the 16 year old spotted by teach here alerted school resource officer, after they saw something suspicious. >> no one was hurt, but many
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after hearing the news. fox5's paul wagner joins us live now with more. paul? >> reporter: well, jim, marina, the way police tell it, is that this teacher was really on the ball this morning inside the second floor of potomac high school here in objectionton -- oxton. called the school resource officer questioned 16 year old tenth grader, patted him down, and found loaded pistol. >> the school is locked down just around 9:30 a.m. after teacher told police she saw a current student exchanging money with another teen, she new was trespassing. >> officer quickly reacted, found the current student and began questioning that student. during the questioning, the officer found a handgun on the student, quickly, took that student into custody. >> officers then arrived in force, and began searching door-to-door. student locked in their classrooms, then got onto their phones, and learned what was going on. >> how did you learn about it? >> she text m
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phone. >> and whether did she play. >> that the school is on lockdown. >> but you didn't know why? >> right. she said a student had a gun. >> so you knew there was a student with a gun? how did you finds that out? >> social media. >> other mothers and fathers returned to the school after getting the news. >> imagine the state of panic, i mean, literally it took me 15 minutes to get from silver springs. >> police spent two hours inside the school but realize the trespass err had left after they saw him on video. >> we do who he is, and we are looking for him. >> it is unclear why the student brought the school to the school or if he and the trespass her some kind of plan. >> fortunately a teacher alert enough to notice students exchanging money is strange, and she contacted the school resource officer to investigate. >> law enforcement source says the trespass is her former student, who has been known to be a trouble maker in the past. we talked with number of parent who came here to get their children today saying that not only
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very upset by this news, but also that their students were very frightened inside the school, asked why they wanted to take them out today. many of them did. we talked to several of them, as you saw there, in that story. as far as the 16 year old is concerned, the police say, he will be facing charges. live in oxton hill, paul wagner, fox5 local news. >> u.s. attorney general jeff sessions spoke out today in favor of free speech rights on college campuses. while condemning nfl players who choose to kneel during the national anthem. attorney general made the comment during visit to georgetown university's law school. as fox5's bob barnard tells us, those comments sparked student-led protest. >> we are deeply disappointed, in how georgetown law has handled this event. >> this is how some georgetown university law center students faculty and staff responded, to the attorney general's invitation to speak on this capitol hill campus today. >> i
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for. >> a disgrace. >> some in the crowd say what upsets them most is the fact so many of them were not invited to be in the audience. >> you don't mind him coming here speaking? >> i do not. he is the attorney general. he is welcome to speak here any time. but it should be open to the student body as whole. >> attorney general jeff sessions came to the georgetown law school to speak about free speech on college campuses. >> starting today the department of justice will do it part in this work, we will enforce federal law, defends free speech, and protect students' free expression from whatever ends of the spectrum it may come. >> the attorney general was asked about president trump's recent crusade against nfl players, who take a knee during the national anthem before games. something critics of the presidency as an aids tack on the player's first amendment rights. >> i agree, that is a big mistake to protest
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fashion. i guess it is up to the owners, and the people who create these games and pay for the ball fields, to decide what you can do on a ballfield. but the freedom of every individual player is paramount under the constitution. it is protected, and we have to protect it. >> the session speech is in response to what's happened at the university of california at berkley, and on other college campuses. with controversial speakers, dis invited after student-led protests. >> so this is not right. this is not the great tradition of america. and yet school administrators have bent to this behavior. the effect is to coddle and encourage it. >> what say the professors who joined this protest today? >> well, we're objecting to, we just found out about this yesterday. and the faculty wanted to do a ten, we were told there were more seat left.
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intellectual way to voice opposition to many, many of the things that jeff sessions has done. this is the alternative, in northwest, bob barnard, fox5 local news. >> that is racism. you cannot deny it. you cannot run for it. and i kneel in honor of them. >> democratic congressman, sheila jackson lee of texas taking neon the house floor last night in what she says the solidarity with nfl players who dot same during the national anthem. president trump reignited when he said nfl owners should fire players who refuse to stands. mr. trump's comments, calling them racist. >> coming up, another big blow to the gop effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act. >> president trump says the us ready to use devastating force on north korea. ronica cleary for the announcement today. ronica? >> jim, as the tough talk rises, there are reports now that north
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out to get advice from republicans on how to deal with the president. we spoke with one of them who got the call. coming up. but first, guardee? >> thanks, ronica. it has been little less than a week since hurricane maria slammed into that island. we know as puerto rico. it is just devastated down there. we have some wonderful dc police officer going down tomorrow morning to spends time down there in their homeland to help out the folks there. we'll introduce to you some of these officers coming up. knew. >> you need to rush the help to puerto rico, that's for sure, gary. glad to hear it. i have an update on maria, she is no long area hurricane, a tropical storm as of the 5:00 update about 160 miles ice-southeast of cape hatteras, yes, the tropical storm warnings are flying down there. we will let you know what's ahead for the coast of north carolina, the outer banks, and what you can expect here locally as well. we will be right back. ack.
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>> ♪ ♪ >> ♪ ♪ >> well, protest he is on capitol hill today over the senate gop healthcare reform plan, a plan we now know won't go anywhere at least this week. senate leaders say there will not be a vote on gram cassidy, at least three republican senators, had no chance to pass. >> meanwhile president trump not letting up pressure on north
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>> r earlier today, president trump, again, said the us has not ruled out using military force to go get panning yank to give up nuclear weapons program. political reporter ronica cleary live in the northeast with more, hey, ronica? >> hey, jim, marina, at that joint press conference today, in the rose garden, the president was asked about the escalating crisis in north korea he described it as a mess. he says it is a mess that he has to clean up. i spoke with jenny town of the us korea institute. and she did say that if things had been handled differently, over the past few decades, we might not be in the situation that we're in today. >> north korea is a situation that should have been handled 25 years ago, 20 years ago, 15 years ago, ten years ago, five years ago, could have been handled much more easily. easil. left me a mess. but i'll fix the
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>> in some respects, it is right. because there have been several times throughout the past, you know, 25 years, since the end of the agreed framework where if we had a sustained negotiation process, we could have prevented us from getting to the situation we're at right now. >> well, went on to say there have been a lot of stops and starts along with missed opportunities, over the decades between the united states and north korea. and as the worlds watches, many are wondering, what is going to happen next on either side? now, i will tell this, the washington post, they are reporting that north korea is actually reaching out to republican strategists to get some assistance in better understanding president trump and bill clinicer with the heritage, he was one of them that got the call. take a listen. >> i think an initial objective sim y
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administration and its policy toward north korea when i talked to officials, i think i get a better sense of a coherent strategy than one might perceive from the public messaging. there has been a lot of contradictory statement by senior officials. i think really we need to focus on though that while these conferences are extremely useful, and interesting, if north korea want to send a message, i think it is most clearly done in direct conversations with the us government. >> now, clinic err continued down the invitation because of current state department restrictions and also in recognition of the death of auto warmbeard, but noted he has received and accepted invitations like this in the past. reporting live in northeast, ronica cleary, fox5 local news. >> puerto rico didn't get hit by one hurricane. it got hit by two hurricanes. and there were among the biggest we've ever seen. we right now have our top people from fema, and they've been there.
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basis massive loads of water and food and supplies for puerto rico. and this isn't like florida where we can go right up the spine, or like texas, where we go right down the middle and we distribute. this is, you know, a thing called the atlantic ocean. this is tough stuff. >> president trump cited massive recovery effort underway. >> islands took a direct hit from moore ' a, months perhaps years for the us territory to bounce back. president plans to visit puerto rico next tuesday, however, his critics say he hasn't paid as much attention to the islands as did he with texas and florida also hit hard by hurricanes. some members of the metropolitan police force plan to led to puerto rico tomorrow. fox5's gary mcgrady live at headquarters in northwest dc with this story. gary? >> hey thanks, guys. down here at the police department, police headquarters, and it is a great story. and i want to introduce to you couple of offers that's are actually going to be going
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ortiz, officer cerrano, you guys leaving tomorrow morning, correct? >> yes, sir. >> what time? >> we don't have that detail yet. it will be mid-morning probably, we don't know yet. >> this is all kind of coming together real quickly. when did you finds out that you would be going? >> couple of days ago. >> couple days ago watch did you learn? do you know what your mission will be, the things you might be doing, or is it just kind of like you get there and you figure out? >> we know what we are thereto support the police department, you know, and that's all we know so far. >> are you doing this on your personal time or is this something that the station is supporting smear. >> no, the chief of police, i want to say, for most, i want to say thank you to the city, mayor bowser and the chief of police for this opportunity. the department and the city supporting just this. and we volunteering for this task, but they are a significance us and they're supporting us. >> i want to say too, you guys, you grew up there. >> yes. >> this is your home basically been devestated. first of all i want to ask you, officer ortiz, how is your family that's
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now? >> thank god i've been able to talk to my mother, and through my mother i've been able to find out about other family members, and they are doing just fine, just property damage, and one of my cousins, female cousins, lost all of her, like the house, roof, and, you know, all the property that she has in the house. but she is alive. yes. >> and your family, as well. >> my family, as well, they're good. >> wonderful. but complete devestation? >> oh, yes. >> no power? we don't know anything about that? >> no power. >> dow want to say this. they're married. you degrees married officers. you met there but you got married here. how long have you been with the police force? >> here for three years now. >> and not only did they grow up there but they were both officers in puerto rico, and then they moved here, after they moved here they got together on facebook and it is a happily ever after store. >> i nice story to tell later. >> exactly right. i do want to wish you guys the best. and i hope you get down there. i hope you are able to see your family most
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hope you are able to help your homeland. i know how important it is when something happens to your home that you can get back down there. at least be a presence. so again, from us, thank you to what you're doing, and what do you every day, as well. so it is a big task, i mean, they had 150-mile per hour sustained winds down there. gusts stronger than that. that's like almost ef4 tornado over the whole island. they got big task ahead of them. they'll know more obviously when they get down there. coming up at 6:00 we'll talk to jose gonzalez, with another wonderful story. press down there, as well. we'll talk to jose in just a little bit and more perspective from san juan. >> thank you, gary we wish them the best of luck. >> weather, live look at the capitol, beautiful shot out there. you see some clouds. i think expecting a lot of the clouds from maria to roll into the area. >> that's right, jim. what's that is. and we have some good news, regarding maria. by the way, as gap i was reporting on the devestation in puerto rico, we also saw the radar wiped out down there, and that's huge
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ray dome taken out by maria which is now a tropical storm. also wanted to mention, weaver category two hurricane lee. but here is the good news, the track with lee is going to take it out to sea. and also, while maria will be making its closest pass to north core line a, even our coast, maryland coast here, along the mid-atlantic tomorrow, it is going to be moving away very quickly. so you can almost see where their tracks almost like like they're going to merge down the road. marie has gotten weaker, has moved into cooler waterment not seeing much of an eye. you can see the west side of it, look a little ragged. still about 160 miles southeast of cape hatteras. they are getting some of the outer bands, getting tropical storm force winds, storm surge is also possible down there at times of high tide. and just the winds went by pretty fast. you can see, they were to up about 37 miles an hour, at cape hatteras, over tropical storm force at this point. right around ocean city, winds are gust to go 26 miles an hour. so, we will see tropical storm warnings continuing down there, again, c
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tomorrow, then it will head on out to sea, this is a better scenario than it could have been. it is a brush with tropical storm maria, and fortunately, it is weakening. meanwhile, still on the warm side here, and enough sun getting through the clouds, that we did get up to eight a degrees tomorrow. we will be even warmer tomorrow, 90, maybe do-able again, before we bring in the cooler air toward the ends of the week. first look at your weather forecast, much more to come. jim, marina, back to you. >> thank you, sue. college basketball corruption. >> why several coach and big name sports company are now facing charges for bribery and corruption. >> a haneous act. you know, we are talking very violent in my opinion act toward these defenseless puppies. >> abandoned and tossed aside. six puppies dumped in a river, rescued by kayakers, they were found floating inside after bag.
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charging ten people including five assistant college coaches with bribery and corruption. top official with adidas facing charges, the case exposes dark under belly of college basket zero death ball. court documents show agent and financial advisors paid off bribes to assistant coaches, to get them an introduction to their is star college players, where the student turn professional. >> for the defendants charged today, the madness of college basketball went well beyond the big dance in march. month after month the defendants exploited the hoop dreams of student athletes around the countries, allegedly treating them as little more than opportunities to enrich themselves through bribery, and fraud schemes. >> the four assistant coaches were from oklahoma state, auburn university, arizona, and the university of southern california. but there are other universities that may get caught up. there are reports the university of louisville may also be involved. the investigation continues.
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boards of supervisor chairman calling out the nfl and players who refuse to stands during the national anthem. cory stewart plans to hold news conference tomorrow to announce steps he wants to take to strip the league's anti-trust exemptions. stewart you may recall served for time as president trump's campaign chairman in virginia before he was removed from that position. he also ran unsuccessfully for the republican nomination for governor this year, and is now running for u.s. senate in virginia. all right, coming up: two people shot during college park party where university of maryland students in attendance. >> we'll tell how police arrested for that fatal shooting coming up. >> i miss her smile. i miss -- i miss watching her grow into the beautiful young lady that she is. >> dc teen's life cut short when someone fired a gun she was sitting in outside her thirteen years later her mother still searching for justice, she sits down with fox5 in homes every bringing new light to thi
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but first, fits? fitz? >> marina, jim, good evening, there is surprising new pole out tonight here in virginia that shows that donald trump could have a bigger impact on this governor's race than anybody thought previously. first, let's check in with evan lambert. >> we're in pentagon city, we found this cosco car across the street from the cosco here. neighbors say they're ending up all over the place, sometimes blocks away, a new twitter account now poking fun at the issue. that story coming up in a live report.
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>> police are investigating deathsly crash in fairfax county. investigators tell us tractor-trailer and motorcycle collided on back lick road spring fields this afternoon there is was the scene from skyfox. we're told the motorcyclist was killed i
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traffic in the area was a mess while police cleared the scene. >> accused of shooting two men, one died, happened sunday apartment complex on cherry hill road. investigators believe he got in a argument with two men at the party, and now facing first and second degree murder charges. >> police say he attacked woman sunday near russ library along old waterford road in least berg, police say the suspect believed to be in his 20's, 5-foot eight, 150 pounds. if you recognize the man in the sketch call police. not on the ballot, fresh evidence big factor in the president's race. >> shows whopping 96% of democrats who support their party's candidate, disapprove of the president. at the same time, 75% of voters who support republican ed gill he is bee approve o
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fox5 tom fitzgerald live in alexandria tonight breaking down these numbers, hey, fitz. >> reporter: good evening, this is drat attic divide. this out of the newport university shows that clearly, republican ed gills bye, it also shows the democrat in this race, ralph, he is facing backlash over his hard line about removing confederate statutes virginia increasingly becoming a purple state. both parties have to appeal to both sides. but, the experts say, in looking at this new data tonight, it is make being some hard choices for both sides, democrats trying not to over play their trump card, and for republicans deciding whether or not to distance themselves, or embrace the president. >> there is real strong opposition to trump that's being reflected in support for northa.m. m, anti-trump vote. you see that in the polls, as well. so i
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billing impact that you're having there. i think the bigger challenge for gilesby, does he lean toward trump, lean away? >> now, the question for ralph northum is this, the polls raise this question whether or not he's ease his hard line stands on re moving these confederate statutes. the data says since the august violence, 54% of likely voters in virginia oppose his stance on removing these confederate statues, on the republican side, 72% of ed gilesby voters say they don't have an issue with the president. in fact, they think he's doing a good job. and it will not be a factor in this choice. however, 51% of those say on the democratic side, it is a very big issue, donald trump, being an issue in this race. that cuts out the work for both sides in the state who have to earn voters across the aisle. we talked to a lot of voter here in virginia today, they sa
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polls, donald trump will very much be on their minds. >> no, i think that they're going to decide it with trump on the trump issues. >> he'll have an effect? >> i think he will, yes. >> i'm trying to stay away from it, honest. >> i why do you try to stay away from it? >> such a negative impact, since he's gone in office. >> i think donald trump will have big effect on this one here because we always split it up here, as far as democrat and republicans. >> reporter: also some history on this side, especially on the republican side. you have to go back to jim gilmore, 1998, when he took office, when you have the last time before bob mcdonald, that a republican won this race. that's four governors, only one of them was a republican. we'll see how this shakes out, when voters go to the pole in november. for now,
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>> neighbors in pentagon city are fed up after finding dozens of cosco shopping carts abandoned and left to sit on public stores and sidewalks. one pentagon city restaurant took to twitter to bring to what issue. >> live in pentagon city with the latest on this, it is a strange situation, ever and. what's going on? >> reporter: it is a little bit weirds, isn't it? jim murray, the woman behind this twitter account, she said she is calling on cosco to do a better job about how easy it is to walk off their property with these shopping cart. we're just right across the street. we found a cart just sitting right here. but the neighbors here, they say, it gets way worse. this twitter user calls herself pentagon city girl. and the account is carts of pcarl. for weeks, she has been snapping photos of cosco carts as she calls it in their unnatural habitat. the on-line publication at
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arlington first reported this. the twitter account pokes fun where the carts are ending up, sometimes multiple carts found abandoned blocks away, in some cases neighbors say they're ending up as far away as crystal city. this is just a major annoyance, and an eyesore. >> and they're all over the place, especially near crystal center, pentagon city. every once in a while see some of the folks from cosco out walking the neighborhood and scooping them up. >> obviously it is an eyesore. obviously they should do something to try to take them back. it is the right thing to manage to me, people pulling them off. >> and tonight we will be talking to the creator of this twitter account. so we'll have that for awe little bit later. did i reach out to cosco for a comment on this situation. and they said that they are not commenting at this point. i tried to follow up. we'll see if they responds to. >> this but some neighbors do say is that they've seen some people, some cosco employees, trying to rounds up these carts, before, but according to these neighbors, and the twitter account,
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doing such a great job. for now live in pentagon city, ever and lambert, fox5 local news. >> cosco, stay for the samples. >> popular stroller being recalled after a child is injured while riding inside. hey, caitlin? >> marine, a jim, another incredibly warm day out there. maria, cloud cover, didn't really have effect on us here in washington. more clouds off towards the east, but it was a sunny warm day, 83 degrees out there. we have heat index because it is just so humid. eighty-six. how long will this warm weather last? that plus the latest track on maria. she will be out of here soon. i'm sick of talking about her, we all are, back with your seven day forecast on the other side of the break when fox5 news at 5:00 returns after this.
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. pascal and her team, they know what to do. they know what to do. the doctors know what to do. so here's the plan. first off, we're going to give you all... (voice fading away) i'm a lawyer, first off, we're going to give you all... and i have clients, and i am proud to do what i do on behalf of my clients. narrator: the clients john adams and his team are so proud to work for? banks accused of money laundering. big corporations accused of defrauding taxpayers. and mortgage lenders accused of unfairly foreclosing on homes. now he wants to be attorney general. john adams: the best attorney general the powerful and well-connected can buy. i'm mark herring, candidate for attorney general, and i sponsored this ad. >> consumer alert, tens every thousands of jogging strollers being recalled, delta enterprize recalling 28,000j is for jeep jogging strollers. the company says the
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leg bracket could break causing the child to fall out. there have been at least four reports of the bracket breaking and one child being hurt. the strollers were sold at target, wal-mart, other retailers between 2015 and 2016. >> historical move, saudi arabia says it will allow women to drive for the first time, decision was to lift the ban announced today, saudi arabia the only country in the world that prohibited women from driving, women, how much, will not n allowed to obtain licenses, immediately, a committee will be formed to look into how they implement this new order, saudi women will have the right to drive starting next summer. next summer, see how that checks out. meantime talk about summer. summer temperatures. >> seriously. i know, i'm getting little sick of it personally, but you know it will be a while before we feel these temperatures again i think. >> we get to too hot, too humid, then we get snow out there. >> we just thought well we like our seasons around here, its
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weather. we got a taste late august, early september, then summer heat it loves to be hotter out here, we're getting our money's worth for our summer like weather these past couple every days, aren't we? live live look, see cloud cover, maria clouds providing beautiful sunset last night, gorgeous sunrise this morning. so, they're good for that. otherwise, we haven't seen many effect from maria which is great. carolinas, as sue said off the top at the beginning of the show, feeling like tropical storm force winds, at least that rough surf, and some beach issues to deal with there maria brushes by the carolina coastline tonight through tomorrow. front will kick out early thursday morning. back home here, just as hot tomorrow, if not warmer, making a run at 90 degrees, we did that, two days ago, and we did it yesterday. so sunday, monday, probably not today just mid 80s, but the heat will finally loosen it grip beginning on thursday. it will feel like fall by friday, like it or not, we'll
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to normal. in fact, right around northern al, below normal over the weekend but not too far below. beautiful afternoon, 83 washington. eighty-one baltimore. eighty-one annapolis. eighty-eight frederick, very warm north and west, where the core of heat has been over the past few days, weather pattern has been stuck not just here but across much of the country. so in the eastern half we have seen incredibly warm temperatures, 86 buffalo, look at this, 92 detroit. eighty-nine in chicago. there is colds front moving ever so shely across the country, you can see exactly where it is as we zoom out. eighty-nine in chicago, compared to 64 in in minneapolis, 92 st. louis, compared to 64 in lincoln. so taking its sweet time crossing the country. once it does though cutting into the heat in the midwest tomorrow, then the northeast, also, responsible for pushing maria along, which is what we would like, tropical storm as of 5:00 p.m. this afternoon, visible satellite still picking up on the distinctive swirl. and the outer cloud bands making it to the eastern shore. making it really just east of 95. and they've had cloudier day hay and north and
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sunshine. so the rain bands haven't really made it further inland than say the norfolk virginia beach area. there is cape hatteras, outer banks there seeing the rain in there still under tropical storm warning until further notice. so the set up for tomorrow, very slow moving maria, but overall slow moving weather pattern to begin with. does start to make that northward and then quick eastwards extent out to sea. beginning wednesday into thursday. but for wednesday, still going to have another hot one. temperatures near 09 degrees here in washington, so planning forecast, 74, summer like morning, to start you off, 83 by noon, 87 by 5:00 p.m. but we will see that warm air replaced very quickly, by that colder air, coming in for the weekend, so by week's ends really, by friday, we see those temperatures really tail off. and then into the weaken for sure. >> low 208's thursday, look at that high temperature every just 70 degrees by saturday. and that trough sitting over saturday, stowe will be cloudy, it will bere
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maryland it, will feel entirely different by the weekends. lows in the 50's, beginning saturday, through the rest of the week. looks nice and mild, nice and sunny as we head into next week. that's all for me, jim, marina, back to you guys. >> thank you, caitlin. coming up: thirteen years later the death of a young dc mother remains a mystery. >> the mother refuses to let the crime go unsolved. we rewinds to the crime next.
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>> women devastated her close-knit family, she had just graduated from college, was raisin her young daughter she was shot and killed you. >> probably never heard of kendra, might have heard of her mother who hasn't given up hope. her daughter's murder will be solved. rewinds to the crime. >> when kendra smith was shot and killed in september of 2,004, it made little news in
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e a search of the internet turns up nothing, but obituary, reward poster, and a memorial website in kendra's name. but if you were paying attention, you would have noticed her mother. >> i am speaking on behalf of the mothers of unsolved murder. >> that's debra at the millions more movement in october of 2,005. >> i am your mirror. >> here she is at the brady center to prevent gun violence. >> well, my baby was killed, i just did what eagles do. i swoop. and i'm taking care, i'm being a part of the solution, and not the problem. >> debra evans bailey turned into a fighter, testifying at city council hearings, bring i attention to gun violence whenever she could. thirteen years later, debra is still waiting for justice. >> i miss her smile. i
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grow into the beautiful young lady that she is. >> kendra smith grew up on d street southeast. she went to ban kerr high school, and temple university in philadelphia. >> she was witty. she had a goodheart. she loved children. loved children. >> but on the evening of september 6th, 2,004, kendra's live was cut short. he someone opened fire on the car she was sitting in right outside her front door. >> at this time, we're unsure if she was the actual target or not. we can't say for sure at this time. >> there are conflicting accounts, as to what occurred shall prior to the murder, and after those accounts, again, since the case is open, i can't get into those particular accounts that we've heard. >> this much we know. kendra was in the passenger seat after car driven by a neighborhood friends, who was not hit by the gunfire that night. fox5 made several attempts to speak with the man
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account, but he never responded. >> on september 6th, 2,004, kendra's mother, sister, and daughter were inside this house here on d street, when suddenly they heard gunfire, it was around 10:30 at night. they didn't think much about it at that time because gunfire was common in this neighborhood. and then the phone rang. >> when the phone rang, i answered, and someone said you need to come to burbank. i think your daughter just got shot. >> debra through on some clothes, with letter daughter courtney, ran out of the house. >> when i saw her with my own eyes, then i just pretty much lost it. >> you knew it was bad? >> i knew it was bad, yes. >> seeing kendra on a stretcher, courtney went to her sister's side. >> the only thing i could get out of what she was saying was i -- i don't know if she was trying to say that i love you, or what her last words was trying to say. but i will never forget those i's, when she was looking, how she loo
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i will never forget that. >> kendra died the next day. thirteen years later, debra still doesn't know what happened that night. she eventually spoke with the man who was driving a car, but he claimed not to know who was doing the shooting or why. at one point, early in the investigation, debra says police thought they could close the case and had a suspect. but the detectives never offered proof. a new detective is on the case now exploring several new leads. >> we are exploring other individuals whose names have come up as a part of the investigation, as well. >> after all this time, debra evans-bailey said she has some hope the case will eventually be solved. >> she is dearly missed. not just by me, but by many, but her spirit, her spirit definately lives. >> kendra smith was a young mother when she was killed. her daughter, just turned 14. with fox5's rewind of the crime, i'm paul wagner. >> and if you know anything about the murder of the man she was
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dc police. >> there is $25,000 reward for information that leads to a conviction in the case. >> coming up: >> she was saying no, no, leave my alone, please help me, someone help me. >> a kidnapping caught on video. details next. >> and six newborn puppies lucky to be alive after being stuffed in a bag and thrown into a river. the story of how they were found and rescued next.
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>> all right, this is surveillance footage showing man dragging a woman across los angeles street shoving her into a car suddenly she disappears, witness said she could hear the screams through the man's car, and at one point the woman managed to get out, but was forced back inside. >> sly was saying someone help me. i said leave go,
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alone, could you hear the girl banking the window hard, hard, saying, please let go and crying, appears second man was also inside the car. investigators hope this surveillance footage will lead them to the suspects. this next story out of massachusetts, is both a hero and village. over the weekend group of kayakers saved six puppies tied to a bag and thrown into a river. kayakers spotted the dogs and helped to save them. >> the good news in this: puppies had a guardian angel looking over them. it is a haneous act. you know, talking very violent, in my opinion, act, toward these defenseless pup us. >> it is nice to see that we're going have a good outcome here. these pup advice a chance, they have a fighting chance. >> those puppies about a week old. they'll be put up for adoption in the next couple every months, as for the village, police still trying to figure out the person responsible. >> talk about hair goals, check out this baby's incredible thick head of hair, her name picks i rose, just tw
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her mother says people stop her all the time to admire her locks, born with rare condition called microbe a, it means, she has under developed ear and has impaired hearing in that ear. her mother says despite that, she still plans to style picks i's hair in a up do, as she gets older. cute little baby. all right, tony, sean, stannel g by for our news at 6:00. >> there they are. and they join you right now. >> local teen, missing for more than a week, now, her family is pleading for answers, as the fbi releases new video, connected to her disappearance. >> iceland desperately struggling to recover from hurricane maria. tonight president trump touts great response, but critics say no where near enough. >> plus helping hur
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victims. fox5's sits down with the dc police officers, now, headed to the disaster zone. the news at 6:00 starts right now. now. >> we begin with the search to finds missing 19 year old, vanished from virginia beach, but she grew up in prince george's county. >> please, i'm beg everybody. please, pray for my baby. please, please, pray for ashanti, my daughter, my baby. she my everything. please, bring my baby home today. >> she vanished more than a week ago, her car found abandoned, and her cell phone tossed into a dumpster. >> fox5 matt has new surveillance video the fbi just released. >> yes, sean, tony, also went to wise high school in prince george's county. we have the video we'll slow it to you in just a few seconds. but first little backgrounds,
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ashanti was virginia beach area for culinary school, also had job on military base. it has been over a week since she was seen and her family and friends tonight, they're doing all they can to find her. >> please, pray for ashanti, my daughter, my baby, she is my everything. please bring my baby home today. >> where is she? what happened? questions her parents and law enforcement are desperately trying to answer. >> we're desperate. because it is going on eight days now. answer. this new video he release from the fbi is what authorities believe asian take you's car joining joint little creek monday, september 18. family believes show was on her way into work to set up for the day at a sandwich shop inside the base. a half-hour later her car was seen leaving but we're told the video is not good enough to see who is actually driving the car. her mother and father say there were no signs of trouble, in

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