>> reporter: it happened right under the nods of the owner and it happened while there were customers and he didn't notice until two days earlier, the woman snuck through they didn't door going underneath crept through the back of the store, and made her way right in here and helped herself to this safe that was left open. now, police tell me this is the third instance or scene all in a matter of only six months. now. we want to show you that surveillance video from the store, you can see folks coming into the store out here, and we do know that this, these are seven people that walked in and distracted the owner while one of the with my made her way to the back room. she packed her skirt with items from the safe safe. went to the back room two separate times, and hung around, got away with about $200,000 in cash and jewelry. now, and for detectives in california, we want to show you this video, this is also familiar, take a look this is video fromun

jewelry in glendale. you see a group of six distracting sales associates as a seventh woman slips away and makes a swift move to the back of the store, then grabs jewelry from the safe and almost going unnoticed, but confronted by employees, soon after. suspect bolts out, run, into an ally, getting away with 3 to $4,000 in jewelry and here are images from police in pennsylvania, take a look at these. the suspect moving the same brazen tactic got away with $100,000 from a store called dave's collectables on october 14th. police now working to connect the dots before proceeding on another small business owner. >> right now, you know, if they come in too many people outside, you know, maybe we can, you know, if i notice them, maybe they can,

so that i had to retire >> their job is to go out scope out jewelry stores or pawn shops, distract the owners and steal from them whatever they can. without a doubt they will. >> reporter: they got away in a 2004 to 10 honda odd des see; he plans to close down his store after 30 years business, police are asking for anyone with information that will lead to an arrest to contact them immediately. reporting live in falls church, melissa howell fox 5 local news what happened to tricia thrown me for a loop. i don't even know what to think. >>

a yoga teacher >> it was basically the middle of the day on christmas, you know, yes, it's scary. it's scary. that's why we all have to watch out for each other >> how wonderland she was and full of life and love and people i think were drawn to her >> i'm so glad i was there to, you can, see that and relay the information and help with the closure. >> you'll remember it was a crime that really shocked our area. a dc woman raped and murdered on christmas day. a judge sentenced duane johnson to 30 years in prison for the brutal attack. fox 5 matt ackland was in court matt, what did you hear? >> reporter: you're right, still so many people talking about this horrible crime. this is where officials worked. we're in the bloomingdale neighborhood. the owner of the yoga studio spoke at the

with many of other tricia's friends, duane johnson, that's the killer, a few feet away from all of us. all of them. they said tricia was known for her smile, her laughed, and her kindness. now, the details surrounding this are awful. prosecutors say tricia encountered johnson on the drive over to a friend's christmas dinner party. johnson raped her and used her scarf to strangle her. we're learning she fought back after johnson was arrested near tricia's car. he had numerous injuries including a fractured jaw. johnson at first denied it then admitted he was responsible. a plea agreement was reached and we heard tricia's family agreed 230 years in prison and supervised release. >> we you know, know that, know sentence will really provide for the healing that her friends and

but we believe it's the appropriate sentence in this case. it allows the friends and family not to have to relive this horrible and tragic incident through a trial. >> it's been a very difficult nine months. i think that it really shattered a lot of the confidence that we have feeling comfortable on the streets in dc, i'm fortunate to be 50 years old and to have not had tragedy strike this close to me. but then when your best friend is murdered and abused by a stranger on christmas day, it's hard to take. smch tricia's friends pointed out that the: johnson was supposed to be wearing a device that would track him, he has been arrested before a judge has ordered that gps device but johnson never --

johnson did apologize through an attorney saying that he knows whatever he said in court today, cannot change what took place. in bloomingdale tonight matt ackland fox 5 local news. an alexandria man is accused of assaulting a woman riding a metrobus. the man also is accused of indecent exposure and this is not his first offense. tisha lewis is live in alexandria tonight with more on this story that's getting a lot of attention. >> reporter: hey there, jim, hi, sarah, the incident happened or ended at least at this alexandria intersection near this bus stop. now, the suspect has apparently committed the same crime not once, not twice, but get this, this case marks the fifth instance of indecent exposure and other allude acts by this man on board a metrobus. now, we're talking about 48-year-old duane henry walker. he was

transit police thursday afternoon after he reportedly exposed himself and then assaulted a passenger aboard a metrobus. police say they were called and responded to this intersection near north bear guard street and fair to guard avenue in alexandria. the victim was a woman who said she does not know him and boarded the bus at the pentagon transit center. he moved closer and then began leaning against her and masterbating. the victim confronted the suspect, stood up and walked to the front of the bus to notify the bus operator who then called police. >> when they're victimized in that way freak. and so for her to take steps, which she's done, they're doing more than any public transit agency in the country to address sexual harassment, by putting up ads on the metro with supportive messages to people who are likely to be targeted. let's

treated with respect and the messages say you have the right to speak up. >> reporter: it's not just victims being you wered to speak up but bystanders and witnesses are being urged to speak up. now, walker was positively identified by the victim, he is now charged with is indecent exposure, assault and battery, and he was also in possession of marijuana. now, we're also told that he has four prior arrests, four indecent exposure, dating back to 2015, three of those arrests were by metro transit police. tisha lewis fox 5 local news. more fall-out tonight against senator al franken >> new calls for the democrat to take his name off a bill aimed at helping rape survivor >> he will not step down.

the wife of is alexandria roy moore her take on sexual misconduct against her husband. jesse jackson fighting an illness >> beautiful weather to end this work week, sunshine and light winds, i wish i could say the same for the weekend but we got rain moving in tomorrow, it will be all weekend long and then we'll have cold, first look at your forecast coming up when fox 5 news returns after the break.

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democratic senator al a franken, a rape survivor said the senator should take his name off the bill. minnesota senator forcibly kissed and groped a woman and he cancel add speaking engagement in atlanta. in a she of support, a group of eight former franken employees issued a joint statement saying the senator treated them with the utmost respect. new tonight, another politician imbroiled in a scandal, an ohio lawmaker who anti-lgbt has resigned after he was caught having sex with man in

west good man, the whole incident reportedly happened several months ago but was just brought to light. good man has consistently touted his faith and his belief in transitional marriage between a man and woman. he issued a statement apologizing and acknowledging his public strugglings. in alabama? a group of women are rallying in support of roy moore. some when they were in their teens, supporters today meeting on the steps of the alabama state capitol to convey their message that the timing of the alleged conduct is in their eyes, suspicious. >> let me at the time the record straight, even after all the attacks against me, my family, against the foundation, and now against my husband, he will not step down. he will not stop fighting for the people of alabama. and h

will not stop until they lay me in that box in the ground. >> moore denied the allegations and has rebuked those calls for him to step down. jesse jackson announced he betty link parkinson's disease which is the same illness in took his father. he made the announcement in a letter to his supporters. he was under going physical therapy ever since. they first noticed symptoms three years ago, and he could no longer ignore those signs, he's now receiving care. mayor muriel bowser got a helping hand from lady gaga's mother and the singer born this way foundation, they help distribute fresh food and vegetables to dozens, they to took place at henley elementary in southeast. mayor began a program to increase access to healthy foods to people living east of the an cost dia

today, lady gaga's mother attended as well. >> this is so important in the community, and fantastic work they're doing, and spreading kindness and love, and wonderful for children and family also. >> of course lady gaga is looking forward to this weekend, performing at capitol one arena in dc, we know that is going to be fantastic. let's talk about the weather out there today and it's sunny all day, that was the nice part of it. >> it was look at even the sunset is a little bit, kind of pretty, kaitlyn. >> earlier this morning, we kind of had a similar sunrise, it's call an umbre sunrise >> are you a little monster? isn't that lady gaga? >> not particularly. but i could be. >> not necessarily. i could be

fall day. we had sunshine, no wind, and temperatures while a little cool, pretty pleasant for mid november. 50 right now move past sunset and get dark rather quickly but that was a gorgeous shot of the last of daylight. 50 here but 45 in gaithersburg, 47 at dulles, 48 manassas and 52 in quantico. satellite and radar shows fair skies, we'll see clouds increasing coming out of the ohio valley, and where you see the showers over chicago, great lakes, that's what looks like not much right now, is expected to move eastward and intensify into a low pressure system that will deliver us rain and possibly showers before that tomorrow. but first, your friday evening plans, it's chilly and dry and temperatures will be in the 40's through 11:00 p.m. falling back to 45

around 40 maybe not as chilly as this morning, but we just got to the pattern of pretty cool nights. fox futurecast what you need to know. there's those clouds rolling in overnight, by 7:00 a.m. you start to see showers but now with the trends have been pushed further south into our area, looks like most of the day will be dry but late morning through early afternoon, there's a period of scattered showers through washington, and most of the areas north: first showers come in and thing bringing brief heavy rain and heavy winds, it will turn wet first in the morning and it will turn windy t that. all of that still ahead in your seven-day forecast. jim and sarah

himself and his wife in church. >> what he was doing when that gun accidently went off. a drone carrying contraband crashes. why facebook is ending the option to delete posts from your timeline if you have a story give us a call at fox 5202-895-3000 or 202-895-3000. 202-895-3000. what if there was only one paper?

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everywhere >> and if punch asked if they can see it, he accidently pulled the trigger, the bullet hit the man's hand before hitting his 80-year-old wife in the stomach, both taken to the hospital, thankfully with nonlife-threatening injuries. the navy is apologizing after lewd images in the sky. it happened over a naval air station, it said it found those images ununacceptable. >> we're told the crew members will be punished. the faa is looking into it and says it will not take any action because the sky writing did not post a safety risk. just may have offended a few people. first facebook can soon make another change, one some users may not like, especially if you often delete your posts >> the social media is thinking about eliminating the option to delete. the delete function is still available on mobile phones and other devices, i can tell you, i saw the story coming up. i went

still delete, i'm sure a lot of you can out there. it might be a glitch. who knows >> or it may be coming >> dumb idea if that's the case. new study said people seem to get the intent of their messages across even when they text. >> the searches say nonverbal queues such as emojis. >> the researchers say people have adapted by using the tools they have at their to disposal. to communicate effectively. although i have to say i just had a communication issue with my boyfriend. you know, it's still out there. and it's still exists. apparently we still have a lot to learn >> we do and i'll tell you what i think the one thing i'm not good at doing speaking of sarcasm, anger, i pick that up immediately. sarcasm, not so much. >> kaitlyn >> kaitlyn is so good to see you right now. >> i want to know more. you left us

>> i'm not saying anything else. >> i have to know if you sent the wrong emoji. >> facial expression, you know, that can be wrong if you hit the wrong emoji-guys, but good life lessons here on friday, let's take a look at the weekend. as i told you at the beginning of the newscast, got big changes which is a shame. it's been beautiful. but a warm front will move north of us tomorrow, it's mainly just a cloudy breezy day, but there has been a trend to drag showers in early enough that the morning could start off rather wet, a break is expected through late afternoon evening and then as the cold front comes through generally after 10:00 p.m., narrow band of heavy rain is expected. that should clear up by sunday, sun will be out, it will be increasingly windy, temperatures falling throughout the day, even though we'll start in the mid 50's. scattered showers around on saturday, cloudy and breezy, 58 and still

temperatures are falling 56 there on sunday. so we'll be end, the day, back with that cold weather, it's a chilly start to monday morning, 35, 50 on a very bright and beautiful monday despite the cold start. into the travel week, looks great, dry, comfortable, little chilly by thanksgiving itself. but honestly, anywhere across the midatlantic in the northeast at least the call right now looks good, leading into thanksgiving >> a lot of people need to know that. >> coming up. police arrest a maryland man for sex trafficking. >> we'll tell you what the ploy used to bust the man they say was forcing women to perform sex for money, plus where he was arrested. but first, paul. >> reporter: someone took out the window of this church with gun fire this week, jim. and last night, there was more. i'm paul wagner i'll have that story straight ahead. sarah? . the woman behind this anti-trump decal lands herself in jail. the reason she was arrested next.

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. undercover detectives went there, found two women officers and arrested them. university of maryland police say this man is a person of interest on an on campus burglary happened in the early morning hours at the student union campus police are investigating. also maryland police busted two people i

this happened thursday at a home along old county road. they were caught with more than 18 grams of fentanyl. hoffman faces additional charges. a dc man who tried to skip out on metro fare is facing serious charges. he allegedly got in a violent struggle after he tried to sneak through the fare gates, this happened at the minnesota station, during the struggle, hickman allegedly pulled out a gun and threw it on the attracts, also fare evasion. someone fired bullets into a church last night. and this is the second time it's happened this week >> why it was done is another matter entirely. paul wagner is joining us with more on the story, paul. >> reporter: jim and sarah, how do you explain the actions

someone who wants two shoot up a church seeminglyin comprehensivible but the pastor said he's known of no threats, no trouble at the church, take a look at this, someone took out this window with gunfire this week, this is the plywood covering that window and take a look at this, last night, more gunfire here at the church, right here on the wall you can see where two of the bullets hit some of the cinderblocks. it happened that there was police officers in the area. who heard the gunfire. listen to what they had to say. >> heard about 12 gunshots in a church that got hit last night >> what did the officers find when they got on the scene? >> damage to the front and sides of the church building. they located the bullet fragments near the church building. and also located multiple shell casings among castor mill road. >> reporter:

evening, someone attending a prayer service noticed this window at the entrance to the church had been shattered by what police later discovered was a bullet exactly when the damage was done is still unclear. however, last night at 11:13, there was more gunfire. the bullets hitting the port co over the front door as well as the cinderblock war over the left side of the front entrance, the gunfire coming for seeming the no reason, the pastor said there's been no threats, no trouble. >> i have no idea what to make of it. i don't think there's this church has been in this community almost 30 years. this building has been here since 2003. we have a good relationship with our community. we do all kinds of community teacher events like we have one coming up on sunday after church, our annual thanksgiving drive. and so i don't think anyone did it with malicious intent. we just don't know. >> reporter: the police did in the get a lookut

that may have been in the area. it's unclear who will actually fire the shots last night here at the church. but montgomery county police would like some help if you think you can help them give anthem a call. there is a reward. live in gaithersburg. a reward for an arrest in the deadly shooting of a police detective is up to $190,000, detective shawn suiter was shot in the head while following up on a homicide investigation in west baltimore, you died yesterday. he lives behind a wife and five children and police are still looking for the gunman. the mother of a toddler found dead in texas last month is under arrest. she appeared before a judge today, charged with child abandon meant and endangerment. a judge revealed they left the girl home alone whe

out to dinner on october seven and, the couple reported the girl missing, two weeks later the child i was found in a culvert near the family's home, she's being held on $250,000 bond, wesley remains jailed on $1 million. a father is facing child neglect charges after he left his two young kids in a car while he went into a strip club. in for the myers florida. the father claims he was only there a minute. a patron said he heard the three month old crying and held the baby's three-year-old's sibling unlock the car. the kids were not seriously hurt an update on a story we told you yesterday. a driver of a pickup displaying a crude anti-trump decal is arrested on an outstanding warrant. shay taken into custody on a fraud charge and released couple hour it's later. she began speaking publicly about the decal that said f trump and f you for voting for him after the local sheriff mentioned it on

didn't think it would be prosecutable. college day did the white house. >> deans got a chance to take a photo with president trump. take a live. one of the players wore a trump tie and that got a big smile and a handshake, maryland's women's la cross can team also was honored, some of the team's presented the president with a jersey. two teams were no shows, clemson tigers already met, the women's basketball team from south carolina declined. don daily issued a statement that said we did hear from the white house about attending but we will not be able to attend, as i've been saying since our practicing all of our focus is on the season ahead. the only invitation we're thinking about is to the

naacp tournament. a failed mission >> a drone filled with drugs and contraband crashes inside a prison yard. how police are using something they found inside that package to track down the drone pilots. the museum opened its doors to the public with a special message for bible scholars, and atheists, coming up. kaitlyn >> if it doesn't look like much on satellite and radar, just a few showers out by chicago, this is going to intensify, and a lot of rain in parts of the northeast tomorrow, for ishowers to start your weekend could be around as heavy rain and a lot of wind, i'll have the details coming up in the full forecast, when fox 5 returns. when fox 5 returns.

. fox lauren blanchard is a sneak speak >> the most read book in the world now has a brand new $500 million museum. letting visitors experience the good book first hand. it's located a few blocks from capitol and the national mall. seven years in the making, the 430,000 square foot facility features thousands of biblical texts and after facts from all over the world. >> we're using the best technology, new technology that is being developed to try to learn as much as we can from the items that we have >> putting all of this together was no easy task. there are three

bible's history, narrative and impact. >> even if you're an atheist we want you to feel comfortable coming in here, realizing, we're not pushing our agenda, faith, we just want you to learn about this book >> the museum worked with scholars of religions and cultures from all over to make sure the exhibits were presented in a way they hope is welcoming. >> we think that the bible is a book of many people, so museum that features those many traditions has a much stronger message to offer to more people. and this is a respectful message to more people. >> what's old is definitely made new, a massage 140 foot long led ceiling in the grand lobby helps bring biblical times into the digital age. >> really bring >> it's even better than i thought it would be >> they say they believe it would take someone fine days at a rate of eight hour as day in order to fully see, read and experience everything here. at the museum of e

caitlin roth, >> trying to get my weekend started. i'm sorry, i was halfway out the door. i know. yeah. we got a big weekend. all around big weekend for college football. friends over at jan knee elementary school doing a big 5k tomorrow morning. hopefully the rain is not here by now, but that will be close. it is an important weekend. even starting the holidays, if you're fortunate enough to maybe work from home or have enough time off next week, but as we take a live look outside, we're certainly starting the weekend on a nice note. because it was beautiful today. clear skies tonight, no

problems, no rain expected for tonight. the first time we should see any rain would be early tomorrow morning, your weather headlines let's begin with tonight, clouds increasing. overall dry, some showers around saturday, generally dc north, generally in the morning and afternoon, we'll have a significant break before we get a round of heavy rain that's expected overnight into sunday, that's a lot of cold front, which will bring gusty winds behind it, also ahead of it. it will be breezy, and falling temperatures then behind that front, 54 at reagan today, 53 at dulles, 53 at bwi. it was nice with the sunshine, look at these temperatures falling off as soon as the sun sets, 45 in gaithersburg, 47 out of dulles, 37 in winchester, that's surprising, that might be a bad reading because it's 48 there in martinsberg, but still, 52 in quantico, 48 in baltimore, satellite and radar overall it's clear clouds are increasing from the north and west, we got showers along the ohio valley that will

itself nicely as it crosses into the midatlantic tomorrow, warm front and then a cold front. here's what it looks like as we play it out on fox future ca. look at the showers crossing 68, one, this is as early as 8:00 a.m. up towards hagerstown and cumberland maybe waking up to rain showers, looks like between late morning, early afternoon hours but then lifts out, decent dry break, mostly cloudy still breezy, but mild. that's mild and also breezy out ahead of the cold front which crosses the mountains, some time tomorrow night. then during overnight hours brings us rain, snow showers behind it this is early sunday morning, as a nice west wind kicks in, that's sunshine that we're waking up to sunday within gusts increase to over 20 miles an hour, they will intensify before the front comes through, up to 40 miles an hour wind gustses are possible tomorrow night and we switch direction and instead of out of the

northwest it's just as gusty as the cold air pores in and it will stay breezy, clouds are on the increase. if your favorite area is north of washington, 58 for the high temperature and breezy with the south winds ahead of the front, the seven-day forecast, 56 on sunday, we'll be an early high temperature, we'll be in the mid 40's by the day's end. cold start to monday morning, sunny and chilly then through the rest of the week, looks very nice, we'll have a lot of sunshine, dry roads for traveler, turkey day itself looks beautiful, little chilly high of 47, it will definitely feel like thanksgiving. but kind of what we want this time of year, by the way, shoppers a black friday looks just as good too. big night for football. brody live in gaithersburg with this one, hey, brody. >> jim it's a playoff atmosphere it's a playoff p

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. last 52 years. very important. emotional and internally i can feel it. >> you don't look like you've been doing this 52 years. referee kept you in shape. >> absolutely, absolutely. i love it. and major sports but that keeps you in good

>> absolutely: definitely does. especially when you get to my a age. fortunate. i know how to control the ballgame because there's stop it. bermuda, georgetown university's washington, that was an exciting, five days we spent there. but you know, working i've worked the last championship games, worked the state tournament. i worked the dc championship games. i worked a lot of major games and that to me is enjoyable. especially when you get a nice crowd from a ballgame. works on football than

basketball. but when you get 4, 5 thousand people out cheering >> tonight, we don't exactly have bermuda type weather. if i were a referee. will you be going out your swan song by throwing a fan out of this game >> i think i'll try to do both coaches. >> so that -- whoever goes to the championship will not be able to be there. >> no, i wouldn't -- no, you know, most of them -- they got a good element of good coaches in this county and as a matter of fact, in a lot of the counties we do, steps from the top down to the kids, and really, i don't have major issues with them and of course most of the coaches know who i am >> after 52 years, they should know who you are, congratulations, have a good night. if he kicks both coaches out.

>> item, jim >> be good. >> if you're sticking around, apparently quinn orchard is riding off into the sunset. >> on the way. tears were flowing as an air man surprised his younger sister. >> check out the reaction. >> i didn't even know. we don't know how long we'll be home for, clearly they're close

>> coming up, an assault at a laundry mat in the district >> a woman attacks another customer inside, video of the suspect police are searching for, coming up next.

. police need your help to solve crimes caught on a camera. new videos of the suspectings first happening back in septa laundry mat awoman pushes someone on ground and takes off, she's wanted on simple assault charges a cell phone store robbery was caught on camera in northeast dc. surveillance video capturing three suspects entering the store from the back, one goes for the safe. while the other two ransack the store, breaking open drawers. and filling bags with cell phones and other

happened on november 7th before 5:00. a plan to deliver couldn't band at a prison >> correctional officers recovered the stash, authorities say this is the first time they've heard of a drone being used to attempt to deliver contraband. investigators still don't know who was behind it. trying to grab fingerprints and dna samples, grab those fingerprints and things like that. they say a box inside the drone provides gps information, so they're taking a look at that. so far, no one has been arrested. that's a big oops. here's what's coming up at 6:00. a group of thieves target a jewelry store in our area, we're now learning they're targeting jewelry stores across the country. an alexandria man assaults a woman and on a metrobus

we're learning more about how bystanders have intervened i'm tisha lewis that story is coming up. someone shout out the window of this church in gaithersburg this week and there was more gunfire last night. i'll have the stories. this is fox 5 local news at 6:00. right off the top. a brazen jewelry heist in falls church has police piecing together a cross country spree of similar thefts >> it is a story you will see only on fox 5, investigators believe the same group of people right here were involved in crimes all across the country. from california to pennsylvania and most recently in northern virginia. in each case, surveillance cameras have recorded this group committing their crimes >> melissa howell is live with the latest. >> reporter: this happened right under the nose of the jewelry store owner. at bt jewelry and it happened while he hadus

store and he hadn't realized what had happen for two days. the woman you're about to see in that video came through this door, went underneath the door, to not make any noise, she then made her way down this aisle and into the back room, here is where she helped herself to this safe that was left open. we got surveillance video, we want to show you, this is the video that you see of seven people coming into the store. they distracted the owner while one of the women made her way to the back room and packed her skirt with items from the safe. she went to the back room two separate times, and then hung around the store before leaving. she got away with about $200,000 in cash and jewelry. and detectives in california, this is all too familiar. this is video from june 14th at honolulu jewelries in glendale. you see a group of six distracting sales associates as a seventh woman slips away and makes a swift move, then grabs jewelry and almost goes unnoticed but is c