>> ronica cleary is live at i northwest with the story. what happened out there? >> reporter: thanks ladies. well at 12:15 today a person through an object over the north fence along pennsylvania avenue outside of the white house. now that persoe n according to e secret service was immediately apprehended how far is unclear what charges that person will face. now the white house was put on o lockdown and the park surrounding the white house wast closed off with caution tape while secret service patrolled p the area. hazardous material response united dispatched to the scene. we saw them walk across the lane their whose mat suits to the ma object they brought the object back to their staging area at theei northwest gate. g the secret service described the object thrown over the fence as a metal object. they said the sweep had negative results meaning no hazardous material was found on the object. e lockdown here at the white house it has been lifted.l reporting live from the white house for fox 5 local new ronica cleary. ♪ >>> quite a scene at the world war ii memo

you can find me by ronica cleary.orting life in annapolis forr fox5 local news i'm ronica cleary. > it has been a little bit more six months since joe biden announced he would not go afterr the democratic nomination forth presidency.pr the cancer moon shot has beenas his quest.hi i saturday down for an exclusivl interview with thein vice-president and i asked him whether he regrets that decision. how close are we now to a cure for cancer. we also talked about his son bow who died a year ago this month. while i will not be a candidate, october 21 last fall when joe biden announced he would not run for president he made a promise. i believe we need a moon shot is this country to cure cancer. it's personal. personal indeed.eed. it hadn't been even been fiveive months since he lost his son toh brain cancer.br heai said he would push over the next 15 months in office to tryy to silence the disease for oncer and for all. all if i could be anything, i would want to be the president thathat ended cancer because it's possible.

>> fox5's political reporter ror ronica cleary is here with ay ia look at third party candidates i and in particular whoticur h might be making his mark on the 2016 race. ronica. >> thanks laura, ralph nader n ross perot have all done it in i 2016 there's one anotherno candidate you haven't heard of libertarian governor larry johnson. if the election were today would you vote for hillary hil clinton, donald trump oregon gary johnson.on >> who is he. h >> i've never heard of gary johnson. >> reporter: do you know who gary johnson is. >> i do not. do n >> reporter: gary johnson joh he's t new mexico who is also the libertarian party nominee forinf president in 2012 when received just under 1 percent 1r of the popular vote. pular now, he's recently made headlines because of two of tw recent polls.ls just yesterday fox news released a poll asking howoll ak would you vote if the the candidates were chin clinton cln trump or johnson and you can y see there johnson polledolled double digits at 10 percent. now, in march, johnson received 11 percent in a monmouth university poll thaty o asked a

fox5 political reporter ronica cleary is here. you had an exclusive sit down interview with the governor. i'm just curious. we know the investigation has been going for a year today,r what did he say. >>reporter: it was fascinating. he did not shy away.away a lot of people told me you might cancel this interview whei this broke. he kept to it.to he was very confident. he said i'm on my duty as governor and he's not nothing to hide. he said that he has not accepted illegal contributions. he says the donor in question, he says that he ' not even suren that he's met him. so governor mcauliffe says thatt is simply price of being in politics. he has been going around as governor since the news broke every contribution was fully vetted by his legal team. le i asked him if he feels he's been targeted because of his close relationship to the clintons. take a listen.iste >> i'm really baffled by the whole story in the first place. do you feel targeted especiallyr by that association with the clintons where she often says about things about

fox5's political reporter ronica cleary saturday down with governor mcauliffe today to ask him abouty might say this isn't a donation you should accept because of h his former status as a delegate to china's national people congress? maybe it might be a donation that doesn't sit well even if it's legal. >> as i says he's a major contributor to harvard. he sits on the new york university. he's very active. everybody takes his money. mcauliffe denies he did anything wrong and says he will cooperate with the feds if they want to imagine what it might be like to live next door to the former president of the united states. fox5's teisha lewis is life in a northwest d.c. neighborhood that the first family may call home after they leave the white house. tier a. >>reporter: hi, shawn, hi, tony. we're here in cameral a and as since we've been here we've had a few neighbors coming up to talk to us. they're telling us the obamas could move into one of three potential on the market. it's been on the market for six months, it's 8 months. i was built in massachusetts and actually transported here.

fox5's political reporter rep ronica cleary joins us nowca c with more.m all eyes were on this meethis mt dag. >> they really/f were. a lot will to come out of itut f and i think progress wasess definitely made for ther republicans now.re this anticipated meeting mee happened earlier today in today washington, d.c. you can see behind us we'vebendu got footage of some of thosese protestors that gatheredd outside that of closed door meeting between donald trump and speaker paul ryan. r so, why did they have this havet meeting? you might recall mig speaker ryan said last week he e was just not ready to support sp donald trump as the gop the presidential nominee.enti nom now, donald trump he soonmp h s responded saying that heded saya wasn't ready to supportpo speaker ryan's agenda.n's agenda so, the two met today in an effort to unify the party behind the who is now donald trump.ald tmp now, after that meeting ended e i attended press briefingssin hosted by the speaker. spe he told us a little bit more.itr >> it's no secret that donald trump and i have had o

. >> a lot to talk about in the worlds of politics tonight ronica cleary here with the stories you nighto know about. >> it isn't all politics for the president during this trip. the president also sat down with anthony, and he's the host of parts unknown, a travel-based show that airs on cnn. now, he tweeted: low plastic stools, cheap but delicious needles, cold hanoi beer, sitting with the president, he also tweeted that the meal cost only $6 he paid. >> well, best food i ever had in viet nam. >> i believe it. >> well, last week in a interview, donald trump accused bill clinton of rape. >> trump took to twitter last week attacking bill. he said amaze inning that crooked hillary clinton can do a hit out on me concerning women. when her husband was the worse abuser of women in us political history. today trump released video asking is hillary really protecting women? >> (movie clip). >> i try to pull away ... >> (laughing). >> cnn reported that governor terry mccullough being investigated by the f.b.i. for donations to his gubernatorial campaign that were possibly illegal. the investigat

no wash is a donald trump supporter and fox5's reporterrer ronica cleary saturday down with no wash todiscuss his support for republican nominee trump.omn she joins us now with more. >>reporter: no mash loves politics more than practicingor law. he's passionate about donaldbout trump.tr i saturday down with him for an in-depth look al his support for the candidate as a number line american immigrant.mmig i judge him based on what he actually says. he is simply the most reasonable candidate that we have going for us right now. no wash believes trump is the most reasonable candidate inda raisin it was trump's views onvw foreign policy that made him most passionate about thehe candidates. the fact that he came outame opposed to the war, which ich thought was a disaster, i really got my attention because among republicans saying thosehe words are absolutely tab boo. but even with the passionate belief in trump's foreign policy, no wash is a number line american. to be sunnetting or problematicl does your family -- i say this s with reference. do they think you're crazy tocrz vote for donal

the gap year, and other millennials, are opt to go take a gap year as fox5 political reporter ronica cleary. this is creating a lot of buzz today. a lot of russ liking the sounds of this gap year. >> yes, it sounds like something i would like to participate in right now. but, it is very interesting. so malea, she will be graduating from syd well friends school in the northwest, this year. she will turn 18 on the fourth of july. now, many young people after graduating high school, and turning 18 what do they do, start college. mali is taking a gap year, delay the start of her time at harvard by a year. we don't know what she will be doing during that year just yet, but we want to tell you little bit more about this trends in higher education, that some university are even encouraging it. i stopped by american university today, to learn a little bit >> so it is becoming more and more come on, student taking time to either refresh or they're taking what we call a gap year abroad, which is also becoming increasingly more common. so actually not surprised that, you know, it is happening, especia

. >> ronica cleary is here with ah look at the history of contested conventions. >> this is getting soeresting. its fun to look back at thek history. helps us to understand. u a contested convention okay cures with a candidate arrives c at the convention without number of deleges nomination out right.nati to many the thought of notot selecting this nominee at the -- before the convention they say this seems unusual, we're goinge to look back at history to take a glance it's going to show us it isn't until the past few few decades we've seen the nominee regularly selected before the convention. we're going to start by looking at lincoln the reason why this date may 18th marks the date he was i he can't d, this was aftef a contest attempted gop convention he was nominated on n the third ballot. lincoln a great president youou probably heard his name by republicans gearing this raceger who hoped to stop trump. you can say its in an effort too defend possibility of a contested convention by looking back at this great president wht became the president through a contested convention. okay.a

28% every you said it is not about the nomination, good tv make sure vote, you can find it on ronica clearytting wider and more woven. >> yes? as the days go on. the political process. okay, sunny and hot day today. can we keep the summer like weather going through the holiday weekend? i hope so. mike thomas here with the answer. hey, mike, does sue go ahead and get throughout early to the beach or something? >> yes, went to the beach. sue will be down at national harbor, maybe taking a dip in the harbor. >> really? >> it is summer like out there. and i'm already kicked into weekend mode here, of course the focus on on everyone's minds, how is my holiday looking. here is a look what you can expect. right to the . here, saturday's the best day of it for the pools, 87 degrees, hot, humid saturday, good day to get out there there of course many of the pools opening around the region, sunday slight chance of afternoon thunderstorm, still very warm, 84 degrees, probably, less sunshine on monday and better chance of storms, not wash-out, but monday on memorial day you will definitely have to keep

. >> reporting live from northwest, for fox5 local news, i'm ronica cleary. >> coming up in tonight's health watch: why taking tylenol makes you careless about other people's pain. >> and common sugar substitute could have deadly side effect if dogs get aholds of it. >> and the largest pot growing operation in one local county shuts down tonight. what someone noticed outside the house that spark them to call police. >> and ever get the feeling your cell phone is listening to your conversations? well, you're not wrong. how you are being targeted by advertisers when it comes to things you are just saying around your phone. how t >> we finally saw some sunshine today. and everybody wants to know how long is that sticking around? i'm going to have the answers and a look at your full forecast coming up. stay with us, fox5 local news at 5:00 will be back after the break. >> ♪ >>> in today's health watch surprising new findings about tylenol. new study shows drugs may actually impact you're motions, researchers at ohio state found that when people took drugs like tylenol, contain acetaminoph

. >> ronica cleary is here withe information about what happened and how you can prevent this from happening> reporter: very unsettling two american flags it is a sad situation thankfully no lives we have hurt. fire was set to three american flags along donely drive this past thursday night. now, finding remnants of the flags that once flew from their homes was unsettling. i not wish to be identified she ie showed me the remains and damage done to her driveway. allen another resident whoseesid flag was burnt he said when hedw walked out of his home on thursday morning he simply sim thought his flag had been blownw off by the wind to realize hisis flag had been destroyed by fire. >> reporter: how did you feel. >> not very good. from a couple of standpoint one from the of course the danger to the house having something burn like that. the other just you know the fact that we are destroying american flags. doesn't feel very good. >> reporter: fairfax county firi and rescue department whether op not these arear connected it iss ongoing investigation. inv the investigation will determint whether

the hill's editor in chief bob cue san will join political reporters ronica cleary and tom fitzgerald bring you the very latest, as we get closer to election day, fox5 news on the hill, this sunday, right before fox news sunday with chris wallace. we'll be right back. ack. >> we'll ask senior trump advisor. then, a showdown between the feds and north carolina over the legality of it trans gender bathroom law we'll ask whether he'll defy tomorrow's deadline. fire fight with isis in iraq. we'll ask our sunday panel about our deepening role there. all this week on fox news sunday. >> it has been more than a year and a half since foley was executed by isis. since then his mother has been issues. >> she was in washington this week for the first annual james foley freedom award, if you museum. sat down with fox5 exclusively to tell us about her work, the advancements and policies and why it means so much, not just for her family, but for all of us. >> got oust, told us the forces were close. >> syria, james foley was committed to uncovering the truth. he spent several months reporting on th

ronica cleary is here with the details.er: after months off asking questions about how mucho money was raised and where it donated donald trump hosted a press conference today in new york city and announced $5.6 million donated to variousr veterans organization.n. now he cite itissed the media for all of the criticism and speculation over the past month about whether or not he would actually do it.tual the press should be ashamed of themselves and on behalf of the vets the vet should be ashamed of themselves. instead of being like thank you very much mr. trump or trump did a good job, everybody said who got it, who got it and you makey me look bad. publicity for doing such a goodo job. mr. trump went onto list the organizations and the amount to each. the clinton campaign showed an announcement to mr. mr. trump's announcements about john mccain when he said mr. cab cane is noc a war here on. what did theyid think of his efforts to give nearly $6 million to various organizations? >> i was in the u.s. army. united states army

fox5's ronica cleary is here ier with that story.wi tha ronica, what -- i mean, what mea are people thinking such a sad story andd ry hopefully we can bring some awareness and if somebody seesob it they can help this familyhe find the van that they need so s very much. muc rafael scott is 29 ye and he has a contagious smile.mi he lives with his loving hisovin mother who is passionate aboute helping him live a fulfilledulfi life. yesterday the family's van wasmv stolen and they came to fox5 for help. never, never quit.uit. a sign that hangs in rafaell scott's bedroom along withh posters of his favorite car.ar >> he never lost his dream of working with cars or being around cars.ars. his favorite car is a mustang. a >> reporter: that's gailhas scott rafael's mother.ott rafael was injured in a car accident 12 years ago while visiting lincoln technical thn institute on friends andriends family day.faly d he suffered a traumatic brainic injury and is now a parapreachap psychiatric anparaplegicand thed accessible van was stolen. stole >> it was parked. it 15 minutes come back in the com hose yawl '

republicanca presidential frontrunnerro donald trump and house speakerpe paul ryan took place.ce >> ronica cleary witha y details from their meeting andnd what's next for the two. hey, ronica. ron >> hey, ladies.>> well, you may recall last week speaker paul ryan said that hea was "just not ready to supportop donald trump as the gop t presidential nominee."ominee." donald trump soon respondedoo with a statement saying thatayit he's "not ready to support speaker ryan's agenda."a." the two met today in an effort e to unify the party behind theehe presumptive nominee.pres after the meeting ended i hosted by the speaker where he e took questions about the meeting. >> it's no secret that donaldnad trump and i have had our i he ha differences.differ we talked about those differences today. that's common knowledge. the question is what is itis whi that we need to do to unifyo the republican party and allbliy strains of conservative wingsrvs in the party. we had a very good and encouraging productive produ conversation on just thousandtin do that. i was very encouraged with what i heard from donald trump

ronica cleary joins with us dramatic new details revealed in court today. >> some of the things that we have to prent to you tonight, they really are shocking and think about just ten years, it makes you stop and think, i'll tell you a little bit about it. james, metro police on april 22, 2013, he asked his stepson, antoine james for help with yard work. when antoin refused his mother told him to leave the house. antoin was angry with his mother for siding with his stepfather. so he told her to, quote, watch this. he went outside, and he shot his step dad 18 times at point blank range. the 911 call from antoin's mother, after the incident, is chilling. >> my son shot my husband. >> who shot your husband? >> my son shot my husband. >> your son is in the house? >> yes. >> you have a son with a weapon. >> i don't know where the weapon; honey, just -- can i not believe my husband is dead. oh, my god. >> surveillance camera at nearby home, it captured part of the incident. now, this video, it was used in the sentencing james, but some of it was very difficult to see. we have some of it fo

2017.01 she's taking a gap year aftereaf she graduates from high school.o so what is a gap >> ronica cleary morhy yoll be out of herefh for year.for ar. >> that's a gap year. >> is he j and instead of getting ready fof college this summer, she's goini to take part in that gap yearha we're talking about. a now she's not alone.. a recent poll found that gap years among u.s. students sde they've increased more than 20%. many colleges even encourage aoe delayed entry. ent in order to give students time to recharge after high school.ch they want those students todentt build work or live experiences,s many students they choose internships overseas maybe a little travel, gap year are most encourage it in their admissiona as well. >> i was thinking in my mind m what happened? so the presideni was harvard law.d l he was undergraduate columbia and michelle obama was under grad princeton. priet they both met and found theirir way at harvard.way harvard >> i'm sure they feel a connectt it sounds like a nice thing. t college is often an incredibly stressful time.ime. >> absolutely. >> even hi s wantsob

ronica cleary and tom fitzgeralr join us live if you watch sunday news fox fuse news on the hill h which should see you see these two put their collectivelt minds together and talknd tal politics. >> for three seconds i thoughtee you were the running mate. she r you came up.yome there's still time.s t >> how about it.>> h abo >> there's still time, tom.'s st here's the big question. the b now that there is a definitiveiv one man race on the republicanua side, a lot of people saying toi is it time for drum top get down to business now? he's established himself as the leader of this pack.lead of th a lot of work to be done nowe before november.be >> there's always been thifoseni question about will we see thest two trumps.ru and a general election seasonea trump? paul man any for his own leader of his campaign went to the rnc and said no, no, no,o, don't worry about this.y about . there's going to be anotherin trump.g there's goinumg to be one that's amenable to the leck voters. vot we haven't seen that. that he's just being him because it'e been successful.ful >> it has been successful.l

. >> fox5 political reporter ronica cleary joins us here in studio now with more on all o the dealingsdea hi, ronica.hi, >> good morning.>> g >> good morning. i guess let's start with the wit sort of old news what wehat w learned from the meetingeeng between ryan and trump. tru good news out of this meeting?se >> i think so.nk s i think good news for theods fo party for sure.ur now, there was a closed doorlos meeting so the things that wewe know are what we have been we b told after the meeting.ting speaker ryan he has a weeklyee press briefing and yesterday'sey just happened to take placened after this private meeting so the press was eager about thattt and he repeatedly said over and over again that theov t meeting was end can couragingen but he said you know theow the meeting was 45 minutes. minutes. we have a lot of differencesif that are no secret to anybody. o you can't solve that overnight which i think makes it seem s more genuine. g i don't know -- you know, we never know what these peoplehato are really thinking but itbu certainly seems like a more sincere evolutionist.lution

our political reporter ronica rc cleary is with us here on thee t ucuch. watching closely lastast night, and we're here to dis i laughed i apologize but i i found that statement just funnyn i respect you for having theinhe nerve to call me. >> he said he would would neveru have done that. he said he acknowledges thated t that's a bad quality. we saw she asked him about himbt regrets and personality -- veryv much focused on the human sidee of donald trump and while he won openly admit some characterer flaws that was one admission tot say i wouldn't have done that. >> right.. >> right. >> we learned about the manarne behind trump tower i think. ihik >> we talk to meghan yesterdayes and she made a point of saying,s you know, during the debate andd everything like i'm not going tt throw you softball questions que there's a reason we pose theseet questions because we want to get you answers and hold youd y accountable for thing.for ing last night did it seem a little too -- i don't want to use word soft but wasn't very confrontational.nfroat >> that's a great w