. >> author james reston, jr.it has these pro found nation reconciles itself to a lost war. i mean we lost the vietnam war. the wall has become one of the most popular attractses in our nation's capital. it's just totally overwhelming. it's a black granite wall with the names of more than 58,000 americans killed during the vietnam war. this has become universal iced as a place of contemplation for all wars. but in his latest book about the building of the vietnam veterans memorial, a rivet in the earth, art memory and the fight for a vietnam war memorial journal isabella reston tells the story about the intense behind the scenes battle in the years right after the war to get this wall built. it was a gash of shame. it was the color black which was the color of shame. it was nothing for the survivors. it was only about the dead. and that battle went o finally there was the compromise of these he three statues that was supposed to make the veteran s and the tractors accept the design. q. artist mia line was an asian

james reston is a wilson center global fellow. i believe so -- is it? i was going to an event henry kissinger was speaking at and the chair set can everyone hear me and from the side henry , by definition, the people who cannot fear will not respond. -- the people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] you're at the wilson center and today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a wilson center global fellow. the topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself deals with the contentious debate over how to americans'ar and the role and sacrifice during that period. that was fraught with politics and contention over the appropriate artistic expression to memorialize that dramatic period in american history. the gold standard of book reviews remains "the new york times." there reviewed this week and described the book as superb -- unexpectedly affecting unexpectedly affecting in terms of the emotions it evokes as one reads it. it

reston says the wall its about the cost of war. and did we learn any lessons from it? so, yeah, i think it's important to focus on . reston who lives in chevy chase and has written two dozen books of history served with army intelligence from 1965 to 1968 and has a good friend whose name is on the wall. that's, you know, the concept of this wall, that the survivor looks at who they know, who they knew and imagines how easily it could have been them. along the national mall in washington, bob barnard, fox5 local news. >> take a look at this, it was a dream come true for the virginia boy who wrote president trump saying it would be his honor to mow the white frirks s 11 year old frank, fx guy yacht who he he also got to meet the president. fx and his dad got the vip treatment, they visited the oval office rn the press briefing room and more. he said he never realized his offer to help would get so much attention. first i interviewed with fox. and then i went with cnn. then i mowed the white house -- the rose garden. and then i had a huge amount of interviews afterward, a

could be in reston by about 5:30. switching gears. irma, latest, has winds of 185, those are sustained winds. gusts over 200. it is about 130 miles to the east of antigua. antigua is going to get hit with a category 5. the evenly good thing, is it noticed, antigua was just south of this track. the highest winds are are always on the northeast quadrant. similarly, as it goes north of puerto rico, they're going to get hurricane forced winds. the highest gusts are going to remain offshore. tomorrow afternoon, down to 175 miles per hour. still a category 5. still a 5 headed for the bahamas, then we get into saturday. it's very and then heads toward key west. we'll come back, and show you the computer tracks, and see what computers are thinking, and what that means to our weather next week. >>> it's a frightening looking storm, and people living in florida are already emptying shelves from grocery stores ahead of irma. a line at this costco in tallahassee, florida, stretched out the door, with people lining up to buy vital supplies. it was

reston, eastbound 7. back to you. >> dave, wtop. thank you, sir. 5:54.es might want to hear this. a new study out of boston university found a length between youth football and impaired mood rater in life. they tested 200 former football players and compared the results of those who played football for players who started before 12 years old there was an increased risk of problems with the regulation, apathy and executive functioning and higher risk of deprigs as well. they gave these players the test over the phone. i think it sets up the need for more conversation about head injuries and being cautious about coming out of the game early and that sort of thing. >> there have been so many concerns of concussions, head injuries even with all of the gear. the findings are very alarming. yes, i know a lot of parents, many sports you can have a concussion. my kids play soccer, can run into each other. hard to figure out the balance. >>> 5:55 right now. let's go to cnbc, landon dowdy standing by for us this morning. hey, landon. >> good morning, aaron and wea

the closest camera i have to a bad incident on the dulles toll road come eastbound blocked out of restonetween comfortable road on a vehicle fire. reopened soon but a tough stretch. area, mo the georgetown street towards the whitehurst freeway with a crash near wisconsin avenue on the right lane. this mess is going to be a little bit heavy into this way. i crash off of road. seminary.ush on -- crash on seminary. duke street, both directions in good shape and on the major roadways. he's our pediatrician, dr. ralph northam. trained at johns hopkins. an army doctor who treated soldiers seriously wounded in the gulf war. eighteen years as volunteer medical director of a children's hospice. as lt. governor, he's fighting to expand healthcare in virginia. he'll get it done as governor. ralph northam: i'm ralph northam, and we need to provide access to affordable healthcare for all virginians, not take it away. >> you are watching abc 7 news at noon. on your side. havenna: las vegas police launched an internal investigation after detaining seattle seahawks player michael bennet last month, accu

things are drying out nicely, reston and fairfax, quieter in potomac.omorrow, lower 80's, cannot rule it a chance of a stray shower later in the day. it will not amount to a whole lot. a brand-new update for hurricane jose, and it is better news for the east coast. more on that in a few minutes. nancy: deadly accident at fort bragg in north carolina. includedg exercise explosions on one of the ranges on base and we have word that a staff sergeant from massachusetts was killed, seven being treated for injuries at multiple hospitals. so far the army is not providing updates on their conditions. all were part of the u.s. special forces troops. we will keep you posted as the investigation goes on. nancy chen, abc 7 news. aison: meanwhile, only on 7, wife's admission after her husband died in a hit-and-run crash on i-95. she is searching for the driver who left him to die as she battles cancer. now without her longtime caretaker. tim barber with her heartbreaking plea for help. tim: shaler taylor wants to find the person who killed her husband. >> i pray for

silver line trace operating between wiehle-reston to ballston east.er the top side of the beltway late clearing construction work and that is out by georgia avenue. look at that nasty sea of traffic. also backing up the on and off ramp for 95. more traffic in a few. keep it to fox5. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ >> ♪ >> this is fox5 news morning. >> right now at 7 o'clock, a sea of headlights oh my goodness problems on the outer loop this morning. delays from 95 to the spur. pack your patience. erin is up in a minute. >>> a shocking and disturbing crime in maryland. these two men part of a group accused of kidnapping beating and raping a teenager. coming up, who police say was the mastermind behind this crime. we are live in frederick. >> if you're just waking up this morning, i give you your first live look outside on this friday morning, september 22nd. it's the first day of fall later this afternoon. enjoy your last half day of summer. >> uh-huh. >> yeah. >> a few hours. let's get a quick check of weather and traffic. tucker and erin a standing by. good morning, tuck

shower as we head towards areas like reston, overall dry evening tomorrow and as we head into the overnightours we'll stay quiet. let's fast-forward here. still clouds and chance for spotty showers too but i say we stay dry tonight. we move into monday afternoon. very similar setup where we are waking up to a good amount of sunshine and then we have that potential for about 20% chance for isolated shower tuesday, lot more clouds move in and you know why that is because of hurricane jose. i think the outer most bands of this system will actually stretch impacting and areas towards east of i-95. let's switch gears a little bit. you're heading out tonight. things q temperatures dropping into the low 70s. still muggy out there but dry so you don't have much to worry about that on that front. what i want to transition too is the tropics. take a look, jose just won't go away. here's a look at hurricane jose right now. it's a cat one storm. the expected trajectory right now is to loop back in again and then start to weaken as we head through the coming days. notice how close it gets toward the mid

good through reston and fairfax this morning. side of the beltway outer loop we're going to see some congestion there in just a little while. right now 95 to the spur it's a 14 minute drive which is what we want to see. not seeing any major slowdowns. as we make our way over to 95 in virginia through fredericksburg, northbound side between route 17 and quantico at speed. 17 and three in the clear. 295 things looking good bottom side of the beltway through alexandria problem free as well. i'll let you know if anything changes. metro service picking up at 5:00 a.m. we have you covered here this friday morning on fox5 news morning. >>> wisdom listen to this one. harvey and irma. coming up the elderly couple getting a lot i'm sure you can guess why. >> all right. and as we head to break right now here's a live look outside across the region. time is 4:37. fox5 news morning back after this. >> little wakeup he's our pediatrician, dr. ralph northam. born and raised in rural virginia went to vmi. trained at johns hopkins. an army doctor

. >> reporter: in his latest book, journalist reston tells the story of the intent behind the scenesash of shame. it was the color blacks which is the color of shame. it was nothing for the survivors. it was only about the dead and that battle went on for -- for three years and finally there was the compromise of these three statues that was supposed to make the veterans and the detractors accept the design. >> reporter: the artist was an asian-america sen over more than 1400 sub submissions. this nearby statue by frederick heart dedicated two years after the wall serves as an entry experience. >> all that's forgotten, that five-year art war is forg forgotten. and it's universally embraced now. but the arguments are still there and i think we're going to have another round of refighting the vietnam war with the documentary in the next couple of months. >> reporter: the burns documentary on vietnam debuts this weekend. >> some of the arguments are still there. was it worth 58,000 deaths. >> reporter: reston says the wall is about the cost of war. >> and did we learn any lessons from i

we covered it yesterday reston, virginia, republican line. >> caller: i got three paints. i've been involved with sexual assault care as a physician for 40 years. the first problem is the male is guilty until proved innocent. i've had 10 or 12 cases where prosecutors captain people in jail for years and they weren't guilty at all. so number two, the pa male's names are plastered all over the displays the victims are not. keep them both quiet. campuses -- let me go back. what north carolina's wholehost: team -- >> host: duke. >> caller: and then in -- so, the thing is, civilly they want to use preponderance but if this went to criminal trial it woulde beyond a reasonable doubt. otherwise you get uva. the whole fraternity did this. >> host: let's pick up on that. the difference between preponderance offed and beyond a reasonable doubt. what's the current law or guidelines from education? >> guest: the current guidelines are obviously in a criminal proceed, which would be in a federal court or state court, where you can go to jail, right? that it is beyond a reasonable doubt.

. >> reporter: this ten-year-old boy from reston has a whole new outlook. >> it gives him the ability to see for him what is a gray area. >> he has to be within two feet in order to recognize and di >> he went to his class meeting with his peers and he was able to see their faces. he knew their voices. >> the sunrise elementary school fourth grader has had severely impaired vision his entire life but this past summer -- >> is it hard to see the story? >> i'll have the full story tonight on news 4 at 11:00. >>> boy, looking forward to seeing that. what an amazing story. yom kippur starts this friday. jewish families are already making plans to break the fast here in our area. this meals marks the end be of a 24 hour fast. a lot of people eat bagels and locks to mark the occasion. here is appy abby churner. guys, first of all, tell us a little bit about yom kippur. >> yom kippur or the day of atonement is a day of deep reflection about our b the future. we reflect on seeking forgiveness from our fellow human beings to help cure society of all those ills and we would like to take that ti

when i was young i was just like my grandmother used to call me susanna, a term of endearment in reston to suzanne because of my skin was darker than the rest of the family. my great-grandmother was a turkish blonde and that was my mother's family source of beauty and pride. even my mother claimed to have married my father because he looked like randy, my father was so beautiful and so are his seven sisters and they are all his white with blond hair and blue eyes. they are beautiful. [inaudible] my family seem to talk about beauty. my older sister was beautiful and people used to say she looked like cecile arendt. my two cousins, another blonde with blue hands both won the beauty pageants so between judy queens and sophia karen i never felt that useful. at least, not until i went and i started interacting with boys. one summer i was 12 and i got my period and i did not know exactly what was happening. i started crying and i told him i was bleeding and she was so excited and says oh my god, you are a woman now and i said what do you mean i am a woman now? she said this is a good day. the

it's going from reston to the airport and two stops in loudoun county.is a multi-billion dollar extension. a lot of work is happening here in northern virginia. it's progressing. they're saying 2020 for the opening. there have been a couple of issues but 2020 is when they say >> adam tuss for us out at dulles. thanks. >>> the nationals still have weeks of the regular season to play and then the playoffs, but now you can start thinking about next year already. the team released the 2018 schedule. the season starts on the road against the cincinnati reds. then mark your calendar for one week after that. the home opener against the mets on october 5th. i'm hoping to be down on the field as tradition holds, i hope. >> yeah. >> you probably want to make a note that everybody is looking forward to this, i think, the all-star game will be here next year, tuesday, july 17th. some of the other highlights, six games against the orioles. >> i think we should go down for the all-star game, too. >> i'm fairly certain we'll all be down there. >> i feel we need to make

the silver line is rising fast everywhere from reston to the airport and into loudoun county. but with metro facing its own issues, is it wise to expand the system? the head of the project with his thoughts. >> i'm going to >> reporter: opening day project ed for 2020. a lot of people have been asking online how are you boing to get from there over to here at the main terminal. you'll take an elevator that goes underneath the parking and arrive here at the main terminal. that is the plan for this metro station. certainly good news to see that this is coming together. back to you. >> adam tuss, thank you. >>> bernie sanders unveiled his plan to provide health insurance for everyone. it expands to cover all americans. so far 16 democrats have signed on to support that plan. meanwhile, republican senators lindsey graham are pushing a plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act. >>> bernie sanders is one of the people who hillary clinton thinks kept her from winning the white house. she talked about the race while promoting her book earlier this morning on "today" show. she

right now temperatures coming in in the low to mid-'80s. 82 in park. 84 in reston.ice summer like evening out there. when i talk about the humidity, we measure the humid with the dewpoint temperatures. dewpoint around 65. we start to say it is a little humid out there. when we get close to 70 that's when it's muggy. 75 would be tropical-like moisture. we're definitely noticing that humidity and kind of unusual for late september. not out of the question, but just not an everyday occurrence. take a look at your planner tomorrow. very similar to today as far as temperatures are concerned. but we'll have plenty of sunshine from start to finish. just some clouds around tomorrow morning from maria but as it pulls away from the coast, we're going to see the sunshine increasing. by lunch time we'll have 82 degrees for temperature. highs tomorrow near 90. by 7:00 still humid, 84. maybe an isolated shower tomorrow afternoon, mainly east of 95. weather having a pretty low impact on your wednesday. out the door tomorrow, it's mild and it's dry so good news there. if you want t

. >> reporter: this 10-year-old boy from reston has a whole new outlook. >> so what it does is ge the ability to actually see what is outside of what for him i think is just a gray area. >> especially faces, because he has to be really within about two feet in order to recognize, to discern faces. >> for the first time he went to a class meeting with his peers and he was able to see their faces. he knew their voices but didn't know their faces. >> reporter: the sunrise fourth grader has had severely impaired vision his entire life, but this past summer? he got a pair of augmented glasses. >> they project the image on the screen located here right in front of the user's eye. >> reporter: christie moore works for new eyes, the company that manufactures these special glasses. she showed us how the technology works. >> glasses make bigger. glasses make bigger and now i'm going to change the contrast, glasses change color. >> reporter: anyone who is le for these glasses. right now a few hundred people have them and the cost is just under $6,000 a pair. the glasses are wireless and voice ac

. >> reporter: this 10-year-old boy from reston has a whole new outlook. >> what this does is gives him the ability to see what's outside of what, for him, i think is a gray area. >> especially faces because he has to be really within about two feet in order to recognize, to discern faces. >> for the first time, he went to his class meeting with his peers, and he was able to see their faces. he knew their voices but he didn't know their faces. >> reporter: the sunrise valley elementary school fourth grader has had severely impaired vision his entire life, but this past summer -- >> is it hard to see the bloom? >> yes. >> reporter: he got a pair of augmented reality glasses. >> they film if outside world and project the image on the they sit in front of the user's eyes. >> reporter: christy moore works for new eyes, who manufactures these glasses. >> glasses make bigger. now, i'm going to change the contrast. glasses, change color. >> reporter: anyone who is legally blied legal ly blind or visually impaired is eligible for these glasses. right now, a few hundred people have them, and the

silver line trains now operating wiehle-reston east and largo town center.ical delays 270 southbound heading down through clarksburg and 66 eastbound through manassas and centreville. closer look at them next. back to you guys. >> now to a fox5 exclusive. an instagram account run by a d.c. police officer under fire this morning after activists complained the account's content was racially insensitive. >> several posts have been removed from that account. annie yu this morning live at d.c. police headquarters with more on this story. annie. >> reporter: yeah, and steve and allison, d.c. police would not tell us whether the officer, officer dennis sfoglia received any discipline for those posts but we can tell you those posts, all of them, have been taken down off of the instagram account called american cops. the account has thousands of followers and like many of us, it posted photos of himself in uniform, he publically identified himself on this account. but it was images like this that you're seeing that attracted attention. the racially themed jokes memes

i'm going host the first walk it will be saturday october -- check that friday october 13th in restonlk october 4th that's in rockville. jim lokay will host the washington, d.c. walk on octobe. but before the walks begin we wanted to check in with one local high school participating in the have a have walk in unique way. so mike thomas at wt woodson high school in fairfax to get the scoop for us this morning. hi, mike. >> reporter: hey, steve. good morning. we're down here at wt woodson just like you said here in fairfax, and we're starting what we do every fall and that is these light the night walks coming up. something very near and dear to our hearts here at fox5. but not just us. to lots of folks around the region horse one of them this is terry la gory general manager the ihop. how are you this morning. >> i'm great. mike, thanks for having us back. >> thanks for coming out this morning. i heard you fed a lot of hungry >> almost 200 had good pancake breakfast this morning. >> you go got to eat first to be able to learn, you know, consistently in the morning. so what kind of insp

traffic's quiet right now in reston and fairfax.e'll take a look in southern maryland see how that commute is shaping up next. >> right now at 5:01 lots of sitting kneeling during the national anthem at nfl games as players react to criticisms of their behavior. >> it's the story everyone is talking about this morning. fox5's melanie alnwick is live outside of fedex field where the burgundy and gold played last night. mel. >> reporter: good morning, guys. president trump yesterday said that he watched some of the games and said that he saw solidarity for flag and country. he also reiterated some of his comments that many sparked sunday's controversy. >> we have a great country. we have great people representing our country, especially our soldiers, our first responders and they should be treated with respect and when you get on your knee and you don't american flag or the anthem that's not being treated with respect. >> reporter: well, individual players and teams made their own statements sunday, some on the field, some off. more t

look how good things look right now as well as on all of our second wiehle avenue in reston traffic ist of the way but i want to let you know traffic is moving along without any problems. i'll let you know if anything changes. so far so good. metro service on a sunday schedule. service picks up at 8:00 a.m. that's cool, guys. i'll let you know if anything else pops up you need to be aware of but i'm counting one vehicle in that camera. oh, two. back to you. >> more meme time eventually. >> yes. >> all right. 6:50 is the time right now. if you're looking for a new furry friend and you want to help out in the relief effort from hurricane harvey now is your chance. >> more than 100 dogs and cats from animal shelters in texas and louisiana arrived in manassas, virginia yesterday. it's an effort to try to find homes for the many pets displaced by the storm. fox5's lindsey watts has a look at some of the pets now in need of new forever homes. >> reporter: we're here with a few of the pups that arrived from southwest louisiana. some of the shelters there and in the houston, beaumont region ar

number of innovators were trying to do something different and created a series of new towns like restonn virginia, irvine in california, and columbia in maryland, which was started by a guy named james ralph that was particularly concerned about sprawl between baltimore and washington. he created the city of columbia in between these two cities because he was afraid that the current housing in these dots represented essentially where people were living and sprawling from the city, that these dots would eventually swallow columbia, that everything between baltimore and washington would be an ugly, sprawling, unplanned mess. so he took this opportunity to buy 14,000 acres of land which was then pretty rural, some farmers in small tracts and, you know, milking cows and picnic lunches, and he decides he's going to section off this place to create a new kind of suburb, one that explicitly deals with the limitations, the problems of existing suburbs. # he secretly buys all of this land and eventually comes to the public, that he's going to create this new city. a lot of people were happy to h

can do is sign a light on the actions of these governments and hope that it effects change james reston once wrote all politics are based on the indifference of the majority so it's time to start making a difference millions of lives depend on. and . i'm tom hartman i'll give you what the mainstream media can't help big picture we'll go deeper investigate and debate all so you can get the big picture. greetings and salutations september is finally upon us the kids are back in school university is starting up again but will soon be turning beautiful colors and here in the united states our lovely elected officials in congress had back to capitol hill to you know look busy talk a lot and ultimately not really do much of anything but one country that is talking a lot lately is north korea they they also appear to be doing quite a bit over the way.

. >> this 10-year-old boy from reston has a whole new outlook. >> what this does is give him theabilities to actually see what's outside of what for him i think is just a gray area. >> for more on felix's story tune in tonight to news 4 at 11:00. you've got to see it, folks. it's a great story. >> yeah, you do. >>> so, a job is something you do to earn money, yeah? >> but a career, well, that's very different. how one man turned his job cleaning floors that's changed the lives of those he encounters every day. >> i've seen how this can turn a person's life around. when i was 3, children's so i can play with my grandkids. so i can celebrate 50. when i was 14, they saved my heart so i could bring family together. so i can help cardiac patients just like me. so i can serve my country. so i can do what i love. so i can give back. so i can play in the junior olympics. so i can make plays. so i can do this. so i can race my friends. children's national didn't just help us grow up, they helped us grow up stronger. do your holiday shopping on thisus.ason introducing th

so, the glow a jack-o-lantern experience is coming to lake fairfax park in reston, virginia. to be your chance to stroll and see over 5,000 hand carved pumpkins. so, you're going to see pumpkin look alikes from your heroes and princesses as well as larger than life dinosaurs constructed out of pumpkins, up to 16 feet tall. it's going to be so much fun. live pumpkin carving demonstrations as well and costume contests, lots of fun activities. this is not a spooky scary event. this is a whimsical fun event great for the whole family. again it's called the glow a jack-o-lantern experience and tickets start at just $16. it's going to run october 5th through the 29th and you can find out more by visiting the glow jack-o-lantern.com. >> we showed some video there. >> yes. >> finally, historic occoquan arts and crafts festival. >> this is the must attend arts and craft event. historic occoquan they close all the streets this is a cute town in prince william county virginia and over 300 artisans and crafters come to town and they sell their favorite crafts and that's happening today a