they all come after the arrest of deonte carraway. tracee wilkins is in upper marlboro. >> praising this task force and others questioning how things were handled. >> yeah. a lot of people have problems with the passport being closed to the public and the assumption was made because they would be calling for possible victims of the carraway case and talking with teachers and wanting people to speak freely, but today we learned that they did not question anyone associated with the deonte carraway case. >> if that was your child that the allegation is about or concern about, wouldn't you want someone to report it. >> reporter: prince georges county ceo kevin maxwell announced today that he's eager to implement the nearly 60 recommend takes made by a task force looking at how to improve student safety. >> this is personal to me. >> the task force led by prince georges community president was commissioned by dr. maxwell following the arrest of a former school aide turned volunteer deonte carraway. carraway is facing federal charges for se

the task force chairperson c defended the decision not to not interview any of relatives off carraway's alleged victims or any of sill vin yeah woods employees not the principal, not the teacher, not the staff or hold any public hearings on anye of this. the task force job was to make representations to the school district, not to investigate deon take you carraway. the first thing you have to understand is what the task of the task force was and it wasas not to investigate the carraway situation. that's the first thing is to understand the charge that we were given. we were given a charge to look forward in terms of what thehe school system might do, could do and would would. it was hain us. it was awful.it w it was terrible. it shouldn't have happened, but i 200 some other schools whereco it did not happen. so again when we're talking about the difference between systemic and non sys(5%9ñ we had a problem and we know that we need to do better going forward. going forward there is already a complaint filed against this task force for violating maryland's open public meeting law. we spo

maxwell following the arrest of a former school aid during volunteer deonte carraway. carraway is facing federal charges for videotaping more than a dozen students on and off school property. >> the task force believes that these recommendations are just a starting point. >> some of the changes to be implemented includes the ceo reporting safety improvements publicly every year. there will be a new office of monitoring, accountability and compliance created that reports to the ceo. there will also be the creation and has not received sexual abuse prevention training. >> children and parents need to know everything is being done to support them. >> classes geared at preventing child abuse for k through 12. training to improve volunteers, vendors and contractors as well. there is a new mandate that all employees report suspected child abuse to the department of social services, something that was not required before. >> our job isn't to protect each other. our job is to protect the children in our charge. >> the board will be meeting throughout the summer to get the chan

maxwell following the arrest of a former school aid during volunteer deonte carraway.is facing federal charges for videotaping more than a dozen students on and off school property. >> the task force believes that these recommendations are just a starting point. >> some of the changes to be implemented includes the ceo reporting safety improvements publicly every year. there will be a new office of monitoring, accountability and compliance created that reports to the ceo. there will also be the creation

carraway has pleaded not guilty to numerous counts of sexually exploiting children. that is the latest live outside judge sylvania woods elementary in glenarden. back to you. >>> also today, in upper marlboro, a murder trial unlike almost any other. jury selection will begin in the case against jermaine hales. hales is accused of shooting melvin tate in 2010. the shooting paralyzed tate who died of his injuries less than two years later. prosecutors argued tate was able to identify hisot blinking at a picture of hales. if a judge allows the identification into evidence, it will be the first time that has happened in maryland. >>> we're hearing about another missile launch attempt from north korea. however this morning south korea says it believes that missile exploded on the launch pad. you're looking at a separate missile launch from earlier in year. if this most recent launch really blew up, it would be the fourth time north korea failed to fire mid range missile, the kind that could potentially reach some american military bases. >>> early voting begins today to w

police found videos they say carraway made of children having sex with him and children having sex with each other. and some of

carraway faces more than a dozen federal and state charges for abusing up to 19 students.report will include changes to policies regarding how much access school volunteers have to students. >>> also today a murder trial up like any other. jury selection will begin in the case against engineer main hales, accused of shooting melvin tate in 2010. the shooting paralyzed tate who died of his injuries less than two years later. prosecutors argued tate was able to identifyhoeho his death by deliberately blipgiblipg i blinking at a picture. if the judge allowed the testimony in, it will be the first time it's ever happened in maryland. >>> south korea responds to north korea's latest missile launch saying it failed again. is this video of a previous launch this year. a government source saying that the missile this time away exploded on the launch pad. if this is true, this would be the fourth time the north has failed at launching a new missile that could possibly reach u.s. bases in asia and the pacific. i'm angie goff here at the live desk. back to you. >>> 4:29 is your time.

we spoke on phone tonight witht the mother of one of deonte carraway's alleged victims. she told us this, quote, i got t reel problem with this. if they don't talk to us, it us just looks like they are hiding something. we are life in upper marlboro tonight, tom fitzgerald, fox5erl local news.lo > we have afulup story tonight on something that has a lot of you talking on social media. a native american girl inirl charles county who was told thal she was not allow to wear moccasins during her high schoog graduation ceremony. c the principal says it's becausee the shoes violate the dress today, the student's mother is s appealing this decision. sarah and lauren, the meeting that happened today at the charles county itself districtef headquarters wrapped up with a whiling a but it finished with i no decision. dec the district's assistant superintendent met with the student and her parents and she right now is still weighing whether or not dylan is going to be able to wear those mock since when she graduates on thursday. we first told us yesterday and she showed us the dress

deonte carraway is under federal indictment. courthouse here we understand his case is before the grand jury. it's possible that indictments on state charges will be coming down soon. in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. jonathan: there is a warning after four cases of kids approached by a man. in each of the cases the kids gave almost the exact same story and the same descriptions of the guy in the vehicle he is driving. jeff goldberg has details. high school and elementary school students report a man driving dark pickup truck or sedan creeping up next to them and sometimes talking and sometimes not. last wednesday the recent incident outside washington lee high school. he said one time he honkedhi horn and the other time he was clearly watching her. jeff: the news to make any parent feel like vance does. >> it makes me nervous. jeff: two girls walking home from barrett elementary school when a man in a dark blue pickup truck drove beside them at a slow speed staring. vance's daughter is in the fourth grade at barrett and

aspect of school policy to see what went wrong here at judge sylvania elementary will where deonte carraway worked as an aide and volunteer. we could see changes away background checks and new rules about reporting abuse and who can volunteer in schools. horrible allegations of sex abuse involving as many as 19 children just rocked this county. some of the abuse reportedly happened on school grounds between children as young as nine up to 13 years of age. the 22-year-old admitted creating videos of these children. he has pleaded no tnot guilty t numerous charges of sexually exploiting children. back to you. >>> also in prince george's county, a murder trial unlike almost any other. jermaine hales is accused of shooting melvin tate back in 2010. that shooting paralyzed tate who died of his injuries a little less than two years later. prosecutors argue he was able to ii death by deliberately blinking at a picture of hale. if the judge allows the identification into evidence, it will be the first time that's happened in a case like this in maryland. >>> today the trial against aen man accused

they did not look in the specific culture at sylvania woods that allowed carraway hours of unsupervised access to young children. maxwell says now he is appointing another task force to investigate how that could have happened. >> if it is discovered that anyone employed by the school system failed to act in accordance with the law, and our policy of reporting i will take swift and decisive action. brad: when we come back at 5:00, we will tell you more about the finding and give you update on the criminal proceedings. the case now before a grand jury. in upper marlboro, brad bell, abc7 news. scott: all right, brad. today, a warning from parents from arlington police. someone is children into his truck. several incidents and several children repoing it. one thing in common, that truck's description. northern virginia bureau chief jeff goldberg is live to explain what to look out for. jeff? jeff: well, it has the recent incident that happened last wednesday. a girl was walking home from washington lee high school after school got out. down here on 13th street. she was walking this way. a

the report comes in the wake of child porn charges against school volunteer deonte carraway, who is accused of making videos as he allegedly abused 11 children, he's suspected of cornering alone. even so, school ceo dr. kevin maxwell says this does not mean the whole system is rotten. >> so this is one school. and i have said this is a very terrible thing to have happened. i've used a number of verbiage. it was terrible, heinous, off, shouldn't have happened. but i have 200-something other schools where >> promising an annual report to the school board on school safety. and the opening of a headquarters office to implement school safety and training improvements to prevent sexual abuse. at the prince george's county board of education, in upper marlboro, scott broom, wusa 9. >> and task force chairman, dr. charlene duke said her committee did not interview any of caraway's victims or families because of the ongoing criminal investigation. dukes is the president of prince george's county community college. >>> arlington county police, looking for a man, trying to lure kids into his blue pick

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it was formed after the arrest of school aide deonte carraway on charges of videotaping a dozen students performing sex acts as sylvania woods elementary school. >> it is the responsibility of adults to protect children from harm. that is the underlying theme in this report. maureen: the reports makes including more reporting, accountability and prevention as well as the creation of a new compliance office. the school c.e.o. kevin maxwell pledged to do whatever is needed. jonathan: it was a contentious meeting even for donald trump. that is the snapshot from the news conference where he faced barrage of questions over $6 million he said he raised for veterans. scott thuman was at the january fundraiser in question and joins us to follow the money. where is it going? cot: well, keep in mind all of this came to a head because trump critics and members of the media were asking where did the money go? did he donate the $1 million he personally promised? today, answers. >> i'm totally accountable. i didn't want to have credit for it. now actually, though, what i got was worse than credit. sco

the task force was set up after school volunteer deonte carraway was accused of victim sizing 19 elementary school students. >>> it's the quiet after the storm. chuck bell still seeing that radar all lit up this morning. >> you betcha, but instead of the white yellows and oranges and reds which usually indicates severe weather and heavy rain, we're just back to the quieter blues and green. those are light to moderate rain showers across the area. thunderstorms are now well done towards tidewater in virginia. so long gone. still have a pretty high chance for rain today, but it will not be a repeat performance of yesterday. so kids on your way out to the bus stops, have the umbrellas ready to go. temperatures in the 60s now and we'll stay in the 60s pretty much all day today. so kiddos, back to umbrellas, jeans and long sleeves at least for another couple of days. and i do mean a couple. there is a lot of rain about in our forecast, a look at the extended forecast coming up in about ten minutes. >>> so we have a couple of new spots we're just hearing about as far as high standing water this m

carraway had done. i am not sure if they tried to mr. carraway put a freeze on it, because sometimes things go on. you don't find about it until the bell has been broke, but mr. carraway didn't freeze that process. when you look at the information, it is crystal clear. it is blatant, it is obvious. rep. norton: there was a problem. i indicated with tsa, it is not unusual having this tour of duty. i. brainard: last year, when hired him as a federal security director after 9/11, i did not sign a liability agreement. rep. norton: fidelity agreement? mr. brainard: fidelity agreement. the tsa, law enforcement, they sign this fidelity agreement. if you want to be a candidate, you sign the mobility agreement. there is no tour of duty on that. they established mobility with the federal security directors and started moving them around. they didn't have a business reason for doing it, regardless of what was put in their. we were certainly able to articulate that. rhodes? on: mr. mr. rhoades: mr. carraway talked about the initiative in october 201

for now, carraway is being held in jail here in prince george'sg county on $1 million bond.e faces the possibility of life in prison if he's convicted ofvo these charges.s. we're in glenn arden maryland, l bob barnard, fox5 local >> the race to the white house u scare for bernie sanders.e forne secret service grabbed him aft a protesters tried to rush theh t stage. it happened in a rally inly i california yesterday.terd animal rights group later tooket responsibility for thatt incident. the senator is okay.setor told the crowd would take more than that to scare him.e h hillary clinton making somemakg changes to her campaign. her schedule that is by addingdd more stops in california. umps it comes after sandersan spent more than week there. t it holds it's primary on jun june 7th. hillary clinton planned toy tonl campaign in new jersey later j this week will spend five days d in california.. recent polls find hillary clinton leading bernie sandersae by two points. by >>> on the republican side, s donald trump is set to revealevl today when veterans groups g receive money coll

the task for the was set up after school volunteer deonte carraway was accused of vict victimizes 19 students inside a school in glenarden. >>> and beach drive at a couple different procedures. in maryland shut down near knowledge avenue and between 410 and the d.c. line. and in d.c., beach drive shut down between the d.c. line and military road. that is an area that we typically see the low lying area the standing water and buckling of the road really adding up today. today right now as far as travel times go, 11 minutes. to ha beltway to 270, nine minutes. 66 inbound you're okay. and 95 north quantico to the beltway also on time. remember to listen to wtop 103.5 fm when you hop in your car. >>> after a round of heavy thunderstorms late last night, we're back to just clouds and rain showers here this morning. nothing all that heavy. but there are pockets of rain now from frederick, maryland to leesburg to warrington to luray and everybody is wet following the overnight rain showers. not expecting a lot of rain, but off and on chances for showers will keep temperatures in the 60s all

carraway is in jail on mel i don't know dollars bond he faces perhaps live in prison if he'sni convicted.cotults of the e task force later this afternoono guys, at the school headquarte headquarters. school board headquarters inrd upper marlboro. >> bob, >>> today a man goes goes on go trial for murder in princeer in george's county.. what makes this case unique howe the man was identified.d. jermaine hails accused of off shooting mel have vin tate backk in 2010. tate was paralyzed in thataral shooting and died in 2012. but not before id pogging heelsh as the shooter while blinking bi when shown a picture of him in n the a lineup much the case hasas gone through numerous hearingss to determine whether tate wastra competent at the time to make this. digit and whether the photo linl up yes conducted correctly.rely >> early voting starts today. registered voter which is castcs their ballots one judiciaryud scare in ward two starting 8:303 this morning until 7:00 o'clock tonight. the other early voting centers s in all eight wards will open on saturday.sarday >>> donald trump says to makee annou