fox5's bob barnard was inas court for us today. >> reporter: two shattered families left prince george'snty circuit court today. felicia pate lost her sona pater paralyzed in a shooting inin sho 2010. >> i mean, he couldn't couldn'ou do anything. he kept asking me, mom, let me go. but it was me wouldn't let my lm son go. i was selfish because i wasn't ready for him to go.lfreadfor >> reporter: melvin pate meln pe died two years after the shooting.. the hailes has also lost a son father and brother. bro jermaine hailes sentenced totend 70 years in prison foundrisofoud guilty of pulling the trigger ti on the gun that was used to use shoot and ultimately killl melvin pate during an armed robbery.er >> it's definitely left a hole in our family. you know, it's a blessing tole be able to communicate withte w him when we can. >> reporter: jermaine hailes will go to prison leavingsonea behind a six-year-old daughterdh and his sister tori stillri stil trying to make sense of it to mo all. al >> we do all woke support our sp niece. we love her very much.very mh. i. very active. i love her. i lo i

bob barnard was speaking to the wife of jim lay check who was one of the victims in prince william county and i remembermeb her two children. jim low check's children wereere small children. bob had a picture. now they are both adults, college graduates, both and life in one way or another finds ands way to go on. i think it's also remarkable that we have not had a 9/11-like attack since. remember six months, a year, two years when the iraq war started people were bracing for another catastrophica attack. terrorism has changed. now it's more the loan wolf.lf. > sniper was going on.r wa >> it was you had the anthrax attack as well, which there are still aill lot of questions about that.ut it was a very unsettling time, but it's also a testament to our security officials who are on that wall every day that we have not had that type of attack ever again. it's not for a lack of crime hae ' for sure. it feels a little uncomfort to make the transition but we did want to take the time to talk about the raisin what everyone is talking about is the comments hillary clinton made on friday. let's ta

our reporter cornell barnard has the story. >> smoke and flames all around. a petaluma neighborhood is on fire. crews attacking the blaze from all sides and making water drops from the air. all the fire started getting bad can they dumped more water. i started to thing, my gosh...this is going to be worse. >> sky 7 shows it did get worse spreading to 13 homes. firefighters say it began as a grass fire on highway 101. hot and dry conditions fueled the situation. >> fire went into the trees and winds were blowing it down the side of the freeway. >> the flames dropped hot embers on houses below. four homes were damaged. now red tagged. the police told them to get the hell out. >> it is on fire. get out. now. they went the they did not grab anything. >> an elderly inlaw couple escaped the burning house just in time. >> did not know anything until i got here. >> bill returned home to this. afternoon. >> there are things that are salvageable but it is pretty trashed. >> i feel so bad for these people. it make you think... >> firefighters are have thing a cause a sp

cornell barnard explains why police believe he could provide valuable clues. >> we are hopeful he will come forward. this man could be the only witness to a hit-and-run accident that left a 43-year-old woman fighting for her life. the mess say it happened on wednesday. she was crossing fremont boulevard. outside a crosswalk. she was struck by a vehicle in northbound lanes. a transit bus was first on scene. driver told police as he rolled up, this man was standing near the individual on the street. he was captured on the bus security camera, appearing nervous. >> at the same time, the bus driver was trying to call 9-1-1 they have a small interaction at the door of bus and the man step on the bus, steps back off, steps on, steps off and leaves the scene. >> another bus got a picture of man's car, a gold toyota camera, and police say it is too dark to tell in the car has any damage, they will not say in the man could be responsible for the collision. >> we would like to get in touch with him because he was there at the scene before the bus driver got there. >> unfortunately that happened

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bobar barnard this morning livei woodbridge now with more. me.eporter: hey, goodood morning, guys. we've come to the libertyiberty memorial here at the county government complex and you see behind me these are actually four steal girders from the the world trade center. cr. they've been here 10 years now.. obviously the attacks 15 years y ago so just let's you know these been here 10 years. years came from the world trade cent center. and at 9:00 o'clock this morning you can see they're gettinghisse ready here. t they're about to raise a bigig american flag over the fire f department here. they're getting ready fordy for ceremony at 9:00 o'clock thishis morning honoring the 22 people2l from princ were killed on september 11t 11, 2001. ceremony at 9:00 o'clock is opec to the publick i. and it will be one of manyf things going on in our areaa today, because the anniversaryir the 15th anniversary of 9/11f/1 is on sunday. sda so a lot of communities aretiesa doing things today.ings tay. you showed briefly guys some som video i want to show you again

state police were on the scene barnard field road. we know that state attorney general's office is now leading this investigation. >> an 18-year-old man accused of stabbing another teenager with a golf club is expected back in court today. a dangerousness hearing will be held for curtis day. accuse ch of stabbing another 18-year-old man earlier this week. the victim has been released from the hospital now. >> right now a medford woman is facing charges accused of drunk and high while baby sitting a 3-year-old boy. this is not the first time the 51-year-old has been in trouble with police. susan devrow was found. neighbor called police who reunited the little boy with his mother. the family said they hired her in the spring from popular baby sitting site care dfpblgt >> i was hired off a website like that. makes us look bad when we're not all like that. >> police say devrow has been arrested before for motor vehicle violations. and for receiving stolen property. she will soon face a judge on reckless endangerment charges. watertown pol

bob barn barnard talked with a 911 widow marking time with a heavy heart. >> sometimes it seems likeferent lifetime ago and others yesterday >> she spent part ofhe at this 911 ceremony in wood bridge. where more than a few told us they cannot believe it's been 15 years. >> just so shocked that when i say that number, it doesn't seem like it's 15 years. really, all i have to do is look at my kids and a photo of when everything first happened and they were seven and nine, and now they're 22 and 24. you can tell there have been a lot of years. >> her emotions remain raw. >> wednesday morning, i woke up with just a brick in my stomach, the feeling of the anticipation of what this was like. even no matter how much time goes by, you're just sent right back to when everything first happened. >> lori's husband was 40 years old, a civilian working at the army had the pentagon when he was killed that terrible tuesday morning. >> he's always part of us. our nation is changed but even more so, our family has changed. we just miss him deeply. time doesn't change that. >> reporter: they're now bot

antoinette: new hampshire police 38-year-old wendy tefft was found in a home on barnard hill road. the state medical examiner says she died of a single gunshot wound, but the manner of death is still unclear. neighbors say they never heard or noticed anything strange in the area. the attorney general's office has not said whether anyone has been arrested or whether they're looking for a suspect. the death is still considered suspicious. doug: former new england mob boss frank salemme and an associate, both now facing murder charges for the 1993 death of a boston nightclub disarro, who was a federal witness. the indictment alleges that disarro was killed to prevent him from talking to law enforcement. his remains were discovered by federal investigators back in march. if convicted, both men could get the death penalty. antoinette: 5 investigates learning the state attorney general's office has been contacted as thousands of criminal cases go under review in norfolk county. we first reported this week an audit found the braintree police evidence room in disarray. sources telling 5 in

abc7 news reporter cornell barnard is in san rafael with the story. [train horn] >> a test run of the new smart train comes with all the bells and whistles, and a loud horn. some have theiren impression. [impression of a horn] >> its very deep. sort of like a freight train. >> lives inside the mobile home park, adjacent to the tracks where the sound of train horns seem to echo. [train horn] >> is it seams to be day and night. it makes no difference. it will wake you up. >> smart said it was test, the trains at night, but only temporarily. a spokesperson said our horn is between 96 and 98 decibels, so it's on the lower end of the spectrum. it's all about safety and it's a community conversation. >> we are stuck with the train. we don't want to be stuck with the noise. >> relief is coming. both novato and san rafael have applied to is request quiet zones near crossings and restrict being engineers from sounding horns unless there's an emergency or when the train leaves the station. >> we will still hear the bells and whistles at the gates burks other th

and there are studies out of university of arizona, barnard college, wisconsin, georgia that all foundhe same thing. very few instances of actual fraud. but the word "fraud" is a powerful scare tactic and political operatives know it. they show operatives and consultants in washington discuss launching a public campaign to alleged voter fraud in 2011. quote, do we need to start messaging widespread reports of election fraud, unquote, so we are positively set up for rheth recount regardless of the final number? i actually think we should. accidents in voter fraud do happen, but they are few and far between. we did turn up an instance of a democratic poll worker who used her access to vote in the 2012 election. that's been it. ben, i want to start with you since this is an issue that your party has pushed more often than the other side. i get that it's a voter turnout tool, but if half the country now believes -- have we let this get out of hand? >> in some cases yes, in some cases no. the fraud has not been proven. we've been looking for it for a long time and it's not been there. but y

this is fox5 news reporter bob barnard in arlington county in t just outside the pentagonta where we're to learn later this morning at 8:30 on on our show here about thethe largest ever donation to thee pentagon memorial fund tod t build a visitor and education center.er it will be built here on theere grounds just west of the pentagon. you see the billboardgr there te with an artist rendering. rendei we can show you a couple more. r they're raising $75 millionli for this visitor's center thehe only one of the three siteshr without a visitor's send.end. there's one of course in new york city at the world trade center in shanksville as well.e. the pentagon memorial here dedicated eight years ago ongo the grounds of the pentagon where american airli gnes flighi 77 was crashed into the building september 11th, 2001, 2 184 people were killed. k there is a memorial there but no visitor's center and we'rer going to learn about the t efforts this morning to make mak this visitor's center happenentn guys. we'll be back and see you at 8:30. 8:30 right now wal-mart defendingefeg itself this morni

the new hampshire attorney general's office says 38-year-old wendy taft was found dead inside 36 barnard hill road. we can't show you the house because police have blocked the driveway and only the major crime unit is allowed access to the home. an autopsy was performed was determined taft died of a single gunshot wound. this woman says she's the victim's sister-in-law. >> he thought possibly his sister was murdered so we did a driveway by to see if it was her house it and is. >> reporter: at least three people living in the home. >> just a few months ago, six months ago she said everything was fine. >> reporter: a few months back she says there was concern about one of the family members that lived there. that was the last time she and her husband spoke with the homeowners. >> wasn't anything bad going on in the house or anything. she had messaged my husband back saying that everything was ok, there was nothing to worry about. >> reporter: so far no arrests have been made and state police say this investigation remains very active. >>> boston police arrest two men in the public gardens

scholar, a literary scholar having written one of the most books on toni morrison and she teaches at barnard college. cheryl wall is a leading scholar and i don't know anyone that knows more than the cheryl wall who is also a very significant and important critic and leader in our field. she's the author of were either lying black women writers, lineage and literary tradition and women and the renaissance and she's a beloved professor at rutgers university department of english. and our final speaker is rich blint. many of you may know rich. he's profiled as a curator and important political figure, writer, scholar and if cheryl is the leading scholar, bridge is one of the leading causes of james baldwin county is the coeditor of a special issue of the african america african-amet came out in winter 2013 that you can still get it as well as a contributing editor of the james baldwin reviews the please join me in welcoming these extraordinary thinkers and writers. [applause] there's never enough time to talk about zora neale hurston. i thought i would open with a leading question that would a

let's get out to fox5's bobs bob barnard.he smithsonian station with the latest.att >> reporter: erin i can showan you the trains are running. rni they've just started back upac u but metro saying there will be e residual delays.ay you can see as this train goess by a couple track workers downod there on the other platform. ptf it was switch malfunction.as swi you'll see another train coming here.onyocomi her so service has been restored red on the orange blue and silver lines between smithsonian and mcpherson square. square. there is also federal trianglerl and metro center in between these two stations. station we heard from a viewer who washo sent out of the metro station oe here at smithsonian supposedlyse to catch a bus and there washe w no bus and she called and shend was upset because she said she was getting really nolly n direction but it looks like lik the bus prince george's are noi' metro service is running.ning you've got some transit polices here just to help directp rect people who are confused but service rest

another reason we should care is that again according to barnard's research, nearly 50% of public school educators are church attending christians who say that their faith is important in their lives. folks, that's about a million and a half educators in our public schools. in fact, one of the operating principles of our work is that there are christians in every public school classroom. our schools are filled with christian superintendents, christian school board members, christian administrators, christian educators and of coarse, christian parents and teachers. we often in the christian community look at the public schools as an us versus them mentality. the moment for me years ago was realizing it's not us versus them. we are them appear we are the teachers, administrators, the superintendents, but so often we don't know how to appropriately promote religious liberty in our schools, how to appropriately integrate teaching about the bible and christianity and its influence with academic integrity and so we say nothing. what our organization does is equipped those christians within the

bob barnard joins us now from the georgetown campus. >> reporter: yeah, guys, this is going to be a meeting at 4 o'clock today here on the campus of georgetown university. basically to acknowledge and recognize history with slavery and as we look at this university i will tell you there's been a working group here headed by a catholic priest that is going the make some recommendations released later today. it's a working group on slavery, memory and reconciliation because the jesuit priests, the university had slaves working at jesuit owned tobacco fields in maryland back in the late 1700's in the 1800s. the university sold slaves to help keep this university alive. they sold slaves to plantations in the south and louisiana. it also -- the sale of slaves paid for catholic missionary programs. well, the head of this working group is a catholic priest and a history professor here at georgetown. he says racism and brutality is part of our history that needs to be told especially to young jesuit priests and he wrote this david collins wrote

fourr others recovering after aover series of shootings rocked the district overnight.veight >> bob barnard at the scene ofh last night's deadly shooting. this one happened in northeast. good morning, bob. one >> reporter: hey goodod mning, morning guys, yeah, very early>y this morning we're neareah,ery t intersection of montana and mona islandisland avenues.ode police still on the scene.ll one they just have the fire their department here. department h as you can see kids getting kidi ared to go to school inside of d a crime scene a man was shotho around 12:30 in the morning here. he they just frankly hosed off aff car so it happened right outne r here. we don't know who it is. knowhoi we don't know the motive. m there were no suspects at thispe point but you can seectouan s detectives are still here onere the scene and it is one manea shot here but a number off violent crimes across the city overnight and into this morning.rn one person passing by here just asked me what the heck is going on in askedwhat the h thic there's no neighborhood that'sen im this is thene saratoga brentwood secti

bob barnard joins us live from the campus with more what would be the topics of discussion and how theythe topics of discussion. >> reporter: yeah, guys, there's going to be 104 page report formally released this afternoon at campus. but it's already out there and we hav ie on our website. basically, this is a working group formed year ago a working group on slavery, memory and reconcile eighty six looking into the university's past history. dark history with slavery. basically, charged with this working group how to acknowledge and recognize the university's historical relationship with the institution of slavery. you may remember already a couple of names have been taken off of build these were university president's back in the 1800's the mid 1800's around the time the university sold 272 slaves that it had mainly working at tobacco farms in maryland that the jesuit community owned. sold those slaves in 1838 to plantations in louisiana to raise money to keep this university alive. well, this working group has made at least two big recommendations of first of all, to offer assistance

fox5's bob barnard is live fromf the pentagon memorial with howh 9/11 is being remembered here aa home.homorning, bob. >> reporter: hey, good, g morning, wisdom.mornin we are actually ig,n w princerie william county at the liberty memorial. this is one of the first 9/11 memorials in our area to be b created. it was really spearheaded by by laurie lay check whose husbandus was civilian army contractor att the pentagon who was killed ond 9/11.9/ they are right now just just finishing up reading the nameshn of the 22 people from thishi community who were killed on september 11th, 2001. 15 years ago sunday.unda they're holding the ceremony today because people have busyeb lives and they know that on sunday it would be tougher toulg get all these people togetheroge and have these ceremonies.emoni. so they've just read the names.n they had a bagpiper playing.ying they rang a bell.g a you can see there's a fire truce works fire trucks a cross thesse street with the american flagrig hanging right over four steal fa beams from the world trade center. so they have steal beams fromal the world trade

and bob barnard has been working story joining us now from southeast with the latest. you hate to see this with football season getting underway. >> i was going to say, guys, common question now is are you ready for football? the nfl starts tomorrow night. high schools and colleges began last weekend. here at the ridge road remember center successful youth football program it's a bummer right now. they did have practice last night. a lot of kids took to the field and did drills in tee shirt and short. that's because over the weekend over the labor day weekend somebody broke into the rinl road rec center equipment room. they stole 54 shoulder pads and 50 football helmet and other stuff. thieves and vandals trashed the swimming pool here. as far as we know there are no suspects no. lights right now. parents and kids part this something positive do teamwork after school are frustrated and angry. >> it's very frustrating unfortunately because we spend a lot of time and we have a lot of volunteers. we spent a lot of time trying to find equipment. >> now some of our team may