lauren demarco is live in olney tonight. lauren, they think this is inside job. >> exactly, they believe someone inside the counsel ill of pta stole 34-7b someone with access to the checking accounts parent we spoke with tonight are in disbelief. they say it is just wild that somebody who is either a teacher or who has kids within the school system would take that money from student. >> it's shocking. absolutely shocking. and just it's unbelievable somebody would do that to kids. and families that contribute. it's hor 2350euing. >> i think that people are very expressed in this opportunity and they see an opportunity go ahead and make easy money who think think is easy money and easy money and people are willing to sell their souls to the devil even in charity situation. >> members of council first noticed irregularitys with finances in march as exclaimed in a letter on web site they conduct the a three week up turnal audit and discovered between july 2016 and this year 39,000 was improperly withdrawn from the council checkin

and "fox5" lauren demarco is live in silver spring with the details, lauren. >> tony, tonight we talked to a man that called police after a young sop and nephew told him the suspect tried to pull them off of the playground. >> daddy we're about to be kidnapped. he grabbed our wrist us to his house. >> father did not want to be identified on camera. but he says the 8 and 9-year-old cousins were able to break free and run home to tell him whaxd the playground snits middle of montgomery white oak housing complex stewart lane and often packed with kids. a went down to vest and a 13-year-old girl said she saw it all happen. and the suspect had exposed himself to her and other children as well. she was able to point out his apartment, which overlooks the playground, and they called please. and while some of the parents are in disbelief others say this guy gave them a bad feeling especially when he was outside near all of the kids. >> the girls said he exposed hillself to her. >> yeah, she said he was playing with himself, not only once she told me that this guy is a pervert and stairs at kids

fox 5 lauren demarco was live in silver spring. >> reporter: one of the people who live here would be targeting children on the playground. along with being charged with decent exposure, he's also charged with attempted child abduction. take a look at his photo. he's 37-year-old jim burugata on lock wood drive at the montgomery white oak apartments. police say he was trying to target children on the playground here. two young boys, ages eight and nine, say he grabbed them by the wrist and tried to drag his apartment. they broke free, ran home and told one of their fathers, that man came out to the playground to try to see what had happened. a 13-year-old girl told him, i know exactly who you're talking about. that man was just here and exposed himself to me and some of the other children. she pointed out where he lived. they called police and police came and made the arrest. i talked with the father. his name is naja sir. take a listen. >> i don't know what his intention was to try, what would he do if he managed to get them to his house? i don't know. i don't know. i don't know that

"fox5" lauren demarco is working the story us with tonight, lauren. >> that's what it looks like shawn and tony. it appears somebody inside of the council of ptas with access to the checking account stole that money and parents we spoke with tonight find it so hard to believe i'm are a teacher or somebody with kids in the school system would take that money from students. >> it's shocking absolutely shocking and just -- it's unbelievable somebody would do that to kids and families that contribute. it's horrifying. >> well i think that people are very stressed in this economy and they see an opportunity to go ahead and make some easy money or what they think is easy money and i think people are willing to sell their souls to the devil even charity situations. >> members of council first noticed irregularitys with finances in march a conduct aid three week internal audit and discovered between july of 2016 and march of this year $39,000 was withdrawn improperly from the council checking account. according to counsel ill president lynn harris, that's when police were notified. >> it's don

fox5's lauren demarco joining us live with more on that and the dangers of companion as well. >>reporter: seven students at river bend middle school are suspected drinking with beanch laced with xanax on friday and at the same time two students at nearby potomac falls high school are suspected of having xanax on taking it as well. xanax is a prescription drug, but if abused, somebody can overdose and even die on it. there are other serious side effects, according to wall. there are the risks of breathing very slowly, so slow at levels that can become very dangerous. also seizures are possible and withdrawal. believe it or not, dependency develops very quickly and then if abruptly stops a person can experience anxiety and also mood swings. now, at tonight's meeting sheriff mike chap man highlighted the daings of drug abuse. it's possible the high school students may have replied the middle students with the drug.s that he's all under investigation and he says charges may be filed. there were more than a hundred people and h was a regularly scheduled sheriff's meeting which had

fox5's lauren demarco spoke with one of the men tonight and joins us live now with the story. lauren. >>reporter: the family who lives in this home was renting out the basement. there were several people inside at the time. they were able to get out okay when this fire broke out, but there were two boys essentially home alone in the other part of the house. they were trapped on the second floor and neighbors what was happening. i just saw- smoke. sa team a torres and other neighbors shocked to see smoke pouring from a townhouse on brent on wood drive. her father was just returning home from work. he showed us photos present the scene and says when he ran up there were two young boys trying to get out of a second story wind over? a. i saw three people. they jumped over here. i said you can't jump you broke your leg. torres works for a tree trimming company and ran to grab the 20-foot ladder that he stores in his background. you were there before the firefighters. >> before. you think too much it's too late. you want to do it quas, quicker. he and another neighbor were able to us

. >> i'm lauren demarco. >> we want to get to the hot weather we're having. live look outside right now. it may be a little cooler this evening. earlier it was a different story. >> you're right at one point the temperature in d.c. broke 90 degrees. so will this look like it's going to look tomorrow? what when he to have today and what we see tomorrow. indicate slin in for gwen tonight tat a look. >> hot today. >>> unusual for late april. we will stay warm recap earlier today. like i said reagan national 91 record tied back in 1974. 89 broken at dulles for record high and b wixt 89 high temperature and you came up a couple degrees shy of that record ever 91. outside right now it is still warm. 78 at this hour in washington. 75 bat more. 80 mannasas and 71 in mar t tipsburg. dew points any time you see them in 60s it's humid. we have dew points in district and points south in the 70s. that's very muggy weather. you need air conditioning sleep comfortablely tonight. no thunderstorms materialize tonight and quiet and few clouds around and overnight we'll stay qu

. >> and thank you for joining us tonight on this easter sunday i'm lauren demarco. >> i'm jim lokay. >> off the top we're talking about the easter sunday we saw outside and man it was just a great day no matter are where you were. great day to be outdoors. >> it had a feeling of spring and found like summer today. and getting a check on weather. >> lauren and jim it's been such a beautiful day and tonight we are still seeing people out and about enjoying the weather and some are walking or bike ago around the title basin and easter can be such a toss up when it comes to the weather. some years you're needing a jacket and this time around, though, you can grab that bathing suit >> we went over to yards park in southeast not far from nationals parka long the anacostia river. kids were having a blast in the wading pool and there was a mountain to play in. there's very few outdoor play options especially here in the dmv. and a month and a half out from hem orial day. the kids we talked to were loving their time in the water. >> i thought it would be cold but it's hot. >> i have not been

police say she showed up at "fox5" lauren demarco is live at sterling middle cool with the details. uren. >> tone yes, i not only drunk but with alcohol on her it was fellow staff members that first noticed this teacher seemed to be intoxicated and they are the ones who then called police. now, according to the loud con county sheriff office megan debot had a open container of dmrol her possessioned in the school. it turns out she drove into work. she is charged with dui. the 29-year-old is sixth grade english teacher working here two years and buy on on school web site says she actually attended sterling middle herself as a child. we spoke with parents in the area and while many are angry some feel it's also rather sad. >> well i think it's a shame that she thinks it's okay to get in a car and go interact with children because she is supposed to be setting an example for the children. i'm glad she was arrested and i'm glad >> i feel sad for the school and sad for the kids and sad for the whole county's reputation on it. it's all kind of sad. you don't know what is going on in her pe

"fox5" lauren demarco is live in silver spring with the details. lauren. >>> tony, tonight we spoke with a man that called police after his young son and nephew came home saying that a man playground. >> hey daddy, we're about to be kidnapped. he grabbed our wrist and dragged us to his house. >> and the father did not want to be identified on camera and says the and 9-year-old cuz insz were able to break free and run home to tell them what happened. and the playground sits in medicinele montgomery white oak housing complex stewart line and often packed with kinds. he went down to investigates and a 13-year-old girl said she saw it all happen the same man, suspect, jim gada exposed himself to her and some of the other children as well. she was able to point out his apartment which overlooks the play ground and they called police. while some parents in disbelief others say this guy gave them a bad feeling especially when outside near all the kids. >> the girl said he exposed himself her. >> yeah, she said he was playing with himse not only once. she t

. >> i'm lauren demarco. >> and it has been chilly, dreary and rainy. all the wet weather comes on top of yesterday's storms. look at the damage left behind in colonial beach, virginia. here you see a large tree, branches toppled over and fire truck ran off the road trying to get to standing water. the town impose aid curfew due to storm damage that started at 10 . no one is allowed to walk or ride south of boundy avenue for the morning. >> fortunately today's rain didn't come with wind and hail as well. here's a live look outside on your saturday night. tucker barnes is in for gwen tonight. hey, tucker, how long is this dreary weather going to stick around. >> guys the bottom line is days and days. as far as train tomorrow than today. overall pattern is wet. that gives you a chilly ni nights. >> no measurable rain at the moment. and drizzle in a couple spots and lots of clouds overnight. and when we get into it tomorrow the bulk of rain will go south and if you look for dry hours you should number good shape tomorrow. as will be just mostly cloudy. coo

. >>> we thank you for sticking with us, i'm matt ackland >> i'm lauren demarco. let's get right to this hot weather we're talking. maybe cooling off, there's a live look. see the national cathedral in the background. today, a different story, we have the heat. >> we sure did. at one point, the temperature broke 90 degrees and there you see, caitlin is with us tonight. gwen has the evening off. caitlin it has been a steamer. >> it has. a sign of things to come, only april 29th, definitely felt like we were in the middle of summer. and this is our first 90 degree day. it's early. yes, we did it, here at reagan tying a record. 91 was the official high temperature, tieing a record set back in 1974, dulles a record of 89, bwi hit 89, shy of that record there, not any records in jeopardy. it will still be a warm but not 90's, at least not here in outside it is very mild and muggy. 71 in annapolis, let's go west where it's shy of 80 manassas 77 at dulles, cooler along the mountains, temperatures there in the 60's. but the due point map it's back. we had to retire it pro

lauren demarco is live on the story in olney tonight. lauren? >> reporter: shawn, it is believed that somebody inside the council of ptas stole the money, members first noticed the financial irregularities back in march. t they conducted an audit and found that $39,000 was taken out of the council's checking account. that's when the members notified police. now, the montgomery county council of ptas represents 192 local parent teacher associations. each school as one or two representatives and the goal is to they posted information about the alleged financial fraud and we spoke with the new president of the board, lynn harris. take a listen >> our biggest challenge we don't know how much money we have to start our year and to start developing a programming and the events that we want to -- to produce for our members, and kids and the teachers and the communities and ncps this year >> i know there hasn't been a suspect named, but it's believed it's somebody inside of the mc cpta, which would be a parent or teacher, >> looks like whoever was miss

i'm lauren demarco. >> i'm jim lokay. >> and off the top today, we're talking about the weather. wanted easter sinned to get outside. >> people shedding their easter best for shorts and flip flops and bathing suits. we would get to quep in a moment to talk about what is next in the weather. first lindsay watts with more on how people spent the day out in the heat, hey, lindsay. >> lauren, jim it's been such a beautiful day and it's warm out tonight. each at this late hour there are still people out taking advantage of the warj. weaver seen a few people walking by just a few minutes ago here at the tidal basin and it may be tough to see but across the water at the thomas jefferson memorial there are still a few people on the steps right can be a toss up on easter weekend. some years you're needing a jacket. this year, though, you can grab your becameing suit. moving over to yard park in southeast earlier today. not from far from national parka long side the anacostia river. we're having a blast in the the wading pool. there's a water fall and fountain to play in. i think this is a

fox5's lauren demarco joins us live with more on that and the dangers of xanax abuse. lauren. >>reporter: iml some of the children here might have been unknowing taking some drug. it had been added to their drinking water. i realize the whole thing is bad, but that's particularly troubling for me. >> that's why it's under investigation. i believe there were some that knew. we have to make hur we get all their statements. work through it all before we do anything, if we do any charges and what the charges will be. you don't know what could happen if things, were, in fact put in someone's drink. it's very scary. i do hear a lot going on at the high school other things. it's trickling down and it scarce me as a parent. i don't feel like we're getting the communication that we need. >> officials want parents to be talking to their kids about all of this. they say that if your kiddies abusing xanax they may act similarly to someone under the influence of alcohol. meanwhile in metro news, metro workers linked arms and chantedded in protest today at a metro board meeting in the the t

. >> fox's lauren demarco spoke with a woman who is determined to get it back to the family who lostoved one. >> we had no idea. it looks, you know, just a plane cube with no writing, um, we thought it was like decoration or maybe a treasure box we were trying to open it with our fingers. and he was like i'm going to get it open. and decided to get screwdriver and pry it open. and it was definitely take a back. >> reporter: she knows people can fall on hard times and lose their belongings but it is so sad that someone's remains were end up in a store. while looking at the box with her son they noticed metal tag that reads chesapeake crematory along with id number. the business is located in bel beltsville, maryland and was able to provide her with a name. so here's what we know. michael t. boone was 61 years old. and died in july of 2014. he was cream mated the following month in washington, d.c. so who was michael boone? where did he live? and who did he leave behind? >> ron who recently lost her own husband is hoping someone with the answers to those questions sees this story. >> i

thanks for staying with us late tonight, i'm lauren demarco and i'm matt ackland. we're going to start in prince george's county where the fire department is honoring a firefighter who was shot and killed while responding to a call one year ago. john oms schneider spider was just 31 year old. he went by skillet around the fire station. lindsay watts has more on how the department is keeping his memory alive. >>reporter: this is the firehouse where john skillet objection to the form schneider was assigned. right over here was his h locker. you can see it has been turned into a memorial for him. earlier tonight dozens of firefighters from all around the county gathered here. right at eight:38 everybody paused for a moment. silence. time oms schneider schneider was killed last year. all personnel , pause for a moment of silence. you can see there were bag pipe players, oms schneider schneider's mother was here and you can see what a big crowd out. objection to the form schneider was killed during a welfare check in temple hills. when no one responded at the house he f

. >> i'm lauren demarco. >> hopefully you deposit have outdoor plans. it's been chilly, dreary, wet weather coming on top of yesterday's storms and take a look at damage left behind in colonial beach, virginia. there's a large tree, branches toppled over and fire truck ran off the road while trying to get through standing water and town impose aid curfew due to the storm damage that started 10 . no one is allowed to walk or ride in streets of sout southboundry avenue until the morning. >> doesn't look good there. fortunately today's rain didn't come with wind and hail too. here's a live look outside on saturday evening. tucker barnes is in for gwen tonight. hey, tucker. how long is this wet weather going to be stick around? >> that's a good question, matt, generally speaking the next couple days. although i think tomorrow a break and we'll not be a washout. probably just clouds for much of the day. we may even gets sunshine tomorrow. orin wet all day surprised as well and it looks like the rain hold off most of tomorrow and return again monday and tuesd

thanks so much for join us, i'm lauren demarco and i'm jim lokay. it is cold out there. meteorologist mike thomas is in for gwen tonight. i shouldn't be stumbling because you've been here all day long. but we're talking about the rain for the morning commute. we are going to be dealing with that. we have a lot of rain coming up from the south and not just tomorrow, but tuesday as well looks like it's going to be on the wetter side of things. showers back for your monday mples that ease your big headline here. in fact you can already see them starting to pushup through virginia. just some light scattered showers coming up i95. richmond has been in it most of the day. good for them. even baltimore got a decent amount of sunshine earlier today. enough showers start aing to pushup into southern maryland. there's your bigger picture. it's showing how far down to theou moisture extends. again, we have several daze of showers to get through here. 58-degrees is a cool evening for us. this is warmer than actually our temperature will be tomorrow afternoon. so a cooler monday comi

. >> live in manassas, lauren demarco, fox5 local news. >> metro general manager paul whether it field has a new plan to save the transit agency but it comes with a new price tag. he wants local governments to allocate $500 million each year for dedicated regional funding for capital projects. wheat field wants to bid out some of the jobs currently done by metro's unions. the plan calls for changing schedules to respond to ridership levels. the gm says the plan is urgent and says delays will reverse progress made with safetrack repairs. it's just recognizing the 40 billion-dollar investment that we made, that we cannot let that deteriorate any further or you see what happens as we've seen over the last few years, the slide we've been on, that will get steeper and teamer and worse for our customers. >> congress is also being called onto add more to the $150 million that it already contributes every year for capital projects like new railcars. >> till ahead tonight, the incredible story of a man living with als. how the diagnosis changed his life and what he's doing to make sure his lega

. >> lauren demarco helped return it to the family missing those actions. live tonight from suitland maryland with details on this. lauren a lot of people shared this on social media last night. >> reporter: a viewer reached out to us asking for help solving a mystery. we put out the word on air and online through social media and now less than 24 hours later we have a resolution. the man's remains have been runtd to his daughter who was also a "fox5" viewer. we were so glad to be able to do this and tonight, as the two met up, the woman who is the daughter of this gentleman did not want to be identified. but they made the exchange here at the branch avenue metro station in suitland. >> you're welcome. >> you're so welcome. [ crying ]. >> did makes it all worth it. >> he's so hand some. >> thanks. >> i'm sure you miss him so much. >> martha was overwhelmed with relief she was able to reunite a woman with her father's resglainz i'm more than hon honored. lucky to be the one. >> thank you. >> want another hug. >> she and her friend discovered the gold box at c

thank you so much for joining urks i'm lauren demarco and i'm jim lokay. we had little leaf from the rain. but you've been outside it's chilly. >> it is. it keeps back and forth. >> mike thomas is in tonight for gwen. >> is it going to impact the morning commute. >> unfortunately. we got through sunday pretty much unscathed. as you can see on radar some lights showers. we're going to be dealing with a lot more rain showers around the region tomorrow. i guess you could call it a washout. not a day where you're going to want to do outdoor activities. we have a strorm streaming through the carolinas and yes, investigate into our area for your day on monday. the relatively cool. only low 60s for highs. 58-degrees your current number outside. fifty-four dull as, 54 for fredericks. temperatures aren't going to move that much. we're going to get stuck in the low to mid 50s throughout the day tomorrow. thanks to the showers and what will be a little bit of a breeze. some 40s especially north and west. then we'll be rebounded into the low 50s with showers around. 8

fox 5 lauren demarco was live in silver spring. >> reporter: one of the people who live here would bergeting children on the playground. along with being charged with decent exposure, he's also charged with attempted child abduction. take a look at his photo. he's 37-year-old jim burugata on lock wood drive at the montgomery white oak apartments. police say he was trying to target children on the playground here. two young boys, ages eight and nine, say he grabbed them by the wrist and tried to drag

. >> i'm lauren demarco. >> we begin tonight with more on that weather. and we want to fay a live look outside right now. because while many enjoy the sunshine today, take a look at this. some areas have been dealing with severe warm. looks like cloud certainly moved washington monument. >> no doubt about that. gary mcgrady standing by with more. restarted out nicely and some dealing with storms and lightning. >> we had one isolated thunderstorm way out fwheingt west virginia riding east at about 20 to 25. history of being severe and heavy rain and gusty wind and large hail in the storm. let me show you radar do give you an idea what is going on. only storm and business out. there again it's been moving over the last hour to the east and a little north east. it did have a severe thunderstorm warping ton until 6:00 and that was for central berkley county in northwestern sections of jefferson ount didn't way out west there. it appears to be weakening a little. as we zoom down to you right now we're seeing good old fashioned heavy rain in there. there's a li

i'm lauren demarco and he i'm matt ackland.epartment is honoring a firefighter who was shot and killed while responding to a call just one year ago. john always a snider was 37 years oasmed he went by skillet around the firehouse. lindsay watts is there at the firehouse. >>reporter: this is the firehouse where john skillet objection to the form schneider was assigned. i can take you over here and show you his locker. it's now been turned into a memorial. earlier tonight dozens of firefighters from all over gathered here to honor him. at eht everybody called for a moment of silence. that was the time he was shot and killed last year. all personnel please be advised a moment of silence in honor of john skillet oms schneider. you can see there were bag pipe players, objection to the form snide ers' mother was here and you can see what a big crowd came out. he was killed during a welfare check at a home in temple hills. when one responded at the house he forced entry. he thought somebody was breaking in. he not only killed oms schn

lauren demarco is joining us.nesday. >> happy hump day good morning. >> good morning to you. >> all right. we have to smile because wall street you know it's doing better. all things relative. it did take a tumble yesterday. >> yeah, you know monday great day. tuesday, terrible day. this morning we're okay. maybe we'll end week flat. earnings keep coming in for the most part decent. standouts yesterday that and johnson and goldman sachs. awful report cards. stocks take a hit and dow falls aiming for come back this morning. fruit furz 30. it's a modest come back. >> let's talk about united airlines. i'll be honest i flew united one leg of trip on vacation and mentally it's in your head what happened that incident with that passenger being forcibly removed and it looks like it may be in other folks heads too as far as investors. >> so this is tough one. it's going to take united airlines time to overcome this pr nightmare of the video. infamous video of the police dragging passenger off the over booked flight becaus

. >> and i'm lauren demarco. thank you so much for joining us. what an amazing easter sunday it was out there, so much sunshine, temperatures reading 80 degrees. >> lori came in in shorts today. >> what the forecast is on the way i think a lot of people would like to see this stick around. >> it's not going to stick around as hot as it was today because we were in the upper 80s. it actually hit 89 at reagan national airport. can you believe it? we didn't break any records because our record is into between bwi thursdaygood marshall and baltimore where it is in the 87-degree range. it was a hot day. no mistaking it. but also we talked about a chance of showers today and that's what's happening on radar right now. some of you might have felt a little sprinkle out there and may feel a sprinkle before it's all said and done into this evening. we're not talking widespread showers, we are talking scattered showers, clouds are rolling in as well and this is all associated with a frontal system that's going to be moving through across our area. so don't

. >> i'm lauren demarco. >> we hope you had your umbrella handy. we've been seeing plenty of rain on and off throughout the day. >> it's been soggy. let's go live outside right now. will this rain get out of here before sunday. >> we want to know. tucker barnes here for gwen tonight. tucker any good news for us? >> they'll be a race between whether or not we get sunshine before the end of april or it might rain for the next week here, guys. >> we need the rain. >> that's right we'll talk about it. before we go to the weather, though, i want to show picture of last night. we had a round of severe weather that moved through parts of the area towards chevy chase. we had houses unfortunately damaged by trees and this is out of colonial beach. we want to show you pictures. there extraordinary stuff that so much of their communitys with impanged by storm damage here. you can see pictures. downed trees and i think it's a picture of fire truck that actually got off to the side of the road here. so, yeah, last night severe weather. today been all about the

the news at six starts right now, thank you for being with us tonight, i'm jim lokay and i'm lauren demarco. police continue to search for a robbery suspect on the run. two suspects are already taken into custody, but a third ran offer and left behind a trail of money. marina maracco has been following this story and she joins us live tonight with the very latest. held now for roughly three hours and police trying to sort out exactly what roughly took place i'll show you a little bit of the crime scene. you've got the exxon gas station on mack author bld. according to police when they first got the 911 1 # calls witnesses believed that h gas astigmatisms had been robbed. police say that right now doesn't look to be the case. however, there was a car that was at the gas station and you see it here where it ended just adjacent to the property here. that car wrecked and a according to the witnesses here there were three men inside the vehicle. one witness ran towards the car believing that they had just robbed the gas station and he interest event sed two of the three men and was able to hold