lindsey watts, "fox5 local news". >> tonight morales of sexual misconduct on capitol hill. reese everson a former aid to bobby scott says he touched her inappropriately in 01 and when she rebuffed his advances he fired her. ever since the misconduct happened when 'served for a fellow for the black caucus foundation. >> during my time working with mr. scott, i experienced several inappropriate experiences you can my nateing in conversation where he propositioned me for romantic or i declined that upon urn turning him down he game very upset. >> in a statement congressman scott says i have never sexually har hased someone as n my years of service or any other time. . d.c. council education committee held a hearing today about graduation policies especially members talked about blue high school and a skainling report recently showed a number of students received diploma'ses from blue. the principal was reassigned after the report came out. during today's haring a number of students defended her. >> if you're your attendance was not 7 owe 0% or higher and you were not allowed t

live in alexandria, lindsey watts fox 5 local news >> that fire really going behind you still.th you at the top at 11:00. >> when you see that going on obviously the big concern is making sure when you have the cold temperatures and all the water being sprayed. we talked about first responders being thanked by the community. you get a sense this is day they would like to be with the families. unfortunately you got to deal with that >> large antique store there, two alarm fire from what we understand >> a cold one out there for them to be fight >> cold, it was windy much of the day. it doesn't take much to fan the flames, cold 26, 38 is the high tomorrow. it is chilly tomorrow, then gets cold, and pretty much colder as we round out the work week, we'll talk about snow chance at 11:00. >> thanks for joining us for the news at >> we'll see you with more news at 11:00 this christmas. >> welcome to the second installment of the best beyond the lense. if you're a fox5 viewer then you know our photojournalist are some of the greatest and some of the best in the business. so over the n

"fox5" lindsey watts is live in laurel with the details on this lindsey. >> sarah, jim, this is home daycare it happened on accokeek street in laurel. very nicetown homes in the area. and it was second fwrun threatened where police found 600 grams of marijuana and several grams of cocaine and 10 grand in ch all in a house licensed to care for newborns. when i walked up to the door five minutes ago some women with the state department of licensing were leaving and they told me that they were doing an emergency seizure of the daycare license. and we'll show you now the man that was aest areed. this is the homeowner's son 18-year-old cameron one charged with possession of marijuana and intent to distribute. i spoke to his mother. there was a language barrier and she had me speak to her daughter who also lives in the house. she and her mom had no idea about the drugs or anything that was going on and investigators say it appears children at the daycare did not have access to the area of the home where the drugs were located. and the daycare is in the basement and according to state recor

. >>> the flames broke out at the mountain vernon antique center lindsey watts with the latest. >> reporter: jim and sarah right now, the fire at this store is still burning, but firefighters say it is under control. as we were driving in about a half hours ago, we could see just this huge plume of smoke. it was visible miles away. also all of these flashing lights. there is a huge response to this fire. it broke outright around 9:15 tonight. i want to show you video. a little while ago. you can see and hear the wall of this antique store crashing down, collapsing there, the good news tonight is nobody was inside the shop at the time of the fire. nobody was injured. i want to bring in fairfax county deputy chief william garrett, and deputy chief garrett, what can you tell me about the fire fight >> what i can tell you about 9:15 units received multiple calls that there was heavy fire conditions following the structure here, units got scene two minutes after that, identified heavy fire involvement on the second floor. we began with an aggressive offensive attack. shortly thereafter, and conc

his name was armany coals, police still don't know who killed him, or why fox5 lindsey watts spoke to his family this evening and she joins us. >> lauren, i was with family earlier tonight. and could you just see how devastated and how shocked they are shock because they say he was not about street crime or crime, he was all about his son and his work. he worked as a custodian at the dc powell elementary school. his mom said he loved kids, loved his work. she said she has no idea who would murder her son. >> he lived for his family. he adored me. he add board his son. he was a hard worker. he work for dc public schools for six years. he never was involved in violence, no drugs, no anything. this family was his life. who ever did this to my son, that murdered my son, just come forward. i forgive you. i forgive you. just come forward. bring closure to my home. >> she said she spoke to her son and doesn't know what happened leading up to the shooting. i check in with prince george's county police tonight. they say they still have no suspect. investigators believe coals was shot and then

lindsey watts talked to d.c. director of homeland security and emergency management. lindsay, what is he saying. >> chris rodriguez director says the real purpose of propaganda is to scare fem and make isis seem more relevant. this is skheep andskheepy way to do it and not sophis sophisticated. you see wait for us we meet christmas in new york. they did not even get the city correct. rodriguez says this is not credible but law enforcement is still well aware of it. >> working this threat daily and people are watching for threats we take them seriously we're already at a heightened state of security because it's the holiday season. >> this poster was made public by the site intelligence group that monitors extremist organization and image was shared thursday in a pro isis channel of social media app. d.c. police tell us the department is honor toing the swraition and when asked about it new york police commissioner said today that there are no credible threats to the city there, either, rodriguez says cathedral staff was made aware of this. director rodriguez is new to

live in germantown, lindsey watts fox 5 local news. dupont circle 25 degrees, couple hours ago low 30's and earlier much warmer caitlin is here. it's always interesting to see how the temperatures drop >> we went from 49 degrees about seven hours ago to now 27. so 22 degree temperature drop rapidly and with the wind to go along with the. so it's tough to be outside. this some bitter cold for our area. 27 degrees is the air temperature. at least at reagan. 25 at dupont. low to mid 20's north and west and these are the area temperatures but all day have been accommodate by this gusty wind out of the northwest and the wind is behind an arctic cold front that moved through earlier. it will continue through tonight into tomorrow. you can see those current gusts in many surrounding spots. windchill in the teens, cases lower single digits, extreme western maryland and along the ridge tops we got a windchill advisory out through wednesday morning, where windchill values could even be in the negative territory. by 8:00 a.m. as you get the kids

"fox5" lindsey watts spoke to her and joins us now with more details. lindsay. >> tony, i was with armani kohl's mother, family and friends tonight. and you can tell what happened has not fully sunk in yet. they are in shock. aramani has always been on the rights track. staying out of trouble working at school and focusing on family. >> he lived for his family he adord me and his son. >> armani coals was father to 8-year-old boy. >> everyay son. >> his mom said he loved his son and was great with kids. he worked as a custodian here at wow well elementary school in d.c. >> he was a hard worker. he worked for d.c. public schools for six years. he never was involved in violence. no drugs. no anything. he just his family was his life. >> amber cole said last time she saw her son alive was thursday morning before he left for work. thursday evening. >> and detectives say she was found on 25 and he was murdered. >> police say armani coals had gun shots up toer body and it appeared he was shot then pushed from a vehicle on to the roads and he was found along th

lindsey watts, fox news. >> keep pressing themment there's so many unanswered question there and i know a lot of people have questions for kevin maxwell. >> hopefully we'll get straight answers. because we have not gotten them so far. >> a lot of people, parents, students deserve answers. >> and you saw all of them were out there today. no aken coats and in december i hope you enjoyed it. >> i, of course being kept my heavy coat on all day. >> you did. >> why because i have not been warm since fourth of july. slightly warm today. and nice to have the day to run around and not really have to be bundleled up as tony said a lot of reporters out tlut out jacket on. you notice it drops quukly as the sun goes down early. and 60 for dulles and 60 also for bwi. we're not doing that again tomorrow and we're also not going to be bitter cold. we'll be back to reality with temperatures in the upper 40s tomorrow. it's still 52 right now. and call pepper you dropped down to 49. 52 fredericks and 5 gaithersburg and tomorrow little less sunshine and cooler temperatures. we're going to have a frontal bo

and "fox5" lindsey watts spoke to the family today. >> tony, no one is happier tonight than 7-year-old reagan turner. she didn't know if they wasing to to see her dog again and earlier tonight, two people returned biscuit found him wandering on the road. family thinks the chief got spooked after our coverage and all the social media scares. >> i love my dog so much. thank you so much. >> it's a story that took off on social media. a d.c. girl dog and hours later the family believed it helped bring biscuit home. >> i was happy and relieved that he's back. >> we talked to them earlier as well. >> biscuit because my best, best, best friend he was the only one that could understand me. >> christmas is not the same now. >> reagan teenager and this was no accident. >> i got mad when i figured that out. >> surveillance shows a man in dark coat and hat sa approached. >> the mana peers to try to hop the gate an locked. he then goes around to the front guard and opens that gate. biscuit goes out after him. >> most neighborhoods know and love biscuit and everybody is helping me look for him. >> r

lindsey watts sopo and had more details. >> i was with armani kohl's mother and you can tell what happened has not fully sunk in for them yet. they are shocked. they say armani is always on the right track staying out of trouble and working out of cool and does focus on family. >> he adord me and his son. >> armani coals was father to 8-year-old boy. >> every day he was with his son. >> his mom says he loved his sop and was grait great with kids. >>> he work as custodian at powell elementary school in d.c. >> he was hard worker and worked for d.c. public schools six years and never was involved in violence and no drugs no anything family was life. de on 295 murder sfwlerd he had gun snrots upper body and pushed from a vehicle on the road. he was found shoulder of d.c. 295. kenilworth avenue near the border of maryland and district. and it was around 6:20 in the evening at the hight of rush hour. armani died at the hospital. his family says they cannot imagine who would do this. >> he was my perfect angel. i could not ask for a better son in my life. >> amber has been through it before. she

now last night our lindsey watts spoke with school ceo kevin maxwell where he denied he knew there wasing amiss and later acknowledging he read the internal audit and was aware of the cases of more than a year ago. and asked his staff to look into them and asked if there was a plan to address the first internal audit. how would a new one to tack this new state audit be any different. take a listen. >>>. >> if this the plan didn't work the first time why would the plan you're presenting tonight work now. >> um not sure sure it weren't work or improve. >> audit tores came in a year later and found major sgripcys which you already addressed this was happening and made a plan to correct it why was it not fixed. >> i believe some of things were fixed. i i believe when we come back this year after we do the next audit you'll see that the implementation of this plan has gone very well doing much, much better sgl less than 8 minute he walked away from that interview and others told us they were not amade aware of 2016 interpal audit and got same apps from county executive office. live in princ

fox's lindsey watts has the story. >> very happy. i love my dog so much. so much for finding him. >> reporter: it's a story that took off on social media. a d.c. girl's dog stolen days before christmas. hundreds shared it including local police and dc's mayor. hours later, the family believes it helped bring biscuit home. >> i was so happy and relieved that he's back. >> reporter: we talk to them earlier as well. >> biscuit was my best best friend. he was the only one who could understand me. christmas isn't the same right now. >> reagan turner heart broken. her dog was missing and this was no accident. >> i got really mad when i figured that out. >> reporter: surveillance video shows a man in a dark coat and hat approaching biscuit in the backyard. >> biscuit start running up because he thought he was trying to play. >> reporter: the man appears to try to open the gate but realizes it's locked. he then goes around to the front yard and opens that gate. biscuit goes out after him. >> most of my neighbors know biscuit and love biscuit and everybody is helpi