now marion barry's legacy begins. his widow says even though he's gone his presence can still do good for the city. the city's commission to recognize and commemorate marion barry has proposed four memorials including renaming the student center at udc, ballou senior high in southeast as well as oxon run park all after barry and floated the idea of commissioning a statue of the mayor for life in and around city hall. >> i think they're great, especially naming ballou high school after him and naming a statue of him in front of the wilson building. >> reporter: but in death, just as in life, marion barry continues to be controversial. >> i would love to see a statue of marion barry right there. >> i don't think it's a good idea. he's too controversial. >> why do you want to memorialize a guy who did what he did. >> he basically made this incredible real estate community. i'm a real estate guy. >> i would prefer not to see a statue of marion barry. i don't respect him as someone my children should look up to. >> reporte

getting ready to honor the late marion barry. tonight the commission is taking all your ideas on how best to do that. what they might be looking for. it has been a year since the former mayor and councilman marion barry passed away. this past march he would have turned 79 years old. wants to heartee from you. what are some good ways to honor his legacy? we posted this on facebook and twitter and we got quite the response here, well over 100 people responded. let me show you what some of you said. the first person said, a street name. a lot of people suggested that. a school was another suggestion. someone said, i would like to see a park, maybe in the ward eight area. an outreach program for ex-convicts. another thing that was also talked about online on our facebook page was the mistakes that marion barry made. somebody posted, judge not, lest you be judged. also a bit of side conversation. listen to one of the most popular suggestions. >> we think there ought to be some public thing, something that has to do with education. eve

mayor and council member marion barry. did a commission to commemorate his public service. members have until next spring to come up with ways to honor marion barry. he died last year. a key unity heartbroken about the sudden death of their beloved school principal. students and staff grieving the loss of dr. michael doran. >> he had a profound impact on all these kids lives. we are verified. jay: the keepsakes grows outside of wooten high school in rockville, at the spot where the school principal parked his car. charismatic,ny, and he deeply cared about the student body and every staff member. school does not start for another couple weeks, prevented not stop people from sharing memories of a man who made certain his community knew that he care during his years as school to ball. >> -- as school simple. imagine him not walking the halls or having a silly tie or shirt. jay: he was found dead in his bethesda apartment wednesday. without play is not suspected. his unexpected loss has the community reeling. in june, two students were killed in a car crash. now the person that

in march, mayor muriel bowser did a commission to commemorate marion barry. the beloved and often ial politician died last year. the apparent hack of the infidelity website ashleymedicine.com has been a wake-up call for others to step up their security. i-team your side investigator joce sterman explains, many may be surfing the web tonight to see if their secret relationships have been revealed. joce: it is the hack that left thousands scrambling. >> it seems like the entire stash was hacked. hackers releasing information from hundreds of users of ashley madison. fr says expert jim jones their secrets may be available to the world. >> if anybody used a real e-mail address or credit card, that is a problem. joce: and not just on the dark web. we found thousands of public e-mail addresses posted by hackers on websites. we even spotted e-mails from local school districts on the list. are popping sites up claiming they can verify whether your soulmate was seeing somebody else. >> very low credibility into the e-mail dresses -- e-mail addresses only circulating.

do you build a statue, do you rename a building for him would you create a holiday for marion barry? known as the mayor for life, passed away this past november. he was 78 years old. forum to getd a ideas and suggestions could we came here with our dry erase boards to get your ideas. we have named it the "mayor for life" dry erase board. some marks -- "he loved the this" "good man," and woman, "my first summer job." russell, what are your thoughts? how should the city remember him? >> the city should remember barry in a big way. he should have a sculpture. john: what about a sculpture? where would you put it? >> in the heart of d.c. downtown. john: you can give your ideas. if you are not going to be there tweete on e street, us your ideas using #mayor forlife. jummy: coming up, the road to recovery. a look at the progress 10 years after hurricane katrina devastated the gulf coast. the little pink pill. have a decision expected from the fda today and the impact it could have on women's health. plus, worse than we thought. the new details on how many people were infected by the irs hac

film, a 15 minute featuring 15 -- featuring marion barry. people, young people, they all live in the district. they are being deliberately left out of the picture. >> people be hitting people in the head. >> what do you think about the police? >> [inaudible] i said, what you going to do to me? he said -- i take you to the pig cage. i said, no, you ain't. you got to take me to my aunts. he said, all right, all right. [inaudible] you all remember, pig. you all know that? >> the question always comes, when you live in a community that is oppressed, people are living like we have to live in the black community, how do you get a handle on all of these problems? there is a need for dramatic and drastic change in this community. >> the third police district. there is contrast here. from embassy road to devastated 14th street. a court or of violence in 1968. an average week will bring 40 robberies, 16 aggravated assaults, high incidence of rape, homicide, and arson. with drug abuse the source of at least half of the crime, 80 addicts this year will

through. 32 years old, former teacher of college chemistry, director of the black corporation, marion barry had a strategy for community control. [video clip] -- mr. barry: tell him i could see him in about two minutes. i got a message for the chief wilson. where? in his office? this is the other part of the third district. you can see the difference. the streets are cleaner. this is the more affluent part of the third district. where we live, 14th street, other parts of the black community, and this part of the community. these are the people who are not oppressed. they don't live in a kind of squalor, the same bad kind of things that we do. these are the people crying for more protection. more dogs, more guns, more policemen, more jails, harsher punishments. they are the ones whose homes are being burglarized. they don't have to do the same thing that we do. they don't have to go to meetings and be disruptive. they don't have to kick the doors down. they don't have to protest gang power the way that we do. how do you resolve those conflicting points of view? this part of the community wan

i'll bet bob has an answer for that one. >> i can give you quick one on marion barry.he was one of the early chairman of sncc and when he came to washington d.c. he wasn't supported by the poor people at all. he was supported by the intelligentsia but he took policies that built the black middle class that changed the face of washington d.c. in many ways in favor of poor people and working people and especially young people. that they have never forgot that at all so that was when he was finally known as mayor for life. >> i want to push you ovell more on this question of the majority minority districts. >> not too much longer though. [laughter] >> with that we got? five minutes. okay make it quick. all right. it seems as if one of the ironic result is that of that kind of manipulation and the packing of black voters into single district has been a political polarization worse than existed before you so essentially you have a black democratic already and a white republican party and you have the former white moderates outnumbered and unable to swing districts. it actua

i wanted to ask you about a specific elected official marion barry here in washington d.c.if you look at him, he was a mixed bag and so depending on your political background, you might see him as a pretty good with a few flaws are pretty bad guys who is good once in a while. e-mail, he is an example of somebody basically elected by the voters. what is your take on this. >> i don't have a take on it. he's not someone i read about in the book. i don't want to not answer a question but it doesn't relate to what i've been covering. >> i could give you a quick one on marion barry. when he came to washington d.c. he wasn't supported by the poor people at all. he was supported by the intelligence yet. he took policy that built the black middle class, to change the face of the in many ways in favor of poor people and working people and especially young people and they never forgot that at all. he was finally known as mayor for life. >> i want a push of a little more on this question of the majority minority districts. >> not too much longer though. five minutes. make it quick. >>

believe he is gone but we are looking for ways to honor former mayor for life and councilmember marion barry. they want to hear what you think should be done. they have a public forum at 7:00. at the learning center on mississippi avenue in southeast. that is where you can chime in. pitch ideas for the tributes to the former mayor. leon: got a lot more to come on "abc7 news at 5:00". >> a wedding party left high and dry. why they no longer have a d.j. for the wedding and days away. what happened once said side stepped in. a d.c. company is helping the employees stay out of prison. that's this week's harris' heroes. kimberly: coming up at 6:00, fighting back against crime. new clue in a deadly shooting outside the church. the picture police want you to see and why the d.c. police union is at odds with the steve: welcome back. middle of the work week and already looking ahead to the upcoming weekend. it looks fantastic. in town, the temperatures are 86 to 27 degrees. saturday and sunday. not as humid. not looking at the heat index values in the lower 70's. only the upper 80's. we will take tha

. >> the agonizing question, what happened to marion barry airlines flight 3-- mappe what happened t malaysian airlines 3. >> today in a speech at american university, president obama urged americans to join him in back the deal. he says it is the strongest nuclear nonproliferation treaty ever negotiated. members of congress say it is a mistake, arguing, if the u.s. does not agree, they will be left with one option, war in the middle east. loiks joins ulibby casey joins n washington with more. libby. >> part of the campaign the white house is waging to convince boast of the those members on the fence as well as the american public that the iran deal is not only smart but necessary. president obama framed the current debate over the iran nuclear agreement is the most significant foreign policy decision since the 2003 iraq war and found parallels. >> many of the same people who argued for war in iraq are now making the case against iran nuclear deal. >> reporter: and he warned against listening to a drum beat of war. >> it was a mindset characterized by a premium on unilateral u.s. act

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kimberly: today the district is looking for ways to honor marion barry. the city wants your help. a commission to remember the d.c. so-called "mayor for life" has a meeting tonight at the learning center on mississippi avenue in southeast washington. people had a chance to share their tribute ideas there tonight at 7:00. jonathan: on the presidential campaign trail, hillary clinton continues to face questions about her private e-mail server. and now there are questions about what is next in the investigation. jeff barnes is live with more on this. the questions get more complicate and the answers seem to be fewer. jeff: absolutely! this is a drip, drip, drip every day. hillary clinton's problems regarding the private server are not going away anytime soon. now there are questions raised to how her server was handled. a lot of the parties say it was questionable. nbc news site and the source saying that someone tried to wipe her server clean. so if question is what does the f.b.i. do next? >> the f.b.i. in particular heavy duty tools. lets them go in and see what used to be on the

wants to honor former councilmember marion barry's life and thigh need your help to do it.ll hold a public forum tomorrow night to discuss and share ideas. this afternoon the city residents said they would like to see a statue or a park built in his honor or name a street after him. the forum is tomorrow at 7:00 at the mayor's office. kimberly: lynchburg college is considering changing the name to include university. the school president tells the newspaper that it includes university of lynchburg and lunchburg university. a third option could be a name referring to central virginia. consultants are holding focus groups to consider the options. jonathan: a trash can for every home. that is the plan of the baltimore mayor to clean up the city. a trash condition. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake announced that the city will spend $to million to distribute -- $10 million to distribute a large trash can to each home in baltimore. 210,000 to be delivered next year and she expects to offset the cost through savings of other programs. kimberly: hope it works. a fight offline for onl

mayor and council member marion barry wants to hear from you. the commission will hold a foreum to hear your thoughts and gather ideas. it starts at 7:00 at the executive office of the mayor in northwest. barry died last november. he has been fondly dubbed as the district's mayor for life. >>> 6:07. school buses hitting the roads for the first day in marion county. monday, students in d.c., anne arundel, frederick, and howard county, maryland, heading back to school. classes start for kids in calvert and prince george's county next tuesday. >>> 6:07. we are following a developing story. this one out of washington state where a blast at this motel has one person clinging to life. and this morning, officials already think that they know the cause. >>> she got a knock on her door and expected to see housekeeping. instead she saw this guy. the terrifying moments he's accused of at a hotel in d.c. and why police hope you can catch him. >>> you might not need the wipers on the way into work this morning. but that drive home, that might be a different

mayor marion barry wants to hear from you. there will be a forum to hear your thoughts and gather ideas. the forum starts at 7:00 this evening. barry died in november. he's been fondly dubbed as the district's mayor for life. >>> a guest staying at a d.c. hotel said a man tried to get into her room by pretending to be room service. this video could lead to answers. >>> tom kierein is timing out possible showers for today. he has the drive-time forecast at 5:11. what's happened to snacking? how did it become absent-mindedly eating one after the next? we are a creamy cheese that still believes in savoring our food. the laughing cow. reinvent snacking. >>> three men missing and presumed dead after a landslide in coastal alaska. photos show the devastation that the landslide left behind. the area had been hit bay heavy rains the day before. a witness described a sea of logs, mud, and debris. the entire landslide lasted just four minutes. >>> take a close look at this video. this is from the embassy row hotel in dupont circle. d.c.

mayor and councilman marion barry.the commission has been set up to lead up plans for the tribute, holding a public forum tonight, set to take place at 7:00. it will be in the executive office of the mayor in northwest washington. barry died last november. he has been fondly dubbed as the district's mayor for life. >>> next week marks ten years since hurricane katrina ravaged the gulf coast. president obama will be visiting new orleans, meeting with mayor landrieu and city residents spending the last decade rebuilding from that storm that killed nearly 2,000 people. our chris lawyer lerence will be and look back at his time covering the storm ten years ago. >>> decision 2016, donald trump riding high the top of the republican candidates for president, but now, a new poll shows he has gained enough to be competitive in a general election. the latest cnn/orc poll, trump is six points behind hillary clinton in a general election. trump is one of three republican candidates matched against clinton, the presumptive democrat

issue is how do you get the committee -- [indiscernible] i am not concerned about what happens to marion barry. more than likely, i can deal with the police. but i am talking about what can we do for the 600,000 black people out here who do have a problem with the police? >> so, we just have to try to figure out a way to make sure when you get as old as i am or even before that that you don't have to live in those kind of conditions. we don't have to see the drug addicts and the dope. so i think that is what we are talking about. how do you take it you like this and make sure he grows up to be a man. that he can stand tall, he can get the cat of advantages and opportunities that white people get. that means we have to do something to get some control for our community. how are you doing, sir? about what is happening in our community, right? and i think we can do that. don't you think so? >> right on. in august, 1945, 70 years ago, american forces dropped two atomic bombs over japan. one in hero seema and the -- hiroshima and the other in nagasaki. he served as an assistant to project director.