>> reporter: it's a deadlyy combination of cars, pedestrians and bikes. 12 pedestrians crashes alongshes this stretch of pennsylvania p avenue and forestville between donnelle drive in the last four years, many fatalities.s. >> crazy, because the cars never stop. they just keep going. >> reporter: prince george'sri county officials havnce teamed u with the state's highway administration to try and improve pedestrians safety here. just in time for the start of the new school year next week. this new $186,000 crossingin signal in the middle of the t block is the key, especially for pedestrians, trying to get to nearby shopping and eateries. >> it's really needed. you know, it's a high-traffic area, real dangerous at night. it's dark. it's needed in this community. c >> reporter: this is a petdz pedestrians activated signal.iga you have 30 seconds to make it

across pennsylvania avenue safely. >> it's a god send for parents pushing kids in strollers. listen to what it used to be like before the new crossing signal went in. >> you had to look at that light down there, make sure it was re before you crossed and then youy got to worry about if they're speeding or not.ee then you have tdio look at that light all the way down there tot make sure they're not speeding and with a baby, it's harder, way harder. >> reporter: besides the signale there are new signs and flashing lights to alert motorists in both directions about the t pedestrians crossing up ahead. >> wait. >> reporter: and when they cross, a constant and very loud beep sound. s >> i'm glad that it's here because it prevents a lot of accidents happening on that corner. >> reporter: if it saved one life, county officials who have been pushing for the improvements say it will all be worth it. audrey barnes, fox 5 news. >> in dharls county, deputies d need the public's help need the driver who hit a man in a a

wheelchair and left the scene around 61:00 last night at saint charles parkway and saint thomas drive. investigators say the 34-year-old victim was trying to across the parkway when he was hit. he was thrown to the medical m center where he is in stable condition. the vehicle is white, possibly a ford truck. it's right headline was not working. police in prince george's county are investigating a case. it happened on baltimore avenue and college park. police say the two people in this grainy surveillance picture entered the restaurant and demanded cash. one of them was carrying a gun. suspects took off in this silver accura with maryland tags. no one was hurt and no customers were inside. the road to recovery continues for a dc man brutally attacked one year ago today near eastern market.ern he was beaten and robbed walking

home at after a nats game on august 18. the 30-year-old husband and father was in a coma for six days. he underwent multiple surgeries leaving him with permanent brain damage. reflecting on the last year his wife said in her blog, quote, i've spent a year frantically scrabling for pibls trying to create a mow saturdayic but s that's not the way brain injuryy works. you don't fix brain injury. you don't fix people. you heal them and you heal yourself. new reports released with just two recent ambulance firess were accident yam. according to the wop who obtained copies of the post the fires were probably caused by malfunctions or poorly done repairs. both reports were completed c before the mirroredded police to investigate the fires. city officials say the investigation is expected to take some time andle internal reports do not rule out thehe possibility of tampering. we are upon forking metro

and a man was hit and killed by a train on the orange line this morning. it happened before 2:00 a.m. on the tracks between the east church and boston stations.tion no word on why the man was on o the tracks. he was not been identified but we know he's not a e met tro employee. eight passengers were on theon train and they were not hurt.ur. a maryland man is facing attempted murder charges after r fight in anne arundel countyount that happened around 2:00 this0 morning in the parking lot of mm place bar and large in annapolis. the suspect, this 25 got into is a fight with a man he knew over a mutual female acquaintance. kosher allegedly struck the victim with his car. kosher was arrested where he sought medical attention for the injuries he sustained for the fight. an autopsy will be conducted on and man whose body was pulled from the river in bladensburg. the victim jewel low mendez

lopez was fishing his his h brother when he went missing m near the arena. his body was recovered 4:30 r yesterday afternoon.on. the autopsy will determine anmie official cause of death. turning to the weather now and let's take it outside. a dreary sunday, rate rain falling for most of the day. d sue palko is in for gu r wenn. w >> not a washout but one thing, not a whole of sunshine, a little bit of light rain and cooler temperatures. tem our high temperature is 73 degrees. can you believe this is august? right now, we still have a goodg amount of cloud cover around and a few patches of showers here and there. t let me give you is quick radar tour. you're still getting showers across the lower portion of southern maryland. very light stuff and a few sprinkles here and there around the region and for the most mos part, i think this is how it will go on this sunday evening. we're going to see the bulk of b

the rain already now passing by to our north and east and just a few leftover showers here and there. now, i am going to keep an eye on more activity that we seoidss in west virginia, anothernia, disturbance that has to roll through in the next 24 hours. while i don't think we'll see much in the evening hours in terms of showers, you're good to do whatever you need to do on your sunday evening, i think perhaps we squeeze out more later tonight. so we're stuck in this truf with a big area of low pressure off the coast moving away and it's definitely affected our temperature.te we have to bump that high up too 74 degrees. but you can see across much of the region, it's cal, 68 in gaitherburg and dulles, manasis, win cheffer at that number, about 70 in annapolis. kind of pleasant so you don't't have to use the air conditioning and maybe it will help the kids back into that back to school s mood for tomorrow. we'll talk more and how things are looking for the next week of

august. >> sounds good. see you soon. president obama and familyam will return to the white house h tonight after vacationing on martha's vineyard for the past nine days. the president has kept a low low profile. he was back on the golf courseol today with thef pft the world bank, a fundraiser andaise presidential aid. he did interrupt his vacation to speak out publicly and condemn the violence in egypt. >> 79 people were killed in crashes between police and supporters of former president mohamed morsi saturday raising the death toll to nearly 900 inl the past four days in egypt. e with the violence showing no signses of slowing down, d lawmakers are voicing opinions o on what the united states's rol' should be. fox's brian yenis has the latest. >> reporter: united states givev egypt about $1.5 billion annually. that amount is second to the $3 billion given each year to israel. since the removal of president mohamed morsi and it violent uprising president obama stopto delivering f.-16 jets and

canceled joint exercises withiss egypt but has not cut off aid. >> the president is caught is between a rock and a hard place. egypt is a very, very important country. >> reporter: senators john milk cane and lizy gram are back from egypt. senator gram says it's not about the military aid but thehe relationship. >> i would tell the generates g we'll sus spndz all aid untilil you allow a democrat ache ac position and the aid is a symbol for the relationship.e it's not that much money. >> reporter: senator muk cane cn says the government, quote has orchestrated a massacre and the u.s. needs to com buy with our own laws and spend the money. >> the law is what the law is. and the president is currently in definance of the law. the law is explicit. when there's a military takeover, aid must end. end >> reporter: but the senator says the money from washington is already out the door.or. >> the practical reality is that most of the military aid for this fiscal year, 2013, has been

obligated and delivered. del in fact, all of it except for about four f.-16s and maybe some hermts. >> reporter: le european union and graib threatenin threatenins their relationship with egypt, this as they're considering dissolving the muslimm brotherhood and labeling it as a terrorist organization. the cost guard in the in faculty peens now says at least 39 pipe were killed when a passenger ferry clietded with a cargo ship near the port of sees diagnoses due. 71 people were rescued but the search continues. c they're struggling to plug an oil leak in the wreggage. san francisco's fire chiefo' iss banning helmet mounted cameras. that move comes off images captured during the airlines crash went public.lic. the photos were published in the streans chronicle and lead to

questions about whether they'ree liable for the death of a 16-year-old. fire chief is banning the cams c because she's concerned aboutere the privacy of victims andnd firefighters. gl coming up, oh limb yain oscas returns to the core. >> plus, was princess diana murdered? we'll tell you about the new information that has policee taking a closer look at her death. >> a racisming wildfire is brewing. hear how homeowners were forced to evacuate while they had the chance. 

after three years the highlyhigh debated affordable henry countyy ability faces several setbacks. >> lawmakers from both sides s wonder what the next course off action will be.l we have more. >> reporter: this morning, we

heard senator paul lay out a roadmap to represent the best of the both world for republicans, waib to avoid a government shut todown and defund obamacare. first the house would vote to repeal the affordable care act as they have dozens timeses before. then the senate would likely wou vote to keep the law as is. so, a compromise could come, c sthoor paul says, from that stalemate before the chambers at a closed door house and senate conference meeting. >> we should use the leverage of controlling one-third of the government. we don't control all of the government but republicans control the house of representatives.re they should standpr up, use that power to the very least to make this lawless bad, delay it, do, something we can to protect the american public from this law or if we do not nothing, wee saying, hey get your way. >> reporter: but president obamp sees thingsre differently and ut the weekly address to sharply criticize republicans who wanta to alter the affordable caree

ability in any way. >> many republicans are more concerned with how badly this debate will hurt them politically with how badly it will hurt the country. a lot of republicans seem to believe if they can gum up the works and make this law fail,ai, they'll be sticking it to me. but they would be sticking it to you. >> reporter: before he left for vacation, president obama talked about republicans and said, quote, they're unifying u principle is making sure 30 million people don't have healthcare. in washington, peter duecy, fox news. it is back to school tomorrow for frederick and prince george's schools and thes first day on the job for the new superintendant. dr. kept maxwell was hand picked since 20006 he was been the superintendant in neighboring anne arundel conty but maxwell is no stranger. he serve as a teacher, principal and administrator in the schooll system.

>> i can't believe it's time tot go back to school. >> thank you for saying that.ha. i don't want it to be that. i don't want summer to end.nd. >> i feel like there's something missing, that we should have done something before going back to school. >> i think we always kneel way.a >> i don't even know why. i have no one going back to school. i'll continue to sleep in. [laughter] >> it's almost like a weather syndrome. >> we'll start by talking about back to school weather in just a moment but the clouds we have around, very light rain. this really has not amounted to anything close to a wash-out. it was only .06 at dulles andule dles than a quarter inch at reagan national but very murky, and i think the murky feeling will linger overnight oob even if we don't get much in the waye of showers. there's not a lot showing up right now.t let's start with the bus stop forecast for prince george's county and frederiksberg, f maryland. i hate to see you going back bub

here is what we're thinking at the bus stops, probably not wet. mount carmel we believe and patchy fog here and there with temperatures between 64 and 67. so not too shabby. sometimes when it feels like a pool day it's hard to go back but i don't think that's the case tomorrow. radar tonight, very light sprinkles or spotty showers around the region. let me put this in motion. mot the last couple of hours, sprinkles coming through, portions of southern montgomery county, wear a hat but you won't get very wet. substantial rain is pushing towards southern maryland and you can see in the first few frames, that's not showing up in a big way.g the rain was produced by an area of low pressure riding along installedded front boundaries. a lot of it has pushed to the north and we're going to be in the dole drums in between. there's a second system coming.

one more piece of energy mayay come through late tonight oright during the day tomorrow but this is a slow pros cess because you can see it's moving north rather than east. so we'll keep a slight chance of a shower in the overnight and then we'll have to continue totu watch that system as it moves through the area tomorrow and i may in fact produce another shower or maybe believe it ort not a rumble of thunder for spotty areas tomorrow. temperature jumped to 74 degrees at 6:00. this is the warmest we've beenee all day but most other areas aren't quite up there. we're near 70 to 68 degrees and that is considerably below the average of 87 degrees that we would typically see in august. these are the dog days. it's not very doggy this year. that's for sure.ure. your forecast planner for the rest of the evening, the temperatured drop to 71, spotty sprinkles or showers. by 9:00, clouds, temperature of 70. we don't get a lot of breaks buzz we may have just enough e after, say, 1:11.

69 at our 11:00 temperature soz clearly temperatures aren'ts ar going to drop in a big hurry and we'll have clouds around as a well. for the rest of the overnight, 64 degrees, mostly clouds and a spotty shower here and there. for your monday, i do think we climb to 81 degrees with clouds and perhaps a shower or storm possible and as we look at the planner during the day tomorrow, we talked about the bus stop foo the kids, just to give you an idea we won't see a lot of sunshine but mable a few showers in the afternoon and can't event rule out a rumbleful thunders. rumble of thunder. we'll talk more about that.t get ready for it to get hot again, big time. >> thanks. coming up, people forced to evacuate a home as a raging wildfire continues to grow. find out why firefighters had aa hard time predicting where thise is headed next. >> when you bring your kids down to the beach, you see a dead

dolphin, how will you feel? >> dead fall finishes are washing up on the coast of virginia. here about beach goesers who are worried. >> call the fox 5 tip line, the number on viewr screen 20,288,953,000 or send an e-mail to fox 5 tips.

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the massive field creek wildfirf bumping in idaho has grown to 158 square miles, bigger thanger sen ver. >> as dominick denatale tells us were residents are wondering won when they may be able to returnr home. >> reporter: marginal gains containing the fire overnight, the heavy smoke that groundedron firefighterring aircrafts cleared in the afternoon. that allowed helicopters in the dc tanker to make drops later in the day.ay. containment inched ford but it is still bigger than the city of denver and nowhere near beingg controlled. the fire was active in all branches throughout the night with an extreme surface runs with what they call spotting. it breaks out due to hot embers on the win. flames are creeping closer to the homes west of the haily andd near the sun valley resort. res so far authorities still have

managed evaluations for 1600 residences and more homeowners are expected to be asked too leave sunday. only one home in one claimed bit fire but winds as high as 30 miles per hour are inverting the direction making it hard to predict where it will go next. evacuees say they are in thehe hands of fate.ate. >> now you have to wait and seew what happens. >> our pets are safe. we have safe. valuables and irreplaceables are safe. everything else is replaceable.r >> reporter: the sun valley is considered a second home to big names. insurance companies are keepingi up their own end ofs to protect own mitigationt properties by teams. coming up, the death of princess diana, why investigators are now taking a closer look. >> plus the city's police commissioner speaking out aftera a judge puts the brakes on a controversial policy. we'll tell you what he had to

say. >> and high profile murder triae is about to get underway in virginia. we'll have a preview of that and more in the stories we'll be following in the week ahead.

>> we'll look at the storiesk we'll be following. the trial of man accused murdering virginia team vanessa

sam gets underway tomorrow. this man allegedly stabbed the t 19-year-old to death after convincing her to give him a ride to a nearby hospital. investigators say garcia who wao high on pcp killed finish after she took a wrong turn. also tomorrow closing arguments scheduled in theedul sentencing phase of bradley mannings court marshall. they set more than 7,000 documents to wiki-leaks whilehie working as an intelligencentel manager in iraq. the judge could sentence him as early as tuesday. and finally tomorrow, oscar pistorius returns to his court in south africa where he will be formally indicted for thefor connection of his girlfriend. they claim he shot her because he thought she was a burglar. he faces anywhere from a minimum of 25 years to life in prison. he's scheduled to go on trial in 2014 if convicted. brands out of kansas where w two people have been killed in a

plane crash. the single engine plane crashedh shortly after take-off nearar downtown. the two people killed where the only people on the plane. the victims identities have not been released. no one else was hurt. more information as we get it. more than 15 years after her death, there are new allegationg tonight that princess diana maya have been murdered. police say they've received brand new information and are now reexamining weather foul play may have been involved. brian yenis has the latest. >> reporter: nearly 16 years n after her death onea august 39,a 1997, british police have received new information,tion another conspiracy claiming the princess of whales was killed by a mem of the british military. sky news, our sister network in brit tan reporting that scottland yard is assessing the el advance of new information from a letter given to them by the former parents in law of a former soldier.oldi this unnamed soldier is believed to have been a in terms of the

elite special commando unit. it reportedly claims the soldier boasted the military was behind the death of princess diana. the royal family not commenting on this latest conspiracy theory. >> it was to be tremendouslysly tough on william and harry. they have a smiling hatred ofate the media. because of this reason and because they do believe that thh media helped to drive diana to her death.her in saying that, they believe as most reasonable people do, thatd it was just a tragic accident. >> reporter: 36-year-oldte princessr: diana and her 32-year-old boyfriend left the -- princess diane and the driver were kill when the mercedes-benz hit a pillar in a paris tubl. investigators cun concluded the drivers drink driving caused the accident. conspiracy theorists believeelie three was murdered. the british tabloids are going crazy but psychologicalland yarh says this is notol a reinvestigation into